skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you'd still be using the wrong one if you use Webster's. The correct (inasmuch as anything can be correct in this world - correct for me!) choice is the compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is quite possibly the most glorious duology of volumes of infinitesimally minuscule type ever published, from Aa to Zyxst. Many happy childhood evenings of eyestrain and ebullient exclamations of sesquipedalian rhapsody.

It even comes with a magnifying glass.
It all comes down to the yuppies (myself included) wanting to get ahead. The dream of becoming a wealthy entrepreneur is what keeps me from being satisfied working 40 hours a week and reading and relaxing after that, for better or for worse! Also the dream of injecting wealth into my larger family for generations to come.
So what happens if a huge client (like the Chinese govt) says either Microsoft support XP or they drop windows for ubuntu (or something similar)?
I use <alt>d to select the text in my address bar. If I am on a duckduckgo search results page, it seems this keyboard combination is intercepted and I'm bounced off to one of the results (well, the 'd' on it's own does this too). I can also use <ctrl>l, but I've gotten use to using <alt>d.

[edit] I have bug reported this. They have a very good feedback system on their website.
Ask HN: jQuery plugins with awesome logos
Hi All,

It seems that most jQuery plugins have great looking icons attached to them. Is there a service that provides affordable logos for small plugin projects? Are people linking up with designers? Creating them themselves?? Can anyone comment from experience? I'm very curious.
The thing to remember is that you don't have to have the latest greatest thing. In worlds where a Surface Pro 3 was coming out now, and worlds where that wasn't happening, your Surface Pro 2 would still be able to do the same things. The presence of something newer doesn't need to diminish your existing possessions.
... this doesn't work for software hosted on premise, right? Especially not enterprise-grade software ...
Turbo Trainers for Winter Cycling
Sounds similar to the original idea of PayPal when it was an app for mobile, offline transactions between handheld computers.
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/ = better
Not only games, but also graphs/charts. I'm colorblind and I can't remember how often I had to understand a graph where the lines were in red, green, yellow and / or orange. And the specific colors were chosen so that they - to me - pretty much all look alike. Then I have a look at the legend and can't figure out which is which and the whole point of the chart is lost on me.

Example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/TopTenWik...

Hard for me to distinguish en/de/pl and ja/it and nl/pt.
I felt kinda dumb after finding myself on the press page. I feel better knowing I'm not the only one similarly fooled.
NSA attention diversion?
See: http://www.airlinefinancials.com/uploads/2013_Network_Annual...

Looks to me like pilot salaries are more like 50% of revenue which is 3-8% of operating expenses, not 1%. At least the 95% number is bogus.
>There's a really interesting video of a HAM guy who has built a system such that he yells into a microphone which then uses the audio energy to generate an RF pulse that travels out the antenna.

Fascinating, would love to see that in some distopian sci-fi story. Link for those that are curious: http://hackaday.com/2013/11/26/amateur-radio-transmits-1000-...
The block size of a symmetric cipher will generally be in the neighborhood of the key length. You can imagine the problem if you had a 128-bit key but an 8-bit block size -- for each of the 256 possible inputs you would have only 256 possible outputs. There would be multiple keys that produced the same mapping and you could produce every possible mapping with only 65536 keys. So the block size needs to be near the key size. Making it larger than that wouldn't make it any more secure but would make it slower.
"rotates passwords" Which I think is an awesome feature, especially when the rotation can be forced. Also, very desireable, one-time passwords. And a way to enforce password complexity and to prevent the same password being used for two different devices. And a way to audit password strength and rotation, of course :-)
How to overcome weakness like Theodore Roosevelt
Cinnamon is a nice mix of pretty, and practical, and not needing to relearn everything. but it has a habit of chewing up lots of CPU for no apparent reason and more recently my work machine would half freeze (the mouse would move, but nothing else would work). Moved to XFCE, and it is great. Not as pretty, but works in a traditional way (windows 98 XP sort of style). Its fast and stable.

In my opinion it shows that most "innovation" in desktops over the last few years have actually been a step backwards.
While I appreciate the author's love of language, and I also enjoy his examples, he's being a bit disingenuous when he acts mystified and offended about why dictionaries these days aren't written like those a hundred years ago.

It's obvious. Dictionaries these days are used to help literate people learning a new language (of which there are many more than 150 years ago) rather than aspiring playwrights. Comparing a "flash" with "eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew" is fanciful, not what an immigrant trying to decode an instruction manual needs.
Really impressed by this, especially the 3:2 ratio screen which will be great for writing and for browsing, and amazing for photos. The pen looks great. I've recently been given an iPad by work as part of a trial. It's great for quick e-mails, but really seems hard for me to get 'proper' work done. This might be the thing - shame I have to pay for it.
This wouldn't happen if those ISPs didn't have local monopolies. Networks should be opened by selling traffic wholesale to other companies so that they can compete for subscribers on those networks. The network owners would have more than enough money for upgrades and if they don't, downlevel ISPs will sue them.
> Please do link me to a $1200 non-Mac laptop with a high-res 15" screen, thin form factor, and nice trackpad.

The cheapest high-res/HiDPI/Retina 15" MacBook costs $1999, not $1200. The baseline 13" rMBP costs $1199 after the education discount though[1].

[1] By the by, if you order from the Apple Online Store in the US, you can get the student discount no matter what. There's no verification of any kind (like to possession of a .edu address and what not): http://store.apple.com/us-hed
> The definitions are these desiccated little husks of technocratic meaningese, as if a word were no more than its coordinates in semantic space.

That sentence thrills me. Superb. The author seems to care more about color than efficiency. I do, too. Maybe you value efficiency over color.
UEFI caused a ton of problems for Linux operating systems in the early days, and it took Linux vendors to compromise on getting the keys from Microsoft to make it work for the most part. So that part of the analysis was quite correct.
Personally, I like immediate responses from a support person who can run issues by a developer if necessary. Developers shouldn't have to spend any time walking a user through logging in, helping explain how to import data, etc.

I don't see support as a valuable use of developer time, and I don't think that developers should patch code on the fly in response to a single support ticket.

I also worry that what might be a well-meaning response with a few technical details can come off as very condescending.

If you're a small team and you don't have a dedicated client coordinator or support person then of course your developers are also support -- you don't have any options. If you do have options it's best to have someone between the customer and the developer. If for no other reason than to screen common/simple issues and ensure a timely, polite response.
I never said that - I said they were going to lose their month-by-month income, not their total savings.
How much money do you think you need? A few private donations level or kickstarter level?

Consider just raising some prize money and then announcing a race for the first group to have confirmed contact with the satellite, and get out of the way?
> But what's more interesting is that this may be an entirely different case: a falsehood starts on Wikipedia, percolates to external sources, and then becomes true because it is pervasive. Then it remains on Wikipedia because it is true. And that's only possible because informal names can be adopted, and hey, that thing does look like an aardvark. Nick names are sticky like that.

This is exactly what happened to the red panda, where for years the Wikipedia page mentioned "firefox" or "fire fox" as a valid name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_panda&oldid=3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_panda&oldid=1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_panda&oldid=7...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_panda&oldid=4...

Given the overlap between Wikipedia editors and proponents of Firefox, there was a strong echo chamber effect.

Thankfully the page has now been fixed.
I'm curious: what specifically do you find wrong with that excerpt?
Register allocation is an NP-complete problem. Graph coloring works because it can be done with information available to a compiler from live variable analysis.

Problems are classified as NP-complete based on the Turing machine model. Since the human brain is not a Turing machine, it may be better suited for solving NP-complete problems than a computer. Solutions to NP-complete problems commonly employ heuristics to strike a balance between completeness and efficiency. The human brain seems (at least to me) to be better at solving problems involving heuristics. Chess is an obvious example.
Nintendo beats another patent troll
As the author of a recent article[0] about the joys of that very edition of that very dictionary, enjoyed at that very time of life, that contained a nasty swipe at Websters, I must say that reading this beautiful encomium to the latter work made me regret my hasty dismissal and want to go back and add a footnote.

[0] http://lee-phillips.org/literallyEgregious/
Most of us are using CSS precompilers (Less, Sass, Stylus) and then stitching tons of files together into a single .css file. I wonder if there is an easy way to produce Sass/Less/Stylus files with the un-used classes removed.
Good design but disappointing that the search and Menu option disappear when the browser size is shrunk to tablet or mobile phone resolution. Not responsive.
I was handed code already written using tie
Sorry for the tough question, but what make your servers trusted by me? Why should I trust you? With trust I mean I can safely browse without worries about traffic data collecting, password stealing and so on, do you mean the same too?
Smart. I end up grepping the whole codebase by hand for each class I want to remove, but even that isn't perfect.
How to turn off auto-scroll and turn pagination on?
The ULIMATE Sun Hat launches on Kickstarter
Yes, you are right we can modify our JS and get your keys. This vulnerability is in most of the commercial tools out there too. Thats why it is open sourced so you can run it in your own servers. Running it on your own heroku account is close to zero dollars.
Microsoft open source their Windows 7's(and windows server 2008, Office 2003) source code to the China government since June ,2010. But they have not allow China to review their Windows 8 source code yet.
Apple reportedly will pay ISPs for direct network connections
I've used a lot of browser-based drum sequencers, this is addicting.

One of the reasons this is so interesting is that the patterns are interchangeable and recognizable. Switch your bass drum and snare and you have a breakbeat track. Replace your cowbell with hi-hats and the beat starts chugging. The relationship between instruments and patterns is something that normal drum machines could never show you.
Social. Local. Mobile. solomo lomoso moloso somolo losomo mosolo
Which do you prefer?
OPW Linux kernel intern develops QR code for Oops messages
They probably worry about backdoors?
sorry, cybernetic spying issues, I meant
Blissful UI programming with ReactiveCocoa
The UI is super slick. Bravo!!

I miss some of the simplicity of the old DDG but after adjusting the only thing i find missing is the StackOverflow integration. It may totally be there, i just haven't had the right query yet...
Ex-Beats, Spotify Execs Debut Soundtrack Your Brand (Spotify For Public Venues)
The Absurdity Behind Copyblogger's Idea That Selling Sucks
Awesome - we weren't aware of the .net package but I'll definitely check it out.
Tesla Edges Out Toyota as California’s Top Auto Employer
Wow - that was a fantastic(al) and fun read - and then ends up with a cool bit of hacking to actually fetch and add a dictionary from 1913 as the default on your 'puter. The perfect HN post, I say!
Wikipedia article on how Nazi propaganda altered the German language
Process Is Being Told What to Do by Someone Who Has Less Information than You
ShowHN: SnapTalk, "Voice Texting" made easy
Send short voice messages to anyone in your contact with the press of a button. Press mic, speak and release; message sent!
We always found texting to be too much work so in a way we invented "Voice Texting". And to keep the app intuitive and clean, we focus only on voice. Its available on iPhone, Android and Windows phone. visit http://getsnaptalk.com for more.
There is no "ASS" icon. What they mean is that the RSS logo looks like it's contains "ASS".

Yes, that took me a few minutes to figure out. Just thought I'd save at least some of you those few minutes.
First -- you are by no means alone. It may not make you feel any better but you are in good company. Most people suffer depression at some point in their life, some worse than others. Lincoln, Churchill -- this famous VC, Brad Feld: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/12/dont-fight-depressio...

If your grief is preventing you from functioning, I agree with people below who suggest therapy and medication. Why not give that a try? There's no shame -- it shows courage, and will help you grieve. Meditation and exercise are great eveners too. And being unemployed and depressed could make things even worse.

Good luck and warm wishes. It will get better. You will find peace and you will recover.
Just when I was "boohoo"-ing over Sony Vaios entirely leaving (WORLD & ~JAPAN), MS does this. Awesome. I would probably buy one if I didn't just buy a new laptop 2 months ago.

The slightly bigger screen also makes this a worthy competitor to "real" laptops (as in, 13" and up) - a first for the Surface IMO.
Google+ Stories And Movies Offer More Reasons To House Your Media With Google
More than money I need expertise. Although I have an amateur license I'd like to work on it with someone who is experienced with AMSAT type work.

Also, I would prefer not to do the race as the real motivator for me is the thrill of doing it and the fun of learning about how it was done.

It probably could be done as a Kickstarter and I'm guessing for the low £1,000s (radio, antenna, probably some interesting pre-amp/filter stuff).
Why are they still trying to turn a tablet into a desktop? They are different things, with different purposes - not everything needs to be the same thing.

Tablet All The Things!!
Google Fails to Publish Freebase Data Dump For Five Weeks
It's the fear of silence
That gives us away
'Cause when we're alone
We have to hear
What our aching hearts try to say.
- Randy Stonehill
I tried DDG about six months ago and went back to Google, but I recently tried it again. The gap is closing fast. As of now it's my default search. Google still does a better job seemingly "understanding" queries sometimes, so occasionally I go over there, but I'd say I'm only doing that about 5% of the time.

One of my favorite things about DDG is that I do not have to worry about "search bubbles." I don't have to worry that DDG is profiling me and de-prioritizing results it doesn't "think" I would want to see. I know Google thinks search bubbles are a feature but I think they're a bug. I don't want some algorithm trying to reinforce cognitive biases for me so I don't experience the shock of a dissenting opinion. I've observed a few times that DDG seems to do a better job finding really obscure things, and I've wondered if this might somehow be related to profiling algorithms or lack thereof.

I also find the level of data mining Google (and Facebook) engage in to be creepy, invasive, and to hold a high potential for abuse. I'm certainly open to alternatives whose business model does not revolve around that kind of intrusive personal profiling. I'm aware that DDG does have an ad-and-analytics business model, but they seem to be taking the high road with it.

Prediction: "privacy is dead" will in the future be regarded as an idea that greatly harmed several multi-billion-dollar companies. I think it's firmly in the realm of utter crackpot nonsense, and anyone who thinks this is either hopelessly naive or delusional about the political, social, and economic realities of the world. A full-blown user revolt is underway.
I'm somewhat surprised they didn't do this long ago. Unless they have the source I'm surprised any government uses any operating system.
Why didn't you ask the question the other way around -- does vulcand have anything to show that it is better in any way than the current best-practice load balancer?

Reading the docs, the only thing that stands out is that it's tightly coupled with etcd, which seems like a really bad idea architecturally.
It would be sweet to have a grunt plugin that scans your CSS and templates and removes unused rules. It would probably have to read JS files to be thorough though.
That logo is amazing.
Somebody has to pay the money to upgrade the equipment and bandwidth available at these exchange points. The very reasonable argument in this article is that the ISPs should pay that cost, which seems reasonable given that their customers are demanding it. It sounds like the ISPs are playing a game of chicken, trying to see if their peers like Level3 will throw money in to pay for the ISP to upgrade its equipment and bandwidth. That's certainly something the ISPs can try to do; on the other hand, what are their customers going to do, not use Netflix and YouTube? If a pile of customers of one ISP start reporting that they're all having a poor experience with high-bandwidth video, and there are a pile of well-publicized press releases blaming the ISP, customers will start complaining to the ISP, and they'll have to upgrade their infrastructure eventually. (And in areas where they have competition, there's an incentive to upgrade before the competitors, to avoid losing customers; while there isn't such competition in every locale, there are enough locales with more than one ISP choice to make those customers painful to lose.)

But what does any of that have to do with mandated peering requirements at the NSFnet exchanges? Who would enforce that, and why, when any two major networks can set up peering at any number of meet-me rooms? Requiring that an ISP peer as much traffic as is available or not peer any at all seems ridiculous; some ISPs will suck more than others, but that's the problem of them and their customers, not a problem for the entire Internet.

Meanwhile, I'm surprised there aren't more startups and VCs looking to bet that "new ISP that doesn't suck" is a viable business model. People are chomping at the bit for Google Fiber, which seems unlikely to grow to a national level without developing competitors. This is a space with very few competitors, and there hasn't been serious competition in that space since DSL stopped being a viable option.
Sometimes "I'm busy" is a way to say "I'm not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it's not a priority" without pissing off your SO. We might actually like how we're spending an hour, we just try to control the emotional reactions of others.
I still can't get my head round paying for one of these at £1000+ when it's effectively disposable if anything goes wrong. I bought a used i7 Lenovo T410 a couple of weeks back for £150. Totally serviceable and the battery it came with lasts 6 hours. This will be my workstation for a couple of years, plus if its like my T400 it lives in the back of the sofa and takes a beating every day. I'd kill a surface in about two days.
I like the article overall but I don't understand the author's proposed solution. The issue as it stands is apparently a lack of peering, in that big ISPs are using transit to reach large content providers rather than directly peering to those networks. So how would "kicking them out" for a maxed out connection work? If I buy transit from Level3 and my connection maxes out, I'm no longer allowed to be a customer of Level3?
Dos and Don’ts in JavaScript
I think even windows 8 is banned, the government may still keep buying win7 PCs.

Although there are many company in this country are developing linux distribution such as Deepin, the products are still far from easy to use.

But as a Chinese I support this action because this may contribute to free this country of a heavy dependence of MicroSoft's products. Let the younger generation knows there exists not only one operating system in the world will help improve this countries' average computer knowledge.
Perfect for browsing google play top charts!
Censor Google
Willful Delusion – Startups and the Stockdale Paradox
Adventure with Types in Haskell – Simon Peyton Jones (Lecture 1)
DDG is my default SE. Once in a while i ave to go to other SE (Bing second, Google third) but it's a small price to pay to give them a shot.

Hopefully the market share will be more evenly distributed among SEs. Let's do our part
This is an ongoing problem. I live in Denver, Colorado, which Wikipedia says has the most Mexican restaurants per capita of any major metropolitan area. There's a small chain called "Little Anita's". People argue over whether there's a New Mexico version of Mexican or not, with respect to Little Anita's (I'm on the "yes, there is New Mexico Mexican" side). Bring me some sopapillas!
For user specific passwords, our team uses whichever software they prefer (usually LastPass or KeePass)

For passwords that can absolutely not be made user-specific, we use SimpleSafe (https://www.simplesafe.net/). It allows you to make groups of passwords and assign rights to those passwords, and has decent logging. It's web based and works ok on mobile.

These few passwords are for network devices, passwords for websites where only one account can be made, or master/root/administrator passwords that we don't use but need to write down somewhere just in case.

These are the keys to the kingdom, so it should be behind VPN/SSH, ideally completely isolated from your regular infrastructure, and with tested backup procedures.
Sean, as you mentioned, seems the static library do have space wasted issues, maybe it is a good idea if just use DDL rather than static mechanism. You didn't introduce much in your post about his, is there some potential issues that Apple is not providing that as SNS, why is SNS possible? Any ideas to share?
A lot of what's being written in this thread hits home for me, but especially the 'wanting to get ahead' bit - part of the problem is job insecurity, knowing that your present position may not last, and feeling compelled to use leisure time to increase your marketability for future job applications. Even when I'm not actually working on work-related skills, I feel like I should be, which creates anxiety.
I used DDG as my main search engine instead of Google for two weeks just now, but ended up going back because very often DDG just couldn't find the results I'm used to finding with Google in that amount of keywords.

Usually I had to add "github", "npm" or some other word that would narrow it down for DDG, while Google just knew what I wanted and/or already visited.

Maybe it's the lack of personalized search results or Google is just smarter. Either way non-personalization is a double-edged sword.