skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To understand what's wrong with emacs pretend that you are a new user that doesn't know emacs, but is familiar with editors in browsers, and other places ordinary people use.

When you start to use emacs everything will be wrong, the few shortcuts you know such as ctrl-c/v/x/z/f will do strange things, scrolling won't move text smoothly like other programs but will jump several lines always keeping first line exactly aligned, so you feel lost all the time.
When you select something and scroll emacs will destroy the selection and keep cursor in viewport (i am still not sure if this is a feature, or just a glaring bug that no one cares to fix).

Now you try sublime and it is beautiful! It comes with beautiful theme, beautiful chrome-like tabs (they even scroll!), fantastic smooth scrolling, pretty minimap that helps you see whole document at once, built in fuzzy search, and easily configurable plugins.

Why would you even try learning emacs where you constantly feel lost, instead of sublime which makes you feel powerful?

> I don't see anything this editor does that emacs can't do.

in short it's not only important to do something, but do it with style;)
Don't give discounts because that devalues your own product, and says that not even you believe the service is wroth what you are charging.
I've had a half a dozen or so musician friends receive an O-1 to be in the states though not a single hacker friend.
You do realize, of course, that exact same argument goes for a lot of QUILTBAG folks, right?

What happened to Eich should be considered at best an embarrassment to the otherwise progressive image of folks seeking sexual respect--at worst, it's a fine example of the same sort of bigotry they've fought against themselves, in some ways justifying many of the petty accusations made against their ilk.

It was not a good time to be an ally in tech.
> The solution in a nutshell? A man (or all humans) have got to know their limits.

But if you look at animal or plant (or bacteria) species, they absolutely don't do this. They just grow to whatever the current capacity of the world is (meaning they would immediately choose the "low sustainability option you present).

This is despite the fact that most non-human species are most definitely living in a world that is being filled close to capacity.

So the argument to this solution is that it's not possible. It's not a Nash equilibrium and any set of humans that picks an option like that will simply die through natural selection, and this will not result in increased sustainability at all.
Using HTML5 enables the operating system to be very lean and it requires less memory consumption.

This claim is deeply suspect.
Maybe there was an earlier release I missed but this report looks to be the first to show the extent of the call record data being collected. SIM, IMEI, Lat/Lng and more. Logged for every American, every day, all since 2007. And now shared outside of the military context it was gathered and authorized under to civilian agencies.

It's possible the program has been reigned in since these slides were authored but that seems unlikely.
Thanks! Just FYI, this statement is now seriously out of date. We've done an enormous amount of performance work since the comparison document was written, and performance is now back to normal. Once we get some scientific graphs to back up anecdotal evidence, we'll update this part of the doc.
I'll risk more downvotes, I guess, what the heck.

Here are the main differences I see: the power dynamic at play, the scale of the effort, and the availability of concrete proof of action.

The Hollywood Blacklist was an attempt by studios and directors and some in the US government (those in power) to ban those underneath them based on, largely, unfounded allegations of Communist sympathies. It also had anti-union motivations, but I might be wrong? It took down dozens of actors, directors, and producers. No concrete "anti-American" actions were proven (that I know of).

Brendan Eich stepped down after his customers (and some of his employees) found proof that he'd donated to a cause supporting Prop 8, a piece of legislation that would have removed previously granted rights to homosexuals trying to marry. The donation was a specific action that Eich took that his customers disagreed with.

I think the power dynamic is the telling one. Oligarchic vs. grassroots, etc.
In what way were the revelations underwhelming? For me overwhelming is their ability to coerce companies and their willingness to do so, in spite of the potential for a loss of trust in US companies. Sometimes such maneuvers can have a big cost long term - I can imagine at least governments switching software, hardware or services to more local providers. I mean, think about backdoors - you may trust the NSA, but if backdoors exist, it is only a matter of time before they get discovered by other parties. Countries now also have the ultimate argument for the balkanization of the Internet. This can't be good and all of this distinction between US citizens and foreigners doesn't mean anything for foreigners.
I think it's appropriate to cover in a discussion about the merits - and limitations - of a proof of concept. I believe it's an appropriate counterpoint to "it's not going to break anything" as the discussion opens up to GCs in general, although that quote was likely meant only in the context of the proof of concept.
To learn something well you need to practice it and can't just copy and paste. I think that copying-and-pasting by typing isn't that much better though. It would be better to solve challenges and the like so that you really need to think.

My question is maybe professional programmers aren't as interested in doing 'assigned' challenges and would rather apply what they learn to their own projects. Though I still think there's still a large market for more interactive professional training.
Fuck'em and post'em, is what I say. Just try to make sure that, if you're going to get flamed, it's a post you'd be proud getting flamed for.

They can only downvote you once per post (though the admins and mods may hellban/slowban you if you are enough of a gadfly).
his support of a political position

The problem is his support was for an anti-human rights issue, not just another "either side has valid points" political argument.
>Running a a drug friendly "festival" and a state (as in the United States) are two completely different realities

Right. I mean, a hippy-esque musical festival is going to draw in all sorts of non-violent potheads. How about the south side of Chicago? Do you think Kosmic Care is going to handle gangbangers on meth?

Heck, here in Chicago during Lollapalooza, a man bit two people and injured them. It is reported that he was on drugs:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/attacker-bites-man-on...

“In describing it to the police later, they said ‘We never see cases like that where the attacker isn’t on PCP, or bath salts, or something like that,” Lenet said. “There’s no way a normal person could have sustained that much punishment, and just walked away.”

The problem with the pro-legalization crowd is that we don't have any consistency. Some of us just want pot legalized but most of the movement seems to have this pie-in-the-sky view of legalizing just about everything. I'm afraid that we have two extremists groups: "no drugs" vs "all drugs" and per usual sane moderate voices are drowned out.

I just don't believe a "one size fits all" mentality will work here. I just don't think we should legalize drugs that are physically addictive like heroin, PCP, meth, etc.
Not as much processor power, but depending on if/how it communicates over USB, it might make a useful addition to a pi. There's no 3G on it though. I wonder if it can be used (possibly with tweaks) as a GSM/SIP gateway? If so, with Asterix builds already available on the Pi, this would make a cheap and powerful homebrew premicell.
Where does he advocate cross-party unity? He criticizes blind partisanship, and there are plenty of better alternatives to that besides just melding the two major parties into one.

Paradoxically, the current situation of extreme partisanship is close to a single unified party. The parties choose small wedge issues to fight over, and the rest is generally untouched. I won't go so far as to say "both parties are the same", but the differences aren't huge. Health care reform is a big wedge issue right now, and the two sides basically boil down to tweaking the dial on just how much private sector involvement there should be. Foreign policy is portrayed as a big divide, but the two parties seem to just switch sides on that depending on which one has the Presidency. There's no place in a major party for someone who wants to vote on the basis of getting out of the Global War on Terror, or for drug legalization, or single-payer health care, or many other such things.

Right now, the parties don't have to actually compete very much. Most people have chosen a side and stick with it no matter what. If we can get away from the idea that the other side is evil, that would increase the competition between them, not decrease it.
Live updates were implemented with listening to MongoDB replication log back on 0.7.0: https://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/12/17/meteor-070-scalable-d...
This is a much more efficient way to get updates from the database and it also scales horizontally to multiple application servers (and multiple MongoDB replicas!)

If you are curious how it works, this talk is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dzX_LEbZyI
I've been using ST3 for some time off and on, and never had any issue. I just download it from http://www.sublimetext.com/3
Except by way of überadmin USB drives?
UPD: not going for this, checked reviews at http://prov.telekomza.ru/providers/sankt-peterburg/rosteleko... (there're some quite funny ones, not sure if auto-translators can convey the humor though)
I'm in class and can't watch a video... would be nice to have it explained in text
char is "cuh-harr"
bool is "bowl"
int is "aint"
string is "strinog"
Matplotlib 1.4 is released
For the life of me, I'm sure it is (or at least it was) 15 days. And yes, printing it while on your trip can be a major nuisance (happened to me once; it was not a nuisance for me on that trip, but depending on where you are, yes it can be).
A site focused on UX shouldn't hijack my back button.
Sorry, my work pc doesn't have sound so I can't hear the actual video. Does this track sites other than Amazon, or is that just the demo? Also, is there an estimate on the pricing for the premium service?

Overall, I think it looks pretty clean. But I would probably add just a bit more information on the main page. I see it's mostly in the video, but it would be nice to get pricing details, description of exactly what things you can track, etc..

Good job though :)
<h1> is "Harrybo's plums"
For me it doesn't work in Firefox 24 ESR, but it does work in Chrome.
Here's a business case for how this could be useful and why I'm going to try it.

I operate a string of ~60 local businesses that have physical storefronts.

On average each store has 5 local competitors.

Our customers are VERY price sensitive - they will almost always call the "lowest price" guy in the area first.

As a result we currently have a duct-tape system to monitor competitor pricing and tweak ours as fast as possible.

MonitorBook would be a potentially much simpler mechanism to orchestrate this.

If the MB team is reading this drop me a line and we'd be a potentially great case study / early adopter.

Things that would have to work to make this usable long-term:

a) API so we could pull this data into our pricing algo.

b) Clear error-checking confidence - if a site we're monitoring changes their code / display and we miss it, we'd have to go back to duct-tape which is sloppy and labor intensive, but reliable.
obviously we'll keep their identity confidential.

if we were concerned about PR damage, we'd handle this a very different way. just want to help if possible. you should see some of the flames we send our portfolio companies when they do something wrong :)
I disagree.

The strict definition of bigotry is viewing other groups with suspicion, hatred, whatever. So, yes, I'm okay with being bigoted against people who kick puppies.

I think the more meaningful definition of bigotry within the context of social equality is an expression of power that flows from those with power to those without it. In this case, the one with power (rich white guy) trying to remove previously granted rights from marginalized folks (gays wanting to get married).

The fact that the rich white guy, in this case, was the newly minted CEO of a corporation that strives to bring "Internet equality" added a spice of irony to the whole thing.
I had something like this on my back burner for years called Sitebeagle. It's command-line only. Glad these guys took the initiative to build something way more robust. It'll be great for tracking 1 day deals, seeing if somebody's logged in somewhere, and getting alerts for when band tickets go on sale. The possibilities are endless.
This sort of already exists in the form of RISC OS Pico:
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico

(You don't have to buy it, just download the zip.)

A bare-bones version of RISC OS with the GUI desktop stripped out, leaving only the command line ("supervisor") prompt, and ARM BASIC V, which is arguably still the most featureful version of BASIC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC#Acorn_Archimedes_.28...

A unique feature of ARM BASIC is the presence of an inline assembler allowing users to write ARM assembly language programs. The assembler is fully integrated into the BASIC interpreter and shares variables with it, which can be included between the [ and ] characters, saved via ★SAVE and ★LOAD, and called via the CALL or USR commands. This allows developers to write not just assembly language code, but also BASIC code to emit assembly language, making it possible to use code-generation techniques and even write simple compilers in BASIC.
The point is that "the state" will just come back. You can't get rid of it permanently.
The U.S. DoD is banned from accessing firstlook.org (among others) from government-owned computers. In fact a memo was sent explicitly permitting DoD members from accessing these websites from personally-owned systems.

There is a memo from a few years ago that prohibited accessing Wikileaks from personally-owned computers, but the order was rescinded.
functions:
printf - "printuff"
putc - "POOTIS"
putchar - "POOTISSPENCER"
malloc - "MAH LUCK"
How do you overcome an injury?
Learning Hack: The Pomodoro Technique
How Finer-Grained Metrics Helped Us Uncover a Code Bug
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It's a RasPi with GSM, Bluetooth and WiFi, for $33. Pretty sweet for embedded projects!
And yet both are meant to stifle/punish dissenting political opinions. Are the only differences really who is doing the stifling and how flimsy their evidence is?
Why do I have to create a new account for this site? I have Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc; consider using one of those site and OAuth to provide a more frictionless experience for first-time users, especially considering your site requires me to come back X days later to really see it work. My $0.02...
Do they deliver to the US?

edit: It doesn't look like they do, and it appears to be exclusive to snapdeal.
What are they "discriminating" on? If it's not race, sex, or some other protected category, then what's the problem? The salaries may be based on something that you just don't feel is important, but the hiring managers do. Or the offers might have been based on what the hires were earning elsewhere or what competitive offers they had.

EDIT: OK, I now see you're alleging sex discrimination. Would've been easier if you'd just said that directly. So, the question is, what makes you so sure? If you think your work is worth just as much as your co-worker, why not ask for a raise?
I had hope for my way too long and boring gopro videos...
Agreed. The Spring support helps a lot though. But there's no question that OSGi is one of the final big xml holdouts in Java-land.
Service architecture should reflect good code architecture. One example of this is hierarchical design: if service A calls service B, B should not call A. There's some extraordinary use cases for violating this within a component, but I haven't seen a good use case for violating this at a library or service level.
http://blog.semilshah.com/2014/08/25/ios-first-android-much-...
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Supports Comcast/TWC Merger
I know why it's not being discussed. It's because US citizens have been trained by the parties to think that anybody with a different view is a bad person you can't even talk to without getting angry.

This is not good for a healthy democracy.
That's an interesting approach to cohesion. Historical updates certainly seem an underused resource.

For me, though, both coupling and cohesion have become a little ... muddled ... http://edmundkirwan.com/general/c-and-c.html
I just tested GlassWire with OpenVPN on Windows 7 64-bit. I get an instant bluescreen as soon as the GlassWire driver is installed and started and OpenVPN is connected. The order doesn't matter, as soon as both applications are active, boom. Please investigate. I had to manually remove the driver, because the bluescreen occurred during installation and corrupted the deinstallation routine.
I've been consistently removing people from my facebook and twitter feed who disagree with me. Not because I don't want to hear their opinions, but because when I voice mine in response they are generally offended (I was usually just pointing out factual omissions). I needed to remove the temptation to engage with anyone in my social network who was prone to anti-intellectual discussions.
From the Times review:

"The phone needs constant connectivity to the internet, which could be a downer."

Indeed. Especially due to:
(1) affordability of data to the targeted segment
(2) choked networks (I'm looking at you, Mumbai)
(3) non-existent networks
(4) weird 'in country' roaming that bundles don't transfer across, sometimes even within states (Mumbai, Pune)

I've lived in India for a few years, and travelled in relatively rural local trains during the morning commute. There are lots of cheap Chinese Androids and some Samsungs too. The connectivity was intermittent and lots of people like doing stuff on their phones on the train, especially the more tech-inclined folks.
Source: Comcast's propaganda on the merger: http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/more-support-pou...
There are enough players in this area: Sprig, Munchery, Grubhub, Seamless, Caviar, etc. etc. What is Uber bringing to the table?
I'm not aware of anything, but if someone else has some input I'd love to hear about it. FWIW, I believe Amazon does have an affiliate api that lets you search through the catalog. Same with Ebay, Alibaba, and most of the major companies. The only one I can think of that doesn't is Craigslist.
If your target audience is HN users, consider this comment. However, I've found in my analytics that most users don't care about the type of login.

You can't please everyone. If a website has only username and password, there's a complaint. If a website only has OAuth, there's a complaint.
This Man Has Nothing to Hide – Not Even His Email Password
Customers of softcover.io

The idea is that Softcover's customers are the authors, much like WordPress's customers are bloggers. Purchasers of an author's products should notice the Softcover name only incidentally. We want to help authors build their own brands.

will the "powered by softcover" banner/footer be required for authors publishing on their own domain?

No, authors can optionally remove the footer.
I'd like to see Jon sign up for something like Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/

As near as I can tell, they would qualify as a creator, the signup process is fast and easy, and with Sublime's massive user community, it would probably give them a nice little revenue stream on the side. Patreon seems like a good way to extract money on a regular basis from people who actively want to give it to you. One of the webcomics I follow daily, Questionable Content, is currently pulling down $9,000+/month from Patreon support alone: http://www.patreon.com/jephjacques (HUGE as webcomic revenue usually goes).

I'd pledge like $10/month just to get regular monthly software updates. Hell, I'd pay $5/month just for regular monthly blog updates on he's been working on, and there'd be absolutely zero downside to his writing a blog update once a month.
Really helps a whole lot because the wrong recipient can't read the email you sent encrypted "before transport".
The arbitrary number rule very specifically calls out list type posts:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

The $15,000 doesn't seem to qualify.

That being said, you could certainly qualify it as linkbait, but why just take out the number? The simile is ruined, and the title just sounds stupid now. If you're going to edit it to make it not linkbait, change it to something like:

Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app

Certainly you can moderate how you see fit, just thought I'd offer my 2 cents. I get annoyed when I come back to the same article I've already read with a different title so the inconsistency is frustrating sometimes. Sometimes arguably better titles get changed to match the source, and then when (someone else decides) the source has a bad title we change that too...
Free book at Hacker News some months ago
This is kind of awkward, but several months ago here at the top of Hacker News stories was a link to a free book. I remember that in the book were examples written in two languages (one of them was python), and that book was about smth like data mining or smth similar. Can you help to find it?
To make sure, you'd need to find out the previous salaries as well as the current salaries. Maybe the disparity was already present in the salaries from previous jobs.

The problem with startups is that the sample rate is too low to draw statistically significant conclusions. For larger companies, it's easier to detect trends of discrimination.

That being said, if it was me, and if you had already decided to quit, I would first send a formal email to all the founders, co-founders, HR and hiring managers, explaining your suspicion as politely and fairly as possible, and asking for an explanation. It still won't end well (which is ok, you are quitting anyway), but at least you give the other side a chance to either explain or rectify the situation.