skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never mind the price fixing, illegal hiring treaties, misuse of patents to stifle competition, the use of third world labor in terrible conditions, and more...

Again, they all suck. Trying to paint one as better than the other is pretty silly.
It sounds like they are, or at least they've submitted a pull request. Both the original dev and OP are on github (hence its eminently forkable) and work for Mozilla.
The “Perfect” Salary for Happiness, by State
Agreed! This is a killer feature for me. Would love to be able to disable Lion-style fullscreen across the board....
My use case for very frequent saving is holding on to pages for later reading when I don't have an Internet connection (at home, as it happens; or, what may be a more common use case, on planes or (some) trains)).
That is, in fact, a big ass fan.

Good to see truth in advertising.
A math interview riddle
I agree with the positivity. It is always easiest to critique and stick with the familiar.

Something we can quantitatively take away from the slur of new languages is that new languages are easier now than ever to create/implement. This should be a good thing. This means faster iteration can occur. Even if that iteration is not necessarily taking place, the creation of new languages verifies this ability.
People concerned by animal extinction should have supported space exploration and colonization. We would have gone to some other planet and left Earth to the animals.
Why not read the wiki and notice how Dmitry is trying different ideas for performance improvements? It started with memory optimizations but there are now many other little things like JIT regex.

It is all listed in the wiki and other ideas not attempted yet that might make it even faster.

Obviously not all code is going to be twice as fast, it is an average in a large program like wordpress. Some things more than twice as fast, some not so much.
How open source can solve Silicon Valley's engineering crisis
just added this as a option to a fog server
I can guarantee that if you spend $1000 on new PC today, you'll be able to run all games at console quality for at least next 3-4 years, almost all in the next five years, and then still most of the games beyond that range. You'll also be able to run any of the thousands of games that have already been released on PC, a feat no console is able to do.

I bought my PC 3 years ago for around that much (in country with higher import cost and higher sales tax, so it would cost 700-800 dollars in the US), and I encountered only a single game that refuses to run smoothly at all times (Mirrors Edge).
Mechanics seem... a little off.
Twitter now routinely auto-converts animated gifs into embeded web video.
Hacker News Simply Readable
It might depend on where you live. I took a recent trip through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and I noticed that Austrian street signs tended to use "Straße" while German and Swiss tended to use "Strasse".

OTOH it could also be just spending priorities of updating street signs vs. other things.

I knew nothing about the phasing-out of ß until reading the comments on this article.
Or the localised CSV formats. Yes, they actually localised a file format. Insanity.
What's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" doing there?
The compose window of Outlook is WinWord.

I believe up to 2003 this was an option that was not enabled by default too.
Well then the project manager should have argued back and said, Hey Bill, I know you're the boss, but you're mistaken about this. This completely breaks the convention from the rest of our programs and therefore the expected behavior within our ecosystem. And then laid out several additional good reasons why Ctrl-F is logically Find, not Forward, and asked him to deal with the inconvenience.

Perhaps Bill would have fired them, but if he's as smart as people say he is he would've been convinced by a good counterargument.
With the exception of #3, the USAF doesn't want to do any of that. The USAF has from the start believed that it can bomb an enemy into submission through strategic bombing. There is some truth to this idea but I can't recall any major war where this has worked by itself without boots on the ground. Given that, the USAF must continue to perform #1 and #2. It's kind of unsettling that the USAF continues to want to neglect the less glamorous but vital roles.
While you shouldn't have been downvoted, you also shouldn't complain about it. "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. " ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That said, while both you and ircmaxell (who is a commenter on the article's page and very involved in the PHP community) can be a bit terse when making assertions it doesn't make you wrong. I can't possibly see this being labeled 5.x and the 6.x major version number is inseparably bound to the 5-year-old vaporware.
Ask HN: Best translation services
I'm looking to translate my website, iOS app, and iTunes copy. Luckily, I'm already set up with internationalization -- just need someone to actually translate.

Anyone have any recommendations? Obviously, I'm looking for high quality and a low price.
The web is more than a brochure
I've tried many vertical tabs add-ons for Firefox, but, sadly, none are at the point where I can use them consistently. Some issues that I had:

- interface buttons disappeared: new tab, tab groups
- bugs when reordering tabs
- looked out of place/ugly even with the default theme

That said, this is a sufficient hindrance for me daily that I'm considering learning add-on development to be able to fix these issues in those add-ons or create my own.

One thing that I'd love to have is the ability to reverse the order of the tabs and place the buttons at the top of the vertical tab bar instead of the bottom. I'm surprised that it isn't an option in any of the ones I tried: having the new tab button near the menu button would be a big usability improvement for me (I use the vertical tab bar on the right).
> I'm personally waiting for my refrigerator to detect my food inventory, and auto-order grocery delivery once a week

I imagined this as well, and it would be pretty cool (although I actually enjoy grocery shopping).

As you say, it's still a long way off. In addition to Internet connectivity and an API, fruit/vegetables/meat and all other refrigerated items would need some kind of tracking label (RFID perhaps) so that the refrigerator could automatically track levels. Scheduling delivery of refrigerated food might also be an issue (I'm not sure how existing online grocery delivery services handle this), as I don't want my dairy items sitting on my hot doorstep all day waiting for me to get home from work.

This could be extended to pantry food items as well.
> I'd suggest the even more pertinent question to ask is: Who still voluntarily uses Outlook?

In corporate environment Exchange/Outlook is an awesome tool for e-mail, instant messaging, calendar, contacts, booking resources, etc.
>It also runs counter to the purpose of patents: patents are originally a time-limited and governmentally defended monopoly on an invention to encourage its full publication[0] and ultimately the progress and improvement of society as a whole

I don't see how that's counter at all. If you accept that the inventor has a right to that temporary monopoly, how could you not accept that they have the right to sell it, in return for the present value of the innovation, to someone else?

You would need to make some argument about how the mere fact of a non-inventor holding it, even after buying it from the inventor, and doing the exact things an optimally informed inventor would do, defeats the goals you outline, and you haven't done so. (I really can't imagine what such an argument would look like, either.)

You're absolutely correct that litigation over trivial, independently-reinvented stuff does run contrary to the purpose of patents, but that's a separate issue from whether inventors should be able to transfer the rights to a litigation specialist -- not every inventor is good in the courtroom, nor should we expect them to be.
Thank you - could not remember the term
Except the FAA already paid for an exclusive in the "premium bandwidth for government agencies" category. To get in, they have to pay double the normal premium rate.
Looks great, but I spent forever trying to figure out why clicking the tiles didn't do anything.
I finally found that touching the tiles works.

I'm on a windows 8 touchscreen laptop, running the latest version of chrome.
"How do we frame this so we can still screw the public on behalf of our lobbyist paymasters?"

Takes time to figure that out.
Similarly,

"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow."

-Craig Bruce
Interactive online Rust debugger
Yup, offline mode is definitely a big area of focus for us. Regarding the tag, I’m not sure what the protocol is for these things, but since it wasn’t used for a clear product/project/topic, we figured it was as good a destination as any, since we’d prefer to let everybody benefit from answers we may give to support questions, via SO.

I’m drafting something to dive deeper into the video now; anything in particular you’d like us to dive into?
AFAIK, Chrome extensions don't go through a review process. SmoothGestures was just one extension that got a new developer and then started submitting every visited url to their servers.
The site is down, but you can speak to a human by calling +1 (888) 225-5322, then pressing 1, 4, 0.
I think it's one of those roles startups don't know they need until it's a little too late.
The Effect of Superbowl Ads on Box Office Revenues for Movies [pdf]
Web Inspector – An extension for Chrome to easily inspect the Web
I created this extension because many people (mainly designers) asked me before if they could get the font family used on a certain website, or if it was possible to get the URL for a background image, among others. Usually to solve this problem I would use the developer tools provided by the browser and give them the information they needed. The problem is that I couldn't tell them how to get this information because the developer tools are not intuitive for regular users, so I had to keep doing it all the time.<p>Since I was curious to know how Chrome extensions work I decided to create Web Inspector and now I'm curious to know what people think of it. Give it a try if you have time please. If you are a developer and you are curious about the implementation, on the extension page you will also find a URL for the Github project.<p>Thank you for your time ;)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-inspector/enibedkmbpadhfofcgjcphipflcbpelf?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
It's a brilliant idea, a location based hook-up app that uses GPS to locate potential hires. Build it now, Linkedin/Monster would pay a tidy sum.
Join your chamber of commerce. Go to the meetings. Offer to do a talk: 'what you need to know about the web'.
They claim that they match in-store prices: https://support.google.com/shoppingexpress/answer/4559805?hl...

Essentially, you're paying them to go to the store and pick up the item for you.
Online video streaming: common issues (Participate in research)
Recent discussion on this topic:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=electric+shock#!/story/past_month/...
In case you haven't done so, do submit a comment. It's easy to be cynical about its impact, but this is currently the official way of making your voice heard.
Let me try: selling it does nothing to promote its development and deployment. In fact just the opposite, especially when sold to a 'litigation specialist'.
> A company that technically produces a product implementing a patent, but nonetheless engages in trollish tactics still qualifies as a troll.

That's certainly possible in principle, but it would be pretty stupid. One big advantage an NPE has in litigation is that it can't effectively be counter-sued: it has no business against which an injunction can be issued, and (if set up as a shell company, as trolls generally are) it has no assets that can be levied against. Furthermore, since it's not operating a business, it is exceedingly unlikely to be (even arguably) infringing any patents owned by its victims.

For a company producing a product to expose itself to the risk of countersuit by trolling would be idiotic, particularly as it's completely unnecessary -- all it has to do is spin off a shell company.
Saving the Coffee Industry by Running It Like Silicon Valley
I dealt with this BS during a brief stint with Straight Talk Wireless when I was between regular carriers. I was trying to port my number from Straight Talk to Ting (a wonderful Sprint MVNO) and my account ended up in limbo. Every time I called, I asked to be escalated to the next level of support, and every time I was told that there wasn't a next level, that Tier 1 was it. I pushed it every time, and ended up with a "supervisor" who also read from the prompts, but in a slightly more understandable accent.

I finally got Supervisor Number Three to understand what was going on, and he gave me an entirely different phone number to call, which ended up being their corporate office in India. After talking to three different people there (again, "escalating" laterally) I ended up with someone who claimed to be the director of support, and she was able to unlock my account and allow the port to complete. She said that she had never seen a situation like that before, and assured me that if I ever came back to Straight Talk I wouldn't see this issue again, as they would "fix the porting process" to enable their Tier 1 staff to push the port through.

This entire process took three days of calling from my wife's phone, since mine was in limbo and unusable on either service, and probably shaved several months off my lifespan due to the stress and anxiety over the whole thing. One thing is for sure, I will never, ever use Straight Talk again, I don't care if someone gives me a $600 Straight Talk-compatible phone.

In comparison, on Ting, I call their support line and within three rings I have a real person who has full access to my account and can do pretty much anything I need to with it. Just out of curiosity, I asked a Ting rep how the cancellation process goes if I wanted to go to another carrier, and he said they would help me make the transition as smooth as possible, and would hate to see me go but he wouldn't want to hold me back if another carrier offered better coverage or rates.

Comcast, Straight Talk, and other service companies could learn a lot from them.
Where are you located? My company is currently working to improve our marketing, and it would help a lot to have someone who can both set marketing strategy and implement it, instead of just one or the other.
Happy Place tackles this "study": http://happyplace.someecards.com/stop-sharing-this-crap/a-re...
Hmm down voted eh BTW I had my boss a director of a global 500 subsidiary say exactly the same thing to me.
Audio: Comcast rep refuses to disconnect service
I wonder if you could sell that debt to a collections agency.(I don't know how things work in the UK.)

I'd like to hear the electric meter story, too.
Yeah SDWebImage is one of my favourites of the others too. If we'd stumbled onto it earlier we might have ended up using it.

Though ultimately it turned out well to just build the bare basics and only add on little bits as needed. We ended up with something very slim and maintainable, and haven't yet felt like we're missing out on features.

Does depend what your requirements are though.
How does this MozJPEG 2.0 encoding compare to JPEGMini? I've been using JPEGMini for all client projects, it results in optimized JPEGs that work on all platforms with minute differences, rarely visible to the naked eye, only when I subtract pre/post in Photoshop. Very rarely does it save less than 5% and for larger images (saved with PhotoShop, save for web) often 15-30% or even more.

Is the test set of images available?
Yeah, probably too overarching, but it depends on what you are doing. For example, are you "getting by" on your notebook parallel compiling 1m+ LoC C++ projects? Probably not.
I'm actually a little proud of democracy today.

Even cynical old me :-)
I don't see any other option beside 1) building the UI in code again 2) break it up into separate storyboards.

The lesson is never to use a storyboard unless your app is a simple collection of screens with a navigation controller.
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While the content highlights modern restaurant visits ([EDIT] or maybe not), this website highlights modern "journalism".

A headline followed by a "share on facebook" button then a "context" paragraph a stock photo then a massive block quote. Finally there is a "via" link at the bottom telling you where they got it from. Which is: http://news.distractify.com/culture/craigslist-surveillance-... by the way. That page then says the source is: https://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/4562386373.html which seems to be on its way to the virtual dustbin.

Pretty bloody ridiculous.
isnt this the story of pretty much every Apple product?
Would be cool to see an Arm Asm course for iPhone developers. And they might pay for such a course too! ;-)
First off, Google includes some non-chain stores like Palo Alto Toy & Sport (which I've bought plenty from).

My concern about locality, even with chain stores, is that my money is shifting from say, the San Jose Walgreens near me and instead going to the one up the peninsula that actually fulfills the order - at some inflection point, if GSX takes off, does that mean less stores?
There's a critical difference. Although the cloud and the IoT both began with buzzwords and vaporware, the cloud had clear and compelling potential benefits for customers from the start.

For every "cloud," there are many overhyped technologies that went nowhere, despite industry's best efforts to thrust them upon us.
Very few people have the job flexibility that many of us here on HN have. This may be the best-paying job available to this person, or the only job they were able to get that they can effectively travel to -- regardless, given the unpleasant nature of the work, it's unreasonable to assume that they meaningfully "chose" the job without additional evidence.
An "automated" service that talks for you:

"I want to cancel my service!"
"I want to cancel my service!"
"I want to cancel my service!"
"There are so many comments against this, it would look bad if we went through with it anyway."

"I know! Generate a bunch of fake comments in favor of the change, and it will look like we made a hard decision instead of blatantly spurning the public!"

"Great idea! But it will take a couple days to generate them and comments close tomorrow, so we'll have to fake an outage as well to give ourselves time."
A better alternative to Rust and Go
Does the number of comments really change anything? Not criticizing just wondering. This seems like a letter-writing campaign without the added inconvenience of an office full of paper.
It's a personal preference, but I think the term "growth hacker" is fairly silly. It sound like an unskilled oncologist.
I stock up on bulky and non refrigerated items from Costco through GSX. Paper towels, cases of Mexican Coke, cereals and snacks, shampoo, and whatnot. It's doubly better that I can use my 2% back Costco membership and get Costco coupon book deals too - like the Frozen bluray for $15-ish the other month.

I'd easily pay $3-400/year plus delivery fees to get perishables and alcohol too. I don't use Postmates for this because I don't know what's available at the store, and Amazon is okay but the pricing isn't the best. Instacart is the closest to GSX in terms of convenience but then I can't use my membership, which is a bummer.
Steven Colbert On Vessyl Digital Cup [video]
Commons backs emergency data laws despite criticism
If you could make this automatically sync to a backend database, that would be amazing. It would be great to have the hard bits solved for us.
I'd love deeper info about "we don’t require deserialization to get objects out of the file", but that might be somewhere in the documentation. I'm assuming you're faster than SQLite, so a demo showing those side by side might be a good selling point too.
EFF: House is attempting to sneak anti-net neutrality language into budget bill
"Looking forward to the day when I no longer have to curse myself for forgetting to start the dishwasher when I'm away from home."

Is that a tech prediction, or an optimistic view of your future mental health ?
Yikes.

I tried both Speakeasy (now MegaPath) DSL and ClearWire WiMax. They sucked. The 10mbps DSLs downstream sometimes reached up to 200kbps. The TCP/IP behind the WiMax would regularly disappear for hours.

For each, I called to get the RMA (to send their gear back), cancel service, and then I immediately canceled the credit card on file.

Both then sent me to collections. I tried contesting the bills. "Sorry, we don't have any record of you canceling." (You'd think possession of the modems would be a clue.)

Neither have sent these bills to a credit rating agency (e.g. Transunion, Experian), so I've ignored them.
CoreData is not as stable as advertised. If you use it simply it works. However advanced use will quickly discover sharp edges. I devote a non-trivial amount of code managing objects between contexts and there are still FRC bugs. (e.g. sorted update.)

And it's all closed source.
[PHD Comics] Will professors pass turing test?
that is a great thing, would love to see that. Thanks for sharing.
Sure, but you're not going to hurt the Death Star by screaming at one of the welders and insulting him. How does that help anything?
The Bat! Is what I used on Windows back in the days .. nostalgia
Wow - this looks really great! As someone who has struggled with Core Data in the past, the API looks great and things seem, on the whole, a lot cleaner. Looking forward to giving it a go.

EDIT: I just came across the REST API / JSON import section in the documentation - really cool stuff!!
For Power Supplies what is "80Plus Bronze"?

Why isn't the Power listed in the on hover dropdown?
Perhaps an Internet-connected thermostat is something I need to try to fully appreciate.

No doubt the costs will come down, and capabilities will increase. And as costs and capabilities increase, potential for innovation will increase.

But it would feel much more compelling if they had a strong application out of the gate (perhaps its networked thermostats). It would benefit from some initial momentum. Industry seems to be taking a "if we build it, they will come" approach, but this often doesn't work out in reality.
Would it shock you if I told you you can hook it up behind or under your living room TV, use a wireless mouse/kb/remote and use xbox controllers?
i hope they don't have "fast lane" for the "fast lane" proponents' comments (donations, etc...)