skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main issue I have with them is "brave" libraries developers who think it is a great idea to overload ->, . and delete. This can create issues where the code you read doesn't actually do what it look to do. I know about smart pointers and all, but really, those "features" are misused.
Someone explain how this works!!

EDIT: I understand the mirroring, but not the DNS.

There isn't really a .google TLD, right??
Shit, that's a lot cheaper, faster and easier. I just spent 3+ hours trying to get Twilio to do the same thing. Thanks a lot!
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While I agree that this was worth more than 5k, I'd like to think the delete functionality is only setting a flag and not physically removing all traces of the video, if that's the case then it'll be trivial to undo the damage.
You'd have Firefox running on top of Chrome, so that doesn't make that much sense.
For a second there I thought we might get a thread that mentions Underscore without Lodash being plugged.

Oh well, maybe next time.
>> "...cattle occupy the same ecological niche as the bison did 150 years ago, with a similar environmental impact..."

Montana boy here. Even if I concede for purposes of argument that cattle and bison are ecologically interchangeable ungulates (debateable at best), surely we can all agree that it is not the cattle but rather the cattlemen primarily responsible for reshaping the natural environment in the American West, by bulldozing stock ponds, stringing barbed wire over the range, drilling wells, poisoning coyotes, supplanting native grasses with snakeweed and cheatgrass, and most importantly by enforcing a monoculture of cattle. Nature abhors a monoculture almost as much as it abhors a vacuum, and you would never find a bison-era Western landscape with only a single species of charismatic megafauna.

Nobody objects to a smallholder's spread of a dozen head of angus, but when millions of acres are given over to beef production alone, it's broadly disingenuous to claim that the environmental impact of cattle is isomorphic to that of bison on a systems level.

Cattle country today looks like this [0] and this [1], for miles and miles and miles.

Bison country looked like this [2].

It's hard to see how those landscapes are even approximately interchangeable.

[0] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HA027__1MHK0-1...

[1] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HA030__1MHK0-1...

[2] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HA031__1MHK0-2...

NB. All these pictures are taken from an excellent and rather relevant piece of journalism that ran in Harpers here (paywall):
http://harpers.org/archive/2015/02/the-great-republican-land...

And I stole my list of rancher's sins from Ed Abbey.
Most cults and religions are much more organized. One comment on Mefi yesterday caught my eye:

"I heard about that memo a week ago. It is a total shitshow over there. The worst is the customer service reps, who now set their own schedule. As a result, nobody is there during peak hours"

Considering that Zappos' customer service is pretty much their claim to fame, this is going to get interesting real fast.

I've also seen some mentions that Zappos was adopting a "surge" pricing system for hourly employees to entice the reps to work the less desirable shifts. I'm really curious about this part.
Wow, search results are also mirrored, impressive!
Read this: http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/meteor_js_vs_the_mean_s...
It seems there is no downvote button for stories, per the FAQ.

That said, I wouldn't flag this, just try to push it off the first page. People can share what they like.
Firings will continue until morale improves!
That's pretty awesome.

Implemented with:

transform: scaleX(-1);
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18083835/how-many-concurr...

2500 subscriptions per minutes on a shitty $5 digital ocean droplet (in 2013). Don't put the cart before the horse, 99.99% of applications don't reach even 100 concurrent users on a regular basis.
all they did is

body {
transform: rotateY(180deg);
}
body {
transform: rotateY(180deg);
}
Reminds me of elgooG[1], which was used to bypass Chinese firewall after Google was banned there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElgooG
Why do you think that cooking is objectively better than having an expert do the cooking for you?

Many people enjoy e.g. watching TV than cooking, and there's nothing wrong with that. More power to them.
I don't disagree... But all they Zappos need is pretty much a basically functioning employee. Not any management value added. They can formulate these cells to expel any non-hackers* (those who dont meet their reqs).

You want to find some followers among the jaded, found a cult/church with a twist. It's vaguely familiar but oh so different and full of vigor. Not staid and old. Those naysayers just don't get it.

* the other meaning of hacker.

In other words it gives grunt work a new shiny sheen.
You could put a copy on Evernote (or a similar platform) which can then be viewed even on a smartphone, if you carry one.

This is what I've done for a text file I've maintained since 2004 which has a log of every factor VIII injection I have received since as a haemophilia patient. It's in CSV format so I can easily import it into Excel to look for patterns in my bleeding episodes, which I do occasionally. I've been able to show it to doctors when I'm travelling and they need some convincing that they can give me an IV shot as an outpatient.

I only wish I had kept something similar for my weight over the years.
transform: scaleX(-1);
Python is used very extensively in scientific computing, it's used a bunch in data science, it's often used for build or shell scripts by sysadmins or SREs, and it's used extensively by entrepreneurs for prototyping software systems.

Web development is an interesting and very visible profession because the people who do it talk a lot about it on the web (naturally enough), and it's true that JS and Rails are somewhat more popular for it. But in terms of the breadth of what you can do with Python, it's a lot more.
I have always considered a good manager to be a service to me as an employee, not a burden. Luckily, most of them were. When they stopped to be, it usually proved a good sign to look for the next gig, because something is rotten in that kingdom.
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If you're somewhat familiar with marathons or have a flexible mind, it's not misleading. Check out this blog that analyses different height profiles of marathons: http://50-is-the-new-30.blogspot.com/2013/05/elevation-compa...
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And it's an iframe of https://www.google.com/?igu=2 which is the page with that CSS (and doesn't serve the "X-Frame-Options" header).
Can anyone actually access this? Is this an April Fools prank?
Yes there is, it was picked up by google as part of the recent auctions of global TLDs.
> There isn't really a .google TLD, right??

There is. For I think ~$250K you can get a .burningfrog TLD too.
That's exactly what I'm criticizing: these policies get the incentives all wrong and destroy socially beneficial improvements.

Why restrict use type X when you're just going let people blow as much as they want on use type Y? (Like restricting showers but not lawns/farms or bags but not candy wrappers.)

If you want to subsidize a utility, subsidize the first N units per person and let the rest be full price; then you wouldn't have to play whack-a-mole with every possible wasteful use.

And why restrict the use of something (like bulbs) when people are willing to pay more than the magnitude of the externality? While incandescent bulbs may be bad, they're not infinitely bad. This policy destroys all value that could be created by people's willingness to pay net of the environmental cost. Why argue that it makes sense?

None of it makes sense, even and especially on environmental grounds.
Looks false to me. Only script I don't recognize is "uptolike.com".
The question is: what is "CriOS"?

Edit: Ah, it seems to be used in the "Chrome for iOS" user agent string.

Weird that it can't handle iframes(?). Or what's the reason for the JS on com.google that redirects only the "CriOS" user agent to www.google.com without framing?
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I know this is supposed to be an april's fool joke, but dang, it reminded me of how much I hate this new unlimited TLD crap. I don't really have a good reason, I am just resistant to change I guess.
Amazon was a bookstore. Now they are much more. Nothing says Zappos can not so the same, at least in theory.
.google TLD: http://www.google.com/registry/faqs.html
.google is a TLD

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/google.html
Zappos sounds pretty good to me. I work in a similar environment and I love it. There is so much joy in going to work and being your own boss and sharing in the company success. Yes, I have a manager, but my manager doesn't (can't?) tell me what to do or what to work on. My manager acts as a coach/facilitator/personal-agent instead of manager-as-god. It sounds unworkable until you work at a place that executes it well and now I can't imagine going back to a traditional corporate structure.

I'm not sure what the pre-reqs to executing it well are. Probably benevolent-ruler CEOs who own enough of the company to keep anarchy from developing (e.g., Gabe @ Valve). Or at least investors who are willing to get on board.
the likelihood of someone misunderstanding what they've read still exceeds the chance that they've uncovered ways to further optimize.

It's also worth noting that many of the "I had access to my own records and it was great" stories are of autodidacts who already know how to consume and digest complex information. The first story in the article is of a PhD student. Not everyone is like this, and that's worth remembering. A simple example is the vaccines-create-autism movement, full of people who aren't digging deep into the treatment or research. They see their child is affected, they are upset, and so they look for something to blame and rail against, causing lots of damage for other people.

People certainly feel a lot more in control if they can see what the experts are thinking about their condition, but there is some selection bias in the stories that accompany these articles. On the whole I absolutely think medical records should be shared with patients (except in certain cases, eg discussion of certain mental illnesses), but whatever guidelines we come up with should remember we're talking about an issue affecting "the general public" not "PhD students and medical scientists".
Yes, there is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/google_turns_on_goog...

Try eg. http://nic.google.
Atom is in-browser. It just so happens to ship with its own browser (Atom-Shell is based on Chromium)...
Despite having the same google.com cookies, it doesn't show me as logged in. I guess they didn't have time to finish that in their UI reversal/mirroring.
good eye
My wordpress installs all have a custom directory structure. Core WP files are in /wp and a separate directory contains the plugins, themes and uploads folders. You can configure WP to do this, and Roots Bedrock does this for you. Not really a security feature, though. But it is nice to not have your plugins and themes in a subdirectory of WP since bedrock updates plugins and wp via composer.
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Maybe this paper[0] on using Applicatives for performance and concurrency in Haskell's Haxl will help.

Also note that there is a feature proposal[1] for Applicative Do notation.

0: http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/haxl-icfp14.pd...

1: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ApplicativeDo
It should manage drawing in OneNote ok, though.
Aha!

Time for a Kickstarter!
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Generally, on pages/domains where you may provide users with a sign in box (such as the Google Accounts login page), you want to disallow other sites from iframing your page to prevent a clickjacking attack – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking

So Google.com busts out of cross-domain iframes by default to prevent attacks like this.
My guess would be that this is just a simple CSS change. Not being logged in is probably intentional since users could potentially take some destructive actions by mistake with the backwards UI.
I suspect their sandbox doesn't allow code generation since they statically verify you aren't using instructions they can't protect against and that would break it. That means that while you could probably get a Firefox running, it'd be with a Javascript interpreter, not a JIT.
We have to consider the opportunity cost. Focusing attention on the minor problem is a mistake, even if it "helps". When a patient comes in with a gunshot wound and a paper cut, we have to be smart about the triage.
That's exactly the question I'd. My impression was that most people enrolling at top 100 or so colleges don't pay much of tuition out of the pocket because they get funded via combination of financial aid, loan and campus jobs. Is the situation totally different at middle-of-the-pack colleges? Average student loan in US is about $25K and that seems fairly manageable[1]. I believe high sticker price is just a way to do tiered pricing by universities so that rich people pays the max possible amount. There are lot of parents actually doing double jobs so they do 509 college funds and I always question them why you really need it?

1 - http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/24/the-average...
If 80% of posters on a thread about diets say vegetarian is healthier, and 80% of posters on a thread about fun recommend riding a motorcycle, it doesn't follow that there is a single HN zeitgeist saying both things. A simpler explanation is that there are two groups which speak up in different situations. Those groups don't necessarily overlap much.
I love C# and cross-platform mobile development
Nice! We already heavily use Twilio and I will be adding this functionality to two of our apps.
What don't you like about it? Finally things are categorized.
Could you elaborate on this unlimited TLD? I'm a bit out of the loop (but had heard of the .porn TLD!). What's going on? Isn't this going to cause a lot of confusion and compound the issue of domain squatters?
Well, it seems like this is doubling as a promo for "Inbox", which I hadn't heard of before today. It seems similar to unroll.me.
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Twilio's Telegram API

https://www.twilio.com/API/telegram
We're doing a similar thing but with a Raspberry Pi that I've stripped down so it runs nothing but a plain text editor. It's just what we had lying around when the issue came to a head. There was the temptation of the Web, but even the fonts and settings of a regular word processor were too distracting. He's happy with the solution. It's a little bit geeky and weird, which is an attraction for him.
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Holder announces new limits on civil asset forfeitures
Yeah it's a prank
Product is Bigger Than Celebrity (and other news from Jay Z's launch)
com.google is a different domain...

[edit] tried logging in and it redirected me to google.com. seems as though com.google is just an april fools/CYA move.
What's particularly galling is when the UX305-XYZ has a different chipset or wireless controller or whatever than the UX305-ABC. You try the XYZ and think, "great! It's got Intel wireless, so I can run BSD without a problem", then you get the ABC and, no, it's on Broadcom for that sub-line.
I still feel like The Right Thing for techies to do should be to oppose NewTLDs, although I have no idea why. I personally find them repugnant.
And speed has got to be a good bit slower at night.
I don't argue that it makes sense. I think it's bad policy. Quit subsidizing. Internalize the externalities. Let the market figure it out.

I don't want to subsidize a utility. If I want to subsidize the poor, I'll give them money and let them figure it out. Maybe they'd rather spend it on better insulation. Or a sweater. Subsidizing the utility does exactly that. It doesn't subsidize the poor.
Hi all, I'd be happy to answer any questions about this service (I'm the Silicon Valley Detective).
In case you're wondering, yes, there are custom TLDs now. They're called gTLDs.

http://www.thedomains.com/2012/06/13/google-applies-for-101-...
Just stop drinking soda. Switch to water. No excuses. You can do it and you must start NOW
I think it's because it's kind of fragmenting the name space. Now instead of having to remember one thing (the domain name) you might have to remember two.
There sure is a .google generic TLD:

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/google.html
For anyone who was wondering why Google spent so much time and money acquiring the .google gTLD, you now have your answer!
http://com.google
you know you are fucked then day when a gTLD happens to conflict with your corporate pseudo-TLD
I suppose technically the UI is already available given they give you the html/css/js in your browser (though perhaps not for redistribution, although this is a bit of thorny argument, given how the web in general deals with caching/proxies. I suppose if typekit can both give, and not give you fonts, a company can both give, and not-give you js/html/css).

Would be very nice to see this opened up with their blessing, though. Knowing that a viable self-host alternative exist, makes paying for the service (and supporting future development) a much better (and easier) business decision.

I'd liken this to Dabble DB that just disappeared when Twitter acqua-hired the team. Everyone (that wanted) got their data out, but couldn't keep their work flow -- which is a pretty expensive hit to take.
> especially when your OS is both a desktop and mobile OS

I'm curious: does anybody besides OS developers want this to be the case? I don't want the way I interact with a tablet to be the way I interact with a laptop or a desktop.
Your grandmother picked a platform to be secure? Grandmothers these days...
It doesn't show you logged in because it's hosted on com.google, not goole.com.

As for the UI it's a simple css transfom: scaleX(-1) on the body. It's not a specific 'reverse' UI.
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Anyone can apply for and potentially get, a top level domain. If you can prove that you deserve it more than everyone else, then it's yours (sort of).

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en
could you explain what isomorphic means in this context? what set is mapped to another set? what meaning for the set is maintained?
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Depends. My development machine is a laptop with 4G of RAM (but a terabyte hard drive). Then again I rarely even fire up X11 when I'm programming, so my needs are pretty sparse.
You won't regret ditching the soda. My experiences:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080411090613/http://www.fluidsc...
New TLD's are just a money grab for ICANN. Every big business will be having to buy its name in each new TLD.
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DDP is very simple. Think of it like REST for websockets. Here is the project page: https://www.meteor.com/ddp and here is the spec: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP.... If you have any questions, post them on forums.meteor.com and we'll try to help you out.

It's not "tightly coupled" to MongoDB; Mongo is simply the only database that livequery (https://www.meteor.com/livequery) has implemented support for at the moment. There are community projects for MySQL and PostgreSQL, as well as partially complete drivers for Redis and Elastic. Official (My)SQL support is on the roadmap and will probably appear later this year.
You can choose to use Meteor's hosting or you can do it yourself. There is a great open source Product Hunt/Hacker News clone application built on Meteor called Telescope - http://www.telesc.pe/ - I am self hosting it for a site that I run about Javascript, I haven't needed to do anything except styling tweaks, but it is running on a simple DigitalOcean VPS quite fine.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan

Specifically about Martian colony and how decisions were made there.
History repeating. Here's Harpers from 1947 on the exact same topic: http://home.comcast.net/~mdevoto/AGAINST.htm
Is the race supposed to honor James Earl Ray? That's fucked up.
I realllllly don't get why anyone is mad about the new tld concept in itself. domain names are the ultimate in rent seeking.

Now, as to people buying up rights to gTLDs and charging way too much...
This has nothing to do with gtld, but I think what bothers me most is that domains are in the wrong order. It should be com.ycombinator.news or com.google
thanks for letting me know - is it better now? I just enabled oplog.
shouldn't it be http://moc.elgoog?
TLD Source: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/google.html

Mirror implemented with:

body {
transform: scaleX(-1);
}
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The goal isn't to get people to drink less at restaurants, it's to not serve water without people asking, which often ends up not being consumed and just flushed.
I'm surprised to hear this. I think most techies hate how crowded the .com space is (especially with domain squatters).

I'm thrilled to see a dramatic increase in namespace.
Yes, TLDs should be opposed, for lack of a better reason we would need to change the way we look at domains! Earlier it was simple. google.com, facebook.com now it is weird com.facebook, it would feel as if the web has become a java namespace :D :P

and I think java namespace conventions need to be changed after this :P

and it is silly
Sure, and Google normally does disable iframing — the particular URL that com.google frames is configured to not serve the X-Frame-Options HTTP, allowing this trick to work. Clicking "Sign In" breaks out of the frame (target="_top").

But that goes for all browsers — I wonder why is Chrome for iOS is being singled out here?
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Incorrect! Since most mortgage payments are >95% interest in the first few years, you could easily reduce your taxable income by 30-40% without a large mortgage.

You're also forgetting that the US doesn't have a national sales tax or high taxes on gasoline.

I would agree that the highest tax states in the US aren't that different than the lowest tax states in Canada (income tax only), my own person experience tells me that the US, on average, has a much lower tax burden than countries like Canada. And many jobs pay a higher salary.

Also the US brackets kick in at higher incomes. In Canada the highest bracket (29%) is over $136K. In the US, the highest bracket is 35%, but it doesn't kick-in until you earn more than $375K per year.
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