skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read plausible arguments that the richest fortunes do not benefit society by being in play and that much of it is parked in various places, some off shore.
I have an idea: Remove visible karma. Your personal karma is invisible to you and you have no feedback on how a post did. Karma is still used to kill comments, but everything above a certain score (say 5) is ranked arbitrarily (say MD5 of unix timestamp of comment).

Alternatively, make it public what everyone voted up on. That way everyone is open to criticism for what they voted on, and like people do on Facebook, they'll try to curate their upvotes so that they look sophisticated. Hopefully that will modify their upvoting behaviour.
I was thinking about a feature providing callbacks when the hypervisor running your instance fails.

I think it's completely unreasonable to expect a status update on every single thing that might go wrong in Digital Ocean's infrastructure. If a single hypervisor/server fails, that could be ANYTHING. Bad drives, flaky memory, failed fans, etc., etc. This stuff happens ALL THE TIME and does not warrant a system wide update that something is wrong with the service, simply because there is nothing wrong with the service. All the other bits are functioning normally.

A loss of a box is expected and shit happens. Architect for it, or expect it to fail at some point. Everything dies eventually.

Also, $5 a month.
Crowd meets Class Action Lawsuits. A mobile or web app that shows many class action lawsuits in one place. I'd like to be able to go to one place and see a large list of pending class action lawsuits and their corresponding meta-data (deadline for joining lawsuit, company, details, link to website with more details, etc)
To back up my claim: The birds with the least natural enemies and the richest environment spend the most time mating (which is our built-in incentive to do many great things).
It's been at least 5 hours and my droplet is still unresponsive, and their status page still says everything is all good.
In any infrastructure beyond the tiny/small stage, there are always pieces that are failing or have failed. In some cases these failures are observed by customers. In other cases they are not.

It would be unreasonable to have a company-wide status page that constantly lists "some customers are experiencing some problems". That's not the point of the status page - the status page, as the author suggested, is there to highlight issues that are affecting a significant section of the customer base.

The right thing for Digital Ocean to do in cases like this is to allow you, in your private dashboard, to see the problem and follow up on a master ticket for escalation and resolution.
You are overstating the amount of mixing between populations (and somewhat discounting the mixing within populations).

1000 years ago, people in villages and towns were regularly marrying their (2,3,4) cousins and rarely marrying people from 'different lands'.

Another way to look at it: for 1 person to become the ancestor of just several thousand people takes 'a few generations'. Getting to whole populations takes lots of generations.
Why not just photograph your notepad with your smartphone?
I've tried (and failed) to run a marathon. It certainly didn't feel any shorter as I progressed.
(Apologies if you're an OCR guru and this is a stupid comment, but...) I wonder if it would be easier to get an MVP together using Amazon Mechanical Turk. A quick Google search reveals that there are lots of commercial products providing OCR on nutrition labels, but getting open source OCR to work reliably with phone-quality images (poor lighting, curvature of containers, etc) is tricky.

Either way, I think OCR-as-a-service would be really useful, and nutrition labels are probably a great place to start. I think there's lots of room for improvement in the nutrition/meal planning space.
I don't know how much of it is true, but if even half of the anecdotes in Showstoppers are true then Dave Cutler is indeed a force of nature to be reckoned with. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0759285780?pc_redir=1396671731...
I'm not disputing that. I'm not an expert in California marriage law. I'm just saying that if the only difference is the legal term, and there were no difference in legal rights, then the situation is not as simple as "bigotry" vs. "equal rights."
Hmm, great thought. I found myself looking for something exactly like this earlier this year.
No, his cognitive dissonance is that he claims to only want the word marriage for the rights, ignoring they are already present.

He then claims the because the rights aren't present, co-opting the word marriage is ok, because it's only to gain those rights.

He's essentially trying to force marriage to mean what he thinks it should, while expounding how terrible those who support prop-8 are when they do the same.

That's internal inconsistency. He rejects and demonizes one group for taking the same actions he is.

To Sum:

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Prop-8 "Marriage is only between man and woman"

Karunamon: "Marriage is between any two adults"

Karunamon: "How dare they say marriage must mean that, it's not what I believe, they are bigots."

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Rights are not involved, California offered equal rights to both groups. At best he can appeal that separate but equal is not a good state, and I agree with him there.
Anki does know when notes are added, and I'm confused how what you're asking is any different than how Anki normally works.
I don't think these particular protestors are being productive, but what you're describing doesn't scale. Not everyone can be a programmer.
Dropping is rather dangerous, and if you hit a throat hard enough its pretty much an instant death.
They want to live in San Francisco. SF has always been a "rebel hub" of freedom and anarchy. Its that rebellious spirit that somewhat made the valley what it is today.

Ultimately, they call that place their home and wish to say. Market economics however are forcing them to move. Therefore, conflict exists.

Honestly, the solution is to build more Apartment complexes and strike down the zoning laws that prevents the new buildings from going up.
Homework Tutor App - App that allows kids to take a picture of a homework problem and submit a question about it. Then the picture and question get submitted over to MTurk. 3-5 answers come back within minutes from folks on MTurk.
He has not said anything hateful.

No, he just gave them money. Given the choice, I'd rather he stand outside of Mozilla's corporate office holding an allcaps sign covered in slurs ala Westboro Baptist than financially support them. At least his personal actions don't contribute to further oppression in that case.

doesn't mean he should be the target of a smear campaign

What smear campaign? Every criticism of Eich that I've both read and given focuses on 3 objective and concrete things.

1. He donated money to a group that can be charitably described as a "hate group". This alone wouldn't be so bad, but:

2. He had a chance to walk that back, say that he changed his mind, say that was a long time ago, and did not. In fact, he quit his job rather than do so. Which leads into:

3. He poorly handled this entire event, which calls his credentials for being a CEO in the first place into question.

That's not a smear campaign by any conceivable definition of the words.

That's why I'm rejecting the gay rights movement's online bullying tactics.

Again, 3 facts. Not opinions, facts. Facts cannot be bullying, else any critical analysis of something important to a person becomes "bullying".

He did not turn the blame around to say your perception is wrong.

He went well out of his way to avoid directly confronting anything that would have confirmed or denied this verbally. But, his actions did that for us.

He is the target of your hate

I appreciate your zen, but I do not hate Eich. I think he was a poor choice for CEO and is a hypocrite. He's not someone I'd care to work with or under since he demonstrably dislikes me for who I am, having never met me.

That is not hate. If I have any vitriol at all, it's directed at his defenders and those that want to make him a martyr for "freedom of speech".

It's not proven that he behaved badly

Donating $1000 to a hate group is not "behaving badly"? This is a matter of public record.

Express how much pain Prop 8 caused. Express why this is an inequality & how that affects you. Don't act with vengeance

Which I've gone well out of my way to do. Yet somehow, just be repeating facts about Eich's observable actions, I am acting with "hate" and "vengeance".

Sorry, but I do not see it.
So I take it you'd like to see people pay 100% taxes on charitable donations?
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Right. And your mother is on OKCupid, and understood the Firefox message that popped up on her browser.

Further, your mother uses Firefox and not whatever is included with her computer.

Further, your mother is paying attention to tech news.

Can we switch Moms? Yours sounds awesome.
> Eich said he supported equality

He gave money to Prop 8, Pat Buchanan, Thomas McClintock, and Linda Smith. His actions make me not believe what he says.

If you want to support equality, you don't give money to people who make "homosexuals are subhuman" a part of their political worldview.
WebM is clearly a far inferior experience compared to gif on firefox:

- at the start there is a stupid "fade in" effect.

- the loading animation does sometimes not disappear even though the video has fully loaded.

- the loading animation is generally annoying. Gifs just stop when bufffering and continue as soon as there is new data.

- a useless control bar shows at the bottom on hovering.

- Unlike gifs the video does not stop when you scroll beyond it which causes a huge amount of processor load.
Show DN: What do we do at Turkey?
Yeah, this is why spamming your general status page with lots of information is a bad idea. I have no idea what's going on there. At first glance it looks like half their services are having issues, which makes me think it always looks like that, which means it tells me nothing without digging into the detailed issues.
If I'm not mistaken, an eventually consistent database must also guarantee, well, eventual consistency.
I'm part of a huge Facebook-group (maybe 2000 members) with only programmers in my city. It's really great and the only thing that I like and enjoy about Facebook nowadays.
Make the comment "link" text just be the date of comment submission. (e.g. "15 days ago")

This is now common practice on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The pipe+"link" is unnecessary clutter. It's also more clear, since "link" is the ambiguous verb/noun.
This case is confusing and both you and the documentation are wrong. :)

You're confusing the Exception.StackTrace with the actual CLR stack trace. The minute you catch an exception in the CLR the accurate trace is destroyed. This is pathological for crash dumps, where it's imperative that you have an accurate trace for debugging.

If you don't believe me, go into VS and do the following.

1. Throw an exception.

2. Make sure that exception is not listed in exceptions to break on.

3. Catch and rethrow that exception using "throw;".

4. Let that exception filter out of the program unhandled.

5. Run in debugger.

Notice where your stack trace is centered on -- the "throw;" call.
Try saylor.org.
Ok I didn't know Anki knows when notes are added, thats great. Also I don't need front and back sides. I just want a note on the front that states what I need to refresh about.. but I guess I can just leave the back side of the flash card empty for that, I suppose?
HHVM + Hack + Nginx + Laravel – Simple Vagrant Up
It says in your profile that you work on Roslyn and I imagine you're familiar with how the exception syntax works with the CLR, so maybe you know something I don't know.

I do, actually. :)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542701.
These guys are assholes, but the issue remains a huge problem. I just hope people can see through the idiots to see that the issue that they are complaining about is real.
A way to get notified of new book reviews for my book across Amazon, Audile, iTunes, and GoodReads. Even better if it could also track sales from Amazon, CreateSpace, and Audible in one place.
I quite like the idea of calling one's workplace a ship. I'll take that expression on board, sea if it floats.
I wish there was an easier way to peal oranges
Because in quite a few cases since 1888, SCOTUS has specifically recognized "marriage" as a fundamental right or all people. Rights recognition like this is specifically granted in the U.S. Constitution (Amendment IX).

Simply put, if 2 same-sex people wish to partake in "marriage" they have a fundamental, unquestionable right to do so. They also have a right not to do so and partake in some other formal or informal coupling agreement at their discretion.

However, there are a tremendous number of laws which grant specific allowances, rights and responsibilities which are specifically tied to the legal meaning of "marriage", which as a fundamental right same-sex people can choose to exercise, is the only coupling agreement that will qualify them for those things.

In terms of efficiency, changing thousands of laws, and the U.S. Constitution to allow for some other separate but equal coupling agreement is less efficient than just ensuring that same-sex couples can exercise the rights they already have.

There's some argument that the government shouldn't be in the marriage business, but it's what we have to work with right now.
Maybe you're used to the modern cinematographic technique of quick cuts where one barely has time to focus on a scene. Older movies tend to use longer shots in action sequences.

Besides what I already mentioned, Bullitt is cool because:

1. the setup where the guy puts on his seatbelt

2. the total lack of dialog - the driver and the gunman understand each other just by looks

3. the deadpan expression on the driver

4. when Bullitt slides off the road, the slightest, most barely perceptible smile on the driver's face

5. McQueen's expression of complete focus and concentration

6. the 68 Mustang and Charger just totally rock. I never understand having a chase sequence with boring cars

7. the lack of CGI, models, and special effects

8. the skid marks from earlier takes

9. the amazing teleporting Green Beetle :-)

10. I love the shot of the rearview mirror when the hunter becomes the hunted - it's just classic
I am very surprised by the turbine engine. They are not know for being fuel efficient.
>...convinced that the techie crowd got ahead from its own savvy and motivation..

As opposed to what?
The worst part is they're vilifying people who have no other crime other than being successful. These are people that may very well actually agree with the goals of the protestors (e.g. according to the article Kevin Rose does agree that the rent problem and others need to be solved). Or they would, if the protestors would actually try to talk to these people instead of attacking them.
That last line is quite curious, though. As far as I know, only a very small fraction of modern day anarchists is self-describing as anarchists. Most of the others consider the term unfashionable and derogatory.

Here in Europe the self-describing Anarchists are the Punks and the Black Block and they tend to drive people away from a cause by co-opting it.
This doesn't necessarily work, though it does help. One already exists- SomethingAwful.com. It's better than most forums for sure, but it's certainly not perfect and the size of the community still clouds conversation significantly.
Its fair that HN readers in far flung locales might not relate to this.
solar oven would be great to bake these
Whoa:

"To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.

We know that your security advisors are taking our analysis seriously..."
Welcome to HN.

Do you have a better term for someone who contributes their own hard-earned money to a hate group?
https://en.mention.com/

I really like Mention, since they also have a mobile app and the free tier does everything I want. We used it to hop into conversations on forums about car buying.

I agree with u/canatan01 that Moz is best for backlink tracking.
Growing up in the 90's, we sure did love to get our cock sucked. Our generation has grown up though, now all we want is for our kids to be watched and our floors to be mopped.
I didn't, thanks, it looks pretty similar to what I meant.

I would like it to be "more wiki", coderwall seems more a social profile where you can share small tips, not a wiki where you can write whatever you want.

It's also missing the "git" stuff, which I think could be huge (or maybe it's just silly, but it sounds good in my head).

And I also don't really like the "closeness" of the site. for example I can't even see every tip shared by an user without having an account (it just show the first ones and then a blurry mess, a-la Quora).
If you don't know, these are awesome: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=peel+oranges+tool&FORM=H...

Also: There is a musical joke in there somewhere (but I am not musical).

(Not intended to harsh on you. I just find the typo funny. Carry on.)
The poor don't get poorer, though. The poor today are the richest they've been at any point in recorded history- they live longer, are more likely to own a home and cars, and are more likely to go to college than the kings of 100 years ago.

Inequality is, in and of itself, a meaningless metric- what we really care about is the absolute quality of people's lives. If the social structures that result in the highest absolute quality of people's lives (by driving economic and technological progress) require inequality, then it's absurd to suggest we abandon them for a more equal society with a lower absolute quality of life.
Fluctuations in property values, and thus rents, are driven by Federal Reserve policy. These problems are created in Washington and real estate lobbying is more to blame.

That lobby has promoted, and our leaders have accepted, the notion that recoveries are led by the housing market. They believe consumption, not production, is the source of prosperity.

Its all designed, they say, to help the little people. But its the little people that are abused the most by these policies.

Yes, asset prices and thus rents ought to be stable and increase in a predictable way. These rapid rent increases compel people to buy (assuming they can), only to set them up for the next crash in real estate prices.

Overall, we don't benefit from these bubbles. Some get lucky for owning when they start and others get unlucky for owning when they collapse.

But those charging 6% on every transaction profit more when people buy and sell more. And bubbles are great for causing lots of transactions.
For those interested in monitoring their websites and services and create custom status pages, I run webmon.com for this exact reason.
Funny, those words are roughly cribbed from a line in "Dirty Pretty Things":

The doctor: How come I've never seen you people before?
Okwe: Because we are the people you do not see. We are the ones who drive your cabs. We clean your rooms. And suck your cocks.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0301199/quotes?qt=qt0159994

Whoever is writing these notes needs to come up with something original if they're going to accuse someone of being a parasite.
Ugh. I couldn't agree more. That comment is far worse, and I've banned bluntly_said. Thank you for the heads-up.

We can't read all the comments, and I didn't see that one. Community help is indispensable here.

All: When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, please flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top.
cell phone direct to .txt email for all but certain callers

How much would you pay for such a service?
> 1. You googled the sports team

And this is my problem with Google Now. The concept isn't useful to me. Just because I googled a sports team once doesn't mean I constantly want updates about that team. Just because I looked up a company's stock one day doesn't mean I want to know what the stock is doing every day. Google Now doesn't seem to understand that.

Granted, the flight updates are a really cool feature. But the service as a whole is too noisy to be generally useful.
If you don't want people to take offense, then DON'T FUCKING INSULT THEM!

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Customising the IPython notebook UI
That doesn't explain that they resent the creation of service jobs as they seem to do. That would only explain that they resent the creation of highly paid tech jobs and the increased demand for housing.
Once the user clicks "Submit" you have to disable the button to avoid double submission, so might as well replace with a progress indicator.
Eliminating turbo lag is less about making a better turbo, and more about making the turbo work in concert with the engine. This is usually about picking a good size turbo that picks up smoothly with the given engine.

Better turbos will make for better engines, but I would think you can never fix turbo lag with turbo improvements alone...
In Firefox, type "% query" into the URL bar. That will search just open tab titles and URLs.

Add ^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
Add * to search for matches in your bookmarks.
Add + to search for matches in pages you've tagged.
Add % to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
Add ~ to search for matches in pages you've typed.
Add # to search for matches in page titles.
Add @ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b...
What these people really want is for all of the "other people" to go away. That's the only way you could ever see housing prices in SF go down given the current market circumstances. You have a city that's surrounded by water, a convoluted regulatory environment that actively depresses development activity, and a total unwillingness to build vertically.

In the long-term, either the people leave, the water somehow disappears, or you rewrite city codes and start building vertically. Of the three, only the lattermost is even feasible.
Totally. But I'm a programmer, so I'd like to solve it on the internet. We can push it out into the real world after that.

And I just refuse to believe we've figured out everything there is to know about community engineering.