skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been interested in tracking my moods lately, so this is perfect timing. I agree that I would find emoticons easier to use than a 1-10 scale. The way it currently is, I find myself thinking too much about what each number means, which in turn gets me thinking too much about my mood. I feel like this app needs to be very "shallow" (for lack of a better word...?). It needs to be engaging/personal enough to get people to answer truthfully/accurately, but not so engaging that it causes users over think their mood. Just my $.02. Look forward to testing this one out! (:
Yeah, I am working on adding more sites. I was trying to get the base system setup to work automatically, and iron out any bugs before adding more sites, which I am getting pretty close to.

It was partially inspired by retailmenot, but I always had trouble trying to search for pizza codes there since they are regional, so you can only really find national codes (since people downvote anything that doesn't work at their local store).
I really think it's time we on HN require linking to the original article unless there is significant value/commentary added.

In fact, I'm in favor of flagging this one as a duplicate and moving all 50 points to the other thread. I'd love to see this become policy.

Without such a policy, many blogs have an incentive of taking original links posted on the new page, quickly writing a dumbed down summary in 30 minutes and submitting it as a new story. This is undesirable behavior that needs to be nipped in the bud.

Any blog post that essentially just summarizes another one, or worse yet dumbs it down, is spam and should be treated as such.
It's fascinating how you can see other manufacturers' production designs hidden among these prototypes, too. It makes it pretty obvious that although some designs are obvious, where most companies design a product, produce a prototype, tweak it and send it to manufacturing, Apple designs a product, produces a prototype, tweaks it, sends it to manufacturing, then takes a look at the finished version and gets ready to start over from scratch if it isn't perfect.

It almost lends some credence to Apple's claims of trade dress infringement that have been so widely mocked. Most manufacturers released their own take on a smartphone to not much acclaim before settling on something very like an iPhone. Apple cries foul, to which the gadget using populace replies, "Come on, this is obvious-- there's only so many shapes it could be. Quit whining."

So Apple goes, "Yes, and it took us forty-five revisions to figure it out. It took our competitors two. It's almost as if they had some help, isn't it? Do you really think it's easy to work out the exact shape that something should be? Do you think it's free?"

Not saying it's clear cut, but it's swayed me quite a bit in their direction.
Does it fit? Yes. Would I walk around with one in my pocket? Nope.
Totally. It looks like it should be straightforward, until you find out you're not sure what width and height mean anymore, and suddenly there's edge cases all over the place.
As the owner of a largish block of land on top of the Marcellus shale, I've got an interest in this, and I've been watching the discussion carefully.

The two biggest areas of concern that I've heard are (1) the possibility of releasing methane into drinking water sources; and (2) the manner in which the used water and fracking fluid will be disposed of.

As you note, #1 isn't specifically a fracking thing, but related to any deep, powerful disturbance of the ground.

From what I've read, #2 is generally OK, but marred by occasional malfeasance. (It's difficult to write regulations to deal with people who are, by definition, breaking the regulations.) But I've also read that there are newer methods of fracking being tried, that don't need the same sorts of chemicals, or quantities.
When to start
Universal Robot shield for Arduino
Looks like an interesting game, love the artwork! But why is the demo video cutting back and forth between scenes so quickly? Quite confusing and irritating.
I still can't get Carter's speech from 1978 out of my head about getting off of oil and expanding renewable resources. I can only imagine how far along we'd be if the US started investing and developing these resources then.

Also, keep in mind, most of the countries being referenced are smaller Scandinavian countries. Getting proper delivery of resources is a major hurdle for US companies and their customers.
Yeah, lots send it out, but how many end up using them is relative to how big of a player in search (and search related advertising) the player is.

I've used Google coupons, none with anyone else that I can remember. I also spent ads on google way before any other system and remember the 10 cent clicks going up to $1.00 for not much more traffic.
I agree we're overdue for a Skype killer. The technology that's going to power it is called "WebRTC".

http://www.webrtc.org/
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/

Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8C8ouiXHHk

You can play with WebRTC now in Google Chrome. Enable the chrome://flags:
http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos

Then play with this demo:
https://webrtc-demos.appspot.com/html/gum1.html

Then play with the source code:
http://code.google.com/p/webrtc-samples/source/browse/#svn%2...

Have fun!
I've looked at the C source to Tcl/Tk and Lua and was impressed by both. I believe Vim is also written in C.
This story is actually starting to seem too suspiciously like someone pissed off the real Evan Livingston of Indiana and is now trying to drag his name through the mud online. (I'm guessing an ex or a former classmate or former coworker.)

1) New account, recently created, with only 1 submission.

2) Link to an otherwise empty page that just happens to link to all of this guy's online identities.

3) Inconsistent facts. Claims that he would like to develop software for a living, but then immediately states that he is already employed doing that and apparently has sufficient experience to jump to San Francisco.

4) States that he might eventually want to go to grad school. For what, exactly? He already has a job in his desired field.
The United States has an abundance of cheap natural gas and the will to drill it. Incidentally, substituting gas for coal has allowed the US to lead the world in reducing CO2 emissions[1]. Yes, that's right, the US has reduced its emissions more than any other country in the last five years, thanks to technical innovations that have lowered the price of natural gas.

[1]http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/05/americas-f...
JavaScript Botnet Created by Researchers
Screenshots of the new design: http://rethinkdigg.com/post/28338474438/v1-preview
you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.
It would be outrageous for FB to run the bots themselves. There's two other issues that are more realistic and unfortunately not so great for FB: they're aware of the bots and ignoring them in favor of the ad revenue or they're just becoming aware of the bots and will implement some fix which could result in a substantial decrease in ad revenue. Good to keep in mind that OP's 80% is just one data point and may not be accurate.
How to Price Your Product or Service-To Avoid Killing Your Business
While that would have been interesting to me as well, I think the post was meant for their actual users, to explain why they are moving away from FB. Technical details would have been an unnecessary distraction for their intended audience.

Maybe if they have any employees who follow HN, someone would share more light on the technicals?
PCI compliance is an industry standard, not a regulatory standard, so it's not a valid comparison. Also, PCI compliance isn't for privacy reasons, it's for loss mitigation.

Amusingly enough, the banks who impose PCI compliance on merchants aren't themselves required to be PCI compliant, and some of them will happily e-mail you extremely sensitive customer data (no matter how many times you ask them not to), even though doing so yourself would violate PCI compliance.
I'm going to give some personal experience about why I only hire people with degrees, which I realize is not data. If anyone can think of a way to actually evaluate this at a statistical level, I'd be very interested.

I've worked with a large number of people both with and without college degrees, in the US and abroad. And I've found that it's not the degree that counts -- it's the liberal education (I mean that in the sense of a well-rounded education, and many college graduates are not receiving that, particularly at colleges/universities where they're groomed for a role in software engineering). People with a broad background aren't just more inclined to problem-solve, they're better at it -- they come up with more innovative and subtle solutions, they're better able to manage their own time, etc. Time and time again I see issues being kicked around until they land at someone with a "well-rounded" background, who actually is willing to examine and solve the problem rather than looking at it from a single perspective.

I don't doubt that one can arrive at this state of mind without attending college, or that some who attend college fail to get there. But I want smart people who are able and willing to problem-solve, and in my experience college graduates have a serious edge.
I don't think so; if anything, the subtext is merely arguing that Facebook isn't doing anything to stop the problem. Whether that is just as bad as running the botnet itself, that is another thing.

Assuming the problem is as bad as many are saying, I personally think it's fair to draw the same conclusion you have -- running and letting run a botnet is one and the same. It's costing other businesses money; it's too big for Facebook to be able to play dumb on the issue.
Blackbird wind-powered car sails against the storm
For those interested, here are some of the underlying posts on the LROC site itself...

1. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/620-Questi...

2. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/619-A-New-...

We have a huge amount of interesting images.
Yes, but to be honest Craigslist is getting the exclusive right to the specific posting. It doesn't stop me from making a new job ad somewhere else. I believe the crux of the issue is at the mark of creating the ad versus copying the CL ad and hosting the content somewhere else.

By creating the CL ad, I honor the fact that I don't go to site X and choose to 'import' my ad from CL. I just create a new one somewhere else, which delineates both of them as separate ads. Just my 2 cents
>Completing a BSc with a third involves more deadline pressure than shipping, say, two or three video games? Are you sure about that?

Personally - quite possibly. If you did the BSc I know you were at least able to hand in something that met the basic requirements, on time or close to it. If all I know is you worked at Company X and weren't fired, that could mean any number of things, and I'd have to be a pretty good interviewer to figure out which.
They run beautifully in Safari on the iPad. Indeed, they run quite well in Firefox (beta) on the Nexus 7. They ran quite well in the stock browser pre-JB.

Those are only a couple of sample sites, but there is an endemic inefficiency of Chrome on Android that makes it unusable as a primary browser. Metacritic -- forget about it. I could go on and on.

I have to think that people who like Chrome on Android must actually stay within the ghetto of mobile sites, where its inefficiency is less pronounced and things like the bookmark manager stand out more. The massive delays and largely non-functional scrolling on richer sites just makes it hard to believe that people are praising that browser.
FWIW I believe "Maybe you don't care about Erlang's syntax or static typing" was referring to his earlier mention of Go as statically typed. A comma would have improved the clarity :-)
Microsoft announces the new hardware set for Windows 8 [Roundup]
You've framed the act in a way that justifies your position. But what if your experience of HR in companies is incompetence and buzzword bingo? In this frame, getting through the HR screen is a hurdle to getting an interview, not an action "in the workplace".
This was my opinion only, based on my experiences and experiences of people I know. You can tell this by the way I use "enlightenment" in a very loose way when it is obviously impossible (as far as I know) to measure (I don't believe the state even exists, other than as a form of self deception or mental illness, to put a not so fine point on it).

Also by the fact that I am a random blowhard on the internet. :-)

You may disagree about my recommendation to stay away. Fine. However, do not pull this rhetorical trick on me. That is, require me to have a set of numbers to even state my opinion on a matter that, frankly, has no numbers, and could be argued either way by those so invested. Say what you mean... would you rather I use "seems to me to be" rather than "is"?

You see, as you may have noticed, there isn't a whole lot of information on the benefits of LSD. Just a lot of anecdotes and poorly designed research experiments. There are very well documented cases of the dangers. Whether that's due to bad genetics, bad dosing or impure samples, I don't know, but again, I think it's rather a dumb thing to risk your brain for.
what i meant by "pure" Apple households was those that are not only running Macs, but things like Apple TV, AirPlay etc.

if you've heavily invested in Apple media, the benefits to an Apple device would probably outweigh any individual feature wins of the Nexus 7.

if you're more of a casual Apple household, meaning just hardware and no media, the Nexus 7 is likely a fine choice.
Little known fact, astronauts are trolls.
Still think playing kerplunk with processes/systems whilst good is akin to pissing on your server and then seeing how quick you can repair it.

I personaly like to run stuff on a CPU/network crippled test setup as that can expose cracks normal testing fails to highlight and in a way that is indicative of what can actualy happen under some load spikes.
I wonder why three people answered your question, not understanding that you

- submitted the link in the first place

- tried to provide an explanation why this is a bad idea (i.e. wrong)

and telling you that this behavior is, in fact, not according to the specs.

Communication failure? Maybe it would help to clarify your statement a bit?

Edit: Reading a third and forth time I'm becoming less certain that _I_ got your point and the others didn't (note to self: That shouldn't be the default assumption). Did you really ask why that is bad?

Edit 2: Looking at your username and the issue comments I kind of assume that you are the commenter over at code.google.com, calling this 'severe'. So I'm back to my original assumption that you know perfectly fine why this is bad.
If he's being asked to do it the wrong way, is it possible the company could be even more successful?
Signs A VC Is Just Not That Into You
I've posted this before, but it's worth posting it again:

None of us could live with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to. An habitual truth-teller is simply an impossible creature; he does not exist; he never has existed. Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so—and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization. Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. Even in sermons—but that is a platitude.

ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING, by Mark Twain
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html
No Big deal actually.
Same sort of situation here. Used to study aerospace engineering in college, then transferred to a new school to study music technology. Met a great co-founder and we'd been working on a startup specifically centered around the arts, but it fell apart as the school year came to an end.

Now that summer has started, we've begun work on a different startup (a new type of search engine, sort of...), but it's kind of new territory. We're pretty confident we're aiming at a fairly large target audience, but still scared as this is completely outside our area of expertise.
Should we namespace Redis?
Possibly, but aren't these ads only shown to logged in users?
I received mine in may if memory serves and I currently have it hooked up to a LCD monitor. We use it to watch movies, as a samba server and my 3 year old is learning to type on the command line even though he can't even read yet

We also use it to play music through mpd which is great because it can be controlled from any device in the house
All in all probably the best 35€ I ever spent
I'll agree with you on spelling errors on a CV, but not when generalizing from e.g. forum posts or random emails.
Building the open source distributed cloud
Here's a fun and relevant paper:

A Comparison of Cache Aware and Cache Oblivious Static Search Trees Using Program Instrumentation

http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/cs34/papers/ladnerbst.pdf
> If you think science is just everything we can fit in a box...

no, I don't. you misunderstand. willfully? or just hubris?

box == frame of reference == paradigm == system of thought == set of axioms, habits, etc, that fit together into a semi-cohesive whole.

you may, or course, not be able to perceive the box as a box, and invert the negative space into something substantial. that is, you may not be smart enough to understand, to avoid the wrong questions.
Seems similar to the appeal of gangs: giving a sense of purpose, "family" ties, and the promise of action. Both gangs and terrorism organizations flourish in poor areas.
I am not personally equating it. If you actually read my post you'll see that science and math were emphasized more in a Soviet-influenced area. What I was talking about is perceptions. That is how people in America (mostly) see that part of the world.
I decided to just live without Twitter notifications. Not really missing them. You can wire up ifttt to notify you via Google Talk on @s also.
My firm's filter is claiming that there is a virus or other damaging content on your page.
Looks like they have: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312528
...and it isn't 2000 again, and it isn't newsworthy.

Well to the extent that a great many people seem to believe that this current boom is nothing like the dot-com era boom, perhaps it is.
I get bcantrill's point. A degree ensures the candidate meets a certain baseline. I graduated as an electric engineer (specializing in computers) and had to educate myself in a lot of stuff a comp-sci student has to, but with the help of an experienced teacher, in order to graduate. There is no assurance I got everything right.
You seem to be making two contradictory points that both miss the spirit of what I was saying.

Certainly there are fields that are intentionally obfuscated and impenetrable. That doesn't mean the manner in which they are tangled is not outside comprehensibility, as your simple constructed example demonstrates.

The spirit of what I was saying is, if lots of people are talking about Smilism, then if you want to have a conversation with those people you will have to examine Smilism on its own turf.

No one's saying you have to play with other people, but if you do, you better play nice.

On the other hand, people that wish to spread or communicate their ideas are well motivated to translate them into other peoples' terms. So it's not that I'm some VIP, it's that--for instance--Democrats want to explain Obama's health bill in clear but simple terms.

Now, with Foucault, there is less motivation to do so. Partly because Philosophy is one of those fields in which thinkers can benefit from obfuscation, and partly because Philosophy is one of those fields that relies on the self-motivation of its students.
Patton Oswald: We Don't Need Gatekeepers Anymore
Why hasn't anyone asked what IP, user agent, etc. the bots were showing up as in the log?
Yeah, obviously a lot of people misunderstood that. I apologize for the confusion.

I was using "preference" in a more generic complex-systems-analysis sense. We begin with a potential workforce, at birth, of half men and half women. Over time, the further you go into the industry, you see more and more men and fewer and fewer women. The women are being rejected, the men are being selected for, this demonstrates a preference. Again, not imputing any consciousness here, it's just what the system is doing.

The claim we are asked to accept is that this reflects a something real and measurable, such as my transportation preference for cars over horses, rather than something subjective and arbitrary, such as my berry preference for blueberries over strawberries.
Maybe at the time they weren't and thus not relevant to the lawsuit, but they look very very similar to the iPhone 4/4S.
How do you know that Apple's competitors only had 2 revisions?
If you don't think other manufacturers have dropped designs, you're fooling yourself. The difference is that Apple makes only product at a time, so other manufacturers can experiment at bit with different designs, whereas Apple can only release one of their designs. When other manufacturers drop a design, it's not dropping a design, it's dropping a product.
I hate that it's using gem for install, too.
Interesting to get a look inside Apple's design lab. Would love to see them all in chronological order of development.
this doesn't cut it for me. In my (maybe too simple) vision, Apple just spends more time and more money than other companies. Why? In order to get greater profit at the end of the run. Does that give them the right to sue companies that do not follow that path?
Someone should contact him through one of his other online presences. I would, but I'm at work (no access to fb and the like)
Netflix actually has a whole Simian Army (http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html) which includes in addition to Chaos Monkey: Latency Monkey, Chaos Gorrila, Conformity Monkey, etc.
No doubt this was an inconvenience to people trying to get to work on the metro, and the number affected (300 million) is staggering, but all the same:

About 40 percent of Indians, or 500 million people, lack electricity.
It's a cat and mouse game. Google gets good at it; scammers get more sophisticated; google catches up again; ad infinitum. Also, in addition to the scam mentioned above -- in Google's case, targeting AdWords -- they have to deal with scammers hitting their own AdSense properties.

It's a well known problem. Considering AdWords is Google's primary source of revenue, they work hard at it. For a tiny bit more directly from Google, see: http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Facebook revamps its photos product
That's fine, not everyone can live that kind of life. There are a few engineers, however, who do want to put in the extra hours to build something awesome.

The thing is, for that to be successful you will never be asked directly to work long hours. If you've never experienced that, it's impossible for me to explain it to you. It's just a desire you get when you work around really talented people who are equally dedicated.