skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody who learned CoffeeScript before JavaScript, I have to say I very much appreciate it when people use CoffeeScript in all manner of examples.
Citation? Who are those "most active users" and who asked them? By the way, what users say they would do and what they actually do are very different things. Anyone who ever started charging money for something that used to be free knows this.

Somewhat relevant: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010805.html
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The price of 1Password turned me off. (There was also some UI glitch I didn't like, but I don't remember what it was, and Lastpass is no beauty itself.)
The scariest thing about this infographic is that it made me realize that for the majority of people in any election, how it impacts their taxes is their only concern.

I would guess that the soundest strategy for any party in any country would be to lie about lowering taxes by more than what your competitor is lying about lowering taxes.
Any time a developer drops one of these "popup" spam div's into my page while I'm on their site I block it using Adblock Plus.

If there are enough people like me that get tired of seeing this particular piece of visual spam it gets added to the list of elements that are blocked for all Adblock Plus users.

The lesson site designers and developers really need to start learning is STOP DOING THIS. Put a link in your nav, or at the top of the page.

Turning hover on for everything is annoying. Crap popping up on your page when I use the scrollbars is annoying. I really don't care how clever you think it is. It's just damned annoying.
Every example I'm aware of for WebRTC right now uses STUN. It's part of ROAP and it's possible in JSEP (and easier, with ROAP-via-JSEP library).

Nah, everyone is just claiming this to be awesome and just happened to forget about NAT routers....
This was a great overview of how to approach large data sets and make sure your analysis is statistically relevant. The explanations were straight forward, and make sense especially when you are looking at user data - which typically is extremely variable and hard to analyze.
This is exactly why I now stay logged out of Quora and use Spectacles (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kbckpcgmpkkfdjhmhi...) if I need to browse over to Quora.
Yes, but only if it's bad news. (since nothing travels as fast as bad news)
Not only would this purchase restore the brand/service image, it is likely to pay for its own operation cost as there are many other enterprise customers who can't be bothered to moved away from BB BES service.
Hi, we do actually take into account dependents (towards the top right of the page). Mostly for ease of use, we do make some simplifying assumptions that are noted at the bottom of the page under "methodology". For a more detailed breakdown of your federal, state, local and medicare / social security payments you can try the smartasset decision engine.
I wrote a bit about this awhile back here (http://software-and-algorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/password...). Basically, I use HMAC to generate passwords based upon a single strong password and an account-specific phrase.
I recently read a similarly themed article that had an interesting perspective on risk:

"To be alive is to be at risk, to be free is to be at risk, and to be powerful is to be at risk."

http://www.landmarknewsletter.com/landmark-forum-leaders-in-...
if you're trying to help this guy tell him what your browser, os, and screen resolution are.

if you're trying to stifle those that would make contributions to this community then keep doing what you are doing.
You are either being intellectually dishonest or you suffer from innumeracy.

The richest 5% will always pay more than 5% of the taxes. The only way they wouldn't is if everyone made exactly the same amount of money.

Instead of worrying so much about the group of people who control the majority of the wealth in this country, maybe it would be better to focus on increasing the wealth of the 30% of this country that is near poverty.
I emailed them a long time ago and they still haven't deleted my account.
IPv6 does not mean the end of NAT, and WebRTC ROAP or JSEP already have ICE style STUN/TURN traversal mechanisms.

(4 months ago I had a demo working using ROAP and STUN before they switched to JSEP. I'm literally in the middle of upgrading it to the new API.)

The "setup" for the connections in the central server is trivial with a tiny websockets server and a few messages shuttled back and forth.
Whatever you think of App.net aside (I'm not an optimist about it): this post is dead on. Acting out of "Fear of money" is probably the most common routine unforced error harming startups that post on HN. You can see the syndrome in virtually any thread on this site that involves a price tag.

This is the exact same force that causes enterprise "Account Managers" (direct sales people) to outearn sales engineers by 4-5x, even though the SEs do all the real work. Account managers have learned how to Ask For The Sale. I can't do that, have no idea how they do it, am sort of in awe of salespeople as a result; I function in business largely by understanding and respecting the limitation I possess. Money is terrifying.
>As it happens, the jury did find that the other driver was negligent, which, if justice or decency were priorities for Progressive, will result in them finally honoring Katie’s policy. At this point, I hope you’ll forgive me if I wait for it to actually happen.

Sounds like the guy wasn't at fault. So he shouldn't have been liable, and he shouldn't have paid, so the insurance company shouldn't have paid on his behalf.

MattFisher even states:

>Now, I don’t discount the possibility that Katie was at fault in the accident, but it never really looked that way. The only witness who gave a statement on the day said that Katie had the light, etc

If you want life insurance, buy life insurance. Don't expect car insurance to be life insurance because you died in an auto collision, which was apparently no ones, or at least no one's conclusively fault.

I'm sorry for the loss of the Sister in this story, but I don't think progressive is doing something massively evil here (And I'm unwaveringly pro-consumer in most cases).

Also, flagging this, doesn't seem apropos to HN.
Attempting to correct misinformation, for instance, here on Hacker News, is essentially impossible and pointless. This screw story, like many others ("MBP Retina is unrepairable", etc.) play into an ideology[1].

And no facts, no matter how well sourced, can defeat ideology when the ideologues have the down button and outnumber the critical thinker.

For instance, pointing out that Apple licensed the technology they got from Xerox back in the day, a stone cold and indisputable fact, gets down voted into invisibility and claims that it isn't true and that it was stolen, here on Hacker News. The claim that Apple stole from Xerox has been repeated so often and in so many cases that it has become "fact" in their minds. Another example is the idea that Apple didn't invent any new technology with the iPhone. They need this to be true, so they spread all kinds of nonsense (like 2001, a movie, is "prior art", which shows a significant lack of understanding of what patents are)... and they believe it.

It isn't simply that people are gullible, its that ideology (and apple hating is a prevalent ideology) is stronger than reality for so many people.

[1] Maybe religion is a better word, it feels more accurate, but is more likely to be taken as a pejorative so I'm going with ideology.
Oh, huh, the process described there is distinct from the sort of "Quantum Teleportation" that I was used to. Using an entangled pair and some transmission of classical bits to transmit a qubit across a distance is pretty neat, and this "quantum teleportation" really is quantum teleportation. It's only sort of related to the cryptogrpahic technique I'd previously heard described as "quantum teleportation", but in the absence of evidence as to who grabbed that pair of words first I won't complain.
Look through the list for yourself: (it's free)

http://alpha.app.net/teawithcarl/following
(270 people, a who's who of Silicon Valley)
It also doesn't ask you if you participate in a 401k, have a mortgage on a primary residence, etc.

Everyone's income taxes are different. And even more than that, deductions, exemptions, and credits make the final income tax very different from simply applying the marginal rates to your salary. It's interesting comparing your actual tax paid last year to the "Current Structure" number-- it's likely significantly less.
I think this is a very bad move from Quora. My guess is that they have goals on user growth and had to resort to this tactics in order to achieve that.

If you want to grow your user base, provide more value to registered users. Here are a couple of bullet points you can start with:

1. Grow the community with real content. Do that by first focusing on a specific domain/topic that has a natural draw of users. Stack Exchange draws the programmers crowd and nailed that community. Once you got to a critical mass, other communities will follow. E.g., when you have enough programmers in the same place, some of them will share some common interests like photographs, salsa dancing, etc ... Looks like Quora's base supporters are Bay Area's start up community. This is probably too small a support base for sustainable growth. Either Quora needs to expand this support base quickly or it's the END ...

2. Better relevance/recommendations. I am reasonably active on Quora. I follow 82 topics and got 8 answers. However I don't see any good question in the main page even though I scrolled at 10 page lengths.
Yup, you're definitely not a web developer.
> The minimum buy-in for the service is now $99 a month, which should scare away the idiots

And bootstrapped startups, etc. This isn't just a pricing change but a market repositioning?
bottle... flask... PoW... too many micro frameworks?
... and people wonder why Canadians are largely happy with health care and don't like the idea of health insurance...

Insurance companies scare me. To think they'd defend their client's killers in court after you've been paying them for years... it's appalling. This, in my opinion, is an order of magnitude worse than patent trolling.

EDIT: I know life, auto, and health insurance are all slightly different things... but come on, they really are all identical except they have different details. The methodology is the same! Pay a constant rate, get paid* a lump sum if something bad happens.

* Haha, as if you'll get paid.
Your analysis is clever, subtle, and a load of bollocks.

First, who are the people who loathe Apple as a malevolent entity that's out to steal their constitutional right - and vital need - to overclock their devices' firmloader hyperkernels? Not "the Apple community" (a nebulous concept in itself), but the legions (well, maniples) of Samsung fandroids that love to tweet and blog and, huh, googleplusify about this kind of thing.

Therefore we could more easily argue that it is that community of Apple haters that is screwed, because of its disconnect from reality, and its inability to see what qualities are more important in a phone/computer/iSomething: these are, presumably, the same people who honestly believe that the iPhone only succeeded because of "marketing", and that it's more important for a laptop to have an easily replaceable display assembly than to weigh a kilogram less.

On the other hand, given that its opponents are reduced to grasping at renderings of imaginary straws, we might well say that the Apple community, far from being screwed, is in fact hot-glued to prosperity and success.

I won't, however, deny that there must be people who love Apple to an excess. I am content with pointing out that there is nothing at all, in this story, that provides the slightest reason to conclude that these people are more numerous than we would otherwise expect; if anything, it might be the opposite. The fact that you are employing an argument so irrelevant that it would be generous to call it a paralogism, then, is itself further proof of how the Linuxoid community is thoroughly screwed (though, to its credit, with standard Philips #0 screws).

That is not to say that I disagree with everything you wrote, of course. Like you, for instance, I am not upset about this fake; and how could I be, when this is the first time I heard of it? Still, if it didn't exactly achieve the widest reach, I agree that it provides some amusing insight into how the Internet tech media works; and so does the commentary. I'm just glad that they came clean with the prank before the release of a slightly-cheaper, slightly-uglier Korean version of the fabled asymmetric screw.

Note: the above is meant as satire and does not reflect the opinions of my employer.
This reminds me that compiling QuantLib is such a pain in the ass. I love QuantLib though - I use it via C# and there is an Excel plugin already available in the source code.

As regards your example:

(a) single-name options usually have an American exercise-type.

(b) the main difficulty (and the thing one would actually pay for) is getting and maintaining a vol-surface for pricing these things - using flat vol to price this is quite inaccurate and risky.
That's why you striped your card decks.
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If you have a policy with an insurance company, they should honor it rather than going out of their way to take advantage of a customer. That's the point here.
This is a automobile insurance. Read the story. Jury didn't think it was the guy's fault.
Ah, that wasn't quite clear. I agree, day4.se may not have had the effect they claimed they had.
We go through this every now and then. Hell, I even replicated the exact HN look, on a project that pg asked me to shut down a couple years ago, using a much simplified div/CSS structure.

Point is, it doesn't matter.

Yes, could HN be totally revamped? Sure, there are thousands of capable engineers in the community that could and have done it. Should it be? Meh.

Honestly, it just works. Its pretty stable. I read HN as much from my phone as a laptop. I've tried the various alternate UIs and iOS apps, but I always just come back to the site.

I'm probably not the only old-timer that feels this way, but there are plenty of alternative UIs for those that want them, and indeed they use them.

HN is a great lesson in the "don't fix it if it ain't broke" methodology of engineering. 2000+ year old Roman aqueducts are still used in some places in Europe. If somethings doing the job it was designed for, you don't have to upgrade the concrete just because you have newer cement.
IOS devices patents are licensed to Microsoft, anti-cloning agreement in place
I think you've hit the nail on the head here - there's an enormous amount of pure visual-design influence in UIs these days, prioritizing aesthetics over usability. We can see it in this proposed Wikipedia redesign, in Microsoft's Windows UI overhauls, and in plenty of other websites.

There are major problems with what we see in the 'Athena' screenshots. Why are the navigational controls at the top of the page - ones that expose functionality applicable to the entire site, not the current article - skinned with a photograph taken from the current article? What does a picture of the Beatles convey regarding how to find information on Wikipedia?

The author says that the Athena skin "emphasizes content", but it causes article content to bleed through somewhat into the functional UI, compromising both. This isn't a good thing.
> how one year a variable would mean one thing and the next
> year it would mean something else

I'm probably misunderstanding what you mean, but isn't that the purpose of a variable? In programming, a variable foo in one method which represents Widget objects is completely independent from a variable foo in another method which represents Gadget objects. In math, solving for X in one problem might be to find the missing angle X, but in another problem it might be to determine the elapsed seconds X.
This one doesn't factor in the Romney's contradicting claim that his plan will be revenue-neutral. The Obama calculator does.
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Great article.

But I gave up on static linking in Linux after trying to static link a distributed network client we build in a University project that makes heavy use of C++11 std::thread and Boost. It compiles fine, but segfaults on startup. This is a known issue[1] but I did not investigated further.

It appears for me as an complete outsider to glibc/gcc Linux development that static linking is discouraged in Linux[2].

1: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52590

2: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10652
"Linkers and Loaders" by John R. Levine is referenced in your paper, and is a great resource: http://linker.iecc.com/

The beta site includes the book in draft form, for those with the patience to deal with the occasional typo...
I guess my main concern is the amount of projects I see online where I think "man that's cool, I'm going to try to build that". These projects will tell you what pins you need if you read through them, but the various other incompatibilities (memory and timers being ones already called out) might not be fully realized until you've gotten some way into the build. The beauty of Arduino is that you don't need an EE degree to make a project.

Of course, these complaints can be leveraged to any fork of a project, I'm just throwing them out there. For what it's worth, I pledged $28 to get three of these, and am currently wondering if I maybe should have pledged for five. On the other hand, I'm mentally comparing the projects I have in my scrapbook that may or may not translate to this new board.
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Do you have another startup in the works, or are you concentrating on YC full-time?
HTML is presentation and CSS is the design and one does not mix the two on a properly designed site. If they are independent, it become possible to change the look of the site, independent of the data presented.

Yes, that means you use tables, for tabular data, but forums are not tabular data. They are more akin to lists, which have their own rules.
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Please avoid those labels to describe the work you do.
99$ a month is reasonable for bootstrapped company's. It's not reasonable for most hobby's, but 50$/month or 100$ / month are both rather high for a hobby website so there is little real loss.
I'm all for giving kids challenges, but doing hand calculation isn't hard, it's just tedious. Computers do these calculations faster and with fewer mistakes, and everyone working in the real world uses them every day to do even simple calculations. If we stop spending as much time on calculations we can move kids more quickly into advanced concepts - with the side benefit of fewer kids being turned off math by how boring the first years can be.

It's the same thing for teaching kids cursive writing. Why are schools wasting time with cursive when they should be teaching typing/keyboarding skills? Cursive writing is very quickly going the way of calligraphy.
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I thought you needed to be 13 to open a Facebook account :)

I talked to my friend about his 2 y/o daughter being all over Facebook... I wonder if there will be backlash from security-centric kids upon finding out their less tech-savvy parents put all kinds of details about them on the web without their permission...

Of course, Facebook might be able to derive this information anyway from what friends & family post about people who don't have an "official" profile yet.
I thought I read somewhere that because of the neuroplasticity reduction in the brain as you age, that as people get older they are less accepting of change and trend towards conservatism.

I can't find a good article to back that up with, though, so ymmv.

My own anecdotal evidence is that people believe what their news sources say more than they actually crunch numbers, so because of the polarization of news along political party lines people are going to believe whatever they see or read.
I agree. Quite honestly what sane person would pay for the ability to use a social media website?
What does facebook offer that is unique and worth paying for, other than a large user base?
The moment that facebook starts charging their user-base there is really nothing from stopping them to use it and move on to the next free social-media colossus.
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Yes, probably perm get some discounts, but what I found peculiar is that there is not a queue "jump" compared to non-staff people.
Good to see founders responding personally to criticism like this.
Even with your disclaimer, I'm still having a hard time deciding if you are joking or not. Poe's law in action, from the point of view of the last part of the Apple community I mentioned.
If they did away with folders, no existing software that was written for a prior version of Windows could possibly work -- you would need to write a new version of every program which was not dependent on folders in any way.

This would be a lot of work, since all existing software looks for users' files in folders, looks for its own internal configuration files in folders, loads DLLs from paths which are lists of folders, creates folders to put itself into when it's installed, calls APIs to open files with hierarchical names, uses current and temporary directories, etc., etc. This is true for every operating system that I can think of, not just Windows.
Is it really that big of a perf hit to just download the minified and use it in your source like all other libs? jq isn't that big of beast, plus if you have a large site its cached for every other page visit :)
I think Quora would have been great as a “lifestyle business” [insert appropriate sneering as necessary.] Put ads on it for logged-out users, have good SEO and high-quality Q & A, and it'll make a living for a small number of people to keep the site up. This is how Ask Metafilter[1] works, and it is among the best Q & A sites. Metafilter (which includes metafilter.com proper) seems to provide a comfortable living for about 4-ish people (I'm guessing a bit here, I think you could find more info if you looked.)

The problem comes when the company gets funding, and suddenly it's not good enough to become a high-quality, community-driven Q & A site. Suddenly you need to generate some kind of huge exit for your VC owners, and then their recent action start to make sense.

[1]: http://ask.metafilter.com
Yes, but the default is on. I didn't know that until I saw this post 5 minutes ago. Now I'm thinking of deactivating my Quora account.
The page claims to implement Reed-Solomon error correction:

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/#8
"Sounds like the guy wasn't at fault."

The jury disagreed, he was found negligent by a civil court.

Being a civil court, this only means that he was "probably guilty". The crown prosecutors obviously thought he wasn't "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt", otherwise he would have had criminal charges laid.

What I don't understand is the underinsurance thing. Isn't it illegal to be underinsured while driving a vehicle? How can it even be possible to buy inadequate insurance? Driving a 2-ton piece of metal at very high speeds on anything other than a closed track is a very heavy responsibility that all too many take too lightly.
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