skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are old enough to miss the mechanical "click", you will love http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/

The are pricey but worth every penny; you can buy 5-6 MS natural ergonomics 4000 for the price of one.
"Databases is one of the major problems of our age, and cause of software being so difficult to get right."

Strange. I think of databases as one of the bright spots in computing. They are very closely related to real business needs, and do a good job for the most part.

MS Access was great because it also had a form builder and it could all work over a network[1]. That means you could get a small business organized around a database easily and incrementally.

Now, we have to actually program to make that happen (e.g. rails, django, etc.) and design the forms with text rather than graphically. That's a big step backward for the technical non-programmers (e.g. accountants, HR professionals, etc.).

Of course, I'm always willing to hear new ideas. If you think you have the answer, please share (and/or start a startup).

Disclaimer: I have been heavily involved with databases from many perspectives (user, application developer, DBA, internals hacker). So, it's not a surprise that I think databases are great.

[1] Yes, the networking was a disaster from a technical standpoint. But that's an implementation issue, not a fundamental problem.
I tried something similar in my last organisation using millions of social media profiles : check out http://whatsinmyname.prokta.com
Building Geo-Tracking Apps With AngularJS, Ionic and REST API
There was the other example, and then The Omni Group distributed a "Key Gen" for their own software that would enable Pro or unlock their free apps for people who had already purchased the app outside the ecosystem. Apple shut that down too.
According to the job listings they're okay with PhD-less systems/network guys.
The Easiest Way to Set Up Amazon Cloudfront in WordPress with W3 Total Cache
From Pen And Paper To 3-D, Look Who's Challenging Google Maps
There really is encouraging progress being made in this area (early prediction of AD) in several different fields. I know of several different groups who are using imaging instead of blood tests to predict conversion of MCI to AD as well. A lot of it is using the data being collected by ADNI:

http://www.adni-info.org
Well, this is not back for us: our repositories are corrupted...
Interested concept and attractive presentation at the top, but it doesn't make sense to present a "redesign" in a scaled 720px image.
Uhm for me says a lot about design when the website can't be even read http://i.imgur.com/vzDeQuW.png
Elixir vs. Ruby Showdown – Phoenix vs. Rails
First recommendation: read The Lead Startup - it's great for guidance on building a minimum viable product and basing feature releases around what you know about your users.

Your roadmap should ultimately be based on what you learn from your users and what will build the product, not what you think will bring in more users.

Should if you have any specific questions - @paulnrogers
Freshome Facebook Page Hacked, Page Verified asked to take ownership
Yeah the main paragraph text is definitely too thin/faint on OS X Chrome even. It was bugging me too so I simply stopped reading after a few paragraphs.
I don't know how brilliant the OS X font rendering must be, but this font is 1px thick when zoomed to 300%. How is this supposed to work?

Doesn't work on OS X either.

http://i.imgur.com/J4Avl0Q.png?1
Next Hackers Camp 18 19 20 July 2014 in Corsica
It looks like what you might imagine phases of a moon to look like if the moon was a square.
That's not really investing in human labor as an asset because you don't own the labor, you rent it in much the same way as the end purchaser, you just provide a value-add in terms of matching buyers to sellers. Particularly, nothing stops labor suppliers that you are purchasing from from trying to sell their labor directly and from abandoning your service when they succeed in doing so.

There's actually quite a lot of law (starting with -- and largely tieing into -- the prohibition of slavery, but this also includes things like limitations on non-compete agreements, restriction on requiring specific performance in contracts, etc.) that limits the ability of capital owners to invest in "human labor", other than their own, as an asset -- as that amounts to owning other people (or, at least, their ability to produce economically-valuable output, which largely amounts to the same thing.)
How long did the design take?
You won't fail. I worked through the How to Write Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language ebook. I made some toy languages and put them on Github (https://github.com/mattgreen/learning-language-design/tree/m...).

It's so much fun!
I didnt get any results for this query:
https://www.pennywhale.com/app/queries/execute?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
The article confirms that it left the Heliosphere at Augst 2012. Nobody was sure before, some people are sure now. But I'll bet some still aren't, so we'll probably read about it again.

Also, if you plan to wait it to live the Oort Cloud, you'd beter invest some time pushing up cryogenics or imortality.
Since I got my PhD (math, with background in CS, startups), the only job inquiry I've made is to First Look. I wish I had an in there. Their job page is rather vague. I realize they're growing quickly.
Red Hat, Joyent, and others break down licensing barriers
I guess the major benefit is for people who do not actually have alzheimers being falsely diagnosed, but early detection doesn't help in any way for people who do have it, right? I'm not sure I'd want to know until it was unavoidable.
Is this just for startups that raised a round? Or in general, how do they are ranked?
Well, Linux is now the most commonly used general purpose OS/kernel in the world. Every Android device, every Chromebook device (plus all the regular desktops and servers).

I can't help but feel that part of Android and Chromebook's success is in part due to the users not understanding/having-to-know they're running Linux. Android and Chromebook don't even mention Linux anywhere, and users are content. I think regular Joe's have a stigma about Linux, and just abstracting that aspect away has helped adoption.
that's a good point. It's impossible to measure the effect of this on the Voyagers because they still constantly fire attitude control thrusters to align themselves to earth. The noise on the speed from those firings is too much to distinguish solar radiation pressure.
I feel like there is a new wave of interest for native compiled language. C++ is still horribly complicated language it has always been, but with the arrival of C++11 we have better standardized tooling for writing concurrent, functional style programs.
What I meant was that the talks were about computational biology.
I didn't read that the same way as you, though it's hard to tell what they're saying. My first thought was that means they traced Finfisher installations to 25 countries. Those might be command and control centers for 25 distinct countries, or one. And they might or might not be the countries where the server's were located.
Just a little more whitespace would help.
Build 721.00.3
The mitigation strategy falls short of current best practices.

> if possible use a dedicated sandbox domain.

It's 2014. You don't have to use JSONP and open up your domain to XSS; just use standard and safe XHR with CORS[1]. Every major browser has supported it for years, and for very old browsers that don't support CORS (IE 8), I wrote pmxdr[2] five years ago.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_con...

[2]: https://github.com/eligrey/pmxdr
Gartner says Windows Phone to hit 10% market share in 2018. In what universe?
Exception Handling in an AngularJS Web Application (Tutorial)
Design Talks: Karolis from Dragdis
For the most part, the quirks are consistent, though.

I mean, it's not intuitively consistent, but basically there are navigation controls with or without having a selection cursor on the main screen (which is usually where the difference is, since navigation and some of the selection keys overlap).

If you look through the keybindings, there are "move selector / cursor" options and then secondary options for all of those, and that's more or less what they map to.
Newfound Frozen World Proves Earth-like Planet can Form in Binary Star System
Why don't they want their ex employees to disclose that they worked there? I can understand a government intelligence unit demanding that, but why would a hedge fund put such a restriction?

Plus they way you describe, any body who can get in there- Putnam winners, top Math PhD's probably already have better offers.
Show HN: Wynno – Filter the noise out of your Twitter feed
Still very early stage, so we're working on collecting more data. Meanwhile, you can inspect sales growth on the financials - ex. 'Income statement for $TSLA'. If you're interested, shoot me an email at jay@pennywhale.com we'd love to make you a free premium account.
I kinda figured they used a variety of forensic data to identify where an attack originated, not just the IP address. Or am I misreading your comment?
Thanks so much for that, just installed it and loving it! Always found HN a little difficult to read.
no, what gp is saying is "i'll never be usain bolt so why would i ever want to be a runner?"
If you're going to redesign the site, please make it mobile friendly. I frequently read items on my iPhone using apps like Pulse and Feedly. The current implementation is far from ideal and could use some significant work.
And what is art?

"The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination,... to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power:" - New Oxford American Dictionary

So then one could say that art is simply the human expression of beauty.

So, if someone doesn't find any beauty if the work of Taylor Swift, perhaps she's not an artist to them. Not that absurd considering beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Hey will; took about 2 days to get the site designed
The History Behind the Science of Stress
Show HN: How I made a World Cup iOS and Android Meteor App
I played a bit of the Walking Dead. It was well done, but seemed more of a limited-action RPG than a puzzle/adventure game that LucasArts and Sierra were known for.
Threat Modeling for Marketing Campaigns: Hackers vs. Growth Hackers
You say "Discover Promising Startups", but your link sorts by an arbitrary score descending, making it show successful existing startups only.
The fact that screen-readers try to make sense out of JS-heavy pages does not mean that blind users wouldn't benefit if there were no JS between them and the text they want to hear.
Yeah, this was my biggest issue--especially in the side-by-sides, it is just so much easier to read the text on the old site, black on orange. The white-on-orange thing in the navbar is terrible.

I know that the only people these days browsing HN are nutropic-fed paleo startup bros that are killing it when they're not in the box, but for some of us fat C++ neckbeards with bad vision many web design trends are pretty inconvenient.

EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes...now my post is similar in font to the proposed design. :(
Java 8 does more type-system work to help with the same unlike its previous versions.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/java8-option...
C++ makes maintaining ABI compatibility quite difficult, so in practice libraries with a C++ interface tend to default to requiring that anyway.
Ah, a careless omission on my part. What I meant to say was:

Fans and followers will make one an artist, not art alone.

The creation of art is a necessary, but not sufficient requirement to becoming a successful modern artist. For that, you need art and fans, both of which TSwift has in abundance.
> This is the flaw in the Scala implementation of type-classes.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
I wonder where this myth comes from ...
"native attributes are largely myth..."

No, no they aren't. At all. A simple glance around a crowded room shows this to be the case.

And if it were true, little girls and grandmas could successfully join the NBA if they just had enough determination. People who had been in the computer industry longer would be the billionaires since they had more experience rather than it being someone in their 20's.

(I'm not saying practice and experience aren't important).
Note, the reason why there some features in 5.1 that are not in 5.0 is that there are some features not implemented yet, 5.0 only includes implemented features.
Dropbox vs Apple vs Microsoft in online storage
Yeah its probably way less than 2%
I am pretty disappointed with our name handling also. I was helping an Iraqi move to the US, and someone translated his name as Hogar instead of Hoger on one document, and it cost him a few months. As far as he was concerned his name doesn't have any english letters in it, so Hogar and Hoger are just about the same.
For much of the time I've been employed full-time (you can find my resume in the footer of http://shazow.net/), which made maintaining open source stuff that much harder. I've saved up money and reduced expenses to allow myself to take time to work on other things.

Some of my projects are bringing in money, but not enough to cover my living expenses. Occasionally I'll take on a contract.
As others have stated, that's all done as libraries in Haskell in a variety of ways.

I'd be interested in knowing how the order of the combined effect types are resolved in Koka, though. For instance, in `<io, ndet>` the ndet effect will end up conducting a search. How do the (observable) io side effects get woven into that search? In particular, how does Koka know the proper ordering?

In Haskell, you'd be forced to eventually declare an order to your monad stack (although most functions can be agnostic to the particular choice). So in this instance, you would write `LogicT IO a` to indicate that the non-determinism gets resolved first while most functions would be of the form `(MonadIO m, MonadLogic m) => m a` where the parenthesized set of constraints is unordered.
I will try that! Thanks!
Actually they can measure this with great precision. Consider how they were able to isolate the "Pioneer Anomaly" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly), an extremely tiny amount of deceleration caused by radiation from the reactor.

If they can measure the drag caused by radiation, you can bet they can account for solar effects.

Also worth noting: The thrusters are fired very infrequently. According to that page, the Voyager missions required constant adjustments but the Pioneer system is spin stabilized.
Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers
Yes, of course.

Isn't it conceivable that the government would implement a similarly short-sighted (and ineffectual) policy if Bitcoins were seriously used to harm the US? :-P
Sierra was notorious for making games that had to be solved in just the right way. LSL1-3, for example, you would come to a dead end if you didn't pick up some item early on. How would you know to pick up that item? Or even that you were missing an item? You wouldn't. They were still incredibly fun, though.
Wow this looks great! Congratulations on launch.
It should be possible to figure out their methods. Besides, it'll be a lot of fun.

Is there a data dump somewhere of Medallion's trades over time? Since the stock market is public, that means we could treat their investment engine as a black box, and try to reverse engineer their engine by looking at the decisions it makes over time. We should pay careful attention to how it performed leading up to the 2008 crash, since that reveals how their engine performs in adverse conditions, which might indicate what underlying metrics their engine is using.
Samsung, Intel, Dell team on Internet of Things connectivity standards
I'd expect a loss of productivity from using OpenOffice that far exceeds the cost of Microsoft Office, plus ongoing losses in productivity as staff try to cope with its incompatibilities with complex Office documents that probably arrive on a daily basis.

However, staff productivity is not generally a major concern in local government offices, as far as I can tell. Maybe Munich is different, but I doubt it...
The Worst Days in a Founder/CEO's Professional Life
I don't know, do Asian males typically have difficulty engaging in CS content?
Now banks want the ability to declare cyber-war
They are not publicly advocating for net neutrality, at least not to the degree that they were during the 2010 fight.
To bad most Belgian companies move immediatly because of The high taxes.

EG. Drupal moved.. That would probably a top 3 company :-)
fixed, sorry :)
Yeah, the Prelude in Haskell has a lot of warts.

Interestingly, if you use some of the Template Haskell derivations for lenses you get this record-of-sum optionality resolved at least partly.
Eh, seriously?

"By 2030, the benefits of these three sets of sector policies would include 94,000 premature deaths avoided annually and GDP growth of $1.8 trillion-$2.6 trillion per year," according to the report. "The policies would avoid 8.5 gigatons of CO2-equivalent and almost 16 billion kilowatt-hours of energy saved, roughly equivalent to taking 2 billion cars off the road. Together, these implementing these policies could represent about 30 percent of the total reduction needed in 2030 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius."

http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/10643/world-bank-climate...
I agree about the point/comment ratio. The Y-meter is useful, though, at a glance when I'm looking at 25 stories on a big screen. So... just put the points inside the Y-meter!
I did the same thing as my first query and I assumed you needed login for everything and gave up. I suspect you will bounce traffic if it's not obvious what's premium.
> font-weight: 200;

Don't do that.
It's not Potato Salad, but I'm proud to have met my humble goal
I like it -- it's certainly better than what we have.

You will catch a lot of flak, because everyone has their own opinion. A significant amount of people read HN with Lynx but will still comment on your design.

There are, however, some nuggets of truth buried in even the most abusive criticism so try to focus on that, and not the negativity.
Tinder-Meets-Secret-Meets-Flirting Game GetYou Pulls In $1.1M Seed
Thanks for the heads-up.
I'll check it out in a more detailed way.
> If his general point is to bring computing to more people, I think a modern, web-based version of MS Access would be a huge step. Everyone needs databases. Everyone needs forms to access them in a way that makes sense for their business. Right now you have to actually program to make that happen.

Most real world MS Access databases needed all of tables, forms, and behavior that required code. Online graphical tools for building the tables and forms components might be useful, but its not going to stop you from needing code for behavior.

That being said, something like Access for the web would be great. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
You clearly do not understand physical and mental capacity required to complete BUD/S and SQT nor have you ever meet a current or former Tier 1 operator. Navy SEALs are not only some of the most physically talent people on Earth, but also some of the smartest. 100-110 of the most physically fit, determined folks you'll ever meet start BUD/S every quarter, and only 10-20 graduate -- easily more difficult to land a position as an operator than almost any job you can imagine.
That site hasn't changed in at least 6 months. https://web.archive.org/web/20131201061152/https://www.googl...
Chrome 35.0.1916.153 m.
Font is barely readable. Far too thin.
Manifold learning and generalized SVM is one component.
Is AOL is spending more on net neutrality lobbying than Google?

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/lobbyists-net-neutrality-fc...

If only there was a convenient place where Google could show advertisements in favor of net neutrality..
I think you picked a great way to present this -- the strategy between how and where (HN specific) is great. I love when designers can think this way.

Kudos, and good luck. I hope PG himself, or someone from YC, contacts you :)
That's exactly the problem. Because Pioneer was spin-stabilized, it didn't need to fire thrusters, so the noise wasn't there and the anomaly could be measured. Voyagers aren't spin-stabilized, so they have to fire thrusters quite frequently. That makes it impossible to measure a small enough effect on them.
Who’s your predator?
Tips for finding Rails blogs at your level
Bump, maybe something is "looking."
I've been reading a little bit of it every day. The quality of the writing is top notch, so I can actually ready it just for fun. I'm still on the first volume, and plan to be for a while. I definitely get lost on the mathier parts of it, but for the most part I can follow along, and I'd consider myself on the advanced side of intermediate.
I can't help but worry this is because Google knows how much a "fast lane" could help it. They've got the cash to deliver their product at super speeds and get a leg up on everybody else who doesn't.
And anyone who's passed by any of the construction sites and seen the big "Peery - Arrillaga" banners
Don't treat those as personal names, then. Expose the bank's interface to your user. If the bank is asking for "first and last name", then say, "the bank is asking for your first and last name; what do you wish us to tell them?"
John Resig shares funny YCombinator rejection letter
I think the rational is more like "You can't win the Tour De France, so stop worrying about that goal because it's essentially unattainable, and do something ambitious-but-achievable instead."
Black text on orange was never great, so I'm with you on the white text in the header.

Overall, way too much orange going on. Y Meter is a good concept, but I think it detracts from the title of the post too much (being orange and all).

Are you going to do more versions?
Unfortunately: http://blog.algolia.com/jsonp-still-mandatory/
That big empty square in the middle of the point meter would be a perfect place for the comment count to go. That way it would be communicating both the rank and activity in one place. Having it flushed right makes it a chore for your eyes to correlate which article has which comments.
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Getting it right by betting on wrong
It is?!

Where's the source code? Their GitHub page is rather sparse, and the only hint I've found is this tweet:

https://twitter.com/hackpad/status/407651583598813184
Second to last paragraph.

Well put.

If only every company could be so humble/honest in their rejection letters.
Spark Labs Raises $4.9 Million For An Internet Of Things OS
Facebook’s algorithm – why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are right
This is a very important story, which I heard on the radio while driving yesterday. Most of what we think we know about stress and its effects on health, and especially about "Type A personality" and health, is skewed by how the research programs were developed in the 1950s through the 1970s. Various forms of adverse environmental influences that can be categorized as "stress" do have general health effects, but not all stress is bad at all levels of stress, and sometimes stress co-occurs with other influences on health that are actually more important than stress itself.

A free article on the Pub Med Central website, "The 'Father of Stress' Meets 'Big Tobacco': Hans Selye and the Tobacco Industry," Am J Public Health. 2011 March; 101(3): 411–418.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036703/

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.177634

tells more of the background discovered by health researchers digging into the trove of tobacco industry documents that were disclosed as part of the tobacco industry settlement with state governments in 1998.