skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I noticed the same thing. Sometimes the first comments becomes so long, that it's almost impossible to reach the other comments - I even built a Chrome extension to be able to collapse them, but when the first comment is really too long it becomes difficult to manage anyway.
"Monopoly" is too strong a word, but "advantage" is not quite strong enough. In short, new Twitter apps will have a cap of 100k user tokens, while Tweetbot gets 2x their current number of tokens (hypothetically, if they have 400k users now, they get 800k tokens). A new developer will never be able to get 800k tokens while the new rules stand.

Of course, there's nothing to stop Twitter from creating new new rules that kill Tweetbot or remove the advantage.
The trick is to put a space before the first word of the title.
You could view this as a UX issue. New members don't get enough information from the HN interface to infer how to behave. Now we've got a theory, how can we address it?

(a) more recent arrivals don't have as much of whatever quality distinguished the original members

Try to make it obvious who distinguished members are, so people can emulate them. Colour-coded usernames based on age/reputation, starred 'high quality' comments, reputable upvoters (quora-style).

(b) the large size of the group makes people behave worse, because there is more anonymity in a larger group.

Try to reduce anonymity. Tiny little grey names are fine for 100 users, but after a point they all look the same. We're visual animals - maybe we need recognizable avatars, symbolic or otherwise, so we recognize the people we're replying to. Even allowing users to choose a single unicode symbol in addition to their username might be enough.
they were overvalued to begin with, not a big loss for me

"for me" is important here. While I fully agree that FB, and (especially) Zynga were both overvalued, the near-constant deterioration of their stock price is very visible - both to Wall St and investors. Perception is king, and it's not just "ours" which matters. What the public sees is the tri-fecta failure of 3 super-hyped tech IPOs (Groupon, Zynga, Facebook).

edited to add : It's also very worth noting that the perception of FB being massively overvalued may very well have been highly confined to "insiders", or those close to tech.

When I speak with my non-tech friends, most of whom are highly educated (law, medicine, etc.), the general reaction to FB's decline is one of surprise. For instance, I often hear that "everyone thought the price would go up!".
2. You can't ever know for sure but doesn't necessarily matter. The point of tor is NOT to keep your activities secret (for example, your exit node would be able to read any plaintext traffic you send, such as regular HTTP, or IRC, and also know your patterns of access - which IPs, how much data, etc) - it is to disconnect the ownership of those activities from your "real life" identity.

Assume anyone can read those emails you're sending on Tor, and act accordingly (i.e. no information that could identify you).
we didn't because we wanted to avoid particular sequence features that are difficult to synthesize and sequence. we probably could have gotten away with something like 1.8 bits per base, but we were already doing fine on density, so we thought a 2x hit wouldn't be that bad.
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> There are too few innovators in this space

I don't know much about US law, but in my country it's illegal to even look at an image, even if it is part of a private investigation.

I'm sure that many would volunteer to help, but not while they'd risk jail time themselves
The Kindle Cloud Reader works just fine for me on Linux (Chromium)...
...says the new guy to the old guy.

Sorry I couldn't help myself.
This is an outstanding post that shows first hand what life as an engineer is like. It is often very hard to truly come to a conclusion that is 100% correct, even given what seems like infinite resources to do testing and analysis.

The big take away from this is what it means to be a good engineer: to be able to bow your head, and admit you were wrong despite all prior evidence.

outstanding!
Yes, the microfluidics used today make use of this for reading large numbers of small segments of DNA in parallel. The current "gold standard" for DNA sequencing (manufactured by Illumina) uses millions of tiny fragments of DNA which are read optically as DNA sequence is extended.
The Olympics + YouTube
I love this. Chris Granger is officially one of my heroes.

One quick suggestion: on the first time start up of the app, it goes through a brief explanation of the various parts. It might seem obvious to most, but I think it would make it a little nicer if the dialog that says "The instarepl is an area where you can write code..." had an arrow shape, or an arrow in the box pointing toward the repl.

Same for the dialog talking about the output area.

It's not so much that it's confusing, it's just an unfamiliar interface, and an arrow would be reassuring that what I thought was the repl was really indeed the repl.
You personify the problem, this kind of valueless snark is not welcome here.
we talk about a potential petabyte storage mechanism in the supplement:

paper
http://db.tt/ZDoDJZeD
supplement
http://db.tt/elIqsy72

tldr; we are 6-8 orders of magnitude away from doing petabytes routinely; that said costs of sequencing/synthesis have seen such drops over the last decade or so. there are many barriers though for that continuing for another decade
Alternately, people are less likely to attack others, steal or damage something if they know there's video being taken.
It seems that 13 out of 10000 tests is on the level of noise statistically, isn't it? Admittedly, I am a layman on this subject. But if I had my corgi puppy nose my keyboard 10,000 times a word or 13 would pop out. That doesn't mean she knows how to write.
I don't think this is information that UPS actually possesses themselves. I signed up for a credit card with a bank I had never done business with before a few months ago. I had to "verify my identity" by calling in, and the agent presented me with several questions similar to the ones mentioned in the article (where I had lived, who I had lived with, etc).

I was a bit startled and asked the woman where they had gotten this information and she told me all of the questions and options were being pulled from a third party database that had something to do with my credit history.

I also remember being asked similar questions when opening a bank account a few years ago. It seems like basically any institution that REALLY needs to verify your identity can use this, although I'm sure there are limitations to what they give out, and to who. (Not really sure who "they" are though...)

It's funny that people freak out with what Facebok et al "know" about us, but there are credit companies that have been aggregating way more personal information (address, family history, bank accounts, lines of credit, etc) for our entire adult lives.

All this data is what's been used to calculate our credit scores for years...
First of all the discussion of TOR starts at section 39. The FBI did not identify Anarchaos traffic coming out the other end of the TOR network. The FBI did not identify Anarchaos because of TOR. The complaint mentions that Anarchaos had previously mentioned the use of TOR and that one of the devices (Mac laptop) on the network under surveillance connected to a known TOR router. The complaint goes on to correlate traffic from the laptop to the TOR network with Anarchaos's presence in his residence.

They already knew who he was before they found the TOR traffic. Thats why they had a PEN/TRAP warrant, and wireless and physical surveilance in place.
You can use bookmarklets in safari as well usually.
Well, this is the first commenter's suggestion. My suggestion was let people work from wherever they wanted, pay a 30% premium over local rates, and build a team of very good programmers (who value the flexibility and/or are located in places where good jobs are tough to find) - and you can do it at a fairly low cost, because all else equal, you could hire people in the lower cost locations.

So, nobody has to move ;)
They could do this if the scraping were done by a remote server, but if the network activity came from each individual user, they would at best have to resort to looking for behavioral "fingerprints" to what otherwise looks like normal web browsing activity.

Let's just say I wish I had the time for such an endeavor, and I sincerely hope someone out there does.
I'm sure that Bruce Wayne would buy one, maybe two.
After I signed up to this, I started getting an e-mail everyday. All e-mails are titled like "Do you need help?" "Let's get you started with filepicker" etc etc. WTF is this? What is this rush for? I just gave a try your app, that's it. It sounded useful at first but you are losing respect by spamming.
Depends on the problem. Factoring into primes seems to be the canonical example.
Yeah, I realized I had probably missed something when it came to closing the window. Strange how I never managed to click outside the box, considering how much else I tried (pressing esc, clicking inside the box, opening the menu, etc.) :)

But I forgot to say how much I love the editor already. Can't wait for the final version!
Continuous Integration Using Bill Cosby
W3C Hammers Out the Details of CSS Variables
There are many cases where you can verify an answer much more easily than finding it. Not saying that necessarily applies here, but for the more general problem space it isn't the limitation it might appear to be at first.
agreed, it should be comparied to other arhival media like tape drives; but it's still pretty similar; we compare in our paper a hard drive platter rather than a drive itself. even then we are approximately ~million fold more dense
I disagree: the really important changes take vision and guts, and can only be tested after the fact. Testing things like the color of a call-to-action button can certainly direct you to a local optima, but in a larger sense it misses the point. You can A/B test a whole bunch of small changes, but the really impactful ones take a unified vision that changes the whole design strategy of a website or product. Google didn't go from old Gmail to new Gmail by incrementally changing things based on testing, they took a good hard look at the pain points of the old site and applied a new visual direction to the site. The iPhone didn't come around by tweaking a phone piece by piece until people liked it better. It came around because someone had a vision and saw it through.

Don't get me wrong, usability testing is incredibly important. Every programmer can tell you how much they learned the first time they watched an uncoached newbie try out their software. And even with those paradigm-shifting design changes, you can and should test that the results are really an improvement. But you can't make big important changes by measuring the impact of every little detail.
It was a 30-year design. Not too bad for our first reusable space plane.
It's useful pedantry though.

The title got me scratching my head about how IOS even deals with SMS
I don't think it's credit worthiness as much as just verifying your identity by asking deeply personal questions about stuff they wouldn't otherwise know. How would UPS really know if the address you provided is right? They're leaning on credit companies who make a business on keeping super accurate records of our personal lives.
> And I actually enjoy being away from the internet, and news in particular, from time to time.

To each his own. For me, the choice between "sitting on a bus impatiently waiting for my destination" and "browsing on my phone" is a no brainer. FWIW, it doesn't have to be the internet. I have offline books and video clips on my phone as well.

But that's tangential. Your original post was about people bent in their gadgets. I was outlining why I am bent into my gadget. If you are into leaning into the window of the bus and watching traffic, birds, landscapes, roadkills or whatever, good for you. I would rather be looking at my phone.
What's the latency/throughput on reading the data back?
Apple Breaking Records and some signs to Support "iTV"
That's a really good summary of mission critical systems accountability problem.
How to choose your blog’s perfect unique topic?
And in most forums, you can't even say whatever you want. You'll be censored by the site hosting the forum, by the hosting company (for web sites), or ISPs.
How Police Tracked Down Steve Jobs's Stolen Ipads
Maybe add '(YC S12)' in the title? I know you were working on this before YC, but these are the kinds of things I like to see get supported.
The luck is that he happened to hear that song at that time. What happens if there's another channel on, not playing that song?

Think of it as a 6 sided dice roll. 3d6 simulates a bell curve of skill + 1d6 simulating luck, and you need 18 or more to "win." The top of the top talent will rise to the top with or without luck. Those without the drive or talent won't "win" even if they have the best luck.

But to ignore that luck exists? Talent and hard work are a pre-requesite, but everything from winning the genetic lottery (passport from an Industrialized country) to being attractive.

For another example... in 1999, a Canadian band called The Tea Party had a #1 single called "Heaven Coming down," and had a great run in Canada, but they never became the global sensation Nickelback did, despite having talent. (That is not to disparage Nickelback -- that band worked hard, and had talent. Why did one make it in America, and one only in Canada, and Europe/Australia to a lesser extent?)

King's X was rated one of the top 100 artists of hard rock by VH1. They toured their ass off, yet somehow never captured the attention that others expected them to get. Sometimes, it isn't all about talent and hard work.

Again: talent is a prerequesite. Luck does not cancel talent out by any means! Luck does not describe Bill Gates -- he likely would have been successful even if his parents weren't millionaires. However, we might all remember CP/M a little better if Mary Maxwell Gates isn't on the United Way board with John Opel.

Now, that doesn't mean Gates and Microsoft doesn't become massive in another way. However, that small bit of "luck" helped tilt IBM to trust a less known entity.
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The way I look at luck is not like the lottery, but rather a dice roll. You may have to roll yahtzee, but if you give yourself a thousand chances, you're better off than the person who only gives themselves one chance, or resigns themselves to failure because they figure only someone lucky can roll yahtzee.

You still may have to be at the right place at the right time, but if you work hard to stick around the right place, the right time is significantly more likely.
Do you have a link to the article about color? Google isn't turning up anything in regards to "copyrighting color" that seems remotely relevant.

And me being pedantic: It's copyright, not copy write, because this is a form of law, like "the right to bear arms", or "the right to an attorney". Conversely, a work cannot be "copywritten", it is "copyrighted", or more appropriately "to secure copyright for [a work]".
There are 3 billion base pairs in each copy of human DNA. Looks like only ~60 of them change from one generation to the next. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/health/research/11gene.htm... Just making the 4 trillion cells in my body means that each would have to be copied an average of 41-42 times. Probably some cells get replaced more often and others have a shorter path, so I'm not sure how many times DNA is duplicated before it gets to human reproduction. But going with averages: 41 * 3,000,000,000 / 60 means 2,050,000,000 copies per error. That's a few orders of magnitude worse than a modern hard drive but not exactly shabby.
do you have a link to their paper?
Someone modified Wikipedia as a workaround.
American taxpayers are essentially subsidizing luxury homes, as well. At least this has the benefit of helping to advance alternative transportation technologies.
Pretty sweet stuff. How are you planning to monetize this? Also, how do those other API's your using stack up against each other?
I was literally posting photos on my G+ account and linking them to my facebook and thinking about an app like this when I saw this article. lol
Actually hadn't read it. Mind to give a TL;DR?
The two biggest goals in my mind would be:

1) You involve the API consumers in the design and decision process, which helps in understanding their use cases better.

2) Give insights and transparency to consumers as to why and how some decisions were made about the API.
It washed just fine last year right here for airbnb: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815183
(haha - I totally misunderstood, my apologies)

EDIT: (total rewrite)

The cool thing about using metrics and machine learning is that the results speak for themselves and opinions and factions are less important. Intead of guessing what matters in advance, you get to discover what matters after the fact.
It's more like we're subsidizing the electrification of luxury automobiles. Thinking about it in marginal terms makes it clearer. If the tax credit weren't in place, would model S buyers be getting a VW Golf instead? Probably not; they'd be getting some gas-guzzling jaguar or something.

The tax credit isn't paying for people to get nice cars, it's paying for people to get electric cars.
Also I should be allowed to veto at least one YC applicant per batch.
I think there will always be a DeLorean support cottage industry. I hope so, anyway.
Presumably patio11 is talking about both, and if he isn't, many people who read this will assume he is. The tracking error issue can still come up with index funds, the differences between them are minimal:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/mutualfund/05/ETFIndexF...
bad customers for a cheap programming service seems like a good match to me. That would be the market working efficiently - and cosmic revenge.
You can to a certain degree, yeah. There was a project in the UK that looked at using NLP to determine what age/gender child groomers are (to see if they were adults impersonating children in order to befriend children online). It was pretty successful (the Isis project - see http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pedophile-p... for an overview). The problem is that doing this sort of thing "live" is ethically dubious - not only for the privacy of the child but also for the privacy of the potential offender (because being labelled paedophile is probably one of the worst things you can be labelled - imagine if you are falsely accused).

So yeah, you'd need a huge amount of certainty that this was "the guy", and, frankly, storing enough data about individual writing styles for comparison means it's highly unlikely (right now) that this would be possible to do from a technical perspective, and potentially ethically dubious even if the technology were there - what constitutes "public data" on the internet from a privacy and data protection perspective?
Since I was dealing with compliance, FCPA and such for the last 15 years, here are my two cents:

- in case people involved in the unethical behavior are either employees of Visa OR employees of Visa subsidiaries, joint ventures or partnerships, such behavior does constitute a violation of at least Visa's internal Code of Business Conduct and Ethics [1], not sure about FCPA due to lack of details;

- compliance matters are a serious business for most all multinational companies, especially public/US based;

- this Code is an internal Visa document, that implies that Reporting any Illegal or Unethical Behavior [2] shall/can be done by Visa's employees, but you are not an employee;

I would recommend to write an e-mail, describing your facts, and send it to 4-5 Visa employees, including US HQ. Having multiple recipients, including HQ people, will ensure that one of those will report this case internally. Your e-mail will trigger internal investigation of this matter, and hopefully favorable resolution [i.e. discontinuation of such practices].

Of course, speak with lawyer before doing anything. Also, I would advise against talking to press, at least for now.

1 [http://investor.visa.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=215693&p=irol-g...]

2 [http://investor.visa.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=215693&p=irol-g...]
When you move and mail is forwarded it creates a public record with the postal service. This is tracked by a large number of private companies specializing in personal information, including credit agencies, kept in databases forever. The databases keep track of everyone receiving mail at a given address during a given time. Even if you don't file mail forwarding orders formally, if you change your address with a magazine company or have a final bill sent, the company you do it with registers that information with the tracking agencies.

There are rather comprehensive records of who you are, who you are related to, where they are now, and where you are now. Also tied into credit records, and multiple databases of public information including property purchases, property tax records, corporate incorporation documents, SEC filings, lost property and refunds claims in various states, etc.

Most of the basic information is publicly available for free through any of a number of sites, with more detailed records including email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and identification numbers useful for credit lookups, available for a modest fee to anyone with a credit card who is willing to pay the fee, or any of their subscribers who pay for complete access.

Obviously UPS subscribes to one or more of these services, it would be strange if they didn't.
Since we are using DNA to record information of life experience, it's in fact a steganographic stegosaurus stenographer.
it's to avoid sequence features which are problematic like high GC content
But there are two strands, and each half-pair is fixed on one side.
Personally, I really wished pg would bring back the vote count next to comments. It used to be a very good indicator of what kind of comments were encouraged by the community. I feel HN has been getting worse since although it was intended to make things better.
Burn Your Idols
Go Chris and Rob!
This is an important point. The anonymity of Tor relies on finding safety in numbers (or rather, among numbers).

However, the bar doesn't have to be quite that high in order for Tor to be considered de-facto anonymous. There is an order of magnitude separating the resources available to a local police force and the entire DoD. Criminals guilty of capital offenses might only garner the attention of the former, whereas someone at a 'Bin Laden' level of notoriety would be chased with the near-limitless resources of a superpower's defense apparatus.
I was going to ask if you have tried http://ifttt.com but it looks like they don't have G+ as a channel option yet. Regardless, IFTTT is very cool.
Should also be a great start to improve the API docs (https://www.balancedpayments.com/docs/api)
You could color code people who are in the current (or past) YC cycle. You could also make quality participation an element to the application process (like it once was) - the forum has been cannibalized in a way.
I didn't get the impression he was responding to routine calls, rather that he was making sure he was aware of any urgent calls that may come in.
Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
Ah. Well, I go in quite rarely, and don't yet have an iPhone. Will keep your tip in mind for the next trip.

Oh, the thing I bought wasn't up front anywhere, but buried way in the back behind a door.
Now I am convinced that I will never depend 100% on a third party platform/API for a serious business.