skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Boston there is a column for gay men to write anonymously to for help and advice with their medical issues (especially sexual and psychological).

It's called "Ask Dr. Cox". (hurr, hurr)

"Dr. Cox" is actually a pseudonym for a small group of physicians who respond to the questions. Nevertheless the idea of having a single "name" and "face" to address your concerns to seems to be working -- and it helps these doctors contribute to a much-needed service without occupying too much time from any one of them.
Very cool website and a good message.

Main takeaway for me: either "everyone" is a liar or only saintly people took the survey.
Telefonica exec echoes what we already know: Nokia's new handsets are too spendy
Google May Penalize Ad Heavy Pages
It seems to back up to iCloud, for me at least.
Please steal my idea: Crowdsourced Accounting
Yep, we're on it:) We want this to, and have gotten similar feedback from some of our beta testers. Our focus for this first version was on making the core experience of recording, retaining and retrieving names really solid. Backup/exporting is something we're definitely planning on tackling in an upcoming version.
Times Square To Be Converted To Super Mario Land
Visited a dozen bioplastic and stainleed steel fabricating factories in northern and southern china six monthes ago. The labor rates they pay the thousands of workers they house and employ had doubled or tripled in the last 1.5 years as competition for them has increased.

It's a pretty small data point, but it's pretty incredible to comprehend that ~half the country is making so much more money. And many times more than their parents did.
What are Emotions
I'm slightly below average without lying - this may be a problem with demographics. I'm a bachelor with scarcely anything beyond the basics in the bathrooms, and a very limited wardrobe. Almost all of my slave score comes from electronics.

This would change dramatically if you're calculating for multiple people in a household, or you're just not a barebones bachelor like me.
Installing Java 7  on Debian
For a few decades people accessed email on text based terminals. There's plenty of applications with more complex UIs than email...
There is a touch arcade thread that people occasionally visit, but most of our contact with our users is through email. We're planning to add a direct email link in our "about" page in the game (we already have a link to our website), so hopefully that will make it easier for people to contact us.

(We readily admit that we're pretty bad at forming a community. This is a spare-time thing for both of us, and neither of us uses twitter, facebook, or really any social service, much personally, so we feel a little like fish out of water when it comes to the social aspect of the game. We have a level editor, but no way for people to share levels outside of the game itself, and no way for people to talk about levels they make. We're getting there...)
There has been ongoing evidence of both child and [child] slave labour being used in chocolate production [in West Africa]. For example.

>coffee farms certified by the experts at Fair Trade, who always thoroughly research and monitor every operation and all sales of fair trade coffee //

Research it yourself; and that's the Fairtrade mark (I've not personally researched other fair trade certifying bodies). I did. What I found was a rigorous system of monitoring. Once a firm has been well established and proven to be providing the proper care to their employees, providing safety equipment for example, I think they only send a person to inspect every 3 years - but, like I said that's after a long history of passing the rigorous testing.

Never any abuse? Doubtful, there's abuse in countries with strict labour laws that obviates (or should) the need for fair trade certification.

So then we come back to my metaphor (you understand the term and function presumably, even though you used it as a direct statement). I don't see why buying a chocolate bar should have me being part of a supply chain that includes child/slave/below poverty labour and abuse of the workforce (like spraying crops with pesticides when workers are working on them). Nor do I feel that we're in such a state of poverty as a species that we need people to be worked hard without access to sufficient funds to cover basic health and education needs.

So, you feel Fairtrade fails? That we shouldn't support people working out of poverty by preventing multinationals working for us from offering below subsistence prices for crops? That we should exclude people from getting educated and staying healthy in the name of greater profits for wealthy capitalists?

You appear to be worked up about my metaphor being imperfect; I couldn't care less about the metaphor. From everything I've seen Fairtrade works.

I've seen it before, it amazes me really, that HN has railed so hard against those that are trying to outlaw exploitative labour practices. Perhaps there are too many people here making a profit off electronics put together in Asian factories by underage workers who eke out their existence living amongst toxic chemicals working hard every day to remain in poverty?

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http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/default.aspx
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/business_services/product_certif...
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Should I Lead With my MLM Business Opportunity or My Online Marketing System?
That's actually a bit of a myth, humans get virtually all of our mineral requirements from our food.
Your dad's Solar panels weren't PV--they were black panels with water circulating through them. This color would help with that.
I agree with you, but after reading the article, I don't think the author is saying, "Put your idea on AngelList and if investors don't like it, don't do it." He used AngelList to connect with investors, and he used those investors to connect with actual customers (in his case, landlords, hotel managers, etc). So I don't think he's confusing investors with customers.
I say it's partly due to Google's record of pushing customer service to the bottom of the priority list, but it's also because we're getting the "unwashed masses" online now. Everyday people are now online, have smart phones, and are purchasing apps. They don't know what a bug report is. They may not even know what good customer service is. They don't want to spend their time and mobile minutes/data on helping you fix your product. They just want things to work.
While I agree that annotations would be awesome, there's a lot of value to be found in what already exists.

Part of the appeal of pg's writing is how ... "tight" it is. The man just plain writes well. It was helpful to see a lot of the weaker bits of sentence structure flagged to be pruned later. I could see the same difficulty I experience in structuring my thoughts expressed through three or four iterations of a sentence being hurriedly typed and just as quickly deleted.

Again, annotations would be wonderful, but I'm not sure they're going to happen. Aside from the feature not even existing yet, that would mean the author would need to both want to and be able to go back through the revision history and describe what they were thinking at the time. I doubt most people would be able to do this well, and have strong doubts that anyone would want to do it regularly.

There's a lot to gain here already. Combining the frequency of edits with what actually is changing can give you a pretty good insight into the author's thought process.
I've had more than just a taste of this myself recently. I'm no database expert but I know how to build a query, normalisation, relational integrity and all that. Enough to identify bad SQL in a CRUD application. And I'll take the time to learn more about it and how to better construct a schema and query (and whether or not an RDBMS is even appropriate for the application).

With this in mind my boss mentioned one of our sites was "dying on its arse." It was hammering the slow query log, pages could take 10, maybe 20 seconds to load.

Turned out there were NO indexes at all. Maybe the odd primary key from the default CMS install (which was by no means database efficient). So we sorted that and that sorted out the immediate speed issues.

Of course, it went without saying that a poorly constructed schema must be related to a poorly constructed query or two. We were actually wrong. It was more like a query or twenty.

The submission of one form was done field by field. There was an UPDATE query constructed for each field and processed there and then, on a form with at least 12 fields. There was a comment above, "We have to do it this way. Trust me." As far as I could tell they didn't know how to dynamically build a query.

Further along, different update queries were performed by first deleting the record, and then re-inserting it with one of the fields updated.

I never quite got as far as that. There was no comment anywhere about the reasoning for such a strange approach.

I think some developers don't bother figuring it out because they think there are better things to do than optimise your code.
Facebook disabling notes RSS auto-importing
Getting this message on my Facebook page today. I have a personal blog that I've linked to auto-post to Facebook using their "Notes" RSS import.

"Changes to How You Share Content in Notes"

"You currently automatically import content from your website or blog into your Facebook notes. Starting November 22nd, this feature will no longer be available, although you'll still be able to write individual notes. The best way to share content from your website is to post links on your timeline. Learn more about notes."
Deprecation of Gmail App for BlackBerry
I don't think I get it. Signed up for a trial and I'm playing with it. But for me it feels like something that is about 10% as awesome as Google Wave.. Though no one seems to like Google Wave it's probably my second most used google service after mail.

Edit: I guess the github/kiln/other service integration is the good parts
It would be awesome if the system gave a rating (read:score) based on how many revisions someone puts into a document, so people have an idea of how hard they worked on it.
Thanks! Guess we should work on a post, then. :)
America's job creation problem attacked by an innovative web startup
Since this is Hacker News and all, I'll pose a question: we had that news story on how few Indian hackers and tech startups there are, what about in China? Are any of these millionaires profiting off things like Baidu is with web tech working for the government?
One speaker at a developer conference does not represent the community. If anything it reflects the organizer's choice of speakers.
Actually, that's just plain unprofessional behavior, and reflects poorly not only on the speakers, but on the organizers as well. Though I hear the organizers were equally concerned over what transpired, so I expect it was naivety on the part of the organizers in their lack of firm communication that professional conduct was a requirement in order to be a speaker at the event.
This trend needs to stop now. I guess this does not happen much in company-based events where such behavior would be grounds for firing or a warning from HR(or a ban from other company events for outsiders.) The open hacker community needs to step up a little and not let things be too casual to a fault. Diversity is very beneficial to the industry and if a speaker has to resort to crass humor to attract or entertain attendees, that doesn't reflect too well on their skills.
Restructured text does this too.
How is it that we've come to a point where we think of application and database development as separate things?

My take is that the principles of database engineering only make intuitive sense at scale.

If every programmer started their career as an assistant DBA at a web host with a lot of traffic, or a data warehouse with a ton of transactions and report generation going on, or a company where lots of different groups were developing client code against the central database, every programmer would be inspired to understand databases.

As it happens, programmers start their career building little apps with one client at a time and a handful of data. And many of them finish their career building such apps, because they are very handy. And these programmers may never feel a burning need to know how databases perform with large datasets, or a huge stream of colliding transactions, or a mission-critical data integrity and safety requirement, or a variety of clients all trying to generate complex reports.
Why the U.S. is losing the cyberwar against China
The Alla Klein approach is also used when CS moves to Bangalore behind the scenes...
This isn't just a Mac/iOS community problem, as evidenced by a post like this popping up every week or two. It's a programming/hacker community problem.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but my view is that I was not asked to be born under these circumstances (over population, unequality of wealth, unfairness, etc). I never was in charge of dictating the type of world I wanted to live in. Therefore, why do I have the burden to do something about unfairness in this world? It's like saying to a developer "Go fix this bug RIGHT NOW!", and then when he/she asks for commit permissions, you reply back "Sorry, you need to sign this form, and give it to HR, then send an email to the DBAs, and wait a couple of days.. but still FIX IT NOW!"
Another flaw in the methodology is that if I own no slaves, I have no slaves working for me.
Seven charged in botnet-driven click fraud case
That's perfect, just combine it with http://www.classnamer.com/ and later you can even autmate the commit: http://whatthecommit.com/
What kind of website monitoring? Just checking a random domain is available on the internet? Then yes, Pingdom is a no brainer.

If you have a complex application with multiple moving parts you'd probably want to look into something like nagios.
Are the namericks normally that offensive? Is that a specific memory cue? I would be interested to know if that is or not. For example I made one for my friend Brooke and clicked generate namerick. The first two items that came up were brooke bangs boys and brooke the Blower.
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The client API requires that you provide it your app's global credentials. These are likely to be baked right into the code, so can be easily extracted from the binary. It looks like the entire datastore is mutable/queryable after authentication by default. Privileges can be revoked on datastores after creation, which is obviously not ideal since it limits your app's capabilities.

In its current form, this is inappropriate for all but the most basic use cases.
Google+ badges: Drive Engagement with Your Users on G+, Right from Your Website
Yes, iCloud should work right now, which solves the "what if I lose my phone or get a new phone" concerns. Our backup/export features will be more focused on the "I want to use my Namerick data in some other context" use case.
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It's simple.

This is what they (investors) want you to do.

Come down to S.V., spend some time there (preferably move), and try to party crash into every tech meetups they have to connect and network. Get their business card, and add them as your facebook/linked in friends.

This is how it used to be and this is how it will still be. Angellist doesn't try to solve this one bit, yet I think.
These new users probably carry their expectations from the real world to the internet as well. If some merchandise from a store isn't good, you don't appeal to the company who produces it, you simply tell other people your negative experience with the product and encourage everyone to avoid it, just like what's happening on these app stores.
Proper printing is the essence of Successful Stickers
Ploud is a free, easy-to-use service for creating and hosting Plone sites
The world would be a better place if people spent less time figuring out ways to be offended.
I immediately thought of Hotblack Desiato's limo.

"It's so ... black!" said Ford Prefect, "you can hardly make out its shape ... light just seems to fall into it!"
Zaphod said nothing. He had simply fallen in love.
The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.
A necessary condition for this scenario is that these people are being compelled to work for a $1/day.

If the options that exists are $1/day vs. privation vs. criminality vs. selling sex services, most people would choose a $1/day.
I love it. Is there an Android version in the works?

My biggest problem with names would likely not be solved with this, although it might help me become more disciplined. My problem is that I'm always so wrapped up with sizing someone up and watching that person's expression and body language that the name is lost to me in the initial exchange. Very frustrating habit and very hard to break.
So what does this mean for Windows Phone 7? Will Silverlight eventually go away for it as well? Since the majority of WP7 apps are developed with Silverlight (i think?) what will replace it?
Why am I being downvoted? As responsible engineers, we should be deeply suspicious of anything coming from the client. This product flies in the face of that wisdom.
The questions really profile you pretty deeply -- City, Gender, Age, Children, consumer preferences.

Is that the point of the website?
Gotta love the reporting angle - it's not that Russians launched a Mars moon lander for crissake, the first major space exploration project for them in ages, but it's that they screwed up. Yay.
Does Twitter's Activity Feed Violate Facebook's Patents?
FBI takes out $14M DNS malware operation
Maybe HNers are just better at keeping their mouths shut when they don't know anything about a topic.
Thank you for your feedback! Indeed, without the integrations Flowdock is just a group chat - although most teams still need one.

When you bring in activity from GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, JIRA, emails and all your other tools, you'll get to react to anything in seconds.
No, you have particularly bad luck:) I haven't seen any come up anywhere near that explicit yet. The namericks are randomly generated from a list of words, which sometimes leads to hilarity. That being said, mnemonics that are slightly suggestive are more memorable than more boring mnemonics, since they generate more vivid imagery in our heads, which is easier for our brains to remember (we're very visual animals).
Website-marketing
Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People
I have other applications with more complicated UI's also relying on HTML and AJAX and they work just fine. What kind of web applications do you have that would require Silverlight or something similar?
I guess it's twoo things: first, It's a common thing in java to somehow work the role a class plays in a design pattern into the class name, and the second is that variable names often reflect the type (class name), so there you go. Love it, hate it or go out and have some fun...
You get a lot more than 2 bytes, because your NAT tables can map both sender and receiver (IP, TCP port) tuples to a connection.
National Internet sales tax bill has bipartisan support
I can see how some people think it is cool, but I'm the only one creeped out by this?

I'm probably weird and I'm not sure I can explain it rationally, but if my parents had done something like this I'm not sure I'd be too amused.

Maybe it is just too cheesy for my taste.

(And obviously I don't mean just the act of going and publishing it in an ad, I'm assuming the whole illustration of the idea is fabricated.)
There are two perspective here. One is what Comcast is prepared to support - and they've identified a minimally useful environment, that allows them to start off slowly, and eliminates as many possible variables from the equation as they can. No /48 routing, (no routers on the CPE at all), no proxying, no RFC 4193, no stateless auto configuration, no 4941 privacy extension. That is from the perspective of Comcast and what they'll support.

Then, there is the perspective of what the end user can do (with or without telling comcast) - obviously, in the IPv4 case, you can PAT/NAT to your heart's content, and Comcast will be none the wiser.

So - depending on whether you want to stay within the confines of what Comcast is "officially" supporting, or working with the realm of what you know will work - you may or may not want to NAT4 (I personally would have no problems doing it)

Which brings us back to the question of IPv6 - I don't think there is any mechanism to allow multiple hosts to hide behind a single IPv6 address, so, from that perspective, the "What will Comcast support" and "What will I do" - turn out to be the same perspective. :-)
Vibration as a tactile feedback is extremely coarse. Electrostatic tactile feedback can simulate textures, button presses, and so forth - on your fingertip, instead of on your hand.
Am I experiencing some bug here or is the author of this really expecting us to read something like this: http://cl.ly/0Q1b0i2t191F0R2L0B0t ?
Thank you for the kind words! I quietly rolled the application out yesterday. I'm bootstrapping the whole thing with my own cash, so I'm just getting it out there and hoping to get early feedback so I can make refinements.
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No need to be so snarky. Potential TOS violations, and the very real possibility of a life-long Google account being hijacked or revoked, are thoughts worth considering.

Google seems to be presenting itself as a life-long data repository. But they have basically no customer support, no means of data recovery, etc. If they want to advertise themselves as a family scrapbook, I expect them to be as reliable as one.
Did percentages not show up in your pie chart? They should have. I hope that isn't broken, but I appreciate you pointing it out! We did some colorblind testing and had good (not great) feedback. Time will tell. I think color refinement is fun :)
Isn't this the exact point of the App posted? To rally people together?

You claim that "rallying large groups of people is the only way to make a difference," but a large group of people is made up of individuals, and those individuals will participate in that group by altering their day to day purchases.

So to say that it is all about groups and not about any individual decision is a bit of a paradox since without any individual decision, there is no group.
Open letter to open-letter writers. If you're not the kind of person who has empathy for people with different tastes in humour, there's no need to write anything further.
Comment sorting on HN is at least partly based on average karma values, so it's not necessarily a case of comments getting 'voted up to the top'.
All developers of these codebases need to do is place some ads on their documentation pages and they'll rake in a fortune from the amount of times people have to load it up to remember a class name.

Symfony2's namespacing is a good one for this too:

\Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\DependencyInjection\Security\Factory\SecurityFactoryInterface
\Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\DataTransformer\DateTimeToLocalizedStringTransformer

http://api.symfony.com/2.0/classes.html
Maybe, but it would be an even better place if developer conferences are kept free of dorm-room-level jokes.
"awkful" -- nice.
Coincidentally I'll be in SF too that day. I'm @astro on Github. Shoot me a message!
Nice! Now just publish it as an Android app and we are good to go.
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304310
> GoDaddy's ads basically communicate "We're sketchy and lowbrow." And, typically speaking, I want neither of those things in a domain registry service.

Exactly!

The popularity of such extremely sketchy registrars is disturbing, of course most registrars are more or less sketchy, but there almost seems to be correlation between popularity and sketchiness in this field, and I can't figure out why.