skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he was harsh enough.

I think you're too forgiving of some really awful behavior. Writing a beautiful article or being motivated to get the story doesn't excuse it. The fact that most of the readers of the article won't care doesn't either.

She did cross the line. I would be furious if someone I didn't want to talk to (and who knew it) did what she did. The fact she published his private information leads me to believe no consideration was really ever given to how _why felt.

The one line about deciding not to go to his house didn't sway that belief. The decision could have been made to avoid liability in a potential harassment lawsuit as easily as concern over _why's feelings.
"However, as the day progressed, various security experts have had a chance to take a look at what’s really in this distribution, and verify that it is indeed a security risk, and not merely a distribution of security-related utilities, as the project page implies."

Why are we giving this group any media attention again?
Sometimes there may be obstacles to what you propose. Being good at networking etc. is basically a performance skill that doesn't just depend on mindset, but also on good looks, race/culture, age, sex, general likability or other external factors. This is not mentioned often, and I might be wrong but I think it is a factor, despite the fact that the startup world presents itself as the ultimate meritocracy.
We're approaching that same subject now for our development this week. That will probably lead to another blog post ;-) But we are having some luck with Django Compressor and doing CDN hosting. RE:Different layouts...One thing we've tried to do is rely on CSS as much as possible to do the heavy lifting . As for re-using accross mobile and web, you might want to look into putting all of your low level collection and model code into a git submodule or the equivalent so that it can be re-used accross projects.
In a small venture backed company like that, i would assume the developers had shares in the company, and therefor would get some of the money.
This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.
And Digg 4.0 was a more complicated attempt to solve the long tail problem, by creating personalized sub-reddits essentially.
I was not trying to imply reddit evolved FROM digg. (I have been using all three sites since their inception - starting with /. in 1997, I am familiar with their history).

I am saying the IDEA of social content sites evolved from one, to the next, to the next.

As I mentioned, it is not about UI, or content, it was about UX!

The UX that digg had, especially in V4 wrapped too much UI around the content resulting in a poor UX!

Reddit, while seemingly ugly - allowed for far faster and more fluid consumption of the content. It also left more control over what content users wanted.

>It's very much Linux terminally compared to Digg's Mac

I think you're putting too much weight on the shiny.

I think anyone would agree that the speed and agility one gets on a CLI (linux) vs any GUI when you're a savvy user is incomparable.

Finally, I am not jaded/bitter because Kevin Rose got 1.7MM -- I am jaded bitter that anyone would get 1.7MM and so nonchalantly walk away from it AFTER making the types of comments he did.

I think I just have a different perspective than you, I also think you believe I am focusing on things which I am not. :)
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purportedly at least.
Your link shows a study comparing diet to placebo. In contrast, your comment talks about diet vs medication. A nuanced but important difference. To the best of my knowledge, diet-vs-medication has not been tested systematically in a high quality trial.

Another study that you might like, and which is potentially more relevant by the point you're talking with a cardiac surgeon, is the Lyon Heart Study, which actually looks at secondary prevention:

Easy to digest article: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/103/13/1823.full

Original study: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/99/6/779.full.pdf
you seems to be confused about the role of a supervisor. It is the supervisor that is supposed to make sure that the programmers and tenders did not do something improper.
Ask PG: Are application videos limited to one minute?
The instructions at http://ycombinator.com/video.html say that videos for YC applications should be one minute long. However, all the examples of successful videos are longer.

Will longer videos be penalized?
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Hey, when did the 101 start? I'm thinking of joining in but if it is too far along then I might wait for the next round..
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Before thinking about the various career opportunities in overseas we basically look to Indian student mentality or their awareness .Our relationship with student is our top priority and it continued till they got good job .We always abet student if require any assistance or advice during their admission and visa assistance .Our primary focus is to place student on the correct course in the correct university and in the right colleges .We also assist student with the visa procedure from submitting the needed paper to obtaining the student visa on the right time.
Interview with Kevin Kelly on how content wants to be free
Since you usually only want the listeners attached when a view is actually part of the page's DOM, would it be possible to monitor the DOM for when the view is removed and do cleanup automatically based on a DOM event? (perhaps using the mutation DOM events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_Events)
No. Suppose these 8 guys are paid $150k a year on average. Engineers, good ones at least, bring in more than they cost. In some cases like Instagram and Facebook, the ratio of users to engineers is in the millions. Google is similar. When you also bring into account the caché of someone like Rose, the lifetime earnings from that team probably well exceeds what was spent to aquire them.
Chicken or Egg...
I just don't understand how they could possibly be five times larger. There are 4x as many pixels, so by straight pixel count it could be 4x larger.

However, current PNG compressors are really good at optimizing flat color areas, gradients, and lines. It seems to me like most images would get only a relatively small increase in size due to this upsizing (1.5x-2x).
This is a brilliant idea, perhaps even startup worthy. Integrating the quality monitoring into the TCP|UDP/IP stack wouldn't be that hard and shouldn't have too much battery impact.
"she believed and persevered and prevailed through sheer will...".

"He didn't face reality and overestimated his own ability given the situation..."

Both of these mean the same thing. The description that is applied to you depends on the outcome of your (ad)venture
I'm curious what will happen to queries like, 'Thai'. Will they show me local Thai Restaurants? Will they show me travel deals to Thailand? Will these 'attributes' tell me something of Thai culture. God I would hate to have to be working on the query parser with these NLP type changes coming down the path.
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I love how you conveniently leave out Greece.
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>"It’s unclear how the plan overlaps, if at all, with Google’s other recent search initiative, Google plus Your World, which integrates Google+ results into standard searches."

I would have to assume that going forward any tweak to the Google user experience will in some way benefit their social initiative. It seems to matter a lot to them.
Maybe, but that would mean you also have a reference from the dom element back to your JS object that was bound in the first place. I've been wrong plenty of times though, would be cool to see someone give it a try.
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As an additional note, you'll only run into "zombie event" problems if you have to throw away views and models that are bound together at different times.

If you tend to throw away models and their corresponding views together, then you never have to unbind anything, and it's all GC'd by JavaScript naturally.
Well Google, a word of warning that will probably never be seen. I have loved you almost since you started. You have been a very good companion, which never crashed, (almost) never disappointed me for many years. Then you changed, you thought that adding your dumb immediate search after every keystroke would be a good idea (I hate being wasteful). Then you thought that adding some social component in it would be a good idea but I didn't care much about it. Now if there's more "Social bullshit flavor" in your result, I'm out, I am going to find another Search engine that suits better my needs.

Joke apart, Google has always been the way I search for KNOWLEDGE. Because of this "Social trend", it tends to become more and more aimed at searching for TRENDS. And they are two totally different things and pretty much... incompatible. Don't mix it up Google!

For any other additional information about search or more relevant results, I'm in!
Ask HN: Review my idea- Grocery Items search
My son has serious food allergies and I always find it problem to find him something interesting to eat when we are out. When we are in a grocery store, I currently have no way find out what items have what ingredients inside them.

What if a Grocery items search engine that took a query like "-milk -eggs" and gave all items that do not contain milk and eggs.
Sounds like it's time for someone to build pg's search engine for the top 10,000 hackers. Google's entering the uncanny valley; it's ai will be alright, but it won't be faster or better than my ability to parse a page of relevant links from 'old Google'.
Nope, given that they also ban any form of sex other than with a single partner chosen for life.
Knowing that Digg succeeded because a 'giant hype machine' isn't the same as knowing that it would have failed without it.
They’re/their/there
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Good idea but I think your biggest concern should be what if google added this as a feature to their search after they see you succeeding?
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I thought this was fake with Anonymous claiming that they didn't
Temp account, Noprocrast prevents me from editing and making my point more clear.

Until today it was not possible to discover who he was without searching for it. Now you get to know it even if you didn't want to.

The Wikipedia article is the first Google result for his pseudonym. Now his real name is in the SERP. Good job.
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I have a theory about what motivated _why to quit. Partway through the article it says that the name "_why" is a reference to The Fountainhead. (The precise reference is here: http://books.google.com/books?id=3WiS2jWThFAC&lpg=PT133&...) If he read that, maybe he also read Atlas Shrugged (also by Ayn Rand) -- a story in which several successful and prolific characters "disappear" in exactly this manner.

I won't spoil the plot for anybody who's planning to read it, since this mystery is one of the main parts of the story, but this explanation sounds pretty likely to me.

Here's the plot on Wikipedia, though it doesn't give a very good explanation of why people choose to disappear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_shrugged#Plot_summary
Good rant is good.
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> When Bubble 2.0 is dead and gone, we'll still be here.

of the alternatives he listed, 6 are dead.

of the supposedly dead and gone bubble 2.0 products he listed, all are up and running.
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Those people could, you know, not use Google. But I bet there aren't/won't be many of those in practice.
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It's a talent bubble, and while it sounds ridiculous it's not (completely) unjustified. The idea mine for the current generation of the Internet is less verdant than it once was, and so the cost of talent is escalating.

Couple that with the new trend in 'Big Data' and the talent that is out there needs to attach itself to an entity that has the resources to provide that (often proprietary) data.
I see what you mean. I guess it will all depend on what kind of role he will have at Google. If he's going to be appointed "VP of Next Cool Ideas", I think you are absolutely right.
Part of the reason Bayesian analysis was avoided was because, prior to Pearl's work, inference was impractical in non-toy examples. A major contribution of Pearl's work was to make it feasible, by structuring the probability distributions as Bayesian networks that limited the possible dependencies, coupled with the belief-propagation algorithm to do approximate updates.

I don't see Pearl as primarily interested in the Bayesian v. frequentist debate himself, though, but rather in how to efficiently do probabilistic reasoning in non-trivial problems in general, with a heavy tilt towards questions of representing causality. Methodologically his work over the years has used all sorts of things from various camps; for example, he was also an authority in the early 1980s on heuristic search.
Bret Taylor at Facebook.
Python has a quite a few immutable types, tuple, string, none, boolean, int, float, but they are all primitive types. Some of Clojure's immutable types are much more interesting, like the finger tree for example.
You went far past his expectation of privacy, even naming where you think he works. Some would consider that stalking and it certainly was uncalled for.
I'm a programmer in the US, and I get 4 weeks paid vacation plus 2 weeks paid sick leave plus 10 paid holidays.

At my previous job I got 4 weeks vacation (it would have gone up to 5 weeks after 4 years) plus (I forget how much) paid sick leave plus 6 paid holidays.

At the one before that I got 4 weeks vacation plus unlimited (within reason) paid sick leave plus 10 paid holidays.

In other words, you don't need to move to Europe. You just need to find a better job.
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It's been shown formally that call-by-name semantics and call-by-value semantics cannot be expressed via the other using macros (see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/scp91-felleisen.ps.gz).

Also, macros cannot be used in Scheme to implement implicits because implicits, like type classes, rely on static type information. I have actually heard of an attempt to implement type classes in Scheme and it required manual type annotations in all use cases. And, while it hasn't been formally proven, intuitively implicits and typeclasses feel like the kind of languages features that would be difficult, if not impossible, to implement with classic macros.

I feel like you have some pre-conceived notions, both about what macros can and can't do, and about what affect they will have on the Scala language when added. However, as others more knowledgeable than me have already pointed out, macros have already managed to simplify the language as is, and their full potential has yet to be untapped. I would suggest giving them a chance.
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I'm convinced this is why geekologie took off like it did. It used to only update maybe 3 times a day with the most awesome parts of the internet. It's biggest downfall was increasing the postcount so that now it just feels like browsing another reddit. I liked the fact that I could get a 'digest' version of 'what happened today on the internet'.
...is a small ROI?

You, me, and the original poster agree: it's cheap compared to the potential downside.

Now, go try and tell guys with actual money about this, see if you walk away with the bucks for a Mars-based insurance policy.
An important question is whether Kevin will thrive in Google's environment. I imagine they've promised him quite a bit of autonomy, but what happens when Kevin feels constrained or governed?
Will he succeed on a very personal level when he wakes up knowing that he's earning a salary from Google instead of continuing to create his own? I sincerely hope he does succeed.
Well, keep on hating the player and miss all the action then.

Do remember when the bubble collapses, you will be hurt far more than the players who already made their millions and can weather the collapse.
Just to add.

Depends on why he was seeing a cardiac surgeon (who usually sees patients that have had or need surgery), and what his heart disease is. I don't think you have enough medical knowledge to assume the cardiac surgeon was, in fact, wrong. The question could easily have been interpreted as:

"Will diet and exercise reverse my [multiple 95% blocked coronary arteries before I die from a massive heart attack]"

or

"Will diet and exercise reverse my [dead heart tissue from my heart attack]"

Both answers are reasonably close to "absolutely not".

You seem to equate 'heart disease' to high cholesterol levels, and blood pressure readings. It is not. And if he "just" had high cholesterol and high blood pressure, he would not be seeing a cardiac surgeon.

Meanwhile, the answer to "Will diet and exercise reverse my [high cholesterol and high blood pressure]" The answer to that is sure, definitely possible.
A very 1999 idea, I'd say (as in, "tried and abandoned at about that time"). I look forward to receiving a 20K mail forward at 3 AM, split into 125 text messages, again.
Sorry, you do not get a pass on this. You can try to sweep everything under the rug of interacting with a "public person" (as if such a distinction had meaning in the modern age) but it doesn't work. _why made it abundantly clear that he wanted to retreat from public life, and you went out of your way to violate his privacy.

In microcosm this is an example of just the sort of behavior with respect to "public persons" that has so corroded our society over the past decades. Fame has become a life destroying curse because so many people take it on themselves to use the excuse of being a "public person" to pry into their personal life, to harass them and pursue them and deny them any shred of privacy or normalcy. And those problems are exactly the reason why a person such as _why chose to retreat from the public spotlight. It's also the reason why a lot of folks choose to avoid doing things in public. How many other potential _why's out there have shied away from making their work public because they are deathly afraid of toggling that "public person" bit that serves to some as a signal that it's no longer necessary to act with common decency and respect for privacy toward that person? Certainly more than one, perhaps many. And now with your article perhaps just that one more than otherwise would have been.

You have acted rudely and inconsiderately. You walked into a crowd of people and ripped loose a loud and smelly fart. Some people might be amused by such antics but to me it just smells bad. Did you spend even the slightest amount of mental effort considering how your actions would impact _why personally? How they would affect his emotional well-being?

You've made the world an incrementally worse place to live in. If you have even an ounce of conscience in your being then you should have problems sleeping at night.
And how do you think the reasoning went during the telecom and internet bubbles? Hint: Exactly the same.

I encountered competing business plans which went along the lines of: Hire a team of 10 badass engineers, sell for $10-20M. It was a helluva time to hire people.
developers are a dime a dozen. I can hire ten people from India or China who are better than you (xpose2000).

most developers hate successful people who don't have technical skills (Steve Jobs, MBAs, managers, non-technical founders, etc.) because they make the developers look a lot less important.
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People's natural tendency to associate good looks with intelligence, etc. has been documented (IIRC), but I completely disagree that it cannot be overcome if YOU decide you will "fix" it.

Example: Sean Stephenson http://timetostand.com/ (see short video)

Not attacking you personally - but anybody, .. anybody at all who gives me that response are basically chickening out. Consider this the opposite problem of "business guy don't want to even learn how to code, give all sorts of reasons". Technical guy don't want to learn how to hustle, give all sorts of reasons. Again, Sean Stephenson.
> "Do decorators and metaclasses not count as metaprogramming features?"

Not when compared to macros in lisp dialects. The closest python comes is: http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html but lisp with it's simple structure is much less unwieldy.
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What would I search for if I wanted to know more about this story?
Cool - when we send out our newsletters to users, about 70,000 total active emails, we get a solid 1000 bounces in the first hour or so. Bounces decrease each time we newsletter, since we flag users with a bounce_count, and if it reaches 2, or the bounce is a 5xx (permanent error), we don't email them anymore. But, 1000 full stack loads in an hour on our mailserver would crush it!
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Ask HN: Somewhat Urgent Request (Resume Help)
Hey guys,

This is a really quick question. I got very short-term notice of an interview at a startup for tomorrow. This is my first technical job (I'm still in school; all work experience is as a cook). Can anyone show me their resumeso I have some ideas to work with? I have some personal projects, etc. to put on it, more just looking for what sections, style, etc. is expected for a technical resume.

Thanks a lot.
Is coding going to die?
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that's still up for debate - since the energy doesn't penetrate through the body, it's concentrated on the skin.
This may be the first serious competitor that Square has had. Paypal knows the payment space very well, has a brand that everybody recognizes, has relations with a lot of merchants, and the Paypal dongle looks better for heavy usage, because of its shape and size (based on the first picture).
That's true but for the first part, it's mostly due to a lack of interest by other vendors. For the second part, isn't the nacl team working on a protable version of nacl?

It's at least one way to get python in the browser today.
Raises hand. :-)

Just saying that there are folks building search engines, blekko.com and duckduckgo.com are examples.

Many people share your dislike for the privacy aspects (or lack there of) to which Google has gone.

[disclaimer: per my bio I work at blekko.com and I consider myself friends with Gabe over at duckduckgo :-) doesn't take away from the fact that there are exemplars of people building new search engines]
The future of space travel is mining the asteroid belt and war preparation, anything else is just farting around, without the unobtanium or the fear of death to drive us, there is no reason to leave earth for more than a quick trip.

If Elon Musk wants a base on mars, have him start putting missile silos up there, there will be a McDonalds up there in 30 years instead of some decrepit shack with a few science projects going on.
There are real terrorists out there you know. And they should be scanned, metal detected, and detained. They are called "US Soldiers"....
Happy to know that _why's alive and kicking somewhere. I hope he didn't quit out of sadness.
Classic ringer's game: they underestimated his ability, including the meta-ability to calculate odds and stay unemotional. Most players, even high rollers, get into the game and start to make hunch bets as play goes on. He was disciplined enough to trust the math and not waver his strategy.
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