skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One last thing, those IDs aren't sequential, they're just unique. If you increment a HN news article URL you'll probably end up in a comment (because articles are just root comments), or on other sites, a deleted/spam submission. Sequential only works for content that doesn't change, and most content changes."

Same kinda thing in StackOverflow, everything is a "post", regardless of whether it's a question or answer, for example:

Consider this answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/22884084

If I change the url to replace "a" with "q":

http://stackoverflow.com/q/22884084 or do http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22884084

...it takes you to that "post" which happens to be an answer.

With regards to the parent question, I wouldn't object to seeing human readable slugs. I have a stash of HN article links hived away in OneNote, you be handy not to have to manually type in a description of what the article was about.
You can try to install with MacPorts Readline with terminal command: sudo portu install readline

And after that you include with #include <readline/read line.h> #include <readline/history.h>
The wired homepage itself is fine for me, but Firefox 28.0 is blocking both of those images in your post along with any links I try to click from the Wired homepage.
On a mainstream site like wired its almost always flash ads. It can also be jpegs (see http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2004/cpa...) but this is rare/patched.
Ask HN: Would you try me out?
I have an idea and I want your feedback.

I am a good Administrative Assistant. I have good experience and great references. My last employer went out of business. So I have been trying to find a job for 4 weeks but no success yet.

So I am thinking of experimenting with an idea. If you were an employer, and you had an open position for an Administrative Assistant, would you be willing to try me out for a week for free? You will owe me nothing for the week's work! If you like my work, we can negotiate an offer. If not, ask me to leave at any time. No hard feelings.

The way I figure, I am doing nothing sitting at home. This way, I will increase my chances for a job and get at the head of 100+ candidates who are competing for each job. We have trials for toothpastes and web hosting services, so why not for people too?

What do you think? Will employers be willing to try me for free? I just want to see how many Yes's/No's I get so I can judge if I should go for this approach or not.
No, it's not proof of that.

You misunderstand what HFTs are doing. They are in the business of selling liquidity. You have to pay them for that. Luckily the cost of liquidity (due to automation & competition) has gone down by a factor of 10 which is great for you (and everyone else)!

Brad Katsuyama (weirdly the hero of the Michael Lewis book) is in the business of making sure you DON'T get the best price. The HFTs are working against him to make sure you do.
It is not a problem in Minneapolis either.
Its a problem in North Dakota and I get the feeling that you in Minneapolis weren't biking all winter with the extreme chills and snow. If you were, then fine but a normal bike rider would be killed.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_download

There are in number of ways for nasty things to happen just by visiting a page.
That web site says "Solutions that are not covered by the regulations are ... Social media such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter spent in the private context. ... television media, including movies and network television."

A YouTube competitor sounds like it would fall under one or both of those exemptions.

A hypothetical for you: you want to sell quilts that you made yourself, and use the living room of your house to show and sell the quilts. But now that you're open to the public, you need to adhere a whole bunch of guidelines, like wheelchair access. You'll either have to hire an expensive carpenter or break the law.

I use this to point out that your example isn't unique to a web site, but is generally true of any accessibility requirement. That's why (looking around a bit) "There is an exemption from the requirement for universal design, if this causes an "undue burden" for the business, see § 13 subsection."

Or in Norwegian: Det er gjort unntak fra kravet til universell utforming, dersom dette medfører en «uforholdsmessig byrde» for virksomheten, jf.§ 13 tredje ledd.

You'll have to track down what that means. In the US context, that usually means that a single person with a small web site - or someone selling quilts from their home - is not subject to the same ADA requirements as, say, NetFlix.
If the reason it costs 500millions to develop a drug is because you have to have lots of junkets to pimp the new profitpill to the politicians so they'll let you get a majority of their nation high/dependent on it, then I'm all for a revision to how society 'gets these things done'. surely you can't be relying on that same ol' pimp statement, "sorry man, it cost me a lot to get this stuff, you gotta pay ..", for it is scurrilous to assume that drug dependency doesn't have a profit side.
What I do not believe the living wage campaigners do a good job of justifying (and why I generally do not agree with the movement), is how much a wage is necessary from a policy standpoint.

At the moment, it comes off as completely subjective, and based on a very rough consensus of what a group believes is enough to live on.

But, they will say, providing this wage only adds pennies to the cost of some item or service you purchase. Well then, if $12/hr is "good", why not go for "great", and make the wage $30/hr and have everyone loving their job? No answer.

Although, I would welcome that level of wage for our Muni/Bart/SF government workers, who are well beyond, at the level of "ecstatic".
I couldn't find a way to add the /u or /s flag. There are only allowed /i, /g and /m :(
UCL study finds new evidence fruit and vegetable consumption lower mortality
You missed mine:

Why don't people just walk more ? It's even more health promoting than cycling and it requires no investment/gear/tech. It's also really meditative and enjoyable.
Undercover Houston Cops On Bikes Are Nabbing Drivers Dangerous To Cyclists
Spoken like a true scumbag apologist.

Okay, they get a second job. What happens when one of the two jobs demands that they work at that place during the same time that they're supposed to be at the other job (or doesn't allow for enough time to travel to the other)? They get fired from one. They're now back at square one.

Also, what about cases where people live somewhere where there ARE NO OTHER AVAILABLE JOBS and can't afford to leave?
Just accessed it under Chromium Version 33.0.1750.152 (256984) (arch linux) with no problems (except for some lag).
No, I think you should consider yourself lucky that you found a employer willing to pay that amount for a part time gig.

There was once two job tracks: part time pickup money and career. Starving out the part time work kills off a lot of opportunity since the higher the wage, the more competent an employer will require the employee to be.
tptacek--Why are you even in this thread if you're just interjecting rhetorical questions? Both sets of transactions are subject to well known sets of problems. These problems share the same root cause. These are important, fundamental issues with market and market micro-structure. Please don't cross thread you're frustration.
Yes! :) I am a die-hard pedestrian and in my home country cyclists are just better catered for. There are worse things... But seriously, it's very ingrained here and everyone has to do it, at least about 15 years of their lives.
Firefox 28 also detects it. On Ubuntu 14.04
Pierce will get you working in Coq ASAP, but Harper will provide you with a much richer context.
So when does robot slander/libel suits begin? I'd be mighty ticked if google started labelling my sites as malware when they're clearly not.
> Certainly not all such households would starve to death

Yeah, let's them simply "starve" then, but not to death, hey ? , I cant believe people can write things like that.
If something is "more fair" for David Einhorn, Dan Loeb, Bill Ackman & Capital Group, who do you think it's "less fair" for?
It's blocked in Windows, too.
Its so deeply worked into the farm bill every time and farm rules and subsidies, its basically a political nightmare to break out and change.
Personally, I would be way more interested in someone who came to me and said "Here is a class project originally written in X that I rewrote in Y because your job description included Y and not X" then someone who had originally learned Y in school.
"maybe it’s just the unusual way how I manage things I read and watch online"

I think it's quite typical actually.

Think about phone numbers pre speed dial and obviously smartphone. Much easier to hit a button now which is a visual indication of who you are calling rather than seeing a list of phone numbers and remembering that a certain sequence is who you want. Definitely less chance for error. And that's even if presented with a list.

I don't think that anyone can argue that for a "normal" user there is less chance of error with something descriptive.

Or take medications. Medication names aren't always easy but whatever they are they are much easier to not make mistakes with because they aren't numbers. For both doctors, patients and pharmacists.

"Viagra" vs. "#348976"
"Nexium" vs. "#2390045"

Not to mention the other obvious example, domain names to solve essentially the issue of remembering IP addresses.
What about the many cases where people don't make enough to maintain a meager style of living but "too much" to qualify for things like food stamps?
My company[1] did a bit of flavor profiling research for a few Ento farmers and startups. Once you get over your aversion to the idea of eating crickets or mealworms, their actually quite good! The crickets always reminded me of french fries (and I don't even eat fries....).

We have a vegetarian on our team who felt fine eating them. No pain, no harm.

Lobsters on the other hand... jury is out on weather they feel pain.

[1] www.Gastrograph.com
Because http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem.

It's a distributed system. You want it to keep working (be available) all the time right? Guess what, you're gonna have to lose some consistency.
I thought I would see comments from Americans about how they can't use bicycles because they live in sprawlville and it's 40 km to the nearest mall and 80 km to their workplace.
The ride home must be fun!
Safari also -- not the home page but the articles. Showing up as phishing attack.
> But you believe that most kids who deviate from standard gender roles are gay?

Honestly not sure how you could read what I wrote and pick that up. It's the opposite of what I said.
Here's a working link to the THX 'Deep Note' theme sound (the link on the page seems to be dead): http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/soundmarks/74309951.mp3
Also scooters (mopeds).
I think what you say makes a lot of sense, but the "learning to learn" idea has always bothered me a bit. All else being equal, why not learn something applicable while learning to learn?
Chrome lists two images as "malware":

http://www.wired.com/playbook/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/soccer_w.jpg

http://www.wired.com/playbook/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bike-press-w.jpg

Both return actual images, so perhaps at some point in the past when wired.com was scanned these URLs redirected to somewhere malicious?

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/1m3g3L2v3w3C
I really want nothing to do with 20 different cloud connected and voice-aware devices in my home.

I'm not going to buy a Xbox One unless I can effectively mute the mic (not just the UI telling me I did) and I'm not having a nest thermometer tied to some weird social login/profile that I have to create in order to use it.

I'm certainly not going to stick some amazon listening device in my kitchen.
You don't have to outlaw homebrew vehicles. The car already has to pass an inspection to be allowed on the road. I guess, if it doesn't already, that the inspection will soon have to include that any safety critical software is unmodified. And when people are making their own fly by wire cars, and writing their own software - who knows how they'll certify it.
I've been doing the + thing for more than 10 years now. My observation is that spammers simply don't remove it (it's just not worth their time).

More importantly, legit services that are on the spammy side (or have broken unsubscribe links) will absolutely never remove it.

Back a few years when Ameritrade had a bunch of its user's emails sold to spammers, I just changed my email on the ameritrade website and started blocking my +ameritrade address. It worked like a charm.
thanks for providing the link. couldn't find it myself, but this was the statement I had in the back of my mind.
having hacked websites serve infected or specially crafted files that exploit 0 day bugs is a very common vector actually. like 0 day PDF reader bugs - they spread by being linked to in phishing emails for example. people click on them and boom they load a bad PDF and are drive by infected.

specially crafted jpgs and gifs have also been used to exploit overflows in image handling code.
The most common argument against insects feeling pain used to be that they lacked the nociceptors (sensory neurons that respond to stimuli indicating damage) that provide pain perception in humans, and by analogy other vertebrates.

However, it turns out that fruit fly larvae have thermal nociceptors that respond at the same threshold (~42°C) as those in vertebrates, rather damaging that line of argument.

Alternatively, we could state that they don't have the mental capacity to experience pain as a conscious human might, but this is difficult (maybe impossible) to prove: how can we objectively measure what is essentially a private, subjective experience?

This also suggests that the conceptual line drawn between vertebrate animals and other living things regarding which species can experience pain, is really quite arbitrary.
Tangential, but I think that one of the greatest gifts of experience and age (not that I'm old, I'm 33 - just not a kid anymore) is a lot of exposure to things I know nothing about. I now know just enough to be able to google lots of different things well, and better, have learned how to discover more things I know nothing about. It's a skill we (humanity) should spend more time developing in youngsters - being a specialist is useful and great, but being a specialist who knows of other specialties is even better, because then it becomes easier to link knowledge sets into awesome solutions.
There's also the web (literate programming) approach of "change files".
I am surprised why anyone is still using Chrome. Their debacle with remotely disabling extensions that are not from the Web Store should have spooked users enough.
Right. So if gays aren't more likely to deviate from standard gender roles, there's no reason to think that they would be more likely to be abused, if deviation from gender roles is what leads to abuse.
I had the time to read a good portion of this book. Really well written. I hope some of the negative comments don't discourage you from sharing your work next time around. I learnt something useful this time.
My particulars aren't very interesting, but having lived in northern Minnesota near Fargo and Minneapolis, and having spent three weeks in Minneapolis in December (I live in sunny Boulder), running outside each night during that damn cold snap, I've got some experience dealing with cold. It's no fun and requires the right equipment but it's both survivable and enjoyable. But I'm hardly alone: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/01/29/why-would-you-bike-c...

Cold can be a problem, but it's also a problem for drivers. Rain can be a problem. Heat can be a problem. But all of these can be overcome, and these are just some of the problems with getting more people to stop driving to work (I personally think proximity to work and perceptions of being seen biking to work are bigger problems in the USA, but I haven't studied the problem much).
Exploiting programming errors in the browser is one way.

Because browsers are written in very unsafe programming languages (C++), bugs are regularly exploitable so that by specially crafting the bug-triggering input data they can be fooled to scribble content-controlled data inside the browser's memory space. For example, a memory handling bug might let the page overwrite some of the browser's code with data coming from the web page.

This lets the web page break into your computer, running arbitrary code of its choosing on your box.

Browser plugins can be similarly targeted instead of the browser itself.
Peer abuse is rampant, so it's almost inevitable that any given gay person will have been abused. The abuse that comes from being perceived as gay based on stereotypes tends to be more violent and persistent.

You didn't provide the studies you base your opinion on, so I have no way to know if your claim that the two have been linked is true.
it's worth remembering that Holland is quite mild compared to a lot of the US. Looking at wikipedia the Netherlands' average high is lower that Austin's average low during the summer.
Sure, until you are trying to generate php.

The templating engine is one of the parts carried over from the old Xpand project on which Xtend is based. Xpand's sole purpose was as a templating language for writing code generators in MDE projects, and as such they tried to make it easy to generate any kind of code, so they chose a non-ASCII delimiter.

It's really not a problem in practice - type < and then ctrl-space and code completion will fill it in for you. The only real gotcha is that you have to make sure your project is set to use UTF-8 encoding, which unfortunately is not the default setting in Eclipse.
In the test that this guy did for himself, restricting by country didn't help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oV...
Then we simply disagree, actively pursuing hateful legislation is something I am not compelled to overlook. This is something he did in public, on the record, with full knowledge. If someone actively pushed for racist laws, I would want them booted as well.

So I guess we simply disagree on this issue.
Confused why a random chapter from the wonderful LYAH is on the top of Hacker News....
Out of curiosity, what would be better to handle the case of RVM?

It's explicitly user space software, and unprivileged user space software at that, so having it require admin interaction (i.e. touching the system package manager) to install seems like a sledgehammer where a flyswatter would do.

They could use a VCS repo of some kind, but that doesn't handle the various folder and script installs that need to happen - and also doesn't help if there isn't that specific VCS on the system.

Upstream security is less of a concern since that hotlink just points to raw code on Github, and over HTTPS no less.

So what are the negatives here? For software like RVM, this seems like the best, most portable solution that works for the most people.
Super weird -- I'm on Arch Linux, too. Could it be DNS-related?
Using dates is a good alternative, but they're not a universal solution. If Microsoft open-sources Windows XP you can be sure that dozens of articles titled "Windows XP open-sourced!" will end up on HN that day, and a site that rejects articles because they have the same title as another has a bad user interface. That said, if there's a small enough amount of content, it might be good enough.

I'm not saying sequential ID URLs are bad, they're still possible in my suggestion, I was just explaining how navigating by incrementing a number isn't plausible for sites with large amounts of user-generated content. It usually doesn't scale.

Anyway, I'm not overestimating the advantage of readable URLs. You haven't given any reason why readability isn't an advantage in URLs, and I've given several explicit reasons why they are (SEO, hovering over links, etc).
http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2004/cpa...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7537719
maybe chrome can detect these even if they aren't using same dlls?
Is is legal to specify gender in a job ad?
You must have caught a lucky moment.
Because of the current incident (passwords stored in plaintext were stolen!), spiegel online[0] wrote an article telling their readers they'd be better off if they had chosen stronger passwords.

> 18 Millionen gestohlene Passwörter und Logins hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Verden entdeckt. Mit ein paar Tricks kann man sich zumindest vor dem Schlimmsten schützen, wenn Datendiebe und Hacker zuschlagen.

translates to:

> 18 million stolen passwords and logins were found by the Staatsanwaltschaft (prosecution) of Verden. With a few tricks [i.e. a strong password] you can protect yourself from the worst when data thiefs and hackers attack.

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/passwort-emails-und-login...
There is one for Javascript that I use pretty often: http://scriptular.com/ (based on the Ruby one: http://www.rubular.com/)
For me it does not work also.
The argument suggested in the article is that harvesting plants also kills insects.
Firefox sources their malware detection from Google.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...

So it makes sense the error would show up both places.
Well, I certainly don't advocate the current form of food stamps, rather I think it should be replaced with basic income. My point was that most people use arguments like "if people can get benefits without working, then nobody would work", and Walmart employees are a counter-argument to that.
Of course these days there are only few 4164 with the metal cap remaining, and they can be as expensive as a cheap webcam: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/4164-ram
We've got a system specifically designed to prevent the kind of thin you're talking about.

It's also a system where every single trade is recorded in detail that anyone who wants can look at. No one is pointing at this data showing the smoking gun of the kind of front running you describe.

You're just saying "well, people are shady, so it's probably happening anyways." That's an incredibly weak argument in the face of a stack of evidence on the other side the biggest piece of which is the dramatically reduced cost of liquidity. If such shadiness was happening the cost of liquidity would be going in the other direction.

When talking about crimes people refer to means, motive, and opportunity. You've certainly got the motive part, but you're completely ignoring means and motive.
The speed at which the "public" comes to a majority (and overwhelming trajectory) behind an issue is faster and faster due in part due to Eich's technology.

61% of young Republican leaning voters support marriage equality, the issue is over, just waiting out those who haven't yet realized this is no longer a debate, like Eich, to catch up.
I use Deep Note as the sound for my alarm clock. It's perfect.
Safari and Firefox are also blocking Wired.
I can see both sides of this one. If I R&R my brakes or repair the steering rack, I can reasonably claim that I did so using good mechanical skills and practices, and prove it in court if necessary. But if I tinker around with a closed-source software system in my car, I literally have no idea what I'm doing. The changes I'm making could affect any and every other system on the car... and nobody but the factory engineers would know for sure.

The best solution is the simplest: no closed-source systems allowed in cars used on public roads. But I wouldn't hold my breath until everyone gets on board with that.
They had a 'technical issue' earlier today it seems:

"WIRED: @Freakonomicss @hoffin205 Yeah, we had a technical issue this morning, but our tech team fixed. Waiting for @googlechrome to clear us"

https://twitter.com/wired/status/452490353283588096
The above paper is one of two the UW/UCSD group wrote.