skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for your interest and your question!

Building KUKU, the team wanted to create an application, which would be extremely user-friendly and easy to get started, so even newcomers could start scheduling and publishing their posts in a few seconds after a login. BTW, we love Buffer and its helpful features for social media and content managers but the main mission of the KUKU team was not to build a giant social media management system like Buffer, but to win everyone's hearts with its functionality, intuitiveness and neat UI.

I would be happy if you could become a KUKU's early adopter, suggest us additional features, which would be helpful for you in future, and make a decision whether KUKU differs from Buffer.:)
Quite possibly. As the market matures and gets more competitive, people are being forced to sacrifice every value, one by one, to boost short-term profits. It seems to be a common dynamic in just about every industry.
People who insist that religion must never be mentioned, however briefly, are just as weird to me as people who insist that every activity must involve a prayer.

Maybe I'm not being clear enough. This is a long piece about the process of grieving a lost loved one that mentions religion very briefly, at the beginning, and then never again. You apparently read the first sentence and were so overwhelmed with rage that you were compelled to assume the entire piece was just gonna be the first sentence over and over again. Try reading next time.
There's value in enforcing separation of interface and implementation. But tooling can do that without needing the hair-shirt of putting a network connection between them.
How a corporate cult captures and destroys our best graduates
Microsoft Wi-Fi Service to Launch Worldwide
Where to, if I may ask? I have some small projects I'm trying to get away from SF, and the mailing lists are the hardest bit --- finding mailing list providers which support bulk import isn't easy.
One aspect of religion is belief in god, indoctrination, and so on. The other is the manual for leading a "good" life - not good as in "approved by god" but as happy, balanced, whatever. I think religion has a lot of experience with dealing with all sorts of challenges in life. I don't necessarily like all the solutions, but sometimes there is some wisdom in it.

I think to get rid of religion (which I would approve of), one shouldn't focus on the ridiculousness of believing in god. One should look at what religion provides to people, and how to replace that with something secular.
Have you thought of doing some research? There are lots of startups, but which ones would you be interested in working for? Which ones could benefit from your skills and experience?

Perhaps connecting with people in your field, e.g. through forums for the products / frameworks / languages / whatever you use might open some doors.

You might also want to edit your post, put some information in there that would attract the attention of would-be employers. As it currently stands, I think quite a few people would be put off by it.
Discourse is what we're currently looking at. They have very nice pricing options for both one-time-installs and continued hosting/support.
Yep. I rent a small room in Zone 1.
The question is: walk out and go where? Sad as it is, you can't just let everyone manage everything in truly equal fashion, because almost everyone is totally incompetent in almost everything except their profession and their hobby, and majority has a lifestyle that is not conductive to managing a happy and prospering civilization. It seems to me that you'll always need someone with a vision at the top, because you can't direct things anywhere by committee.
(sorry for the delay, I'm on CEST, and it was close to my bed time)

Thanks! Maybe I should try to treat it more like the worlds' biggest IRC channel then. I will give it another shot some day…
This test is flawed as kazinator alluded to. It is just try to find the lowest quality one and pick one of the remaining two as choice. So even with that, chance plays too much of a factor. A true test needs to be double-blind and I would wager that very very few could reliably tell a difference between wav and modern lossy codecs at 192kbit/s or higher. And I know MANY can't even tell anymore, in proper double-blind testing, at 128 or even 96kbit/s using todays better codecs of aac or ogg (mp3 improvement has stalled and currently aac as well as ogg or opus are much better).

In fact, I was JUST reading about this sort of stuff last night when I decided I didn't think I have a need to keep my archived lossless flac almbums anymore. I carefully ripped mine and many borrowed CD's to flac using EAC like 6 years ago with intention that I could get rid of the cd's themselves to Goodwill. I then just converted them to 128kbit/s mp3 for portable/phone listening. Knowing at the time 128 mp3 had its limitations I would just re-convert in the future as the writing was on the wall we were getting close to near perfect compression in regards to the limits of human hearing.

I re-converted several of my favorite albums to Nero aac a couple years ago as I could not distinguish at the time with enough certainty Nero aac (@ 192kbit/s) vs flac using good headphones and my computer. Nero has also stopped development around that time but aac has continued to advance through Apple and Fraunhofer to where we are today.

So last night I ripped all my archived albums to 160kbs iTunes aac and just deleted the archives themselves from my hard drive saving huge chunk of GB's. One, today's codecs are basically transparent at that level for 99.9% of us and two, if I ever do want a full lossless copy of an album in the future for any reason, my high speed internet connection can get them in about 1-2 minutes each (since I purchased them once already I legally owned a copy? Technically though I don't have the hard version anymore).

Then went about enjoying some music for an hour that I had forgotten about.

Some links.
More on aac: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding

more on Opus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_%28audio_format%29

Here is more info on ABx testing and codecs as well as some results of scientific listening tests done by the audiophille community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test

Particularly the most recent test in 2014 where Opus is basically transparent to very discerning eats at a surprisingly low 96kbs bitrate. Apple aac also at 96kbs as well as Ogg and latest LAME mp3(needed higher around 136kbs) are not far behind. We are just about at end-game for lossy formats.

http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
Thanks for sharing. I find that hard to imagine, but I've not been through it (or anything similar), so I would have no idea.
MinGW-w64

I tried to find a mirror but couldn't. They link to Sourceforge from their official site.
Multinational firm paid ransom in Bitcoins to hackers who broke into systems
Google Code's being shut down in January 2016: http://google-opensource.blogspot.ch/2015/03/farewell-to-goo...

There's an automated Google Code to github migration tool.
Round Room – MIT Gallery exhibition of robotic stone carving
Few theorems in economics, or political science in this case, are as disappointing as this one. Another one is Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein%E2%80%93Mantel%E2...

SMD: rational individuals do not sum up to a rational aggregate.
For those who are curious about what China is telling the Chinese about America etc, some VPN services have Chinese exits. One can also lease Chinese VPS. And usable translation is possible with https://translate.google.com/ plus the Perapera Chinese popup dictionary plug-in for Firefox.
Also, when giving money - at for example a wedding, - it's a must to have very crisp bills.
2008?

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/picasa-refresh-brings-facia...

2009 even better?

http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/picasa-adds-facial-recognit...
Show HN: Fedora 22 LXDE Screenshots
Show HN: Play Minesweeper on Twitter
DataDrawf Your One Stop Shop for Data Analysis
When a rich and famous person's spouse dies it is more sad than when it happens to a usual person. Plus some "wisdom" was shared.
Speech Analysis of Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream Speech”
Satisfaction from seeing "fruits of your labor" improve the condition of everyone is also a source of happiness. I don't think it's worse than happiness from having a good family life. I also don't think there's some kind of "altruism" that isn't ultimately just another way of getting happiness - maybe a more intellectual one, out of the feeling of doing something one considers morally good.
Yes I understand the argument about primary sources =).

My point is about the feasibility side of it (or lack of it).

Why should we have the expectation that we are going to be able to archive everything just because now information is stored digitally? Seems a bit delusional assuming that it is possible at all to archive everything... well I agree that theoretically it is possible, but in practice as we are already seeing barriers pop up all the time. I would bet ancient people were faced with the same problems when dealing with written information.
only 59% knew the name of the vice president

It doesn't help that he's been probably the most invisible Vice President in god knows how many years. I bet you if you asked the same question during the G.W. Bush years a lot more people would be able to answer.
SitePoint Announces Groundbreaking Partnership with a Book Apart
I have nothing but empathy for her grief - everything I've read about her makes her seem like an amazing woman, but I am very deeply uncomfortable with public displays of emotion like this.

I guess this is one of those dumb culturally ingrained traits, because rationally I cannot really come up with any reason why it should make me feel so uneasy, but I feel like I'm gawking when I read someone describing their grief so publicly.

I wish her and her family the best. May they find the strength to go on.
ScummVM, Inkscape and wkhtmltopdf seem to be hosted there.
Ubuntu is not an option on the dell.com.au website :-(
> There really isn't a place for people to put this other than their personal blogs.

That is a great idea! A place like that should exist.
That's a nice idea; But it is a misleading one.

Even an app for your phone that communicates with a server is a distributed system.

Even a programm performing a simple read/write operation on the file_system_ is part of a distributed system. Handling exceptions is precisely a way to deal with the uncertainty of these two systems working together.
Present or past, what happens if the client's timestamp claims to be from the future?
Russian hacker drives hard bargain with Troldash scam
Github has a stable business model which depends on their reputation as a host. As I understand it, that isn't something that could ever be said of SourceForge.

I'm not saying github will be around forever, but I highly doubt they'll make the same mistake sourceforge is making now.
Judaism does not require that a person be sad (or not sad) during that time. A person's emotions are what they are.

The mourning time is about actions, yes. But it's more about community. During the shiva a person does not work, and (if they want it) will receive many many visits from members of the community (even people they do not know personally). They can receive those visitors however they want, just as someone to talk to, people who can help, or simply as expressions of support.

People visiting someone during shiva are advised not to talk, but rather to listen. Or even simply to just be there without saying anything. If the mourner wants to talk they will, and if not they won't.

This type of community support is one of the ways Judaism has lasted so long in the face of so much persecution.
Noup. They move by themselves.

Cool page, though, keep it up!
SpannableTextView Library Update
I have now added support for regular expressions when creating spans. Come check it out and let me know what you think.

https://github.com/lawloretienne/SpannableTextView
I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).
Job Hopping Is Now the Norm
I just asked my partner if this ever happened to her. She told me that it did once, but it was a female colleague who did it to her, not a man. I asked her if a man ever did it to her, she said she couldn't remember that ever occurring.
Also true. As you are saying, growth rate will remain non-zero birth rate minus non-zero death rate.
oh, man...
In terms of moral introspection, I perceive a continuum of information quality from vague suspicion to almost complete certainty.
Morally, I would have a very, very difficult time making life-changing affirmative moral arguments to complete strangers without almost complete certainty.

And, I could never, never ascribe almost complete certainty to a piece of information not complying with the vacuum intellect test (i.e. could an intelligent person not exposed to culture reasonably be expected to arrive at a similar conclusion, if given sufficient resources for independent experimentation).

So, quantum mechanics, as weird as it is, could pass the vacuum intellect test. Could I personally see a vacuum intellect reinventing the tenets of Christianity including the concept of hell? That seems completely implausible to me. Sure, one could argue divine intervention (again) -- but that violates the vacuum constraint.

So, question: By what moral thesis does one permit one's self to venture out into the world and attempt to convince other people to redirect their limited resources onto something which is not almost completely certain?
I don't have application demographics in front of me, but I'd wager that you're correct, most people without a degree don't apply to that position.

However, that doesn't actually speak to what I was saying. My claim refers to the population of non-formally educated developers as a whole.

You might fall into the small portion of the population where you do have the requisite knowledge and skill. However, I think you're missing key element to recruiting, that took me a long time myself to understand.

Recruiting is a numbers game. Finding good people is hard, but the best way to find them is A) have competitive compensation, and B) volume. If the signal to noise ratio of college educated applicants is 50:1 and the ratio for non-college educated applicants is 100:1, then as long as there isn't a shortage of college applicants, it improves the recruitment process to require a college degree.
You got it wrong.

Discrimination is created by the laws that prohibit foreigners to work in the US by default.

Then H1b and other immigration "holes" soften that discrimination.

TulliusCicero wants to remove "holes" that allow foreigners to do work for the US companies.
Such removal of "holes" would in effect make discrimination against foreigners more severe.
Pastel Colors at Home: The Best Solutions
Emergency surveillance law faces legal challenge by MPs
I think the close relationship with Saudi Arabia is really more about oil than anything else. Saudi Arabia is probably the biggest financier of Muslim terrorism in the world, and yet is conspicuously missing from the US list of countries that fund terrorism (yet Cuba was on it until recently). Of course Saudi Arabia is also the world's largest producer of oil, and that's the primary reason why the US (and most of the oil consuming world, really) wants to be their friend. It is of course also why they have so much money to fund terrorism.
Especially because you cannot even read them without JavaScript or signing up.
Bill Gates: Keep up the momentum against child mortality
Good question... Somehow if we can get out of the hyper rationalist maximization seeking robot mentality, an answer of some form may present itself.
Accepting death helps. Not just my own but that of much more. Buddhism has some very interesting insights here. And I bring up belief deliberately, because the answer here is faith. Not certainty, but faith. Whatever it may be (leave legacy, do no harm, etc), it's doing what you believe that results in a satisfactory answer.

If you were born into a very tough situation in a war torn or third world country, you'd do what you needed to with what was given to you. While we do have a lot of material wealth and might have more free time, we still face the same great equalizer: death. As do our civilizations and our planet (and likely us, way before that).
Given the constraints, you can simply "try your best". Living without regrets might be a job to one person, a 90 hour startup to another, traveling and learning to others. Whatever your belief is, following it is the best that you could do. Ultimately you have to answer to yourself & be able to live with yourself. Personally, living selfishly, while it maximizes certain things simply goes against my core beliefs. I don't necessarily know that living less selfishly is necessarily better. But for me, it is. Your beliefs, may defy logic, and may not necessarily maximize legacy, wealth or whatever, but in having acted you will have done your best given the situation to be able to live with yourself, which is all you can ask of yourself.
Does it actually matter what these people think/vote? I'm not an expert on US voting, but I got the impression that the parties where using sophisticated software to precisely identify exactly who the swing voters are and how to easily buy their votes. Taking on the military-industrial complex doesn't seem likely when they can open a weapons factory in a specific location and buy a smaller number of votes, that have a greater impact on who gets to be president.
No, I'm pointing out the stupidity of your position. Just because the US "propped up" a handful of dictators out of the hundreds in the world doesn't mean what he's saying isn't paranoid nonsense.
Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
He died a month ago, so I don't know why you are mentioning the headlines of the last few days.

A quick google search reveals a bbc.co.uk news story about the death.
> ... when you do actually get a conversation
> going, it's hard to follow ...

That's why I wrote some scripts to do this:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/TwitterConversations/HeliumBalloon...

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/TwitterConversations/ListContainin...
Related: for weekly Haxe related news and roundups, there's http://haxe.io/
I got frustrated trying to follow various conversations on Twitter, so I wrote a tool to do this:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/TwitterConversations/HeliumBalloon...

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/TwitterConversations/ListContainin...

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/TwitterConversations/Assessment_20...
HN is a great community, with smart comments and good people.

It will only stay that way if people call out bad behavior.

Especially in a case like this where someone made an account just to post such a nasty comment.
> It's also good practice to critically examine any written piece, regardless of whom it may come from. While you may derive aesthetic and ostensibly emotional value from it, not everybody may necessarily feel that way.

That's an interesting assertion, and itself worth examining critically. Is it generally good practice to critically examine any written piece? Possibly. Probably even. Is it always good practice? Perhaps even that is true. Is it always good practice to state the outcome of your critical examination in public? At this point, if your answer is still yes, we diverge. There's a time for stating your critical analysis, and a time for keeping it to yourself.

Death is one of those topics where critical analysis is generally unwelcome. To use a slightly extreme but actually fairly relevant analogy, if someone very close to you died and you were mourning them at their funeral a few days later, and someone there presents you with some kind of critical theory of the chemical nature of grief, while it might appear to be some critical analysis of the present moment it would nevertheless be most unwelcome.

Which brings me to your second point:

> In fact, my life wasn't changed or impacted in any profound sense after reading this. You should keep in mind that not everyone may think the same way as you, or even share the same reality.

There's nothing wrong with that, but I think you can tell fairly easily from the comments that other people were moved by this post. In some, it has brought up feelings of grief that they wished to share too. In effect, the original post by Sheryl Sandberg has made this thread a place of grief for many of the commenters here.

They will have come to it from many places, both real and imagined. For me it is imagining how I would feel if my wife died, or how she might feel if I died. For others it is remembering the death of a loved one. Either way, what they express is real and deeply felt.

I think this "promotes" this thread to a place of grief, and as a human being who respects other humans' right to such places, it is reasonable to keep your critical evaluations to yourself in such a place. There are other places to express your critical views of this. Yes, you have a right to express them here if you wish, but you should also be aware of the implicit request to let this space be what it is.

I know this is the internet and so expecting people to respect other people's feelings is somewhat extraordinary here, but I guess I have a high opinion of humanity in general.
You think Steve Jobs lived a meaningful life because he sold some fucking electronic toys to rich people? You really think that's what matters?
As a non user of Facebook it's incredibly weird to see like scores assigned to every tribute or condolence comment.
I created a new post with a recent article on Quartz;

"Bill Gates: Keep up the momentum against child mortality"

Let's see how that fairs here on HN. I mean, it's Bill Gates, right? It's his agenda, and I suspect part of 'this community', no?
Mobile Internet to overtake fixed broadband in two years (UK)
Where's the attempt to submit a patch to fix the problem before disclosing?
Actually, I think I would regret all the stuff I could build if I were alive a little bit longer.

People who are creative and say otherwise are just lying (to others and to themselves probably). Or maybe, like you wrote, they are living a life they suppose they should live, instead of the life they actually want to live.