skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205733

Not clear yet whether we should keep it.
Seems good to me on Android stock Chrome browser. Nice improvement. Thumbs up.
You have to remember that, in this era where there are more books in existence than is possible for a single person to read within a lifetime, most people haven't heard of everything.

I've certainly never heard of the two names you dropped.
It's not harder to buy "traditional high quality" in the keyboard sense - to me, that means buckling spring, and there's a huge market for it at the moment. It is expensive though. Have a search for "Cherry MX" keyboards. Big manufacturers like Corsair have recently launched several traditionally shaped keyboards with these switches.
I feel the same way. Infinity is an amazing concept and most of mathematics would be thrown away if we stopped using it, but there does not appear to anything in the universe that is actually infinite. My gut feeling is that infinity is leading us astray in our attempts to understand the universe, but my physics knowledge is just too poor to really contribute anything worthwhile.
Keyboards and mices from Microsoft and Logitech used to cost around $20-$30 and were of such a high quality that MTTF was about 10 years. Nowadays their products do not meet my needs (no 1990s/2000s traditional business style, only fancy form factors) and are overpriced with lower quality.
Facebook and Indian ISPs crush net neutrality
Looks far too large for me to slip into a jacket pocket.

I'd much rather they'd brought back something like the Nokia SU-8W, which was the ultimate folding Bluetooth keyboard.
I agree with the above post--I can't even count all the times I've seen people bring in a corporate laptop (complete with an asset tag and call if lost sticker--that's just begging for theft attention) at a public coffee house left unattended. If you are going to bother using a VPN 2-factor token and privacy screen, please keep your laptop in your custody and view at all times. Ideally, work from a private executive or home office if you're a remote worker, or on-site at the company. If you must work at a coffee shop, please be sure you don't have PII easily accessible or valuable financial data waiting to be pried (that includes being on a VPN that can potentially have access to such data).
As an aside, "Is it acceptable to browse Facebook while you shunt the problem to a mental background process?"

I'm interested in how many productive engineers here think this is what they're doing for at least some of the time they browse facebook? Vs how many think they're just bunking off?

I get the idea of mental background processes, very often I will solve problems that I failed to solve at work while on my bike ride home at the end of the day. Personally I suspect facebook might be too full of distractions to achieve this, though I'm open to other opinions..?
برنامج القاهرة اليوم حلقة الاحد 15-03-2015
I think that internet access to a site like Wikipedia is incredibly valuable to those with no internet access.

If Facebook wants to pay for that, and the cost is that they also get access to Facebook then my view is that is a net good.
The point about mice is dead on though, I wish I'd bought more of the Intellimouse model as I am on my last one (of probably 3-4 total) and the Comfort Mouse 6000 I bought to replace it is not good enough. The slight lag on middle click is forever annoying.

Look for some of the better engineered Microsoft mice (now all discontinued) on Amazon for an idea of what kind of prices these are fetching. Some are crazy expensive and I suspect it is because people like me still want them.

Edit: Here's a 50-pack for £4500 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-IntelliMouse-Optical-1-1-o...
Similar here -- there are plenty of huge pitfalls there, if we don't die; but that's not the same thing as saying the pitfalls are insurmountable, and I value things that get me thinking without just hitting "oh, that's dumb" after a bit of reflection.
No, this is a myth perpetrated by Kipkay's FAKE hack video.
You would need tens of watts in IR leds to blind security camera.
I'm 1.95 and I almost always duck slightly when passing a door, even when there is space and no threshold. Its like a bad habit.

I'm lucky when it comes to cars, most cars I've driven has been alright when pushing the seat all the way back, if I'd been slightly taller it would've been a different story.
You mean the 70s/80s IBM keyboard typewriter/console/keyboard - very good quality but with a noise factor.

For me the 90s keyboard/mice quality would be enough - as known from the old Microsoft Hardware department, the old Switzerland based Logitech company and IBM Thinkpad keyboards.

The 90s/early 2000s hardware has a MTTF of about 10 years. The current 2010s hardware don't fit my needs at all, are overpriced (gaming devices) and have a very low product quality in general. [Edit: ...product quality of Microsoft/Logitech/Lenovo devices]
Schrodinger's Putin – Russian President has not appeared in public timer
And that is why we need dumb pipes.
They're building a new database, "based on the lessons learnt from TitanDB"
This is neat and all, but what would be really nice is if the keyboard actually folded into the tablet in some way. Why has no-one thought of that before?

/s
"Any sufficiently complicated company w/o management contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of management" https://twitter.com/wycats/status/368752712894017536
You don't need funding to make an open source solution to game development.

I think you are confusing open source with free as in beer. A lot of open source projects are funded by companies, being open source doesn't exclude being paid to develop the software.
The S looks out of place.
Even ones that look trivial on the inside might take years of R&D to develop.
Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009)
That's why we need government or non-profit programs, giving general access to the net. Because only then it is a level playing field, and the next Facebook can be from Brasil.

This is only an intentional effort to control and shut out competition (e.g. future Facebook competitors) and has the risk of killing local ISPs as a by-product.

tl;dr It only serves Facebook. Wikipedia et al. are just thrown into the mix to make it look like a humanitarian effort.
That made me wonder too! Well played Ted, well played.
And they are great mice for gaming - I've been using a WMO1.1a for probably a decade, once you stick some custom mousefeet on them they are fantastic.
I'm worried by the lack of package definitions in the Java source I looked at. You shouldn't be putting Java classes into the global namespace. I have to wonder what they were thinking.
Are these successful though?
True. But obviously at some point that system will stop working. And then everyone in the biz, from engineers to product and design people to even the investor types will suffer. As they did in 1999/2000.
DNA and the fabric of the Universe
SSL Evaluation for Oman Banks
Just Published the Ruby Closures Book on Leanpub
JavaScript best practices for simple conditioning
The K-11/12 mirror is over 3 metres[1]. The KH-8 had a resolution of 8-10 cm in the 1960s[2].

[1] http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/kh-12.htm

[2] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e1vSUjuEbHYC&pg=PA78&lp...
> It is a fork of Pandoc and is build upon the same parsing engine.

=> built
And it will destroy the prospects of a healthy local internet economy where everyone can publish information or compete on a level playing field.
Read the "Manifesto against Labour"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHENPfWhi8
http://www.krisis.org/1999/manifesto-against-labour

Those who do not work (labour) shall not eat! This cynical principle is still in effect; all the more nowadays when it becomes hopelessly obsolete. It is really an absurdity: Never before the society was that much a labour society as it is now when labour itself is made superfluous.
It doesn't matter if it's "distinguishable". It's objectively worse. A pin prick might not be noticeable but a million is the worst torture imaginable.
Your comments are somewhat contradicted by the discussion on Daring Fireball. Which one of you is wrong?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/03/14/apple-usbc
You Need Help
>What traditional cable based keyboards

Das, Corsair.

>What traditional cable based mices

Corsair
Typography-Remark: The font used at ycombinator (Verdana) makes the title almost useless, as "π" its shown as a bottom-open-rectangle. There's a special codepoint for the mathematical alphanumeric italic symbol 𝜋 (Unicode 0x1D70B)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_sym...
A simple formula for fractal patterns (2011)
> The real-time collaboration seems kind of cool but also makes me wonder how you handle history, permissions, etc. If I'm editing code and you're editing code and I hit 'RUN' I don't want your half finished code that doesn't compile to prevent me from running the game.

Script changes are marked as drafted until you explicitely choose to apply them to the current build (Ctrl+S), so you won't break the build because you're in the middle of typing a line of code. There'll be a membership and rights system, right now there's only a server-wide password. Real-time script editing uses the same tech behind google docs and such (operational transform). There's no special history support right now, the server owner can version the projects in Mercurial / Git manually. Later on we'd like to have a project-wide revision system right in the UI.

> I'm curious why I'd choose this over say Unreal (free), Unity3D (free), Source 2 (free). ok, they aren't 100% free but they're effectively free until you make money.

Unity, UE4 (and probably Source 2) are multi-GB download and fairly heavyweight tools with sooo many options and drawers. Don't get me wrong, I love Unity (haven't spent much time with UE and Source 2 isn't out yet), but Superpowers is competing with Game Maker, Construct and the likes, not the big engines.
You're probably right. last hackathon I went to was two years ago and it was the first time people were actually trying to win. Weirded me out. I stopped going because of that.
Very low product quality? I have a Filco Majestouch that I'm pretty sure is going to outlast every peripheral and piece of tech at my desk and survive longer than 10 years. The switches are rated for 50m actuation and the body is fantastically sturdy. I'd even say it is of a higher overall quality than the IBM Model M.

Sure, there are lot of shitty overpriced gaming keyboards but if you avoid those brands and get a Filco, Ducky, Das or Leopold for instance, you're getting quality.

And most switches except for Blues will be quieter than the 70s/80s IBM era. I'd hate to have to go back to 90s Microsoft keyboards to be completely honest, long lasting maybe but not a nice experience.
Just google "Net Nutrality" and see what's so wrong about this initiative.
People smarter than me have talked about the matter, so better read what they have to say, but I'll just say that the reason the Internet is so successful in bringing all sorts of ideas to fruition is that it doesn't discriminate ideas, and lets all information flow equally. If there are companies whose ideas are worth more than others, or are cheaper to reach - you no longer have a free(as in free speach) internet.
Too bulky and the stand isn't great for a phone.
The secret database blacklisting borrowers
I read everywhere that recent Corsair products have reliability problems (incl. RAPTOR M30). Older generations of the same product lines were better manufactured. With a short life-time they would be not better than recent Microsoft or Logitech hardware products. Hopefully Corsair already replaced some thin plastics parts that acted like predetermined breaking point.
Consider a fictional drug which stimulates the pleasure receptors in a frog's brain, but also reduced its fertility.

Consuming it is intensely pleasurable for the frog, but harmful to it both in an evolutionary sense, and for the frog species as a whole.

I can't see anyway to consider that "good".

Now consider the wide range of what humans consider pleasurable. A community of sadist may derive great pleasure from tormenting an animal. In your argument, that makes it "good" (Quote: "The best moral system is the one that leads to the most pleasure.")

I don't understand this sentence: I am not advocating range-of-the-moment hedonism, like, coke and hookers. I mean, yes, if that's a way to maximize your pleasure---but it isn't for any human being I know of.

Is your argument ignoring people who derive pleasure from harmful things because *you don't know anyone like that"? That seems a bit of a hole in your point of view.
Thank you! A lot of people somehow don't get this. They think only in terms of horizontal or vertical scaling. (Increase code performance is definitely a form of vertical scaling, it isn't what people are using thinking/talking about)
MIT Scientist: Vaccines and Monsanto’s RoundUp Cause Autism
Wow didn't see this was so old
Chefs desk
Jumpstar
I wish they were linked back, I'm sure one of them was me...
For some reason HN won't let me reply to Houshalter's post, but...

> objectively

How can pain be objective? The universe doesn't give a shit that some lumpy sacks of meat dislike certain experiences, and exactly the same action can be unpleasant for some people but pleasant for others. (BDSM enthusiasts, for example, often actively seek out experiences that other people would consider painful.)
> on the backs of those who can't

So, do you feel guilty ?

I have no mercy for people who work hard and pretend they deserve more because they're not unemployed. I'm unemployed, but I'm not living comfortably, and I honestly cannot fathom the idea of obeying someone because I should "contribute" because that's righteous. I live in france, there's a lot of welfare there, unemployment is at 10% (the U3 stat), workers are treated nicely, but there's a lot of hypocrisy about it.

I don't think most people cannot "antiwork". Work is not mandatory, work is consented. People can negotiate their salary. If nobody does, I'd agree to blame the entire society and its citizens for not standing up to higher standards. Slavery has been abolished, but slave wages show that people now consent to be treated like shit, so to me, people are responsible of their own situations.

In my opinion, if people agree to be treated like slaves, let them be treated like so, and let the other laze away. We live in the 21th century, people should not give up so easily on their life.

I'm tired of people arguing that capitalism and free market are virtuous, while a large majority of people are being paid at the minimum wage. Minimum wage doesn't feel like freedom, it feels everybody is treated the same no matter the contribution. It's not free market anymore, it sounds more like an exploitative society that can't lift individuals out of their poverty.
Seems neat.

You people remember this one?

http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/palmvx/palmkey.jpg
I see hackathons as a very fun activity - it needs not be serious. Imagine it like a friendly basketball game with few of your friends and a chance to meet new players. Now, there will be some people who will think that they are worthy of playing major league, because they were best in college or something, but as said in many other comments - they will get a reality check sooner or later.

Hackathons come in many flavors - some are trying to mock a startup environment, some are sponsored by big corps who look for PR, some are trying to find vulns in software. But at their core, they should be looked at a chance to just gather with like-minded people, exchange ideas, give a stab at an interesting challenge, win a trophy and move on. And a company that hires a person based on flashy trophies from basketball courts down the street, probably needs to rethink some of its values.
I gave up on "hackathons" when I went to three in a row whose winners never wrote a single line of code during the actual event, and instead spent the whole weekend working on their pitches.

I protested (because I tend to do that) but my concerns fell on deaf ears. The organisers didn't see anything wrong with spending the weekend building a pitch rather than a product. It was all about whatever it took to impress the judges -- and the judges were all entrepreneurs with their own pump-and-dump style startups, so they weren't really all that tech-savvy and weren't impressed by technical innovation.

Don't get me wrong, there's certainly a place for pitch-a-thon events but that's what they are -- create a 'kick-ass concept' -- not about technical hacking, and don't make that mistake.
That Api – Rails API starter kit that includes devise gem setup
No reified generics though.
Languru iOS App – Learn to Use Languages via Example Sentences – A Glosbe Client
JavaScript Pudding: Express and Backbone and React and Bootstrap – Front-End Starter
The IQ is Meaningless
re: "asset tag and call if lost sticker".

I think it's also a great idea to not have your user and hostname set to be "johnbigbucks@bestinvestconsulting" but something more generic or randomized. I use something like this to randomize my hostname.

awk 'length==6' /usr/share/dict/words | grep -v '[^[:alpha:]]' | shuf -n 1 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
>.. aim diagonally at the wall.

Although Germans had some of the best tanks in WW2 they still hadn't figured simple trick of slope armor... (I am sorry I couldn't resist)
Although Germans had some of the best tanks in WW2 they still hadn't figured simple trick of slope armor... (I am sorry I couldn't resist)
This is horrible... :/. I use Hacker News as essentially my only website I use, and I use it constantly on mobile. Key information is now on random lines, often with linebreaks between things like "45 comments". It is no longer possible to zoom out to see a comment you are typing: the viewport is just broken entirely on edit pages (and it seems on many pages: the user settings page is also now largely unusable). That menu bar is just painful. What was wrong with it before?
>How can pain be objective?

Do you object that a pin prick is bad? Do you want to avoid being pricked?
How to avoid GPL in Linux commercail software?
This objection is silly. Of course if you define an encoding that maps '3' to 'the contents of all books', then you've trivially found a way to encode it in pi. But I think you're aware that the intention of the question is to find an encoding that has comparable complexity to the text of all books.

Specifically, the property we want is that if some substring of the digits of pi encodes 'all books', then you should be able to extract certain books out of substrings of that block of pi. I don't know if there's a technical term for that, but it's clear that we're imagining encoding successive paragraphs of these books in successive blocks of digits in pi.
Normality is sufficient, but I do not think it is necessary. Normality requires that if the number is represented in any base b then each each of the b possible digits occure with density 1/b. All that is needed for every work to appear is that each digit occur at least once. They do not have to occure with equal density.
There was also some work trying to get CoreCLR to compile on FreeBSD, but unfortunately the work stagnated:

https://github.com/ajensenwaud/coreclr

For those interested in a challenge, I'm sure contributions are still welcome.
"I have met people who were justifying censorship, population control and unfair business practices because they could benefit from them someday."

There's worse ahead of you, this is the same industry that employs people like weev, Eric Raymond, mencius moldbug, and (sort of) Jerry Pournelle.
Yeah, I've had similar experiences with my regional Startup Weekend franchise as well. The way they see it it's actually about coming up with a convincing pitch. This isn't of course "starting a company" or even in most cases developing a product. Instead, it's about coming up with an intriguing idea, that since you're just at the starting line yourself, can be jumped on and stolen by whoever else is there and has more startup capital than you do.
Show HN: List of Fully Remote Startups
I don't particularly have any security measures other than a secure password, full disk encryption and locking the screen after a few minutes. If you are taking a device outside of the office (e.g. to take home to work over the weekend) you should be using those anyway.

Pretty much all the services (even internal systems for staff only) I interact with are available publicly and have HTTPS, so using a VPN isn't really going to change much. Most of the company's (big multinational) chats happen over Skype, which is known to be monitored by governments so... :)

We don't deal with sensitive data like financial records or personal data, so there isn't really much to compromise. It's probably easier just to guess someone's password if you want to get access our systems as they are available publicly.
I composed a list of fully remote startups.
Not just "Remote OK" companies, but "Fully Remote" companies.

I made this list for people who / want to work in a remote team / are making products for distributed teams / want to know how to do remote work better

There can be missed companies.
Let me know if you know other companies that should be on this list.

I removed one company after reading this: http://blog.statuspage.io/we-tried-building-a-remote-team-an...
Baggage: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/313584/what-is-the-concep...

Yes there are many JVM:s but most of them aren't any good.
Meh .... one more thing to carry around.
Ask HN: What does a developer do when he doesn't have access to basic Internet?
Hello HN,

I'm a web developer/designer based out of the Southern Part of India. I've been freelancing for a few years now. Currently, I have no access to good internet where I live, and I can't move to a better place because I don't have enough funds to do so, and without a good internet access, I can't make any dough. It's like I'm stuck in a Paradox.

I don't have a wired internet access in this place, I've approached all the ISP's in my city, and they have no plans bring in internet access in the near future. I currently use a 3G Dongle, which i highly unstable, to get things done. I've been using the same for 5 years now, and I've stayed in this place for 5 years, I don't know how.

Few months back I had signed up for a remote job, and they took me on board since they liked my work, but I got fired soon after because I couldn't communicate with them properly, as my internet was constantly failing.

I have Skype call scheduled in a couple of days time, with a company, but I'm not sure if i can do it on my connection.

A friend and I had a couple of ideas, that we were working on for a while, but then we couldn't continue to, as things got from bad to worse, we couldn't support ourselves, because we don't work day jobs. I've lost all hopes of getting anything done from here, because something as basic as an Internet access, which a lot of people don't have to worry about I'm sure, is proving to be quite a challenge to deal with.

I'm sorry if it sounded like a rant, but I'm just so frustrated about my situation right now, and if the mods feel like its inappropriate, please feel free to remove it.

Has any of you faced something like this? If so, how did you get over this phase?