skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate that, thanks, and I'm happy to share it.

Deming was a fascinating guy. His ideas (mostly applicable to factories but easily applied to all companies) helped bring Japan out of its post-war recession and give it the respected reputation for high-quality goods they have had for some time. His concepts have been largely ignored since (partly due to his horribly dry writing style) but I think they're very valuable to our current economic situation in the west as well.

The focus is on quality, and the path is through process-based management. You have to realize your employees are a system just like your software is: mostly understandable, and statistically predictable. You can shape your system of people just like you can a manufacturing line, and traditional beliefs about punishments and rewards simply do not apply if you look at what's truly effective in improving quality and improving production.

It was remarkably successful in Japan partly because their philosophical backgrounds are so completely different: it is easier for someone brought up with ideas of Zen buddhism or other eastern religions to think of the whole rather than the individual; the process rather than the part.

In the US, where we're very much an individual and self-focused society, we track immediately to individual motivation without thought to how it affects the whole company. The unsubstantiated belief that "what's best for the individual is best for the whole" is embedded in us and very difficult to shake. Indeed, it's fairly core to our democracy and has ties to political beliefs as well. Deming himself had the breaking of this habit as one of his prerequisites (his System of Profound Knowledge): that everyone in the entire company must understand this holistic way of thinking, not just the management. Surely there is a balance to be struck, but Deming covers that as well, focusing on the psychology of personal motivation and work quality rather than belief systems. And it's all backed up by great process engineering and experience.

Honestly I think it's better if you completely ignore the monetary rewards and simply focus on what makes people work the best; the process of work. Here's another great TED talk on the subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
That doesn't seems very Apple like move, they don't like to mess with ugly systems and integrate their products with anyone.

They have a good place to do that, but I doubt that they'll go that way.

But Steve isn't there, and Apple moves might be unexpected.
Step 1: Get a million dollars...
Facebook data is not useless for assessing credit risk. People with high credit scores are likely to be connected to each other via social networks. The converse is likely also true.

Although it is controversial, banks seem to be starting to look at this.
The Perspective of Great Developers
Why does the URL say "10 reasons..." but the article title says "11 reasons..."? Honestly, that bothers me enough to not even read the rest.
Google Docs is still around. Google Drive is just an addon to that which provides storage for more than just documents. Previously this was integrated into Google Docs, which made no sense.
His numbers are way off. 2M is not a "high" pre-money valuation--most startups nowadays raise a seed round at a 5-10M pre-money valuation. So for $50k, an investor will get 0.47-0.91%, whereas the employee in this example gets a strictly better deal at 1%.

That said, I agree that $50k/1% is a low offer. Lots of startups (at least in the SF bay area) are offering 50-100% higher than that, and these are good startups with experienced founding teams, funding from top investors, paying customers or traffic already, etc. So definitely explore your options! There are great deals out there.
Pardon me and my ignorance, but this seems so totally ripe for a highly competent consultancy to come in and deliver excessively amazing value compared to ... others.

Why doesn't that happen?
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Do the projects for your school. It'll be good for your portfolio and gives you a break from the usual grinds of a full time job...
Also, going from my own experience, staying at a job with a company, neither of which you sound all that thrilled with is never a good idea. Besides, having that 11 week project will give you time to reflect and look for something you actually like...
Give it up... what is your problem? Plain English... not banned. Stop lying, then read the link, please... ( http://www.naturalnews.com/010038.html )
How easy it is to forget the cold war. In 2012, we cannot look back at scientists of 1976 and say "you should have read and believed this obscure Russian science journal and the argument would have been put to permanent rest". 1976 was a different time in Russian-American relations especially when it came to space.

The article ends by saying our belief of water on the moon has improved from "one part per billion" in 2006, to "one part per million" today, like it's a huge revolutionary improvement. I know it's 1000x, but its still just one part per million. So it takes a million gallons of moon rocks to extract one gallon of water?

Which makes me wonder what the water ppm of Earth is.
Mary Meeker's Latest Presentation About The State Of The Web
And why can't we program those "appliances" too? We live in a microprocessor enchanted world. To treat the world as dumb and unconnected is wasteful and disrespectful.
This vehicle is likely more difficult to see in a rear- or side-view mirror than a motorcycle given it's so low to the ground.
Raspberry Pi First Impressions and RaspBMC
Android JellyBean 4.1.0 is coming this year
Why Connectix matters in Oracle/Google copyright case
I really meant it as a joke/proof-of-concept, rather than a challenge per se. That some people came along later and found it to be an entertaining challenge was a happy accident.
His numbers are way off. 2M is not a "high" pre-money valuation--most startups nowadays raise a seed round at a 5-10M pre-money valuation.

I'm not saying your statement is wrong, but am I the only one who thinks something is wrong here? Are most startups worth 5-10M right after seed? I would say no.

Conservatively, I would tend to agree with the author. 2M is high for a company that only has seed money.
You wouldn't have to force an abortion on anyone. Just force a "basic baby tax" to discourage the dirt poor to have children they can't even afford to feed or properly educate and a HUGE "extra baby tax" for any family having more than 2 children (or plug your favorite number in here if you want a certain level o population growth), and invest the collected money in improving education. And boom, instant improvement to all aspects of life! Not really a breach of human rights since you could take it as a minor amendment to the implied social contract. (the tax will not mean much for billionaires, but at least they can afford the best possible education for their kids and with some tax exemptions for important but not so well paid professionals - like university professors) (and you could add something like forced sterilization for people not affording to pay the "extra baby tax" after they've made one.
It even happens in the US. I know someone who's employer paid for her Crossfit certification, but she'd have to pay the pro-rated cost of her training if she quit before the year was up.

Similarly, if you quit your job quickly, you need to give back the signing bonus.
Kaspersky again. I'll refer you to my recent comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033892

It can steal information from the input boxes when they are hidden behind asterisks

OMG!!
#Flame Malware - 21st Century Massive cyber attack on Iran
Ridley Scott In The Eye Of The Storm
Messing with Android WM8650 Tablet
How to make cross-domain requests in JS with CORS
There is no dichotomy between rational decision making and having kids, or any other thing that you might want to do for yourself or others.

Thinking decisions through and being honest with yourself is a GOOD thing, particularly in the case where it will affect the rest of your life and the welfare of one or more children. Rationality is a value.

Nobody has claimed to be an amazing savant. People do have different priorities and not everyone is the same as you. If I like salt and you do not like salt, then each of us can be rational while doing a completely different thing.

If you mean to show that reason has limits and that it has terrible consequences then unfortunately you must use reason to show that, and I cannot see that you have done that.
Yeah, they are paying half, but they can afford a Gym, or an office overlooking the bay? That sounds like an even bigger screw up...
They're UK gallons, so it's actually 2.94 L per 100 km.
And lo, by the name Malbolge I am summoned.

ben at xn13 dot com if you want to get hold of me.
Linkedin social ads are back?
You don't remember your CC details and have to actually get it out? Wow!
I think your parent was being meta-sarcastic. You have to keep up with the new forms in the internet.
My prediction is that interactive graphics will be the trend in coming years - the things you can do with d3.js, Protovis, and related JS libraries is way deeper than a simple static image. The New York Times already has some great interactive pieces, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/13/business/stude...
I don't disagree but there's certainly more complexity with interactive. Takes longer to execute (sketch, design, develop, test). And then many designers don't know how to do interactive front-end code.
Linux kernel devs, Samba join GPL compliance effort
Startups have never got a big boost from being written up in TechCrunch, the advantage of Techcrunch has always been that it gets you infront of key players (investors, acquirers, potential employees, etc.)
Founders helping Founders (Potential?)
Are startup founders interested in helping one another validate or bring awareness to their infant-level startups and ideas?

We've release an alpha version of our web app (http://www.qStartupApp.com/) and want to get the your thoughts on our concept.

Right now we simply need more startups to join to get the system going. We've gotten some advice from Dana Severson (Founder/Wahooly) and he thinks it is logical and has growth potential.

Weigh in if you'd like - thanks!

http://www.qstartupapp.com
http://twitter.com/qstartupapp
http://angel.co/qstartup
I agree that there are some serious benefits to having many small customers rather than a few big ones, but I strongly disagree with their decision not to charge per user. When you charge per user, the cost of the software increases linearly with the number of people using it, which is generally appropriate. Instead, with Basecamp pricing, the cost is based on the number of projects which seems way more arbitrary, and it incentivizes very strange behavior.

For example, the cost of going from 9 projects to 10 projects is $0. The cost of going from 10 to 11 is $30/month. Tiered plans like that have always seemed confusing and unfriendly to me.
>I think the answer is obvious: people prefer no ads. "Advertisement" is a dirty word. People want a free, ad-less product, despite the fact that it's economically unfeasible.

Well, the answer might be obvious but might not mean much. For example a similar question would be "people prefer to pay for things, or get them for free?". I think the answer would be obvious here too.

>That's a problem. What happens when it becomes more widespread or easier to install things like adblock? What happens if a browser comes along that blocks Facebook cookies and ads by default, but still allows the basic functionality of FB? Don't say it can't happen.

Then the Ad industry will turn RIAA on the users, and will lobby the government for the disallowance of things like AdBlock ("our content is a package deal, you cannot see it, and thus benefit from it, without also seeing our ads").

And it might be successful too, because they will have the support of ALL other industries -- as ads are a crucial element of over-consumption on which they thrive. By leaving it to our "needs" and "wants" only, consumption would drop very low (IIRC, they have studied the effects of a prolonged (a week?) mass media strike during the seventies, and that was the result. That was short term though, long-term should be even worse).
That's awesome.

And the best part is that you already realize how awesome your business is and why it makes more impact on the world than any of the hundreds of random social-photo-buying-contact-managing startups that come out of the Valley every 6 hours.
RT, not the best source for any kind of explanation...
With HTML5, you could probably make an accessible infographic (that works correctly for screen-reader and text-browser users)
I'm surprised nobody's picked up on the main tradeoff here: very high write latencies (and high read latencies too, just not as spectacularly). From slide 9:

Performance:
● Very high commit latency - 50-100ms
● Reads take 5-10ms - much slower than MySQL
● High throughput

(And that's reads-with-no-joins, since they are not supported either.)
Nobody has any idea how your kids will turn out - we have even less control over this than over how our marriages will turn out. But best of luck to you.
Make the "penalty" a "tax" and money becomes the criteria. Add tax exemptions for valuable but not so well paid professionals like researchers, university professors etc. (it's not like the poor that would desperately want kids will suddenly struggle to become medical researchers or university professors just to avoid the tax). Plus, you can use the tax money to improve education and give free university education (some countries already have this). And if you're smart but you're not the "academic type", you'll probably find a well paid profession for yourself anyway so you shouldn't worry.
Headline: "How it works and who's behind it"

Article: "So it is unclear who is behind that, and we try not to speculate who could be behind such attacks."
People rename articles, but URLs are not supposed to change, and should never break.
Yes, this is good stuff! Advanced robots today are often very expensive. But I hope soon what happened to computers will happen to robots. Advanced robotics becoming a very popular yet not expensive to participate in hobby would be the first step in that.
It may be different for people who have to remember many credit card numbers.
For example I know my personal CC number off my head but not any of the cards I use for business.
Karen Sandler on open source software inside your body (OSCON 2011 video)
That's awesome.

Keep speaking up. Your voice needs to be heard. :)
Should Dalai Lama turn himself in to the Chinese authorities, too?

Even if Assange was completely innocent, that wouldn't stop the US Government from trying to put him in a cell next to Bradley Manning for 2 years, if they were really pissed off at him. These days when you piss of the top hierarchy of the US Government, you're guilty until proven innocent.
Literate Programming in Clojure
> This article has a lot of interesting stuff, though it tends to be largely cheerleading LLVM's design decisions

This is not very surprising, the author of the article is Chris Lattner, one of the architects of LLVM and Clang. Maybe he should have made this clear upfront.
Because this consultancy would first need to become golf buddies with its clients senior management, at which point it would be just like every other consultancy.

The whole consulting model is broken. Third-parties can never replace employees for the simple reason that their interests are misaligned. The most you can get from outsourcing is a boost in this quarter's figures (which is enough to get said management their bonuses, and then they move on!).
A little more interesting when they say this wasn't even what the ITU called them to investigate.
NoSQL – Back to the Future or Yet Another DB Feature?
...tel that to you grand-children someday and watch them have a good laugh at it
>"I want to stay hungry," says Alexis Ohanian. "I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less."

I hate this kind of over-indulgence.

What "resources"? He built a social news website and had a strike of luck. It's not like the guy is an Einstein or a Tesla. Or that Reddit is something bettering society. It's a glorified internet forum.

Imagine how stupid things like this would sound in other industries:

"I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less" says multi-millionaire inventor of the Post-it / Jelly+Peanut butter combo / facial hair remover...
Good for you :) Thanks for the link!
Wouldn't this get a bit crowded? For example Coke buy, Pepsi buy, McDonalds buy, etc.

I personally wouldn't want to use a system for payment that would only work for one brand.
The stricter PCI requirements that would come into play should mitigate some of these "hacks".
Funding from investors is more valuable moneywise than funding via developer equity because it gives you cashflow.

In the real world, you can't spend a negative balance even if it is higher than an alternative negative balance.

I agree, though, that once you do have sufficient cashflow, then the two are equivalent.
As a designer I'd like to thank you for this post. This recent fad of "infographics" (some text in rectangles + pie chart) is quite sad. These things are information graphics about as much as fake lens flares were graphic design in the 90s.

Side note: are you serious about people paying for this?
Have you ever worked on an assembly line (or in a factory of any kind)? It's hard, backbreaking work that from my experience sucks much, much harder than any programming job I've ever had.

Hacking code may be more mentally taxing, but if you need to take break (for the bathroom or whatever) you can do it on your own schedule -- not on your lunch break like a lot of factory workers.
Stages of a bubble
In the black bar at the top of gmail, there used to be a link called "Docs". Now it says "drive". It's been pretty well fully rebranded to "Drive". In fact, docs.google.com redirects to drive.google.com.
There are very few things that are worth 5 cents that you'd get me to pay for that I couldn't just do without.
Given the name (8th circle of Hell), I'm sure that's the point.
I can confirm that this is the mainstream view any place I've lived in the US as well.

I don't know what it's like in San Francisco.
I wrote up a similar sort of article last year:

http://auscillate.com/post/238

Curious what the HN community's take on that is. The conclusion is basically the same, but I attempted to be a bit more rigorous with the numbers.
Mary Meeker’s eye-popping annual Internet Trends report hits the web
i read the description and it mentions a vim M command. i did not know this one. it is pretty boring. then i figured maybe it's about marks, i.e. the 'm' command. now that is nice. i use firefox though...
It's a bit scary that it is news worthy that some politicians stood up for the people.

Well done though :)
Agreed. Also in his comment he said list comprehension can replace reduce...
Markdown Editor for Web Developers
The last paragraph of the article (about the chip in one's brain) is quite scary. Force brain chip implants that keep the serotonin levels artificially high to keep the unwashed masses content; some kid at school is too active - put a chip in his brain to keep the hormonal level down; etc. etc. The possibilities are endless.

EDIT: typo
pretty much everything Google does fails, except for search and email.

AdSense? Youtube?

Also, Google Reader is the leader in its (admittedly small) space. And I'm pretty sure so is Google News. Oh, and Google Maps.
As for named parameters, the clean/simple style I like to use is:

do_stuff(Foo => 1, Bar => $baz);

sub do_stuff {

my %args = @_;

my $foo = $args{Foo};
# etc...
}
Facebook’s Zuckerberg drops off top billionaires list
An alternative view on sentence stupidity (non riots). Compare to above...

A chapter from my family's life:

£300 fine (no custodial sentence) for a piece of shit punching the shit out of my 25 week pregnant wife and leaving her in hospital for a month, all for a £30 Nokia phone...
Add another one (well, I'm not a friend). Bought a 2007 VW Passat, Diesel. Very happy with it. Oh yeah, and I'm 32.
And as a someone selling something by credit card all over the world (stopped counting at 50 countries about 12 years ago) I also don't give two ff's about any of this.

Sure occasionally we get hit with a chargeback ($30 plus the charge amount) and sure we are powerless and they just added some arbitrary $7 month fee. But without this entire system I wouldn't be in business. I also operated a retail business years ago and accepted credit cards. It was a tremendous improvement over having to extend credit to a business owner and then collecting. The fees were well worth the trouble saved.
This article was fairly low on details and high on futurism hype.

Has anyone found a better one that isn't behind a paywall?
I think by 'resources' he means his money. So he wants to invest in start ups that make the world suck less. That's how I read it anyway.
Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Loses Extradition Appeal
Google Drive seems to be more than just an addon now. I just opted in to Google Drive, and now when I type in docs.google.com I am redirected to drive.google.com. Everything in Docs looks Drive branded now.
That quote is from the slide "Our Legacy DB: Sharded MySQL", not describing F1.
I like two-factor authentication too, but casual users don't care about this sort of thing until it's too late.
RFC1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL) - recommends use of angle brackets in its "Recommendations for URLs in Context" appendix; when URLs are embedded in text.

<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>;
"Ever had to buy stuff you didn't want to meet a minimum spend on cards?"

True story here. Years ago in a retail business we had a $10 minimum for credit card purchases. A customer came in and bought something for like .50c. So the counter person did the charge for $10 and refunded them $9.50 in cash.
Static images are easier to share.
For being "well-known for her aggressive activism in expanding the scope of rape law" it's surprising I can't find anything about it on the first 3 pages of Google that pre-dates the Assange trial.
I think FB does not have to be a PayPal, and there are many good reasons outlined in these comments already why that is a bad idea.

However, it can become some kind of market place. It already knows user locality, it already has people flocking to it. It already has big brand stores sharing discounts and coupons to consumers.

All it needs to do is finish the last mile and allow those brands to actually have a "Facebook-only Sale", for example.

Also, it can become a great "local market place", and can help local businesses to sell to local customers.

TLDR: not just ads, and not necessarily a payment gateway, but a niche market place could be it.
>Ever had to buy stuff you didn't want to meet a minimum spend on cards?

On the internet? No.
Doom 3 in virtual reality: John Carmack's prototype head mounted display
they are bettering society..they have a huge NSFW content.