skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Translate "doing wrong" to "commiting a crime" and then you end up with a list of hundreds or thousends of criminal laws that you just can't know, each of which is subject to interpretation by individuals with different motivations and attitude towards you, based on potentially incomplete or misleading data etc. etc.
What would it take to see this class of approach applied to policing elsewhere?
I have no idea what is going on here, but it looks really neat.
shrug I used to be part of the "please give me permission to start a business by letting me into your seed program" crowd. My company made it to the final round for a program and the end feedback was they didn't think we could deliver on what we were building.

At first, I took it as le insult. An insult against my mad pr0grammer skills.

In hindsight, I look at it as: my technology may have been OK, but it wasn't astounding enough to qualify as a revolution in the area and lead a big stampede to my door. It was a harder problem area (NLP). Something simpler with the same amount of persistence and execution may have led to much greater results.

In hindsight I appreciate the honesty. They saw it before I did.

The challenge is, people aren't ready to hear certain things until they're ready to hear it.
yikes, and it's Drupal 6.
Google Maps vs Apple Maps
...it would be nice to have the option to control over the titles and submission timing when the content is relevant...

Once the conversation starts, it's no longer yours to control. People will say what they will about your articles, and trying to find ways of controlling that rather than adjusting the articles themselves would be quite annoying.
NASA's move to the cloud saves $1 million a year
And it's often easier than it sounds. I observed a few popular people and decided to make mental notes of what they talked about, and I was surprised it was mostly trivial nonsense (who won the game, the car chase on the news last night, etc). It doesn't matter, people appreciate that you are just talking to them.
How I Built a Self-adaptive System
This was incredible downvoted, I didn't post an opinion but an assertion of what happened with the index.
reddit Inc. is now owned by Advance Publications (which also owns Condé Nast)
Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
I dunno. There's a few ideas in there which might work well if managed properly, like .APP and .WEB. They're well-hidden in the sea of crap, though, and the world can certainly go on without them.
Ain't going to happen. An old-ish comment from the author on github:

"Before [fossil] I wanted to publish my stuff I had two choices: Give my data to services like github, bitbucket, launchpad and then deal with all the whiners who don't like whatever I chose like somehow that makes their tribe inferior."

He has some code on github, but see http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html where he explains that it's mostly because his collaborators prefer it.

Finally, read http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html to see the author's view of people who request a license change. Basically, he doesn't like those people.
"Personally, my fears are not about any current laws"

So you're the only person who knows all 3000-10000 (depending on the source) federal crimes out there (assuming you're in the USA).
I don't think there's anything surprising about it. Lots of sites (including stackoverflow) make the slug useless so they (or users) can change the title whenever they want.
>as the only way to generate a large cluster would be to generate more fake users around that cluster.

Oh no, people are very predictable, especially at the median. Getting a reddit account to a high karma score is trivially easy, and getting to the center of a dense cluster in relative networked karma system would be similarly easy.
Not really, most of the governments were led by competent people. Unfortunately, they also happened to be either extremely corrupt (Carlos Menem) or blinded by their own ideologies (Carlos De La Rua). The current government sits somewhere there in the middle.

Things have gotten better for most people in Argentina, but at the cost of another of those 'boom for 10 years, then bust' cycles we are so used to. You can't argue inflation is rampant, I still recall the first time I came back from Brazil a pizza was about AR$10. Today the same pizza (maybe with a fancier name) starts at AR$40.

But then, 'eating out' doesn't reflect the real inflation. In that period, pizzas increased 400% in value, alfajores (a local sweet) had a similar increase from (AR$1 to AR$5), while a coffee at any bar in Buenos Aires increased around 1000% (from anywhere around AR$2 to a starting value of AR$17, most commonly AR$20+). Nice wines on the supermarket only increased about 200% in that period. Buy the same wine in a bar and you'd think you are at some fancy spot in San Francisco, they are so expensive. So it's all over the freaking shop (no pun intended).
That sentence, with your snarky punctuation removed, seems perfectly valid to me. What's the problem with someone working on a project just because it's fun?
Looking for any kind of input...
The Social Network That Cried “Wolf”
Adobe's toolchain is breathtakingly sophisticated , mature and powerful. It's incredibly easy to start writing really powerful programes with AIR. I look at all these HTML5 frameworks each with their own idiosyncrasies and pain-points, and the stuff you have to do to make it work seamlessly across devices and i want to cry. Then what is the reason AIR never really got traction ? Performance ! AIR is a known performance hog, on mobiles it can be virtually unusable. Adobe really missed the ship on this one. They had everything going for them, but they were never really able to make it's performance worthwhile.Which is a shame, given how much of joy the Flex/Air Platform is to work with
DRM in the cinema
So how do you make money on that several seconds app ? Is there a need for apps made in seconds :)
PG has the right to curate HN posts as he sees fit. I just think a little more transparency would go a long way. Hellbanning is, by design, sneaky. The fact that it's the predominant ban method is extremely frustrating for a non-malicious user.
I don't enjoy learning new tools. I enjoy the user experience of using the right tool for the job more than I do using the same tools for every job.

For example: I use MacVim and Textmate for text editing (writing markdown files, etc.) because they're good at it. And that's about where it ends, for me; I would under no circumstances use it to write more code, than a one-off Python script because I find it displeasing to do. I feel annoyed and angry because writing code in it is, for me, a slog; I consider ctags basically defective and they're not as good as, say, IDEA's Python (or Java, or Scala) support (or Visual Studio's for C# or VS's and Xcode's for C++).

Similarly, and heading back towards the command-line realm: while this thread is full of people extolling the virtues of make (and my eyes made a credible attempt to roll out of my head at the idea, because make is one of the build tools I swear at most often at work...), it would be utterly stupid of me to use make for most of my personal projects because xbuild (for C#) and Maven (for Java) exist--but, oh the horror, they're specialized to their task, what if I want to flip waffles instead? And to that I respond, I don't care about using xbuild or Maven to flip waffles, because their job is not to flip waffles but instead to build C# and Java code. If I need to write a platform-independent build script for C or C++, sure, I'll use make (although today I'm more likely to use cmake), but that doesn't make it a wonderflonium-packed delight for everything else under the sun. I know this from personal experience; I deal with a make-powered Java app with makefiles best termed "monstrous" and if I could turn back the clock and make it a Maven application we'd have about a tenth of the headaches that we get from the current system. Because it's made for the job.

I would rather adapt to tools better suited to a given task than use consistent tools across all problem sets. I don't find picking up new tools to be daunting or particularly time consuming (I picked up IDEA in about two hours, despite it being markedly different in behavior than previous IDEs I'd used, and I'm significantly more productive) and I don't find value in the "elegance" of bolting 30,000 things into vim to make it almost as good as my IDE was, for me, a decade ago.

But what I have said above, if you listen to ajross, is head-scratching nonsense. Which is patronizing and insulting to people who've decided that their priorities aren't his. Such was the attitude to which I replied.
Quick, somebody put this YC link on Reddit so we are allowed to be snarky ! This is too meta for me.
What, instead of 7? Have you used 7?

/if you mean 'yikes, it's Drupal at all', yes.
The 'nothing to hide' arguments almost always seem to focus on the individual, but the full power of mass surveillance is not really about the control of specific individuals, but rather about control of the group. Just as in the measurement of temperature, where the motion of individual atoms is unimportant compared to the average, so the information gathered about single people is unimportant compared to the ability to accurately measure the group. If you want to hunt down single actors you do not need cameras everywhere, you just need to infiltrate their social circle. But to influence entire societies and to learn how to steer them is something that requires a ton of hard data on as wide a range of people as possible. Kafka's The Trial might be the perceived effect on the individual, but Asimov's Foundation series would seem the ultimate political aim of these kind of policies.
Cool, uses a few modules by my company, Development Seed.
Actually, the key difference with "enterprise" SSD is that they overprovision the drive to have a cell reserve. That's why you can buy a 512Go consumer drive or a 480Go enterprise drive. As cells get wonky, they are 'replaced' from the reserve.
FitBuddies' Humorous Attempt To Find A Developer
I like it. Sure, alienating your customers is bad, but in a case where these customers may be costing you money, might as well push them to upgrade.
Adding .app to the Internet
They are asking for control about when the conversation starts. More specifically, they are the ones who know when the article is available, so they can start the conversation at that moment.

Then because they are first, they get to choose the title.

That's all they wish for, not control of the conversation itself.
Picks amazing hats as well.
> (badly coded, developed by multiple programmers over the years, handles the same tasks in different ways, zero structure)

Yeah, that's totally normal for a mature application. Better get used to it.

> At this moment I'm slightly beginning to get crazy from the daily mails of users (read managers) for each application I have to maintain.

Maybe not normal, but common. It's really up to you to manage your business relationships and teach people how to work with you. How well you learn to do so will largely determine your happiness with your career.

> The sad thing is I have yet to receive a bug report on anything that I have coded myself...

Don't get cocky now. It'll happen.

> P.S. My salary is almost equal if not lower then that of a cashier at a supermarket.

That's not normal. Even a first job should pay better.

In summary: demand more money now, give up on the code quality crusade, and concentrate on learning to work with people.
Pre-RTM Win 8 screenshots leak, showcases new button styles and colors
In the same way that McDonalds leads fast food satisfcation survey, despite being undeniably bad for consumers' health.
The 2014 Lamborghini Cabrera - because Gallardo got rabies
Unformatted text (as in text that doesn't follow a machine-understandable format like xml or json) is not a good interface today, I absolutely believe that. Imagine if "ls" would return an xml table that you could easily reuse in other programs, including graphical editors. Imagine that the OS could understand what every column represents and give it a name. You could do something like

ls | showtable in.modified in.filename --sort:1.

Of course you can do this today with sed, but in a very unintuitive way not easily accessible for beginners.
You're a coder so you're already ahead in the outsourcing game, you can judge a people technical
skills before hiring them and they won't be able to bullshit you with the typical "The RDBMS has no
I/O QPS so the MVC can't connect to the furblong lasers".

In the past I've helped a couple of people like yourself and some of the tips I can think of right now are:

* Use something like oDesk to keep track of the worked hours (at least in the beginning). You'll see
screencaps of what they were doing every 5-10 minutes so you know you're being billed for real work.

* Get his/her contact info. (Skype, IM, phone) and keep in touch during the beginning to make sure
everything's going fine.

* Use something like Pivotal Tracker, Basecamp or any other PM tool so you know at every moment
where the project stands at.

* Try to talk to the person more than once a week if possible, don't let them go rogue.

* Only hire reputable people (either through something like the oDesk reputation system or GitHub account).

* Set them up with small/test projects before giving them the full thing. A 1-2 week assignment will
help you both get acquainted and you'll know if you want them to be working on your stuff. Pay
them for this!

My email's on my profile, if I can be of any help just drop me a line.
My thought is the key to escape from the bounds of solar system is having the technology to encoding/decode/mimic the human reproductive cycle into a non biological format. Thus, after a 50,000 year sub-light speed journey, humans could be reconstituted in any environment able to support life. While the Earth my be long-gone at the end of such a journey, the human species will be be the seed that starts the chain of colonization though-out the universe.
Just like Python, Perl, Rails, Node.js, and any other language out there. Why all the hate towards PHP?
Actually I think the feature is primarily for SEO purposes, since the alternative is to have the article ID only.
IIRC, it's a JS simulation based on the physical transistors of the original processor.

Neat, indeed.
My eye hurts.
> Server-side view rendering is on its way out. So this is not a real advantage.

server side is "on its way out" the way relational databases were "on their way out" when everyone was hysterical about NoSQL 18 months ago. That is, while client side rendering will become much more prominent, server side will remain quite popular as well. Hybrid approaches will likely become the norm.

We've written an app here with 100% client side templates, and while there are some nice patterns that fall out of it, unless you're writing your whole server in javascript as well, you have to give up a lot of conveniences offered by server side templating.
Is this really a serious business tactic?
Inside Facebook's data science team
Can someone please explain to me why Apple apologists are generally incapable of using a price comparison service that requires maybe 10 seconds to use? Their behavior never ceases to baffle me.

CORSAIR 16GB for MacBook Pro - $89.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233...
You'd want to run this operation from the rooftop of a building, not the ground.

You'd also want to augment the quads so that when they reach a low battery threshold, they return to the rooftop automatically for new batteries or a new ad.

To ensure they don't collide, you could use simple IR transceivers on the sides of the quads to allow them to maintain optimal distance at all times.

Finally, if you want to get REALLY creative, you could adapt gyros to the quads to allow them to stay perfectly still, even in high winds.

Rain would now be your biggest foe.
Hopefully not, that would allow them to flag detectable hacks and buy new accounts to continue cheating with new tools.
Problem: App Store doesn't let developers interact with users.
This is terrific link bait. They've probably checked their stats and figured the exposure is well worth the few missed sales they might encounter.
Learning from Fish Could Prevent Crowd Panic
I cannot answer about reddit, but the more I read about this issue, the more similar I can see reddit voting system works to the one HN has. AFAIR Reddit was a PG startup (?) so similarities make sense...

When you are hellbanned on HN, here is what happens: nothing. And for sure you are not informed about this in any sort of way: no popup, no messages, nothing. You think everything is normal and you still can write comments, but they appear only to you, which is confusing because you assume others can see them too. You can upvote (and as usual arrow disappears) but your vote does not count. Another thing is that you are being thrown at some sort of non-cached, low-priority server that is as slow as hell. It then takes about 10-15 seconds to open any comments' page (this is confirmed by me, because once I got my account resurrected, everything start working as fast as my internet goes, same moment with no changes on my end). Another thing noticed: after your account is resurrected, your score can go up/down like before, but average score does not change (mine stays .65 for a while now). During dead period I wrote some long and, in my opinion, interesting comments, that were not displayed (especially spent some time on this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4068798 ). A nice fellow from England noticed how silly I am for keep participating in HN community but really being a ghost. I emailed info@ couple times and told them I barely get massive downvotes and my karma stay positive for a long period of time. I don't spam or troll. Nothing happened. After couple days I start emailing PG and about 12 hours later got email from someone else apologizing about being killed and my account got resurrected.

I hope that PG/HN/team will add some features so that someone killed can know about it.

edit: sorry didnt answer: as of HN, no, the system is not that hellish. Score does not go up just for you (so you would assume everything is fine).
Honestly more sites should do something like this (maybe a little less prohibitive and a bit more informational). I think most users with old browsers are on them because they don't know about the faults of that browser or the alternatives. Making the alternatives so obvious may do some good, and shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience to the user.
> "This is a significant reason that many Unix hackers prefer languages like C or Common Lisp where the same symbol means the same thing system-wide."

I don't know about lisp, but that's not even close to true for C. typedef struct A { int A; } A; is an easy counter example and that doesn't even take into account macros or any of the other tools that play horribly with grep and friends.

The reason Unix hackers prefer C is because it's rock solid, extremely well supported and plays nicely with hardware. And it doesn't hurt that it's old enough and popular enough that a huge number of people have extensive experience with it.
I think the actual correlation here is:

Sleeping very little -indicates-> Stress and Anxiety -builds to-> Hypertension -leads to-> Stroke

Major disturbances in sleeping habits - Insomnia or Excessive Sleeping - are themselves strongly indicative of Depression, another major marker in terms of the Anxiety->Hypertension->Stroke vector.

So, to conclude: Yes, sleeping very little is probably correlated with health problems, but mostly because it indicates something else being very wrong.
Can you tell me the case where separating hardware from software created superior product?

Computers.
What The Jazz Greats Knew About Creativity
Remember that Google already launched a second language for the browser - Dart. But no other browser vendor seem to want to support it...
Yeah as much as it could be a pr stunt, there is so much wasted time/money in legacy compatibility development. One contract I had blew out by 2 months (making total dev time 3.5 months) in IE6/7 modifications.
In fact, the original IBM PC monochrome monitor had a horizontal sweep timing circuit driven completely by a video card register. If it were set too high, for example the motherboard switch was set wrong and it didn't tell the BIOS to initialize it, the monitor could be burned out.

PC Magazine printed a rumor of a virus that tried to or actually did (can't remember) burn someone's house down.
Um, actually, they might not be able to do that.

What they may be sitting on here is a trust, for which the publishing websites are the beneficiaries. If they then repurpose the money for something else without the beneficiaries' permission, they'd be in breach of trust. Which is quite serious ju-ju.

Before doing this stuff they need to consult a lawyer.

I should point here that I am not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.

Disclaimer: I am working on a startup that would have been seen as a close competitor.
The first product sale is euphoric and a bit magical. "Holy cow, somebody actually paid me for something I built!"

I just had my first sale of my software this past weekend, and it was fantastic:
http://www.keacher.com/1060/how-i-got-to-my-first-sale/
Is it me, or others also not seeing it? In IE6, the IE7 tax is not applied. Wondering why they would have left IE6.
<assuming notion="your edit is in regards to tptacek's response">No, what tptacek actually said was: "he did have comments killed; that's how we noticed he was hellbanned".</assuming>

I personally remember seeing a few that were dead after the "prolix douchebag" one when I was looking into it. (I am known in my friend circle to maintain a database of users that are hell-banned; so, when Maciej, a long-friend-of-a-close-friend, seemed to be hit, I was notified almost immediately.)

I also remember those comments mysteriously being un-killed when his account became un-banned. (So, if you are using the current status, that isn't accurate anymore; or, if you are relying on us to not have seen the temporary status, we did.)
I can't help but feel there's a better way to "make the Internet a better place". While it's not ideal customers are using IE7, belittling them and taxing because they might not know better seems a little extreme. The message reads more like developers venting their frustration supporting IE7 rather than trying to make things better.
My work PC has IE6 and I see it being applied.
Making money with a product is easy. Staying cash flow positive is not. Selling $10 for $5 works great as long as you have money to burn. But then reality sets in and as you point out "profit" becomes the keyword. My best guess is that people pay to solve annoying problems faster.
Yeah, it's a way to flatter the rest of your customer base, who now get to feel superior for using a different browser. "Hey everybody, I use Chrome, aren't I wonderful?"

Further suggestions to let us elite middle-class types feel superior to others:

1. Extra 25% surcharge for anyone who shows up at your cafe wearing Crocs

2. Anyone driving up to your hotel in a Pontiac Aztek has to pay a fifty-dollar uglification fee

3. If a fat person shows up at your store, employ a security guard to stand around going "Ha ha! Fatty fat fat fat" until they leave.