skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is performance on Android? On iPhone 5 it's super smooth.
There's a really good reason to get up from one's seat as soon as possible, even when that means waiting longer for bags, or just standing in the aisle. The reason is that sitting in a confined space for a long time with little movement is rather uncomfortable for many passengers, especially those with back problems. Standing up alleviates these symptoms and is a worthwhile tradeoff.
That question is clearly not a programming question

Not programming? When the first and only answer contains JavaScript code? Looks like SO has a rather odd definition of "programming".

I don't use SO myself but often stumble across interesting bits of info on there from Google, and also a lot of the puzzling "is this really off-topic?" questions. That's mainly what put me off from registering and participating, even to answer someone else's question/leave a comment - the community looks far too rigidly moderated for my taste.
I tried for ages to work out how to unkink them. I never figured it out. I could just move the kink location around but never anhialate it.
fyi, it used to be the slashdot effect before anything else.
It's now marked as fixed and released.
Converted day 6'x6' walk in closet into my office..
Hung a 40" on the center of the wall, with 20" panel..
Kneeling chair, and storage for books and stuff around the top..
http://imgur.com/PgLEaO3

I thought it would feel cramped at first, but it doesn't.. Allows me much greater focus, and everything is in arms reach.
I second that. I've found SO extremely useful.

I have noticed some of the issues mentioned by others, like the overly zealous duplicate hunters and brainless comebacks like "You shouldn't do it that way". That's just line noise to me. I fast forward past it and find answers that save me hours of time.

It seems that someone out there has already asked nearly every question I come up with. There's not always an answer that I can use, but at least it's good to see someone else formulating my question a little differently.

I guess I don't really fit into the OP's 1-4 categories. I'm just a person who finds SO useful about once a week or so. I don't have the time or the deep knowledge to be answering questions on a daily basis and racking up huge karma. Just thankful the service exists, and have put in my 2 cents a few times when I had something useful to contribute.
Hmmmm any story would be pretty cool.

Do you think it was a positive place given the real world we live in?

Do you think it should have been knocked down?

Realistically was the sense of community strong?

How did the kids inside go? Did they just leave for walks or did they spend lots of time inside.
GSS-Layouts Not Possible with Tomorrow's CSS
Ta. I had a read of the Amazon reviews at any rate. It takes so long to read an actual book! I'm supposed to be launching a business that's kind of Blue Ocean so we'll see how that goes.
Meh, I never expected a lockscreen to be a "real" security barrier. For me, its rather a deterrent for friends and family members, making them ask me before they can use my computer. Maybe this attitude comes from the old days where the linux screensavers were so brittle that they would crash by looking at them the wrong way.

Nevertheless, this bug is a big WTF and shows that it is not a good architectural choice to have the lock screen as just another X app. It would make more sense to have it in the kernel, and have one app that is allowed to supply a gui. If that app crashes, it is just restarted, or it falls back to text mode. If the user authenticates, the lock screen goes away and the main X server / wayland / whatever is reconnected to the hardware.

I think Windows uses alternate desktops/sessions (I'm not sure what the technical term is) for the lockscreen, as well as for the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen, so there is a similar protection at the kernel level. However, if winlogon.exe or anything related to the logon screen crashes, you have hardly any chance of recovering.
This happens to me more often than it should. A very small thing I do to help remember a person's name right after they introduce themselves is to immediately use their name in my follow-up sentence(s).

Example:

Bob: I'm Bob. Nice to meet you!

Me: Hey Bob, I'm Hans. What brings you to the conference?

I think most of the time I reflexively say some appropriate greeting without thinking too much about it. By using the person's name, I force myself to insert something new into an otherwise mechanical response.
Oh good, another blog post on text coding. We don't have enough of those.
Well, I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and have not installed any updates. I cannot replicate this issue.
I am looking at them on a 1st gen Nexus 7. The 3D ones are a bit choppy, but the others are all very smooth.
That's about right. That's why I use xscreensaver. It actually locks the screen and doesn't unlock the screen for random (non-)reasons.

My coworkers mostly use gnome-screensaver. Many of them have sent emails along the lines of, "Hi everyone, I should lock my screen." to popular mailing lists.
What? This kind of off-canvas sidebar is the most popular type of menu on mobile apps.
Letter from a professor to graduating students
This can be fixed easily ( i have read it fast, but i suppose this could be a fix)

Add a boolean to a attachment in the db, queryDiff

Add a string (for md5 hash)

Calculate the hash on every file with a query parameter, if the file is requested the second time (with different query parameters), check if the file hash is the same.
If the file hash is the same, change the bool queryDiff

Next time you fetch the file, queryDiff is false, so you shouldn't fetch the url and only get the original one (which was already downloaded)
> simply leaving an LTO tape on its side can push failure rates to significant levels within a year.

Do you have a source for that? I'd not heard of that before, I'm now interested to know what % the failure rate increases by
Err.. Bug reported on 16th April and fixed on 17th April.
Show HN: Spyglass, computer vision made simple in Ruby
I like the idea of a fish bowl on the desk! Where did you get that one from?
Phone cords usually end in straight sections, you just move the kink there and it disappears. I think there is no other way.
To be fair, Aereo did try to frame the argument that way. I wish I had a good citation, but when the case arrived at the court, the justices chose to hear the question the broadcasters posed over Aereo's. The former is very much framed as a copyright issue, whereas Aereo's preferred framing was to set themselves up as an equipment rental service. So, unfortunately (from my perspective), the arguments were couched in the broadcasters' semantics from the start.

What's so weird about the case is we're talking about Aereo providing, but not paying for, what's already freely available. That would hardly be controversial if not for the existing compromise with the cable companies. It would seem that they're following the letter of the law, but I didn't get the impression that the justices care about that distinction much.
Graph TV Show Ratings
I tried those for a couple of days, I must be use to very cumbersome keyboards because I felt myself pushing it all over the desk with my heavy strokes.
I find it offensive as well. But people are entitled to their free speech, so jabbering on about it is pretty much pointless. But if you like decency enforced by fiat, you could always move to Russia or NK...
You need a NAS when you have 18TB in your main machine? How big is the NAS?
> Is that all actually code?

Of course not, it's an actual project. There is code, there are data files (text and binary) and there are assets.
Except when it doesn't due to the X11 Ctrl-Alt-KP_Multiply bug from a couple of years ago.
I just moved my work setup back home. https://mobile.twitter.com/singularityhack/media/grid?idx=7&...
10 points for hufflepuff! (Might be fun, actually.)
> Cliques cannot be coded out of existence as if they are a non-meritocratic scourge. They are an entirely natural way in which people organise themselves and people will continue to organise themselves thus.

Hiding HN usernames for 48 hours would help eliminate any HN clique. (I don't think there is a clique, but if there was this would be a simple enough fix.)
I'm most frustrated by the fact that their closed questions rank so well. It's not a good fit for a Q/A format, but it is a food fit for inbound traffic, so we're leaving it up.

The keyword stuffing in the sidebar often makes the question rank for searches for which it isn't even relevant.
Corrected, the NAS is 18TB, in the workstation the disks are RAID0 for fast scratch (creating and destroying virtual machines).
Linux.com has articles on what the Linux kernel developers do:

https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-developers
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/search?query=...
Configuring Aspect with Spring AOP
I think they can, actually. I had a disagreement with someone on SO; this person subsequently went on a downvoting spree on my previous answers. I wasn't terribly worried about the points but e-mailed the mods to report the behaviour. I was told they would reverse the downvotes if the user persisted, but that they preferred not to get involved (for obvious reasons).
Caught on camera: 9Wants to Know exposes 'iScheme'
It's exactly this sort of autistic 'oh look at how closely I follow the rules' nonsense that made SO (and Wikipedia, but that's a different discussion) basically worthless for everybody who is not a first-year student any more, so basically all people who have actually something to contribute is actively hindered in contributing.

Pray tell, what is there to ask about bash that isn't programming? Now the SO zealot will say 'well the history is bash is not about programming', which is technically correct - and 'technically correct' is the worst kind of correct in existence. A question about the history of bash is close enough to being about programming, let it be.

(I don't know if the GP's question was actually about the history of bash, it's just an example of a situation I can imagine in painful realistic detail how it would go down)
You need to clean up the wording some. When I first read

Clicking that badge takes anyone to your public
waffle.io board where users can view and edit tasks.

It sounds like random github users can decide what tasks get worked on. "Users" is vague here.

Also "opensource your workflow" isn't clear. I had no idea that meant "make your kanban board public".

Why not "Waffle.io is a public kanban board that deeply integrates with github issues"? Clear, to the point, no one complains that they can't tell what the product does.
> or make any public statement about the Marvel API[...]or these API Terms of Use

What, is this an NDA? (If it is, you just broke it. Along with everyone else in this item that says they did something with their API...)
Meh, it's software. "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"
Desk, chair, laptop. That's really it for me and I find it's all I need. Although I am interested in trying a standing desk.
> Despite all that, I think the best part is that my gf (who is half my age) hangs out on the couch next to me.

Sexpat?
Is there such a thing as an "ideal blog platform for a startup"? I don't think so. Is there even such a thing as an "ideal blog platform"? No, because "ideal" is subjective. Are you a CEO type who wants to avoid the muckiness of having to write code or do any customization? Then Wordpress might not be ideal for you - or at least you should expect to pay a few hundred dollars to someone to install + customize it for you. After that, maybe it's ideal. Are you a developer who just wants the blog to get the #### out of your way so you can blog? Then a hosted medium or ghost blog or even blogger would be perfect. Or would it be better to have a blog in which you do absolutely nothing but write? Hell, host it on github then.

There is no such thing as "ideal" but there is "ideal for you", of course. I recently settled (again) for Wordpress for my personal blog. It was a combination of "I already know it" and "I can pay $50 for a nice template that isn't overused and accomplishes what I want without any fuss". It is ideal today for me for those reasons. That may change though...
BadLepricon malware caught stealth-mining Bitcoin in Android apps
I do this as well, at least when flying economy, because I want to spend as little time in that plane seat as possible. Overhead bin space has rarely been a problem, so I take that risk. Maybe I've been lucky or maybe it's because my carryon is fairly small and soft (squashable!)
The "Japanese theme park" mentioned in the lead is this video arcade (!) in Kawasaki, Japan, not far from Tokyo:

http://randomwire.com/kowloon-walled-city-rebuilt-in-japan/
Back when this was announced, I blogged about it and built a demo. This demo simply finds a random cover over the past 50 years. It updates every - 30 seconds - I think. Anyway, here it is:

http://marvel.raymondcamden.com/

And the code: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2014/2/2/Examples-of-...
Updates are installed during the installation/upgrade processs automatically.
Started a side project at http://www.fayl.io/ to capture some stories of failure - but more importantly, the lessons learned.

Chin up, get back on the saddle - you're learning through your failures.
Yes, because Apple or Trello are much better names.

Honestly, I clicked the link solely because I thought "damn, waffle.io is an awesome name".

Also, I think hooking a kanban board up to github issues is great. Not mind blowing, but definitely nice to automate coordination between the two.
Nope, they absolutely cannot. If you really doubt this, ask one in chat.

Moderators cannot even see who voted a question up or down, never mind reversing votes.

References:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144747/partial-fix-o...

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/229173/reversing-an-...
Thats the consequence of wasting effort rewriting the screensaver app (and all other basic apps) over and over and over, instead of focusing effort on writing more important things like Adobe CS and the like.

Once they fix all embarassing bugs, they'll simply throw everything away and start rewriting everything from scratch again. The main reason Linux desktop is dead is because Linux desktop developers treat it like the latest fashion fad instead of a commercial product you have to live off and be responsible for.
I wonder what the biggest code base in the world is.

Like you say, games include all sorts of binary assets.
Any idea how much actual code is there?

The Linux kernel is only 175MB
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitBenchmarks#Estimate...

The F22 has some 1.7 million LOC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor#cit...

This graph shows some pretty big things
http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1276_...
> the kind of algorithm questions that I found fun were off topic

But what is on-topic? After seeing pretty much every interesting/useful question I encountered on SO "closed as not constructive", I just can't piece in my head what questions are OK.

The only ones that come to my mind that seems to be on-topic are the kind of "I'm too lazy to try and debug things for 5 minutes, so I need to ask on the Internet" kind.
I found SO to be pretty useless for more complicated questions. Sure, if you ask something that you could answer by looking into the docs then you are flooded with answers by dozens of people.

But as soon as it gets to some obscure API maybe a handful people uses currently you not only get no constructive answers but get downvoted, get useless but borderline hateful comments and in the end the question gets closed because of $reasons.

Now if you go and start googling that obscure API it's inevitable that you will find SO questions about it. "Great, maybe I can find something there in the comments" you think. But no, that question most likely is closed because of $reasons and has no comments because comments on closed questions are not allowed.

In the last few years I had a handful of cases where even discussing with someone who didn't know the solution to my problem might have brought me a little nearer to the solution. But you even can't start a discussion in SO questions because if it's not an answer the question gets closed down - no matter how helpful the discussion might turn out for people with said problem.
The disk density, at least, isn't entirely out of line with what Amazon have publicly stated they have. Amazon have stated that their density is higher than Quanta products, and Quanta make a 60 disk 4U chassis, the M4600H: http://www.quantaqct.com/en/01_product/02_detail.php?mid=29&...
You're so off base it's not even funny. Most countries in Europe have enacted variants of 'personal bankruptcy' the last years/decades to get away from exactly the situation you are describing. There is no reason to keep chasing people with no prospects of ever being able to pay off their debt until they die. Regardless of the origin of the debt. This whole petty vengeance thing is quite barbaric, to be honest.

(I say this as someone who was notified last week of one of my debtors being declared bankrupt. Sucks that I lost my money (probably), but what good would it do if the guy would be chased by collection agencies for the next 40 years until he dies?)
I work from my apartment in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood in Montreal. It's a small prewar apartment, and the living room has its original stucco walls.

I work sometimes from my desk, sometimes from a standing standing at the other side of the room by the window, and sometimes from neighborhood cafes.

I posted pictures of my setup to /r/minimalism a while ago. Note that I have since failed to keep up this system perfectly, but often my desk does look like this. Seeing what I posted has inspired me to deal with loose paper better, which is my main cause of clutter.

http://www.reddit.com/r/minimalism/comments/1hi0i7/my_new_mi...
Please educate me - what is an "encrypted email port"? This is a term I don't know. I feel a bit silly asking TBH but it happens to us all from time to time, I suppose...
I never realized when trying to unkink them that it might lead to future nobel prize in chemistry.
Oh, that's an informative error message:

"CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry...."
I'm a member of another community that was run almost exactly like that for musicians called future producers. I moved from a 3 to a 1,4 and now I'm a pure 4. The thing that the 1's need to come to grips with is that people are going to keep asking the same questions over and over. SO needs the concept of a `git merge` so you can take take questions which might be part of another question and merge them in. By merge i mean a true merge, not just a link to the other question. SO is beyond the Q&A phase and needs to transition into the data curation phase, but it's rudimentary vote/mark duplicate/close/delete system isn't designed to facilitate that.
It's actually just a big vase :)
Why did you choose OCaml?
For inspiration:

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations

http://www.reddit.com/r/macsetups
only if you check that checkbox though
Git is pretty good at handling large files right now.

We use git to push configuration data to (near) real-time systems that keep this data in local memory mapped key-value stores. It's essentially a fully replicated, eventually consistent key-value store, and git plays a staring role.

We regularly push multi-gigabyte files through this system with ease, with only a few tweaks on git's configuration. Git has some major advantages. It's fast, can handle large files, and you can piggyback on the versioning system to ensure that multiple writers aren't competing. Also, git is highly configurable and has a lot of out-of-the-box options for easily setting up git servers.
> Who knows what bugs wait lurking in there; who knows which particular combinations of which libraries are a security-bug timebomb. [...] The GTK and GNOME libraries have never been security-audited to the extent that their maintainers would be willing to make the claim, "under no circumstances will this library ever crash."

> gnome-screensaver is brand new, bug-ridden, unreliable, and a security disaster waiting to happen

Looks like jwz has been vindicated here.

References:
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/5premature_degrade.ht...

They don't mention the rates though
A lot of times one sees results like then when asking open-ended or subjective questions on SO, when SO is intended to be more like a wikipedia or a knowledge store of objective solutions to problems.

Joel has spilled much ink on how SO is not a site for free form discussion. Discourse was created for that.

Some frustration may occur when one realizes that certain kinds of problems or exploration are best suited to free-form discussion - those discussions need to happen on channels other than SO then.

* edit - corrected Discourse attribution.
Tools for Log Management and Analysis
Not particularly. Hong Kong is a very safe place, and the Walled City was the most dangerous part of Hong Kong. We never had any problems at all.
Ask HN: Would Inline Images On HN Comments Ruin Quality?
How does embedding pictures relate to comment quality? On most other communication platforms, inline media is supported, but it's non-existent on HN. Just wanted to get the communities thoughts on whether or not it's a good idea.
Will this become as successful as their cloud computing business? Most parcels I get are from Amazon anyhow. I guess its that way for many people. They will have an insane headstart going into this business.

Personally, I welcome our new delivery overlords. I would like to order stuff and have it at my door 1 hour later.
OK, as you suggest, I could counter with plenty of examples of questions about bash that aren't about programming, but - for the sake of discussion - let's assume those are all close enough since bash is most likely to be used by programmers than non-programmers.

where do you now draw the line? do you have a line at all? if not, don't you end up with something like yahoo answers that already exists and is pretty much useless to everyone?

The SO founders decided to draw the line at 'programming questions', then built a framework to enforce that. I don't see what's wrong with that.

P.S. If you're going to reply, can we keep it civil, please?

(edit: wow, someone really has it in for me today)
The bigger WTF here is that holding down a key can cause an application to crash, an application that is (or should be) extremely simple in terms of what it has to do. I don't seem able to see the code changes that were made to fix this, but would really like to know just how this could even happen.

I don't think it needs to be in the kernel; the login process for *nixes has always been in usermode, and this arrangement hasn't proved to be particularly troublesome.
Chinese firm 3D prints 10 full-sized houses in a day
Well, that's clearly ridiculous, but it's good to hear that it was reopened and the system worked.
- It was a horrible, hellish place that desperately needed to be destroyed. The people living there were in pretty desperate straits, many of them illegal immigrants trying to escape China.

- There was solidarity but little sense of community I think. It was everyone for himself.

- I honestly do not know how the plumbing in the place worked, but expect the answer could well have been "not at all". Most people did not spend a lot of time there: you couldn't, it was too horrible inside.

Fun fact. The street-facing shops of the KWC, all the way around it, were dominated by unlicensed Chinese dentists trying to hawk their services in Hong Kong against the law. They all had skeletons and skulls in the shop windows with their dental handiwork applied to show off their dental mojo, completely oblivious to the irony of doing this.