skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you checked out Offensive Politics[1][2]? A lot of good tutorials on doing voter modeling with R.

[1] http://offensivepolitics.net/blog/
[2] http://github.com/offensivepolitics
Reduction of equity stake after negotiated compensation just reeks of pure theft. So what are good employees supposed to do?

Doubtless the ones who did not get diluted were the big money while the workers get shafted (as usual). Kleptocracy at it's finest.
Wave would have had more success if it had launched with email integration. It was a bit convoluted for typical users as well, which would be a barrier to entry for many.

P.S. Sigh... can't stand the pagination on mashable articles.
Web Hooks
Idle speculation: Wouldn't it be cool if we plotted a user's total karma next to the trend of their name and it turned out to look like an integral?
What is LP? Limited partners?

(Apologies for ignorance)
What if I entered a privately owned local mall and saw such a sign?

Neither of these would concern me in the slightest.
Tmux is slightly nicer than GNU Screen is some respects but I still use GNU Screen.

For one, Screen is everywhere. I can go from system to system and it'll be there.

Also, I use a Mac and Tmux doesn't work with the Mac's clipboard; probably the biggest reason I can't use Tmux.

Screen has had vertical splitting for sometime now, just get a beta release or build from source (https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=screen). That's what I use and find very stable.
While I agree with the opinion that Wave was ahead of its time, it doesn't fit this article, because saying Wave was ahead of its time is an opinion, the article wants products which can be compared with more recent successes as confirmation, rather than speculation.
Clickable: http://www.quoteroller.com/
While it is their call, and they will want to maximise profit from the sale, there's no chance that MS didn't sign off on this - think how pissed they could be. "We're buying your company and you just fired the executives that we wanted to keep running it?"

I can only assume that it was decided as part of the sale negotiations. Whether it was Microsoft saying "we want to bring in a new team at the top" or the owners saying "we want to maximise profit" first, who knows.
Tell HN: Setting up a live-in hacker house
We're looking at putting together a hacker house within a 20 minute driving radius of Mountain View and I was hoping to gauge interest. Is anyone looking to move to/around the area in the next few weeks? There are a number of houses available and finding an apartment is a pain. Plus, living with like-minded individuals is always nice :)

Feel free to ping me at ainsleyb at alum dot mit dot edu
About to hit issue #52 and 3000 subscribers with my weekly Hacker Newsletter project - http://www.hackernewsletter.com
I wasn't saying anything really, just trying to get my head around the huge difference between numbers in population. Living in the Western world I feel all that matters is the US, and UK, and how much the US dominates and polices global politics.

Yet China and India's population are so astoundingly out of proportion with the rest of the world, I am surprised it isn't them that we hear more of. I haven't even place India into my 'understanding the world' mental picture yet.

My main point is about moving a highly populated country TO a democracy. I look at the American civil war and how many lives were lost during that, and then wonder about the implications of allowing opposing ideas to rise. My initial reaction to the 'communist' regime in China is that it's wrong. But I then look at how large the population is and how well the government is working, and wonder if it's any worse or better than America's capitalist version of democracy.

What happens when China or India decide that they need to police the world in what is an appropriate way to run a country?
Back of the envelope calculations with The Rule of 72
But we learned how WW1 started. It was when those arrogant/bumbling British generals sent in the brave ANZAC forces and despite the poor leadership - through the power of mateship and a donkey - they won the great military victory at Gallipoli.
NY Post blocks access to its website on iPads to drive app purchases
Lint Center Announces July Scholarship Competition ($2,500)
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In this case I think tmux replaced screen easily over a year ago.
First days in a startup office
Young Seattle entrepreneurs, Creative Branding Co, move into their first set of offices
Yes, this is another HN resource that I forgot to mention. In fact, I just discovered last week and decided to sign up. I really enjoyed it - keep up the good work!
yes - the people that give VCs $.
This is on the money. It's a psychology-of-UI issue - where the Google front page feels like a public space, the logged-in side of Gmail feels more like a private area. This means that while a holiday Google Doodle sails by just fine, a reminder in Gmail feels very invasive.

Those answering "just get over it" are clearly not interested in building applications that people enjoy using.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that when your clean but inefficient code falls over, the engineering department takes all of the blame. But when your efficient but unclean code doesn't allow you to iterate as quickly, it's harder to place blame.
> people need to stop being so sensitive

That's pretty callous. I wouldn't say that to someone who was abused by their father.
Bre.ad - a url shortener with a twist
haha cool!:p these things I read on HN about girls are always genius :d
I'm sure this won't result in any costly lawsuits.</skepticism>
Presumably then, you're a reasonable person. I can assure you though, that if a shopping mall put up a sign like that they'd be flooded with complaints.

Ultimately, it's a cost/benefit analysis for the company involved.

Gay marriage is a contentious issue presently, Father's Day isn't really. You can find a subset of people who are offended by any implication of supporting any idea or cause.

That's why I'm a little torn on this issue. You can object to the fact that Google is putting a non-deletable reminder into people's tasks. You can also object to the fact that Google is taking a Pro-Father's Day stance. I happen to think the first objection is more reasonable (but I can sympathize with the second one, even if I think it's not a really great example of a company offending people with a stance).
Smell of Success: Scents Affect Thoughts, Behaviors
Those are completely valid appeals to emotion, because it is the emotional context of the reminder that makes it significant. If you don't understand why someone might feel bad after seeing that show up in their todo list, then you don't understand the problem.

That said, as someone with pretty unhappy history with his father, I think what Google did here is fine. But really, not every emotional appeal is a fallacy.
Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder
How Apple almost gave Macintosh the name Bicycle instead
Mojolicious 1.4 released (Perl Web Framework)
MtGox was first and they also overcame the barrier of payment processing. Payment processing is ALWAYS a bitch which is why people like bitcoin ;p
Nice project. I played around for a few minutes and compiled a small list of thoughts:

- I like thought the initial dashboard process was nice. The 5-step walk through got me up to speed and had me creating a proposal in no time.

- I really like that the customer can view the proposal and have a discussion with you regarding the proposal without a need to create an account of their own.

- The discussion button and accept/reject buttons (on the client/customer view) were not immediately obvious to me. The green "Accept Proposal" button immediately grabbed my attention and I was not aware of any other options for a moment.

- A good way to see a preview with some dummy data would be nice when actually designing the template.

- Modifying the template (at a client's request) feels a bit awkward to me. I may be going about it incorrectly. My process was:

* Click Edit
* Accept the pop up that tells me the proposal will be unavailable
* Click on "Price"
* Change the Info
* Click Send to move to the "Send"
* Click Send (again) to send the proposal message again.

- Nice site design and application design. With the exception of the above mentioned "editing" issue, everything felt pretty intuitive.
"From the blog: http://bit.ly/startuptees

This started as an idea to save money on laundry. We've visited the offices of Dropbox, Twilio, PB Works; even new startup Piazza, and we always accepted free t-shirts because it means more to wear and less to wash. Our ambitious goal: Sell 25 startup tee shirts for $25 each from 25 of our favorite startups. "
There are a few sides to this one:

On the practical, implementation detail side of this, users should have been allowed to remove the item. I'm sure the reason that didn't happen is simply because of the way it was implemented, and implementing the item as something that was actually per-user would simply have pushed into the 'not happening' zone.

As regards, morals, sensibilities and where the hell 'right' is on the larger picture the answer is 'who knows?' - Personally, I think the fact that a slight prompting would have resulted in millions of tiny acts of goodness, and a few larger ones of users being upset, but there's no particular metric one can apply there. My intuition says the balance falls largely on the side of it being a net postitive for their users at large, and their families too.

As far as those offended go, I'm sort of reminded of the parallels with doctors and malpractice suits - hundreds of lives saved, helped, made more comfortable, and it' can take one slip-up to undo all of it. No, it's not a 'gtfover it', but it's not so much the message appearing as the inability to control it that led to a small slight being taken as an offense. Anger is almost always fear, and fear almost always a simple desire to not be hurt, and the inability to stop it continuing to prompt them - that likely just resonated with the aspects of whatever hurt in the first place, whether it was mortality, abuse or anything else.

No one meant any offense, and there was a person, and then people who thought they'd do something they thought would be good, and might make a few people happier (and possibly serve their employer's larger aims too).

They didn't do a bad thing. They did a good thing, badly.
What's in a minute, or why I love C# and SQL Server
When some random site throws my pages into an iframe, at least the user sees what I've served, and I at least have some control -- I can break out of it with Javascript, or I could even serve completely different content.

It's a bit different though when the biggest fucking site on the internet joins in.

Why should I be forced to expend bandwidth every time Google decides a page on my server is relevant to a search result? This could double or even triple my bandwidth costs.
A lil off topic but somehow when I read this, the first thing that leapt to my mind is the LikeALittle HQ @ Palo Alto. Have you seen it on techcrunch?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/tc-cribs-likealittle-lal/

I can imagine the sights and smells of your hacker house will end up somewhat similar to this guys within a few months of moving in.

Tip: It will be prudent to make sure the house is female-friendly. :)
"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity."
Is it bad habit not using interfaces?
I am not so sure that has been established. MS is not historically this sociopathic. It might be a pig in a poke deal. Pay for a company, get an empty bag. We'll know if this is the case if MS says "hey wait a minute" or not.
Pedantry. We can argue about that when the Martian and Moon colonists go on Nutmeg binges.

EDIT> ... but it won't matter since their scales will be calibrated. If you use a scale you're measuring weight, not mass.
As PG suggests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672454... the best thing you can do is work for a company where you trust the management team and the VC's that back them. An early stage investor would almost never do such a thing because it would completely damage their ability to get access to the best deals.

Check thefunded.com for the VCs (and ask around as well) and do your best to work for good people who care about their employees and reputation.
Nearly everything that has to do with ads (both tracking and serving) is already standardized client side script, so it won't make much difference for publishers/advertisers. Ad agencies already want data vetted by someone like Comscore, and most publishers use tools like Google Analytics for their own purposes. I suspect those tools already account for invisible pre-rendering.

This doesn't really effect much, to be honest. People who want to inflate their stats already do so by counting bot traffic, iframe requests, etc. Google's been doing partial javascript evaluation for a long time as part of their spidering.
Yeah but christ, is anyone going to want to take money from them after this? This is cut-throat by any standard...
Do any of these strike your fancy?

* http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

* http://tinychat.com/

* http://www.vbuzzer.com/conferencing/web_conferencing.php

* http://www.goober.com/

* http://www.voxox.com/
"Imagine that you’d like to quit smoking cigarettes…"

This sentence alone is enough to tell me that this "game changing" technique of "prefrontal workouts" is misguided.

As a former smoker, I can tell you that there is definitely a mental rivalry going on in the head of someone who would like to quit cigarettes. However, I want to emphasize the "someone who would like to quit cigarettes" part because it makes an important distinction.

Smokers who have no desire to quit don't have the tug-of-war that the author speaks of. When I first started smoking I never once gave thought to quitting because, in my mind, I didn't have a problem. Only when I realized I was hooked and WANTED to quit did I start to have the mental rivalry he speaks of.

What does this have to do with criminals? The same rules apply. Let's rework that sentence a bit:

"Imagine that you’d like to quit crime…"

Huh???

How many criminals enter the penal system with such lofty goals? My guess would be not many.

I can see this being useful for someone who has already been reformed to some degree, because that person actually does possess a desire to change.

That being said, it still isn't THAT useful because, despite the fact that you may know which camp your thoughts fall into, you still need to deal with the day-to-day task of actualizing that knowledge.

As anyone who has ever tried to make a significant change can likely attest, knowledge is only half the battle- and the easiest half at that.
Money provides a different scale of experience, but doesn't actually have an effect in the intensity of happiness. True happiness is about managing your progression so you don't become adjusted to a lifestyle, no matter the scale. Humans adjust to almost anything, as a survival mechanism. The act of experiencing the present infinite moment can always offer enough richness for a human. This is why you can live a satisfying life whether you have everything or nothing. In the end, you must have power over your consciousness. You must be prepared for any situation, so you must learn to manage what you have at a small scale in order to manage what you have at a large scale. Just like in business, flexibiity and adaptability are most important.
One Year Ago Today...
Thanks and glad to hear that!
I'm so tired of sensitive people complaining about everything. We all have our problems, being reminded to "call dad" is not a reason to act like Google showed up to your house and kicked your dog.
BitCoin FlashCrash
Security & Surveillance
Video: Jon Stewart vs Chris Wallace - Fox is "Propaganda"
It is true that this may hit feelings of some people. If we are blaming them, lets also blame Apple(app store) and a lot others. Unfortunately we have to learn to adapt and let go of these things... Internet is quite insensitive
Telecommuting Has Benefits, Too
My apologies. I didn't realize that it was a beta release - I found the link with the embedded anchor tag, so I missed the massive header up top.

And by the time I saw this comment, I couldn't edit the title. Apologies to everyone who was misled.
I agree the exact trade-off is difficult. I just meant clarity is not an absolute. You shouldn't make a project out of clarifying - it shouldn't be a driver of what you are doing; instead, given different ways of developing quickly, you should choose one that gives clearer code. Write it as you see it, instead of trying to be clever - that is, write in in terms of your understanding of the problem not beyond it. It's bang per buck: "a little effort for a lot of clarity" is worth it.

As for the exact trade-off: when you are iterating quickly, it is not effective to try to nail down these trade-off precisely - you need those cycles for actual coding!

For that matter, it's also difficult to define what is "clear" - or even what is "simple". Have you ever tried applying the "Single Responsibility Principle" thoroughly? It's amazing how many genuine "reasons to change" you can find - and amazing how less clear it can be. Another example is dogmatically writing "short methods". Clarity, like "simplicity" - and like the trade-off you note - is itself extremely hard to pin down precisely.

BTW: reasons to change other than correctness include: making it more efficient; making it clearer (e.g. refactoring); making it reusable (Brooks' says it's x3 the work). And, in practice, there's a continuum of correctness, not true/false, for "better" (more accurate, more reliable) results: e.g. more accurate search ranking; better collision detection; better webpage rendering; OS that crashes less often.
I wouldn't consider it low-balling, I figured it pretty close to the paying rate outside of a major city in Florida. Plus, there aren't very many tech-centered jobs in this area... could be a good opportunity. :)
Well.. I am a female, so it will have to tend toward the female-friendly side :)
This is true, freelancing and contract work always pays nicely, but a steady paycheck is sometimes more important... especially if you can double your income with freelance.
Genius idea! Would love to do something like that when I graduate - I don't feel like working for a big corp & earn piles of $$$, would love to start my own thing

I only gotta figure out how to tell my parents.. :p
I think he's going to need full-time guys, but its a good suggestion!
It would seem that NodeJS is taking away some of the share of functional programming languages.
I noticed this recently as well, but only last week did I bother looking into it.

It seems the only way to fix this is to disable all of your notifications, save that, then go enable them again. Afterward, your notifications should work again.
That's what happens when there's no regulation...
Interesting... what part of Florida? Close to Orlando? He's in NSB.
haha:p I imagine a hackers house with a pink wall, that's just plain wrong ;p
As her co-founder, I can guarantee I wouldn't let that happen. (well, maybe _one_ wall... ;) )
I prefer orange.
Wow thats really weird - what version of JIRA are you running?
Easy! "Mom, I can make $100k now, or $6M in 3 years. You tell me which you'd prefer." And then just make sure to not tell her the stats, of course ;)
Fun fact: not long ago 'MtGox' meant 'Magic the Gathering online exchange'
What they did was destroyed the reputation of Mt. Gox - I don't think the Gox people will have a very good outcome as their customers jump ship to other exchanges.

BUT on the other hand, you could say Mt. Gox was asking for it with such poor security measures. A day ago, it was a CSRF hack ... and today it's a database dump.

I tell ya, tomorrow, the code for their trading platform will hit the net.

In fact, I wouldn't put it past the operators of the other exchanges to perpetrate something like this.

In reality, no damage to the bitcoin network was done, but Mt.Gox ended up with egg on their face.

Where will all the trades go? To other bitcoin exchanges - and there goes the services charges too. There's a sizable amount of money to be made by taking down Mt. Gox.
Even worse, the patents that was originally intended to be used defensively can later be used offensively. It actually happened to Amazon, for example (there are several Slashdot articles about it).
The problem with that is that I have no idea what range the terms queried will be in beforehand. Any ideas how to accomplish this?
> So what are good employees supposed to do?

Leave, if there's any justice in the world.

This is how the market works. The reason you don't screw your employees like this is not just because you're a nice person, but because it costs you money in the long term.
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This is really awesome. I had no idea all that stuff was powered by Erlang. Thanks for the link.
Hmm, saw the same ad on a billboard somewhere outside of Philly a few weeks ago. Reminded me that I should check the address to see how many pictures they'd have of people wearing headsets on their site. Fun drinking game this.
Yeah, the evented MPM has always been the redheaded stepchild of the Apache family, which is unfortunate.
good spam is still spam.
Naratte’s Zoosh enables NFC with just a speaker and microphone
Jim Gilliam: The Internet is My Religion
Don't mistake a lack of medicine in the pill with a lack of effect on the brain. Yes, the brain may be just as good as (or better than) some psychotropic drug, but that pill is still an impetus.

To the best of my research (Google-style, not journal-style :), therapy is not more effective (I believe it is about equal, though I don't know if there is a differentiation between types of illness each may help), but therapy combined with medication is far more effective than either alone.