skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I think it would be more effective for me then if you started with what you cared about and why you cared about it.

So your frustration is with blogs, written by people who are paid in proportion to how angry or scared they make their readers, using Facebook as a stalking horse to drive page views? I can certainly understand if that is the case, why not say that?

Instead you said this : "The root of this problem is core to the DNA of Silicon Valley types. "

You didn't say the people who blog about Silicon valley (heck they may not even live here) you just said "Silicon Valley Types" which covers a lot of people, many of whom like the folks who founded Y-Combinator probably don't think of themselves a collective that "These character flaws are why we (the collective known as Silicon Valley) thought that a company with piss-poor revenues could IPO at an overpriced valuation, and have the same fan fare for over-valuation as it did in the valley. "

You impeach yourself by calling Facebook's revenue 'piss poor', it isn't, and then accuse "us", those who live in Silicon valley, with 'over valuing' when in fact that was the work of a collection of banks, based primarily in New York city.

I would love to hear passionate, pointed, editorial about how bankers and journalists unknowingly (or perhaps knowingly if you are the conspiracy type) in the creation of a value perception, but its a hard case to make here. There were literally years of trades in FB you could look at from SecondMarket, and there are a number of pretty cogently written analyses of their business model and the potential of their business. The Techcrunch whine about how it's not the bubble they were hoping for, and were so sure it was, will pass. And a lot of young people who weren't here for the dot com fiasco (or at least they weren't watching it closely) could learn from clear insights about what really makes a company worth a billion dollars to investors, or worth a hundred billion.

You could do that instead, start from what you care about and bring us along as readers, telling us why you care and perhaps educating us as to why we might want to care as well. That may or may not be effective, but it certainly would be less snarky I expect.
Why is Linkedin's UX/UI/design so bad (even after re-design)
Seriously, to get to anything, it takes more than 2 clicks on average. whats up with that. anyone notice the same thing ?
Tabs vs Spaces??
Anyone who uses spaces should consider a new profession...
That was the first thing I noticed, too (after the J/I awfulness).
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Anyone who uses spaces should consider a new profession...
I don't know where you live, but where I live the highways have lots of stopping during busy times. And of course drivers always have to be aware of stopped cars as they do happen. I suspect highways are where the automated cars have the easiest time, and it is far more likely side roads and suburban areas that are more confusing. Abrupt stops are more likely there (eg kids/pets running across the road). In the US I do believe that running into the back of another car under almost all circumstances makes you at fault.
The intention of this post is to introduce 140 Stitches. Solutions to the problem are what you'll find by reading through previous (and future) posts: http://140stitches.com/2012/6/23/45dkoigztqz7m44e2xeach68214... and http://140stitches.com/2012/7/1/bloglovin-raises-1m. Hope this clears up any misunderstanding!
I respect my visitors privacy so am unwilling to use a hosted product like Google Analytics that tracks them around the internet. We're happy with Piwik for now, but we're not a traditional web startup like so much of HN.
Google is a search engine designed to be fully functional in its simplicity. Wikipedia is a community.

If you use Wikipedia only as a search engine, you are missing out.
I completely understand you don't want this type of article on HN. But, you don't need to worry the site will only be articles on social justice if hackers find the topic "inherently interesting." Most people here are inherently interested in a variety of topics and that's why the community makes room for a few these "off-topic" stories.
Huh, so you measured his skills by his level of education?
Even worse, he's an EE student; so Web Dev is really not his game.
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How can it be decidable whether π has some sequence of digits?
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According to the C99 standard [0], an omitted optional expression-2 in a for loop is replaced by a non-zero constant. Thus, for(;;) is equivalent to for(;1;) which is effectively equivalent to while(1) as there are no other declarations or expressions. And, for those who are counting, it also saves a character.

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf (See 6.8.5.3)
For a look at what Wikipedia is actually of thinking of designing over the next 3 years, check out Project Athena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...
The gist of that article is that the number of firms going public or using capital markets to raise equity has diminished in favor of private-equity, irrespective of the number of firms in existence.

Most of the reasoning behind it appears to be that the legal system has been modified in such fashion that it favors other forms of firm structure.

Hardly indicative of any natural decline, it would be easy to take from this article that the Pump & Dump style IPOs (and other massive erosions of trust) are strangling the effectiveness of Capital Markets by scaring away investors and inviting increased regulation.
J kinda thought this started out on the wrong foot wjth the chojce of fonts for the body copy. Jt only went downhill from there.

J'm really not hot on the rebrandjng of everything as "wX". Thjs js almost as unjnspjred as Adobe's CS-era brandjng. Jn fact J wouldn't be surprjsed jf jt turned out that whoever made thjs page js a fan of that abomjnatjon.

Oh and thjs gets even better: you know how thjs "redesjgn" seems to be all about makjng Wjkjpedja's multjple languages completely obscured? The people who djd thjs are from Ljthuanja. WHAT. http://newisnew.lt
He wants to keep his job at the NYTimes. If he is known as an biased photographer who 'agitates' police, he won't be sent on certain assignments.
True and false are actually defined as 1 and 0 respectively. I don't have a copy of the standard but this specifies true and false as macros.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/stdb...

Edit: Of course I'm talking about C here. Also, I prefer for(;;) because it's an easy to recognize idiom that means "infinite loop."
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Thanks lefnire! Really glad you like it :)
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This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

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Applying versioning to laws is a fantastic idea, if only to make an easily accessible account of legislation's evolution.
Looks good.

I know that issues where the schema is different are always going to be a problem (nothing can save you there unless you want auto generated entities every time) but I can live with that.

How are you dealing with issues like the one I found the other day.

A view was created in MySQL which selected from a table with a column compressed with the compress function and was uncompressed in the view.

IE

select id,uncompress(content) as content from stuff;

The above looks fine, but unless you cast the content to a char most ORM's have issues working out what it is, yet it looks fine in your standard mysql command line query. It's an unusual case, but I would like to see the autogenerated code produce a binary cast so I can explicitly see the error when I generate rather then at runtime.
> The biggest problem I have with this sort of thing -- actually probably the whole field(s) of UI/UX design -- is that there is no actual prototype but it seems like they are implying that the programmers didn't include any of those features because they didn't think of them, and that now the real work for the 'redesign' has been done. As if the hard part was making a bunch of pictures.

Yeah, it really bothered me that the WYSIWYG editor and interactive map features were sold under the guise of a rebranding. The interactive map feature itself would have monumental complexity. Good ideas are a dime a dozen...this is one I've had before. But it's not like "oh, ok let's change some CSS and bingo! An interactive map!". It's probably in the order of years of manpower to do a decent job of this feature.
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This. I love the concept of peer to peer services like bittorrent. I just wish they were used more often for legitimate downloads.
Encryption encryption encryption.
I order photobooks as Christmas presents, as I get to travel a lot and other members of my family don't. It's quite a wonderful thing that takes very little time and is inexpensive.
I think the dot com bubble was the most damaging. Prior to that IPOs were not something the average investor would try to get in to. First day "pops" were modest and the expectation was that a company (even a tech one) should have 8 quarters of steadily improving profits prior to the offering.
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That's OK, but I would still like to do it the other way. Where the code is generated from the DB. Might just be my mindset but I prefer to work in the DB tool and then layer the application on top.
A web browser version of something different.
Or Missouri, apparently.
Probably not even those. There's still a flood of cheap no-name Android tablets out there.
people who get paid for coming up with new icons and logo's are going to create new logos and icons.. it's what they do.

Is there every a "reason" to create new logo's or icons? Other than someone feels a new for a new or fresh look...
Yes, one should always keep their impartiality towards human rights. It's important that journalists refrain from writing pieces which advocate human rights.
That, unforunately, I can't help with. Like any SQL DSL I've worked with, there's a few features that still aren't fleshed out... yet. I have complete faith they will flesh them out if prompted by the community. After that, you'll have to use pure SQL and cross your fingers.
TechCrunch is entertainment, not analysis. Same goes for practically all financial media. Something tells me Warren Buffet does not watch CNBC.
You've upset my entire worldview by using the phrase "as apposed to". I started off planning to say that 'apposed' is not a word, and that you've made some sort of grievous error. I opened up multiple tabs, firing off google searches looking for a "common errors" page or at least a definition of "opposed" and the google page redirecting a search for "apposed" to it -- but then your counterstroke hit.

Google returned "apposed" just fine, and gave its definition as "Place (something) in proximity to or juxtaposition with something else."

Didn't faze me. "Google must just be reporting the error because it's crept into common usage", I told myself. I went deeper.

Brian's corner of common errors speaks to this briefly[1], but in the context of saying "I appose your decision", not in the context of the idiom. It also mentions "as a pose to" where "as opposed to" is intended, and assumes "opposed" instead of "apposed"[2].

I wandered into english-usage-debate forums and found that 'apposed' is disliked for being rare, but not disallowed[3], and an interesting bit of discussion came up about intentionally chosen differences[7] -- which do seem detectable in the modern definitions: "place beside", versus "place against". I also found discussion about british/american meanings for "as opposed to" [4].

The online etymology dictionary ([5] and [6]) says that since the 14th and 15th century, these have been marginally separately derived words of ... roughly identical meaning.

To sum up, through redundancy 'apposed' seems to have fallen out of favour in contemporary english and taken on a nuanced definition to some of those who still use it. If there were something for me to criticize about your usage it would be that you've chosen a sentence that leans more toward "place against" than "place beside", so the contemporary idiom to use "oppose" would likely apply. But I think you could justify it if you want to. :)

[1] http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/appose.html

[2] http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/more.html

[3] http://www.essayforum.com/grammar-usage-13/as-opposed-as-app...

[4] http://www.englishforums.com/English/AsOpposedTo/hkvbq/post....

[5] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=oppose

[6] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=appose

[7] http://www.englishforums.com/English/AsOpposedToOrAsApposedT...

edit: I messed up the references pretty badly on my initial take.
My eyes have been awful since I was a kid, but just near-sighted. My daughter needed vision therapy as a young child, and when I went into the therapist's office, I got an exam for my glasses prescription.

Turned out that I had similar issues, just not noticeable. It had to do with my eyes not being able to properly maintain a focus at a specific distance over time, and their ability to track properly. I've always been a slow reader - this is at least partly why. I was told that it's also responsible for the fact that I get car sick within seconds of reading in the car, and that it goes away with therapy. Unfortunately, I never did go through with the therapy.
This description of description of design is fantastically pretentious. You must be British :)
I am also getting going with Go. I'm writing a multi-threaded (i.e. multi-goroutine) genetic algorithm to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem. Since Go is meant for severs, its a webapp that renders the output in HTML5 Canvas. Just getting started, so the code is badly organized, but it works: https://github.com/YesSql/GolangTspGa

Go is really fun to work with, although the compiler messages are still a bit cryptic. Also its intolerance of things that are normally warnings (like unused variables) is really aggressive, which is kind of painful while you are learning, but I suppose will lead to cleaner code in the future.
Well, sometimes companies feel their current logo is too out of date and they want to change it.

Or sometimes companies rebrand completely, sometimes because of a shift of focus. (A company I know about shifted from discrete software to B2B software and changed its branding in the process)
Your comment made me very happy, as I'm sure you've noticed the negative comments that you predicted. :)
I would definitely agree with you that style is a personal choice. Good job finding a style that makes you feel happy and confident! My goal here isn't to tell people that they aren't dressing well. My goal is to help those guys who truly want some fashion advice. At the end of the day, some people will love it and some will hate it. If only one guy takes my advice and appreciates honest help, I'll be a happy girl.:)
"I don't consent to this search."
I think the concern is not that they lose someones money, but that they break the whole system. Knight did that the other day, on a small scale, nearly destroying the company.

If that isn't enough to get you to test your software, nothing is. And if they're that crazy, who knows what damage they can cause.

They either need to figure out how to do it safely, or slow the heck down before they break the whole damn thing.
They shut down the markets. That's bad.
Great idea! can see how this can apply to many other fields than law.
My guess is that anyone who is literate has read Shakespeare at least once. I have to imagine my public schooling is not that different from the norm, and I read at least 3 works as required (Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet) and some other others as my choice for assignments.

At least, in the western world. I don't know how popular Shakespeare is outside of that. On the other hand, I don't know how popular celebrity news is either.
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I think the people who work at Pinterest's HQ in downtown Palo Alto would say they're not in Iowa anymore.
There are two features that take advantage of hardware parallelism: futures & places, which work at different granularities. You can find the guide entry on them here: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/performance.html#(part._ef...

There are also green threads for concurrency: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/concurrency.html
Sever side analytics in application (logging and then analyze using another application) -
From her about me section:

If you think I'm just your average fashion obsessed girly girl, think again. I know my fair share about the interwebs and my favorite movie is The Social Network, in which I may or may not know every line. TechCrunch is one of my daily reads and Jack Dorsey has my heart. Jack - if you're reading this - I love you.

Basically what I'm trying to say here is, I understand your language.

[end quote]

Sigh.
Hm... for most pages it shouldn't really matter, they don't change drastically within days. For developing or current subjects I guess it would...
I find it fascinating that for a repository of German law, written in German, the README and commit history are all in English. I wonder if that will have the effect of scaring off any would-be contributors.
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Amazing idea, which should be implemented by all sorts of governments around the world!
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Not true at all.

Anyone hired after their valuation was fairly high who was given options would be given options with a high strike price. If the stock never gets there, those options are worth nothing.

A large part of the people who were hired in the last year, with apparently generous option packages, now have Facebook on the resume and no golden handcuffs holding them. And a lot of other employees who had golden handcuffs are going to be thinking about places to bail. This could give them a significant retention problem.
If you're wearing v-necks, then you don't even need my help. :)
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It would also help with some roads that are incorrectly marked on the GPS. There is a highway in ND that has a 4 mile stretch that has a miss marked road. Multiple GPS maps show the road about 100 yards west of where it actually is. Damn annoying driving 4 miles with the GPS constantly saying "Get back on the road". Thought it was just a garbage GPS map, but it happened on a couple of models.

Guess I really don't have to worry until they figure out how to get the car to drive on snow covered roads.
I haven't finished it yet...as I said, it's quite dense.

From what I gather so far, it starts out at the "Go Tour" level and works its way up to the "Effective Go" level. Besides the package references, I don't think golang.org really has any tutorials at a level in between those documents.
No, a GUI completely misses the point here and would in any case be much less flexible.

Learn to use the command-line (if you're not on Windows), it's fun! :)
There was a great discussion on HN previously about this topic which also explains why a straight git implementation isn't viable for US law; I'm not sure if doing the same with Germany's laws would be similarly difficult:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3968653
I made a comment similar to this when the honeypot story was first posted here. I took down my LinkedIn account and the number of recruiters contacting me has dropped to just shy of zero. But I still have my StackOverflow account (including a Careers acount), github account and home website.

The recruiters that do still contact me are very good. They are tech savvy, very understanding of my interests, skills and projects I've done, and are very much looking to create a relationship with me. Some of these recruiters I talk with on a regular basis. They ping me every few months to see how I'm doing and there's respect flowing in both directions.

So what I don't get, is why do "recruiters rely exclusively upon linkedin" (quoted from the honeypot post)? If they're recruiting tech jobs, why aren't they going to where the tech people are? I found LinkedIn a nuisance at best, yet I rather enjoy StackOverflow and github.
Indeed it is! I did not know about this project - thanks for the link.
I second that.

I'd like my government to do the same! Don't really care about the versioning system, as long as it's open-source and alive.
Then I think your target audience is rather small, I can't imagine many guys wearing only hackathon t-shirts!
I first learned of Brensenham's line drawing algorithm from Michael Abrash in his Graphics Programming Black Book. I've yet to come across a more thorough and easy to understand discussion:

http://downloads.gamedev.net/pdf/gpbb/gpbb35.pdf
I do not know about Germany, but in my country the issue is that "An update to the law X" may introduce changes not just to parts of X, but to govern the parts of laws Y, Z too. Or it may introduce completly new regulations not being a part of either law text.

This is why it is hard to make current versions of X, Y or Z in terms of a version control.

It is also common to have laws X and Y both applying in the same context, and sometimes it is not clear which one is newer or how to apply "An update to X".

It is little easier to work on a more fine grain, in terms of sections and articles and not the law text as a whole, but this makes it a lot less official.
Great initiative. Can the mere length of a TOS and it's complexity be a factor in the rating too? The crowd here may be able to somewhat grasp the legalese in a TOS. It's not fair to expect that from any normal visitor.
Keeping track of everything I do/need to do. I've tried a lot of web apps from every major and minor player out there, but nothing works for me. I'm about to start to write my own CRM/TODO/PM app because its the only way I will get what I need. I might even open source it if it doesn't end up too "hacky".
I'd eat food from a tube. I don't enjoy the flavors, textures, or rituals that accompany eating. (Sometimes, I even have a caffeine pill instead of a cup of coffee in the morning. Gasp!)
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They lost $40 million and 73% of the company plus 3 board seats. Ouch.
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Awesome stuff. I couldn't find anywhere though: is this an 'official' project, or is it just someone who processed the XML forms into markdown?

Also, this: "All German citizens can easily find an up-to-date version of their laws online."

And it's only 130 megs of markdown when zipped (246 unzipped)! A mere 4,737,628 lines[1]! Surely you have time to read it, right? And therefore be a well-informed, law-abiding citizen?

I wonder how big America's would be :|

[1] `wc -l $(find . -name '*.md')` admittedly very rough