skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A dynamic foundation
Recently I had to spend a month working on a massively important, yet incredibly tedious/repetitive, web dev project. I started with our company's standard-issue dev environment: Windows 7 running Sublime Text. I got fed up with the slow speed and having to make 3x as many mouse clicks, which add up to a lot of repetitive motions after a while. I switched back to KDE because I could use Kate with the "fish://" protocol. I was able to finish the project in 1/4 the time it would have taken me otherwise. This is not an exaggeration, though it may be a conservative estimate. Much less wear-and-tear on my hands, too.

I keep meaning to learn vim and, in so doing, finally become a [SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER MAN], but KDE, when configured the way I want it, is the perfect development environment for me. I keep coming back to it. I have used every major computer operating system, different flavors of Gnome, XFCE, MacOS, Windows, and Linux under various lightweight window managers. If I need an OS for an older desktop machine, then I generally prefer razor-qt though :)

I've mostly outgrown the whole militant-OS-partisan thing, but I guess I'm kind of passionate about KDE. Passionate enough to write a long-winded thing on the internet, at any rate.

KDE is far from perfect. It's a resource pig until you learn how to use it effectively. But, so is everything else. It does seem like KDE development will chase the latest trends, but I hold out some hope that they might make some concessions for those of us who just want a lightweight system with a few powerful features.
How would you go about even comparing them, really?
Yup. It's opensource so...
A truly OS based on a dynamic language. Beautiful. A round of applause. All the best to this project.
>So, apparently, luck and timing are huge factors in what does well here.

Here, and everywhere else too :)
I'm curious why you think Golang doesn't support concurrency properly.
I used [1] above as the basis for a few sessions at our local coderdojo, it gave an opportunity to get the kids to hack some python and get visually interesting results.
http://damianmooney.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/a-maze-in-pytho... is the kind of thing we ended up working on
@1 I think the main goal is simply to display OpenStreetMap node density. Nothing more and nothing less. For mappers it's kinda interesting. He did't want to make a map where the most active mappers are.
Yup - still.
Yes, maybe he too would be biased by profiting from them. That's not an argument for patents, though.
I'm equally surprised at seeing my Local Euler being used for something.
http://www.drugs.com/quaaludes.html

Doesn't seem to fit the bill to me, it has strong withdrawal effects and makes people do reckless things, according the link above.
Density here is number of nodes by area, and if you distort the area it stops being density. It's like comparing the weight of different objects on different planets. "My shoe on Earth weights twice as much as my sandal on Saturn" isn't very useful.

And thanks for mentioning the link, but I don't see where they say it was made for a pretty picture.
We'd happily change the title if someone can propose a more accurate and neutral one.

Edit: we cribbed one from the url.
Riley vs. California: A “revoltin’ development”
Very nice idea I'm interested in this
I was really thinking it'll be about arc lisp
My significant other and I are working on a new kind of wedding registry (a wish list for wedding gifts) in our spare time: https://wed.is

It solves two big problems for us when we were looking at existing options:

- They tend to look reallly old school or lack customization

- If we chose a registry we were stuck with the products it had to offer
You might like to check out InfraRuby for ideas. It's a compiler for statically typed Ruby, compatible with Ruby interpreters. Free download at http://infraruby.com/
Oh, we do hire junior people as well; it's just that you need at least a core of senior folks.
In retrospect, I probably should have contacted you before using Local Euler in this project. Hopefully you don't mind.
Decomposing Monoliths
Erm, he is claiming that companies don't go public due to unchecked market rigging and that somehow regulation rather than lack of it is to blame - the doublethink is strong in this one.

And I've no idea why somebody who is in investment wouldn't be well aware that secular bear markets are typically longer than 10 years (http://www.tradingonlinemarkets.com/Articles/Trend_Following...).

He seems to be a complete buffoon from this interview.
Fear of Making Money
It’s still nice, if all the content is available over both http and http, to use protocol-relative URLs, i.e. without http or https before the //: part. It looks like the author has read your comment, and updated his source code to say <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/leaflet/0.7.3/leaflet.js”> for leaflet.

http://www.paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/ describes how protocol-relative URLs work.
But if it's the same as a population map, what good is it?

If I had asked you about nodes density before you saw this picture, your guess would probably use the population density. If your guess remains the same after seeing the picture, it didn't give you any useful information.

I think this is gorgeous, and the process of making a visualization is interesting, but I'm questioning the usefulness of the information portrayed.
From the archive: Data Loves Cage (2007)
OK , here's wiki[2]:

You're right about germany(the war hurt it really bad) but if we choose say the UK, sweden and the UK show similar GDP/PPP numbers. But it seems that sweden has much greater income equality than the uk according to [2].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_%28...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...
That's not true. Please don't be mean to a fellow user.
Thank you for sharing the honest evaluation of your life. The only advice I can give you after having lived in the, from my point of view, shallow American tech world: move to Europe.

The people in most European countries will be less welcoming at first, but I can tell you, if you stick through you will find them to be more profound.

It helps that we don't have an American Dream which focusses on financial prosperity through hard work, but rather a joy of life (joie de vivre) which encourages us to enjoy the beauty of life and nature.

Travel to Tuscany or Portugal and see for yourself.
They don't prevent the initial idea but they do make implementing it pointless. For a current example A lot of educational software ideas fall into this due to Blackbards mass of patients and litigation happy stance.

Anyway, Blackboard has little I incentive to buld a better product or bother trying to buy out competitors thus killing off a lot of innovation.
By exposing an API on the runtime?

No different from any other language.
RetroShare [0] does this, too, and covers many other communication needs (mailing, chatting, forum, etc.) while being p2p/decentralized/public-key-encrypted/open source.

[0] http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
In a recent discussion on higher education, someone posted a link to a RollingStone article (which I'm unable to find at the moment) that made a point that I think relates to what you're saying. In the early 80s, there was a fundamental shift in the way education was viewed in this country. Prior to this time period, education was something that was primarily intended as a benefit for society and government provided most of the funding with that understanding. After that time period, the perspective changed to one where an individual was investing in his or her future. Grants started to turn into loans and tuitions rose based on the future payouts that college graduates could expect when compared to less educated workforce.

And I think that new point of view is manifest in your observation. When one views an educated populace as a benefit to society, the kind of continuing education that you mention makes sense. When you take that more individualistic perspective, education that does not produce a monetary return on investment isn't valued and will be harder to come by. The actual education is of secondary concern to the degree that will increase your compensation going forward.
Eh, didn't work for me. I entered the number of my mobile phone and my landline, and neither rang.

I guess it's just an issue pertaining to Serbia (or maybe I'm doing something wrong?). No service works here unless they specifically mention they do. It's a frustrating thing :)
This is essentially correct as far as I understand things. There is epidemiological evidence that <=2 drinks per day for men and <=1 drink per day for women is associated with a reduced risk of mortality. However, keep in mind that it is pretty difficult to isolate someone's drinking habits from the rest of their lifestyle. Although controlling for various features of lifestyle is attempted, this is a fundamental limitation of an observational study.

As a physician I tell my patients that there may be a benefit from such very carefully controlled, modest drinking, but there is almost certainly a benefit from abstaining rather than over-drinking.

Alcohol overuse makes you look old (yes I will appeal to vanity); it suppresses your bone marrow and makes you anemic; it causes dilated cardiomyopathy; it destroys the liver in time and will make you gut dump fluid into your belly, causing you pain until you develop liver cancer or bleed into your throat and die; it causes its own form of brain wasting; etc. It is an extraordinarily dirty drug.

Most of these effects come from sustained heavy drinking, but many people can sustain this level of drinking and still be productive, so that is not a useful gauge of how heavy your drinking is.
Awesome! I do the layout "design" of the magazine and have been for about seven years. Doing something such as that and being able to find it at a Barnes and Noble is very rewarding in a different but similar was as creating a website and seeing people use it...
So those people will only get the feedback from the people who went on to use their knowledge. That sounds fair enough to me. :/
There's an OS X client for cmd.fm. It doens't run on the shell, it's a standalone app but it feels like command line
Ask HN: Was Dropbox a good idea that looked like a bad idea?
We've heard that the best ideas are good ideas that look like bad ideas initially. However, I'm pretty sure I always perceived Dropbox as a good idea ever since hearing about it on HN. Perhaps its because I never tried the alternatives or competitors or knew anything about the space.

Was there anyone serious who thought it was truly a bad idea in and of itself?
What's a good starting point for getting into building hardware like these startups do?
You are already free to use tor2web. However, if the downloader is exposed, that still puts the uploader at great risk because the link needs to be shared over a (likely less-secure) sidechannel.
Many of my most gifted employees, partners and colleagues are/were heavy drinkers (not alcoholics; I know those, but in other professions); I see a lot of programmers drink heavily simply to 'forget'. For many there simply are not a lot of ways to leave the problem solving of the day for the next day or, god forbid, over the weekend. The only way to lift it over a period is dope (or burnout) for them. I see it as a big issue but I don't know how normal it is; I would say very normal as I witnessed it in 100s of programmers, but that might be restricted to the regions (EU/RU) I mostly worked in. I can understand it though; I have been working for 13 hours today on a hard coding issue and in the end I found a bug in the solution. But that was 'enough' I thought and closed the laptop 4 hours ago. I cannot stop thinking about it and I just opened my computer to type this and solve the bug (It is 00:30 am sunday morning here). Booze would've let me forget. What ways are you all using to do that? I tried meditating which works but after that it just pops back.
Cool. Bookmarked.

As an English speaker in Germany this looks really useful.
I'm working on a website to help local DJ's find paying gigs.
It's at beathavenapp.com. There are solutions that DJ's use, but none of them are designed specifically with local musicians in mind.
> no doubt andreessen is smarter, both in raw intelligence and financial wisdom, than you or i or the next guy

Nope nope nope. Money does not make you instantly smarter than everyone else.

Not sure why this is my craw... but everytime I see andreessen mentioned I always end up thinking of the crazy "Snowden is a traitor" bit. ah well.
Exercise. You are focused on reps or breathing and you zone out. Really effective way to shift your focus and improves mental condition too.
Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
Just ran into this poll (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142) that was made 5 years ago. And I am very interested to see if anything has been changed.
Python / Django, etc.
Ruby / Rails, etc.
PHP / Symfony, etc.
Node.js / Hapi, etc.
Other / .NET, Spring, Play, Compojure, Dynamo, etc.
Good stuff. I might need to work with you to get mine working!
> And in a globalized economy, you don't want to develop the reputation of being the country that puts rich people in jail.

If they've broken the law and are found guilty, that's exactly what you want (rule of law, equality before the law and all that). Otherwise, I agree with you.
A price history guide for magic: the gathering cards (soon, other collectibles) at http://www.mtgprice.com

It's on app engine - something that was pretty horrible to start on but is much better now that I'm aware of most of the hidden constraints.
I meant not to fall into alcoholism/other addiction and depression.
OnionShare and Why It's Still So Hard to Share Files Directly
Even deferring feedback by a couple of years would make a difference - and as institutions that can afford long-term investments (my university, for instance, licenses some of its buildings to government on century leases,) it doesn't seem like there's any huge hurry.

Or perhaps restructuring their courses so that there's more practical work - perhaps working closely with companies in the area with internship schemes - to allow for more accurate in course feedback.

Or getting feedback from other teachers in the domain - that would be imperfect but I suspect might still be better than asking the students, assuming that the teachers were generally trustworthy folks.

Or doing, optional, follow up quizzes on the material taught... six months down the line and paying the students £20 each to do so - that would at least help to assess retained material (though not the worth of that material itself I suppose.)
Ok, I'll bite. This is a good post - I am negative on your ability to pull this off, but it's a worthwhile discussion to have IMO

* Totally anonymous (ie no metadata trail) communication seems impossible / impractical. If everywhere is the Tor then we massively increase traffic, (not to mention the trustworthiness of "everyone" is a lot lower per unit than everyone currently running a tor node)

Anyway, even if a encrypted anonymous message arrives for me, just working out who it's from without any metadata seems complex web of double decryption

I do struggle with how anonymity is going to solve all problems with totalitarian states. In the end we need to solve this in the real world of politics and execution squads so we don't mortally worry about letters or emails being read.

* there is a lot more here than my tired brain can handle - but my main concern is a simple human one

- if secure anonymous comms is "impossible", then I could see levels of secure encryption (sent from my iPhone, sent from my PC hardwired at home that has a secure USB boot on my key ring). But this idea demands that as the recipient I work hard to determine from context if the message is secure - aha it's 11pm in the UK and Adam just mailed me a secure note saying we should give everyone an Owl. Chances are high he is pissed and his mates sent it.

Once technology stops helping us make those decisions it's kind of pointless - May as well just keep sending clear text is not an irrational stance.

Be interested in the discussion in the morning - cheers

* lastly - what email client do you guys use that allows gpg on mobile?!

Edit: clean up
Hi, All our posts should be sourced to the original. I must have missed adding the source to that post. It's there now. Thanks you for pointing that out.
Apple, Google, Facebook subsidiaries, Samsung, etc.
Exactly. I actually edited the headline. Originally it read: "The NSA just posted its first full transparency report." (For the submission I added parentheses to "full.")

On another note, I wonder how many dissenting voices are present behind the doors of the NSA given the Snowden revelations // what the state of the workplace culture is.﻿
Creative Ways to Combat Writer’s Block
I found a bug in there: sometimes you'll get two of same person, and since they have the same ID, they'll act like they were the same image, so you can never complete the round onwards.
An account service network for developers: http://www.gowalli.com/

We connect freelance developers (and small shops) to a professional account service person (we're recruiting AS people from larger agencies to do some extra work) and help them with spec, contracts, billing, change requests, and on-going support.

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Agreed. That's also a good way and I do that too, actually today for an hour, but after the cooldown I want to still solve the issue today... Mind you ; I really love what I do and it's my work and hobby and passion, but sometimes I want to shut it off.
It does not look like retroShare uses tor however, or at least I could not find mention of it with a cursory search.
I would suspect suicide is a significant part of this figure. The fact this isn't mentioned is a worry.

Even the concept of singular occupant motor vehicular accidents(Drunk or not) are not quite what they necessarily seem.
This is spot on, but will require changes in how our economy is set up. In our current system, when those doctors have no money and no way to obtain it, they can't take advantage of the newly reduced prices on medical care, because they can't pay any price. As technology continues to eat jobs, millions of people will be out of work and have no way to obtain money. They can't buy anything, and eventually even the companies that put them out of work in the first place go out of business because they are the only ones with any money.

With smart planning, all of this should be OK. After all, the economy will be producing more than ever. But we have to embrace the idea that large-scale human unemployment will happen going forward, and adjust for that. Supply of human labor already dramatically exceeds demand for it, and that delta is rising fast.

I'm not sure what the answer is. I'm not an advocate of higher taxes or welfare programs, but there are going to have to be ways to obtain money other than traditional jobs if we are going to keep using it as a means of exchange. Smart economists need to be working on a solution - now.
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Yeah, it could be that both discovered the vulnerability independently. It's just that, from a timing perspective, Ludwig found it first, and provided explanations which where accessible and readable to all on the public board. It doesn't necessarily mean that Bailey read them and appropriate them.
The response to Dropbox was massive and overwhelmingly positive. Of course a few individuals tried to pick it apart. That's often just a sign people are excited about something. Bad ideas just get ignored.

It is true that some stupid investors were wary of Dropbox. There have been many failed sync and backup products. To the average Digg user it was clear as day that Dropbox was different.
This sounds very cool. If you're planning on open sourcing any and all of this I'd like to contribute
K-9 mail on Android. Not sure about iOS, but I have seen an implementation somewhere on code.google in the past (not sure of its current status).
Competition in the Crypto-Currency Market [pdf]
I tried to overlay this map with a map showing population density from Google Images and then normalize it with a division filter. I couldn’t find an map with a matching projection however. :(
I think of email like a postcard. It's addressed to me, but anyone can read it if they snoop in my mailbox. I don't expect it to be really secure, and I don't do anything that requires real security via email. Simple enough.
Going out with people who aren't in IT helps too. I too have had that problem of just wanting to stay until 05:00 to do something, but I tell myself that's not the effective way and go to bed regardless.

I don't know you, so I don't know what else to say. Just experiment - try mixing exercise with active social life and new experiences. Go skydive or something like that :)
Good article, I hadn't realized that the seemingly kind of sudden lack of hostility and conflict between Samsung and Google was pretty much all Pichai's doing. Before, Samsung seemed all but ready to do a full-strength push of their in-house OS and was using it primarily on their watches. Now, that seems to have fallen down to be more of a side project, and they seem to be going all-in on Android with their smart watches.

I think it's a huge win for the overall openness of the ecosystem to have everybody using the mostly-open Android rather then all develop their own in-house solutions because they're trying to hard to win points off of each other.
Yes, I said "seems to be" to suggest that it was my impression of the page, rather than a quote from it or whatever.

Part of that impression is that you can't really zoom in far enough to do anything super useful with it, so it's probably just to look at.
Hacking The Mindset
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We'd love any feedback the HN community has!
I have a distinct feeling that someone really tried to make the acronym spell "LSD".

Speaking of which, does anyone here know how acronyms are created at NASA? Is it by committee or does someone just make a name that kind of sticks?
I have a feeling there's some truth to this. Being just appealing enough for those interested but without too much else. Though the existing culture shapes HN more than anything else.