skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone tells you something is amazing and gives you the notion that it'll be better than a competitor's 'factory made' product then you'll enjoy it more. Not in the sense that you simply believe it's nicer, but in the cognitive brain chemistry sense that you will actually enjoy it more - different parts of your brain will light up on an MRI scan. Even if it's an identical product. Just telling someone that one bottle is better than another is enough to change how they'll react to it. It's a cognitive bias called expectation bias - what you expect to happen affects the result you get. It's one of the reasons why we do double-blind studies.

Of course, whether or not you consider that 'adding value' enough to sell to people or being fraudulent is a matter of opinion.
Agreed. Here I treat nearly all text as text and edit in vim. That's why I like how simple and readable Markdown is.

Having a different editor for different text documents seems redundant to me. However I'll admit my two exceptions are using Xamarin for C# and ADT for Android apps.
Melatonin is inhibited by light reaching the eyes. An eye mask might be enough. Speaking with regard to sleep, not cancer, I have to block any LEDs on things like battery chargers to sleep well. I despise the trend of putting blue power indicators on things used at night (I'm looking at you, Air-O-Swiss).
It's probably more than creating awareness for their dev services. From what I can see, they're rapidly increasing partnership efforts for their ad-based products (e.g. AdX integration). Could be a trojan-horse type of move to get in front of developers who will someday be serving ads to generate revenue.
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Marketers' 90-Day Countdown To Black Friday
I don't suppose anyone has, or know where to find, a generated pdf of the extensive Latex documentation? My own pdflatex skills are failing me. :/
The point is there seems to be different rules governing people who come from different positions or social classes in our society.
Has anyone read this book? What were your thoughts on it?
I don't see the "of course". There are plenty of people in the world who value blind obedience and from what you wrote it seemed you were one. If you're not, fair, but... be more clear about it. :P
I haven't read the code, but it looks like this is a bug, or at least superfluous
5 UX Mistakes That Will Make Your Visitors Click The ‘Back’ Button
Very interesting. Does it include A/B testing functionality, or can you integrate 3rd-party analytics and testing KISSMetrics, Optimizely, etc.?
All of the events are needed because developers need that granular control.

If you want simple, you're going to have to use a library, what you're basically asking for is for the HTML5 spec to emulate jQuery and cut out the options that you specifically don't need, which isn't reasonable.

http://www.html5tuts.co.uk/demos/drag/

Here is a very cool dragging demo using jQuery: http://threedubmedia.com/demo/drag/

If you have a solution to the HTML5 spec to simplify it then please write an article and we'll support it if it's reasonable and do our best to get it added to the spec (it won't be implemented into browsers for a few years though). Remember you have to support lots of use-cases, touchscreens, old browser support (unfortunate reality).

The only real complaint in the original linked-to article is about having too many events (they're not all required to be used), then it says that you have to add some CSS for it to work properly in Safari (sounds like Safari's problem, not the HTML5 spec's fault).
I'm startled to see extra-Earth modifications as objectionable. The universe is an endless landscape. The idea that the nearest available resources outside our ecosphere would be off-limits would effectively end human expansion. The moon and Mars are essentially dead, dry rocks, at least compared to any ecosystem on Earth (even the Antarctic).

In my view, its all sentiment. Saving a snail darter is demonstrably not worth the effort. The so-called 'ecosystem' we live in has been completely reformatted repeatedly by human intervention. And we're all still here. So its fragility is highly overstated.

And the intrinsic value of species is also overrated. Now that we're on the cusp of reinventing creatures through direct dna programming, native species become completely devalued. What does it matter which creatures happen to be occupying our planet when we came to a level of civilization? Its a coincidence; many more came before and went extinct, and we don't cry over them.

Just look at the artificial ecosystems we create - they aren't in and danger of collapsing - urban lawns, the vast corn crops of the bread basket, Phoenix. Clearly we're capable of rebuilding our own ecosystem, at least the rudiments of one. And we'll only get better at it.
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Consumer, yeah. B2B, not so much. The soft launch stuff is irrelevant (sounds made-up too). Marketing is an ongoing process. Those dudes need be thinking of a second campaign, instead of giving up once they see the churn after the hype.
I see. Posting it here to begin with was a classy move, but using the link is what makes it a bad look?
Bringing back FFmpeg is very important point to people like myself that need lots of tools for video/audio work. Building from source works... but why make life harder?
What about this[1] non-jQuery "old script"? Can we use it instead?

[1]: http://draggabilly.desandro.com/
http://goo.gl/GZ4P8m
So, if you, I dunno, cheated on her, and a friend who knew about it told her, then it would all be that friend's fault, right? People have weird ethics ...
> Web developers MUST NOT (in the sense of RFC 2119) use HTML 5 drag and drop. They should use old-school scripts instead.

As far as I remember if you do that (i.e. if you use mousedown, mouseover, etc and move your dragged element accordingly), the result won't be nearly as good as with "native" drag and drop, and you will see the dragged element lagging behind the cursor.
Is there a market for a mobile screen protector film that blocks the 460-480 nm spectra? How do you sell people on that science?
It’s not a break—it’s a return. So the stuff after the for-loop is unreachable.
Seems duplicitous to say the least.
ISchool Senior Develops App to Alert Israelis of Rocket Strikes
Found a comment on an article linked from the one above: http://kotaku.com/i-think-gabe-has-mentioned-this-before-man...

"I think Gabe has mentioned this before many times, he'd like to get rid of Greenlight to leave developers open to place their game on steam.

Then, users would curate the titles through their own customized storefront. This would drive word of mouth and generate free adverting for the companies that really on the steam digital store.

So think of it as following your favorite youtube channel/ store front because it has niche titles that are in line with what you like. You wouldn't have to dig for titles if that's not your thing.

This way, the devs of said niche title appears directly to its audience and yet still leaves the choice to the end user if they want to dig into the onslaught of new releases.

I really hope Gabe follows through on this idea because it keeps options open and doesn't give you a force fed walled garden that Sony, EA or MS is so dead set on controlling and manipulating end-users/devs with."
Circle's Allaire: Bitcoin is Good Money
Terraform saves partial state as it creates resources for these exact scenarios.

In your example, Terraform would create and save the ID of the server to state before going along to create the DNS record. If the DNS record failed to create for some external reason, the next `terraform apply` you ran would simply refresh the server and go on to create the DNS record.
Well, which is it more probable to to go unnoticed: a hack of the install script you fetch via http or an entire github commit infesting the software while it still lets it work as designed so no contributor notices?

It is not a problem with mojolicious at all. Its a nice helper that should be carefully used.
As it says on the app page "Pikinis is for everyone – men or women, straight, gay, or bi-sexual, human or vampire!". You are making it about sexism; surely shows in what types of categories you think about people.

Also, phones are not the greatest technology. Medicine is the greatest and even that is debatable. All other technology is just aimed at killing each other and shallow fun.
Yeah; that's a better way of putting it. rm -rf'ing my production box's hard drive shouldn't nuke the backups.
I suggest the NSA work is a big job creation scheme, there are a lot of contractors and vendors providing services and facilities to this (big) branch of the government. A lot of tax dollars are spent on this. And the effectiveness is questionable, because it's secret. We know big federal government IT Contract outsourcing failed to deliver Health Care Gov, I suspect there are a myriad of failed systems we're just not getting to hear about. I talk about cost to the tax payer.
Hyping Artificial Intelligence, Yet Again
I think he just meant they are paying 3:1
Cool Old Terminal – Awesome emulator
You can use GCE. If you embrace the cutting edge technique. You can try to deploy by docker. It seems deploying the docker image to Google is a good choice
Two Forms of Human Motivation: Gain And Prevent Pain
He's most likely using inside information from the NSA. This warrants an investigation and constant monitoring by DOJ (not that they'd actually do anything about it if they saw Alexander selling secret NSA information to companies).

As someone else was saying on Twitter - at least Snowden gave back the information to tax-payers for free. Keith Alexander is just trying to profit from it, and only giving it to a few elites.
Well, understand that the context matters. It's definitely something worth discussing! But whether it's a good look or a bad look depends on the discovery. If you'd found it from, say, Jezebel's critical preview versus a heck-yeah-sign-me-up announcement list, your audience could take it differently. :)
Yeah, the result of the sizeof operator always compiles to a constant. It may vary from system to system and compiler to compiler, but it's written into the executable as a constant.
This article makes me wonder what kind of impact my less-than-month-old screaming baby destroying my sleeping pattern entirely has had on my system.
That's the big problem I see with getting any significant number of people to use the service. Most people use cars to commute. An UberX driver is generally only going to be able to handle one person's commute, since most people commute at roughly the same time. Most of them won't find any work at other times, because demand is much lower. So for that to work out, most UberX drivers would effectively be one person's private chauffeur, and somehow this is supposed to be cheaper than owning a car yourself, even though you'd effectively be paying for your own car and a driver.

I'm sure it can scale up more than now, but how much farther?
Father Hires In-Game “Hitmen” To Deter Son From Playing
I would also see this as an opportunity for Google to increase the quality of apps entering the Android ecosystem.
In addition to the Snowden confirmation, there were some press leaks in 2012 that appear to have confirmed it earlier [1]. Apparently there's still some investigations going on within the U.S. government about who leaked it.

I'd say it's a pretty clear-cut case who was behind Stuxnet.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwa...
Blue2D – Fast and challenging game for Android
Hi guys! So today I'd like to present my new (and first) Android game. It's called Blue2D. The game mechanics are really simple. You are the blue ball and black balls fall from the sky. Each black ball you get scores 1 point. To get the black balls, press on the left side of the screen if the black ball is on your left, or on the right side if the black ball is on your right. There is a small tutorial on the beginning.
I've also implemented Play Games so you can compete with your friends and with the rest of the world, and also unlock some achievements.
Feedback / reviews are greatly appreciated and help me a lot.
Here's the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novikk.blue2d
There is some non-zero amount of luck involved in one of YC companies becoming huge. Do you think you have insights into which ones are more likely than not? given that you have pre-screened the companies to include strong founders, is there predictability above and beyond that initial screen?
That doesn't sound right at all. CEOs are more likely to be bound by noncompetes than line employees. Equally importantly, the noncompete of a CEO is much more likely to be enforceable. Contractual restrictions on competition probably become more onerous as economic status increases.
It is, isn't it? Did it help you with your decision-making?
The government never paid him a million dollars.
A $300M IT flop
Elon Musk The Future of Energy and Transport Shortened [video]
is there a reason that you are serving the site from a server and not from something like s3/cloundfront/etc?
That and sharing state with other windows is nearly impossible whereas HTML5 DnD makes multi-window stuff seamless. But I agree when he says that, as it is, HTML5 DnD is ridiculously difficult to implement properly.
>'I think it's a little more than an endorsement deal.

Sure.

He's quite educated, decorated, extremely experienced and I don't doubt there's legitimate product/services ready to be sold.

That's not really the question though.

It's how much distance there is between whatever the highly educated, experienced, pre-eminent security consultants not named Keith Alexander are paid and $1M per month. It's also a matter of who is willing to pay that much and why.
[blink-dev] Intent to Ship: Text Encoding API
"I have nothing to hide" is in this context synonymous with "I am not associated with wikileaks or any other know activist group able to anger the powerful" and "I am not journalist about to make government angry" and "I am not developing tor or some encryption tool" and "I am not defense layer in important case" and "I am not involved with occupy wall street" and so on.

The spying on commission investigating NSA was already revealed. "Nothing to hide" theory presumes NSA did it just for fun and had nothing to gain.

I have nothing to hide too. However, that is because I am not politically significant. The privacy and protection against agencies are not that needed for random Joe, however random Joe still benefits from fair democratic process even if he chosen not to be active. They are needed for politically active people not currently in power.

Or, imagine something like Petraeus scandal. Ability to see someones mails and ability whose browsing habits are about to become public knowledge is huge. Ability to see opposition or activists or defense lawyer plans can make huge difference even if they are not involved in anything illegal or unethical.
Any examples of all-javascript augmented reality using this yet? It seems like this could be done since feature detection is implemented.
A more realistic Uber vs. Car Ownership
This may be precisely what I, personally, needed for my web-app. I'll try it tonight and see how it works out, thanks for the link.
> Throughout the past six years, the project has been stuck in the beta phase. According to McKinsey, "for past 5 years, Release 1.0 is consistently projected to be 24-32 months away."
It's always the same for your compiler. Using sizeof improves the portability of the code. Because sizeof is calculated at compile time it doesn't make the code any less efficient.

We often think about pointers as being 4 bytes but that isn't necessarily the case. How would a 32 bit pointer map to the addressable memory of 64 bit hardware?
Your reply makes sense.

I just wanted to add that I think I see what the OP meant by "soft launch." I think the OP asked a good question, because most startup business guides say launch something minimal and iterate. Whereas, app-store gurus seem to place a heavy emphasis on the initial bump. (That is, they hint that you either succeed on the initial push or die.)

OP: Thanks for asking the question.
yeah i saw that, but they also mentioned this is a beta program and they're giving preferential treatment to teams nominated by their own developers. Might make sense to just wait it out.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-17/how-russian-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

Nope, they target anyone and everyone big. True, there are some DoD names on that list... but Nasdaq, Google, Yahoo, and Adobe are most decidedly not DoD companies.
Right, that's what I meant. Sorry about my phrasing.
Eliminate Work in Progress
I think it's just a lack of education, and it's not limited to the US, mind you. People seem to have this belief that credit is free money that they can delegate to the future. Since the detriment is deferred, people don't really examine it for face value. There's that, and most are really bad at visualizing debt.

I recently watched a documentary about the state of debt in the UK. It was quite shocking, normal regular people that got addicted to debt, and just spent, spent, and spent. Meanwhile, the banks kept rewarding their "debt" with higher limits and more fresh cards. These people took out ridiculous sums of money, sums that they need to spend probably decades paying off simply because their salaries are so low.
Yes, but I kind of assume that political activist does not keep his super secret emails on facebook.
Of course you need to be able to hide your political speech; people automatically temper their opinions to conform more with the group or choose to remain silent in situations where everyone's political speech is visible. Without the ability to keep cloistered political speech as a realm to discuss and test ideas without condemnation, the political speech landscape begins to look horrifically uniform and (inevitably, because they control the media) pro-state. To reiterate, if the state has the ability to spy and understand 100% of online political speech, people will self-censor their speech, preventing different ideas from propagating.

This is currently the case-- radical political ideas have been accompanied by state surveillance and attempts at discrediting for a long time, and the current crop of NSA totalitarianism is no different.
Things I Learned After My Photo Hit #1 on Reddit
> I wonder if it would be possible to decouple languages and analyzers?

I think it's technically possible, but it's a very hard problem.

> Would be nice if the PVS people had an option to validate something like an abstract syntax tree or a blob of bytecode...

Different languages demand different AST structures, and even different implementations of the same language might use different ASTs. Another problem with that approach is that languages can have wildly different semantics, and static analyzers are primarily focused on the semantics of program fragments.

It is possible to operate on bytecode. Findbugs[1] operates on Java bytecode, but it's intended for use on Java programs and I'm not entirely sure how well it works on Scala programs (I've never tried). Bytecode has similar issues as ASTs: bytecode instruction sets are usually designed specifically for implementing a particular language, and are often ill-suited as targets for other languages. I think this problem is more manageable than the AST problem.

Edit: forgot the Findbugs link

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindBugs
It's not clear that modern-day Greeks themselves are closely related to ancient Macedonians. Certainly some of today's Greeks are descended from the Greeks of that time, but they're descended from a hundred other peoples who at that time lived in a hundred other places as well. Just like those who live in Macedonia today. Just like people all over the Earth who have some Mediterranean heritage. (We can probably exclude the Inuits, Pygmies, Aborigines, etc.)

Your great-grandfather might not remember migrating from a thousand miles away, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen fifteen generations back.
Scripts based on mouse events also can't support drag-and-drop across sites or from non-browser applications, which HTML5 drag-and-drop supports.
I sometimes wonder about using any site--including HN. Facebook would be easy to give up(It actually makes me more
depressed, and the people I want on there left, or never joined.) HN is hard to give up.
If someone was using angular and wanted to use the native html5 drag and drop, I created a directive for it here https://github.com/ganarajpr/angular-dragdrop if you are interested.

There is documentation as well in here : http://ganarajpr.github.io/angular-dragdrop/

Having read the blog ( from top to end ) I kind of agree with some of the things that the author says. There are a few edge cases that we need to take care of if using native drag and drop. There is also the not-so-slight issue that it doesnt work on mobile browsers....
Whenever a company starts off by talking about patents, I suspect they are going to claim some trivial shit and troll everyone.
The stuff after the for-loop is reachable if the for-loop is never entered. You can consider it to be an if-block instead, with a return at the end.
"Further, this energy and computing power bound paradigm creates a dynamic such that, as economic activity in Bitcoin expands, it naturally drives humanity to find sources of energy efficiency, thereby aligning Bitcoin with our global need for sustainable, inexpensive energy sources."

I don't recall anyone making this point before, though no doubt someone has done.
I graded like this when I taught community college and most students hated it. What surprised me is that it was not enough for a student to get an "A" - they wanted better grades than the other students, like it was a competition.
I agree, I'm not buying a new laptop until it comes stock with 192GB of ram. Shame on Apple.
Android Flaw Leaves Millions of Phones Vulnerable
Is there an explanation for how adding these dams lowers water levels?
Flux user here. Its fantastic. Please try it!
new ycombinator idea! $200 is freaking expensive for a motorized drape system!
The future interface: Design to make technology human
So is BitMessage like alt.anonymous.messages on top of a blockchain?
Half the world doesn't have nuclear weapons, they seem to be doing just fine http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-weapon-free_zone
Orange Cocoons work, http://www.cocoonseyewear.com/sunwear/product.php?id=190
Facebook Self-XSS Scam Fools Users into Hacking Themselves
Seconded! RETS is a goddamn nightmare. For years we've used librets and it's the worst. When we found your Ruby-only library we got it working with our feeds within the day and I can't tell you how relieved we are not have to deal with librets compilation.
The NSA can (and does) use Facebook to mark you as a suspected terrorist and put you on a no-fly list. The NSA doesn't have the power to imprison you or seize your bank accounts without the help of a judge.
In today's digital age, I believe lots and lots of people will lose a lot of valuable information like photos because they don't have a good understanding of what backing up means.

I've warned my friend who is computer illiterate that he is risking losing his childrens' complete photo collection for their entire lives because he is only keeping a single copy of his data on his hard drive. This is probably the situation with millions of people in the US alone, and when that hard drive failure event happens, which will happen, then they will lose everything.
Ok, sure. I don't want to use disqus. Just one question.

What alternative do I have?

I can't afford to spend a lot of money. It's pointless to develop a comment system myself when it's a problem that has already been solved. Just the spam solution alone is a monstrous task.

I'll gladly not use Disqus if you offer one reasonable alternative.