skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blowback from stupid share-everything policies is what will eventually collapse this social media bubble. I disabled Spotify-to-Facebook sharing completely, even though I wouldn't mind if the controls were more granular and the notifications were less obtrusive. Right now people put a lot of faith and trust in their social media providers, and the more said services violate that trust, the less users will share by default and the less valuable the services will be as a result.
You're just looking at the income tax. You have to look at all taxes.

I'm sure people who make more than $200,000 pay all the gift tax as well, as well as all the estate tax, all the yacht harbor fees, and a good portion of all income from the AMT.
Very cool, I hope you have a Dimension series, those are sweet.
"Right now, the App.net ecosystem is 10,000+ of the tech's finest minds"

that made me smile, then I realized you're serious, which kinda gave me a shudder.

unless "tech" is code for "marketing scripts" or something? sure you can NOT be talking about technology in general. that would be so deluded, it might just about wrap around to humble again.
Can we keep american politics off HN when not related to tech? Flagging.
The new "social" web is really creepy. Browsing in an incognito browser and logged into nothing has sortof become my default.

I don't want google chrome saving my search history, or to accidentally read an article on some news website that then broadcasts that fact to all of my facebook friends.
Good question. As a first pass, I'd think a search assistant that runs two searches in the background and takes the intersection of the results.

I'm a big fan of building on existing capabilities, as you can probably tell.

One other thought- in Explorer or Finder, is it possible to search within a set of search results?
Haha, man... I actually had this open in a tab for a while waiting for it to load.
I would argue that the English spoken by as a vernacular in India contains enough idiosyncrasies to be classified as a -glish.
Awesome that this is a key component of the product. And Dalton has commited that it will remain a critical piece.
The C Programming Language - Part 4 - Primitive Types
>1. Food contains too many genetically modified elements.
>When these elements got into the cockroaches with food
>wastes, insects died off.

They can adapt so quickly to poisons that it seems unlikely.

>2. Modern plastic constructional materials and fabrics are
>unfavorable for living creatures.

So why do we still have them in Europe?

>3. High frequency mobile communication is to be blamed for
>cockroaches’ disappearance.

All studies about high frequency showed no effect on humans, but I'll admit you can't conclude anything about cockroaches.

But why do we still have them in Europe?

>4. The ozone layer disturbance changed their biorhythm.

What?

What about a natural predator?
I get the impression that Quora is in a tough spot because of the perceived implosion of the "social bubble" after the FB IPO. They have $61M in funding [1], which means that their investors must be demanding bold moves. I don't personally know anyone who works there, so it's pure speculation.

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/quora
Ask HN: Improving Fol.io Content?
Hi HN,
We're still working away diligently on Folio and refining as new users come on board.
We're averaging about 20 new users per day at present with solid downloads for free and paid content.

My question is - how do we motivate/encourage designers to submit content. What's your immediate reaction, what's missing and what would you like to see change?

Cheers!
C - Folio.
Microcenter has a 27" IPS monitor at $400 ... so, this is hardly earth shattering news.
Care to lay odds that Ryan will distance himself from his medicare proposal?
If this is a glimpse of the future - I am happy to stay in the present. I think that it is ridiculous that people are exited or even impressed by something that has been possible of 8 years via flash or silverlight (now JavaFX 2.0).

OHHHH NOOOOOOO a PLUGIN to the browser???? this HTML5 thing is sooo much better because it does not require a plugin. OK better? in what way?

Now instead of having to update that plugin every 2-3 months, you will now be updating your entire browser every 2-3 months and will be benefiting from slower moving, less innovative standards based technology.

Open standards are the communism of the web. They promise to put everyone on a level playing field, but do nothing except hold innovation back. They take the entrepreneurs out of the tech innovation space and force everyone to simply try to hack their 'standard' to try to make possible (or palatable) what can already be done in another technology like Flash, Silverlight or JavaFX 2.0.
Python on Wheels
Actually, this comment here is the one that makes me think. I realised when I ran across it that I and, judging by the comments in this thread, others are taking the article at face value as truth despite that same article having just told us not to do that.
They might be severely overestimating the stupidity of the masses [1] here by only considering the those who actually responded in comments or twitter.

Either they perceived the news as truth, or called it fake, no grey zone in between. The split between the two camps, was quite unequal. An estimate would be that 90% regarded the screw as a fact and based all the further opinion on that, only 10% were critical to accuracy.

This smells like massive response bias. I imagine most skeptical and critical readers get tired of responding with the obvious "hmm, how do we know this is true?" response.

A more interesting statistic would be how many people saw it and didn't find it interesting enough to warrant further investigation. I believe I saw the headline, rolled my eyes, and went back to work.

That's not to say lock-out isn't an important consideration, but it didn't pass the "this can be verified" test, and anyway, it would be obvious enough once the new iPhone came out.

[1] Edit: maybe the masses are stupid (I'm not convinced of this), but the vocal rush to judgement of a few is not necessarily a representative sample.
"When someone presents a bit of loose facts on Twitter, I usually respond with something like ”64% of the facts on the Internet is 48% incorrect according to 52% of respondents”, completely made up numbers out of my head, but it makes people think a little extra."

I really hate that particular brand of quip.

I find it most often employed by people who want to effortlessly dismiss some statistic that they happen to disagree with.

I'm not claiming that's the case here or that Twitter is full of solid, factual information. Rather, that it's a worthless way to respond. At least the original posts in such cases, no matter how loose provide a context for someone inclined to search out of the facts.
Clickable link: http://fol.io
You're comparing numbers that can't be reasonably compared. Yes, one is small and one is large, but that's meaningless. To illustrate why, let's make things simple.

Assume a society with two people. One person, Adam, has income of $100 and the other, Beth, has income of $10. Set the tax rate (flat tax here, libertarian wet dream) to be %10.

So, Adam pays $10 and Beth pays $1. Adam is 50% of the population, but pays almost 91% of the taxes! That is literally the comparison you made in your comment, percentage of the population versus percentage of the taxes.

The comparison that would actually mean something would be percentage of the income versus percentage of the taxes. For this, we can get numbers from a variety of places, I grabbed the 2003 income inequality data from Wikipedia. Turns out, that top 4% of the country that you're talking about (at least in 2003) earned 55-60% of the income (the data I used don't allow an exact figure for the 4% number).

Now those numbers are a little closer together, not so likely to cause outrage, wouldn't you say? That group paid 50% of the taxes and earned about 55% of the income.
I had a related idea recently: Just hire a tall actress to carry around an iPad running Facetime. (Perhaps with a custom shoulder-strap?) It's going to be a bit longer before robots get up to the level of humans in terms of versatility, social awareness, and attractiveness. Until then, using a human would have certain advantages for a high-end solution.
Wow, this is a really big lapse of judgement on Quora's part. I'm contemplating if I should delete my account altogether.

In any case, thank you for posting it here - at least people can take the precautions.

Edit: That yes/no button is not at all obvious! They need some form of green/red color coding.
That's great! Looking forward to hearing more about the others after demo day rolls around.
Your Business Has More to Offer Than its Products
Could somebody explain what makes any of this stuff "security"?

Go ahead and make some weird top secret screw. We'll 3D print a drive for it.
You can no longer browse Quora while being logged out:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332978
Wattvision on Kickstarter
Does anybody else hate those pale, faded out font colors? It does make the page look better when you are glancing at it not trying to read anything but it sure makes reading textual content (the actual point of blogs and most websites) much more difficult.
This isn't limited to Apple, this isn't limited to tech. The small fish eat the lies of the smaller fish, and in turn get eaten by the medium fish, and a rumor turns in to a meal down the road for aggregator-type media sites. This happens with tech, but also with gossip, news, politics, everything.

This isn't new, either. This is just a cyclical case of lazy journalism.
Many thanks from the design team.
GoogleDoc has them because it's integrated with GoogleDrive. GoogleDrive and DropBox have them for the same reason: for compatibility with the existing OS paradigm. This doesn't say much about the inevitability of the demise of folders except that Google and DropBox recognize that it won't happen for many years. But this is obvious given that Windows 8 and Mac OS X are both built on folders.

(I don't know anything about EverNote.)
"And thou shalt make loops" Exodus 26:4
Taxing income is just an efficient way of taxing wealth i.e. what's left over after people pay for basic needs.

The top 4-5% have 60%-65% of the wealth yet pay only 50% of the income tax assuming your data is correct (wikipedia says top 5% pay 59% of income taxes). Other taxes(FICA, etc.) are often regressive. The top 5% pays just 44% of all Federal taxes.

This suggests that the tax code favors the wealthy if anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United...
Opentalk was also once the name of a Smalltalk distributed object framework similar to DRb. (Distributed Ruby.)
Did you check out the page title on the tab? u2601 provides background support, continuing to provide you with a cloud platform.
Contador de visitas para blog
Este sitio le permite crear un contador de visitas para blog de forma rápida y sencilla además de brindarle un completo informe de tráfico
Again: that is not always the most sensitive things users have. I give my credit card to random people who work at gas stations. I do not give them passwords.
> but is it so far fetched to imagine that in few
> generations, all text will be filled with metadata
> and tags?

Yes, I think it is.
This is absolutely hilarious. Come up with some !@#% that doesn't make any sense and watch the hordes make it the most important news since the invention of agriculture!
Is this the plan that cuts 90% of budget from everything except for defense by 2050? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-wors...
Blind Dating for Geeks:Questions To Ask (and when to ask them) During Interviews
Again: "payment page" is besides the point. The JS bug just has to happen anywhere in the path a user would take to get to the payment page.

It sure does make the argument simpler to pretend that you can just keep the Olark and Typekit and Optimizer bugs off your payments page and call it a day, but that doesn't actually do anything to protect most sites. Engage instead with my actual argument, which is that for virtually every app using these services, bugging your front page with Olark is even more unsafe than this iframe is.
Interesting, though not entirely surprising. I'd surmise that your usage is representative the maximum utility for most people under 40.

Did you seek them out or did you discover them incidentally while in the respective "Travel" sections?
Apple licensed designs to MSFT, prevented iPhone, iPad cloning
Correction: If you're going to use this, please use the generated document and host it on your own domain.
Why don't they show something like "4 of your friends" read this answer without identifying the friend? They would need a lower threshold were you would need a minimum number of friends before this feature would kick in to keep the data anonymous. They could also just say something like "4 people within your network" read this and use the network effect of 2nd and 3rd degree connections.

I'm surprised that no adult websites implement a social sharing feature like that. No one is clicking on the facebook / google+ buttons on purpose, but it might be interesting to see what videos people in your network are watching if it was anonymous.
Unfortunately with supercookies, IP address-based identification (maybe even machine signature based id-ing?) and such, I think incognito mode is practically a placebo.
I'm guessing many here don't know this, but travel agents today (yes they still exist) often recommend Frommer's guides.

I run KangaCruise.com, we considered syndicating Frommer's guides for destinations, and actually still haven't written it off.
Depending how much you value miniaturization, these things aren't still super-cheap. TI sold MSP430 launchpad boards for $4.30 (probably at a loss though). ST sells STM32F4 discovery board for $15, which is way more powerful.

edit: Just checked, ST has also cheaper discovery boards, eg STM32F0 at $8.
You could keep the 1999 vibe with CSS.

Are we having to explain why we don't use tables for layout in 2012!?

OK. Lots of reasons:

i) they create complicated HTML because presentation and meaning aren't separated. This makes it hard to manage if you want to make a layout change, or someone else needs to work on the site.
ii) because content and its presentation aren't separated the layout isn't very flexible. It won't scale to fit on a mobile phone, for example. If the content was separated from its presentation you could feed devices the same HTML and take care of the presentation using CSS media queries.
iii) because you use tables for layout rather than their intended purpose (to tabulate data) the site is inaccessible to users who are using a screen reader
iv) using center tags is inefficient. Using .class-name {text-align: center;} is hardly difficult and saves you from trawling through your HTML should you want to get rid of the centring.

Isn't that enough?
Now that I've googled a bit more, I've found some hilarious versions:

* Cockroaches are preparing for war, and they need soldiers
* Cockroaches are actually scouts for some alien civilization, and they already know enough
> It replaces a clear, concise table layout with a somewhat more verbose CSS version for seemingly no reason.

That's interesting that you claim it is more verbose. The author measured the before-and-after and came up with these numbers:

> Since he (and so many others) are all about the numbers, how's this for a number:

> Original HN website: 26087 characters long.

> My rewrite: 3587 characters long.

> That is some massive savings. This will not only be lighter down the wire, but the browser will render it faster because it has less to do.

Where is your evidence that the table layout is clear and concise, and where is your evidence that using CSS makes it more verbose? It looks exactly opposite to me.
The latest round was funded nearly entirely by Adam D'Angelo and Peter Thiel, so the investor effect is a bit mitigated I think.
The troll solution would be to buy an old turntable and put his iPad on that. No more manual turning!

Seriously, an app that can remotely command a turntable/stand would be neat.

TouchOSC would be able to do it, provided the right proxy and hardware at the other end.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchosc/id288120394?mt=8
Google to Cut 20% of Motorola's Staff
Indeed the problem - as with Facebook - is that these settings are constantly "opt-out". This is perhaps as bad as the Beacon program in that as the author correctly originally notes - some personal items might be "viewed" which subsequently detail their actions to other users which they never intended to be public.

Classic examples of mistakes in the past are like "How to propose?" or "What's a good engagement ring size?" and so on. All these problems were exposed with Facebook Beacon and purchasing decisions and after much revolt they shut it.

I honestly can't understand why Quora would implemented "User X viewed User Y" - I think that's taking the privacy perspective to a whole new level. Indeed, even on Facebook if they started listing things like "User A viewed your profile 55 times today" - it would essentially kill the service in it's tracks as would "User B viewed this photo 33 times" and so on. People have always used Facebook to stalk their friends - but that doesn't mean it should be detailed publicly for all the world to see.

This should be "opt-in" if not removed all together in my mind. As part of internal metric tracking - it's obvious that this occurs - but it shouldn't be public or should be entirely opt-in.
Thanks, I posted a link to this post on Quora to my followers and deactivated my account.
Self sustaining fusion is hard, which directly relates to why you can't 'ignite' the atmosphere. The same concerns where raised when people started building A-Bomb's but even a 50MT bomb results in minuscule amounts of atmospheric fusion.

As far as wiping out people goes, it's a lot harder than you might think. I have seen estimates where a 'full scale' nuclear exchange between US and Russia would have done far less damage than most people assumed. It's hard to comprehend just how large the US is, or the fact that people have already detonated thousands of bombs which did little to increase the level of background radiation. Granted most of them where sub 10MT, but carpet bombing is more cost effective than a Tsar Bomba bomb.
I see the author's point, and users should be aware Quora does this and have the facility to disable this but ... is this not an over reaction? Viewing a question titled “Should I come out to my parents?” or “What is the best way to hide an affair?” doesn't in any way imply you are gay or hiding an affair... just that you showed some interesting the question and possible answers. I'd be interesting in both those topics just to see the variety of responses. I don't think i would need to hide the fact that i viewed those threads.

If they were providing complete Quora browsing history of a user, which you could see a general trend towards topics a person reads over time, I would see a serious breach of privacy. But a single one off "so and so just read this" is hardly damning.
I know. Which is kind the point. Looking at some incredibly vapid articles, and the enthusiastic responses they get, I'd say to each their own.
You'd be wrong. Try this from incognito: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Hmmm. I wonder how Myoung Kang feels about this post...
Of course. I was 98% joking.
I personally agree - I would be annoyed if I discovered this (I haven't logged on to Quora in a long long time). They seem to have most recently updated their Privacy Policy (http://www.quora.com/about/privacy/) on August 1. Quoting "Specifically, you consent to Quora's disclosure of information related to the ways in which you interact with the Service, such as: landing pages, pages viewed".

On the counter-side, I would have been okay if they sent a mass-mailer saying "We have introduced a new feature on Quora - now you know how your peers are doing with Quora!" - making it sound marketing-like, but in reality, percolating the information to their users in the most seemingly-harmless way possible. This could have won them actual fans for this feature.
There's a Chrome extension that allows to read without logging in (not sure how long it will work, though).

https://github.com/benvinegar/Spectacles/blob/master/README....
Don't Cry
I think highly of you, but my irritation here has more to do with being shouted down about getting crazy third party JS services off banking applications than it does with who runs this particular static iframe.

I think this issue is LITERALLY this simple: people are accustomed to third-party applications that work by "just copy this tiny snippet of JS code into your layout template", and all the cool kids do it, so it's not up for discussion. But static content hosting a form in an iframe? THAT'S CRAZY TALK.
I think that's pretty much impossible the news and Congress haven't been able to shut up about "The Ryan Plan"
You might want to try http://jsbin.com/ewufof/21 so you get the actual page and not the JS Bin edit interface.
Samsung is Apple’s Biggest Fan
Trivially, you can replace folders with a certain class of tags for which you enforce the folder hierarchy rules. That is, tags of this type are organized in a folder-like hierarchy, and if you want to apply a tag to a file, all the tags above it in the hierarchy are automatically also added to the file. In this way, you could have multiple parallel folder hierarchies if you really wanted to.

But this is obviously messy if you don't do it right. I agree that implementing tags in a way that completely replicates the abilities of folders without burdening the user is non-trivial.
Why We Outsource for Quality not Cost
Rant on technical writing
I think there are a lot of services where a 1-month free trial will prevent the kind of growth you need to sustain yourself.

For a perfect example: LinkedIn. It's a freemium service where recruiters and other big-players pay for increased access. Another example is Flickr: There are so many photo-sharing sites that who would sign up for a paid one with so many others for free?

Running a freemium site requires walking a line between the free and paid users. It can be sleazy, but it doesn't have to be, and there are definitely models where it makes sense.
I'm not sure about totally new document format. But I would like to see something new in file collaboration. A system that is distributed, and standardized (a new protocol for file collaboration, something like http but for binary blobs, p2p is a nice start but something that works better for enterprise collaboration).

Cloud services in this space are nice but they are all centrally managed. And collaboration between different centralized systems doesn't work (say between SharePoint, and Google Drive).
Thanks but no, it was an article not a book, I think it was in a PDF that I read on scribd or Google Docs Viewer.

edit: I feel like the title was something a little disruptive.
Quora must be doing well. They've outgrown their Palo Alto office and are relocating to Mountain View:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-is-Quora-moving-to-Mo...
I did... unique among their database...
direct links work. try http://www.quora.com/Conversion-Optimization
Fix Your iPad’s RSS Reader When Using Google’s 2-Step Authentication
> Since it seems more "stable" it would surely make an easier target for development?

That's not really an accurate statement - you can have very stable Linux distros, and you can have very unstable ones - same goes for installations of the BSDs. (Not to mention that 'stable' is in itself an overloaded term).

One may be better for an individual use case, but I don't think it's possible to say that BSD is more stable than Linux (considering that you're not even comparing like quantities there!)
@tctapek - re: fetching another URL, just use a subdomain exclusive for processing payments (i.e. http://payments.yourdomain.com).
While I agree with you, I think Quora did announce in advance that they were rolling this out