skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viral 'human bird wings' video fake, probably an ad, expert says
The problem of course is that what Google actually IS and what people THINK Google is are two completely different things. Google is an ad company, always remember that.
It's taboo to be overly nationalistic, e.g. fly the flag on a private residence year-round.
To be honest, I'm a bit confused about this issue:
How is this different from a user sharing copyrighted images (ie: memes) on Facebook or Twitter? Or even just plain ol' sites dedicated to memes?

Are they getting targeted because of their popularity? But what about FB? Is it because Pinterest is open doors where FB is (somewhat) closed?

Would Pinterest avoid all these issues by simply linking the images instead of storing it?
Love the detail in this. Nailing the pitch and finding who to send it to are so obvious, yet most people don't know how to properly do so. Great advice here.
> The way to fight terrorism is to act kindly and justly, and to promote the racial welfare to the extent that everyone is happy and well fed enough that they don't go starting trouble.

Do you have any evidence for this? The typical suicide bomber is middle class.
Oh, and by the way: I was the designer of this system (although I no longer work for the company that is implementing it), and am happy to answer most questions about it.
When I was in my early 20's, I (the lone female developer) was once asked by my manager to put together a gift for the only other female team member, a tester, who had just given birth. I don't know why I was picked, because I was

(1) very new to the team,
(2) didn't knew the other person well, and
(3) generally ill-equipped at that stage of my life (really, just entering the "adult world") to anticipate what was an appropriate gift for a new mother.

There were other team members who were already parents (of multiple children, even), thus probably knew better. But I was picked.

I think I just got a Toys'R'Us gift card as cop out.
I'm going to guess they take a break to lounge on their huge pile of money then ramp up Diablo 3 stuff.
So actually your number, by Laplace's law of succession (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession), would be 71%: you saw 4 other instances and you were another instance, so that's 5 instances, and you say you and 3 others were pulled over for 4 pull overs, so in the formula 's +1 / n + 2' we get ' 4+1 / 5+2' or 0.71 or 71%.
"Really loved your post yesterday on how..." There's useful advice in this post, but recommending people turn the first paragraph in their email to a blogger/reporter into something akin to comment spam may not be your best bet if you want to get media coverage.
This is the coolest thing I have seen in Analytics for a long time. This really gets to the heart of most of the information you need on user flows and its fast and clear.

Can't wait till they add events to this.
Crazy interview story. Way inappropriate and at the very least shows he wasn't even paying attention. I'm a stay-at-home dad to my 18 month old son and also get nervous about what the job hunt will be like once I return to work. I guess when the time comes at least I can console myself with the knowledge that I probably won't have to deal with the interviewer showing me pictures of a tick on their ass. :-)

men harass each other with equal or greater tendency than their female peers...men are socialized to shrug it off or suck it up, and may even become desensitized to it after a while

I'd say that's pretty accurate - maybe shrugging off a little harassment is how we guys try to prove we're confident to each other.
Fascinating to see how HN and Reddit differ. I wonder if anyone can provide an analysis on which one is more appropriate for different scenarios, and why. I certainly have no clue.
It was a repo of bug reports to geeklist. Someone opened an issue regarding the video

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740970
Advantage indeed. I am a hacker and also applying to YC. I am actually looking for musician co-founders or partners. Tell us more about what you do.
Either you didn't read the article or you didn't understand it. The author doesn't complain that Google search results aren't "the best possible for the most people"--au contraire!

He complains they're not the same, that if you search from a given location or being in a given demographic you will get different results than other people, and that this fact erodes the trust users have in Google: how do I know if this set of results is the absolute best on a given topic or if Google is simply showing to me what it "thinks" I will like?
Please, go read some real academic literature regarding linguistics, or at the very least LanguageLog or LanguageHat or the like (which amount to the same thing in blog-form). You'll inevitably find that there exists no linguist anywhere who'd agree with that kind of correction, or almost any popular grammatical correction at all. More often than not, they're absolutely baseless and inconsistent with everything we actually know about language. Further, they're always very annoying, presumptuous and add nothing to the discussion. Sort of like creationism or witch-hunting.
> Serving personalized results to users may increase click-through rates but it degrades the idea we form of what Google is and what it does.

If it serves me better results, then how so?
Lots of great advice in this awesome article by AI guru Peter Norvig

http://norvig.com/21-days.html
The tricky part is developer's qualification.

Task XXX

Noob at $50/hr * 20 hrs = $1'000

Pro at $150/hr * 2 hrs = $ 300

How do you guys plan to tackle deveoper's creds?
This is never going to happen, and IMHO should not. Equality is not equivalency and none of us are colour blind. The key is accepting differences when they ARE there. That said, class is a way bigger difference than race. :P

EDIT: I'm definitely not saying that the subjective perceived differences in gender and race are real, or that bigotry and ignorance are cool.
Sigh.

A subset of human retinas can discern a higher pixel density, in the same way that a subset of the human population is capable of running the 4 minute mile. It doesn't make us all professional middle-distance runners.

The majority of people don't even have 20/20 uncorrected vision much less the ability to discern the pixels on a Retina display.
Just because I don't agree with their choices, doesn't mean I don't understand them. Even though Sunwell was an unplanned response to Black Temple being "tuned too well", the next expansion not being ready, the top guilds crushing existing dungeons, it doesn't make sense to release content that 5% of your player base ever has a hope of seeing, much less finishing. I mean I get it for sure. From a monetary/subscriber point of view, they absolutely did the right thing, the hardcore crowd for sure was the minority (the vocal minority), but minority nonetheless. I think we're seeing that in the subscriber numbers, 10% of so people got fed up and left, and the remainder are [happily?] plugging along. But playing through the various expansions, you can definitely feel that the top designers, etc have been pulled off onto Project Titan. The game has lost some of it's epic feel (which could also be due to it's age as well).
I agree, though, as founders of geeklist.. the two gents are held to a higher standard and they utterly failed.

It seems Shanley interviewed with them initially and didn't get the job? Maybe, that's the start of the issue.
Killing lava monsters and helping Marines
From the guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."
It's almost too obvious. The Xbox360 is a pretty impressive media platform. My parents bought one for the 1080p streaming video, Netflix and basic Kinect games. They've never picked up a controller I'm sure. With the Apple TV and Raspberry PI making home entertainment simple, compact and cheap, it seems natural to extend the Xbox brand to a more simple device to target those without an Xbox.
Question: does the HTMLImageElement actually contain fewer pixels, or is it just displayed low-res? Could you take your jpeg, paint it on a canvas using script, and then display it full-resolution?
And the author also wrote "Types and programming languages"...
Good point ... how about just throwing in rufus-scheduler and using excon to make the request?
Yes. Multiple opportunities to take the high road.
Yes, absolutely. You can look at organizations across the world and they will tell you that diversity is a goal for its own sake. People who come from different places and backgrounds will approach problems with different perspectives. Those different perspectives may lead to a better answer that would not have been considered if no one had been there to think of it.
How long is this going to be free for? Hate to convert a some websites to it, only to have to move on again in a few months!
I find the syntax elegant...
Lava Monsters = http://youtu.be/lDZ2fMHTvwk
I'm sure Clarium's happy investors are clamoring for admission.
Thanks for the feedback. I'd love to chat with you in a bit more depth about your experience if you have a chance - can you email contact(at)codecademy(dot)com if you have a minute? We're doing everything we can to improve quality of content as well.
you can pay attention to what does offend people and not do those things again in the future

Yes, and following this course results in outcome #2: insufferable blandness. The range of things people find offensive is staggering. Indeed, many are offended by the notion that sometimes you just need to grow a thicker skin—which kind of proves the point.
What grey area? It's illegally tapping a power line.
It's not really better to say a horrible thing in a nice way than to say virtuous thing an an aggressive way.
It will be free forever, and integration is almost zero effort - just paste a snippet of code.
This is a really good article. Succint, reasonably well written and interesting. That being said, one imagines that Google (despite being an advertising company) have a huge investment in the quality of search.

However, because they are essentially a monopoly, many people try to game the system for their benefit. This creates an arms-race, and may be one of the root causes of this personalisation. I do agree with the main point, that this could potentially make Google less useful for us all as a whole, and will probably lead to their disruption, sooner or later.
So if this tea thing happened at (nearly) every meeting, you'd have been able to discuss the issue in private, between meetings, and offer to raise it next time--or probably better, discuss it, let her know that if she'd bring it up you'd have her back?

I don't know actually--apparently she had an idea of something she would be comfortable with to address it? I have some ideas for different approaches which I wrote down but then deleted because in the end it comes down to what she feels comfortable with. <-- this is actually not a male/female thing, but applicable in any social situation where you intend to stand up for someone getting the shitty end of a stick.

Anyway my point is, I'd almost always first discuss this with the person in question rather than speaking up in the heat of the moment. It's usually not appropriate, puts the person in a tight spot or a spot light and sometimes these things are better resolved at a different, quieter moment anyway. The exception to this (for me) would be when a remark is really offensive or not subtle at all (like the low-cut blouse remark in the article[1]), simply because at that point it offends me as well, even if the person isn't even around because I shall not tolerate such toxic remarks in a place where I have to work.

[1] "Hey Jim, your fly is open! I KNOW WHERE I'M SITTING! :D wink"
Ten worst Internet laws of 2012
Because a woman dancing to dubstep music in her underwear to promote a technology brand may or may not be sexist?
Well this sure looks really cool, but it strikes me as really over designed. Getting at information requires a large number of clicks and hovers over very specific areas.

It is also hard to get a sense of any 'big picture' data. Datapoints are trapped in hover interactions and you have a limited view of your site due to the canvas.

While line graphs are bar charts aren't very cool looking, they provide an enormous amount of visual economy. I care more about the speed of which I can consume big picture and detailed information than my ability to visualize my site map.
Disagree. Photoshop is a professional level tool. When they're building new features, they aren't listening to the common guy who uses 10-20% of the features every once in a while. They're listening to the design professional who has photoshop open 24/7. They guy who lives in photoshop is their customer. That's the person who's willing to drop $1k on a piece of software - the other common guy is just going to download the trial and block activate.adobe.com. If you think photoshop is bloatware, it's because you aren't using all of its features. Photoshop is vast in its depth. Keeping a thousand states of a high res picture in ram takes a lot of memory. Keeping hundreds of composited layers and transforms in ram is equally hungry.

You can curtail your ram usage if you want it to use less - the default is set to be fairly greedy. For myself though, I have photoshop set to use up to 20GB of RAM (and I routinely hit that mark) with a dedicated SSD for caching, but that's because I use 80-90% of the features in photoshop. If you're only using 10% of the program, consider switching programs.
I don't have any expertise, but... I think it would.

A dissertation proving that cops on the road slow down traffic might be able to effect public policy. We might be able to get cops off the road during rush hour! We might realize that the benefits of tracking down speeding drivers don't outweight the benefits of having a copless road.
Ranking in sites like Slashdot, Reddit, and HN is a difficult and fascinating problem. I wasn't aware of the difference between Reddit's ranking methods, nor of Munroe's involvement. Thanks for the input!
Yeah, the unequal bargaining power between the company and the candidate is a real problem. Even if the company makes providing the access information optional, there's still a kind of invasive coercion happening.

That said, companies have been requiring that applicants submit credit reports for a long time, so the idea that there's a bright line between what's "private" and what's "public" when it comes to employment isn't quite right.
I agree that it was a PR blunder, but I don't agree with the accusations of sexism (anyone else noticed the sexist witchhunt that's been started since the Boston code jam fiasco?)

The story should have been framed as a PR misstep, not a calculated attack against women. I'd say Shanley's crass behavior gives women a much worse name than the girl who showed some skin for a commercial.
The more I read about what white people like it seems that black and white people have more in common than I thought...lol
Fantastic read. Thanks for posting.
Ask HN: Why is my story dead in HN?
Well if you believe, it is not possible to resolve something(not specifically this issue)/anything/at all without calling it "fucking disgusting" such that each/and every situation with getting customer support from a company (must) turn into a PR shit show for public study and discussion about how bad the company handled it, further giving bad examples to others that it is okay to throw tantrums/offensive statements to get support, from companies recycling the vicious cycle, then yes you are by all means right, there's really nothing about this situation for you or I to discuss productively.

Other than that the apology wasn't well played out. That's a given.
And to think that all that started (GNU), because Xerox denied giving the source code for one of it's printers :)

Kudos to RMS.
You're missing a lot of information here. Design Like Whoa is the person who made the racy video in question. The woman who got pointed out the sexism on Twitter is Shanely Kane, who works as a developer for Basho and has nothing to do with Design Like Whoa's website.
And letting her know that if she wanted to say something about it, you'd have her back.
From the official apology:

We apologize as well if our handling of the tweets offended anyone.

One of the things that I hate most in the world is when people use the word "if" in an apology. You should either make a real apology about being offensive, or stand your ground.
I'm just giving the medicine to cure a particular disease. What caused the disease is irrelevant; all that is relevant is whether or not the medicine works.

That said, I very strongly oppose occupying foreign countries, the TSA, sacrificing our troops, providing foreign aid to nations that operate concentration camps (NoKo), etc. If I want to oppose these things effectively, I have to propose an alternative. I am.

By the way, I think the term "neocolonial" is stupid. I don't know precisely what you mean by it, but I'm assuming you mean roughly the preceeding paragraph, and I'm stating that my solution should not be considered a part of the imaginary "neocolonial" set of actions, but I don't know if you'll agree with that.
i know Thiel thinks NZ is a libertarian utopia, but have we seen much success in tech from the country recently?
The argument that "it's a business" is weak and not very helpful.

Google makes its money from advertising, but in order for it to place ads it needs to serve relevant results; serving "tailored" results because they generate more clicks is short-sighted (well, that's the argument anyway). If people become so distrustful of Google that they stop using it, and use a combination of DDG or Wolfram Alpha for example, then there will be no more ads for Google to serve.

We're admittedly very far from this, but the fact that high-profile people such as PG start to complain about it publicly (and not just old anonymous grumps like me) should make Google think.

We'll see.
Platform for simple engagement ads
The problem with Java applets and Flash is that they are a broken model inside another broken model - they shoe-horn their own VMs to run applications inside a browser. It's the ultimate hack.

The web, as it was originally envisioned, makes perfect sense: HTTP, URIs and hypertext to provide navigable content, period. On the other hand, building interactive applications by manipulating the DOM while reinveinting UI patterns and widgets over and over again seems like a hack that grew to enormous proportions.

I feel the reason why "web apps" are so popular is because it allows small startups to develop more-or-less cross-compatible products faster and with fewer resources than developing a webservice and then hiring 4 engineers: one for a Windows client, one for a Mac client, one for a iOS client and one for an Android client. The fact browsers all follow more-or-less the same standards and they all run Javascript turned them on the "write once, run everywhere" platform that Java failed to deliver, but in my opinion it's still (very) far away from ideal.
Part two on how I built my blog
Better can mean 'more liked' and 'more accurate' which are not necessarily equivalent. Accuracy being something of a fuzzy category, of course.
Have we all already forgotten how the internet works?

Flying raspberry pis, or birds on power lines, or pirates in space are all cool...

but how do you get those bits from up there in the sky to me, down here, in Phoenix, AZ? Is TPB planning to also buy up fiber? And then copper to my house? TPB is now getting into the telecoms industry! (Which would be a cool pivot, I guess)

The servers might be in LEO, or floating in a blimp, but the routers are still sitting in a meet-me room somewhere on the ground, and those routers and cables are still vulnerable to "stop routing TPB or we stop peering with you".

Here. "Gibson's guide to internet work": http://www.thingist.com/t/item/2926/
What about the statement, "I think I'll take a seat next to the beautiful lady in the room."

Is it clearly not treating her the same as everyone else? Yes. But is it sexism?
I agree that there is less forethought or less "malice" in this advertisement versus one that outright lists women as a perk, but again, this is hard to continue to repeat everywhere. You see an ad, it's the 20th ad you've seen this week that reminds you that you're a commodity. You're eye-candy used to move a product for horny men who, apparently, buy with the brain in their pants instead of the one in their head. It plays into sexism that is not just anti-women but anti-men in my opinion.
> Follow your users every step of the way

Cyberstalking at its finest!

As analytics tools get more and more sophisticated, one question keeps bugging me. Are companies lying when they say in their privacy policy that they will not share user data with anyone except when compelled to do so by law, and then paste a couple of lines of third-party analytics code in their footers?

It's not uncommon for Ghostery to alert me about 5-10 third-party tracking tools on a single page. Some companies mention analytics explicitly in their privacy policy. But many websites don't. Privacy paranoia aside, I'm curious about the legal aspect of using analytics tools, and whether Mixpanel makes any effort to help its customers comply with relevant regulations (if necessary).
I don't know why Codecademy gets any attention. After seeing a number of items about it, I attempted to use Codecademy to brush up on javascript. My conclusion: it's a fine idea poorly executed and basically useless as a learning tool. Pure hype.

FWIW, I don't mean to be caustic. I honestly can't believe that anyone who writes posivitely about it has used it.
I found the UI very pretty (I had to check it wasn't Flash) but a bit confusing and limited:

- Only shows 3 flow destinations at a time (and I nearly missed the scroll buttons)

- Had to mouseover to get percentages. I don't know why why percentages seem more useful to me than actual numbers

- It didn't feel very "actionable". I can't put my finger on why, but I wasn't sure what I'd do with this diagram.
Ok, I'll take another look later this week and see what I think.

I should say that the addition of the Q and A forums was a very good change. I have no doubt you'll introduce many more as you learn what works and what doesn't.

Another useful change that I remember from the final weeks was adding a review unit at the start of each lesson - before that I often found myself forgetting syntax.
Path: the new $250 million company?
Location Photos from Foursquare, Instagram and Flickr
Agreed. And even if they do delete the apology too, I would appreciate an explanation.
Hack the basketball
Gazel - A Redis-like data store for the browser, backed by IndexedDB
I included the screen size, because it's a proxy for working distance, and thus pixel density per viewing angle.

http://punchingin.com/chasing-the-6-4-megapixel-unicorn/

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/welcome-to-the-post...
This issue isn't an ought, it's an is. Every job is a negotiation, and if your negotiating position and skills are good enough then you won't have to comply with your boss's request for your Facebook passoword. Otherwise, you will.
Here’s how: http://dontbubble.us

I always thought that search personalization was of course better, until that page made me think about the downsides.
Agreed. This looks extremely well made. I'm looking forward to this afternoon when I actually have some data in there.