skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alien Blue is simply the best, there is no replacement for it (so far). I was able to find sidebar rather quickly, when I wanted to look at it. Maybe most of your visitors just doesn't care enough about a sidebar? :-) (Also, such an arrow would be confusing imho, because it would suggest it is for entering the subreddit. Sidebar is reachable from the context menu, and that is sufficient.)
There's also hyper (https://github.com/hyperium/hyper), a native Rust HTTP implementation I am working on.
No corruption at all, none, not for years:

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/343871/Corruption-co...
>exactly, protecting monopoly as such a limit has nothing to do with consumer safety.

There's other reasons to want that. Congestion control is one of them. No comment on the validity of such a fear, though
I remember being a big fan of Shutter, though some time ago, I switched to ScreenCloud ( https://screencloud.net/ ), for its ease in automatic instantly sharing.
I'm glad Marijuana overdoses decreased.
...and coffee! Coffee is the elephant in the room. Caffeine is the worlds the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug. It doesn't cause much harm because it's normally used in low doses.

I admit I am addicted to the stuff, and find it hard to quit.
I didn't know Google as a startup that needed showcasing on HN.
Right, I see where we misunderstood each other. You're talking about conclusions she reached that are debatable - and, indeed, debated rather a lot. I also disagree with some of them, but don't feel that qualifies her as a liar, just someone with whom I don't agree on everything. Possibly even someone that sometimes uses hyperbole to make her points. I'm most likely guilty of the same sin myself and don't begrudge her this stylistic shortcut.

I was talking about, for example, accusations that:
- she made the threats up
- she was the author of some of the threats
- she never actually did report the threats to the police

These lies have either been debunked (the police report was produced, for example) or "proved" by nothing stronger than "it stands to reason", which I read as "there is no proof and never will be".

We do not necessarily disagree on your points, just on whether that makes her a liar. Facts tend to show that, on average, she's much less of a liar than the people who attack her.
What? A media-hub with NO wired ethernet? How am I supposed to take that seriously?

I don't care about what people saying about wifi having gotten "better". By every single measurable criteria, it is slower, is less reliable, has lower capacity and higher latency than wired gigabit ethernet and I doubt that will change anytime soon.

I demand wired ethernet on my devices, and I know a bunch of other who do too.
I think this is actually a rather good feature, although it does mean that there is more of a need to check facebook when a disaster is occurring... ad infinitum
Ask HN: Must-have Vim Plugins for JavaScript Dev
I'm trying to setup Vim for JS/Node development but there seem to be so many different plugins that I just don't know where to start. Are there any Must-Have Plugins for a minimal setup? Some standard plugins?
Ken, this is an amazing day. I don't believe I have ever agreed with you in a discussion about Microsoft (or any discussion for that matter). But, I can say with complete conviction that I agree with you. Apple and Google (much moreso Apple) are behaving badly on a number of fronts, and abusing their near-monopoly position in certain markets.
> Should we be prohibited from lending our physical books to other people just because publishers would rather we didn't?

No, but I haven't seen examples of negative externalities in that case.
This is my list of must-read startup books for founders
It's targeting the same market-segment with a similarly priced device, which will have much better app-support on a living platform which is in active development.

It may even work outside the US without setting up a bunch of proxies and hacking your router! Yay!

And it can play games too, which I guess is a deal to some people.

But the Roku has wired ethernet and this has not, so for now my Roku not going anywhere.
An honest (but depressing) follow-up article by a former footballer on the cost of attending football matches:

"I understand after reading the BBC's Price of Football survey why there is concern over the rising cost of watching football in this country but, for most Premier League players, it is not something they are ever going to worry about.

To be completely honest, during my 20-year playing career, I never once thought about how much it was costing fans to go to games.

Other players might have been different, but I did not meet any."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29638128
I think that many would agree that it's "bad" for the full-time residents of the buildings in which an AirBnB short-term rental units are located. There are very legitimate security, privacy and safety concerns that these residents have as a result of AirBnB being inside their buildings.

Furthermore, unit owners in these buildings paid for their homes with an expectation, based on the law, that their building would not be used in this manner. By violating the law in this way, the AirBnB landlords are affecting the value of these unit-owners' property.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/no-one-way...
Rejection of Tomorrow
It is not in the detailed specs that I can find.

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_nexus_6-6604.php

"Video: 2160p@30fps, optical stabilization"

No other frame rates or resolutions listed.
Can't recommend Shutter enough; it's great!

It can take a website (gnome-web-photo), full screen or only partial shots; can edit them and has a few handy plugins (censor, pixelise, text etc), can upload to all sorts of image hosting sites including your own FTP and can use the Gnome gvfs, too.
Are you creating new threads asking questions in those niche subs or are you using the search function for old threads?
A 3-D Printed Seat with a Cellular Structure That Molds to Your Butt
Statistics. There have been rare cases of the incubation period being longer than 21 days, but most people will get sick much sooner. (95th percentile)

That said, there was a recent PLOS article that suggested that a longer waiting period might be called for: http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-quarantine...

There's also a cost-benefit analysis involved here. More transmissible/serious diseases call for a larger margin of safety, while at the same time enforcing a longer quarantine takes a toll on total available infrastructure.
According to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2000/microsoft/...

MS was making "illegal market-splitting suggestion"

and

"Microsoft began to use its market power to extract exclusionary deals with many of the largest [PC manufacturers and internet service providers]", threatening Netscape customers such as Compaq that if it tried to replace the Internet Explorer icon with the Netscape Navigator icon "

We can assume they've done many more bad things since their EEE attitude was proven many times (Bill Gates included - vide leaked email in antitrust case http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/... )
They don't suck, because they do well what they are designed to do. However their use cases are pretty limited in my experience. I usually don't want to capture the whole desktop or a whole window. Most of my screen captures are to report bugs in web applications I manage or to get images for analysis documents. In both cases I need only relatively small areas of the screen. I use shutter to select the area I want to capture and I save it as png. Using Print Screen or Alt Print Screen would mean to use Gimp to crop the images to their relevant areas. Too slow.
When it comes to Airbnb - neighbours who now live next to a hotel room, communities that are now full of transitory people and tourists rather than stable long term residents, landlords who had no-subletting clauses in their contracts.

That last one is the thing that makes me most surprised that Airbnb has so many libertarian supporters. It's the biggest attack on basic property rights and contracts in quite a while. Personally I don't have much sympathy for landlords, but I do think that if we are going to regulate to no longer allow such clauses in contracts it has to be applied universally, not just for people using Airbnb.
Because tl;dr in all honesty.
imagemagick:

$ import ss.png
Rapid turnover of occupants has a tangibly negative affect on the quality of life of the neighbours. In this case, the landlord is profiting from making other people's lives worse.
> a 21 and 27 inch iMac are still both iMacs

The 6 and 6+ are still both iPhone 6s, the only difference beside size is extremely minor (optical stabilization), not entirely different products.

> Same for the MBA and MBP, those are simply size/feature differences, not entirely different products.

See above.

> Would you also then break out each and every storage/ram/cpu combination on the MBA and MBP lines? I doubt it. It's still a fraction of what other makers produce.

That's swapping out parts obtained from third parties (hence BTO), different display sizes lead to difference in effective uses, and require very different internal chassis.
FTP:

Extensive air showers generated by cosmic rays produce muons and high-energy photons, which can be detected by the CMOS sensors of smartphone cameras.

No this does not validate the “Cosmic Rays Entering Earth From Mars” hoax.
I tried it in the past due to people raving about it to. It was a garbage experience. After the one domain I had with them expired (never used it for much), I stopped using them.
1) Interesting.., that is the only article so far that I've seen that is actually playing down what was achieved by the Nigerian Government and its citizens.

2) The article says '....A single Liberian man, who traveled to Nigeria in July, infected 11 hospital staff in the time between his admission to a hospital and when his test results were received...'

What that statement failed to point out was that a) Nobody initially knew the guy had been in contact with an Ebola patient because the guy lied serially about it - [1]. Because of this, the man had initially been treated for Malaria and so the hospital staff did not wear protective gear. When they finally discovered he was from Liberia and suspected Ebola, his diagnosis came fairly quickly. b) The article also failed to say that the man once yanked out his 'drip tubes' spilling his blood, and peed in the room forcing the health workers to flee [2].

3) WHO says on their website [3] - '...In a piece of world-class epidemiological detective work, all confirmed cases in Nigeria were eventually linked back to the Liberian air traveller who introduced the virus into the country on 20 July.

[1] http://allafrica.com/stories/201408261017.html

[2] http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/2506-saw...

[3] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/14-october-2014/en...
It's kind of hard (if you're not into exercise) to burn more than 400 daily. So given that I burn ~1580/day by default an extra 300 is not such a big incentive to exercise. It's just an extra small meal/snack.
Shutter is fantastic, has a bunch of dependencies but it's actually good.
Startup Theory – Hulu for rocketship pilots
The guys that started Google came from Stanford, the Facebook guy, Harvard. The Dropbox guys, MIT. Is there someone who went to Bunker Hill Community College or its many equivaltents who was able create a majorly disruptive business? I don't want to sound like Reddit, but link to something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpw3wHn9Sk&list=UU-yewGHQbN... This shows her true colors.
If you're building fault-tolerant systems, understanding how #5 Crossbar worked is still worthwhile. That was the peak of electromechanical telephony, and understanding how it dealt with faults is valuable. There are multiple resources available for almost everything - originating registers (which receive dial pulses), senders (which forward call info to other exchanges), markers (the brains of the system, with two self-checking halves), and specialized resources such as trouble recorders and billing punches. As a call progresses, resources are "seized" for a short period, then released. Resource seizure normally rotates through the resource or is random, for load balancing.

If something goes wrong, there's one retry, with different resources than the first time around. Then the call is abandoned. If the failure rate is 1% per attempt (remember, this is all done with electromechanical relays), the failure rate on two tries is 0.01%. Retry after two failures probably has a cause other than a transient error, and results in seizure of a trouble recorder, which dumps the state of the call into a specialized punched card.

In the entire history of the Bell System, no electromechanical exchange was ever down for more than 30 minutes for any reason other than a natural disaster. This record was not maintained in the computer era.
Clojure and Scala are really the only alternative JVM languages to gain any traction since Sun/Oracle started promoting the JVM for languages other than Java.

Most of the other languages I've noticed mentioned in the comments so far (i.e. C, C++, Go, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Haskell) don't target the JVM, and those that do just do it on the side.

Perhaps Ceylon or Kotlin will gain some traction and become a third alternative for the JVM -- all the other contenders have been around too long and lost momentum. I'd pick Kotlin over Ceylon since it can use the popular IntelliJ as a delivery platform.
Safer only because the criminals also have guns. But not actually safer at all. I'd rather the UK where people don't carry. Much safer there. Just look at the number of gun deaths in the UK vs the US.
Repeating from my original comment - In fact, I discovered and joined Quora when a very similar question of mine was deleted from gaming.SE.
Interpreter – Translate as you type
Interpreter - An iOS8 Keyboard Extension can translate what you type from and to 40 languages simultaneously. And now its live on the AppStore
It's a big problem for music apps. Android has not delivered low-latency MIDI/audio up to now, allowing Apple to own that market (much like it did with Mac v windows for a long time).
I joined Google a few months ago and have not had this experience. The company is gigantic so everybody's situation is a little bit different, but plenty of people still have 20% projects. The culture strongly emphasizes a "build first and ask questions later" attitude.
This is not how Google works, this is a PR product -- it's full of fashionable and/or trivial things that we see on various blogs every single day. I don't see why is this interesting to the HN crowd, but well, who am I to judge this. :)
Ignore your co-workers. Don't wait. Just get started.

Waiting kills startups.

Put up a landing page, build 1.0, start figuring out if anyone would really buy your product/service. If you can't get anyone to bite, maybe the idea isn't ready. If you get any traction then you know the market is there.

Living in "small town" NS has some advantages. You probably have a decent internet connection and your current paycheque goes a LOT further than it would in the big city. If you decide to quit your job and dive into your startup full time you'll have a longer runway.

You are NOT alone. You ARE part of the world. You can make connections HERE (you've already started) or reddit or just about any other place where other people in the same situation as you hang out.
Ksnapshot, the KDE screenshot utility has that option, and more.
As a 'quirk' of the way Irish law works some of these subsiduaries don't actually belong to any country
The newest Blackberry phones (Passport, Z30) have excellent battery life as well, far surpassing a full day's use, under heavy usage.

Passport display is 4.5" w/ 453 PPI
If you do go ahead and build support for it there is a small bounty already up for grabs.

https://freedomsponsors.org/issue/271/support-eclipse
That's a hard to verify claim. Although the opposite is most certainly true - That a many other countries have a higher defence spending because of high US defence spending.
This, absolutely agree. I am from an extremely small town in northern-coastal Maine that very often felt like an episode of "Trailer Park Boys". California was always a magical and far off land, and I ended up here mostly by accident. I don't think I'm as experienced as pedalpete (I've only worked in Southern California), but I can relate to the "from a small town, moved to California" thing.

I've worked for three startups, a mid sized company, and a large corporation, as well as have done a little freelance work. I'm currently starting my own .com company with one other person. I've attended events within the startup community, hacker community, and as events typically thought of as "corporatey".

Much of the startup community is, as pedalpete said, an echo chamber. However, there are great people and I'm very grateful to have such close contact with them and even call some of them personal friends.

I don't know the specifics of your situation, but based on reflection of my own background, you probably are in a better position than you realize.

Macu, if you're interested in setting up a skype or hangout call some time I'd be more than happy to be a sounding board for some of your questions in more detail. Even if I can't bring solid advice to the table, I'd be more than happy to tell you where I've made mistakes.
A video archive of anecdotes, lectures and talks about startups and how to build them
By that logic, you can't judge any group in any way for doing anything because anything anyone does can be reduced to being an "un-hinged idiot".
It's a win-win situation.

- Users know that their families are safe.

- Facebook gets more user time.

Everyone wins.
If he wanted an iOS phone, he had little choice, which was the point of his post. The only thing he could've done is forgo buying a new phone altogether; this is what I've chosen to do, I will stick with my iPhone 4S until it dies, then purchase a 5S and do the same.
That stupid webpage keeps forwarding me to an empty page after a few seconds in.
Yeah, which I'm super happy about. Fingers crossed we'll be able to go and replace our home-brew tool with Terraform now that the gaps are starting to fill up.
Tagging and a lot of VPC features, as well as managing EBS volumes properly. A lot of little stuff, basically, that meant that we couldn't fully automate our infrastructure using this. A lot of that has been fixed in 0.2 and now 0.3, so I have very high hopes!
> If they are so smart and creative, why do they need Google?

I can't speak for everybody, but there are plenty of things I can do at Google that I cannot do on my own. Google engineers have access to world class compute clusters, CDNs, data analysis tools, and state of the art libraries for machine learning, speech, nlp, dnn, etc. Having resources like that available empowers creative people to hack around on their big ideas.
Use reddit enhancement suite (RES). Create an account and unsubscribe from everything that you don't like. Then visit directly the subs you are interested in (google for list of great subreddits) or be meta and search reddit for the best subreddits. The askreddit one has some good lists of subreddits, here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1b1qv6/what_are_s...
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1lbqu0/what_are_t...
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1mrq70/what_is_yo...
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/y2o3y/today_i_stu...
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16m7hu/whats_your...
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d9vsr/what_is_yo...
I simply don't know: Can't those signing certs be revoked by Apple?
20 Useful JQuery Plugins for October 2014
I've received the book last week and read it during the weekend. It has plenty of insights and great ideas that you can take and try to use in your current area of work.
I wonder how that worked for multi-user or multi-screen setups?
Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor
Wouldn't that dump the screen in raw format though?

If so, you can do something similar if you have a framebuffer interface on linux by doing "cat /dev/fb0 > /wherever" although admittedly it'll dump all the buffers if you're multi-buffering.
You still haven't presented any evidence for your claim that the US forced Ireland into abandoning this, and I'm inclined to think that you've let your imagination blind you to the facts.

It was other EU countries that were pissed off about it. As evidence, I give you the European Commission's official notification of EU treaty enforcement over the issue: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/253200/25320...

...but I'm sure you've got some theory about how the US made them do it, or something.
The Compact is supposed to have excellent 48hour+ battery life as well.
Just a tip: you don't want to be one of the people building a pyramid. You may want to think of a non-enslavement-and-death example when you explain why somewhere might be a good place to work. I can just imagine the recruiter's pitch now...
Me too. Use the embed link instead: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/40175706?rel=...
I remember when I was 20, and had just finished reading "Machinery of Freedom", intent on fixing all the glaringly obvious problems in society by applying a medicine of revolutionary libertarianism.

Happily, I have now grown up.
Where do you live? The gender balance on OkCupid varies a lot by region, and needless to say when your gender is rarer (lower supply per demand) you'll have a better experience.
I think you are right in terms of forum-based communities having more in-depth discussions due to the way that in a forum, new replies bring threads back to the front page, whereas on reddit, after a few days, no one is posting on old threads. For this reason, I think reddit really shines for communities where there is time sensitive discussion around news and for getting a perspective on the latest happenings. So it really just depends on the topic area...
I wonder if the refusal of other EU states to help with the banking crisis had something to do with Ireland's tax haven antics. Ireland got a worse deal than the other EU crisis countries.
I found these slides rather shallow. Smart, creative people are the best employees? Who knew! The Internet led to massive disruptions in traditional businesses? Wow!

Sorry for my cynicism/sarcasm, but I see the book campaign as Eric Schmidt positioning himself for his next role. He's trying to secure his personal Google legacy as he gets ready for an exit. I can't imagine it's all that enticing to go from CEO to chairman in a company where the founder takes back the CEO role... how much influence does that leave you?
Thank you. I do quite a lot of test automation and in many cases I want take screenshot of either the application we are testing or the whole desktop when ever test fails.

On Windows I use https://code.google.com/p/screenshot-cmd/, OSX https://github.com/smokris/GetWindowID + screencapture and on Linux I used to use imagemagic. My Windows and OSX solutions were much nicer because I could just drop those executables in git and don't have to worry about installing stuff beforeand. Now I can replace imagemagic with maim.
So what if you aren't safe? There doesn't seem to be an option for "nope I'm in serious trouble here. Help me out."
You would think the quality of the product already would accommodate a remote scenario, it's a really worthwhile addition even for casual consumers who do not actively participate in discussion.