skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the old (now left to rot by Atlassian) Bitbucket Cards. This kind of scrum/kanban board with issues integration is really useful, I'm developing my version as well.

[1] http://www.bitbucketcards.com
I feel like facebook is a giant orgy of startups now.
I'm going to guess that anyone with access to the database can do a whole bunch of impossible things.

Such as, I dunno, the people who work at StackOverflow HQ.
Imgur is one of those sites where noone believed it would last, due to the vast amount of money it takes to run a site like that (at the time) and it being the main way people posted images to reddit.

Glad to see it has lasted and has a community built around images posted from reddit. :)
You mix up everything, and many posters do that further down.

These are the relevant rockets and their first stage engines that fly from US soil:

1) ULA Delta IV: US made RS-68 (new).
2) ULA Atlas V: Russian made RD-180 (new).
3) SpaceX Falcon 9: US made Merlin-1 (new).
4) Orbital Sciences Antares: Soviet made NK-33 (decades old, now refurbished in USA).
Well that's nice. Not sure I'm entirely convinced they shouldn't be able to make it available cheaper than 100$/book (and as a pdf...) -- even just assuming they're able to print it at reasonable quality there should be something available for making a high quality scan...

Still, great that it is available!
> What's the point?

Better job offers? Or maybe just invisible internet points.
>And calling it "theft" is an attempt to prejudice the discussion. Theft is taking without due process of law. By definition, taking at the command of a court is with due process of law.

Not if the taking is in a jurisdiction the court commanding it has no power over. Which was the point here.
@akkartik's JS redirect suggestion sounds like it will be trivial to implement. No need to fix the legacy arc code, just add a stopgap measure that will improve the UX for a lot of people :)
Needs a (2008)
I'm not sure anybody particularly cares why it is happening, just that it is happening.
Yup downvote me. Because this isn't obviously a CL thread.

What a nice display of Clojure propaganda, when in a CL thread, a related library is scored lower than a clojure library.
It's not the fnid that gets garbage collected, it's the coroutine itself.
> The choice of coroutines to back all of these things has broken the basic accessibility of all the content.

Exactly. This is actually a good example of More is Less.
There's also less handling: Amazon would be loading its own trucks that go directly to the customer in cities with warehouses nearby, compared to UPS who have at least one sort step.
I like the Datadex idea and the promise to make datasets as easily accessible as source code repositories. I can see a number of use cases already for a standardized and fast way to collaborate on structured data sets.
Student here, so I guess my office is less mission-critical than others.

I took an old door, nailed an edge around it, and varnished it. Got two trusses from Ikea for pretty cheap (~$30 each), and two "night stands" that work really well as shelves.

I have an absurd amount of desk space and I find it great for working. My desk is messy, but I'll get a picture up in a sec.

Edit: Heres that photo
http://i.imgur.com/eAY7xZC.jpg
Congratulations on the baby.

I like this approach. If you could help her with the "computing problems", maybe she could 1) write a book, 2) while she learns more about scientific computing and come with ideas about mixing molecular biology with sc. comp.
Doesn't and use prebuild jars for libraries?
If not then maybe you should think about switching to maven.
In the UK, Amazon also has to take into account future competition as a result of eBay's recent purchase of shutl.it, who specialises in ~1 hour deliveries, coupled with their increasing number of deals with regular stores. E.g. Argos offers a lot of products on eBay, and Argos also used to offer shutl.it delivery for an extra fee.
This is the DHH everyone has come to expect, and enjoys reading. The entire premise of rails is based on putting negative light on configuration, this is sort of David's M.O.

The rails community has come to terms with the lack of pedantically focused programming practices that DHH embodies, however, his whole aura is one of an individual who has experienced extreme success, and therefore he's still an important community asset. He's a thought leader because he has created immense value from his opinions, and his vitriolic opinion of software architecture and abstraction has always existed. You can literally trace this back to RSpec.

I still argue OP isn't doing anything to support an opposite opinion, and is simply feeding the perspective that DHH was trying to be inflammatory instead of opinionated.
Pretty much everywhere where you see C/C++ i'd say. So not in your browser, but everywhere else.
In my eyes the problem is pseudonymity and pseudo interaction.

If the system isn't anonymous, people will try to use it for their personal reputation gains. See Github, Stackexchange, Wikipedia.

If the system promotes pseudo interaction, like votes, it will lead people to empathise posts, which they _think_ are good, but don't have to be. You don't have to conduct real interaction with the content and users, like writing and reading, you just have to click, which leads to easy manipulation from people who don't know anything real to contribute.
On Australia's largest job site: 331 Ruby, 338 Python and 0 Golang jobs.
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In the meantime you can use this http://ihackernews.com
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Also, nobody cares. Since this comment is not even remotely related anymore.
If she is interested in getting into academics, she may consider doing remote teaching. For example, many of the professors who teach at University of Maryland University College (http://umuc.edu) are from across the country and only teach part time while either holding a full-time job or being retired. The majority of the classes offered are all done entirely online so there is no travel commitments by the professor to go to a classroom every day or week. I am sure that there are other similar opportunities at other colleges. Just a thought.

Congrats on the baby!
> Now obviously one might wonder why HN works this way. The reason is that the HN codebase came about as a way of field testing Arc [Graham's 100 year language].

This is really the key point: continuations are the wrong way to write this kind of application. It's significantly more work and there's no benefit from doing so but it allowed someone to test a pet idea and, having done so, fixing it would mean admitting that doing something because it's cool isn't good engineering.
I think it's worth revisiting the discussion we had here a while ago when they rose their VC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524216
I lived in HK during this period, and the only three times I visited KWC was for dental work.... intense place... like mongkok or samshuipo on on crystal meth... I've been in places worse, but it was not a place for the feint of heart...
You guys both work at home and you are still married? Congrats. That usually strains a lot of relationships.
First: Thanks for launching on WP8 - I see you've already launched it on other platforms so hopefully adding WP8 to the mix was relatively easy.

- your app is currently using the default Unity logo in the app listing once a user downloads it so you may wish to add your own logo there instead.
- the game itself feels sluggish even when used on a high-end Lumia 920 - I'd check out any optimizations that could be made as other Unity games run far smoother
- the gameplay is entertaining but you may want to add some pickups such as missile-armour or 5sec invincibility, etc as the rockets are very difficult to avoid
fnids are evil, they just need to drop them and respond properly to posts without them. What more state needs to be recorded which is not already encoded in a POST reply request {user:n,post:7651593,text:'xxx'}?

The solution should be pretty straightforward:

Reply forms -> Remove fnid, authenticate on post, add CSRF

Flag links -> Remove fnid, authenticate on post, add CSRF

They already check authentication on these actions anyway as you'll see if you try upvote links from another user without login, all that would be required would be to use CSRF instead of these closures to handle posts like this - the closures are not a workable solution on a large site, and I'd contend are dangerous on a small site - they throw away a lot of the advantages of HTTP for no appreciable gains.

Things like the more link are particularly pointless, they could just use something like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=xxx -> https://news.ycombinator.com/news/2

This would change over time like the existing home page, but there's no reason for a simple GET request like this to expire.
I built something small to try the API out a couple months ago: http://cesnotseth.com/marvel/
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That's the difficult case. Suppose you're the head of Microsoft Brasil, a Brazilian company 100% owned by Microsoft. You're a Brazilian citizen siting in your office in São Paulo, overseeing the local datacenter. A US court asks Microsoft to ask Microsoft Brasil for some data. The request arrives at your desk and it goes against local law. Do you comply and risk going to jail in Brazil or do you not comply and let your boss in the US go to jail? There's got to be precedent for this in the physical world. There's nothing special about data in a datacenter vs cargo in a warehouse for this scenario.
"What are you trying to do?" is probably the most passive-aggressive, most infuriating and least helpful answer to any technical question.

It usually translates to "I know the answer to your question, but instead of just answering it and letting us both get on with our lives, I'd like to show off my vast intellect by helping you embark on a major re-design that you neither asked for nor need at the moment."
The End of Google+
Neat! Worth it for the option to collapse threads alone. Recently some extraordinarily lengthy, tedious threads have dominated the discussion on otherwise-interesting topics, and simply finding the end of the dreck was a problem.
I don't know OCaml much but the syntax for pattern matching, Tuples, Traits, the fact that map, filter etc are methods on the collection (unlike F# or Haskell) feels more like in Scala than pure functional to me.
DAT is funded by the Knight Foundation: http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201346305/
Because they make no sense for a dynamic [but strong] typing language?)

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Monads
I am surprised there was no mention in the article of Imgur stripping Exif data off of uploads. To me that seems like a nice bonus.
git is "the stupid content tracker", not "the stupid merge tool". Even for things you have no intention of branching or merging, it still gives you control over versioning... and there's a huge gap between the level of control a hash tree gives you versus trusting some remote server to consistently give you the same file when you give it the same request.
What do you think the bid would be? I'm thinking 100 billion.
Stanford proposes new password policy
Only if you have two kinks, I think. I'm not sure how people introduce them, but I always had to move them all the way to the end to remove them.
As of 2012, US Internet users represented about 10% of world-wide Internet users. [1] Internet usage is far from being an exclusively American thing.

Given recent trends, US users will within a decade represent 5% of world-wide users, with relatively more expensive and narrower bandwidth at their disposal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
Data structures. Architecture patterns. Software packaging and deployment principles (actual methods change, but core idea stays the same). Communication and data exchange patterns in distributed systems. Good languages present in the market for quite long time (Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Python).
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Unfortunately engine itself is not produced. Those are all modifications of existing NK-33.
As a user here and a reader on SO, I'll say this:

Go to hell.

Your responses are less than worthless. You argue and banter, just to be right 'on the internet'. You and comments like yours poisons community after community. Disconnect from the Internet and leave the rest of us in peace.
Yeah, but the very nature of computer science tends to mean it's a turtles on down scenario. You explain that (for example), no, you can't upgrade the machine to windows 7 from XP, and that's why your question is about XP, then you end up having to explain why you can't upgrade, which isn't just a simple reason. You go "well, because the framework we use only exists for XP" and now you're stuck explaining why you use that framework. Once you explain why you're using the framework, you're off to explain why you can only use that one framework and why nothing else will do. Then, you're explaining the problem that lead you to that framework, and on and on and on. It's typically never a simple "Well, we just chose X and that's why," it's almost always "We have to use x, because Y used N and M which don't work with L because J and we tried A, B, C, D and E, but only R worked, but R doesn't exist for the OS we use so we had to rewrite R in F and finally use it with X."

You kinda end up copy pasting your life's story every time you ask a simple question. Drives me nuts and makes me use IRC more often because the feedback loop ends quicker.
Thank you a lot for the suggestions :-)
At the moment I use the free version of Unity which doesn't allow having a custom logo on the splashscreen. The pickup you suggested are cool. Will probably work on this (in my free time).
Scripting languages are really good for fast prototyping which helps in reducing the time to market which is critical for startups. When they go big, usually their codebase also goes bigger. Then they will start looking into maintainability, performance and 'ability to refactor' aspect of codebase. Statically typed language shines here and hence the move.
I think http://github.com/coopernurse/gorp is currently the one winning hearts and minds.

Though as jmoiron points out http://jmoiron.net/blog/gos-database-sql/ if you're looking for a Go version of ActiveRecord it isn't going to be achievable any time soon.
Nothing special about my current home office (which consists of a desk in my bedroom), but back when I lived in Brooklyn, I had a makeshift standing desk with a nice view of Manhattan.

http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2011/02/20/standing-desk-conf...
Elon Musk on soft landing and lawsuit against ULA monopoly
Graph of Netflix speeds shows the importance of net neutrality
When one is sufficiently religious, faith/belief become the paradigm for all mental processes. It becomes impossible to fathom a non-religious capacity of thought.
With all due respect, if a framework makes storing sessions for more than 30 minutes "hard", there's something fundamentally wrong with the framework. This has been a solved problem for longer than I have worked in the industry.
Not a reliable check. If the first 2 are the same, then this would cause a false positive as the third, fourth and fifth could all be completely different.
The iTechNote link didn't work for me.

The original article can be found here[0] or alternatively using using coral cache[1].

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[0]: http://news.dice.com/2014/04/25/end-google/

[1]: http://news.dice.com.nyud.net/2014/04/25/end-google/
No, because cstheory is for academics, and it isn't a research question. Besides, nobody is actually on those sites, so those discussions don't happen there.
Probably I'm a radical, but I just don't see the point of deleting factual information in the Internet, as long as it is true information.

Someone creates an article in Wikipedia about a subject that is totally irrelevant for most people? It's fine. It's not as if I'm ever going to see it (as I only tend to see articles I search for), and a Wikipedia page doesn't exactly take a lot of space by today's standards. We have the technology to build a virtually unlimited repository of all human knowledge, with no effective physical limits, and some mods keep acting as if it had to fit into a physical bookshelf.

With SO it's the same, why should I care if a question is considered to be irrelevant or even a duplicate? If I search for it on Google and it contains reliable information that solves my problem, it's useful for me. If it's really irrelevant, I'm not going to search for it, and therefore it's not going to make me lose any of my time.

We have search tools that keep getting better and better and allow us to pinpoint what is useful for us among a vast sea of information. There's no need to spend valuable human time on deleting stuff, the search engine will filter it for me so that I get what I want, thank you very much!
TIOBE is (unintentionally) misleading; in truth, interest in Java is surging
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Spare bedroom my wife and I both use. We each bought two cheap IKEA desks (they look like Galants, but with T-Legs, very basic) -- one desk for our computers and monitors and such (sooo much space) and another for other sundry. I have a 4 color laser all-in-one and the guts of a MAME machine I'm working on on my second disk, my wife has mostly paperwork spread out. A pair of comfortable, relatively cheap ($200) chairs from Costco. That's about it, when it's organized better than it is right now, it's semi-minimal with tons of surface space to work off of. Right now I have too many old computers in there I need to dispose of or do something with and lots of other junk I need to organize. I keep my photography equipment in there as well and we're preparing for an overseas trip so all that junk is in there as well.

I try not to keep lots of books or anything in there. I have a separate library room for books and various curio (the actual home office designed for the home, but is just a hair too small for my current setup plus my wife's plus my books).
They solved a problem for a highly engaged network, making it simple to post and share an image in formats necessary for forums and not tied to identity. The first time I used Imgur, it was so simple, so delightful and so not monetized I wondered how it would last.
I don't think it's too controversial to think that people who work with aesthetics have more aesthetically-pleasing workplaces.
That's population not wealth, trust me I am sure most US businesses (technology based ones) currently don't have a strong foot hold in China. Which by your calculations make up ~15% of the world markets. If we however look by wealth and assume our allies are alright with our methods (given it also helps them spy on their citizens it's a fair assumption) we aren't risking that much, considering the countries we aren't in are the only ones who would oppose this.

I'm not saying that it's good practice to do what the U.S. did and I am appalled. However, they will not lose 95% of the markets, at least not now. There is currently no country with the capacity to generate as many new ideas into businesses, and the U.S. is roughly 25% of the worlds entire economy. Hell, just California is the worlds 7th largest economy.

Further, you don't think the other large nations (by economy), such as Japan, China, India, Russia, the U.K. are not doing/going to do the same thing (I omitted Germany and France since they seem to not wire tap.. Not necessarily true).

Business wouldn't and wont be cut 95%, I am pretty sure most countries are grateful the U.S. is setting precedent and will request them to issue warrants on their citizens.
Are there any recent Go books that HN would recommend? Everything I see is from 2012 but I'd really like something from 2014 simply because I presume as an uninitiate that the platform is moving quickly.
My living room consists of my desk, TV and a small sofa. The desk is positioned in the middle of the room, so I can see the TV. It's a terrible setup for entertaining guests but it's nirvana for working from home. I'd hate to be cramped up in a small office or next to my bed. Being able to watch TV while I work allows me to be able to work for 12+ hours with no problem. And I really like the extra space.
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Previously on HackerNews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648860
Here's where the magic happens:

https://twitter.com/Justin_Mandzik/status/460080620329508864

https://twitter.com/Justin_Mandzik/status/460082804827881472

Edit: I do a few days a week from home, with a fair amount of video conferencing. White board is critical to get me out of my chair to draw out what's in my head.
I'm with Szotack (quote at end of article). Basically, they're just showing relatively obvious stuff, which is to say, the second law of thermodynamics coupled with a heat bath can lead to interesting deviations from entropy.
I'm not sure I see the "magic" in trivial compilers.
You know what we never have to do? Spend more than 5-10 minutes shopping for two weeks' worth of groceries. I don't even leave the couch, and when the delivery person shows up, they take the bags right into the kitchen.

Now all you need to do is buy a robot that feeds you and open a hole in your couch to put a toilet in.

But seriously, people need to get out, see the 4-5 types of tomatoes and buy the right ones. Your version works for a subsection of people, most will plan grocery shopping on their way back from work or as family time. you can buy the shampoo and Gillete razors once every few months, but for many things can't beat the 'see, touch and buy. '
MtGox internals don't matter for tracing the lost coins. You need to know all addresses owned by MtGox, then you also know all the coins deposited to MtGox, and you need the list of legitimate withdraws. Then you can just look what happened to the coins not legitimately withdrawn.
There's something really great about the Gallant desks. Cheap, roomy, well built, no fuss. I have the version with T-Legs, but I can't honestly go back to other kinds of desks.
The only reason people come here is the content.

I consider this a good thing. It attracts the right kind of people.
Other than taking the nominal appearance of a Kanban board, I can't figure out what is possible to do with this that isn't possible to do with Github issues, in a non-vertical format.
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I've noticed especially with newer tech is that recruiters will scour github for technologies, maybe examine the code a bit, and then write or call the developer directly. I've had that done to me and I have exactly 0 entries at "job sites".
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Programming Problems as Challenges
Who are Silicon Valley's biggest earners?
I have a modest proposal for addressing the terrible dearth of fnids on this site. Since fnids are in such high demand, and yet are expensive to keep in memory, one small change might free up lots of them - remove the use of fnids for more pages and use a static url instead

so the more link on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news

would point to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news/2

and so on.... This would free up many fnids for use elsewhere, and also make the secondary list pages more easily cacheable and reduce load on the server.

The same could be done for other lists which currently use fnids without any appreciable change in the user experience or probably much change in the server code.