skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing is that emails come at no extra cost whereas SMS will typically cost you if you go outside of network.

I have some expat friends here (Japan) who are so used to sending SMS in the states that they continue to send them here, accumulating extra-charges left and right.
Great app! I was clicking much too fast on the shuffle button and it took a while for the next site to come up. This made me click on the shuffle button again, leading to more slowness. Perhaps adding some kind of progress indicator to let the user know the next site is loading would be useful.

The design is intuitive too.
It's possible that your users are using the site itself as a distraction. You could A/B test to see whether ads keep visitors from coming back.

Or are you thinking that ads or affiliate links would make the database less valuable?
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I got to live without wifi for a while after the earthquake (I live in Santiago). It was some serious withdrawal.
Interesting. I actually like the handwritten aspect. I'd agree with you if there was a lot of text. But, since it's limited, I think it gives a personal / apple-like touch.
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In other news, this is called the "biased sample" fallacy.

1. Sample S, which is biased, is taken from population P.

2. Conclusion C is drawn about Population P based on S.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/biased-sample.html
It was. Thank you for noting that. It was your comment that made me look into window.onload and scrape it, replacing with more sophisticated browser-specific code. Thank you!
This is odd, considering how reddit bans the submission as soon as two accounts vote on it from the same IP.

So whenever two people post/vote from the same corporate network, they are completely screwed? At the same time, this "restriction" is almost meaningless to a real fraudster. Awesome.
There are a quite a few problems with XML:

* Few who were coming up with a format/DTD/schema understood the differentiation between placing value data in attribute values vs. element values.

* Element values would sometimes contain whitespace prefix and suffix due to formatting which caused problems with those values in the beginning.

* The optional XML declaration attribute didn't even fit in with the rest of the spirit of the format.

* The wealth of greater-than, less-than, slashes and quotes in the data was unnecessary, and converting from text to compressed format and back barely ever took off.

* The format allowed having one element partially within the scope of another <like><this></like></this> unlike bracket scope notation that would never have had such ambiguitity.

I could go on and on.

Transformation? Michael Kay may have been the man with the bible in the early 2000s, but I think everyone realized by the mid 2000s that XSLT and related XML transformations were a huge seemingly bottomless pit of wasted effort. What is needed was code, and people keep trying to make XSLT handle logic. Think of what those same people could have written in the same time using Java, Ruby, Python, PhP, Javascript. It is mind-boggling the amount of waste that XML and related formats have caused.

Moving bits around? Bits are moving around no matter what format you use. Why not use something that saves typing, and doesn't waste everyone's time?

All that said. XML is out there. I still do SOAP, WSDL, etc. I still mess with SAX and DOM in Java. I write XML services in Ruby and consume them. It is inescapable.

JSON doesn't yet cover all of the bases, but at least it is on a better track. Once people really think about the problems with XML- only then can we really evolve in the way we write and use unformatted human-readable data documents.
Didn't I just see that story on House?
Marijuana proceeds fuel the expansion of criminal orgs that also practice human trafficking and import harder drugs. Legalization will destroy many of these organizations.

will it really destroy them? it seems like they will be able to provide the same product for a much cheaper price because it will not be taxed.

i don't know much about this proposition, but would it still be considered illegal to be in possession of marijuana not sold/taxed by authorized dealers? would anyone really be able to tell whether a person is in possession of marijuana that came from an authorized dealer or from a gang member?
Let's go with metaphor. I've seen it happen to Homer and in old cartoons, on some movies, and even once in real life. It's quite a striking visualization, at least to me.
Okay fair on other features.

But there also is not a way to control who tags you in photos. What's the difference? Both use social pressure to dissuade people from doing it when it is not appropriate.
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If you're going to throw grenades like this please also provide some specific citations that back up your position. Otherwise, it's difficult to take you seriously.
The only reason I added JSON is so that people could use it in places that you can't use XML.

I wish the designers of JavaScript had been less keen on reinventing things. Yet another format we all have to support. Sigh.
It's a great domain name.
The problem with "Preference dialogs that have a dozen tabs each with a dozen settings" is that users will not remember what they changed. Therefore, they won't know which of cancel or apply is the worst of the two evils they have to choose from.

The better thing to do is to do away with modality and to provide live updates of any setting users make. That way, users can see the effects of each preference change as they make it (as with Mac OS X inspectors and the Office ribbon). 'commit' buttons have their role, but they should be the exception, for actions that the user cannot easily revert. Also, they never should be labeled with generic phrases such as 'OK'.
What the article doesn't mention is that "fusion power" is the story for public consumption. The real purpose of this facility is the design of nuclear weapons through simulating nuclear explosions.
Indeed - if you care about privacy to any degree, and your facebook friends are a combination of family/friends/colleagues, then lists are essential.

I can't help but feel Facebook could negate a lot of these issues by giving every user these three groups by default and basing their default privacy settings around them.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in this site?
Hello HN. I really respect the HN community and would love to hear your feedback on this.
Last Wednesday we launched an invite-only IT community at Talentopoly.com. It's a place for programmers, designers, and IT professoinals to share what they're working on, get feedback, and learn from other talented professionals.

I think there is a serendipity that can happen when you get a few talented developers and designers in a room; conversation leads to hatching new ideas and new ways to approach the design. This can be hard to recreate in a company with only a handful of developers. I've faced this problem myself when I'm working solo on projects. So we created Talentopoly to be a virtual room full of talent to see if we can catch that lightning in a bottle. I think it will be especially useful for freelancers and people working in companies with one or two other developers/designers.

It's invite-only and will probably remain that way. Posts and questions are only visible to the community. Users have profiles and can post their resume. Each user has a certain number of invites they can send out.

Examples of posts would be an awesome pic of something a designer is working on and wants some feedback on, a link to a new jQuery plug-in, asking the community what they listen to while they work, and starting a discussion by posting about the best places to host your new web project. Even finding people to work with you on your next great pet project is a really great way to use the site.

I'm thinking (hoping) that this site might be a good fit for a lot of HN readers. To request an invite just head over to http://www.talentopoly.com and submit your info. We invite a few new users every day.
Agreed. My point is that there are certain people that would likely be predisposed to share anyway. And although the internet has provided new opportunities for sharing, other types have occurred in different communities (village, folk, scientific, etc.) for ages.

Basically, new opportunities don't mean that people wouldn't have shared or weren't sharing in other ways.
I wrote a response to this some time ago here: http://www.deserettechnology.com/journal/joels-duct-tape-pro...
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That site is so laden with 'social media' crud it's impossible to scroll or read with Firefox.
AOL has insane expenses, negating all the revenues. They netted negative billion dollars in Q2 (in just one quarter!).

Their revenues are steadily declining: http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aolq2slide.j...

Buying AOL would be just dumb. I don't see them being profitable any time soon (if ever).
For me the biggest problem was ending up with a lot of heads. I guess this happens when you go back to a previous commit and in-advertently starting checking in stuff - In SVN, this is prevented.

I dont exactly remember how I handled this the last time around, but I think some rebase-fu was needed
I imagine it should read "to make certain that public policy is influenced..." and "for recording what is happening..."
The Third Reich killed 15 million people within barely over a decade, plus a few more dozen million in the wars it started, with virtually no redeeming characteristics. The British empire killed more people than that, yes, but over the course of centuries and with enough redeeming characteristics that they likely saved tens of millions of lives as well, by enriching their empire through infrastructure improvement, free trade, and good government.

It's quite notable that of all the countries Britain supposedly oppressed in their empire, many of them freely choose to remain part of the Commonwealth today.

If you judge any regime by the worst thing it's done, every regime is evil.
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i wonder how many other twitter projects got killed when they dropped basic auth. implementing oauth in an old one-off project that only uses one twitter account to access their api is just a pain in the ass.

i used to let people tweet messages to @going2rain and have them show up on the bottom of http://goingtorain.com/ in a random rotation, but the process of switching it over to oauth was just not worth the trouble so i disabled that functionality.
When you turn the camera the perspective shifts, as if you're inside a cube with pictures on its walls. Is it that hard to fix to get more real feel like in a 3rd game?

Edit: default zoom is too wide-angle. Zoom in and everything is so much better.
1) Tagging a photo of someone generally does not imply their membership/support/interest in something (e.g NAMBLA).

2) It's very clear whether someone is truly in a photo, or it's a result of mischief. It's impossible to tell this with membership of a group.

3) Being tagged in a photo does not create a subscription.

I actually think there SHOULD be a way to prevent being photo tagged if you so wish, or at least prevent it becoming a hard-link to your profile/photos. My sister hates when people tag her in photos and will diligently remove the tags. I think that's a bit weird, but it should be her choice whether she can be tagged or not.
I think you're still confusing smartphone users with the regular mobile phone users. The iPhone is huge but I can guarantee that most people are purchasing it because it's a mini portable connected computer and not because it's a phone. That's the point.
To see why women focus on children I'd recommend this article by the same author:
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/06/01/get-married-first-t...
Hmmm... how fast were you clicking (and what browser / how is your internet connection)
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Insinuation being a subset of implication, I have no problem with your preference for a minimally different word choice, but confess that I am surprised that you would go to the effort to actually post that :-)
I gave up half-way through as well. The news content isn't all that exciting either. Lobbying groups have pressured for laws against open software before and they have tried to undermine public open source initiatives regularly. Microsoft is especially egregious at this, we knew that for some time now as well.

On the other hand, this underscores an important point (assuming we're all on the same page here, being pro OS and all): our interest groups are in need of support. Make donations to the EFF or the CCC, and get involved in their activities.

Our freedom is at stake. And that's not some empty piece of rhetoric either, because important battles have already been lost or are currently in the process of going badly.
Also, aren't women the population bottlenecks? A population's growth is constrained by the number of fertile women, and so, it's prudent that, for the continuation of a species, that women be more risk averse to prevent the species from dying off altogether.
safari reader makes it bearable...
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indeed. conider this:

- for the last several years women are lunching companies at twice the rate of men http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870468860457512...

- only 8% of founders in startups that get VC funding are women -- http://www.blackweb20.com/2010/08/10/women-only-8-of-interne...
This is an interesting perspective; I took the opposite one. To me, the "duct-tape programmer" that Joel described was not a "duct-tape" programmer at all. He was just a programmer that knew the field and knew when and when not to apply certain languages and methodologies.

Certainly we'd all be happy to have jwz onboard our teams, but Joel holds him out as the one exception of a "good" duct-tape programmer. It's just really absurd. Joel's position seems to be "anyone that does not follow the dictates of the latest MEGA XTREME WATERFALL AGILE METHODOLOGY is going to do more damage than good", when really, like in almost everything else, the passing fads are merely empty promises hyped on to make consultants and specialists rich.

You may want to read jwz's response, I think it is fairly concise and good: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1096593.html
While I agree that it is frustrating to worry about offering things in different formats, JSON is not terrible, and it is much more compact while still being human readable. It is only natural that something easier to read and type than XML would suffer a period of overlap with XML, etc.
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you're describing the stereotype about risk aversion, not the reality.

in actuality women have been starting up companies at twice the rate of men for the last several years http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870468860457512...
But most recent quarters have been positive with income in the tens of millions. Q2 had a large one time write down from restructuring.

Financially, AOL isn't looking too bad:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL&fstype=ii
The pilots in the Vulcan had ejector seats, but not the crew in the rear area?
where I see the real value in this, is suggesting similar users. It seems like twitter suggestions are based on your social graph, but I believe there to be much more value in tweet content analysis. Creating simple badges allows you to process once, and then reduce the analysis required when build your similar users suggestions eg.instead of doing a full text analysis between users you can use these simple binary flags to correlate using Jaccard index or Tanimoto coefficient.
Trillions? A wee bit of hyperbole, no?
What? I don't know what the metrics are to define what world a country belongs to. But unless our corrupt politicians pay somebody I think we well deserve to be in 4th or 5th world :P
Side note: one of the most awesome parts about getting old is that you can say exactly how you feel about things. I found parts of his letter undiplomatic (to say the least), but I also felt I was actually sitting down and talking to the guy. That type of honest forthrightness (and not contrived outrage or sliming people for political reasons) isn't seen very much. Agree or disagree, I am able to empathize with the author.
Reminds of Paul Buchheit's classic truism: limited life experience + overgeneralization = advice
Your sister currently has that choice.

As for groups, I still fail to see the problem. You're notified when somebody (one of your Friends) adds you to a group; if you don't want to be part of the group, you remove yourself (and won't be able to be added again).

So, if your Friends aren't being malicious, there's no problem. If your Friends are being malicious, there's a very easy remedy (and you ought to reconsider who your Friends are.)

Tempest in a teapot, if you ask me.
It's an interesting question. Before and during WWII, it was very popular to mock Hitler, because of the general over-the-top pompousness of his oratorical style and public image. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrers_Face) Afterwards, the general attitude was one of somber, shocked horror. I'm not overly bothered by the fact that people have gone back to laughing at Hitler. I don't think people have forgotten the gravity of his crimes so much as they've become willing to use that as a backdrop for juxtaposition.
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There's no question, the internet is way more stimulating! And that's good, that an experience of any sort is more entertaining than a drug. Of course, put the two together, and this may explain why I've been to a coffee shop 4 days out of 7 for the past 3 years.
Question: how many responders equated "Wi-Fi" with "internet access"? And how many capitalize and hyphenate "Wi-Fi"?
well, he does use terms like "the global warming scam" and "the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist" which are typically associated with denialists.
There aren't two sides of this. The vast majority of scientists that know what's going on are terrified. A few, many paid by the same lobby organizations that backed FUD on cigarette smoking, are creating a "debate".

Only one credible climatologists is vehemently disagreeing with the consensus. By the time we know who was right, it'll be too late.

The science of greenhouse gases was figured out in the 19th century. Given how much we're spewing into the atmosphere, critics should be proving that something else is causing the recent heat records.

Merely pointing out that models aren't perfect predictors, or that some esoteric and uncontrollable phenomenon is responsible for some of the warming does nothing useful to help us decide how to act.
Agreed.

But even then, where you end up might be very different than where you were heading.
Really interesting idea. I do like the design, it feels like many other smart apps that you run into in the line of software dev. Great logo too.
Painful proof of another recent HN item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771607
Although I loved your entire analysis, I'd upvote you just for your second sentence. Priceless!
I'll save everyone some reading. The advice was:

Don't do it.

While I agree that in their particular circumstances that it's probably the correct answer, I don't think it's right for everyone. For one thing, their system isn't tolerant enough of downtime. If one of their databases goes offline, they've got some manual fixing to do to get it back up and going. Ugh. (I took this to mean that if you unplug the network cable, they have manual fixing to do. They might have meant power loss... And that's a little more understandable, but still not something you really want in the cloud.)
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I do not think magnitude of change can be readily computed. It certainly is not measured in characters, bytes, or lines. For example, one checkin might toggle a #define that controls thousands of lines, another might just reorganize the order of declarations in a file.
I wish I could see what it was before signing up.
Mercurial also talks with git (http://hg-git.github.com/) so you can use it with github if you want. This was actually created by Scott Chacon, the guy who wrote the subject of the OP.

I think it's worth giving both git and hg a try to see which fits your head better. Mercurial feels better to me and there are quite a few people in many communities (including most of the python community).
Awww.

I liked the idea of waiting to April 1 to announce this, complete with videos of the cars driving.

(Disclaimer, I work for Google and have known about this project for some time. I have no connection to it.)
The 8% claim is misleading and possibly harmful. Nobody wants returns to be that "lumpy" - down for 10 years! Who could stand it?

All investments have a certain lifespan on them - with things like bonds and T-bills, interest payments and maturity are fixed and contractually obligated, while with equities it's up to company performance. To really do well, you have to think like a trader and run all investments over a specific timeframe with predetermined exit signals for profit, loss, or trend changes.

It may look as if Warren Buffett lets money sit in the market. But he is actually running trades over decades of time. He has to - he literally has too much money to make useful(percentage-wise) profit in smaller time frames.
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? you can "just branch and code" in mercurial too. I do it all the time.

I'm not sure where you're getting your info. Sounds like you might be still thinking that the FUD from 2008 that the only way to branch in mercurial is to clone a repo is actually true.

Check out the links in the post you replied to for more info.
Put the crown jewels in the cloud? No thanks.

Maybe these forms can be turned into downloadable templates (with TheStartupToolkit branding) and you can continue to fill the toolbox with other useful tools?
I'll share a funny anecdote with you:

Both Prodigy (Carlos Slim, richest man in the world's ISP) and Yoo (second largest ISP, property of Televisa) advertise their bandwidth service saying "You can download a song or a movie faster".

The funny part is that legal online music services are almost non existing (there's the iTunes Music Store, but it's use is not widespread and no streaming services) and there's absloutely no way to buy or rent movies legally.

So, it's implied that with ISP's bandwidth offer you can bittorrent and rapidhare way faster.
I really hope that cars can become safely automated in my life time but I'm worried that people will start "jailbreaking" their cars so they can exceed the speed limit.
Yes, they are coming:
http://jalopnik.com/5572978/driverless-audi-tts-gets-new-col...

Seems like quite a few people are working on projects such as these. I heard some hairdo on TV the other day musing that they will reach general availability "as early as 2022". How do they even come up with those numbers?
As someone who's banner blind I can honestly say that I have no idea.

Having said that, if the adverts are unobtrusive and relevant to what I'm looking to buy (e.g. I'm looking at a camera review because I want to buy a camera and an advert offering me 10% off digital cameras appears inline without interrupting my experience of the review) then I'll click.

The answer to online advertising isn't to hit more people, it's to hit the right people in the right way.
I'm guessing 3G/HSPA coverage must be pretty bad/expensive in the US? (yeah, I know about the AT&T/iPhone complaints) For on-the-go internet use, HSPA is easily good enough and cheap enough here, I usually don't even bother turning on Wifi when on the go. It's not quite DSL of course, but public Wifi tends to be much worse than office/home DSL anyway...
> How do they even come up with those numbers?

They pull them out of their asses. :)