skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Onion, two years ago, predicting Lance Armstrong's admission
> == is bad. Don’t ever use it.

Could someone expound for the ignorant?
Indirectly I suppose. How does my sick neighbor directly hurt me?
I think it broke, I get this animation now:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd>;
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
html, body, iframe { margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; }
iframe { display: block; width: 100%; border: none; }
</style>
<title>Application Error</title></head>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="//s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/error.html">
<p>Application Error</p>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

hehe
You're right. Gnutella was developed in 2000, eDonkey in 2000, Freenet in 2000, BitTorrent in 2001.
moments like these are when big companies are most vulnerable to competitors. Facebook will be focused on expanding their campus to foster creativity and in the meanwhile creativity will foster elsewhere. But good for Facebook. Though in this part of town the Apple campus is still clearly boss.
Speaking of ASCII art in your terminal,

$ apt-get install sl
$ /usr/games/sl
I'm surprised Kevin has forgotten about Google+ and Circles (considering he works there).

Everyme (excuse the shameless plug) would also work very well for him. Both of these products seem like a good solution for his problem.
I'm a front-end engineer on the YUI Team at Yahoo. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try my best to answer it here.
That said, this is also a problem of his own creation - I keep a fairly lean Facebook friends list (which I'll purge of local contacts I'm not close to after I move next week), and fairly often unfriend people who I'm not close to and consistently post things that don't interest me.
Yeah, I tried cleaning it extensively. I think a bearing went in it though.
By decreasing herd immunity, they're raising the chance that a given disease will become endemic, and that others, particularly the young or immunosuppressed, will catch said disease.
Vaccines aren't 100% reliable, so your sick neighbor has a (small) chance of infecting you.
True. At campfire labs we were working on similar asymmetric friendship groups before we got acquired. The problem is that you still have to manage those circles though. In real life, you don't have to put in work to manage your friends. You just know how they fit into the ever-changing friendscape.
quality is fractal; good, smooth acid-free paper that can take a wide variety of inks without smearing, discoloring, or bleeding through -- well constructed and durable.

quality is worth paying for...
I guess there is still a chance that playing those games gained you some super powers, similar to Karate Kid washing the cars.

There are also a lot of ways to waste time. Few people seem to make good use of it, so perhaps again it is not really Computer Games that are to blame?
stickers man, stickers...
Two obvious and immediate ways.

1) From the article: "That means far more students are coming in contact with peers who are unvaccinated—a serious risk, since vaccines are not 100 percent effective."

2) Increasing taxes to deal with the huge extra onslaught of people getting sick.
Twitter Bootstrap is the new OSWD.

http://www.oswd.org/
One of many reasons I hate reading TechCrunch. This is one of the most asinine, pity me, articles I've ever read: the story isn't about anything but why he's hurt, and must maintain his status at the top of the totem. To be honest, yes, I now can't dissociate this pitiful shilling from Lyft. He has done them a major disservice.
Kleptoplexity - it's stealing from you right now.
This is what the first part of science is. He's getting as far as one piece of data that might suggest a hypothesis worth testing, although you'd probably want more than one piece of preliminary data or you'd be hunting shadows all the time.

He then stops before getting to that whole "controlled experiment" part that really makes up the central part of doing science.
Indeed, the Silicon Valley new building curse is well-known:
http://news.cnet.com/Can-Google-beat-the-new-office-curse/21...

Also: a "paradise workspace" with open seating? Bleah.
My point was only that the Chinese specifically are much more prone to steal and/or copy software than any other group I know of.

Maybe you should be talking to other groups. :-)

And certainly my stats of app usage vs revenue in China have proven this conclusively to me. Nearly nobody buys it there, and yet China shows the most app usage!

All it takes is one server with one pirated copy of your app for it to become popular. There may even be a app store for pirated apps out there making the pirating process even easier. This, combined with the viral nature of your app could account for these large numbers in China but it isn't damning proof that each Chinese user is prone to stealing. It's just so darn easy to do it. Just like how downloading torrents has gotten so easy that everybody is doing it.
I am not sure why you have a ":)" next to "moving to Marin". I've lived there for two months after having moved there from the East Coast. I've hated every minute of it, and I had high-speed Internet.
I'm not the author of Gitlab or a lawyer but I think Gitlab can use a different license than GPL2 because it is not a derivative work, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Link...
Is this the "embargo" breaker? http://gigaom.com/2012/08/23/car-sharing-service-lyft-goes-p...

But in any case, this is not Watergate. I don't get why it's such a big deal to be the first to report on yet another startup product launch.
TFA: "Herd immunity occurs when a few unvaccinated children are protected by the fact that almost everyone around is vaccinated and therefore cannot infect them. It's important for those for whom vaccines have not worked, those who have immune problems, or those who cannot be vaccinated due to specific health risks"
Hat tip to simulate, who brought this up in a comment thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429021
He said almost zero SEO.
> No one has yet created a dynamic social graph. Facebook and other social graphs represent a rolling set of relationships that are out of date the instant they are created.

One thing that could be tried, that hasn't yet been done, is for a company to try and own the "dynamic edges" of the social graph. The active borders of the social graph embody a lot of value. If a bit of software could become the killer app for networking and meeting people, it would enable another party to own those "dynamic edges". Meetup.com is well positioned to attempt this. So is Facebook. Apple and Google are as well through their mobile operating systems.
Can Agile overcome hill-climbing pitfalls?
The interesting bit is that solving the equations gives you a solution with a negative frequency. Generally those negative frequencies are ignored because for most people a negative light frequency doesn't make sense. But if you extend the analysis further you get a positive frequency light out of interactions with that negative frequency light. And the paper talks a bit about observing those second order effects:

"Here, we have shown how the same process generates a second, so-far-unnoticed peak that corresponds to resonant transfer of energy to the negative-frequency branch of the dispersion relation. "

which means the negative frequency light was something but what it means isn't clear. It could be the tip of a new way at looking at light, or it could be nothing. Some of the experiments it suggests with respect to gravity waves are interesting.
Hey; a Yahoo!... I am also a front-end engineer at Yahoo! -- on the UI Team for the Genome Platform. It's nice to meet you.
Derby.js – Creating a Twitter Bootstrap Input Component
Yeah, I think you were on multivaders too, right? Heh, small world.
I made a really simple quote-sharing application. I'd appreciate any feedback!
So it's really simple - you choose a quote and either upload or choose from some predefined background images, then share. It would obviously be good if users could write their own quotes, but we really wanted to get this out as soon as possible to test the water.

I'd really love to hear any feedback. Do you think it's a good idea? What could be improved (apart from the aforementioned)?
Because virology is not a zero-capital business? Too, it can't be learned to any usefully significant degree by reading Microbiology for Dummies and watching Khan Academy videos?
Since you brought heroin up, I found this a really interesting read:
http://www.quora.com/How-does-it-feel-to-be-high-on-heroin
The Aegis assisted living facility in Aptos, CA has a non-running old car installed in the back. Residents can polish it and sit inside.

http://www.aegisliving.com/aegis-living-of-aptos/gallery/
This by 1000. If you can get a small team to focus and build something awesome over the course of a few months, you can basically raise money and hire people from anywhere.

Most startups that make it out of KC right now have raised money from both coasts and locally and have Dev offices in SV and Boston if not other places.
“Types considered harmful” considered insightful
Sort of. A house out in the wetlands.

I even went for Comcast business to get them out for a site-survey, but they won't do it, and it seems sonic is tied to the telcos, so that's a no-go as well.
Spot on.

T61 user here. eBay is a veritable goldmine of bits for T61's. There's not a single bit you can't replace for trivial amounts of money. I've spent about 150GBP on this T61 since I got in a couple of years ago (and that included the purchase price!). All I did was chuck more RAM in it, buy a genuine mains adapter (after the shitty clone one zapped me) and a new key scissor after I bounced the TV remote off it by accident.

I'd also say that the T61 works better with Windows than some of the new machines as well. It has proper hardware and no corner cuts like shitty network interfaces, "odd" graphics devices and b-rate media devices.

Also screw mag-safe - this thing just bounces if the kids trip over the cable (much better engineering IMHO).
Ask HN: What helpdesk do you use for incoming support requests?
A lot of startups just forward support@example.com to their personal email addresses and go with that. At some point, that invariably stops being a viable solution.

I'm curious what helpdesk software or service people start using after an email inbox stops working as a support mechanism.
TL;DR - use weighted averages. And there's a reason why people use median and mode. :)
The couple of times that I have contacted a website like this and suggested some updates, they almost always have some hyper-defensive egotistical "webmaster" who hates your suggestions and is just fine with keeping their site in 1998.

However, I'm sure there are exceptions to this pattern.
Facebook: A Blow To HTML5
Not really a fan of Moleskine's notebooks, but this is interesting.

But, Evernote's Page Camera feature that was added to the iOS app does seem to work just fine with other paper (I tested Field Notes w/ graph paper). It's just 'optimized' for the paper in these notebooks, whatever that means.
Lazy response, excerpted from a blog post[1]:

One particular weirdness and unpleasantry in JavaScript is the set of equality operators. Like virtually every language, JavaScript has the standard ==, !=, <, >, <=, and >= operators. However, == and != are NOT the operators most would think they are. These operators do type coercion, which is why [0] == 0 and "\n0\t " == 0 both evaluate to true. This is considered, by sane people, to be a bad thing. Luckily, JavaScript does provide a normal set of equality operators, which do what you expect: === and !==. It sucks that we need these at all, and === is a pain to type, but at least [0] !== 0.

[1]: Post from my blog, but I'm not linking to it because the rest is not useful to answer this question and I don't want to come across as a self-promoting-link-whore :)
Because the real side effects are almost negligible compared to the diseases they prevent.
I'm no fan of scientism, but sweet creeping zombie Jesus.
I haven't seen such a broken site (for me) in a few years.

a) I visit the page

b) I get redirected to http://www.beatlab.com/flash_blocked.html

c) I click on the blocked flash to unblock it, like on every other site.

d) I get a "Flash has been unblocked! You may continue to beatlab."

e) I click the link and end up at a)

:(
After reading the article and the linked comments to it (on TC, not here) this seems like it is just some sort of public grade school level grudge-spat between GigaOM and Ryan Lawler.

Why are the press/bloggers who cover startups such big fucking whiny-bitch babies all the time? Are there any hidden sites/writers in this area that I'm missing? Because it seems virtually universal to me.
TechCrunch is kind of full of themselves, aren't they? If a startup doesn't succeed because of a 12 hour delay, it was probably never going to succeed anyway.

Not to mention, I highly doubt whether most readers give two flips about when a story is published or who published it first. If I read an article about a start-up that looks really cool somewhere, and I see another article about it somewhere else -- heck, I'll read that one too.
It's worse than you suggest, and the trend has been going on for years. Highest resolution available in a Thinkpad, by year:

2005: 2048x1536

2010: 1920x1200

2012: 1920x1080

And the old ones were IPS. I like the old keyboard lights better than the new backlit keyboards too. This is not arbitrary; they're useful for reading things other than the letters on the keyboard.
Read the first answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359494/javascript-vs-does...
What a window into the dark, hypocritical heart of corrupt scoop-for-warm-coverage journalism.

We have "Death to the Embargo" TechCrunch lamenting that someone else's 'careless' writing ruined their chance to spend a few leisurely days stewing on the details (and working off hangovers), but still have their share of an embargo-synchronized launch.

We have the corrosive quid-pro-quo of "we'll now only report if you can give us an extra new manufactured hook", as if "We all love the service, love what these guys are doing" wasn't enough, and the writer has no unique perspective to offer on a still spanking-new service.

We have the launch of a "really cool" startup that, simply because of a little other coverage, no longer rates for any straight-up coverage -- but is still great fodder for a meta, naval-gazing pride-stroking inside-journalism lament.

We have the hyperbolic assessment that the launch was 'ruined' when in fact, for the startup the "big problem it faces right now is that it just can’t keep up with demand". Will anyone remember this TC-vs-GigaOm pissing-match sideshow by next Tuesday, when the launch news was 'officially' supposed to hit, and when traditional media sources outside the TC bubble pick up the story?
According to the study I found, 1 in ~300 Amish have autism. 1 in 90 of the regular population have autism.

The fear of autism shows people are in fact paying attention; whether vaccines "cause it" of course is really the question...
A smarter iPod nano
I've been thinking a lot about this and after John Gruber and Jim Dalrymple have essentially "confirmed" that an iPhone and iPad mini event will actually be two events, I got to thinking about the next iPods, specifically the Nano.

I gotta think they're working on a much smarter device. A device that will communicate a lot more with iPhones and iPads. Bluetooth 4.0 would be key, and probably a bigger battery, too.

What do you guys think?
Different strokes. I've been away from the Bay Area for a decade and I can't wait to get back to my native land.
What would be nice is the facility to share something with a friend, combined with software that asks if you would like to share also this with [X] circle?

Also, delay updates a bit so that people have the chance to think things like, "Oh wait, I don't want my mom to see this one..."
If the two sides of the comparison have different types, JavaScript tries to coerce the values using rules that are pretty strange. The recommendation I've heard most often is to always prefer === and !==.
Konami code gesture recognizer for iOS
I guess it's an enterprise contract, machines being from the same batch and unfortunately will all have the same failing components and symptoms. Did Lenovo give you new ones ? if so how are they doing now ?
I have the opposite experience. I have no incentive to use new networks -- all my friends are on Facebook. Facebook is actually very good at (at least in my experience) showing me information from friends that I'm actively being friendly with. People from some event a few years ago fade out, while people I'm going to school with now are in full-swing. When I change my involvements during the summer, Facebook in turn fades them out and favors the other people I'm currently working with.

For me, Facebook does exactly what Kevin Rose desires.

I think his problem is that he, as he put it, friends people "in passing [he] hardly knows".
You mean the mass assignment hack mentioned here? https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerabili...

Thank you for the hint, I will certainly have a look at the Gitlab source to check if the countermeasures are in place. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#countermeasures
Ha! I use a laptop keyboard at my desktop. Hands never leave home row. I loves me some nipple mouse!

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/55Y9003/460/60AC6A0372...
Apparently the ram is soldered on the motherboard, so no.
How is the noise profile? My 4 year old t400 (upgraded to 8gbyte ram and a SSD) is still dead silent except when playing hd video.
The GUI tools provided only allow a small amount of adjustment for sensitivity and acceleration. To make large adjustments requires writing to something in a non-obvious part of /sys. It's not really tricky, but it's not very discoverable.
"But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna follow someone’s story 12 hours after the fact."

Please get over yourself.
I wrote a much more detailed article here: http://thetechblock.com/the-smarter-ipod-nano
For the most part social networks give you the tools to manage friends fairly well. I know on Facebook you can change a setting to only view important updates from people. I like this option because you don't have the social awkwardness of unfriending someone. But, you don't have to constantly see what they at for lunch.

Also, I think we just get bored with things. That's human nature. We like new things. We want to be part of cool new trends and technology. So once something hits mainstream and stops being cool, we start looking elsewhere for the next cool service to try.
wink, you have to unblock flash for the www.beatlab.com domain, not just the flash_blocked.html page. Sorry for the confusion.
Honestly I don't want any single company dominate any field to the extent that MS dominated desktop computers.
Why are the press/bloggers who cover startups such big fucking whiny-bitch babies all the time?

Because clickers reward that behavior with attention. Histrionic personality disorder (real or affected) is practically a qualification for 'building your brand' and sustaining hit-bringing emotional rants and ensuing feuds.
Ask HN: Which stock market website/app are you using?
Im curious to know: Which stock market website/app are HN users using? What's the reason?
Good. Maybe people won't take their misinformation as seriously.
http://www.businessinsider.com/forget-iphones-and-free-food-...

This isn't the team slated for the deathmarch is it?
I think HTML/Javascript will always be slower and clumsier than a native API, mostly because the former is a creature of committee-think, and the latter less encumbered by the need to placate a bunch of different interests. That's not to say that the former, which has the truly great compensatory virtue of being open, will never be a good choice for application programming.
Pretty simple. You take your newborn baby to a doctor's office. Another older child is there as well who has not been vaccinated and is sick. He gets your newborn baby sick.
I think Twitter also has users distributed on different servers, making it effectively federated.
Zuck will have fun explaining to the shareholders why they are spending money on this and not trying to get back to their IPO stock price.
And he didn't even mention the hassle of getting everyone to "Reply All" rather than just "Reply" to CCs.
I still don't get what a negative frequency is. The frequency is the number of times something happens in a given amount of time. Would a negative frequency be the number of events that were expected to happen but didn't? If so, how could this be differentiated from an error in our expectations.
Anything that extends for more than 6 months and isn't extremely narrow in terms of geography or activities will have a hard time standing up in court. The employer has no right to deny a person a living.

As for IP stuff, that's really a case by case basis with each companies contract and how reasonable the claim that special resources and information made available by the employer were behind the development of the ip. If you're working for Starbucks and patent an algorithm for targeted advertising than no way in hell. But if you work for Garmin and develop a method to improve GPS reception in small devices, you're probably screwed.

And most of that stuff is pretty standard across the country.
If you don’t plan to maintain it, then it’s probably best to just archive the site by taking a static copy. Or sandbox the PHP process and give it read only access to the database and the file system before some random attacker messes it up with ads and whatnot.
Probably, but doing so is a bit thorny.

A major contributor to the problem is that the primary revenue model tends to be advertising. Ergo, behavior tends to drift towards whatever gets the most hits.

Say you decide to attack this by running a subscription-only model. This has been done, sometimes quite successfully. But from the perspective of the startups which are trying to generate publicity, a subscription model means fewer eyeballs.

What would get more eyeballs? Well, you could offer the content for free, then make revenue via advertising - and we're back to the current state of things.

Any ideas?
I'm not saying 1M/mo isn't great and something to aspire to for a site without any prior visibility. But.. I read that title quickly and was thinking 1 million uniques.

Since it's more of a niche site than fmylife, I'm wondering if the Google Adsense will get a higher CTR.
Great suggestion, I just added Helvetica Neue. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.
The Myth of Mobile Context
Why leaders cultivate messed up education systems
Yay for steam locomotive! I think of it as a handy reminder from your sys-admin "don't drink and ssh!"
"Very open to helpful suggestions"

Site has no comments section. So...yeah.

Visited with a handful of browsers and found no issues (though admittedly, can't log in, not a member), but the system kicks back no errors visiting with an up-to-date Chrome or Firefox.

Worst case, just get an extension that lets you change your browser ID string. Unless it's using some of the proprietary OS hooks (which I can't imagine) it'll never come up.

Mountains of molehills and all that.
Ask HN: Order Yubico keys - envelope arrived already opened
So I ordered some Yubico USB keys to use for two factor authentication.

The envelope arrived pre-opened. With my invoice and two yubikeys attached.

Should I put my tin foil hat on and send these back and request new ones?
The title says "No SEO". Just saving some people a read if they were expecting an article explaining how he did it with "No SEO".
Yea I think he means link building, which is by far the most time consuming and daunting task of SEO.