skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd disagree, I think it is a lot easier to create a virus that wantonly destroys life than it is to create a cure that puts everything back together. I could email out a script that just executes "sudo rm -rf /" on everyone's computer, and it would probably ruin a lot of people's lives.

Additionally, cures by their nature will always lag behind diseases, people won't invest resources curing a disease that doesn't exist. A non-trivial amount of damage would occur before society reacted to the threat.
To fix Wikipedia you have to first fix their policies, and how they affect change site-wide. Make them more like a university.
Why do you drive a Honda instead of a Toyota or GMC or Ford or Kia? A credit card is a credit card. I did get 5$ cash back on a lot of travel I did for work like hotels, restaurants, etc., so that was one reason.
If they mention Groklaw...
"were it to be taken seriously, there would be nothing but social justice stories"

Total non-sequitur. I'm not saying I think this is a good HN article to upvote but the idea that this is somehow going to exclude everything else is bizarre.
Does it matter? Articles and commentary shouldn't influence the outcome of the case.

Patent Law isn't a matter of public opinion... or is it?
Why mail it to them? We who hang out at HN may find it awful, but it's mean to smear it in their faces.
Brilliant redesign. They should adopt it.
Yes, if the spread narrows enough [1], then the 'price' becomes something like a stochastic process that bumps around in real time depending on the instantaneous balance of supply and demand. This is probably better for the average market participant, compared to the old situation of demand piling up at quarters or eighths, and larger trades taking place at more infrequent intervals (with wider spreads and larger commissions for brokers and dealers). Price improvement and faster order fulfillment is the average case, but it doesn't make headlines because it's not dramatic and politicians and regulators can't drum up popular support against it.

Certainly, brokers' commissions have come down significantly through price competition (empowered by automation of trading). This is generally a good thing for a free market. Some broker-dealers may disagree because it's grown harder and harder for them to be the middleman and collect fees.

[*] $0.01 is the minimum because sub-penny pricing is disallowed for 'most stocks' on 'most trading venues'.
He's either de-prioritized what you're doing "together" or he's just talk, either way don't start with someone who isn't or can't or won't be as committed as you.
If there are people making money off those barbershops, webapps and grocery stores, then somebody else is losing money.
SCTP can be implemented in a shared library and tunneled through UDP. That actually works better since otherwise NATs kill you
I don't think the automation would ever be mandatory. It would be more like auto-pilot, where it would do most of the mundane driving, but let you take over when you want.
But google search doesnt replace the wikipedia start page, only it's search feature.
What if you lose them?

At some point, there has to be a way to get back into your account. Probably, going through slow and hard to hack methods like the postal system.
I doubt that there were really no accidents at all or close calls, but even if that is the case, you have to expect some accidents as more and more of these vehicles get out there. But even if there are 1000 accidents in the next 300000 miles or whatever, I hope people are realistic and give the technology time rather than writing it off as soon as a very well-publicized collisions occur.
"I haven't seen this fact mentioned much, but Honan's billing address was compromised through a WHOIS lookup on his domain. This is a huge reason to use registry protection services. It's true someone could look you up using things like Pipl and Spokeo, but that's only if you have something in public records, such as a mortgage (or, in some cases, leases)."

There used to be books that they put on everyone's doorsteps that had everyone's name, address and phone number in them. Society managed. Addresses should not be considered private information, nor should birthdays, mother's maiden name, etc.
https://www.filepicker.io/pricing/
I think it's a great concept.

But if you're going to conceptualise a change to one of the most popular websites that is backed by an intelligent and active community you're going to have to expect some critical feedback.

I actually think there is a bit of arrogance implicit in the redesign, as the designers haven't solicited feedback from the wider wiki community and made big assumptions about the original design.
I don't know. You think it's a bad idea though? Why? Are we worried about vandalism?

I think I can support an idea that would hope to turn otherwise passive consumers into not-so-much-any-longer passive consumers. As long as pseudonyms remain acceptable.
If we included every Rails internals article, that'd push everything else off the front page too. HN catches the highlights, and I like that that includes a lot of different stuff.
> At one point I had a laptop that had some kind of battery problems and I figured I could just use it as a desktop machine and leave it plugged in all the time. But Magsafe would just randomly detach when I moved the machine and it would immediately power down.

Friend of mine had the same thing. Duct-tape to the rescue :)
It's closer than you might guess. According to Alexa statistics (which I know aren't perfect), WordPress.com is one of the top 20 web sites in the entire world, even though it is visited by "only" 4% to 5% of all Internet users each day [1], compared to Wikipedia's 10-15% [2]. The WordPress software has been around for almost a decade, and although most readers of WordPress blogs might not recall the name "WordPress", they probably have at least some passive recognition. Each hosted WordPress blog uses the "W" favicon by default.

[1]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wordpress.com

[2]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org
So... uhh...

this one-liner will download and execute a python script.

would really suggest that you read the script before executing it.
I thought that this was covered by the Traffic Waves guy who said his method deals with that problem quite well?
One of the co-founders here, there's a lot of stuff we're working on but would love to hear any other feedback anyone has (of if you have any questions!)
Craigslist Blocks Search Engine Indexing, Hangs Itself to Remove Competitors
Law, in general, is a matter of public opinion.
Fanatick.us: Seek and offer last minute event tickets in Santiago, for free
There are dozens of services better or at least arguably capable of being better than Craigslist, but their stranglehold on the online classifieds market has made it extremely difficult for anyone to snipe their users; I go to Craigslist because everyone else goes to Craigslist.

Another problem is their lack of concern for the bottom line. Craigslist functions off of plenty of revenue, but they aren't trying to maximize it at all. You're not forced to pay for 99% of their service, nor are you inundated with ads on every page.

Craigslist "got there first" and now millions of people like my dad are used to the interface, and refuse to switch.
Boost Your Productivity By Eliminating This One Thing
Prototype of electric London black cab unveiled
>>>I think that if the brand and experience needed simplification, people wouldn't use it or would be more vocal about changing it.

Never underestimate inertia. Plus, it's looked like that for so long, does anyone think it ever will change?
"Even if the account provided no utility, I don't see why any intelligent person wouldn't maintain one, just to avoid this type of stigma."

Because if someone is dumb enough to believe that I'm a psychopath because I don't have a Facebook account, I don't really give a crap what they think of me. And I sure as hell wouldn't want to work for them, date them, etc.
Cloud Magic the Song
Wikipedia's current design has never impeded my ability to consume its content. It works.

I would love some a image browser and lightbox style reference pop-ups. BUT I imagine the current build runs great on old machines, making it accessible to a wide audience.
I think you misread (or, equally likely, I wrote unclearly). I'm not saying "if you take the article seriously, we'll have nothing but social justice stories". I'm saying that if you take the premise that social justice is inherently interesting to hackers, then we'll end up with nothing but those stories.

Many people here, myself very much included, get their social justice stories in a different section of their RSS readers. It's not that those stories aren't interesting; it's that they simply aren't Hacker News, any more than updates about Girl Talk albums are Hacker News because hackers are so likely to listen to them.
Dear kristianc,

You are comparing en.wikipedia.org with their redesign of www.wikipedia.org. Notice that the latter is, with respect to content, the same as their redesign: languages, search, and sister sites.

Secondly, in the screenshot you are looking at, the content of the article has obviously pushed down due to the activation of the “quote” mode. Honestly, I doubt you do not realize this and I can’t help but wonder what motivation you have to criticize their work so unfairly.
Top 10 People Who Should Be In Temple Run
Works for me. http://isup.me has something messed up.
That 'W' that's being used here looks awfully similar to the 'W' used by the company 'Westfield'. There may be issues with the trademark.

http://www.westfield.com/
Not if all of the cars can do it just as easily.
Actually, not when you factor in the need to serve unpopular routes and non-Busyntimes. That's a lot of trains and buses running nearly empty.

Small, on-demand personalised mass transit has the potential to be the most efficient transport system.
Who promised you that? To me it's not a binary yes/no on whether this project is successful. Even a marginal reduction in the number of accidents will save lots of money and lives -- even if you still end up behind the wheel helping it along.
Another place four digits is used is paper receipts of credit card payments for example - http://salesreceiptstore.com/fake_store_receipts/fake_credit...
Its not just about the feature set, its about using whats familiar for a lot of the "average" consumer.
Lint Center Article in Haking Magazine (th3j35t3r)
He won't. Just read the article - he's already apologizing for the officers' behavior and just wants his equipment back.
“My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?”
I'm more worried about their database servers melting, since the overwhelming amount of traffic Wikipedia handles today is passive consumption.

If you think highlighting and bookmarking of Wikipedia articles is extremely valuable --- and maybe it is! --- go start a site backed by Wikipedia's content. In the places where it actually counts, Wikipedia has bent over backwards to be helpful to developers.
Looks clean to me. Check out for yourself of course. Does bring up an interesting dilemma. We all download code, libraries etc. all the time without going through it with a fine comb...
It depends on the population density, on whether you have to (and can) build it underground, etc.
Trulia is hiring  Looking for a Mobile Web Lead
2001 called; they want their mystery meat navigation back.
I'm not sure it's intended as a face-smear; but even if it is, personally I'd prefer to receive direct communication with criticism than to find out later that there is a community mocking my work.
WOW. That must be the laziest logo redesign EVER.
Wikipedia already delights me. Dozens of times a month.

Advertising campaigns-in-disguise do not.
Also, there's a grammatical error:

"We check our mail dozen times a day."

No. We check our mail a dozen times a day.
> "be of use on appeal or on any remand to make clear whether any treatise, article, commentary, or analysis on the issues posed by this case are possibly influenced by financial relationships to the parties or counsel."

I spent a few minutes googling around for "remand" but I still cannot understand what this means. Could anyone please translate this legalese and explain why exactly does Alsup wants them to disclose paid bloggers?
> compromising the phone (2nd factor for the general public) allow compromising both passwords and the authenticator

Unless I've misunderstood how 2-factor authentication works, this is misinformation. The entire point of 2-factor authentication is that you need _both_ factors; i.e., having only one does not compromise the system.
traction. if your product isn't inherently viral, you need to be out hustling
isup is hosted with The Planet / Softlayer. My guess would be that Craigslist has blocked that whole netblock to stop scrapers.
Familiarity is an issue, but the newer generation are quicker to pick up new technology.
Have I broken Try Ruby?
Go to http://tryruby.org/ and open the network inspector.

Run `a = []` - and you should get 200 OK.

Run `a << a` - and you get a 500 internal server error.

Normally the sandbox will handle a problem by some kind of exception or text warning (e.g. on timeout), but it can't even handle the request.. so have I broken it?

Inspired by this video from a guy who works on the sandbox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XxCOYco3Eg
Marketplace data would be best if it were fully decentralized.

At a company I am doing software consulting for we've been building bits and pieces of a distributed scraper and one of the ideas we see as a possible approach to solving these data silos is the equivalent of generalized "bit torrent for API data". So long as your service does not publish the copyrightable content gathered via API data or at least does so in a way that respects the DMCA requirements, you are pretty much free any clear, since a bittorrent approach would completely absolve you from agreeing to any terms of use and the distributed approach would absolve you from a trespass to chattels lawsuit. Between those two and the Feist vs. Rural ruling, I cannot think of any defense a company could mount.

Near as I can tell both Twitter and Craigslist (among many many others) are all vulnerable to this data collection vector.

If this problem sounds interesting to you, shoot me an email (in my profile). I know they are hiring.
He's proposing to change it so it works like Etherpad. That would have to replace every single byte in storage and all the previous versions. Think about it.
Tweak the iOS simulator device size
Primarily masterless, multi-site (WAN) replication. This is probably the only reason why I would choose Riak over some of their competition.

http://wiki.basho.com/Multi-Data-Center-Replication-Concepts...
The car would still factor in the 3d analysis of nearby objects so assuming the use technology that works in heavy snow/rain fall they wouldn't run into anything.
"Astonishing how the author is primarily targeting Apple"? Do you even know who Marco is? He's constantly accused of being an Apple fanboy. If anything he's biased for Apple.

The idea that "one non-diligent AppleCare employee" did this is reality-averse. Wired managed to duplicate what happened to Mat after-the-fact using other people's details. Even if you were correct, "one non-diligent AppleCare employee" should not be able to do what this employee did (apparently in accordance with policy, FWIW). A company that cared about security would not allow it.

So you can put down that water you're carrying (boy, does it look heavy!) any time you'd like.
I usually lightly tap the brake pedal, to let the lights come on, when they're too close behind me.
I love driving. I find it incredibly enjoyable. I don't think automatically driven cars will change that because I'd happily give up 80 - 90% of my real world driving to a computer. Driving on a congested motorway (highway) or in a busy town just isn't fun, no matter how nice the car you are driving.

I think horse riding might be the best example of the way things will go if and when automatically driven cars become a reality. Once a life skill required by everyone, now a hobby in all but the most extreme of communities.
"I doubt anyone can pinpoint the exact reason for the transformation."

I believe I can very much pin-point it. It was the creation of the Federal Reserve.

What we are seeing now is the final stage where everyone with a bit of brains realizes that the way to make money is to attach oneself as closely as possible to the great gushing fiat spigots emerging from the FIRE and government sectors, and malinvestment sits rudely triumphant on the wreck of america's productive economy.
When an appellate court sends a case back down to a trial judge to reconsider a decision or retry the case.
You can get a support contract on the OSS version as well and just use what you pay for. If you need Multi-Site replication though, yes that's a EDS thing.

Don't forget though, if you are in a startup, we have Riak for Startups (http://basho.com/products/riak-enterprise-for-startups/) where you pay what you can.
Now I've only got ~300 classroom hours of web design at a community college, not an art/design degree which I'm sure these guys and gals do, but having the main thing that the page exists for start 2/3 of the way down the page is baffling to me. Nine times out of ten, users are not coming to your website so that you can masturbate all over them with sexy widgets and edgy font choices. This design tells me the creator(s) either don't know or don't care what people are using the site for.
Then I will go back and upmod everything you wrote two days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342363

What will you do if they don't?
I don't know stocks but this strikes me to be the same mindset as domain tasting and should be ended entirely, not regulated, just killed, regardless of any claims of industries being built around it - it's just wrong.
Also, remind me again what your product does and why I'd want to use it.

If it's been 6 to 8 weeks then I definitely forgot about your product and have no idea why I was interested in the first place. Remind me.
HFT systems _are_ massive distributed systems.

where i worked - a small shop with 10 engineers - we had 350 machines running in 5 different data centers in chicago, new jersey, and korea. each machine ran around 100 different processes, which were coordinated using a combination of several different pubsub systems:

- in house reliable tcp-based broker mediated (we called it pubsub3 )

- in house unrelaiable ip-multicast system (i named it blue
ray because i thought that sounded cool)

- 3rd party implementation of a PGM derivative that we licensed for god knows how much

the engines subscribed to various topics on the system, processed market ticks (sent by marketdata publishers over blue ray) and fired orders at whatever instrument they were handling

the risk engines modeled risk scenarios inresponse to trading shifts, powering through the risk models our quant trader wrote in c. we had a 'calcparser' system that constructed a DAG rerpresenting the AST of the c code and distributed the DAG across several machines.

shit was nuts. i miss it.
The New Boston series on YouTube is also a good place to start http://thenewboston.org.
I blame padmapper.
You're reading it wrong - it's blunt criticism, but it's also constructive. It's not fun to read this, but I find it a lot better than someone saying your X is awesome while thinking privately that it sucks.
My cell phone (Pantech 5000) has a qwerty keypad. It doesn't have the old rotary phone style letter-number association. I know many people whose phones don't have this.
> Draw the pretty colored lines after you grok the concept.

There is nothing to grok. Imagine Google's landing page being chokeful of "content" including, most notably, the featured articles of random nature.

Your comment inadvertently demonstrates the problem with Wikipedia as it exists now. A vast majority of its users has nothing to do with its community. People come, they consume and they leave. Sad, but that's life. But still the site is built to favor not their experience, but the experience of those who is deeply involved with Wikipedia - the very same people who are perfectly content with how things are and who resist the change initiated by those outside of the community.

So perhaps instead of dismissing alternative views as complete garbage, it might've been a better idea to try and understand where their authors are coming from and why it is that they are proposing the changes.
I would love to find out if there's any paid influencing going on here at HN or reddit. I would not be surprised.
I hope this Adobe-like visual branding strategy of "we have so many properties/products, let's just make a rainbow period table" dies a slow and horrible death.

See: http://thoughts.shawncheris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/c...
I mailed them based on a number of reasons: 1. Critiquing is an essential step of the design process, 2. They provided an email address at the end of the post, 3. I wanted to ensure that they weren't reinforcing their design biases that had emerged as a result of their 2 month drive to release their concept.
Especially if you can finally get high-occupancy vehicles right. Something closer to a 6-passenger vehicle with bus-style seating... if we're very lucky, only with people at most one indirect hop away in your social network?
Please elaborate. I don't fully comprehend what you're pointing to.
Glad to see a standard Scala DB solution emerge---especially one backed by Typesafe. I really found the lack of an elegant database solutions in Scala to be a huge setback in heavy Scala use a year ago. Excited to give it a try.
Yes but the money losers are gaining hair style, cat pictures, and and food, not just intraday liquidity that they didn't know they were paying for and didn't want or need.
Django's security policies
How Much Is A Gold Medal Really Worth?
How Much Is A Gold Medal Really Worth?
I read somewhere about how Windows introduced in early versions the ability to make buttons look "3D" (update: here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/28/19958...), and for the next few years every program made its buttons look more 3D than the previous version, until someone decided they had gone too far and started going in the opposite direction. And now looking at Metro I'd say we are at the other extreme (completely flat and minimalist). I hope it stabilizes somewhere in the middle in 5 years. Just look how fast they ditched the "vista" look.

It's funny if you look at http://stocklogos.com/topic/past-and-future-famous-logos.
That page is satire from 2011... well check out the last "Microsoft" logo ;-)
My bank (a credit union actually) requires you to come in to a branch office during normal business hours if you need to get your password or ATM PIN number changed, or if you've tried the wrong password too many times and locked your account.

They also use two-factor auth on logins from new computers (or when you've cleared your cookies).
I go to Wikipedia itself all the time. I just type 'en' + enter into my address bar because I'm so used to it, but I'm sure there's probably millions of people that always go to the first page instead.

I still think it should remain mostly as it is, though. I didn't like their changes to it.
Leaving that amount of money anywhere other than in an FDIC insured bank is incredibly irresponsible. Arguably as irresponsible as Apple's decision to require the last 4-digits of a credit card to gain access to iCloud, where a malicious intruder could arguably do way more damage, on average.

I could walk up to an ATM behind someone and get the last 4 of their card all day long. It is printed on every single receipt you've ever gotten.