skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Walmart locally.

It would only take a local wage initiative, for instance, to likely bother the closest Walmart. So there's an inherent incentive not to let prices rise so much that people are angry enough to get the government involved because they can no longer buy milk (or food).
Remember "I'm a Mac / I'm a PC?" The loyalty that Apple built up among creative professionals has under-girded their entire brand. If you were Microsoft, and you saw a chance to knock some of those people loose, wouldn't you work like hell to make that happen?

This would also be an example of MS improving its touch in terms of attempting to persuade people about Surface. Rather than just repeating over and over about how great [tabletX] is and how a celebrity they've paid to endorse it just loves it (see HP's disastrous TV campaigns for their tablets), they're letting an influential guy use it, review it, and criticize it publicly. The critical bits are what make it more effective as commercial messaging for MS' particular purposes at this moment.

If Gabe were shilling they would pay him directly to shill and it would be marked as an ad (which PA has done many times before for many companies). In this case, that's probably not happening.
I believe you are looking for https://github.com/substack/node-browserify#external-require... and/or https://github.com/substack/node-browserify#multiple-bundles
MuxChain complements net/http for specifying chains of handlers
Twitter blocks 'blasphemous' tweets at Pakistan's request
The touch screen itself would be disabled when you use the pen. It's just that the Windows button on the right side is a hardware button (just touch, too) and doesn't disable itself like the rest of the screen.
I don't know if that says more about the Surface or Photoshop...
Another interesting point is looking at the time of graduation. There is a big difference between a high school diploma in the 1960s vs the 2000s thus making it an unfair comparison. Back then it was much easier to go places without a diploma whereas nowadays, it is certainly possible, but much much harder.
Wait, is this a criticism of Surface, SSDs, or PS? Have you used Adobe products lately? I can't imagine how they could be any more bloaty.
What sort of therapy did you get? I went to my GP and he dismissed it as lack of exercise. Exercise doesn't seem to help me that much though. So I'm at a loss as to what kind of a doctor I should be visiting in the first place
Just did a sample booking, and was very impressed. Some notes:

1) Some elements seem too far apart on a wider screen. Usual victim of responsive design without a max width.

2) The loading between steps is damn snappy, but feels slow sometimes due to the lack of an activity indicator. Slow is a relative term, but I instantly felt like I had done something wrong or the page wasn't responding.
Notice he didn't say it WAS a rock solid product, he said they were dedicated to making it one.

It isn't surprising it has issues; the Surface line is a little less than 2 years old.

The iPhone wasn't polished from day one; it took them a few years too. I don't think it was until the end of the 3G, somewhere around the iPhone 4, where the iPhone was generally accepted as a well-polished product. Which, I might add, was a timespan of ~3 years.
I thought this was a weird omission too, it means that 337/400 of the richest people have gone further than high school and presented that way, it makes a strong argument for higher education.
Exactly. Look at big box retailers -- Target and Walmart all give preferential treatment to manufacturers willing to sell at a discount or give special benefits to the retailer.

Better shelf placement, positioning near the front of the store, checkout placement ... All assets that retailers can exploit to woo vendors. Amazon is doing the same thing. Their assets are less tangible but offer just the same incentive to cooperate and play by their rules.

If you don't, you get pushed to the back of the store, placement out of eye level, etc.
Not surprising. The MBP Retina suffers from such lag as well, unless you go for the top of the line model with the dedicated graphics card. 2160X1440 res is too much for these integrated chips to handle.
My best business lunch ever (super short read)
I don't think the issue is so much that the backend has to be JavaScript so much as that the backend has to be precisely what Meteor wants it to be. You couldn't just stick a different JavaScript app conforming to the same interface in the back end — your application has to be more or less monolithic AFAIK.
>>The culture is co-opted by the newcomers.

I must admit I've not seen this yet. In the forums I frequent the old elite rules...to the point where the admins trust the powerful members to manage it to some extent. If 3 powerful people decide that a new user is undesirable then said user is a dead man walking. Obviously not very democratic etc...but its super effective in maintaining the peace....the powerful members provide a base-line that absorbs most of the BS...the admins step in when something dramatic happens.
> I'm not seeing is how Amazon becomes the villain here.

The articles don't go into detail, but from what I've seen of the relationship between Amazon and the publishers, I'm inclined to think that Amazon is probably trying to push for very unreasonable terms. Which is to say, Amazon is used to pretty much dictating whatever terms they want to the publishers, because they are in such a dominant position, and I expect that this is just more of the same.
Your process also has "extra steps", like installing and configuring apache, installing a loader, and creating an html file for it. There isn't anything that's just free, and different people just understand and prefer different workflows. For instance, I don't use browserify, but its workflow makes a lot of sense and "sounds right" to me, whereas yours sounds really strange.
First place I went to was "I am an online advertising / tracking company. How do I stop Privacy Badger from blocking me?".

If all it takes is MaliciousCompany.com from posting some text document in the right spot to get PrivacyBadget to whitelist the page, how is this any better than DNT?

Do they have a way of blacklisting domains that abuse this?

Edit: Also, I LOVE the idea behind this and installed it immediately to compliment ABP and Ghostery.
If anyone is getting stopped by FT's registration page, you can log in as:

foo25@mailinator.com / Bugmenot
I would just say that the "X versus Y" approach to frameworks (as opposed to tools) is not very productive in a lot of cases. The best way to approach it is to define and understand the needs of your project, research, and choose.

For example, it might be the case that simple, real-time-ish data is very important. Meteor might be an excellent choice.

It could instead be the case that lock-in (and Meteor is definitely encouraging lock-in on both sides of the http request) is a concern for your team, and you feel it important to have flexibility or maturity on the server-side. Meteor might be a terrible choice.

X can be better than Y in one circumstance, and must worse in another. Define, research, pick.
Why is the pen and digitizer for "artists?" One of the faults I see with current gen tablets is that its uncomfortable to use them as a clipboard-like device. I want to use a pen, write things, sign things, draw things, etc.

We can certainly do better then the hunt and peck iOS keyboard or the quicker but often guessing wrong swipe-style Android keyboard.

MS is aiming clearly for the business customer here and things like these are more for the warehouse worker or management annotating something in OneNote or Word, than for the digital artist, but they obvious benefit as well. Why can't we have more win-win situations instead of more narrow use case wins that iOS and Android provide?

MS got ahead by appealing to a broad range of needs, users, and by playing ball with as many people as they possibly can. Sure, that got us the kitchen-sink like Win8, but I imagine Win8.3 or Win9 will have solve a lot of those issues. Ironically, MS has become the 'friendly' software vendor. Watching MS on the ropes is kinda fascinating. You can see them try desperate things, fail, regroup, etc. They're dying to make everyone happy, because of the success of iOS and Android have had with more narrow requirements. Why beat Apple and Google at their game when you can win your own game?

I kinda see the success of the tablet right now similiar to the success of the PDA device in the 90s. Everyone had one, we kinda enjoyed them, then someone asked, "Why can't these things be web browers? Why can't they also be phones? Why can't they also have wireless email?" Then the idea of a portable PDA that wasn't a phone died almost overnight with the success of the Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Now we're asking, "Why can't my tablet do all the things my laptop can? Why can't I have a kick-ass pen with this? Why doesn't it recognize my hand-writing? Why can't I just dock it and use it as a computer with no compromises? Why can't it run Photoshop or Office in full?"
I don't think it is. I'm in St. Louis and the default is San Francisco.
Benchmarking JSON Generation in Ruby
Just one quirk with the home page. Read down to the bottom, and then I tried to scroll back up, and it would stop at each "Section" and would not let me just continue scrolling up.

OSX Firefox 29.0.1
Huh, care to expand on why you shouldn't `require` React? Just doesn't play nicely with Browserify?
What about Book-Seller-Neutrality? Shouldn't bookshops just be conduits for dead tree and electronic bits?
Working on some complex algo trading software..perhaps :)
Priceline Glitch Creates $300 RTW Airfare (still live as of today)
HN: Started a hosting coupon code site. Any feedback?
HN will probably end up as a case study for the maximum user threshold an online community can sustain, while still having an above-average discussion quality.
I'm behind a simple NAT, but that's never caused trouble before. Other self-signed certs work fine, but this one doesn't give me the "I understand the risks" option.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/NTLY7ZB.png

You're saying it's completely valid though? Bizarre.
i think only people who still code RoR tend to see it as the center of the universe.

others may appreciate its influence but can see that a lot of what it offered is just a convenient packaging of what is available in other languages, presented in a more inviting "DIY" form. I used to be a Rails guy & have since learned Java. There is not much I miss, if anything.

I could definitely do some things faster in Rails but now... I don't know, given the task of creating a CRUD interface in Rails or Java i think i would be faster in Rails but not by a wide margin. If I had to add any side-effects/system integrations/free-form code/advanced persistence with the expectation that it will be performant & scalable -- I would be lightyears quicker in Java.

The kicker for me though is that I would expect the Rails application to need a gem upgrade, security patches, server migration, or minor refactor to comply with plugin API changes at least every 6 months. I think the Java app could sit on a cloud host for a decade without any maintenance required (provided it implements pretty open specs).

I mainly code node.js & client-side js for hobby projects, but am considering Dropwizard or Clojure instead of node (I only use this because my apps are pretty json heavy so I'm trying out mongodb and want to go full-stack js). I know I found it daunting to leave Rails & go to more free-form code, but now I find it really liberating & I'm not scared of much. There is a Java lib for pretty much everything. NPM is pretty well-stocked too.
iOS 7 UI is significantly laggier than iOS 6 (I honestly do not understand how 4S users deal with it, its not fantastic even on 5S). Not to mention glitchier.
I'd imagine one of the "special options" he's going to be getting from MS is a version which does exactly that; disable the home button with the pen input.
1. Click show more dates

2. See more dates, but not enough

3. Click show more dates

4. See more dates, but not enough

5. Click show more dates

6. Nothing happens

7. Click show more dates

8. Nothing happens

9. Give up
In Psalms 145:8-21, God is described as exercising dominion over creation with compassion and loving kindness.

As an aside, I think dominion also refers to harnessing and utilizing natural resources in an economic sense. In Genesis chapter one, God mentions the word 'good' seven times, each time in reference to His creation.

The eighth time the word good is used is for gold[1], the eternal symbol of commerce.

[1] Gen 2:12
IIRC that's not quite true. There's the DDP thingy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Data_Protocol which should theoretically let you use any backend implementing that protocol. But I'm not sure if anyone actually uses it besides meteor.
same here in austin
> "When communities grow to a certain size, people no longer expect to interact in the future, and thus are more likely to defect – to be petty, mean, aggressive..."

This is one of the most off-putting things about HN in my opinion. It's better than bigger social sharing sites like Reddit in that tired jokes and posts with little thought are usually voted down to the bottom, but posts that poke holes in the original argument are often top comments.

A lot of technically-minded people take great pleasure in finding and fixing bugs. The problem is that finding errors in human interaction leads to pedantry, nitpicking, and cherry-picking. This is especially true as the community grows and interactions with all but the most visible people becomes rare. People have less incentive to give others the benefit of the doubt, and more incentive to find the problems and point them out.

I'm worried about our once-little community, but I don't know how to prevent the petty fault-finding from resurfacing in such a large and shifting community.
I would recommend Meteor _with_ Angular. Although there are some things that don't work perfectly together, using AngularJS as a frontend and MeteorJS as a backend works like magic....I loved creating (internal) applications with it.

An example (not written by me)

https://github.com/tommuhm/angular-meteor-example/blob/maste...
Cynicism aside, would it matter? Microsoft is probably extremely happy to make someone with the reach of Gabe happy. For obvious reasons. Thing is, they still have to make him happy.

And really, this is one of the reason's PA has the clout they do. They are rather blunt about the things they do and don't like. And many people trust their judgement. Even agree with it.

Now, if you were worried that they could just bribe him, that would be one thing. But, they are keeping him happy by having a product he likes using. That is huge.
The new boarding pass design is fantastic. Every airline needs to do at least that part immediately.
Hm. That's actually a good point.
Advanced boobs finder
MediaTemple sending phishing-like emails from "securepay.net" to new domain regs
MediaTemple is standing by their policy of requesting email verification from a suspicious-looking 3rd-party email address -- for any new domain registrations.

New registrants receive an email message from "securepay.net" but claiming to be from MediaTemple, requesting email verification with a large "Click here to verify" button, in what looks like a phishing attempt.

Their email abuse team, support desk, and Knowledge Base all confirm that this intentional and claim that their legal and security teams have "vetted" this policy, and encourage users to click the button or have their domains deactivated.<p>The policy is apparently a very poorly managed attempt to comply with new ICANN requirements as of January 1st.
> Ever heard of Domainr?

Domainr tells you if a word you enter is available as a domain hack, but there were no tools that actually find the words for you. Sorry I could have been more clear there, thanks for pointing that out.
A printable version: https://gitprint.com/substack/browserify-handbook
In my experience that was only true of the Ivy Bridge models. I've used both the 13 & 15 inch Haswell Pros, and neither seems to have any appreciable GUI lag, with the possible exception of scrolling/resizing sites with very complex layouts in Chrome.
Author chooses the examples of Gates and Zuckerberg, who are both Harvard dropouts, substitutes Harvard with "any college", and then viciously attacks this straw man.

Top tier schools and rest of the schools produce different dropouts. Someone who was deemed fit to enter Harvard (or any of the top 20 school), was good enough to survive the first few year(s) and then decided to pursue an idea of their lifetime is actually taking less risk than someone who got into a local college and then decided to forego the actual degree.

Both Gates and Zuckerberg were actually on a "leave" from Harvard with option to come back in case the things don't work out. Both of them had enough of a financial cushion to focus on building the company without repo man taking their car away and kicking them out of an apartment for defaulting on a rent payment.
Well yes, this is how corporations roll. It's nobody's fault - just human nature. But looking for a non-corporate job is not a solution for everyone, especially not for those of us who have bills to pay or personal commitments to hold on to. Plus, that's where the jobs are.
I believe any kind of 'physical' work has a peaceful inducing potential. Whereas symbolic manipulation is often too taxing on your mind. Especially if it's not inspiring (most of big software projects?).
Link to the new version: https://beta.virginamerica.com/
I have a 4s. While iOS 7 is laggier than iOS 6 when doing things like switching apps using a home key double tap etc., it is a much faster interface. That is, there might be (not too heavy) laginess for a small set of tasks, but iOS 7 unlike iOS 6 can keep up with my natural speed for doing things much better.
Had a few panic attacks 2 years ago in the summer. I was working too much (I still do) as an entrepreneur, drinking too much coffee without drinking enough water (coffee tends to dehydrate your body) and my blood too thick from that so it came to me as a sort of dizziness which transformed into a full blown panic attack and an ambulance shortly after that.

I refused pills from day one and found that, by training my mind to say "bring it on! is this the best you can do" tends to stop the anxiety on it's ascension. I go to gym 3 times a week now to to some actual exercise and calm the body a bit. I now am panic free for almost 2 years but I still have the symptoms. What changed is my attitude when the symptoms arrive, it's already in my subconscious and my body does it automatically.

I blame our jobs just like OP and I blame the fact that our job is a whole brainstorm from start to finish. No physical challenge at all and our bodies are not used to it. Our bodies need some physical activity to do it's chemistry and release new stuff periodically so we can function properly otherwise some glands get messed up (this is my own conclusion I didn't hear it from anywhere) so our bodies get unbalanced and stressed. Too much of something is called an addiction and no addiction is left unpunished. We really need to take a break from time to time and just work out or meditate a bit for our body to adjust or at least recover.

No past generation was so technical and multi tasked and so stressed from morning till dawn. We're probably at the border of evolution right now and nature is adjusting us/itself. Future generations will probably deal with this entirely different than us but our bodies are like an old motherboard with a super chip plugged in right now. It's getting burnt. We need some better cooling.

The worst thing about panic attacks is that you have nobody to talk to that can really understand what you're going through apart from others who had it. You can't explain it to someone who didn't because you can even see them smiling..."so...basically you're afraid huh?". They can't comprehend the feeling that you're going to die, right now; that you're probably so certain you're going to die that you probably even said your last words and good byes in your mind. Just don't complain to people any more because you will get a new addiction out of it.

Tl;DR: Do sports (swimming is good), less work (you van find yourself even more productive because productivity has few to do with how much we work), confront your demon when he comes to visit and don't try to explain to people who never dealt with such a thing...they might make things worse.
It's showing that it's only being used with cans, instead of bottles.
VirginAmerica, you can't brag about your site's responsive design and then tell me I have to turn my phone to Portrait mode when I'm in Landscape.
Back when Pivotal Labs largely made prototypes for wealthy people's ill-conceived ventures (think social networking for dogs), the saving grace was that you were pairing.

It's amazing how much better a boring project is when the sample files you upload are image macros with your boss's head photoshopped on a walrus, and there's someone next to you laughing.
Google engineer Ran Adler (sometimes he spells his first name Ron to avoid confusing English speakers) deserves most of the credit here. He went to Adobe with a proposal for the hooks into the Flash player that he needed and worked with their engineers to get those hooks working. I don't doubt there was a fair amount of work on Adobe's side, too, but it wasn't like Adobe had the technology in place before Ran started working with them.

Ran came up with an API for the hooks he needed that didn't give away too much of the most clever parts of what he was doing. The belief was that Google would get the hooks it wanted and in return, Adobe could share the special Flash player with other major search engines and everyone would be indexing Flash content. The hope was that Google would just be doing it a bit more cleverly than the competition. I'm not sure if any of the other major search engines ever used the hooks Ran designed.

Source: I worked on Google's rich content indexing team from 2006 to 2010. Ran worked mostly on Flash indexing and I worked mostly on JavaScript indexing.
Should you wait? Just answer the question, "Does it meet my needs?". If you aren't going to use it to draw in Photoshop (for example), it may not make a lick of difference whether you have the i7, or which graphics chip it has.
While the blog article mentions interesting points, I don't think its insights have much to do with technical communities such as Hacker News or Stackoverflow.

HN is mostly very civilized. (Granted, some of that is due to moderators.) So the blog's bullet point about "trust" devalued because of one-time transactions does not seem relevant. It's relevant for reddit/atheism but not HN.

To me, the problem with HN, SO, etc is the voice of experts getting drowned out by amateurs. The growth rate of new amateurs joining will always outpace new experts and each year the signal-to-noise gets worse. I haven't seen a clever self-governing mechanism that addresses this social dynamic. The upvote/downvote/karma history is not enough to solve it.