skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Metafilter needs to spend more time exploring SEO and perhaps a site redesign. It may be a great site (people say it is), but if it has a poor backlink profile, stale content, and a high bounce rate, it's not going to rank as well even for better content.

Craigslist is a great site too, and you don't see it highly ranked in Google for many queries.
I remember Dragon's Lair. For me, it went:

Quarter, quarter, death, death, death, death, death.

Couldn't have taken more than a minute. I would definitely have been the one standing behind this guy watching in awe.
If I may diverge from the main topic but to your point. I'd venture to say that the act of putting reminders and thinking about smoking is the reason you failed.

I stopped smoking with the same book but the it worked (as I understand it now) is that it breaks down every excuses you gave yourself to smoke while it actually encourages you to keep smoking while reading. At the end of the book you just have no reason left to smoke. What happened for me when I closed the book is that I just continued my life as if I was not a smoker, never actually thinking about it. No withdrawal of any kind but I didn't remind myself that I used to be a smoker, never. I know it but it's not something I think about
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion, but as stated it's false. Vote links don't expire, and require no saved state on the server. In fact, they never change.

If you're still seeing strange behavior, please email me at nick@ycombinator.com, since I'd like to track it down and fix it.
Google mod_pagespeed for Apache/nginx does a good job of compressing images, it does things like use a 4:2:0 YUV colourspace and it also serves webp format to clients that support such things.

The advantage of the mod_pagespeed approach is that you can keep hi-res images in your web page and not have to be concerned with manually compressing things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
The Planet, which merged with SoftLayer, which is now owned by IBM.
While I enjoy the sentiment, ;) one cannot have riders on GPLd code, it either is or isn't.
This was my first thought and I actually looked to see if it was a gag site. Otherwise I agree with other comments that it needs to be a CLI tool to become truly useful for me.
The joke is funnier this way. Technical accuracy be damned. That is what we pay comedians for.
The Myth That Americans Are Busier Than Ever
mathowie goes into detail: https://medium.com/technology-musings/941d15ec96f0
> the consequence is a systematic bias towards knee-jerk votes based on the title

That's the success recipe of all social news sites (all news in general, in fact).
Building a Web Server in Go: Authentication Cookies
And this is why I got out of organic SEO. You have essentially one client, and that is El Goog. A site can see product sales revenue drop 50% overnight after a bad Google dance, and it can take weeks to work out how you've offended it. I only used whitehat techniques mind.

Most people bleat "just write good conteeeeent" and have no idea how Google ranking actually works. I guess what was most galling was seeing certain retail sites getting away with blatant spam while your own sites got mysteriously slammed.

I don't blame Google though - it's a direct result of having a single player market. So go, duckduck, go :)
No idea about the regexp performance (it's been adequate for my uses). For encoding/json it's probably slow because nobody at Google gives two shits about JSON; they use protocol buffers for everything. Someone from outside Google would have to contribute encoding/json performance improvements if they need them.
Thanks. I just tried to put it in less than 80 characters. Your suggestion is more accurate, but I could not change it now.
Agreed. Prosecutors sometimes end up on a very high horse, unable to see the reality of the situation.
It's fallen from about 4 feet flat onto a hardwood surface once before without any discernible side effects. That was one of those times I realized if it was any other laptop I'd have a major malfunction on my hands. It's also fallen off the bed numerous times before. It just keeps going like nothing happened.

The bulk definitely takes some getting used to, but the machine has become so indispensable to me that I'm willing to have it weigh me down. I really do consider it the Lamborghini of mobile workstations, very excessive in many ways, but once you've used it there's nothing anyone can say to you to shake your belief that it is the very best workstation computing experience in the world.

What the 53 compromises in form factor it more than makes up for in productivity, enjoyment and peace of mind. It's a clear level up from Macbooks and Thinkpads galore, form factor aside. And it runs Linux real g00t.
Who would want to work for Zenimax after this?

ZeniMax has the rights to an awfully big stable of awfully important gaming properties. I think a lot of people - even people who don't like anything about this nasty little scrap - will be willing to hold their noses.
I think you miss the point. If you have to start arguing what is and isn't a substantial effort then you're probably going to fall foul.

This is an open source schema for storing data, why not re-acquire the data from a fresh source and make that open source too? This avoids pulling it from an existing and potentially protected source.

You could have members of the public individually enter historical scores, and each one provide proof of the score (e.g. a photo of a result in a newspaper or a photo of the matchday guide).

You could verify correctness of that acquired data by comparing to a few known data sources (even if they were protected). So long as you were close enough in fact to not alter history it was probably right, and correctable in the future (editable like a wiki).

If you use one of the existing datasources you'll find yourself with a lawsuit if you reach any reasonable size.
As a MeFite of several years, I've gotten a lot of useless/terrible advice through Ask MeFi. Basically for any subject remotely esoteric, you'll get a lot of "subject 101" answers and ones that are totally wrong. For general/life advice it's pretty good though, mostly because of the number of older users there.
Wikipedia believes faithful reproductions (i.e., scans) of 2-d public domain work to also be in the public domain [1]. If that interpretation is correct, then the Met's licensing restrictions--at least for their scans of paintings and the like--are just hot air, and perhaps dishonest/opportunist hot air at that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly grateful they're making available such an important cultural trove, but this whole "intellectual property" madness that's gripping our society is a modern tragedy. I don't know how the Met can demand licensing terms for a scan of a 3000-year-old hieroglyph with a straight face, especially since their mission statement claims they operate in service to the public [2].

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art_p...

[2] http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/mission-statement
Solar Roadways: Solar panels that you can drive, park, and walk on
Devices vs. Cloud
New information in this article:

1) The user database wasn't just accessed, but 145 million user records were stolen.

2) eBay hired FireEye's Mandiant subsidiary to do the forensic work.
"EBay spokeswoman Amanda Miller told Reuters late on Wednesday that those passwords were encrypted and that the company had no reason to believe the hackers had broken the code that scrambled them."

That seems to imply that eBay used a singular encryption key across its accounts. Surely not?
Craigslist auto-expires content. MeFi's content seems a bit more evergreen.
Here's a video of the helicopter covered in laser light: http://youtu.be/S92XUsfI5ng
the article is misleading. He got arrested for pointing a laser at the aircraft but he got 14 years for committing an act that violated his parole. He most likely had 14 years left on his sentence when he was paroled, probably drug charges, and since he violated his parole he was sentenced to finish those 14 years. The girl probably got a fine and some probation which is what the guy would have gotten if it was not for him being on parole
Seems more like a manifesto for Autistic Software Development.

Take scrum, cut out everything that involves direct human interaction and replace it with tools and documents.

God forbid us developers should waste time communicating with other human beings. Who needs the bandwidth of face-to-face interaction when you can just do a pull request?
The Effects of Pricing a Portion of the Lanes on Congested Highways [pdf]
i dont know, on recent computers, more often than not i dont really see a diff between pdf.js and others as a user.

it seems to only be an issue on really heavy pdfs, which are pretty rare
But was the iOS version ever fixed? I got it, played up to the point where the giant suit of armor is sending electricity down the tiled floor at Dirk who has to jump several times to avoid it ("Electric Knight Battle" according to some walkthroughs). There was just no way to get through that scene on iPad. Many people reported the same issue.
American Born Mos Def Barred from entering the U.S.
Henry Miller wrote a great list of commandments for his working day back in the 30s: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/01/henry-millers-11-commandm...

I've always found his structure far more useful than the usual 'list of maxims to follow every day' style most self-guides become.

His just seems more reflexive to his emotions. Like every day is a struggle against his natural state of being and this is how he keeps the scales in balance.

He talks more about his working day here too: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4597/the-art-of-fic...
The Carvoyant JavaScript API
>The news (at least to me) is that we're past the tipping points - it is irreversible now.

To say "it's irreversible now" is to imply there was ever a point that it wasn't, a point at which there was something we could have done to change trends at this scale. The links you gave don't really suggest this to be the case.

BTW, David Suzuki is a fearmonger with a long history of making ridiculous unscientific doomsday claims. For instance, he claimed that a second Fukushima disaster would force evacuation of the west coast of America:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/20/david-suzuki-regrets...

So if you really want to claim the earth is likely to be "uninhabitable in only some decades" you probably want to use somebody else as a source.
Journalists and PR people don't know the difference between encryption and hashing.

eBay is steering media reports toward the password story.

Much more important and potentially damaging to eBay's reputation and revenue is that 145 million user records were stolen.

This could be much more damaging than the Target or Adobe breaches.
Looks like it depends on the image.

Image1 reduction: Compressor.io 28.67% | JpegMini 34.35%

Image2 reduction: Compressor.io 69.55% | JpegMini 55.41%

If I had to choose, I'd say the visual quality of JpegMini is fractionally better, but it's hardly perceptible to my eye - they both produce incredible results.
Probably because there has been no evidence it is very dangerous and there would be evidence if it actually were.
I think the complaint purposefully blurs the distinction between "Carmack" and "Zenimax" during Carmack's period of employment.

So it makes their behaviour look a bit contradictory: one part of Zenimax is asking for (or hinting at) compensation, and another part is setting up FTP sites to transfer code, supplying technical advice and more. And this is happening simultaneously.

But really, that second part is just Carmack being friendly with Luckey, who is at this point some kid in his garage with cool VR tech.

Carmack didn't really resign — his employment contract was up in June 2013. I'm guessing he had a lot of free reign at Zenimax and was likely bored. VR gave him something to be passionate about again, and he just had to wait out his contract before he could go all-in.
I forgot about that, but even so, I find it excessive. Especially if you are right and it was merely drugs.

The only way I can envision it being justified is if his previous offense was violent or otherwise straightforwardly antisocial, with this laser-pointing being part of a pattern of malicious behavior.
I also don't think this review is giving GG a chance to survive, despite listing up and down in each point.

This device was not invented to keep in your pocket. When mobile phone first came out, it was giant and you had to carry it by hand. No one expect it to be small.

> Point 1 (eye contacts)

God. I am not sure how you would do that unless you (1) shoot some light beam into your eyes, or (2) have glass cover up your eyes like in Star Wars.

That's not a valid point to ask for refund.

> Point 2 (not a good listener)

Fair point but speech recognition's problems are known and are hard to fix. Not good enough reason to return - no AI with speech recognition today is capable of fixing all those problems in an open environment.

> Point 3 (batter)

That's a good point. But it should be expected, somewhat, given its tiny size and the amount of computation it has to do plus wifi and bluetooth connection.

> Point 4 (Bulk, not pocket friendly)

As I've said above, god, this is the one of the least valid reasons to ask for refund.

> Point 5 (frame doesn't hide Glass!)

This is also a ridiculous reason to ask for refund.

The point of clip-on shade isn't to hide Glass. It's so that you can use glass even when it's sunny outside. Or because people want to look cool.

> Point 6 (Tilted photos)

Okay fair point. Technical stuff to be addressed.

> Point 7 (Directions drawbacks)

Fair point. Technical stuff to be addressed. Driving while using Glass is really dangerous. but hiking with Glass without touching your phone (but enable your phone use data) is kinda cool.

> Point 8 (earbuds)

I agree the earbuds are pretty... hmm, not stylish. I'd like to have cordless earbuds. Like one of those for people with hearing problems.

> Point 9 (advertisement stories vs reality)

This is a marketing trick. I always use Facebook's Home and Paper as example. On the ad side they look amazing but in reality your fb dashboard could just fill with memes and cat pictures. Boring.

> Point 10 (10. Too little, too soon)

Not a valid reason to ask for refund at all. I mean this is explorer edition. Hello???? Hellllllo???? Even if this was version 100000000, you still have rooms for improvement. Future is not here yet, because future is non-stop. Tomorrow is a different future.

Sorry. If I were Google, I won't refund. I don't mind taking back your Glass and give it to yeukhon for free.
For the benefit of others, here is burntsushi's regex crate for Rust (compile time regexes included): http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/regex/index.html
When you are on parole and get convicted of another crime that is less severe than the original crime you are on parole for the judge decides how much of your paroled sentence you must go back to serve and can add on some time up to the max for the crime you committed. Since this guy was unrepentant the judge just said fuck him and probably sent him back to serve out the entire remainder of his paroled sentence
I don't really mind pdfjs being slow (it's not really slow enough that I've noticed) -- but it has some serious issues with printing/fonts (not sure quite which) -- even for "simple" pdfs from latex source (your typical paper or math homework) I've had to print from Adobe Acrobat (and, I think evince is also better -- but it's been a long while since I've printed from Linux -- for entirely unrelated reasons).
A Million Lines of Code
This is our second post in a series of posts. We want to share those lessons in further posts, because we feel that for this moment we don’t have enough learned to write about this.
Is this on the app store? I don't see it. Video is cool though but I like to test it for real. Or is there an url of the web version?
Thanks, it motivated us to make the layout simpler.
It's not that absurd. A lot of the VR demos used Zenimax games, and many of the videos and interviews were filmed right inside Zenimax offices. Code was written on Zenimax time and file transfers, emails for advice, and more were made over Zenimax email addresses.

Carmack obviously re-wrote all code once leaving Zenimax, but there's a case to be made that Zenimax giving Carmack free reign to work on Oculus while at Zenimax significantly benefited Oculus.

Oculus agreed at some point — offering Zenimax a 2% stake. Zenimax asked for more (amount not specified in the complaint). Oculus response was that the "figure was so far out of the ballpark, we believe there is little hope" — negotiations broke down there.
This is great if you work only with rock stars who care. In the vast majority of companies this is not the case.

Asnc communication is great for introverts who write well. I am a rarity in that I am a leader as a coder, Run teams Deliver products, but due to having Dysgraphia I write with great difficulty. No where in this set of guidelines is mentoring.

It could be summed up as RTFM
389ds unmaintained? 12 hours of jenkins spam
Cellular automata sent to billboard the moon would be a great concept for a sci-fi short story.
Here is what I get when I try and change my password:

Page not available
Ebay is asking its users to reset their passwords due
to the unauthorized access to our corporate information
network. This may result in a delay of service due to
the high traffic volume. We ask for your patience and
that you return to eBay soon.

I wouldn't think that "password changes" were really that heavy a function.

Edit - Finally got through. They are not letting you change your password directly, you either need to respond to an SMS or Email. Probably a (very) good idea if they are worried that someone has done a bulk theft of passwords.
Well, while your ignorance about vaccines in particular harms others around you by lessening herd immunity, we can at least take some solace in the fact that your breathtaking ignorance of medicines and human health issues in general will lead to lower life expectancies for yourself and others like you, which does mitigate the damage somewhat.
On the last page of the article we have this in the form of expert testimony:
"You also have scattering occur which can affect vision performance when you hit like optometric lenses, like glasses, or if it goes into the eye, if you have any cataract or opacities in the lens or in the cornea of the eye itself, which can result in vision performance loss.”

Correct me if I'm wrong (and I may be), but ... don't you pretty much need perfect vision to fly[1]? And if so, how is the quoted testimony relevant to this specific case?

I accept that it's potentially dangerous and that it should be further studied. But by the pilots' descriptions no more so than oncoming traffic on a dark street. In addition, the only information we had about after effects was anecdotal and seemed to consist of a couple of pilots reporting migraines and tingling.

I don't know - when you're throwing someone in jail from 2-14 years, I just think there should be more than a couple of anecdotes to support threat of the action that got you there.

1. after reading further comments, looks like my assumption here is wrong - it's possible to fly with these conditions, presumably vision must be correctable to perfect?
Indeed! That talk was extremely eye-opening. Combined with a fuzzer, C-Reduce can find some delightfully wacky bugs that few humans would think to check. Here is a great one found by Regehr himself: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/13847
Interesting...I just ran a Google Search on that one (Heart-Tree-Star) and it came up with a SlideShare presentation from another Microsoft guy mentioning "Meng Phua" as the originator for him...seems like it was taught to quite a few of the folks there at Microsoft at one point perhaps?

http://www.slideshare.net/kaykas/career-planning-framework-h...
Ask HN: Is being honest and straight in a startup... 
...like Don Quixote fighting windmills?
Regular expressions are used less frequently in Go than in many popular languages (esp. dynamic ones). Often the "strings" package suffices. I almost never import "regexp". So yea. As people have said, I don't think it's a high priority.
>>One last one: Searching for “most amazing woman ever” on Bing will give you MetaFilter’s helpful “Who is the most amazing woman who ever lived” as the third result.
>>Google puts it at the bottom of the second page of results, in 19th place. Google’s top result? A list of “the 100 most beautiful women ever.”

Unfortunately, American culture (and many cultures around the world) objectify women and value them based on their looks. So Google's search results may just be a true reflection of what people are interested in looking at. Perhaps Bing's algorithms aren't as good as Google's algorithms in estimating what people might be more interested in.

To be clear, I didn't intend my statement as a feminist critique of society (though personally I would agree with this feminist critique). I just used this example as a roundabout way of defending Google's algorithm and saying that Google gives us the search results we deserve (and ask for) and not the search results that (from Auerback's perspective and mine) we should probably be more interested in.
I hate to say it, but... that's it?

I could see it causing serious problems if someone hit the copter and held it at exactly the right position for it to cause continued glare.
But that brief flash? maybe it loses something in video, but it seems less intense and far more transient than oncoming traffic w/ highbeams on a dark road .
DefWindowProc is not always a system call. It depends on the message being tried for example.
I literally write more than 90% of all code away from the office. People walking by, random questions/discussions, pointless meetings that make people feel like they accomplished something even though they didn't or someone just wanting to burn a few minutes. Office hours are the least effective and unproductive hours of my day and so I've avoided being there as much as possible because I'd rather show features more than showing face.

There are some big picture, architectural design discussions covering many interrelated components that can benefit form in-person meetings but those kind of meetings are the exception and not the norm in my experience.
I changed it this morning and had no problem. Yeah I agree that's their intent to stop bad guys from changing passwords.
"3 months ago"... And "eBay suggest users chanche their password"... Wait, what? I suggest a policy where important breaches in security are disclosed within a short timeframe.
Google code is heavily used internally at Google.
It also tackles head on the comparisons between Rust and C++11. Worth a watch if you are curious about that.
Something I've been wondering about is whether it would be possible to generate a page illustrating all the rules in an scss document(or less). Because scss documents use nesting it should be possible to construct the necessary divs (or other elements if specified in the CSS rules) to illustrate any style components. Is there anything stopping us from building a grunt task or whatever to generate the styleguide?
http://tinyurl.com/ddddict
I created a short link in case using someone else's computer.
According to the internet, the combined net worth of both GWB AMD GWHB is $40MM. Not a lot in the big scheme of things.

It lists $80MM for Clinton.
That seems to apply equally to poker...
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