skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, this phenomenon is more than anecdotally documented.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=amping-up-b...

That said, of all the things I like to tinker with - my brain is not one of them.
This looks like the kind of class more people need to see. It's less "how to implement" things and more why things do or don't work.

I find this dreadfully important because when you study this math you realize that more often than anyone expects, standard ML is extraordinarily fragile, but also has some powerful justification. For instance, this[1] made me laugh with joy.

[1] http://work.caltech.edu/images1/canvas.png
Yes I test drive my code to describe behavior and relationships between collaborators. I use my tests to validate my code and design, not to "catch bugs".
success of khan can be attributed to one fundamental: sal is an incredible teacher. his pacing, clarity, and analogies make difficult subject matter more accessible.
Cabo is 1500 miles away from SF. Vancouver is closer to SF than that.
Kevin Rose shutters Oink
That was one of the things that delighted me about writing it!
1. Perf is different from your personal profile or snippets. Were you even at Google long enough for Perf?
2. "I didn't pay attention." there you go :)
Woah there, they aren't finished with their development tools. They aren't forgetting anything. They just aren't finished yet. And it's not like Firebug suddenly doesn't work anymore.

For example, you have the scratchpad, the error console, and the web console.

This is a bit older, but I see the reason they aren't trying to replace Firebug is that their is no immediate need to. They can explore do things that Firebug isn't doing.

http://blog.mozilla.com/devtools/2011/05/25/the-relationship...
At that point it's much more about feel than a hard time measurement.

After implementing deferred initialization I asked myself "does reordering feel laggy?" and the answer was no. If it had felt laggy then I'd have started profiling again.
Works fine when I tested with some Ruby code and the Ruby aws-sdk gem. Thanks again.
There used to be a scam in England where people would use solvents to wash away the postmark from posted letters, allowing them to sell / re-use the stamps.

I can imagine a group stealing a laser to remove the postmark. Luckily, UK stamps now have other security features.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5400999/Royal-Mail-la...)
Whilst this is the opposite of what the post is suggesting, it's a useful thing to know.

If you use Nautilus (e.g. Ubuntu), "nautilus ." works. I guess "explorer ." would work in Windows.
Is Excel Web App a contender for Google Docs?
That's hysterically funny. Only slightly off topic.
As a founder of a company in the same space (chee.rs) I was surprised to see them pivot from the idea so quickly.

Our internal analysis of share/engagement metrics was showing that our own users were way more engaged than Oink's. We were expecting that if they noticed us in the market they'd have been working on rev 2 of the product - gathering intel from products like ours and integrating it - rather than shutting it down.
Use a Key logger
It indeed takes time to build and release. I should have been more specific that I meant the orders of magnitude more time, 6 months, it can take to get a new minor version from the vendor, vs 6 hours from a kid working on a Saturday night building a major release.

The volunteer worked a non-zero amount of time. Thanks for pointing it out! I'll make sure to carefully guard my language in the future for fear of being unclear.
How to Avoid Being Pushed Out of the Company You Founded?

Own it.
Get religion about your company
Cloning and resurrecting the mammoth? Not so fast
Looking for co-founder ; "SALES/MARKETING".
Hi hackers,

I'm working on a project at the moment with an external/freelance 'designer' and a co founder 'hacker'.

We're looking to branch out and bring in someone who is a prolific salesman and understands finance.

We're pre-beta, unfunded (well financed via myself), young and short sighted perhaps. However we are ambitious, smart and believe in the pain point we are trying to solve.

Please email me if you would like to get on board and have a Skype conversation to see if we could all work together as that is the most important factor.

P.S Hackers and designers are just as welcome, we just feel sales/marketing would be an ideal fit to our needs.

P.S.S Must apologise for the somewhat arrogant/ignorant first title. We fully respect sales/marketing guys hence why we are looking for one to join us as a co founder.
Poll: How many hours a day do you sit in front of a computer?
I've been trying to reduce the number of hours I'm in front of a computer, but was curious to see how many hours other people spend.

Please vote based on average hours per day during a work day.
0 - 2
6 - 8
9 - 11
12 - 14
15 - 17
What America Sells To The World
You were deluding yourself that you ever had that incentive to "invest" your time with free-to-use startups. Or, more likely, you used the service because it was awesome at the time, better than the alternatives, and didn't think about the downside risk.

There are people out there trying to compete with free and building slow, deliberate, organic growth on the model. So it's hard for me to feel sorry for the users who feel burned when "free" doesn't work out.
I have a question..

How ethical is this to set something up to obviously collect 'free data'?
Google Chrome Rewarded $60,000
Sure, but we already have Linux (and FreeBSD and NetBSD and...). So if your argument for something new is reliability, you're arguing inherently-potentially-more-reliable vs in-practise-already-quite-reliable and haven't shown us what we gain by going with you vs them.
Star Wars MMO Free to Play this Weekend
Samsung Gears Up for Move into Mobile Payments with NFC Phones
Well, the Firefox dev tools team also shipped the new Web Console and JavaScript Scratchpad in recent releases [1] and has been improving them rapidly. They've already landed much of the back-end code for the new JS debugger protocol [2] which will eventually culminate in a complete new debugger including features like remote debugging of Firefox for Android. They've also been working with the Firebug team on improved stability and other enhancements.

Today's announcement for Firefox 11 is just about the stuff that happened to ship during the most recent six-week release cycle. It doesn't mean that the team isn't working on lots of other projects [3].

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/developer-tools-in-firefox...

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Features/Debugger

[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Features
A shame to see Oink getting shut down again.
Ask HN: What do you think of sites like Groupon requiring emails to get in?
An Anti-Reverse Engineering Guide
Guys, it sounds like he worked for Google China. I don't know how tech works between different Google entities (as I don't/never have worked for Google), but its possible that Google China wasn't using the same system as Google US at the time edwardw was working for them.
You should probably talk about the pain point you're trying to solve... or at least the industry.
Leadership, Role Models and Girl Scouts
Great point - something like this?

https://gist.github.com/2038115
This is funny because I just had a long conversation with a friend about a startup idea. It would turn your smartphone into a beacon that broadcast your profile and your interests to the world, so that you could look around a coffeeshop or whatever and see the people that share the same interests and then have great conversations with them. Then I realized it had already been done, and it's called clothing.

I still think digital "clothing" would be cool, and I get that there's a lot wrong with the way we use clothes to signal today, but anything that adds so much bandwidth to communication between people can't be all bad.
Looks like he's probably got too many hits, here's the google cache update today.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6Ja4qtJ...
"Which programming language?" is not meaningful question. You can learn a new programming language quickly. What you will need is an understanding of computer science (theory and algorithms) and mathematics. On top of that, you'll need deep familiarity with your domain interests -- software development, electronics, and economics. Different programming languages provide different frameworks for thinking about problems, but don't provide much help in solving them (unless it's done in the standard library ;-) )
Sympathetic? Not so much. But when a future plaintiff is looking to cite precedent, most likely their court isn't going to say "In that previous case, that guy was obviously guilty of something, so that decision was possibly made out of expedience and we're not going to use it".

In fact, I'll go out on a limb and argue that a majority of rule-of-law-preserving precedents must be made when the defendant is/appears guilty - for if they appeared innocent, a court would probably find this by easier means rather than spending much effort nitpicking the procedural issues!
That was my initial thought, but he's describing the reverse: browse to a folder in Finder, then open a terminal with the path set to that directory.
Reasons Why Pinterest Will Take Over Twitter
Sadly, it was a joke. (Or very long lines of lisp).
I love testing I just find using it in the right way can be very tricky sometimes. Especially in a team setting where there are weaker members than others.

When you work with a team of people that didn't understand what to test you end up with really bad tests that add very little value. Do you delete those test? Write sane ones?

When you end up with a legacy code base where doing something like functional UI testing is easy but doing unit testing on the actual code is almost impossible, do you even attempt to unit test it?

If you see a piece of code with that must be rewritten, but unit testing it costs too much time, do you simply start writing tests what you think the assumptions were and then just go about with the rewrite?

In the end I see a huge value in testing what you write, and being automated is preferred. My problem becomes picking up something else that was clearly done in a misguided fashion and reliably rewriting or refactoring it. I know there are probably some guides/books out there that demonstrate it so any suggestions are welcome.
Heh. The man says it like it is.
we just started giving importance to it... :)
From an online marketing perspective:
We'll stop producing them when you stop linking to them.

This is like asking Om not to take money for GigaOM..
New compound discovered that rapidly kills liver cancer
Do you really think a title like that would attract high quality Sales & Marketing talent.
The title indicates you have nothing but disrespect for sales and marketing, and in your vocabulary it's probably a dirty word.

The market for great analytical marketeers who know finance as well is just booming. You should be lucky if you get good people to react on this thread, let alone hire a great person who can help you build a great company.

You might be young and short sighted. That is not an excuse to talk little about the skills you need to build your company!
it seems like they intended to use oink for data gathering:
from: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/03/14/kevin-roses-milk-shutt...

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This is an interesting case. It seems like the group designed, built and shipped a pretty slick ratings app all in a bid to gather data. Rather than mine existing databases or pay other companies to license their information, they were able to garner attention via the app launch and gather their own.
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if this is indeed the case, they should have been upfront about it. This is like taking users for a ride. 'Now that we have enough data, we're going to shut this thing down'
> document.addEventListener

Have a feeling you're going to regret that.
I felt that linking this to HN was in poor taste, and does nothing to further the discussion about 'quality talent' in the Financial Services industry.
On a climate time scale, the paper will decompose into CO2. Paper production just defers CO2 from now until a point only a few hundred years in the future.
Well, I pretty much do, but my process is automatic and heavy on third-parties: http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
There's a very good treatment of these issues in the late Christopher Stuntz's book, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice. Basically he blames a mixture of excessive criminalization/sentencing (eg drug laws), plea bargaining, and lax policing which prefers arresting people for easy-to-convict crimes - not least because law enforcement officers nowadays rarely live in the same communities where crime occurs, and so lack respect from, sensitivity towards, and intelligence about the communities that they police.
>I do not lose because I cannot run a free program on my iPhone.

That's some peculiar logic.
Of course working on a code base without a majority test coverage is dodgy (and intellectually frustrating), but it's a necessary skill.

I feel that it is unreasonable to expect that you will be able to pick up any code base and immediately write sufficient tests to get coverage on a majority of the code base. Speaking from my experience picking up old code bases, just being able to write isolated unit tests would require refactoring most of the code base, which is typically not something you will have time to do before you're expected to do other work.

I can't think of a single manager that I've worked for who would accept me saying, "it's going to take me 3-6 months of refactoring & building tests before I can start fixing bugs and providing enhancements."
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I dunno. You're given the equations in that class. Translating from math notation to octave syntax doesn't require you to have any idea of why any of it works.
>the key ement that establishes criminal infringement is "intent to profit"

Is this also true in the US, or only in the UK ?
Why Anti-Circumvention Laws Are Evil
Now that I know you see replies to your comments, I will inform you that I disagree with your assertion that what I have been describing here is just banner style.

Lisp coders are accustomed to a certain pattern of indentation that would be analogous to the following in C, where xxx and yyy are typically many lines long:

while(aa){if(bb){
xxx}
yyy}

I am recommending for Lisp coders to avoid that pattern and to indent the above as follows:

while(aa){
if(bb){
xxx}
yyy}

which is of course familiar to a C programmer and which we will refer to as "formula A". However, what will be unfamiliar to a C programmer is the motive behind my recommendation: namely, to make it possible to introduce into Lisp a new pattern of indentation, unfamiliar to C programmers and Lisp programmer (but familiar to Haskell programmers) in which you are allowed to write,

while(aa){if(bb){
xxx}}

where again xxx is a place holder for many lines of code. However, it is important to note that the following would be a definite violation of the indentation style I recommend:

while(aa){if(bb){
xxx}
yyy}

I recommend indenting that as formula A above. In other words, you can begin multiple multi-line s-expressions on the same line, but if you do, you have to close all of those multi-line s-expressions at the same time.

>maybe you can post it anyways?

It's a little too long: about 90 lines of code. I could make it shorter by taking out the code that warns the user of the stylistic violation described above, but most user would want that code.
Are these companies legal in Florida?
As far as I know Ameriloan and Western Sky are illegal in most of the state of US. You are required to pay back only the principal amount. To know about Cash Net, contact with Florida Office of Financial Regulation
Excellent article. Do you mind going into what tools/techniques you used to do the profiling?
The UK signed a treaty with the US and something like 50 other countries that requires them to extradite under these circumstances. Because the law broken exists both in the foreign country and domestically, and because the evidence behind the crime is clear, there isn't even a fig leaf of a justification for not extraditing; to not extradite, they would have to break their own extradition treaty.

Frankly, I think the core of this argument is that you and I disagree about the legitimacy of the underlying law. There's nothing wrong with that disagreement. You're entitled to the opinion that criminal charges for commercial violation of copyright are wrong, idiotic, &c. But what I'm commenting about has nothing to do with the actual law; I'm just saying, this doesn't appear to be a process abuse.

Fun fact: we had an argument about the US "bullying" the UK over extradition about a year ago, in the McKinnon case. At issue: a "controversial" renegotiation of the extradition treaty between the US and UK that lowered the evidentiary standard for extradition to the US. A few minute's Google research showed the bullying was exactly in the opposite direction --- that prior to the treaty renegotiation, the evidentiary standard for extradition to the US was extreme and far stricter than that of extradition to the UK.

Additional fun fact: O'Dwyer has superior due process protections in the US than he does in the UK.
That should be easily fast enough. If you don’t care about your Firefox profile but want to try Firefox again occasionally then I’d just blow it away and create a fresh one. It lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox.

By the way, sorry you’re being downvoted. You’re adding to the conversation, not trolling.
While absurd it does bring to light the other proclamations of "Copyright Violation." If those were true arguments then this should also be applicable. If they weren't true then those who cried foul should be forced to reimburse any dues while confessing to greed.
"This is an interesting case. It seems like the group designed, built and shipped a pretty slick ratings app all in a bid to gather data."

Well, that's one way to spin it.

Gotta hand it to Kevin, he knows how to handle PR.
I'm had the same thought Obie. I find high level integration tests provide most of the value for me, with unit testing when I need help with designing code. Having a decent suite of high level tests saves me from having to smoke test the entire app every time I make sweeping changes. If the suite is passing, I know the features are working, at least in the basic cases I was testing for. I still have to do some level of manual testing, but it's nowhere near as much as I did before I became more obsessed with testing.
Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What?
This doesn't exactly help their credibility with me as a user. Why should I invest time in their next "experiment" if they're just going to give up a few months after launch?
Somewhat parallel to what I see as the two legitimate uses of infographics (with no claim that there are only two):

1. presenting/supporting analytical results

2. providing the viewer/reader with a way to explore data for new conclusions (cf Tufte)

The first one is easier. E.g. I've identified that there were successive waves of support, in the Republican primaries, for Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, etc. and I can show a chart drawn from the Nate Silver do support this - http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/reads-re...

The chart both shows and supports the conclusion. Another "type 1" infographic in a poster/narrative style (via Tufte himself): http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

The second use is more tricky. The famous "Napoleon's campaign against Russia" chart does it well - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.pn...

You can explore lots of different points. (And it works in the first sense as well - hitting you between the eyes with how many French soldiers died).

My test for the first purpose is "what's the story?" If it's just "ooh, look at the pretty", the infographic has failed. And then of course you verify that the story is presented fairly.

My test for the second purpose is whether the infographic rewards more examination, and, even more so, whether I can find patterns or links that the author/graphic artist might now have anticipated. E.g. in the Minard/Napoleon graphic, you could check how losses en route to Moscow correlate with losses on the way back.

Given how often infographics fail both these tests, I'd say we're in an infographic bubble. Can't wait for it to burst.
About 12. And it is taking its toll on my health and back. And I need to stop. I've developed back problems which have been bothering me now for about 2 months.
Oink.me.uk/.cd getting shut down made me quit caring about commercial music. And seeing how Alan was declared non-guilty later made me really really angry (the most awesome music service was killed and there was no reason or legislation to it).
Sharing files will never be easy due to the copyright implications/fears, regardless of how many legitimate applications there are.
I'm not sure if this was more of a "fail fast, move fast" effort or that they realized it was stupid to begin with.
It's a lot of work and there's something to be admired in people putting in that amount of work and effort to spread anime/manga that they really enjoy and think other people should experience (and wouldn't otherwise normally be able to experience).
it's direct traffic. they are mainly hitting 2 pages on our site.

the organic traffic from google has been consistent going up and down slightly which is normal.

however the direct traffic shot up from 1100 to 14000 a day!

i'm not too worried now since it's not eating too much bandwidth but it could cause an issue soon by bogging down all the bandwidth.

in my robots.txt i have:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /rate.php
Disallow: /ratewp.php
Disallow: /brokenLink.php
Disallow: /download.php

should i restrict the user-agent to only bing, google and yahoo to see if that might be it?

the fact that it's all US based IPs is what's weird.
Do you always have the time/bandwidth to write these tests?

Does an ER surgeon always have the time/bandwidth to scrub hands before surgery?
If your goal is whole-system reliability, there's way more low-hanging fruit than the kernel. In the last five years I've had two kernel panics. It's so rare that I remember both times it's happened. But hardware failures (at least one hardware failure of some kind a year) and application crashes (once a week or more) happen all of the time. Hardware is a complex beast but many application crashes are significantly improvable by some other low-hanging fruit (say, better crash reporting for developers)
i don't think so cause it's only hitting 2 pages consistently.
Oh. Well, now this seems like a good hackathon project: given a topic and a theme, auto-generate a website.
I also don't buy the copyright infringement argument. Pinterest is a bookmarking service much like Delicious. It no more infringes than the thumbnail previews in Google Images or Facebook posts.
So much smoke. I like how they mask very crystal-clear strategy with barely-relevant DNS statistics and data in an attempt to obscure what's happening.

My prediction from 2 years ago + and again a couple weeks ago rings true now: http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/02/25/a-close...

"I’ll reiterate my view that I think Google controlling search, the browser, and the network or DNS layer is a dangerous trifecta that the consumer will probably be best served avoiding. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough."
A 64-bit C++ horse that can count