skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I made one snarky comment and got a number of downvotes. I guess I don't have a common sense of humor.

The best way I've found to get upvotes (for comments) is to either:

1. be the first or second commenter and say something insightful or unique

2. reply to the first or second commenter and say something insightful or unique.

In my experience, comments further down the page, or later replies to the OP, just don't get viewed as much.

But one of the other comments makes a good point. Why do you care? Do employers care about HN scores? Is there a secret club you get into at a certain point? Or is it just about wanting to understand the HN culture better?
The user agent string is just a convoluted mess because websites started displaying content based on that string so newer browsers had to fake it so they would still work with these websites. User agents don't mean much nowadays because of this.
There are some great hyper-local sites. There was one I loved in Santa Barbara (http://www.edhat.com) that focused on hyper-local news. They would track police scanners, daily papers, hold events/contests (name that place!), talk about history, etc.
Absolutely agree. Every time I start a new project, I start with knockout, then realize I need more of the bits, and then migrate to something else with more "built-in".

On an app I'm currently developing, I've actually adopted the pattern of using knockout with some other libraries (directory, for routing, mainly) and actually have found relative success.

One thing I have been tossing around in my head though is creating a web development pattern (I'm really just avoiding using the word "framework" here) that does this by default (and intentionally).

My vision for it is to be a marrying of knockout (for data-binding & templating & components), director.js (for routing, I think pager.js, while well intentioned, is too complex), and requireJS for async loading, with everything but knockout being optional.

I'm thinking of calling it chainmail (because the power is in the combination/linking together of the small libraries) -- would you be interested in something like that?

Also, have you checked out the components feature of knockout lately? it's awesome
For better and worse, it's the way things are going in the near future. People like Gruber and Alex Blumberg (Gimlet Media podcasts) have built up credibility, and are open about what is paid versus editorial, so the "native ads" are merely annoying rather than trust-destroying. Unfortunately, lots of people with a few page-views and more greed than sense will also try to get in on the action, and the web will be an even worse place.
you are liable for the taxes on the profits on your share of the ownership regardless of whether or not you see any of it

Can you explain?
Interesting story. Do you happen to know what he did with his internet access? Look at pictures of cats and argue with strangers like the rest of us?
There's no SOP in the JS websocket API because websockets are a newly-designed protocol specifically for the use case of being called from JS. If you have websocket servers on your local network (... although, why?) they know they should be checking origin.
Saw the 100k number and thought "surely a typo" - only to learn that IBM has 400k+ employees

I had completely failed to realize just how massive IBM truly is as a company.
> overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.

I think you'll find it very difficult to achieve that with a bank you want to trust your money to; anti-money laundering treaties have cranked up the requirements on banks to verify the identity of new customers.
That's true of some illnesses and stages of history, and not of others.

The advances of modern medicine shouldn't blind us to the fact that humans and other animals/organisms have always had immune systems that fight off disease naturally, and that practices like good nutrition, sleep and physical fitness, and yes, some folk remedies, all assist the immune system to function optimally - even if by placebo effect.

Sure, modern medicine can take over where the body's natural defenses and traditional health practices are inadequate.

But bacteria and viruses have existed for longer than humans have, and as a species we've survived a pretty long time without modern medicine.
How many of those Chinese factories producing PV panels are being held responsible for 100% of their externalities?
They're definitely different, I forget _all_ the technical details of Xnet, having last read the book a couple years ago, I was mostly talking about the show of human ingenuity.

Xnet was certainly "informally monitored", though.
i've been really "nice" about every single comment here on HN... but i can't help but let you know that this comment is single-handedly the most pompous one of all.

"substantial writing"...? really? "serious" writers?

I could list 10,000 pieces of GLORIOUS work that was crafted on nothing more than "pen" and "paper" ... or perhaps just "paper" and "ink" and "typewriter"...

PEN + PAPER == Maximally-minimal "app"...

and in that way, with Desk, I was attempting to create an homage, of sorts, to the "old way" of creating great writing work.

keeping it simple, effective, useful.

minimalist apps are for the serious and the playful, for those that are writing epic novels (one user of Desk is a multi-New York Times winning author) and those that are, as you say, "pretending" to write (like my 8-year old daughter, perhaps: http://john.do/gift-writing/).

but, it all, at the end of the day, is still writing...

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~~~ Ernest Hemingway

http://john.do/writer/
> So is the MA tax bill based on the profits of that business, or is the state just using it to say "you should pay all your income tax here"? Regardless, his beef should be with MA rather than the bank.

More to the point, the update makes it clear he doesn't really have a beef with MA: he did owe the taxes.
an upvote is not enough, thank you for a response with hard numbers and multiple linked sources.
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I don't think it's as much of a "firewall" in the sense traditional news media (theoretically) tries to maintain as much as a fairly natural separation between the kinds of companies advertising with him and the kinds of topics he writes about. In practice, the chances are fairly small that he's going to have a reason to write negative things about Squarespace, let alone Desk, assuming he's done basic vetting of the product/service.

The failure mode for this theory, of course, is if one of the companies -- especially a service like Squarespace -- either shifts their business model to something slimy or is revealed to have been doing something slimy all along. Personally, I don't think Gruber would hesitate to both report on that and stop taking their ads -- doing so would have little to no effect on his bottom line.

(The observation made by another commenter about how many bloggers and, of course, podcasters pump Squarespace without actually using Squarespace is wryly amusing, though.)
all good points -- will take this in mind when recommending phantom in the future. While I haven't run into the same # of issues, but I can absolutely see why you guys didn't like it, and the possible issues I could run into some day using it.

Also agree with writing tests that devs will actually run, though I think that is going away with the advancements in orchestration/devops. If buildbot or jenkins can run the tests then you may not have to rely on a human's willingness to run it. Speed's another matter though.

Oh and no, they don't suggest using Jasmine to set up the application (not that I read) -- that was just my assumption (that you could). And that's a very good point, if they don't pay attention to testing (and make it very obvious/easy), then it will fall by the wayside.
Baserock (http://wiki.baserock.org) may have a repeatable build of OpenEmbedded for automotive systems.
As someone who takes ~70mg of diphenhydramine per night to help with insomnia, this is terrifying to me.
But California has net metering, which is a huge, non sustainable subsidy.

Ad absurdum, consider if everyone purchased enough solar for their household to be net zero. The power companies would not be able to charge anything, but need to maintain the grid and provide power at night, cloudy days etc, with capital costs mostly the same as with 24x7 generation.

There's no way power companies would agree to net metering in a free market, so any calculations about the relative cost of solar based on its existence are flawed. It's essentially a calculation of the cost of solar when unlimited battery capacity is provided for free.

That doesn't necessarily mean such a policy is bad; artificially lowering the cost of solar increases production, and increased R&D and economies of scale should make the true break even point come sooner.

But net metering absolutely will need to be wound back eventually - most likely by grandfathering in those that already have their panels, because nobody wants to piss off a bunch of middle class voters by suddenly making their investments underwater.
Yes... as a technique, possibly interesting, but it would actually increase the time taken to prepare my pasta dishes!
Timeance.js ES6 library compatibility
And in this case, the NSA has global keys to a lot of services designed like front doors. The difference is that the effort required to break open the front doors of every home in the world is unreasonable, whereas the effort to break into every back doored or security-free software solution is reasonable enough for the NSA to do it.

Better option than passwords is keys anyway. Way too many services depend on human memorizable numbers, which we know all too well is a transient thing at best - every year, as computational power rises, the "average" password gets weaker, and nobody uses good passwords.

People just need a personal key to encrypt and decrypt with. They need to protect that key, maybe by password, maybe by printing it out. One good key can easily replace all the horrible password schemes in the world.

But software needs to be written, especially save dialogs, to easily "pick" a key to encrypt with, and when you open files a history of keys used and a browser to open keys to decrypt opened files with.

Of course Windows will never have anything like that, but at least Dolphin and Nautilus can look to adopt those kinds of workflows.
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Is Pascal underrated?
I was under the impression NATS had no persistence and no "message transaction state" (no message acknowledgements), being more of a super fast pub-sub message bus than a distributed queue.
IIRC, an LLC can either be separately taxed or a pass-through entity; in the latter case, the LLC members each pay taxes on their share of the LLC's taxable income. This is true even if all of the income is retained in the LLC.
this link is non functional for me on Mac Chrome.
any idea for add about the syntax? all code are supported for the last version of Chrome Canary
We get one at 5 years, 7 years and 10 years. (not sure after that) It's this website you can go on and enter a code. The stuff is so crappy though it's really kind of an insult. It's like wow, I've been dedicated to this business for a decade and I get a leaky thermos with the company logo on it.
I'm still wondering where xmpp and otr failed. Because it apparently has - nobody uses or implements them. I have a perfectly fine xmpp client here that supports OTR, but nobody I know can or will use these services, despite them having most of what I would consider important - video chat, file transfer, persistence, logging, emoticons, and my client even downloads linked images and videos and displays them inline.
http://clientsfromhell.net/ has lots of stories like this. Flat out refusals to pay for work. I'm so glad I never had to argue or wait on a payment (yet?).
This does not work for me.
As to this specific word, I do not know where it originated. However, Arabic does not derive from Farsi and Islam did not introduce Arabic. Arabic was written before farsi was(~800 BC vs ~600 BC), but the languages are much older.

Also, Farsi and Arabic have different roots. Farsi did not start using the Arabic alphabet until ~700 AD. Modern Farsi does have a lot of Arabic words used because of Islam.
> That's true in the trivial sense that "better" is subjective, so nothing is inherently better than anything else.

That's not at all what I meant. Sometimes dried pasta works better than fresh pasta, and vice versa.

> you absolutely can make such pasta al dente

That's interesting. Does it have advantages over dried pasta?
Ah, I'd been noticing more and more Taboola ads on my mobile phone, but I hadn't chased down the source. I suppose I should find some ad-blocks for the phone.
This link is safer to say "always works"

https://www.google.com/#q=U.S.+Spies+on+Millions+of+Cars

Basically you can Google the title and click on first result to see it without limitations of a paywall
Argentinian government moves to dissolve domestic intelligence agency
So what I'm getting here in a nutshell is: You like solar best (and, full disclosure, I do too), for reasons that largely translate into "It's the best and cheapest." To me that implies that's naturally what the market will select if it's forced to move away from things like coal with a carbon tax.

Meanwhile, me I live in corn country. And yes, biomass is a total crapfest, but it's extremely popular with the legislation around here because a lot of moneyed interests stand to make a whole lot more money by convincing legislators to subsidize it. And it's easy enough for them to complete the deal and sell it to the public by choosing a green color scheme for those "10% ethanol" stickers they put on gas pumps. Witnessing those shenanigans firsthand is what makes me extremely suspicious of any forms of subsidy. Excise taxes certainly aren't manipulation-proof, but they seem to be much more resilient to it than subsidies are.
I don't know about the shoe-tying, but yes, this would have been great.

How to talk to people you don't know, how to consider what other people are thinking, how to nourish healthy relationships (and the many possible options for not-so-healthy relationships). Practice semi-public speaking. How to become an "expert" on something.

I think many of "how to your life" type classes might run afoul of parents' preferences, though, for younger students (how to talk about religion?), and run into the limitations of the professors for older students -- professors aren't necessarily good representatives for interesting and unusual life choices, especially if they're never really left academia since they were students themselves.
How long until the propaganda about "e-plates" starts?
You can use ref control to make it look like your the Google news bot https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/ .
I backed an OpenWorm Kickstarter campaign to earn a bragging right, so let me brag. :)

Seo Sanghyeon at http://www.openworm.org/supporters.html
My experience has been the opposite in Computer Science; my adviser has made me move away from the passive voice whenever I used it.

Perhaps it varies with the field.
This is actually a great example of something I wanted to dig up earlier, which is a DF sponsor that john clearly doesn't give a shit about. The tone of the 'thank you note' for that can be generously described as "professional". You can _almost_ hear him gritting his teeth.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2014/01/cleanmymac_...

[2] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/22/cleanmymac
One more suggestion: If you haven't done so already, you might want to review the HN Guidelines, which cover both submissions and comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's also a HN FAQ:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

(The links to these are at the bottom of every page.)
Heh... he was one of the many doctors in Cuba and had been fortunate enough to travel to a couple of countries to work, so he'd had a bit of a taste of the outside world. As far as I could tell he mostly used the Internet to keep informed on what was really going on in the world, without the censorship or propaganda that affected the local news sources. Based on some of the things he said I suspected he was very active politically though I didn't feel it was wise or fair to question him about that, as much as I wanted to.
So the mailman remembers everyone you've ever sent or received mail with. The DOJ remembers every time your car pulls in front of a police vehicle with a LPR. The NSA is tracking what people you call, when, how long, and where you are when you call them.

For the life of me I do not understand why both major parties aren't having conniption fits right now. Are these the same parties that, on a bipartisan basis, told Nixon to get lost? Shut down some of the intelligence community's overreach in the 70s? Impeached a U.S. President for lying under oath?

Both parties over the previous 50 years have taken strong stands -- both separately and together -- in regards to strong oversight of privacy and freedom. Would Reagan have put up with this? Carter? Ike? JFK? It's inconceivable. During those times, yes, there was plenty of illegal mucking around -- but wholesale bulldozing of citizen's privacy? It's something from a dystopian sci-fi novel of just 15 years ago.

Surely this has to come up there somewhere near as important as all those other political scandals. Surely it would be a popular measure. But instead, what I'm seeing is somebody trying to introduce a bill to nibble around the edges, then others adding amendments so that the bill to reduce NSA spying actually increases it. It's like they're being incentivized to go in exactly the wrong direction.

It just doesn't make sense to me. There is some missing piece to this puzzle. When I see guys like Hayden, with his cocky attitude; there's something he knows that I don't know, and it's not that AQ is some kind of clear and present danger. It's something else. (Sorry to sound so mysterious. I'm truly at a loss.)
I don't think I had heard about NSQ till now; how is it better than, say, a pub-sub queue on a beefy Redis server? (Or a cluster of servers, if you wish). Nothing beats Redis' simplicity, AFAICT.
Just curious, do you use vim daily? Not asking to be a tool - genuinely curious if that's your opinion as a user or as an observer.
I'm wondering that as well. :-/

IM services in general seem to be going away. really saddening imo.
> 1) this is a writing app /with no support for paragraph breaks/. That is unbelievable to me. Nobody who writes for a living can use an app that shows all of your text to you as a really large single block with no horizontal breaks between paragraphs. How? Why? Not only am I stupified by this, but I also am dumbfounded at all of these 5-star reviews that don't mention it or any of the other show-stoppper flaws I pointed out within the first 20 mins of use. Are people reviewing an app that they've not actually used?

Possibly, but then that would be a bunch of people with a lot of money :)

> 2) The price. $30 is a lot of money, and yeah you can try to convince Apple's customer support to give you a refund, but we both know nobody does that.

Is $30 really that much if it delivers value? Desk is meant to make blogging simple. It's definitely hard to argue if you buy the app, hate it, and don't use it. At that level, a price point of $5 or $10 would still be much more expensive than what you got from it.

But for people who actually use the product, how long will it be before they extract the $30 of value (ok, this is a simplified view, there is non trivial effort for learning the product.) from the product to have made it a good investment? Whether it is time saved, or increased quality of output, I'd argue not much time at all.

Another thing to note is that the article points out that the number of returns for Desk is small but non trivial (~2.6% of revenue), so people do in fact do that. This is consistent with my own experiences (about 4%).
My wife will reliably get acute sinus infections following a cold if she doesn't take decongestants. She is generally aversive to taking any medication, but after 8 sinus infections in one year, she now always takes decongestants when a cold starts.
The USA is automatically photographing millions of cars and putting the data in a giant database used by all law-enforcement.

It reads like the premise of a dystopian science fiction novel.

I can't help but guess that the reaction is going to be a big shoulder shrug, because, to but it bluntly, things aren't that bad for most people. If you are white, have a good job, follow the law, and make sure to richly kiss ass if and when you come in contact with the police, life in the USA is rich, full; it's like heaven.

If I have heaven, am I going to risk it just because of some law enforcement techniques which are only questionable in the abstract?
It isn't that crazy when you realize that, on those old systems, every byte counted. If he could save 50-100 bytes with that weird method, it was worth it.
Rabbit offers persistence.
You do understand that Desk and Scrivener are not really in competition, right? Or do you also lecture Miata owners about how they're cute vehicles and all, but they should really know that Miatas are terrible for long-distance cargo hauling?

(Edited...) I'm not particularly enamored of "minimalist" writing apps, either -- I'd really like to see a prose-focused editor with modern design sensibility with the editing capability of Nota Bene for DOS two decades ago (which, it's worth noting, Scrivener lacks as well) -- but you're being unduly snippy about it, I think. I write and even occasionally sell stories that are, in fact, written in Markdown in relatively minimal editing environments. Not every story needs research folders, timelines and an index card view.
This link was worth it just to find out jsbeeb exists.

It always surprises me when you see such extreme space saving efforts, especially on machines where you would expect the processing overhead to be high. I've noticed that as the tech improved this concept remains important because I/O bandwidth is so often the real limiting factor. Things like piping input/output through gzip can actually speed batch processes up dramatically.
Hear Fetal Heart Beat Using Pregnancy Sonic
Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure
Others have cited Mac options, and I know kleopatra is KDE has a context menu on every file to encrypt, which I just tried and it works fine with my pgp keys. Like three clicks. Even supports compression.
It's happening in Australia too. I spoke to a CEO of a company here a few years ago which provides software and services to the government and RTA/RMS. There are cameras setup under overpasses which automatically take photos of each individual car and it's passengers.

In this particular incident their company was tasked with processing all of those photos to identify/track a guy who had murdered his wife and was on the run. Sure enough the system had snapped a pic of him driving, with his dead wife in the passenger seat.

A good use of the tech in that scenario, but I'm sure it's being used for mass surveillance as well.
Isn't it illegal according to Google to serve different content based upon the Googlebot's User-Agent ?
Google maps?

Or do the streets no longer exist as they did earlier?
I'd like someone here to mount a moral case for why driving up the price for regular users of power to subsidise solar panels is acceptable?

Would anyone accept that increasing gas taxes to give Tesla owners a cash payment is an ethical proposition?

The people most affected by increased electricity prices are the poor. These are the people most unlikely to have solar panels.

I'm all for allowing people to put their money into whatever they want. I am against subsidies for solar or any other energy, when those subsidies are paid for by the other users. It is very unfair on low income households.