skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea, do you know any teams that might be interested in trying us out? :)
See also Jetpack, a native FreeBSD implementation of the appc spec (to be converted to OCP, I presume): https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack
but you can legitimately dislike someone, Kanye is incredibly conceited. I appreciate his music (well first 4 anyway) but his attitude sucks. Even at glastonbury he was stopping the performance to tell the crowd they were witnessing the greatest rock star ever. That just isnt true and if he actually believes it then he is making more of an idiot of himself.

You dont decide you are the greatest rock star, the people do, and they discuss it for a long time before they come to that conclusion. You need to be compared to historical greats to even come close. The only person I see talking about Kanye in that way is Kanye.

I should not need to wade through hours of footage to see him portrayed in a favourable light, if he acts a dick when he knows he is being watched/recorded/broadcast then it is a safe assumption to make that he is generally a dick.
Nope, apparently I'm not using it. Sorry.
Man who hates Google concludes "Everyone hates Google," writes blog post predicting their demise.
> while it's a significant fraction of current revenue

That's why. They aren't doing anything out of the goodness of their hearts. If there's no money involved, at least tangentially, it's not something they are going to do.
I agree. The site does not scroll 'natively' (has inertia) on iOS 8.3 (iPad 3)
This piece is so inflammatory and (from what I can tell) stupid that it seems worthy of a flag.
(BTW, for those who miss him, Jeff is alive and well, but was super-busy with client work last week.)
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Yep, a big factor to consider here is that while Uber has a head start, Google has a massive chest derived from other products and political clout to deal with the regulatory piece.

They can absolutely price Uber and others out of the market on this if they felt like it.
calc(1) on linux/bsd/etc is pretty good, and will work for most stuff. The "natural language" bit is not present though.
Yep, wasn't as highly voted when I posted this (or my sorting settings are wrong -- I'm never sure what 'best' does). Thanks.
So we are going to get a half-baked me-too search engine in Spotlight (yet you can't even search properly in AppStore), similar to a half-baked me-too Facebook in Google+, a half-baked me-too search engine in Bing, half-baked me-too Uber in RideWith, etc. Are all major technology companies going insane recently? Did creative folks escape and only unimaginative ones stay?
Apple is really just taking the low-hanging fruit of search results (like Wikipedia results and such) and "stealing" them from Google. I'm sure it is hurting Google a bit, but that's about it.
reddit seems to have a fascination with Kanye's "thug face". It's practically a meme where he's jovial and happy until the camera is put on him.
It's the way the communism is required to work. If everybody is doing why should not you ?
It is definitely beneficial to learn multiple languages. I felt bad for my friend because she had taken the two concurrently.
I did not tried to justify any action, just provided what I remember of the times I met with them. I don't have enough info to analyze what they did but for sure I'm not a fan of seeing surveillance tools to governments killing people or freedom. For my political visions I would not sell even to US since I find death penalty not acceptable.
Not specifically tech-related, but as far as general knowledge goes, the BBC's "In Our Time" with Melvyn Bragg is about as robust as they come.
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I actually have software that'd be a decent fit for this use case. I'm working on bringing it to market for VoIP companies to use in troubleshooting networks. (Hint: It's super effective. At one place we cut ticket response times down by an enormous factor.) And one benefit I'm planning on adding is lawful intercept. A lot of VoIP companies are sitting at risk of getting a valid warrant and having no way to respond. Some companies sell technical insurance (pay monthly, they'll overnight an intercept box if you get a warrant) for this exact reason and it's not cheap. Only problem is CALEA has this dumbass weird format to provide the data in. But hey, that's worth like $100K a year per company or so...

But it'd also be rather well suited for a government wanting to monitor connections. Just some scaling issues. My thought process is currently going "Well I could definitely use the money. And that'd put me in a better position to compete. Otherwise another competitor will do it. Or worse, an open source version will step up to the scale."

I'm not sure it's much different than selling general services to the public. A lot of irrational people are going to buy your product and perhaps that might propel them to success. Taken to its conclusion, I'd have a super limited market as most people are idiots so given a choice, I'd only want to help a very limited range of people. I just have to put my personal feelings aside if I'm to deal with anyone in the real world.
No one has publicly said why she was fired. We only know it happened rapidly. It happened shortly after a Jesse Jackson AMA that went way off the rails, but that could be coincidence.
I will not trust 'el mundo' too much in this case, it is known for its 'creative' writting. In any case the spanish government seems to be very alarmed with this situation, maybe because comparatively they did very few, really late, and with obvious discomfort for protecting the people in distress.

Just a personal opinion. I will not expect a lot of support for Varufakis or Greece in official newspapers or public spanish TV just right now.
As I understand it: nobody knows why Victoria was fired, and speculating will probably do more harm than any possible good.
When Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done
I've actively avoided digging "deeper" into the ego maniac that is Kanye West, but I do enjoy pointing out that he tried to rip off Aphex Twin by lifting a sample and not paying for the usage rights. Kanye is quite an inspiration though, in that if he can get ahead in this world with the limited talents and acidic presence, then there's hope for other, better people to achieve influence. I mean, it's not really difficult to find a snippet of music, loop it, add a beat that sounds like it came pre-programmed on an MPC, and claim to be a production genius, but it definitely takes some hubris.
>> two jurors were dismissed after one accused the other of trying to poison her lunch.

Is it common for both jurors to be dismissed in such a case? Or is it determined on a case by case basis?
I suspect that's the case. I just wanted to highlight that she's actually addressing these questions (which is an excellent step forward from a few days ago).
A few more bits of info from Laura Thompson's presentation, that was mentioned: shipping features can be done even faster if they are done in a modular way, as addons. Firefox supports restartless addons, which means the browser could download an addon and enable it immediately.

Together with work on improving addon APIs (APIs for CSS features were discussed, for example) this could be very interesting.
Greece Just Taught Capitalists a Lesson About What Capitalism Really Means
You have to pitch tournament organizers. In exchange for a share of the savings tournament organizers mandate that teams use your service (could be hundreds of teams if it's a big tourney).

There are a lot of little companies doing exactly this, and tourney organizers are used to being pitched on it.

These little companies just put up a cheap Wordpress and use a service like Alliance on the backend, which is basically room blocking & invitations as-a-service. Not a particularly large barrier to entry. However, your site is by far the nicest & obviously has a lot of other advantages by virtue of YC.
I was just leaving work when I wrote that; I was on my way to do it now, but then I saw someone already opened an issue.

Keep up the great work! :D

cc: @Zikes @asurma
May I ask why you need to trust this from that standpoint? With other Google services I agree with the concern. In this case, if they discontinued, you revert to your old way of commuting. I don't imagine anyone doing anything stupid like selling their car over this.

It's like Shopping Express for me. Was AMAZING while it was free and I used it every week. Now I don't because the fee is in place. Since Amazon pantry is not a good fit for my needs either, I just do things like in ancient times and pick things up at the grocery store while I'm out running errands and spend a few more minutes.
Show HN: Themes and Plugins for Zendesk
We have been creating themes and plugins for Zendesk Help-Centers at http://www.diziana.com and http://www.zendesktheme.com.

I wanted to seek some feedback on the idea and current business model.

We offer bunch of themes and a few plugins for free (attribution). We see a lot of free downloads, and only a few premium sales.

I would like to know if we can tweak business model, does yearly subscription work for this kind of stuff?

We are working to improve our themes, create plugins and apps to solve problems and fill gaps.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Disclaimer: I work for company behind Diziana.
Agreed that they have a massive information advantage over the casual investor, as this is their job. My argument is not hedge fund vs. casual investor, it's hedge fund vs. hedge fund.

They are all equally-intelligent individuals with the same ivy-league degrees and expensive equipment. The only differentiating factor in this saturated market is network strength.

Not arguing the legality of trading on insider information either. The laws are notoriously unclear, hard to enforce, and subsequently broken because information is harder to track than money, cars, and drugs. At the end of the day I would appeal to an ethical duty not to impoverish your fellow man and rend the fabric of the society that brought you up, rather than the flimsy and unenforceable definitions set forth in the legal code.

On the last note, to lighten the tone: any budding hedge fund managers should consider taking time off to sunbathe more :)

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20131013-cuban-...
I've been on reddit for a few years, but never really took in how toxic the community is until I started following this. I cannot for the life of me understand how seriously people take that site and the things that go on there. It's like middle school lunchroom politics.
Is Uber any better? They are their own cartel, much more powerful than taxi drivers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771551
When I looked at his account during the height of the anger, Alexis's every comment was below -1,000. He got downvoted hard.
Meet the 17-year-olds behind Paisley Games
It's software sold to law enforcement/intelligence agencies, and it is designed explicitly to plant false evidence. Even post-Snowden I think that qualifies as interesting.
Alcohol, used since time immemorial; Ether, since the sixteenth century; Psychedelics such as peyote and psilocybin mushrooms, used by the Native Americans since before Columbus?

Nope, laughing gas from the Eighteenth Century; hardly our oldest. Good article; wrong title.
The languages used at MIT nowadays in EECS undergraduate education are Python and Java.
I also use materializecss after having tried many others. It's the best!
For the record, IP source routing has its use cases. It's done via firewall or high-end router policy, and it's not a federated protocol. but it's handy.
There are certainly legitimate complaints to be made about how Reddit empowers the volunteer work of moderators, but that is the least of the complaints that are clogging the site right now. There are three major objections being raised loudly and repeatedly:

1) Moderators, who provide a huge portion of the value of the site, are treated with disrespect by the organization.

2) An employee whose availability was useful to a few major subreddits was dismissed without warning, leaving those subreddits in the lurch, which is emblematic of the above disrespect.

3) Ellen Pao is CEO.

These are presented in decreasing order of relevance to the actual problem, and increasing order of urgency to those driving the discussion.

Pao needs to do an AMA. A small number of users is upset at her stance in favor of diversity and against sexism, and because she's historically refused to directly engage a community that's gotten used to having direct access to movie stars and presidents, those few have been able to convince many more that she's a cold bitch and doesn't deserve respect. She needs to be on the front page all day gracefully responding to the revolting things being said about her so that normal users can remember that she's an actual person and not an anonymous force of nature advancing evil in the world.

Edit: Seems that's what she's doing right now.
Location: Atlanta

Remote: Yes, currently working fully remote for 3 years

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to come onsite if in the area.

Technologies: UI/UX design development (WPF, C#, Xamarin, HTML/CSS etc.)

Experience: Specializing in UI/UX design architecture and development for 12+ years.

Resume:https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgephillip

Email: gphillip (at) dualhat (dot) com
Who wants to do one of these in NY?
While very interesting, I don't think a unique brain wave pattern is indicative of the mechanism. I'm curious how anesthetics are dosed and why monitoring brain activity during use is apparently a new thing - it seems like a good idea.
Meddelare – Open source, privacy aware social share buttons with counters
Wayland is in there but its not primary.
IPv6 Tutorial
Could not agree more.

Firefox has traditionally not been very popular on Mac for this very reason. They've gotten better at imitating OS X slightly, but even today it's still out of the question for me (and I suspect many Mac users) to use Firefox. It feels really awful to use. Whilst Chrome and Safari have nice native scrolling, rubber banding and smooth zooming, just like any other native app, Firefox feels jarring. It only just supports gestures (there's no nice animation like in Safari or Chrome).

My day-to-day browser is Safari. Not because it's faster or technically better (it really isn't) but because it's fully native and integrates properly with the system, e.g. it integrates properly with the downloads folder (showing the progress bar on the file and on the folder icon) and it looks and feels like any other Mac app. Chrome may be faster, Firefox may be more extensible - but I choose Safari because it works properly with the OS.

I really love Mozilla and I would love to use Firefox. I really hope they go with a OS-specific native shell - although I suspect they'll go with building the UI in HTML/CSS. But if they do, there's a good chance I'll switch.
Genius and ruthless business move on their part if that was indeed the case.
Awesome post! Very useful to have the inside scoop. There was a recent posting on "Ask HN" about pressure to quickly succeed. The exact quote was "I'm 22 and I feel if I don't hit it big within the next 2 years I probably won't". [1, 2] Success is a slow road, as this post so nicely illustrates, you need to constantly be putting in the hours! It's easy to browse HN/startup eco-system and only see the career highlight reels and think: "jeez, I will never be successful", or "Man, how did they get to this point person, must just be a natural", or "I can never be like that". But, this behind the scenes view shows you what success looks like on a day-to-day basis (hard work + passion + education + tons of practice + over many many years). What is funny, is that we often only see the end result, and just assume it was an overnight success.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837493

[2] sorry to use this as an example, but looks like new account / throwaway
The part that bothers me most is the box shadow increasing when you click a button. It's the exact opposite of what is intuitive.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9839466
Smooth scrolling seems to be broken on iOS.

"-webkit-overflow-scroll: touch" seems to be missing on the main content if I had to guess.
It's like saying in a Windows 10 thread you dislike the MetroUI/ModernUI design.

I prefer the material design in Android 5+. And I like the iOS 7+ design and Win7 Aero design. But I cannot live with the ModernUI of Win8/XboxOne - who choose those ugly colors?
Anyone find the definition of `functional` a little bit odd?

Is there a reason why a "no-op" or identity function should be considered imperative? Or why a program must be imperative if at least one post-execution state is also a valid pre-execution state?
Ask HN: How to overcome the feeling that everything has already been done?
I remember clearly that when I first built a "site" in Front Page (maybe in '98) I thought to myself: "ONCE I REALLY LEARN THIS I CAN DO ANYTHING!!!111".

15 years later and I'm a web developer with a lot of free time looking for any opportunities, and I just can't get myself to build anything, because every single idea seems to be already done.

I know people used to say this decades ago, and I know there's always room for innovation, or improving existing things, etc. But I just can't get motivated enough.

Any tips for getting excited about projects, knowing that there's a 99% chance the thing you are working on have already been built or is currently being developed in a much better way for at least other 30 companies?

Any books or articles related to this are welcome.
Reddit CEO Pao Under Fire as Users Protest Removal of Executive
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> This is much more about defense than it is about offense.

What you seem to mean by this is "I don't believe we can prevent threats from being sent".

Harassment is also a cultural issue. A vast amount of people live among a circle of friends who believe that sending things like death threats in anonymous emails is something that can be done light-heartedly. It's what transpires when people downplay the situation by saying "They can't be serious" or to "Just ignore them".

You mix up the need to stop an offender in action, with the need to remove the situations in which someone becomes an offender. Changing this "acceptable threat" culture is the offense you describe as less relevant, but it's key to a long-term change.
There's nothing wrong with designing custom UI elements, so long as they're done properly on each platform. For example, Safari's tabs are completely custom (as far as I know) - they can't be used in other applications, they aren't part of Cocoa - but they're tastefully designed and they work well.
How do you weigh 8 hours of idle time vs 8 hours of driving time in the long term ownership cost of one of those vans, though?
On the other hand forcing newcomers to learn the warts of ES5 when they could learn what is becoming a reasonably elegant language isn't ideal either. Two scoping rules, for example.

An ES-latest runtime + transpilers would be all that browsers needed.
yes, I thought the same exact thing, but then I've read this:

> better evidence generation

https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/commit/7059fb04a189...

probably those are just placeholders but the intent seems at least a bit shady
Maybe all banks aren't the same. I choose the one that seemed to be the one that would be more fun to work at. Also probably depends on what country you are living in.
As I said, I do believe that if the formulation is abusive anything is possible. My quip is that logic puzzles shouldn't necessarily follow classical logic -- instead it should roughly be understood as "assume the statement is sincere and infer from that". Perhaps that's not the convention though.

Here's a system of logic where the puzzle has a solution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic#Kleene_and_...

If your logic system doesn't accept an inconsistent statement when they may occur, I tend to blame the logic system rather than reject reality. Here's a paradox illustrating my point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox

(and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes#Logic)
> She needs to be on the front page all day gracefully responding to the revolting things being said about her so that normal users can remember that she's an actual person and not an anonymous force of nature advancing evil in the world.

Because that worked so well for kn0thing...
I know you are trolling, but people legitimately are asking this question so I will respond.

>I can't even get a straight answer as to why they're upset.
>they're
>they

Reddit is 160 million people because it is a huge online community. Calling them children and referring to them as a contiguous unit of alike individuals is laughable. So there isn't a straight answer why some subset of 160 million people are angry but a lot of them are for various reasons.

>I have no need to dislike Ellen or feel slighted by the woman being fired

Brendan Eich was way more qualified to run Mozilla than Pao is to run reddit. He was really fucking good at his job and is one of the smartest engineers in tech. He couldn't effectively do his job and had to resign. It doesn't matter if the backlash was fair, it was impacting the company negatively. Pao is not the right person to run reddit, hasn't made great decisions, is followed by personal scandal and is generally detested by the community(which is reddits product). She has to step down whether you feel slighted about it or not.
I'm not using it except to find Terminal and pin it on a fresh OS X install.

This is probably just more of an added convenience for the Apple OSs to assist with the overall UX. Reading more into it is speculation.
I don't understand this mindset. You only have 4 years to learn whatever they teach in college, compared with 40+ years if you go into industry. To me, the value of my CS degree was the exposure to a breadth of important ideas across the entire field of computing—thing that I would never have the luxury of exploring while under a deadline. None of the particular tools and workflows I used in college were of any meaningful value after 6 months in industry where the workflows are invariably more sophisticated to cope with the messy nature of long-lived real-world projects.
If subject X is fundamentally about underlying subject Y, then reasoning using the tools of subject Y might help you to have powerful (fundamental) insights into subject X.

I take your point, nonetheless.
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As a non-OS X user, I would very much prefer Firefox developer time to be concentrated on things other than platform-specific UI code.
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HN is small and heavily weighted towards programming-related types. You don't see that kind of behaviour widely upvoted in the smaller programming-related subreddits either.

I'm a heavy Reddit user who steers well clear of the default-sub cesspits, and I basically never see it.
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I don't use Twitter, so I have no idea. But each company, despite their freewheeling public images, has a right to dictate how their services are used. If that means adopting a stronger stance on these toxic elements in order to improve their user experience (and attractiveness to advertisers), it's probably best to do it.

Reddit is not beholden to to their users to the degree that those users probably believe. Nor are they beholden to some imagined ethos about being a place where all speech is protected.
Can XUL/XBL just be ``compiled-down" to proper HTML, or is there also a security issue in that Gecko allows XUL/XBL to break rules needed to securely render HTML?
That is not a problem with animal studies. The control groups typically eat however much they want, whereas the control group is starved.