skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really agree with your assessment, but I admire the fact that you put your money where your mouth is and deleted your account.

Every time Facebook rolls out a new change, my feed is flooded with mock protest and boring complaint that aren't even backed up by any action, since people on the internet tend to be lazy (myself included.)

Deleting your account for a specific cause is, in my opinion, the best way to tell a site like Quora exactly how you feel.
For some reason I'm bothered by you saying 'get it' and linking to urbandictionary. To me it implies some kind of slang word or internet term. So I'll link a more normal dictionary or two.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/YHWH http://dictionary.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yhwh
Do you mean before the slave trade?

In early times (as in the African Pump migrations) I would assume that population pressures, and associated food shortages, would be to blame.
Hey Seth, I found how you can get the same result: set your search to return 100 results per page and you will see google send the same domains over and over in a row.
how can this not be a troll??

"HONESTLY, it's just plain senseless destruction of a set of attractive visual effects that should be ALLOWED to be seen...."

edit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765645#c10
It was opt-in. The opt-in message wasn't at all clear (even to me, and I'm a top-100 Quora user), and was presented on first use, not in a settings pane, when you first tried to view a view list -- it wasn't really clear that it reciprocally opened your own views to tracking.

The feature itself isn't horrible (followers on questions and topics are already public, and this is well understood and IMO worthwhile -- you CAN follow anon too, but it at least increments the counter), but was badly presented to users. I think just out of incompetence, not malice.
Streams are not always the best solution. How do you get an item at the end of the stream? By scrolling for minutes and hoping your browser doesn't crash...

It's a model very well-suited to social publishing, immediate content, not so for articles/timeless information.
I am not stupid enough to use the same password for multiple accounts

I don't consider myself stupid and I used to use the same password across multiple accounts. I changed this practice a while ago but I know that for the vast majority of people they do reuse passwords frequently.

Suggesting people are stupid for not following best practice password management is not helpful to the discussion.
Tabs don't work. Couldn't figure out what to do AFTER I typed in some text. No instructions, or other information as far as I could see...and I couldn't get the 'm' in the box to DO anything.

So if you were asking for reviews...I'd say...needs more work?
It's tough to disagree when I don't actually have experience working there, but there are a few telltale signals that the author doesn't know what he's talking about.

Though I'm also wondering if the whole thing is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek (if so, I'm barely getting it).

#3 "Zuck is too involved" states that rather than planning the long-term strategy of the company, the CEO should be "pumping up the stock price". and #4, too much focus on short-term.

That is the problem with most other companies, too much focus on short term, not thinking long-term about the company. A CEO's job is not to promote the company to investors, it's to move the business forward. That is done through products and marketing, not by 'pumping the stock price'.
It looks like he was happy with the ending and did take peoples comments in to consideration. Not sure he understood the sed instruction being thrown at him though. Clearly not everyone understands temporary postfixes.
I was assuming this guy was some sort of troll, though the website seems too elaborate (and horrible). I think he's actually being serious...

This one made me chuckle

> Ideally, ALL browsers SHOULD support ALL extensions,

I don't think he quite gets it.
US population = Pi X 100 million
Liberman deleation is fine-grained multiple inheritence. If I say I'm delegating the implementation of method foo to object bar, it sounds unsafe. If I say I'm inheriting the implementation of method foo from object bar, it seems safer, albeit not "classical OO."
"Yes, external CSS style sheets ARE BETTER..just haven't had the time to even CONSIDER doing this yet..." -YHWH

Why do these guys even bother to give people like this the time of day?
One definition of RISC is that every instruction should take one cycle and thus any instruction that takes longer is CISC. This led to MIPS not having multiply, for example.

A different definition is that RISC should not have any instructions that could be just as efficiently broken into multiple simpler general-purpose instructions. For example, a memory-register architecture can do a load-and-add in one instruction but RISC prefers separate load and add instructions that take the same time. In this view AES instructions are justified as RISC because implementing an AES round with multiple simple instructions is much slower (6x in Intel's case).
"Let's play a game": CyanogenMod feature management
To add to this, I now see the Done button. And them 'M' is a logo I take it? Still, you might want to make it stand out more?
The parent asked why you weren't /selling/ call options. So if the premiums were high, then you would be making a larger margin. Perhaps you confused it with buying puts?
The problem with bubbles is the expectations they lead to, and the broken expectations they leave behind.

In this case, we may well have seen more of an expectations (and pre-IPO investment) bubble than an IPO/investment bubble. The angels, incubators, and VCs are burnt. But also founders and early hires latching onto social, advertising, gaming, and SEO start-ups who're finding that reality isn't matching the pitch.

Even solid ideas are going to find capital harder to come by if a bigger chill hits.

Of course, that's what everyone was saying in the fall of 2008 with "RIP Good Times". And while the recent boomlet hasn't been huge, it also wasn't quite the four horsemen of the apocalypse either.
http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-...

I'm still rather dismayed that so many startups are so inconsequential, and are largely aimed at value extraction, capturing more wealth than they create, rather than value creation, creating a greater societal benefit and capturing a smaller (but sufficient) share of this.

Tim O'Reilly's OSCON keynote hits a few of these notes beautifully:
https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/bhKxn9Nb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbcgmf6eDKU&feature=play...
I just ctrl+f'd for the amount mentioned, got to the juicy part as well ^^
Definitely a troll
As a civilization, we probably employ more full-time professional philosophers than any other in history. We don't underinvest in the humanities; graduate students overinvest themselves in it, numerically speaking.
Interesting, but essentially a conspiracy theory, where perfectly reasonable, non-nutjob explanations exist:

> Second, you deprofessionalize and impoverish the professors...At latest count, we have 1.5 million university professors in this country, 1 million of whom are adjuncts. One million professors in America are hired on short-term contracts, most often for one semester at a time, with no job security whatsoever

We have a decades-long bubble in higher education. The end result is that we have many times more PhD's than there could ever be tenure-track faculty positions. Keep in mind, we don't have fewer tenure-track professorships; it just hasn't grown as quickly as the supply of PhDs. As a result, there is additional growth in adjunct positions in order to service the even greater additional growth in undergraduate students.

That, or it's a vast right-wing conspiracy against academia.

> Step #3: You move in a managerial/administrative class who take over governance of the university.

Most institutions grow a parasitic bureaucratic class eventually, especially public institutions, as conservatives love to point out. The author compares them to HMO's, claiming that in both cases it was due to a right-wing conspiracy (Nixon's in the case of HMO's), somehow not realizing that the HMO was enthusiastically supported by members of both parties at the time, including arch-Democrat Ted Kennedy.

> The Second Prong: You make college so insanely unaffordable that only the wealthiest students from the wealthiest of families can afford to go to the school debt free.

Bubble.

> BUT these are victors who will never declare victory — because the carefully-maintained capitalist illusion of the “university education” still benefits them. Never, ever, admit that the university is dead. No, no. Quite the opposite. Instead, continue to insist that the university is the ONLY way to gain a successful, middle class life.

Oh nice, now the bubble itself is a vast right-wing capitalist conspiracy. Even Marxism is a more sophisticated theory than this.
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything
Great advice. I really enjoy #1. It would certainly streamline the process. What if you don't want to company to hold the deal through Groupon? Some sort of real-tile screening process?
There is no way there are 500k active users on Quora.

There are probably <10k people actually contributing meaningfully to the site, and another 50k or so who are upvoting/etc. in a useful way. There are other users who come to Quora via SERP.

They screwed up communicating the impact of opt-in on this feature (by making it reciprocal to seeing the views of others), and didn't do a great job of explaining it after launch. Cautionary tale for other people rolling out features. Maybe rolling it out to a few hundred friendly to Quora users (i.e. not you, apparently) for feedback would have been smart.

Also, it's not like they killed your child or anything; I don't see why you care that much, or maybe you just like being offended about comparatively minor things. I'd be filled with furious anger if my previously-anon answers got un-anoned, but other than that, there's not much Quora could do to make me seriously angry. (un-Anoning users without court orders would bring out justified pitchforks and probably lawsuits, though)
Man burglarizes Steve Jobs' house without knowing it
So on one hand, the world is rife with thieves and scoundrels and the state is the only thing standing between what we have now and Mad Max. On the other hand you're willing to entrust people working for the state with with powers undreamed of by the thieves and scoundrels.

But what happens if thieves and scoundrels hold positions within the state? Restaurant owners pay them to make laws against Food Trucks. Cab drivers pay them to make laws against Uber. Hotel owners pay them to make laws against AirBnB. In the wrong hands, the regulatory state becomes a weapon. That is what is happening now.
[product] playstation vita looks sexy
Thanks! I think they still have a shot but a dramatic pivot is needed. After reading the Slate article I got to thinking! Not sure about the screening
If I worked for a big company, I'd love this (or, a Quora for a loose social network like HN people, YC companies, attendees of a series of security conferences, a university department, etc.). Makes a lot less sense for a 3 person startup (at that scale, email and/or wiki makes more sense).

I think Opzi was also potentially this at one point in the past, but just like everyone else doing "enterprise Q&A", pivoted away. I think there's no way to build something which makes money, is simple, is usable and worth using, and complies with stupid enterprise policies on Q&A.
It's always possible to create more jobs for full-time academics. In some fields this would be a good thing--permanently employing a few hundred thousand extra physicists means we get more physics done, and physics is damn useful. In others, like philosophy, we might be reaching diminishing returns.
Are you hiring?

;-)
It shouldn't be our burden to be verify the accuracy or integrity of cab meters, gas pumps, or deli scales. When's the last time you brought your own jug or scale? Common consumer protections like these are what the government should be doing on our behalf. I think there's a clear case for why cabs should be subject to such inspections, and gives us the confidence to jump into any cab. Given the nature of Uber, whether or not Uber needs to fall under the same rules is less clear.
This article is clearly tongue-in-cheek. "Too much free food" is a dead giveaway.
There are certainly great games that lend themselves to touch, but there are also some great games that would be much nicer to play with tactile controls: platformers like League of Evil, Muffin Knight; dual stick shooters; GTA 3 and Max Payne, etc. Not to mention NES/SNES emulators.

That said, I'd like to see more titles or publishers supporting the project before pulling the trigger.
As a Malaysian, I know more people here who use Amazon.com than those who use Lazada.com.my, even though Amazon doesn't technically serve our country.

Branding and the first-mover advantage are very important.
It looks much better with an older version of firefox before version 13. The opacity:0.7 rollovers really make it. Without them... it just falls flat.
#9 actually does sound hellish. The rest of it mostly comes across as snide, since it's not actually exaggerated enough to be satire.
The only thing that we need now is another bot that will post the "happy birthday" messages automatically as well. Once we have both running, no more human involvement will be necessary.

Also I found it amusing that the author starts the post lamenting the lack of personal late-night phone calls, and immediately proposes a way to depersonalize the interaction even further.

Other than that though, nice work :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ember.js a client side only framework?

So unless you are planning to use this on an internal dashboard or something, what stops anyone from dropping your index if you expose 9200 to the public with ES? Or am I missing something?
You can back both world-changers and toys. It's not either-or.
I think this article needs to end in a ":P". I almost stopped reading at number 3.
Yeah, sad that he had to bring all the religious references into the discussion.
#5 needed to come sooner. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this--clever angle!
The "//just pseudocode of course" meant that that wasn't actually how you'd do it. Instead, you'd come up with an overall better design in how you handle resizing pages. If anything this proves the point that self-documenting code forces you to re-think your design often when something is fishy to begin with. In this case, setting "$.resize.delay = 16;" probably is an effect of deeper design issues. Not being able to fix it by just moving it into a function simply means that striving for self-documenting code forces you to fix the issues rather than patch them with half-hearted (or worse - a highly detailed) comment.

If there was ever 'code smell', it's when you see "x = y; // verbose way of saying sets x to y". And this is exactly your example - a verbose description of "$.resize.delay = 16;" If renaming variables and functions in this case doesn't make you feel better, I don't see why a comment would.

But yes... of course comments are important and needed in some cases, which I admit. However when they do, as other posters here have mentioned, it's usually annotating why, not how/what. I can't think of many reasons why it's not a bad sign if you find yourself explaining how something works - the only one that comes to mind is with hand-optimized code.
Good grief people - It's satire. The entire thing is meant to be funny. I didn't even think it was particularly subtle so I'm not sure how others are seeing it any other way.
NP. I am pretty emotionally tied to my view of quora in this regard.

So, I accept your downvote and will take it as constructive criticism to look at my tone in the future.

I LOVE getting a comment explaining a downvote. Frankly, I have said before here on HN, that I think that downvotes should require a comment explaining why the downvote.

So, Again, i appreciate the feedback. Upvote.
And Beethoven will never beat out the Beatles. It's a pop culture, baby! Live with it.
Apology accepted, good luck.
The Beauty of Settled Science
This talk needs a different title, because it's way more important than the "Value of Values".

It's a call to stop writing object oriented software. He gives a convincing argument. You can probably find a thing or two to disagree with, but like he says, this is something we all know to be true. It's just that place oriented programming was necessary limitation due to hardware. Eventually, that limitation will no longer exist, or cease to be relevant. At that point, the only thing that makes sense is "value oriented programming" and by extension immutable functional programming.

Datatomic takes this same argument and applies it to databases.

Edit: And this might be crazy, but perhaps this is the answer to the "why can a building be built in a week, but a software project will be a year late and broken". What if you started on the first floor of the building, came in the next day and the dimensions had changed. What if when you needed two similar walls, you took a copy of one. But when you put a light switch on the copy, you accidentally put one on the wall you copied. Buildings are made up of values. A wall of a certain length. A staircase of 42 steps. These values don't change, and if they did, constructing buildings would be a hell of a lot harder.
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Just tried that. Here's the auto-response I got.

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This guy is being sarcastic.
I think it's sarcasm. Well mostly, but with some truth splayed in (because there probably are things that grate on the poster).

No way this is real:

The food is too good. What’s wrong with good food? Well, here’s what’s wrong: there’s too much of it. Three meals a day. Free. Cooked by award-winning chefs. And too many choices: salads, entrees, desserts, vegetarian food, soups, whole grains, usually a second dessert, organic stuff, barbeque, ice cream, fresh-squeezed orange juice. For someone like me with zero gastronomic self-control, this supposed “benefit” or “perk” is a complete disaster. Why doesn’t the FDA step in?

- Some of us have to pay for our food by the way, all three meals, so if you would kindly save the complaining (and grab seconds).

But also the bit about how it's code, code, code, ship, ship, ship, long-term product view, the engineers are involved, the company looks for innovation with the hack-a-thons. I do think it's mostly sarcasm. And with that, disclaimer: I could be wrong =D
Good, maybe they can teach Active how to build a proper API.
Used to think this is a great idea. But reality told me this could lead to chaos (way to much chaos), especially when the company is going through a finanancial crisis (hopefully not the case for FB for a really really long time). For most of the companies, leadership should be vital. Things like hackathons are luxury game rich people allow to play.
Before Dropping Algebra, Fix Math Education
I've had enough unbearable, corporate, cubicle, meeting-every-afternoon jobs that this list makes Facebook sound like a wonderful place to work.
The SI specifies that there should be no space. However, it's extremely common practice to omit the space, at least in the UK and USA:

http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event=athletics-men-100m...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-CFL-Light-Bulb-Mini-10-Watt-40W...

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC359LL/A/apple-ipad-10w-u...

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=172441
Probably a joke. They are using Nginx, and you can easily add a custom header using the add_header directive[1] in the Nginx config.

e.g. add_header "X-Powered-By" "Food";

[1]http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpHeadersModule#add_header

I sometimes throw in these kind of headers for fun on my own sites.
Depending on the app, sleep may be possible. But for some apps, like automotive, it is not surprising to see requirements like current draw being less than one milliamp in the sleep state.

I haven't seen or heard of any embedded apps which hibernate to flash. That would not be terribly fast, and would wear out the flash quickly.
I haven't checked out Coursera, but isn't it more of a college course that you can take online? Khan's videos seem much more accessible and are mostly aimed at a high school level. There are many people who browse through Khan's videos who don't have the time, motivation, or ability to take a Coursera course.

I think that basic computer science (or at least basic theory of computation) is at least as important to understand in the modern world as algebra or calculus, and I don't like that it isn't more widely taught. I looked at Khan Academy hoping to find a good introduction for someone and was disappointed when I found that all it had was an introduction to programming.
An untrackable actor can't pick someone up or be paid, but how hard is it for the actor to lie to the system? How hard is it for them to change their identity to the system? How hard is it for the counterparty to cause problems and how hard is it for him to change his identity?

And what if there are competitors to Uber? What if these competitors, as part of their attempt to get a wider car network refuse to rate those actors? Why would anyone want to be on the Uber network if they can get jobs on the other one? This isn't a static problem. There are a lot of dynamic variables in play and you're hoping that random action will lead to a steady state that is optimum for all the system participants.

But not all game systems work like that.

I'm not saying that Uber ought to be shut down outright. I just think it's ridiculous to assert that all regulation can be torn up just because certain metrics can be tracked.
I think you'd be interested in Bootstrap World, which is basically what you described: http://www.bootstrapworld.org/
How much does that actually help? In my extremely fuzzy memory, it only worked out to around a 30% increase in ideal situations. I'd rather see them work on features that can be exploited with less voodoo.... like hardware 64-bit support, or SIMD support, or HTM, or hell, clock rate.
As the company that gets paid more the farther you go, Uber also has a rather different commercial incentive...
"There is a fully-working hot tub in the New York office that interviews are conducted in. I didn’t believe this until I saw the photos on Twitter. It was billed to me as a way to test candidates’ resilience under pressure. I was told that it’s used rarely, and only on exceptionally good candidates as a way to probe the extent of their mettle. This is about the least professional thing that I have ever heard of, and I’m sure it violates laws in several states."

Not surprised.
Apple's Confusing Cloud
You just described a CISC op.
This is something I've been looking for. I can't wait for the launch!! I really like your logo.
It's my experience that wildcard security certificates (like the one amazon has for .s3.amazonaws.com) do not work past one level of subdomain. That is to say a certificate issued to .example.com will work on www.example.com and sales.example.com, but not www.sales.example.com or shipping.us.example.com.