skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, we kind of glossed over that. I'll update the about page.

In a nutshell: we're about helping kindred developer spirits find one another for local/remote pairing. Later on, I'm hoping to add more features to actively mediate the experience.

I'd love to integrate with pair.io to help other people remote pair. But, for now, I use a simple arrangement of SSH+tmux+vim+skype to remote pair with folks when I do.
who's John Galt?
Interesting backstory of harmless "&"
The same thing that would stop someone from using fake card slots on ATMs or doing what you described with phone numbers & websites on printed ads.

(Hint: In most cases -- nothing)
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We've been using NVDA (http://www.nvda-project.org/) for a while now and it works (for our screen reader needs) better than JAWS. Plus it's free and open source.
One explanation is that they just don't understand that.

Another is that they don't give a flip about their CA business at this point because it's just a liability to them that they wish would just go away.

If they're going to have any customer left after this it's going to be gov.nl, who seems to prefer having a pwned CA to re-rooting their whole PKI setup.
For Firefox users, may I recommend ShareMeNot (http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/). It also nukes the tracking behavior of Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Google +1.

Or, if you are an Adblock Plus user and want to kill Facebook on non-Facebook sites, add the following rule:

||facebook.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
>"surely, there must be some sort of hack available for the visa problem".

it is simple - a PAC and a fund paying for the PR and lobby to change the law. Until there is no money interested in solving the problem ...

Though if you look here http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/H1BvisaCapH1BquotaSystem/ref... - this year half H1B quota is still unused, so i'm not sure that there is really that big of a problem to be solved.

Some nationals (China, India, etc...) may be in for a long wait at the final stage of the process - actual GC or adjustment once the petition is approved. It has nothing to do with being entrepreneurial or religious immigrant - it is about officially regulated racial makeup of allocation of the GC numbers and thus it is completely different problem.
EDIT: strike the last one. It has been long time since i looked at it - http://www.hooyou.com/visabulletin/index.html - looking at the "Current" even for Mexico and Philippines it is obvious that the religion does also have the preferential treatment here as well (and numbers taken from one category usually decrease the numbers available for other categories).
His example of counting unique words is not impressive compared to the unix command line:

sed -e 's/ \+/\n/' words.txt | uniq -c
Interesting. Is this a civil rights issue or a libertarian issue? The libertarian in me says, "let the restaurants that don't comply lose their business". But then I think, would I feel the same about businesses (and government agencies!) that disallowed blacks/jews/gays/etc? I lean to the latter, accepting that changing everyone will take time.
And Impostor Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
YC to London?
On 26th September the Y Combinator team are traveling to New York for a meetup that will give start-ups there the chance to ask questions and talk about ideas with the YC partners and the founders of companies they have funded.

Should the Y Combinator team come to London to find awesome start-ups? I (@mstafford) think so and so do a lot of start-ups in London!

Do you want to help make this happen?

Please follow @ycldn, email me and RT this page to give Paul and the Y Combinator team the message that London is somewhere they should be, and that they should come see the awesome start-ups before the 10th October Y Combinator deadline!

http://ycldn.com | matthew@ycldn.com | @ycldn
Here's a good one I was told about a Twitter client I developed: "The links in the tweets just open up a webview when you press them..." - It was rejected on this basis, and this was the appeal board telling me this... :(
This means there'll be a free open source tricorder app up on the net in two weeks tops.
> “Willpower”is filled with advice about what to do with your willpower. Build up its strength, the authors suggest, with small but regular exercises, like tidiness and good posture. Don’t try to tame every bad habit at once.

This is the key. For example, instead of having a bunch of New Year's resolutions, come up with one resolution every month. Focus your (finite) willpower on making it into a habit, at which point it won't require willpower anymore. Next month, move onto another habit and do the same thing. You can drastically change your lifestyle in just 1 year by repeating this 12 times.
Yes, this is disturbing. Contrary to some claims, this was not an off limits area. It was on the Pennsylvania Avenue (which is closed to vehicle traffic but not people here) and is a public area. It is extremely wide and the protestors were not blocking anyone.
சாப்ட்வேர் என்ஜினீயரின் சாப்ட்  புண்டையும் மெக்கானிக்கின் ஹார்ட் பூளும்
I used to do that. I also started deleting any Facebook cookies before logging into Facebook, and after logging out of Facebook. I then realized that was stupid, because I have a static IP address (helps with my job, which requires remotely logging into servers).

With Facebook cookies everywhere, you don't need to be logged in for them to track you. And in my case, even if I used a different browser for logging into Facebook, they could (in theory---I have no idea if they actually do this or not) still track me based on the IP address alone.

Google is just as scary. A few months ago I did a few searches for local casinos (I was helping a friend of mine get a job at one) and now, I see ads for casinos on about a third of the webpages I visit. It's most annoying, and quite scary when I think about it too much.
How and Why I Ran a Group Messaging Startup with 10 Android Phones
GIT is not secure against tampering
It is a very bad practice to blind people into making them think GIT is foolproof against tampering while it is not.

kernel.org could have been tampered with, and we won't know.

See these rebuttals:
https://lwn.net/Articles/457539/
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101646537009659972657/posts/ieGgPKJM2NP
For algorithms or application logic, even rather simple cases, unit tests are an absolute must.

For user interfaces, it's a lot more effort for a lot less return. YMMV
It doesn't look like they were one of the ones penalized; they're in the section at the bottom listing sites whose traffic was unaffected (and the graph doesn't show any noticeable cliff).
Great Idea. Hoping for a Safari extension soon.
My apologies for being pedantic, but that's not quite right, to do something similar you'd need

sed 's/ \+/\n/' words.txt | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c

And to get the top five, you'd need another sort:

sed 's/ \+/\n/' words.txt | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr | head -5

Where the delimiters of interest go where the space is in the sed expression. Of course, I can never remember what strange regex syntax sed uses, so I have spend 5 minutes trying to puzzle through man page.
What business is there to lose?

For example: No restaurant will go bankrupt or even perceptibly lose money because blind people can’t read the menu on their website. There are too few of them.

Also: Getting accessibility right would be costly and complicated for those restaurants. The vast majority of restaurant owners knows nothing about accessibility in the web, they would have to hire someone who does.

Creating a successful product means more often than not picking the commonly used stuff and leaving everything else out. The same dynamic is at play here, the only difference is that the affected people have no choice.

The incentives are set up in a way to favor inaccessible websites. I don’t see how the market can solve this problem.
Leaks show U.S. swayed Canada on copyright bill
So it is. Must remember not to read news at 0500. -_-
I can help you out, I am a pro. web marketing guy with experience in highly competitive fields. Just tell me if you want help with a reply to this message.

By the way, I really love the Panda update since the way I do marketing is 100% legit and head of the curve of the trajectory of what Google will be using in two years time.
Macs don't outnumber embedded devices though.
Thats not exactly apples to apples. The powershell equivalent is probably more comparable.

Also, it all depends on what you value; cryptic one liners definitely will get you geek cred, but working with other people not as smart as you will not be fun when having to explain and maintain code like that.

Of course, you may never have to worry about that.
At the moment, not really. In several hundred years it might become a nebula when it will look very different with a telescope. For example look up crab nebula.
WOW  Post-Baby Victoria Beckham looks FABULOUS
It's pretty scary how much of US taxes are supporting fast-food and other corn/soy-based food. About 0.8% of the national budget goes to agriculture (http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/taxes/tax-receipt) with billions of those dollars going to subsidize the production "staple" crops that make us obese (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy12/pdf/BUDGET-2012-BUD-5... - I've heard all of the "commodity" line items point to those subsidies, but it's hard to decode)
Better to have posted it after you've actually written it...
> basic HTML interface, preferably no AJAX at all

This mode is step one, just basic competence in authoring. If your content isn't available in a self-describing form at a stable URL (regardless of any presentation you may layer on top of that later), you are building a lowly client/server app that leeches off the Web rather than contributing to it.
Similar story here. We've still got a somewhat hefty mortgage, but no other debt, and my wife and I both work from home. We just splurged by getting a second car (used, paid cash), as I'm traveling to client sites more, and I've left my wife stranded at home for 2.5 years already.

Outside of some work equipment/supplies, we've definitely been working on saving and having liquid cash available. We had multiple emergencies this year - my wife got very sick and we had an emergency room visit, and we had some deaths in our family which required a lot of travel. In all cases we were able to pay cash from savings rather than charge it, which, 10 years ago, would have been my default way of thinking.

It'd certainly be nicer to have some sort of different health care in the US such that a trip to the emergency room didn't cost thousands, but it is what it is.
> Are you saying that the product designers at Facebook want to design interfaces and settings that intentionally confuse users into laxer privacy settings?

Almost certainly, yes. Since that's how they derive revenue from users.

> Turning this discussion into a rather presumptuous smear at Facebook in the face of many privacy failures by Google is rather childish

/s/childish/factual/

Somehow, privacy UI changes at fb almost always lead to more rather than less confusion and more rather than less sharing. We could either assume the designers are incompetent or decide this is by design. Occam's razor says by design.
I'd be very surprised if there are more OS X installations than Linux installations (or even close for that matter).

Linux runs more servers, more phones, and more embedded devices (set top boxes, routers, GPS's, etc). OS X is limited to Apple products, which, while popular, are not nearly as pervasive.
I'm a user of both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu). My guess is that Linux is easier to begin with if you're a complete PC novice. Ubuntu is easy to use, everything is completely logical. Windows is a bit more cluttered and some things are not clear from the start. Also (especially W7) asks your permission for about every single mouseclick, which I think will scare novice users more than it will do them good.

As for the experiment, I'm intrigued. I'd love to know how long it will take them to learn specific tasks (for instance, writing a letter, browsing the internet, and some more complex tasks like installing software, configure the wireless internet or make a network connection).

As for testing methodologies, I'd make clear descriptions of the tasks and record how long it takes the students. More importantly, let the students make notes about their progress and problems.

Good luck with the experiment!
The video is worth a watch. Can anyone see if this applies to images as well, or just .pdfs? (Can't trackpad rotate on my '07 mbp)
" Getting accessibility right would be costly and complicated" What's costly and complicated about plain old HTML?
MVP. Sorry to disappoint :p
I'm probably going to get down-voted for this, but it doesn't really matter if YOU think its good enough: it is a combination of "your competitor's code (ie, everybody on the Internet, not just in the realm of your business model) ISN'T good enough" and "does anyone else think its good enough".

Being highly self-critical of code is good, but don't let it stop you from writing absolute crap. Several people (of which includes Bill Gates) have sold/shipped absolute crap code and are now amazingly rich.

Whoever codes it wins, it usually doesn't end up who codes it better unless the original has serious flaws that were not corrected.
The same way that it's your fault if your new building doesn't provide adequate wheelchair access, not the wheelchair's fault for not being able to climb stairs.
I'm handicapped (different issue). I spend a LOT of time online and do a lot via internet. For someone who has physical limitations, being able to do things online is a godsend. My life would basically not be manageable without it. So I think if you have a physical limitation of a sort where the web is basically saying "fuck you and the horse you road in on", I imagine that's a real serious problem. I imagine it's about like being invisibly restricted to the Dark Ages while everyone around you enjoys modern life. I would probably be postal rather quickly.
How To Sell Your Company
I get one of these emails every once in a while.

I understand that X Does Not Support Screenreaders is an imposition for folks who have issues with standard browsers, particularly because there are an awful lots of Xes. At the same time, X Does Not Support Screenreaders Because Of Y, and there are an awful lot of Ys, too.

You might think that scanning a menu and formatting a menu in HTML are approximately equally as easy. Not so much, no. There is an actual cost here. For a restaurant menu, that is likely to only be in the couple hundreds of dollars range. (<joke>I will entertain complaints about this from people who don't bill in six minute increments.</joke>)

For more complex applications, this can -- easily -- run into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is easy to underestimate how expensive it is because you only see the element from the set of Ys that caused non-compatibility in the present instance, not the entire set of Ys which you have to a) avoid and b) rigorously test against.

Getting down to brass tacks, the population which benefits from any particular engineering effort to address a Y is generally very small and, often, far smaller in marginal value to the business than the cost of addressing that Y. It has occasionally been the public policy of the US that businesses are supposed to subsidize that population (see: Americans with Disabilities Act, etc). Reasonable people can disagree on whether that is a justice-maximizing policy.
Now use the same sytax to query yahoo weather. Get the point?
For reference, the list of tools and framework mentioned on this page can be found at http://www.romku.com/list/343858/web-testing-framework. Feel free to rate them and add any missing information.
Hipmunk Agony flight logic
What is the calculation / logic used for Hipmunk agony tool
It has now gotten to the point where Digid, the Dutch e-government single sign on has is basically saying "We're not secure" http://www.digid.nl/nieuws/artikel/artikel/89/.
Very honest stance, and certificates are to be replaced.

For the backstory, this conference was at 00:30, and interrupting the public channels only happens when there's big news, plane crashes, etc.
The restaurant owners of my example usually don’t even know what HTML is. They have to hire someone to do it for them (that’s the costly part) and they also have to find out who to hire (that’s the complicated part, given that they have no idea about HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash and accessibility).
FWIW, the two places I've inquired about accessibility (just because these things piss me off) have actually responded "we know it's a problem and we're working on a fix," and have since been fixed. These were the City of Worcester (Java menus) and my former employer, a public high school in Rhode Island (entire paragraphs as JPEGs).
No surprise here, the majority of that list are sites used by internet marketers for traffic/link building etc. They all deserve a mighty wallop upside the head.
Aside from the bigger companies, I can see why some of the smaller ones wouldn't want to do this, like the restaurants or his vet. Most of the time they just hired someone to create the website, and be done with it. They don't know how to implement the accessibility functionality themselves and hiring someone to do it may cost several hundred to thousands of dollars.

I was interning in a government related web development job, and it took several weeks to properly remake a site to conform to WCAG AA level standards. Unfortunately, that was just for the templates. The dynamic content generated by the CMS usually breaks the conformance. Making websites accessible is not an easy task, and could cost a heavy amount for small businesses.
I don't understand why people in the Netherlands are so gung ho about emigrating to the US. All I hear from europeans is how the US is a warmongering nation that has health care only for the rich. I think that's largely true, but then why is there such a big rush to come here to work. Could it be that The Netherlands is not the paradise that it is commonly promoted as?

I'd also like to see a list of nations that Americans with some sort of programming background can emigrate to with no hassle. Nothing special, just the sort of ease of moving in that they expect the US to provide to their people.
Google has given precise and clear signals of what to do with other releases from other teams, the Google Panda team is not directly responsible for rankings. The information is purposefully fragmented among the different releses, blogs etc.. of different teams. Because that is the way Google is structured, works and also because they want to avoid giving stupid people too much power by providing an easy "how-to" guide to rankings.

You need to be a pro. marketer and know a bit about programming to keep up with Google's recommendations. I have done this, I simply do not want to share this information here where marketers read and make thousands or millions off it, but I would be glad to share that information with small site owners privately for free, one on one. No marketing orgies allowed! :)

Simply stated, if you would for the next month study everything that Google has released the last couple of years (80+ hour work wweks) you would realize where they are going in the next couple of years not only theoritically, which is very useful, but also with practical steps in how to become a friend of Google.

The reason that Google does not produce a even more straightforward guide to SERP / SEO field than they do right now (to lazy to link to it, because it is not that important right now) is that most marketing people are dumb and simply want to build an automatic system that generates money for them without hiring someone or fixing stuff themselves. I think they, meaning Google, consciously want to keep the human element alive and active in search engine marketing right now, therefore you saw Panda, you saw Google+ and you will see a lot of other things down the road as well.

You have to understand that Google sees itself as educating, if not enlightening marketers with their activites as well.

It might surprise you, but most marketers are ignorant of how their field really works. Having attended tons of seminars and a few conferences to boot, they can not even grasp simple technological innovations like HTML5 Video, even if it is explained to them nice and clearly many, many times.

So from Google's stand point, they want to make this learninge xperience slow, step by step, and like a puzzle for a child.

(I am leaving out all the criticism of Google that I have and portraying it in a neutral light for now)
This might be an over-reaching DMCA request by CBS. I don't understand why he doesn't fill in the online form that's in the e-mail to say they're over-reaching. Just because there's a bunch of legalese involved doesn't mean it's not straightforward.
If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents With Ads, Would You Download Them?
It's a moot point because we couldn't organize an event in another country that fast even if we wanted to.
any other ideas?
The problem with the libertarian view that businesses that purposefully exclude some customers will lose business, and so eventually disappear from the market, is that it only actually works that way if the businesses exclude a large customer base, and there aren't compensating factors to make up for the loss.

That's why economic forces didn't do much to open up things for blacks in the south between the Civil War and the era of Federal civil rights law. If you have a "No Coloreds" policy, and the store down the road does not then yes, they'll get the black business you are giving up--but they are giving up to you the business of people who do not want to shop around black people. The latter is worth more to the bottom line than the former, so you'll actually likely come out ahead economically with a "No Coloreds" sign hanging out in front of your shop.

Then that business down the road decides they'd rather have half of the whites-who-don't-want-to-shop-around-blacks business rather than all of the black business, and out comes the "Whites Only" sign on their store. Yes, they have less total customers after the change, but the white customers are wealthier than the black customers and that makes up for the difference in quantity.

Now it gets interesting. The mathematics of this kind of discrimination turn out to be the same as the mathematics of a boycott of a small country by the rest of the world. (I don't remember where I saw this--it might have been in Posner's "Economic Analysis of Law"). Unless the small country is completely self-sufficient, it loses badly. The net result is the discrimination keeps the blacks poor, and so they don't as a group rise to the point where the stores gain by integrating.

Humans in small groups of approximately equal status and means where everyone knows everyone else simply do not behave the same as humans in very large groups of widely varying status and means where people only know a small part of the group. Libertarianism probably works great in the former case, but not in the latter.
What's costly and complicated about plain old HTML?

Customer: We want a menu on our website.

Developer: We can do that. The meter is running.

Customer: Crikey that meter goes up quickly. Just OCR it! That should be almost free!

Developer: We can do that. The meter is running.

Customer: There are all sorts of speling mistkes! Fix them!

Developer: We can do that. The meter is running.

Customer: Now all the text is right but it looks nothing like the menu! We're a freaking restaurant. We spent thousands of dollars to make the menu look good because it is the freaking menu. Make with that HTML and CSS... stuff!

Developer: We can do that. The meter is running.

Customer: Finally, we're getting somewhere! But the description of Chicken Genovese overlaps with the wine list when viewed on an obsolete browser or a Kindle! Make with the fixings!

Developer: We can do that. The meter is running.