skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a zero sum game. You can both grouse about those things AND contribute at the grassroots or whatever level you choose. It's entirely consistent to express dismay at the system as a whole in response to an article like this and do things to actual effect change.

If we only took action and never groused publicly, man, HN would be a boring place.
I always like to point out this little snippet about the MCO:

http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#MCO

Like several of the others, it was mostly a documentation and communication problem.
I am truly saddened #6 is in an article by the BBC. Perhaps they should add a humor section for the page hits.
How big is the world's biggest Internet incubator, Rocket Internet?
There's a difference between methamphetamine and Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts). I say this because the host indicated that kids are primarily on methamphetamine. Meth can be prescribed legally, but I don't know anyone who's ever been prescribed it.
https://twitter.com/ericallie/status/466682232166293504

Posted this in her reply...
'Nuff said...
And the description says that they did consider the difference between two reference points - 27cm. They just considered the difference in the opposite way. So instead of 27cm - 27cm = 0 difference they ended up with 27cm - (-27cm) = 54cm difference in the levels.
If I get what I think you are trying to achieve, I don't think it is possible with just a printer.

1) You'll need some hardware to act as a webserver that can turn the HTTP requests into something the printer understands. Printers don't really have webservers built in to them with HTTP APIs.

2) Firewalls will be a problem even if you have a dedicated webserver. Most likely you'll add some hardware that connects to a central service as a client, and your central service will relay messages down to your device on site.
Fiber in Zurich is a lot cheaper, eg. 20Mbit symmetric is about 25 euro with a small but very competent ISP
YouTube to buy twitch for $1B?
> Unless your fear is that Facebook wants to record your conversations on the sly

Why wouldn't they do that? They could get more valuable marketing data. If they run voice recognition software, they can automatically pick out brand names, or listen in if you're talking about upcoming purchases. Maybe they overhear you having a fight with your spouse, so they can position ads for divorce attorneys when you log in to Facebook.

> Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy.

Yes, it does, because Facebook is inherently a way skeevier company than Shazam. All you have to do is look at their history to date to see that.
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The interesting thing about that is that twitter will still generally redirect it.

As an experiment some time ago I grabbed a random sampling of URLs from twitter's limited firehose - and found that on average they spread the user's trail across no fewer than 4 redirects before the final destination was reached. Some as many as 7 or 8.

I've stopped posting URLs to twitter, out of respect for my followers.
The whole affair is really blown out of proportion because it is very understandable in layman terms. On the other hand, it seems that the Louvois pay system [1] has cost about half a billion euros to French tax payers and does not work either. But since it is a complex sw product it is much harder to find an obvious culprit and it will be swept under the rug...

[1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logiciel_unique_%C3%A0_vocation...
There is a lot of information buried in the talk and history views of contentious pages like this - are there any sites or tools that help unpack some of that? What are the most frequently re-written bits of text? What parts of the article are most associated with certain editors (or groups of editors)? What about those editors - how many are anonymous or new? What other pages do those editors work on as well?

Even staying away from actual NLP analysis of the article or talk page, having a view of the dynamics of the construction of the article would be quite interesting.
What's Wrong in Java 8, Part IV: Monads
Hot to motivate yourself when you work at home
Just curious, do you have any evidence at all to back up your assumptions that without forceful intervention this particular organization will have a gender imbalance from now until the end of time?
Because this is totally Reid's fault. Yeah, he's one of the tooliest tools that ever tooled, but blaming him for the structural problems in the American political system is myopic, at best.
I tried developing for the Sidekick when it came out. I had one and was very happy with it. The API and the hardware were a delight.

I remember being frustrated that the only means of technical support was a terrible walled garden web forum. There was no email gateway, so one had to keep checking that site for answers. I would have much preferred mailing lists and a public website indexable by search engines.

The bigger frustration was that T-Mobile was the gatekeeper for app distribution. If you wanted to get an app to a phone, it had to be on the store, you had to get T-Mobile's blessing, and they had no plans to support free apps. The carriers were very much still oriented around the ringtone economy and were terrified that you might put something on your phone without getting a cut of a fee.

People complain now about Apple and Google and the processes that impede app distribution, but the iOS and Android ecosystem is way better than what existed when the carriers were in charge.

I remember thinking that the Danger folks were very responsive and very sharp, but it didn't matter because they were in the end beholden to T-Mobile and T-Mobile didn't get it. There's an ecosystem lesson in there for anybody trying to build a new platform.
Yep - see my [1] edit from yesterday, could be you had a stale page :)
I think the main point here is:

Agile Manifesto - put together after lots of thought and signed by acclaimed industry professionals.

Async Manifesto - someone's opinion on a website.
I think you have lost track of why we fight, or what anything means. Please contact me at TerryRogers1983@gmail.com.
I really dislike abbreviations like “fn”, “mut”, “proc”, etc., not only in Rust but anywhere. I'd rather prefer actual words. At first, very shallow look; I thought Rust was C++ with shorter keywords (I didn't know anything about the features featured in the talk until today, though). Combined with (afaik) everything being an expression, Rust code would, I thought, become unreadable very quickly.
Facebook Offers Privacy Checkup to All 1.28 Billion Users
For this purpose you can create a custom list of your friends you really want to follow. Update types can be filtered on list pages, for example show only status updates and photos, but no games, comments, etc.

Then bookmark the url of the list page (like https://www.facebook.com/lists/{list-id} ), and use it instead of the default homepage. I use this method for years and it seems much more usable this way.
Not sure if you are trolling...

HTML and WebGL are mostly orthogonal. For example, you do not want to render text or form controls in WebGL.

We can improve HTML rendering with GPU-accelerated compositing, but that's mostly behind the scenes.
Agreed. The fact someone would potentially risk their lives over a mobile phone is beyond me.

And also, did the OP not consider the potential consequences of throwing a boiling drink in the face of another person armed with a knife?
Like I said, patent reform has already passed with huge bipartisan support in the House of Representatives.

It's clear here that the problems aren't with 'American democracy' (or any other incredibly-broad and incredibly-hard-to-change system) but with a few ever-so-ejectable politicians. We can agree to disagree, but I believe that blaming the problem on structural issues encourages apathy and helplessness in a way that focusing on Reid does not.
I have a Moto X, it does have touchless always-on voice control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOr8Wxcc0Gs (I don't have it enabled, though)
We don't need to do anything for these kids. They have the internet now, that is all that is needed.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hbo+amazon#!/story/last_24h/0/hbo%...
And now you have to tell us the story!
Wow: That really was a pile on wasn't it? Looks like mcutts is catching some of the backdraft from Google's infamous lack of customer service (to paying advertisers, content providers and everyone else) here to a certain extent.
Jed McCaleb dumps his Ripple holdings
Ha. I had that experience in the golden years of arcades. I studied up and practiced pac-man to the point where I ended up in some crazy long game at about age 7? This was still when pac-man had some relevance, so it was in a nice, visible spot in one of the largest arcades in our area. I had a crowd of 12-20 behind me. I ended up freaking out a bit once I realized how many people were there and I had to pee sooooo bad. I ran to the bathroom to a few "Wow! Great job kid!" type things. I pretty much stopped even trying to think after the 7th key.
I'm paying 30€ for a 100M symmetrical VDSL in Oulu, Finland.

I'm actually getting 35Mbps in both directions, which is awesome.
Cross posted here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ripplers/comments/266m12/selling_my_...
I think calling it a 'shared world' is making implications about the use of the recordings. If everyone is recording everything do I have access to all of that? If they catch me looking stupid as I run do I have the right to find/share/look at footage of them picking their nose?

It's not that it feels 'special', it's that there are implications to asymmetric information gathering that are uncomfortable and difficult. Saying 'society will just change so the technology doesn't feel weird anymore' is maybe not the best way to tackle those issues.
Watch Deadwood for the first time and the Wire for the second.
This is a tour like being handed a list of animals is a tour of a zoo.
Safari already has WebGL behind a flag as the article notes, but most users do not enable it.
A patent is nothing until it is tested in court; which is very expensive, patent reform or not.
I feel the same way - deleting the Facebook app from my phone and just keeping the Facebook Messenger app turned out to be a very good decision.
low tech alternative: Glass appeals to me because it takes up less room. e.g. in a tent, you don't always have room to hold a device out far enough for your eyes to focus on it. Eventually I realized that reading glasses ($5, available everywhere) also change your focal distance - and as a bonus, increases your display size, without increasing device size, nor battery usage (which larger displays do).

But I think google's strategy is right: get a foothold before the technology is ready. Then, when devices are smaller, it will all be there. Their big deficiency is that they haven't found any real users yet...

My advice is simple, and something that engineers find impossible to do: remove the cool feature of a camera. Bang, privacy concerns gone, but still a revolutionarily useful product in other ways. And before long, people will accept they never really had privacy, so you can put it back.

Note: I expect this is what Apple will do.
OK, I've read the page, I have no idea what this is, does, or solves. An excellent example of a glossy, gorgeous landing page that does not do what it's supposed to.

Added in edit:

The title here on HN makes it clear - but if someone, anyone, goes to that page, even if it is a problem they need solving, how do they know that they solve the problem! Having something, anything, like:

No physical Address?

No problem!

We make it easy to get
together even when you
can't give an address.

And I am partially in that market, for reasons I can't explain too much. That's why I went to the page based on the HN title. But there is nothing, nothing on that page that tells me what it is I'm creating. And it doesn't even let me click the "create" area on the screen - it could at least pop up a hint.

This is intended as useful feedback - I'm saying what I found frustrating, and in some sense what I need to see. I'm trying to help them see from a fresh perspective things that need changing. That fact that most hipster pages are slick, gorgeous, but ultimately similarly frustrating is a bonus.

And before you say that the younger generation at whom it's aimed will understand, remember that it's the middle to older generation who generally have much, much more disposable income.
Yes, this is exactly the problem I'm talking about. The barrier to patent reform is not structural. It has a name and face, and when you handwave it away to 'structural problems' you just encourage everyone to do nothing.
> That said, has there ever really been an issue with speed as it pertains to markdown translation?

Yes, speed of translation is a big deal. I tried at least 4 Markdown parsers for Python precisely because I needed the right combination of speed and extensibility. When you are constructing a very large static site, a full rebuild can take a long time.

For those wondering, I went with Mistune (http://mistune.readthedocs.org/en/latest/). It is accelerated by Cython.
Can you parse HTML with regex?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
This was the funniest thing i've seen in a long time. Thanks. I suspect it dawned on her that something was wrong when she read the names aloud, but then managed to stay admirably serious.
You can easily always have an empty news feed without any custom CSS or userscripts by simply unfollowing all your friends (unfollwing is not the same as unfriending and can always be reverted with a single click).
FBI to amend marijuana use policy in recruitment of hackers and programmers
Try https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-messenger/id4546384... or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.o...
Did not know about this. As an agg user this made me sad.
A joke from a fictional movie makes the top ten? Have there really been so few real-world engineering and design fiascos?
Our Web
I want to see them all. Can you do that and does it still work?
I'll think about that. It involves two hitchhikers, tulips, an ancient Citroen DS and a very large pile of paperwork.
JSON is inherently slow to parse. Even with the code generation of megajson, you can only get 2x performance at best. The megajson package has microbenchmarks for all the individual parsing tasks so you can get an idea of where things are slow. Here's are the benchmarks from my MacBook Pro:

https://gist.github.com/benbjohnson/6380fab7cac7533115e5

JSON is slow because of (at least) two reasons:

1) Strings are unframed - You have to check every single byte to see if it's a double quote to end the string. Compare this to MessagePack or Protobufs where the encoding states the exact length of the string. Those are faster because you can simply memmove() it.

2) Numbers require base 10 conversion - Numbers in JSON are typically only a couple bytes long. So for every 1 - 10 bytes you have to do an atoi(). You may have to do that a couple hundred thousand times in a megabyte of JSON. Numbers are also unframed so they suffer from the same "check-every-byte" issue as strings.

I feel like the encoding/json package actually does a great job in balancing parsing speed and convenience.
Their is no reason to need to track you to show articles... if its your first time visiting the site, you see articles just fine, if you've never visited medium, you can read articles just fine... this is simply "you wont let us track you and sell your interests to advertisers then you cant see articles" ... which would be ok if they actually said that, but they hide the reason behind some kind of make-believe benefit to you..
The OP's concept of "data flow" is also unrelated to how that term in usually used. (I think he is using it to refer to pattern matching when the match can fail.)
I recall the crowd phenomenon was revived again briefly with fighting games before the arcades disappeared.
Why Aren’t You Living in Harmony with ES6 Right Now?
Here is a great explanation of the glitch and instructions for patching it: http://www.computerarcheology.com/wiki/wiki/Arcade/Galaga
Yup, and it still doesn't show everything from people it decides you don't need to see because you don't interact with them very often. AFAICT "most recent" is just "top stories" in a different order.

Besides which, it seems to switch back to "Top Stories" all by itself every so often.
Sounds like a case for RSS .. if there was some way you could persuade people to publish their stuff that way.
I'm imagining either a really intense game of peekaboo or the kid is Doogie Howser and having trouble with his MCATs at age 3.
And if you're not using mobile: https://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
Highschool I worked for Lufthansa here in North America, it was common to see Germans fly over their bikes to go on a 2 month road trip while on paid vacation.
This looks absolutely gorgeous!

And thank you so much for not including the large(-ish) position:fixed header/banner that we saw in the preview last week. Vertical screen estate is so precious on today's widescreen netbooks.
Thucydides?
Or for us non-Americans, one more outlet through which things you've already downloaded ages ago are not available your country...
In what sense "broken" - it loads for me and is extremely useful as a catalog and description.

Can you be more specific?
Tumblr, Tomfoolery, and 12 months of Yahoo acquisitions
I guess that's how most of medieval states worked.

One big building (castle) plus a few semi-autonomous groups of warriors.

UPD: News that we get from Donbass frighteningly remind Game of Thrones.
I did this, I had ~300 friends and each time I checked Facebook I would unfollow every single person on the feed. Within 3 days I had no more posts and the news feed. I also did this with Reddit. It has slightly helped with "changing the channels" between digg, facebook, reddit and hacker news during finals a few weeks ago but being off for the summer I am reverting back to it and becoming less productive. If other people have this problem I would recommend the chrome extension concentrate.
Thanks, I know expected values, thoughts this was a game-theoretic analysis adding in potential winnings as a weighting or some such.
On Hotspots, Hackers Aren't the Only Ones After Your Private Information
this will be a fantastic data collection tool to allow advertisers to target user's tastes that they don't "like" on fb.
So, what would happen if I put in a url, then took the generated url and generated a shortened url on that and then did it again for about 1000 times?
How to handle big repositories with Git
You can hide those stories. Click the 'v' and select "I don't want to see this" or something like that.
> I know San Francisco is a tight-knit community, and we like to think that we’d jump to help one another.

Really? Have you SEEN the homeless population there? Who the fuck is helping them?

> But what the hell was that? I’ve read all the psychology books. I know the typical explanations.

....then why are you asking? It's bystander effect, plain and simple. If you're expecting San Franciscans to go against human nature just because they write code, sorry, ain't gonna happen.

Get some pepper spray and some self defense classes and learn to fight dirty. Don't blame other people for not saving you; they have no obligation to.

> Is this how disconnected from the real world we’ve become?

It's how disconnected the author has become. I'm glad she's now got perspective on how the real world works. (I'm also glad she came out of that safe and sound; sounds like a really scary fucked up situation)
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> You can set the feed (on the phone or the website) to "most recent" as opposed to "top stories"

No, you can't on the current version of the Android app (they took that out recently), though you can go to a separate "Most Recent" feed from another menu -- the primary feed (and the one that gets a red badge for new messages to draw you back to it) is always Top Stories.

> doing this supposedly undoes the EdgeRank filtering and gives you a reverse chronological feed of what your friends are posting.

"Most recent" gives you a reverse chronological feed (mostly, though I've sometimes observed posts out-of-order in "Most Recent"), but it doesn't appear to undo EdgeRank filtering.

> But I find it also throws in random posts from people or pages that your friends comment on, and also keeps bumping your friends posts that are getting comments from your other friends further up in the feed, so it becomes unnavigable in its own way.

The primary "Top Stories" feed seems to do the same thing, except that it doesn't automatically push the most recent updates to the top -- it does seem to promote posts further up based on more recent interactions from friends.
My elementary school had an "academically gifted" program which I was a part of. They put us there during the school day, isolating us from our classmates and making us seem even more "weird" than we already were. It didn't bother me, because I've never really been a "people person." But I'm sure it wasn't the best idea for some of the rest.

Of note: we were the only students in the school that were allowed unsupervised computer access, and it's where I pulled off my very first "computer crime." I found a special menu that was accessible via a series of held keys, one of which happened to be "print screen." I got caught because stacks and stacks of papers were printed off in the office, and I was officially banned from the computers. Fun times :-)
You might also consider getting slacklind. You can set a line up between two trees, and learning to balance is extremely mentally taxing. I live in central Istanbul and have found a group of people regularly slacklining in Macka Park, so there must be supplies available.
Maybe not a military superpower, but depending on the definition, "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemony." (Alice Lyman Miller)

China certainly fits that bill, here in South America it has archieved a surprising influence in a very short time, and in Africa it's the dominant power.

During the last two decades, the U.S. influence has been going down in our region, while China's is going steadily up. Today China is the main trade partner outside the region (used to be the U.S. and Europe), infrastructure provider (same), etc...

According to Wikipedia, it's not a "world superpower" yet like the U.S. is, but I definitely think it's going to be one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower