skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sort of hyper-abbreviated writing has largely disappeared thanks to spell-check, predictive autocomplete, and so forth.

Emoji can certainly stand in for text, and I see plenty of comments and text messages that consist primarily of emoji. But just as often they will accompany text to add personality or mood the way ASCII smilies or textual kaomoji always have on bulletin boards.
Firefox falters, falls to record low in overall browser share
Oh the irony. Your emoji comes out as a blank square for me (Windows 7 - Opera 12)
I was disappointed they didn't include internal network latency variability like they did with disk performance. I've seen EC2 have wildly different network latencies at times, but haven't tried any of the other services.
Judging from this help page[1], you have to actually install Chrome Remote Desktop on the computer to be controlled - it won't just silently install.
How do you know what Comcast wants to charge Netflix for?

Did Netflix tell you?
You mean like this?

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
I agree about social networks having this disturbing tendency to elevate snark and hot air, but I don't think that's the fundamental reason.

My own two cents:

Music is dying because it's become bland. I love music, but only when it has... energy. I don't know how else to put it. It's got to call up intense emotion, intense imagery. It's got to have something to say.

It's also got to be compositionally interesting. Too much of today's music relies on heavy bass and catchy hooks to cover up the fact that it's kind of predictable and boring.

I look for new music often but little of it makes the cut. Of the music I buy, little of it stays in my playlist for that long. I just don't hear much energy in it.

To me it mirrors a broader and IMHO a little disheartening cultural trend: the death of counterculture. In the past 50-60 years in America various subcultures / countercultures were the dominant source for new, interesting art and expression. We had the beats, the hippies and various fellow travelers, punks, goths, ravers, and now... I'm not sure. I don't think it's just that I'm old. Even when those things were in their underground heyday, people outside still heard of them. I think if there were anything I'd have heard something about it but I don't see much. Hipsterism is all about being too cool to care about anything and that seems to be about it. The only other thing I see is this obnoxious neckbeardy Internet culture of cheezy snarky badly-drawn cartoons and memes, sort of like a cross between hipsterism and the comic book guy from the Simpsons... it's like hipsters but they don't get laid. Boooooring.
Information Fiduciary: Solution to Facebook digital gerrymandering
Others have covered why one might disabled JavaScript. Adding to the reasons why one shouldn't develop depending on JavaScript is clients using browsers that may depend upon a proxy server, e.g. Amazon Silk and Opera Mini. Pages loaded in these browsers may have only limited support for JavaScript.
Yup. When I discovered HN about 3 years ago, I read most of the posts and maybe some comments.

Now, it's opposite. I read a lot of comments and usually don't read the links themselves. From my experience, the value of the links decreases after some time as things inevitably start repeating. Not the same links, but the same ideas, concepts (not always, of course).

I view HN as a forum, where the title of the link is the topic for a thread.
They have observed correlation, but I don't think that warrants to interpret causality.

It could also be that freedom and democracy happen for some other reasons, and then later in a free and democratic society people will have less incentives to marry close relatives.
Hopefully this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Plan_(United...

http://www.fcc.gov/national-broadband-plan

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/connecting-america

It was tried before in the 90s but it failed. I don't know if there is another side to this story, but it looks like the telecommunications companies (Verizon and ATT) stole the money ($200 BILLION). http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm
The same could be said of the Ottoman Empire at the time of the Tanzimat; their desire for reform came from suffocating under an incredibly tangled administrative system and spending hundreds of years losing territory to their neighbors, not from an abstract desire to run things better.

Authoritarian regimes tend not to liberalize until they absolutely, positively have no other alternatives.
(I know this in one day old already, but...)

In case anyone else is wondering, frames 112 through 115 are exactly the same. Frames 125 and 127 differ only on focus (the invisible #ici element). Frame 129 is the same as 127.

I saved and ran diffs.
It's an example. It's the cost of the success that's the issue.

Financial crisis == moral hazard. And, come on! There's an economic theory that predicted the crisis, and explains it. I.e. ABCT (Austrian business cycle theory). My point being, it's not as clear cut when there's 'crony capitalism' and other market distortions.

'Free', as in freedom!

Everyone knows the 'free market' is made up of individuals. Or groups of individuals, such as a firm, which is formed to reduce transaction costs -- as per Coase's description in his Nobel winning (1991) The Nature of the Firm (1937).

Money is a medium of exchange. We use it to trade. And by definition: when people trade freely, they are both better off (otherwise they wouldn't trade!).

Money also has the functions of 1) store of wealth 2) unit of account. But that's by the by.

Problems are always going to occur, but because humans are motivated to solve the problems, solutions are found. And a profound way to facilitate such solutions is a market-based economy.
Ty. Now pls tell me what are the features for the SVM so I can replicate, thanx.
Google marketed themselves strongly as a promoter of the Open internet and gained credibility and support from the Tech community for this. They promoted it as one of their values.

Now that it's commercially convenient for them they have betrayed this value, and all of the people who gave them credit for it. That is why they deserve criticism.

Also, it should be pointed out that if Google works against an open internet, there will be little chance of saving it.

Apple on the other hand, has a different set of values. You can criticize them, but they haven't pretended to be something they are not.
"Doesn't seem that confusing to me."

Really? I've always thought of heteronyms as one of the most stand-out features of English that exemplify its confusing inconsistency. More so than the homophones, because it's harder to think of the "other" meanings if you've got the wrong pronunciation in your head.

In reference to the passage you quoted about diacritics, if only you had read as far as the next-but-one paragraph, you might have noticed: "Words that retain their accents often do so to help indicate pronunciation (e.g. frappé, naïve, soufflé), or to help distinguish them from an unaccented English word (e.g. exposé, résumé, rosé)."
The Entrepreneurial Pursuit of Happiness
Having both a color-unaware and color-aware versions can be really useful.

Printing for example would retain the meaning without a gray-scaled rendition losing the details to understand what the symbol might be. (This is just a guess, not an assertion that black-and-white symbols would be used in this context.)

From an accessibility standpoint, consider situations where high-contrast (and or size) is necessary, and it is perfectly legitimate to throw out or ignore the text and background colors for such users.

This solution seems to best satisfy comprehension needs for disabled users as well as printers--not that we need to print the bible translated to emoji any time soon.
No, we don't support AngularJS yet. Sourcegraph really only supports node.js (anything with package.json). It's on our todo list, though!
Jargon Alert - HITs (Human Intellegence Tasks) are simply the individual tasks (or units of work) that the worker is paid for completing.
I'm not sold on the design overall but there is nothing in principle wrong with representing data in both a imprecise and precise form. A lot of user interfaces do this.
Some have three layers.
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> I.e. the same as we had in the west a few decades to centuries ago. (See kings, dictators, et al.)

Yes and no. In 1215, the feudal barons of England rose up against the English king, and forced him, under the threat of violent rebellion . . . to sign a contract: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta.

Ostensibly medieval western kings were divine-right monarchs, but that characterization gives short shrift to the deep commitment to secular law. We think of western democracy as something that happened between the late 1700's and early 1800's, but it goes much further back.
Isn't even C pretty vulnerable to timing attacks? (I'm thinking primarily through things like L1/L2 cache effects, etc.)
I enjoyed this thorough breakdown of the different technologies. "Colorful typography on the web: get ready for multicolor fonts" http://www.pixelambacht.nl/2014/multicolor-fonts/

In particular, it expands on the details behind Adobe/Mozilla's SVG approach, as well as browser support.
You can have trustless namecoin without storing the blockchain, using techniques like SPV.
Colon already means block in Python, overloading it for type annotations (ala pascal) would make the parser more complex and less error tolerant. Besides it is inconsistent, you really want

def hello(name : string) : io String

The only reason they didn't do that is because colon also means block....
The Moment Neil Armstrong Is Assigned to Land on the Moon
>If some sort of back-to-the-land subsistence thing became popular among the youth

This won't become popular because it means accepting a drastic decline in living standards: you lose Internet access, public transportation, access to a variety of goods, the rural area you move to might have a corrupt government or an underfunded police department -- why do you think gun ownership is so popular in small towns? -- you experience a lot of social isolation, etc.

This idea that people should move "back to the land" can only originate from the deepest misanthropy and ignorance of the plight of the lower classes -- or perhaps the most starry-eyed technocratic utopianism, if you think that society can somehow provide poor people in disparate areas with a modern lifestyle -- and I'm not holding my breath. Of course, we could just kick poor people to the curb like this; it seems to be our policy already, city councils won't approve new housing for them, they won't approve the construction of a Wal-Mart, expansion of transit services is always opposed by a chorus of veiled racists, etc.
The Ariane incident shows that if you combine misuse of type checks and practice poor software engineering methodologies you can get failure, not that proper use of the type system wouldn't have prevented it.
I guess the adoption of HTML5 DRM didnt't "help" as much as they thought it would?
Yup, AWS uses this metric everywhere (TP99). If 1% of your requests take 1000% more time than everything else, then you need to optimize and ensure this doesn't screw everyone.

Here is a bit more info: http://codesith.blogspot.com/2012/06/tp99.html
Just an additional note that this is the first in a series of posts about the OCaml TLS stack. More are coming in the next few days [1].

[1] https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/257
Potato Salad Kickstarter Campaign Raises Over $53,000
I saw the title and thought, "But what about Amazon Smile?" XD

I can see that like Smile you can donate to pretty much every registered charity. I also assume the donations are made in Ziggedy's name?

Other than that, I love this kind of thing. It makes donations easier, it kind of makes it so you don't have any excuses not to use the service. :)
20 year old rapper from newyork
CA$H MOLLY 20 YEAR OLD ARTIST FROM HARLEM NEWYORK DROP A TRACK WITH A STRONG MESSAGE BEHIND CHECK DIS OUT
http://t.co/Cb2SDyUsNX
Then you should really update the frontpage to say 'node.js' instead of 'javascript' imo, it would have saved me the time of importing my repostitory.

Other than that: cool tool! :-)
True, but that is a manual process that most users don't know how to carry out. We need to make it easy for the masses to "punish" the terrible CAs. If you can put pressure on the bad CAs, they will at least try to get better.
/me grumbles about virtio-rng and reinventing ABIs ...
What did the HealthCare.gov site cost? ~$650M.

At least the messaging app would work!
Your point about incentives was so circular it wasn't worth addressing.
Is Dart a clear win over Javascript and something that would be desirable to have instead of Javascript? Should everyone support its adoption in other browsers?
Hope you have Haskell soon, I've wanted to do some analysis of occurrence of certain patterns.
At the minimum, hacker news needs an HTML overhaul. How am I supposed to apply user styles to the crazyness that HN's servers are spitting at me?
J.K. Rowling Reunites Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Gang for New Story
DigiNotar went bankrupt and had their cert removed from browsers after they tried to cover up a hack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
Thanks, but I disagree with the approach of only showing storage benchmarks with disabled caches. Production workloads will encounter variance between the providers thanks to different caches and behaviors of handling direct I/O. I'd include direct I/O results _with_ cached results, so that I wasn't misleading my customers.

I know what I'm suggesting is not the current norm for cloud evaluations. And I believe the current norm is wrong.

The more important question is how the benchmarks were analyzed -- what other tools were run to confirm that they measured what they were supposed to?
idle hands are s source of misery about anywhere in the world you look, whether they lead to violence or the obesity epidemic, people with little to do will rarely do well. Some take up self destructive habits and others are just waiting to be led by some charismatic character, of which very few are benign
It was marked dead pretty soon after I posted it, so I deleted it myself because I was afraid it somehow violated the rules.
The rule of thumb that most VCs seem to follow is that within 7 years, 10% of your investments will be successful, 30% will become self-sustaining but never really go anywhere (think acquihires or small acquisitions) and 60% will either fail outright or barely survive. But keep in mind that this is among companies that actually made it to VC; success rates for angel funded companies are much lower.
ISIS Mobile Payments startup to rebrand following violence in Iraq
If it really had that high a return, wouldn't they basically own the economy by now?
I want this thin grey body font trend to die. This blog is really not easily readable, and I have a high DPI display
This has been beaten to death on HN repeatedly, so searching for previous Dart articles will tell you a lot.

To sum it up, right now it compiles to JS, but it could eventually be integrated into Chrome proper, and eventually other browsers. The latter is unlikely for the short/mid-term, but may never happen at all.

Subjectively, it's a boring (which isn't a bad thing at all) but very productive stack. The optional static types are nice, and I like having so many batteries included. The syntax will be somewhat familiar to anyone using C#/Java/C++/Python. It most resembles C# to me.
> I would have thought the lazy semantics of Haskel would trip you up here.

Laziness doesn't come into it, since you won't even manage to compile your code, let alone run it, if you try to use a "Maybe FileHandle" when a "FileHandle" is expected.

With that said, laziness does cause problems related to file handles, but those have nothing to do with unhandled failures. The problem is that files are a limited resource which we should release as soon as possible (just like memory, sockets, etc.). Lazy evaluation is at odds with this, since it essentially defers function calls to the last possible moment. One way of thinking about it is that laziness is "call-by-need", but we never really need the return values of functions like "closeFile".
Good call. I just pushed that change. It should be up in a few minutes. I hope you find Sourcegraph useful once we support AngularJS! :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_%28psychology%29 at work?
Understanding SSL is already really hard. What is a user supposed to do with a warning about a valid cert from a questionable CA? The site is probably fine so you're mostly just teaching them to ignore SSL warning messages.
Exactly what I was thinking. Hipmunk does something like this for minimizing the pain of flying, which I always thought was a great idea.
One of the co-founders of Sourcegraph came to UC Berkeley and spoke at entrepreneurship event. He was very engaged and gave lots of real practical advice.

I've tried Sourcegraph and think it solves a real pain point but I have had problems integrating it into my workflow. I'm not sure when I should be using it. I've been meaning to use it to read more open source code code but it seems like they recently disabled support for Ruby.
Religion is born of culture, and serves in part to preserve it (and prevent it from changing). A culture that fosters violence will almost certainly develop a religion that fosters violence. Where there are religions prone to violence, it is a good bet that there is a culture that is prone to violence. A violent religion isn't the cause of violence, it's the a symptom of it.

When religions prone to violence are introduced to a culture that is not, the religion is often modified to be more in line with local customs. The opposite is also true; excuses for existing local violent or oppressive customs are found in their new religion.
We have the same list of registered charity as Amazon Smile too! And yes, the donation will be made in Ziggedy's name (same as Amazon, I believe).

However, if the charity want to claim an accout on Ziggedy and see who's helping with the donations, they will be able to do that too.
Thanks for the well thought out reply! The course layout you have written out is quite thorough. The only thing is that for someone who does not have any programming background, they need to see immediate results to gain an understanding of how powerful code is. That is why I thought Html/CSS is a good starting point and then go in deeper.

I am open to other methodologies, and we can talk more on email if you would like. Would love to exchange ideas and resources (email in profile)
Who benefits from climate reform? Rich People.
-people with beach front property.
-Green energy producers whose products are otherwise not economically viable.
-People with "green" businesses that can sell Rec credits.

Who is harmed? Poor people.
-Higher fuel prices
-Higher food prices (fuel is the big input, and warming creates more farmland-- think Canada and Siberia)
Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972632
Oauth2 Node.js example. You need it because its new and free
I think I addressed that in my comment. The article is a little about emoji, and I addressed that too.
It might just be my ancient setup, but I see that after signing up, the green box prompt is clipped. It reads "Almost finished...check your"

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

On CentOS 6.5 x86_64

(yeah, I know, embedded development workstation)
We've got all of the documentation (and source code) for all versions of Ruby, and all versions of all Ruby gems over at Omniref: http://www.omniref.com

Some examples:

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/symbols/Enumerable/sort_b...

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/sass/3.3.8

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/symbols/MiniTest

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/activerecord/4.1.1/symbols...

You can even build custom search engines for your project by uploading your project's Gemfile.
your comment is not constructive, that's not ok.

The current presented design doesn't seem to have or suggest at having any of your criticized elements. in fact what you're criticizing seems to be a hastily thrown together front end to a website that can host that one blogpost describing the HN redesign. Your comment is just an attack on the designer.
> I guess what I'm saying is that idle hands may just be the source of a lot of this misery.

This phenomenon has a name, the resource curse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse.

Note also, that having a resource-oriented economy tends to vastly overstate GDP. A dollar of exported crude oil counts as a dollar of "national income" but it's not income any more than selling off your furniture is income. You're just converting assets into cash. This phenomenon makes countries that derive their income from selling resources think they're richer than they really are.
Great post. This reminds me of Tim Ferriss' description of identifying good business ideas and / or approaches to learning new things (like languages). Three simple questions (which I've defined in terms of business, but they are broadly applicable):

1. Effective - will the business actually make money?

2. Adherence - is it a business you can stick with and commit to over the long haul?

3. Efficiency - will the business make you money in a way that uses time efficiently.

Listed in priority order. Great way of evaluating potential business ideas for me. #2 is particularly useful as a filter, as there are LOTS of ways to make money, but a much more limited set of ideas that you actually want to do long term.
What is the objective data to support that concept?
Chrome does the blank square as well, but it works in Firefox and IE. (win7)
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How to Manage OS X Notifications and Notification Center
I've read portions of volumes 1, 3 and 4A so I haven't finished the books.
The thing about these books is that while you can _Read_ them like any other book, reference or otherwise, what sets them apart are the questions at the end that have always been very thought provoking.

4A to me was the most useful - combinatorial algorithms, talking about generating trees, permutations et al. Reading it really cleared out some concepts that relate to sorting and searching. It's almost like someone condensed all known information about those algorithms (till the last 2-3 years) into one dense manual. (oh wait..)

There's no better time to read them than right now IMHO. And I don't think the right way to read them is volume wise. What I've done is to go through the table of contents and pick something that looks interesting, and chew on it for a bit. But to each their own.
Haha! Yeah... I think that's probably a compatibility issue with the older setup. I ran it on my Ubuntu 14.04 Chromium and Firefox (latest version) with no issues. Sorry!