skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again, if you did that Escape Goat port for Steam, is a stellar example of a properly tested release.

Had much fun with it and works like a charm with the Xbox 360 Controller.
Did it on my second try -- I, personally, don't think it's so bad. I thought it was a bit crazy when I first looked at it but if you look hard enough, you can make the letters out. I am not sure what the idea is behind the "challenge text" though.
I sometimes think that people don't really give much thought to some of the things that they do where they simply copy what others do.

My own personal pet peeve is people, on HN, who obscure their gmail address so that it can't be slurped by bots.

I mean why not just use a dedicated gmail account, just for HN, rather than "use my hn handle at that email service that everyone else uses generally". The dedicated account has spam protection and you can forward mail to your primary account as a filter if you want.

I have a couple of web forms with no spam protection at all. The amount of bots that I get isn't so great that I need to trouble people to figure out a captcha. Much less a really difficult one.
Safety deposit box is not a bad idea. But I can't even imagine the stress and anxiety of carrying around 10 grand on a gift card when you are homeless.
"The bare minimum to keep myself distracted and fed was all I did even though so much more was possible. I told myself I liked the freedom, but in truth I was just too scared and had too low of self esteem to take on a more comfortable lifestyle." I don't know whether i fit this description. But it just did resonate with me. Am not homeless but still live at my moms house (27yrs old). Never really held down a real job (9-5) for all i can rememeber. Been moving from web app after web app hoping i could build/stumble upon something that can improve my livelihood but zero and it feels like am really running out of time.
FSF issues statement on Oracle v Google
It says a lot about CNN. iReports has the CNN logo on it. CNN has been dipping its toe — its whole foot, actually — into "breaking news" that is not actually breaking, misleading headlines, and low-brow flotsam.

Maybe iReport is a good idea but only if it produces genuine news. If not, then maybe it's a failed experiment.
Ask HN: Are you developing/using a multi-year Middle/High School CS Curriculum?
The charter school network where I teach is interested in implementing a multi-year computer programming curriculum starting in 7th grade.

I have tried many of the resources out there: Codecademy, Khan Academy, Code.Org, Scratch, Tynker, Hopscotch, and others. All of them have many positives (and are great for electives/clubs), but none of them is a true multi-year plan that can be used in a classroom by a teacher (similar to what exists for math, like http://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-5-mathematics).

Are you working on building something like this? Have you seen or tried anything like this? I am curious to hear all suggestions and ideas that are out there. (If anyone is interested in discussing this further, please feel free to email me.)
Wow, very interesting information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on the subject. I've always wondered about automation in fast food restaurants, but what you say does make a lot of sense.

The least human interaction I've seen in fast food is Febo in Amsterdam, where you just pick up a pre-made burger from a little "pod" of sorts and pay for it (by handing money to a person) at the back of the store.
Don’t most people eat vegetarian for ethical reasons? For those these health considerations do not play a role at all when it comes to deciding whether to eat vegetarian or not. (They obviously do play a role when it comes to considering what to eat.)
After learning Git, it is important to follow a branching model, I really appreciate the one proposed here http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model
As a consumer I don't care how difficult it is for you to implement it. Its the harsh reality of the consumer market.
You note this at the end, but just to reinforce: looking at the maximum range of the aircraft is pointless here, because airliners don't fly with full fuel unless they need to. Surplus fuel means surplus weight means you burn more fuel than you need to. They fly with what they need to get to the destination plus a margin, so a pad on top of the KL->Beijing distance is the right number to look at.
Yet, should child support obligations make it impossible for somebody to participate in society (and earn money)?

There is an optimum point here, but people seem unable to arguee for anything that is not extreme. And that seems to be a problem with our communication in general, not restricted to this one issue.
Thanks for sharing! Really cool drink robots in the link! :)
$0 (along with $1 etc.) is used in shells, at least bash [and original sh?]. I think Perl just borrowed those, like $ prefixes to variables or not offering explicit subroutine arguments, from the traditional unix shell(s).
Cleverest?
The story is correct. They just have the date wrong.
Before TFS, we didn't even have everything in Visual Source Safe.
My anecdotal experience as a lifelong (since birth) lacto-ovo vegetarian leads me to think there's something to this.

I can't speak to the conclusions exactly, but the reasoning - dietary deficiencies - rings true to me. I've experienced dramatic results from supplementing with creatine, choline, zinc and omega 3s. The fact that this article cites so many of things I've come to independent conclusions about seems worthy of consideration.

One thing I'd be really curious about with regard to any correlation between vegan/vegetarianism and mental health issues is simply which came first. Again anecdotally, I've met a lot of vegatarian converts - many for whom I'd wager food is just one manifestation of an existing neurosis.
Indeed we do - though my advice from the renal dieticians didn't mention lettuce - will have to ask at my next checkup.

Ironically when I aske about the lo-salt versions of things like soy sauce she commented no the crap they put in to replace salt is worse :-)
That's fixable as well. You can turn off location reporting on your home device while still leaving location services active for things that need it.
SVG `text` and Small, Scaleable, Accessible Typographic Designs
I think the point here is if your data has been breached you should be reassuring people that password and payment details even if accessed aren't easily readable.
A couple of points:

1. More government revenue does not always equal more community needs being met. Many times it is just the means for more fraud, waste, and abuse.

2. Also, to say that hotel taxes do not "seem to really impact demand" amounts to hand waving. Every cost affects demand to some degree or another. What about the impacts of paying a 15% hotel tax on other local businesses? A family may eat fast food instead of more upscale restaurant to offset the added expense. It's naive to pretend that any extra expense, whether it be a direct taxation or not, has no impact on demand in the marketplace.
Well, you have to define it then.

"Unaccetable" for running a company with profit, or "unaccptable" for your moral code? Because the former sure ain't the case.
Admittedly, you could post this comment
on nearly any physics topic.
Post-Snowden: The Economics of Surveillance
It's a pity the authorities have been so catastrophically incompetent in the search. Normally it would make sense to just release data to the authorities, because they'll have smart people on the case and making it public will just add noise. Nobody was expecting the response to this one to be so badly handled, and it takes a while to change your mindset in the face of that.
I run a site which provides an API for real-time testing of spam vs. ok submissions for blog comments, forum posts, and contact-forms.

I handle about 250,000 submissions a day.

Contact-forms can easily be overwhelmed with spam, it's just a matter of how lucky you are, or not.
Some problems and their evolution is better understood if you focus on what's wrong instead of what's right. Either you have every requirement covered or you're going to fail.

There ain't no justice here. You may have created some brilliant architecture, object system, whatever. But if --let's say-- it's too slow, people won't use it.
I find it more interesting that they are growing this lettuce in a completely artificial environment at scale. One step toward a closed loop habitat but at a potentially larger scale than simple aquaponics installations. I'm still waiting for a 'high rise' farm, basically a multi-story hydroponics installation which can produce more food per surface acre than an existing farm can. If you can master the pollination cycle and control pests through environmental controls you have the basis for a sort of 'super-organic' type of farm.
Received a similar message from eBay (french):

"Cher membre eBay,

Afin que les utilisateurs d'eBay continuent de bénéficier d'une expérience fiable et sécurisée sur notre site, nous demandons à tous nos membres de modifier leur mot de passe.

En voici les raisons : nous avons récemment découvert que notre réseau informatique avait été la cible d’une cyberattaque. Cette attaque a eu pour effet de compromettre une base de données contenant les mots de passe des utilisateurs eBay.

Il est important de souligner que rien n'indique qu'il y ait eu accès à vos données financières ou que celles-ci aient été compromises. Par ailleurs, votre mot de passe était crypté. "
> Not sure if the intent is trying to stop bots

CAPTCHA does not stop bots. Captcha solving can, at the very least, be automated away. CAPTCHA's do not work.
TortoiseGit is pretty decent, though it doesn't have VS integration.
HTTP is an arms race? Between what and what?
Ask HN: Please review my start up
Hi everyone,

This is the first time I've submitted anything here but I read HN almost daily. My partner and I have just launched a laundry and dry cleaning delivery service where users can schedule orders through our web app (mobile app coming soon). We would love any feedback you have to give.

https://www.washboxapp.com/

We have been working on the site for about a year now and launched 2 weeks ago. We've had some great feedback from our early adopters however we want to iron out any problems (excuse the pun) before we launch on the various mobile platforms.

We're based in Bristol, UK so if you want to sign up use the address 35 St. John's Road, Bristol, BS8 2HD.

Thanks,
James
I am Indian, and have been vegetarian since birth. Born into a family of vegetarians, and our ancestors have been vegetarians for centuries. We are fine, thank you.

I think this article is about those in the West who try out being vegetarian. I wish that can be made explicit in the article and the comments here.
Ironic since Microsoft is more agile now than it's ever been. Perhaps a backhanded compliment, but it's true. Release cycles are getting shorter and shorter throughout the company. They're playing catch-up, but they're still in the game, particularly for web services and hosted applications.
The Revolutionary Quantum Computer
Yes, but even if a few spinal nerves don't get connected, you'll have severe motility problems.
One of my coworkers at General Dynamics did a slide show on GPS potentials in 1981 which of course was long before it was real. It seemed like science fiction at the time. Hard to imagine how we would do without it today.
Just wanting to reiterate that this is an observational cohort study that shows only a weak correlation. There's no casual information at all in the study referenced in this post and the correlation is so weak that it's unlikely to even provide useful hypotheses for future interventional studies.

Everyone I know who's a vegetarian was a bit wacky to start with :)
How is your first URL not easily user readable? It clearly tells me that it is from the Washington Post, in the Opinions section, written by EJ Dion Jr, titled "the roots and lessons of memorial day," published May 25 2014, and then has a (presumably) uuid for the article.

Since when has verbal transmission been an important consideration for URLs?
As pointed out by Daniel Peebles on Twitter, this title ("Haskell considers adopting Rust's method name resolution rules") is not a good summary of the current state of affairs. This is a five-year-old proposal that is not being seriously or actively considered for inclusion in Haskell:

https://twitter.com/copumpkin/status/470973308284837888

(The proposal also predates Rust, so the similarity to Rust's method resolution is due to independent invention, rather than inspiration.)
You know that they retracted that line from the Go introduction text on the webpage, don't you?

And of course, them being Go's authors and them being wrong on characterizing it, is in no way contradictory.
Turned it off years ago. Thank goodness.
There have been several websites recently where I've given up because after 10 attempts or so I still can't get the capcha right.
Thats really cool but in a way i also admire people that get off the "I want more and need more all the time" train and work just to sustain themselfes on a basic level.
More importantly, writing is an important mode of communication in a way programming will never be (and programming shouldn't be expected to be that).

Penpals don't mail source code back and forth to each other.

Thinking knowing to code is as important as literacy is just another version of people thinking their specific profession is super-important because it's what they spend their time doing. I imagine some especially pompous auto mechanics think knowing the internals of a car is as important as reading and writing. (Though, I imagine there are much fewer pompous auto mechanics than pompous hackers.)
This is similar to how Forbes is behaving lately. Most of the articles on the 'Forbes' domain name are just citizen journalism and thinly veiled PR pieces. I can't believe they (CNN and Forbes both) are okay with that type of brand dilution purely to aggregate terrible content.
Webhooks URL Shortener In Beta
The article probably needs updating.

Because right now `com.spotify.music` is just over 1MB (down from 15MB) and just shows this screen:

http://i.imgur.com/lZYDyBt.png

Hitting the "Download" button takes you to the "Spotify Music" app page on the Play store.
> If you just need to sum a list of numbers, or quickly calculate payroll or something, Excel does a fine job.

Sure, its great for lots of one-time quick calculations. I was really referring to its use in on-going operations with changing requirements where maintenance is necessary.

The problem comes in when something that is suitable as a one-off tool -- and perhaps, as such, might make a decent prototype for a proper ongoing, maintainable tool -- instead gets pressed into service as a production tool and becomes a sinkhole of technical debt.
It's actually about Austrians - or at least that's where the data came from. I believe it's pretty explicit in the article, though I did have to check the linked journal article to make sure.
"it's just a matter of how lucky you are, or not"

Any factors that you have been able to determine that quantifies why someone is lucky or not?
That is a good point. The other way to look at it is a way to go back to Poland, especially if you do not intend to stay in Warsaw where I assume more of the job opportunities are.
Although, as mbrubeck points out, this isn't seriously being considered anymore (as, for one, it's much harder to retrofit into the design of Haskell), it was nice to see that Simon Peyton-Jones independently came up with the silly idea I had for dot notation a few years ago. :)
Where is that console.log?
A lot of people who have access to Excel also have access to Access - and a lot of what they do would be better served in database than a spreadsheet. Yet they don't use one - there must be a reason for that, and I don't think it's IT restrictions.
If you like the image, just wait until you try the audio! Even more fun.
Apple devices 'hijacked for ransom' in Australia
Reducing CPU load in D3.js transitions
Googlebot's recent improvements might revolutionize web development
Yes, but they are also the ones being surprised that Go is cannibalizing Python, not C or C++.

They are smart guys, so I can only conclude that "systems programming" means something different to them than it does to many other systems programmers.

To me, "no imposed GC" is a non-negotiable element of being a systems programming language. So I am far more drawn to Rust than Go.
Software-configurable RAM? Hopefully the device comes with 1GB and you can just limit your RAM to 256MB if you wanted to?
I always got the feeling the Office team and .NET team never got along well considering the completely lack of cohesion between _any_ of their respective products.
> I also wonder about the relevance to the weekend warrior. Is this something that really will improve their game?

Yes, if they're interested in improving it. For basically all the reasons coldpie has already pointed out. It's true that you'd need to practice specifically as well as play games--it's much harder to develop higher consistency from the dynamic environment of a real game--but that's not unusual.
The key difference is that on SO we don't make you give us your email address to read an answer. So when you "sign up" for the newsletter, you're explicitly signing up for email (in fact, you can do so without even bothering to create an account).

Not saying SO doesn't send too many emails to registered users in other scenarios (it's something we argue about internally fairly often).

And to be fair, both sites put "unsubscribe" links in the footer of every email, so it really shouldn't be that much of a burden.
Vegetarian for ethical/environmental reasons. I buy that this could be the case and would be surprised if there weren't some bad effects to go along with the good. The source, however, leaves a lot to be desired.

I look forward to meat growing on trees, so we can study meat without a bunch of ideology creeping in (from either the vegetarianism-is-ethically-good-therefore-it-must-be-healthier crowd or the I-hate-vegetarians-and-love-meat-therefore-meat-must-be-required crowd).
As someone who's father died from rapid, late-onset Ulcerative Colitis, this is really fantastic and makes me wonder what could have been.
Link shorteners are fine.
Are you sure the physical effects don't just come from eating more fruit and vegetables? What did you eat before you went vegetarian? Lots of grains?
Yeah the whole "but where do you get your protein" thing gets old after about 30 seconds. I have answered many emails and Facebook posts with this: http://bit.ly/1nQx8EQ
Yes, that's correct. The goal is to allow developers to see how their app works on a memory-constrained device during testing, while also using the full 1GB during regular use.
Plain text is not superior, merely more well-supported...

That's a very important fact.

If adequate standards for WYSIWYIG were created...

I wouldn't say "standard", but more like "paradigm" (nice, first time I've actually used that word).

There's that "war on trees" thing that I hope gets abandoned as soon as possible.
You can say it's a bit of advertisement, but I won't call it a "shill". If I were doing that, I would have pretended that I magically stumbled on Treasure Data.

Honestly, for data of this scale, I could have totally used any RDBMS. Scale really would have not been an issue. But I do like the schema-flexibility that Treasure Data provides.

Then again, I could have used MongoDB (and this point is clearly indicated in the post).
I think people also underestimate just how soul-crushingly dull coding might be for many people. It's easy to assume that everyone will enjoy what you enjoy, but for some people this stuff is just extremely difficult, extremely boring, or both.
In fact, this title is nonsense. I would describe the current state of the proposal as "actively rejected". That doesn't stop beginners from reinventing it every few months, of course. That's probably the main reason that page sticks around - to have someplace to point to and say "It's already been suggested, and it hurts the state of the language far more than it helps."
This is in response to a proposed strike by London "Black Cabs" which are licensed to be hailed. I think they are a little worried as Uber is nearly as quick as hailing and much quicker than getting a cab through a private hire company (sometimes called minicabs) which are booked through usually calling a central operator who then dispatches the cab.

http://www.ltda.co.uk/campaigns/planned-taxi-demonstration/
Fascinating. What are the symptoms or diagnostic tests that would lead a doctor to consider this?
Add Botswana to the list, with very nice game reserves (central Kalahari, Okawango, Chobe National park, Victoria Falls close). Expensive, though, but with a very good security track record for tourists.
"Also just a ton of missing UI / tooling / integration work meant that most people heard about it, tried it, didn't see what the hype was about"

I think this depends on what component/system your trying to use. Recently I found myself using powershell (mostly via copy/paste) for what I consider simple one time system administration type duties. In the past I don't think microsoft would have shipped a product without a first class GUI to manage it (ignoring registry editing for "rare" tweaks). Now, it seems the prevalence of powershell allows some groups inside Microsoft to write a bunch of code without a functional UI, leaving the users to grub through what is effectively programming documentation to perform simple things like enabling/disabling a core feature of the product. I would expect from an architectural level, that microsoft would assure that the major functionality in their product is controllable both from the GUI as well as from the command line. That doesn't appear to be the case anymore than windows 8 can be used entirely from the metro/modern interface.

Frankly, its yet another erosion of what I considered to be Microsoft's strong points against Linux.
How about just loosening the API rate limits, or making a better token request process with resource allocation e.g. I'd like 1500 requests per 15 min window (as opposed to 15, for some things) for 72 hours. I guess this could be limited to those with a academic email address if they insist.
I think D will grow in that server space.
I don't know that the research says about their effectiveness (hard to find through all the stuff on google) but I've liked the slider-based captchas I've seen:

http://www.3dcaptcha.net/

Seems promising given that human visual processing and pattern recognition are lightening fast, and the slider is intuitive and kinda fun.

Anyone know how effective they are at stopping bots?
May I suggest an alternative: paying a small fee to avoid/replace captchas (say $1-10, or higher than the captcha farms pay...)

Also it seems like HN is using the older recaptcha (without numeric signs), I didn't know you could choose your recaptcha "version" though.
What is the ironic reason that explains tinyurl supplanting makeashorterlink?
I remember this study doing the rounds a few weeks ago. The consensus back then was that there were significant confounding factors. For one thing, you can't be sure that the vegetarians you include in the set didn't become vegetarian specifically to address some lifestyle problem or health issue. Based on my anecdotal experience of vegetarians in wealthy first world nations, a large proportion include health concerns as part of their justification for vegetarianism.

Might have been useful to only include vegetarians who had been on their diet for a minimum length of time, or exclude those who said they had health issues.

Another issue someone already noted below, but the cherrypicking involved in going from thousands of survey responses to the few hundred they actually used must have been enormous.