skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an idea: new HNers can upvote, but no downvote. If HN's popularity goes up, you'll have a large influx of upvotes for trivial news, and a limited set of users to stop it, which is the typical problem for growing communities. I've been here for almost a year, and I still don't have enough karma to downvote, so I'd guess the number of high karma HNers must not be that big.

Also, according to the guidelines[1], you should use the report button (assuming you have enough karma) instead of commenting.

Edit: it took me longer to write this comment that it took for the article to go down. Nice.

Using Reddit's terms because I'm not sure if there are HN specific ones

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
KO is not a framework it's "just" a data binding library
Also it's much less tedious when developing a web app to test your code using unit tests, rather than doing curl commands and/or actually launching the frontend to test the API manually and trying to glean errors from the web inspector.
How does your point actually differ from what you quoted? It seems like you're saying the same thing.

"they know their status will never be questioned" = "the contrast is so great both parties clearly know their place in the interaction"

"you get scared that maybe you should be with a girl like me" = "The closer two people come in looks...the more likely there would be pressure to feel as if they could be a match"
"solid trajectory" does not mean great user experience.
A year later? Come on. There's a limit to verbal promises, and it doesn't extend to different people a year later.
Tons of people. There's all the people using old computers, because they're still plenty good (except when using applications written by people who think they don't have to worry about memory), and all the people on shoestring budgets using cheap computers that are for the most part good enough (except when using applications written by people who think they don't have to worry about memory).
Depends... some girls have a really awesome personality that can attract any guy regardless of their looks.

Their not easy to find though i can honestly say I only met 1 or 2 in my life.

Already taken unfortunately but their always a joy to hang around with.
Aim for journals with a high-impact factor. Researchers are encouraged to publish there. Unfortunately there's usually a pay wall for those. For free stuff you can check open-access journals. Some open journals also have a high impact factor and there's recently been a push for publish to publish only in open access journals.
That makes perfect sense. 'A' and 'a' are both on the 2 key, along with 'b', 'c', 'B', and 'C'.
First 4 words of content at https://github.com/mono/xsp are "Mono's ASP.NET hosting server". So yeah, you're using ASP.NET. In the same way that working with Mono is using .NET.

Or maybe not. Perhaps someone means to specify that they're using Mono/XSP as opposed to one of Microsoft's implementations. But then it'll probably be obvious from the context.
I just checked my phone, and Android 4.4.2 supports always-on VPN.
Link broken. Should be http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
do you allow for remote/telecommute?
Supernice feed that is simple for me to use. I clicked the buttons and everything seemed easy enough to understand. I don't really get some of the comments here as I find the UI easy to understand as in I clicked everything, it worked, then I understood it.same as I do for every new site I encounter..

(Disclaimer: Friend of one of the guy's behind this.)
The Oatmeal makes a $8 million plea to Elon Musk
Indeed, NAT-piercing isn't new or even revolutionary. It's a small feature of our mission to make building IoT apps as painless and fast as possible.

Our main goal is to build an ecosystem of ready-to-use devices and a RESTful API around this ecosystem so devs can focus on building their awesome IoT application, rather than bothering with the infrastructure. This is a component of that effort.
We have a Salt Docs Sprint coming up next week. Details here: http://www.saltstack.com/saltstack-events/salt-docs-sprint Please add this feedback as an issue on our GitHub tagged with ticket #12446, and please join the sprint and contribute if you can.
I took a ride in Google's self driving car
What host are you using?
>I feel like the problem is that educational effectiveness is too much of a personal thing that it is impossible to argue about.

This may be true, but I definitely like reading the range of opinions on this subject and I think it's helpful as an educator.

>I think it's important to note that most people are self driven enough to learn on their own.

This is sadly not true, but I'm happy that you think it is!
Leadership Traits That Are Often Overlooked
But aren't there just too many frameworks? A new one comes out every other day. Or is it because it so easy to announce them on Hacker News?
I also noticed this. I immediately thought ot myself, "How is this any different than my current set up with Cygwin and apt-cyg?"

Surprise: It's not!
Is Red Hat the new Oracle?
How does Qiqqa compare to Zotero? According to an old (2010) post by the author of Qiqqa (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/13326/qiqqa-and-pdfs/):

It's Jimme here. I am the guy building Qiqqa.

Qiqqa is not trying to be a reference manager like Zotero or Mendeley.
As I do my PhD I am building something that is excellent at helping me (any anyone else who wants to use it)
READ, UNDERSTAND and DIGEST the papers in my library using Computational
Linguistics techniques, and not LOCATE/DOWNLOAD/COLLECT the papers.

Zotero's incredible strength lies with its ability to download reference matter from hundreds of sources - and that is something Qiqqa would never need to compete against.
It is great to see a community at work writing the hundreds of parsers and scrapers of the various online libraries.
This is true if you only judge what is 'good' as something that has mass appeal. What if you are into esoteric stuff that most people don't get? Also I think you undervalue inspiration, the work can be effortless when you have the right motivation.
By the time prospective customers have filled out this information, Oscar can present them with personalized recommendations rather than a page jam-packed with options that have nothing to do with the user.

Oscar even opted to present one potential insurance package at a time to keep people focused and make sure they don’t get overwhelmed

This sounds like a site i would run screaming from. Machines are at their best when they help us to think, not when they try to think for us, and it drives me up the wall when a website has information i am interested in and just won't show it to me.

Please tell me there is at least an obvious link that just takes you straight to a table of all the plans?

Oh, no there isn't.
Someone is a Led Zeppelin fan; the artwork references many of their album covers.
Perhaps we could work on something relevant?
Does deleting products ever break? I wouldn't bother with any tests, unit or functional, for a code path that doesn't have any logic in it - if it compiled then it's almost certainly correct.

Where testing is useful is when there's complex logic. And such logic is much easier to test at the unit level.
A friend of mine shared some hacker news on Google Reader (the best google's social network)
Is there anywhere a curated list of ISPs who have actively spoken in favour of net neutrality (AAISP in the UK is the only one that springs quickly to mind, but I assume they aren't the only ones) and those who are apparently working against it? Perhaps with the IP ranges those ISPs are assigned? That way those of us who don't rely on any income from our sites could give those using the good guys speedier access (I wouldn't block or directly slow down the others: some of them are getting screwed enough by an ISP they can't leave without me kicking them too, but giving "good guy" ISPs priority where possible feels OK especially in the UK where there is at least a smidgen of genuine competition in many areas).
For some reason I feel this will be bought by a Google or Facebook before making it to market. I can't explain why, I just get that vibe.
ITYM obfuscated?
Choose your own cupcake adventure with Name.com...
I think its a neat concept that definitely has legs. That said, all of the things they were going to do with the $100k makes me feel like these guys don't know what things cost.
The monopolies haven't been allowed since 1992. http://articles.philly.com/1992-10-19/business/26000502_1_ca...
The problem is not the browser. The problem is that modern web pages use a lot of functionality, use a lot of JS libraries and thus require that "full-fledged programming environment". A browser that does not implement it will just not be able to visit modern web pages. A page such as cnn.com weights 2M - and images are just 450 KB of it. Gmail and G+ are between 7 and 8 MB.

Modern web pages are programs and many are becoming bloated, and there is nothing magical a browser can do to avoid it.
That would have been an infinitely more interesting and appropriate article to read on HN. He seems to have initially achieved escape velocity from typical performer constraints by self-funding shows using his Reddit fanbase, is that right? If he's shooting and editing his own TV shows even at a preparatory stage, I want to read about that shit. I already noticed his show has some unconventional shots in it, and wondered why. That honestly was the most interesting part to me, how it didn't feel like the same old shit on TV in so many ways.

With regard to the topic at hand, talk about this particular TV show has been hitting my RSS reader. And so far all I'm seeing is the replacement of regressive, fact-free bullshit about heterosexual relationships with progressive, fact-free bullshit about heterosexual relationships. Another interesting article would be some sort of empirical approach to understanding these issues.
The only situation I could imagine it weakening the system is if your non-dictionary-word password can be turned into a dictionary word by adding several characters on to the end.
I can appreciated GP's optimism, but as someone who has actually utilized both data sets in various forms this is spot on.

Foursquare's data is vastly superior, something I attribute at least partially to the fact that they've built a service that incentivizes checking in, while Facebook is more heavily scrutinized for their questionable privacy practices. It'll be interesting to see if this continues to be the case when 4sq releases Swarm.
Has anyone found any good ways to force free users to upgrade to paid? i have a SaaS with a freemium option that has led to 2500 free users and only 1% conversion to paid. The support costs of the free users far outweighs the paid revenue. My guess is most of those free users won't upgrade, but has anyone had success in cutting the dead weight/forcing upgrades?
This guys says he was there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7741814
i guess requirement rot is partly why we have agile
I should have added a disclaimer that I haven't worked with web forms in many years, so my commentary is probably not the most infomred. The ajax controls always seemed a bit ugly to me.
Another option for having RAID without using software on the Pi could be something like a Drobo Mini. 4 drives, built in raid controller. They claim portable, although it is hefty compared to a two-drive option. But then again, you gain more redundancy.
I agree that if something is really popular, you'll see it. But being popular doesn't imply that it is really good, or something really good might not always be popular. Also 'popular' depends on the filter bubble you are currently in (whatever your sources are). I also agree that we should do more work, which is why I've always been a fan of curated sources by people (or algorithms, as in Zite) whose taste I trust instead of browsing through an endless stream of feeds and websites. I'll always choose the option of a daily or weekly newsletter instead of browsing through the site every hour or so.
"What every programmer should know about SEO"

Yeah, no.
"Instagram Just Geotagged Us To Hell: When Politics Drive Product Decisions, We All Lose"

https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/dad4c3736409
> When I run into an issue that fires me up, I write the nasty email. Except when I’m done, I don’t hit send.

This is one of the most important things you can do in the business world. I really wish I've learned to do this much earlier than I did.
Now we know why common carrier will never happen.
A friend recommended to me.
Ask HN: Staying motivated, personal software products. 
Often times I find myself quitting in the last mile when working on personal software projects. I'm thinking its a matter of motivation. With personal projects I'll prototype the project, start writing documentation and design documents which help me organize my thoughts. Describing how something will work often helps me spot issues before I develop it as well as fully thinking the operations though.

Next I move on to testing various methods. When should a file be cached to ram, or just dumped in /tmp things like this. What is the pro's and con's of each. I'll learn the technical details of why the operating systems, development environment, etc. works like that. Finally I'll find myself about 50-60% done. Most the decisions are made from a technical level (and justify able with graphs). All that's really needed is some spit shine on the user interface, and some basic error handling in the tools I did the benchmarking and profiling in.

Then normally I just quit. I procrastinate, push the project aside. Slowly forget about it. So what keeps you going after you've solved the interesting technical issues in a software project?
Google announces GanetiCon 2014
The salient point: author has replaced free trial with money back guarantee and his signups did not decrease!

Anyone has similar experience with removing free trial? I wonder if it's actually a trend or a single occurrence.
at one time I could not use this add on and visit cycle trader or auto trader without losing all the memory on my system.

For some odd reason it never did that on my Mac, is there a real difference between firefox osx and Windows?
Facebook doesn't seem to measure for quality, they just seem to measure for quantity..
Do they still rent it?
Why wouldn't my peer-to-peer traffic be throttled down to dialup speeds? Or traffic from any site with less than a million dollars to spend, assuming that all of the top 100 sites sign up, and Wikipedia gets a discount or a pass?

>I doubt anyone will see dial up speeds.

I'm not reassured in any way by your doubts.
Why not? While there are lots of terrible SEO consultants and stupid recommendations, knowing how SEO actually works and the way it rewards good, up-to-date content, is incredibly valuable. And knowing how things really work is the best way to defeat the crummy suggestions and gimmicks that a misinformed marketer might suggest.
Get Great Deals on ATV Rentals and Lodging
Thousands of people come to Colorado every year looking for an outdoor adventure. Although you may think that most people come during the winter to enjoy the snow, many people come during the summer to enjoy the sun and mountains without worrying about freezing cold temperatures. If you are thinking of an awesome trip for you and your friends or family, come to Colorado for ATV trips.

If you book in advance, you can get a hotel and an ATV reservation at the same time for combined savings. ATV trips are a great way to have a fantastic time in the sunshine, away from your normal life, and to enjoy the clean mountain air. With the addition of an awesome mountain lodge, you may find that you never want to leave the beautiful state of Colorado and all of the outdoor adventures it offers.
Aside from the fact this is not strictly legal, my experience has been that this is more effort than it's worth. And if you have any hardware that's a bit non-standard, you can forget about it.
Make It Rain: The Love of Money soars to No.1 on iTunes
EBay CEO Asked About Amazon, Bitcoin and Unpopular Seller Policy
As a Christian, I find the honest clarity of the project's goals rather refreshing as some bible translations have agendas other than proclaiming the word of God.
"You might receive these offers or ads online, via email or through direct mail."
Why are some startups choosing Sacramento? (Hint: lower rent)
They seem to be following the same course with Moves, the fitness tracking app they acquired recently.

You used to be able to tag locations with foursquare data, that feature was removed in the latest update. I assume facebook places will be replacing them.
I found it as a referer in my weblogs. The article in question was in the process of being Meh'd and Die-in-a-fire'd at by the crowd at Reddit, whereas here there was a small yet intelligent discussion about the technology used to build the thing the article talked about.

Fishing it out of my history, it seems it was submitted by this user named "pg".
FLAGGING:

I do not know what I should flag. Should I flag things that have terrible titles?

"10 articles every programmer should read" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743952

Or should I flag the obvious (but rare) off topic spam that makes it through the filters?

I believe HN users want to reduce mod-work, and that they would be happy with slightly increased friction on flagging.

[flag - should not be on HN]

[flag - HN Worthy but terrible title]

[flag - train wreck comments]

I believe this would increase flagging. I suspect it would make modding easier but I don't know and maybe I'm talking nonsense.
Your best bet is text-based browsers: Lynx, Elinks, or mayve Emacs/W3M. On simple sites like HN, they are more or less usable.

I also sometimes wish the Web were just serving data in an easily processable format, and let the user decide what and how they are presented. Of course this would definitely and completely defeat the ads-supported scheme on which sits Internet. An ads-free Web would probably require the resources (media files, services, storage space, bandwidth, etc.) to be massively distributed among the PCs of the end-user, who are already paying for bandwidth, processing power and storage anyway. But it would also be quite inefficient as it would require equally massive fault tolerance.
PressureNet Beta crowdsources tornado and flood reports
Well, you'd have to change the freemium plan. I suppose at this point because something was promised, an expectation set, that you'll perhaps upset some people with changes. I would look to see who the top users are usage wise (perhaps cost wise on your part) and what features they use. I imagine there'd be numbers that you could group, perhaps even number of actions per month, etc..

If the top users under freemium no longer want to use the service if you start including them in a paid group, then you have a problem and might have to rethink pricing or the business model overall.
Portland, Oregon this year!
> "Through work to bring materials and perspectives from Women's Studies into the rest of the
curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged in the
curriculum, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. Denials that amount to
taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These
denials protect male privilege from being fully recognized, acknowledged, lessened, or ended."

Ok I read this then stopped. The word "overprivileged" is shockingly biased and ridiculous, and most of all deceptive.
I was still under warranty & nothing changed between that visit and the last. What does it matter how long I waited?

I had started to use a monitor and got a macbook air for when I needed to go mobile just so I didn't have to spend a day dealing with it. Over time I just forgot about it and if 10.9.2 hadn't been released preventing me from using my display, I probably would have kept going.

Sure, I spent a lot of money creating a temporary solution that I used for too long but that doesn't negate the facts:

1. It was a warranty issue, I was still under warranty (or a day out, but they explicitly told me that was fine)

2. Due to a mistake on their end, I wasn't able to get the repairs done when planned and was promised that I could bring it back whenever

3. Their reasoning for denying the warranty claim was due to light damage to the case. That damage occurred well over a year before the flickering started and there were notes backing that up.
This might not have been the best name for a product, given the very popular Pandas[1] package that will probably win in Google.

[1]: http://pandas.pydata.org/
A loooot of people are not going to understand what this means and just be annoyed and leave. I am for the general principle but this seems to miss the mark for non-savvy users.
Seriously, have you tried these "solutions"? It's like rubbing salt into the wound.
You can certainly expect it -- and not just because technical users could use VPNs to end-run traffic shaping.

You can expect it because VPNs are overwhelmingly used by technologists and 'business' users. In general, these people have an ability to pay (much) more, so ISPs would like to charge them more.
I can imagine deleting products may be failing due to some UI change. Maybe a button isn't visible in certain IE versions. Maybe the JS code executing the backend request is failing in some browsers. That's where e2e tests are useful.
Relevant quote from the conference call:
"We think Bitcoin will play a very important role in the future. Exactly how that plays out, and how we can best take advantage of it and enable it with PayPal, that's something we're actively considering. It's on our radar screen."
Rolling blackouts in CA had nothing to do with infrastructure - it was a ploy by Enron to raise the price of electricity by artificially reducing supply during periods of high demand.

I live in a Boston suburb, and haven't been affected by a power outage lasting more than 30 seconds in the 8 years I've lived here. Those have always been caused by lines being hit by trees during wind storms, and supply is always restored by backup lines within seconds.

The US has a remarkably robust, high quality power grid. The biggest problem with it is that during peak demand we need to turn on coal fired power plants to supplement renewables and natural gas.
>I'd also say from the UX perspective there's a bit of an expectation that [ left side in a list right side in expanded view ] tends to denote a relationship between the two when in fact there is none.

I agree. I clicked the links on the left expecting some sort of in-page action, but was met with tabs being opened which is counter-intuitive to what one has come to expect with in-site/in-app menus.

Or perhaps I've just been spoiled by UI's like that of Alien Blue for Reddit?
Sure. But I don't have a lot of Unix/Linux background, so I don't really know what I'm missing.

(I anyway wouldn't try to defend them as solutions, just clarifications of what is possible)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/dillo.png

Xubuntu 14.04 has version 3.0.3 with docs dated April 2013

You won't be logging into dropbox with dillo alas!

Mighty fast for reading and cat pictures.
I have been reading posts for about a year, I only recently (in the past couple of weeks) got an account.

I heard about HN while talking to my father (we are both software devs) so I went to check it out, and thats when I heard the angels.
Show HN: Search youtube with your voice
That's a ridiculous definition, that's like suggesting coding is turning requirements into bug free computer code. Refracting is attempting to replace working code with code better suited to your long term goals.
If you're curious about the changing the Bible - there's a split in Christian thought about the it. Some view the Bible being the word of God, and some view that the Bible contains the word of God. The later group tends to be more apt to expound and modify the bible for reasons of clarity and emphasis.
The first group tends to be grumpy about that. :)