skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel free to make statements where they are appropriate, and I'll defend your right to do so. Feel free to write material on your blog, to write books, to make speeches in public areas. Airplanes are not the places to be making statements. Actually, most public travel is probably an inappropriate place to be making statements.

If you feel the need to make statements about Bombs, terrorists, and Blood while attempting to board an airplane, don't be surprised if others feel the need to spend a bit more time talking about you based on your behavior.

And yes - there are many, many forms of speech that are actionable when crossing borders, boarding planes, entering federal buildings - one of the key jobs of a security person is to evaluate you based on things like delaying in answering simple questions, being evasive, appearing nervous, and yes - talking about bombs and terrorists killing all of us.
Really interesting... thanks for sharing! For our surveys, we also captured specific demographic information to get the most representative sample as possible.
Tumblr becomes next to have Twitter friend-finding privileges revoked
The Viral Challenge: Education in trending content
Graphic designer at drchrono (Mountain View, CA)
drchrono has built the world's first Meaningful Use Certified native iPad EHR (Electronic Health Record) system. Being the fastest growing iPad EHR system in the world, our goal is to get every doctor in the U.S. (and the world) to use our iPad EHR. There is no reason they shouldn't be using it already!

We are looking for a graphic designer with 3 – 10 years of experience to help make our vision come true.

For info on this position and to apply:

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/drchrono/graphic-designer/az_f3ADySr4BXkeJe4bk1X

See https://drchrono.com/jobs for general info about working at drchrono.
A more positive (and, IMO, more objective) review: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/15/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-...
Gender is a don't care.
It's your company too, act like an owner
I know about Hulu Plus, but the subject of this particular discussion is their (free) website redesign.
Thanks for the share. Got a great new quote out of it for myself:

"When you're out there partying and wussing around, someone out there, at the same time, is working hard. Someone is getting smarter, and someone is winning. Just remember that."
From Brokenness to Greatness Home Study
Few things I've learned in just 3 weeks of freelance:

1. It's easy to feel guilty charging a client high rates while you tackle an unfamiliar project, which requires you spend more time learning than producing. For me, consulting has been a constant tradeoff between taking jobs at high prices where I don't learn new things vs. lower prices when entering unfamiliar territory. I don't know if pricing services according to your ability to execute is best though. At the end of the day, you don't want to find your saying to your client: "I did not execute as promised for whatever reason, but hey I didn't charge much!"
This situation shouldn't arise often if you are honest about your skills from the beginning.

2. Under promise and Over delivery

3. Spec out a project as well as possible beforehand. But agree upfront to a mid-way spec because projects change so fast that you may find yourself conducting tasks you should charge a lot more to do.

4. Build camaraderie with your client but hold your ground if they take advantage. Working with a variety of clients and building a network are advantages of the freelance world. Do you best to build quality relationships with your clients, so they tell your future clients that you are not only a great (insert job function), but also a great person. But I wouldn't go as far as to become so friendly that you feel bad charging them what you'd be making on another project.

Hope this helps
Marketing is dead. Now what?
And yet, where NIH would be useful, they reuse the inappropriate HTTP.
Absolutely wonderful. I had another plugin like this (that probably came with `janus`) and did the tiling, but was really complicated and I never get to use it anymore.

Something odd though: Isn't ^f supposed to do a 'page down' by default? The 'focus' part of his plugin didn't work for me and I had to change the mapping to ^m instead.
Cory Doctorow: "The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing"
Indeed. My dream HN has 30 of these posts on its front page.
I get it - but I'm arguing that the amount of egress traffic Glacier customers (in aggregate) are likely to drive is nothing in comparison to what S3 and/or EC2 already does (in aggregate). They'll likely contribute very little to a given region's overall peakiness.

That said - the idea is certainly sound. A friend and I had talked about ways to incentivize S3 customers to do their inbound and outbound data transfers off-peak (thereby flattening it). A very small percentage of the customers drive peak, and usually by doing something they could easily time-shift.
Novlify is a writers tool for outlining, drafting, and visualizing your novels.
Please make more social networks.
On YC Demo Day, and those graphs
I had emailed the Diaspora guys back in the day, before Diaspora was released, begging them to create exactly this, an encrypted, secure social framework and associated protocol, so people could easily build their own social apps on it.

They never replied, I guess they were well out of their depth as it was...
Last night I learned that Microsoft Word 2010 will auto replace a ")" with a "}" if I type { stuff ).

Does anyone know when this feature was implemented in Word?
Tumblr 'Truly Disappointed' That Twitter Revoked Its Friend-Finding Privileges
Javscript Quiz
Point of correction: Nebraska and Maine have congressional-district based [1] EV counts (in fact Obama won 1 point in Nebraska - basically Omaha in 2008).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_District_Method#I...
In my experience Netflix ratings are total garbage. IMDB and rottentomato ratings are both way more accurate
Quantified self APIs is one of the fastest growing areas of APIs in the last 6 months. I think this will be one of the quickest paths for APIs to penetrate the masses.

After quantified self it will be other home, environmental and auto APIs that developers can use.
Good point, may be I should disable displaying electoral count for historical maps until actual numbers are implemented, thanks
This works only if you use an RDBMS (instead of a NoSQL solution) and you use it as a very dumb data store. For large classes of applications you lose far more than you gain. The reason is that you are FORCED to refactor your data with an RDBMS.

As soon as you move outside the RDMBS storage model with agile development something very icky happens. Old data structures stick around until actively cleaned up using processes which may take a long time to complete. If you have half a billion documents in Mongo DB created and used by your agile app, you are going to have to have your application handle those data-structure-wise forever. Every new change then creates an additional corner case that must be perpetually handled.
This may be naive but isn't this just an endemic problem for all social networks. Anything I share on a social network can be copied by people allowed to view it and dispersed. Doesn't it just fall on trusting those you share with? If not, what is the difference?
Thanks for your comment on the blog. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant, but I thought you were pointing to the behavior of security people in this case as something that critics of "security theater" would prefer to see, when it's not at all the case.
I remember the day when flipcode closed down. I used to visit everyday to see the image of the day (before gamedev had it). Hope it attracts an active community again
Why not? How does cookie storage of information about your progress prevent those reports?

Presumably they are storing that information in their back-end somewhere.
So, we're agreed that it's good that she didn't clear her plate on that meal?
Yep, that's a known implementation gap, there was no simple way to implement it, do skipped it, will work on finding a solution, thanks
don't worry, it reflects Samsung's internal confusion.
A cluster of camps, perhaps related to a specific topic, could be called a 'Jamboree'.
Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
Google is Censoring Google Shopping Search Results - US Only
Update: I've added a full length pdf sample to provide an idea of the questions asked in each interviews.
Recent ASUS eStore hack - New artifact.
Definitely agree with the comments here. One thing to add is I think some of this comes down to ex-ante versus ex-post thinking. Ex-ante, many things are required to make any substantial change. Ex-post, we can scrutinize and analyze and sometimes create a version of history that points to one as the key factor. As others have pointed out, sometimes this is simply a top of the stack situation (last piece of effort is most important but would be true for whatever is last) and sometimes it's a genuine catalytic change (the last thing really was the biggest). But since our decision-making about the future is fundamentally ex-ante, there usually is no silver bullet. Also ex-post analyses are often based upon human surveys / analysis, which is highly flawed. If you ask people, for example, why they love a certain product, they may respond with one feature and you might think that was the "that one thing" when in reality, they might love the overall experience, branding, support or something else entirely.
I think the issue of everyone storing data in their own custom format would kill it well before that surfaced.
If you don't think you have any objective purpose, then why did you bring it up?

If your primary purpose as a human being is to reproduce
I'm sure that's a valley that will be crossed in relatively short order. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is up for debate.
Why are you replying to me? I'm criticizing the response of the security people, not praising the actions of the guy with the shirt.
I was the "now worth $747 million" commenter! I mean - at closing today - it's worth that. As in, if they could sell their newly owned stock today that's what they would have.

The original deal was "valued" at $1bn. It closed at a value closer to $747 million.

Instagram is doing just fine either way.
A lot of people pinning their hopes on the 99 cent appstore lottery are now probably pretending they didn't just read your comment :)
The ol' one-two punch.
Haskell, Scala and Clojure but no C# or Objective C. Typing practice for hipster programmers or something?
Expecting a blog post with metrics and details once this surge in sales settles down :-)
Only if I'm on my preferred keyboard, I top out at 120 to 130 on laptop/netbook keyboards.. For a stint in high school, I typed medical reports from dictation for a friend's mom, eventually having the cassette player on the fastest speed and keeping up without issue. I have no idea how people can be very productive as hunt and peck typists when writing code.
Supporting KILL and especially WERASE would be nice; I usually use one of those rather when I've made a string of errors, rather than watching and counting backspaces. And I agree with previous comments that it's hard to follow just how many backspaces are needed.
CA Location Privacy Bill Passes Assembly
Do you mean `set mouse=a`? `n` just makes it work while in normal mode iirc, while `a` should work in any mode.
This is fantastic. I started out learning from flipcode's articles years ago, and they were always great (I keep a personal mirror of the articles just to go back and read now and then). I'm just really glad to see a site that was so important to me brought back, especially since I hadn't found any other community that really took its place. GameDev.net was useful, but the community seemed impenetrable and often hostile to newcomers. I hope flipcode turns out as awesome as it was back then.
Not equivalent, but parallel -- wearing a T-shirt joking about killing and bombs on a plane is equally out of place.
(Apart from that it is very cool though)
Do they fear that people can take their social graph to Tumblr? I never thought Tumblr was anyway similar to Twitter. Tumblr is altogether different beast when compared to any other social platforms.
If I hadn't purchased it already, this would have helped me make up my mind sooner!
2.8M Simultaneous Connections /w Erlang [slides]
I find your post interesting, and it goes some way to answering my own questions. However, your post is based on the premise

"There are four issues with decentralized, large-scale sharing of content between non-technical people..."

and you claim those four issues are
1. Identity Persistence
2. Data Persistence
3. Publishing
4. Access Restrictions

I do not see why this is so. But even if it is, it is not even clear if the main point, at this stage, is to identify the atomic components of the "social web" -- perhaps what is
sought after now is a slightly higher-level conceptual framework which puts these together.

For example, "publishing" may be missing the point - perhaps we need a finer grained concept: different kinds of collaboration, delegation of authority, distribution of tasks, self-communication, electronic cloud prayer...
Seem nice. I love the efficient design. (But I'm not in the target audience, so...)

There is a bug on Internet Explorer 9: when I click anywhere on the page, the Sign-Up pop up appears (not just on the button).
How to Convert DVD to Galaxy Tab 2
Yes -- they acknowledge that a lightning strike would destroy the cable. "One possible event that would destroy the elevator cable would be a lightning strike. Lightning has sufficient current and voltage potential in its arc to heat and destroy any composite that we have been considering."

But this fact is rarely pointed out in widely read descriptions.
EWG's Good Food on a Tight Budget
Thanks! I will get that fixed ASAP
> It's a great concept, but here's where it breaks down: once data is given out, it can never be retracted.

Isn't Twitter the same though? Deleted tweet's have a way of staying around... :P
The article describes a lot of good practices being rolled out by Google.

Not sure how the leave really works in practice though. 5 months off is a lot for someone on executive track, a lot can happen in the tech field in five months for a critical person and if the person is not that critical they probably shouldn't be executive level.

However, I certainly wouldn't say no to 5 months full paid time off for paternity leave myself and a guarantee it wouldn't affect my chances of promotion at all. I'm not sure how that could really be guaranteed though. Some men and women might have several children during their 20s and 30s, that could amount to a lot of time off for them. Surely it would affect their jobs if they, as many do, had one child a year for a streak, and took 5 months per year off.

This assumes of course that men and women are treated equally and there is 5 months leave for both parents. The article isn't clear about this, but I assume paternity and maternity leaves are treated equally.
There is one App blacklisted in Facebook's JS API
And, it's "The Sims Social". Haha. Hardcoded.

{"blacklist":[144959615576466],"sampleRate":500}
... in http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js

Which is:
http://facebook.com/144959615576466
aka. https://apps.facebook.com/thesimssocial/

Props to @samvj for finding it. (he's sitting here and I said I'd submit)
As a subtle rhetorical way to suggest that OP should maybe get over himself.

Our purposes aren't objective. They are ours to choose, as individuals. Other animals may live only to propagate their genome, but as humans, our societies appear to function best when we convince ourselves that we're here to accomplish things other than reproduction alone.
Town in Israel Puts Wi-Fi Routers On Its Donkeys
Very much so. If you are the average HN reader, odds are likely you visit AOL sites on a daily basis. Also, the stock is up 88% over the last 12-months.

But, I feel like they've given up on being anything other than an SEO / blogging / display advertising sweat-shop. Although it seems to be working for them.
"Congress shall make no law" does not say "UAL shall make no rules"

The idea is that Congress cannot criminalize speech. But the ramifications of your free expression, with respect to those people and institutions that you interact with, is not regulated by congress in so far as a crime is not committed in reaction.
Goddamit Clement :)

One of the problems with the freemium model is that many people sometimes seem to pick a revenue target arbitrarily and then backfill their projections with the necessary conversion rate. Obviously, few firms or entrepreneurs want to expose their pricing models publicly in forums like HN, but startups need to be able to answer the question of what marginal utility they provide to their potential customers. The 'less than a cup of coffee!' model of app pricing, for example, assumes that since coffee is such a small thing users will be just as willing to throw down $3 for an app. But the coffee has physical, psychological and social value for the consumer that pays off on a predictable time horizon - and pays off not just the $3, but the time spent standing in line or buying and brewing your own coffee. Consumer preferences in for this commodity are sufficiently complex to support a large and extremely competitive market. If it was 'just coffee' then it would cost the same everywhere and vendors would be limited to normal rather than economic profits.

A better approach for vendors might be to assume your target consumer does not have endless disposable income. What value does your product or service provide that would make a coffee consumer go without their favorite beverage for a day? Or if not coffee, a competitor's offering or some other part of the consumer's status quo? How does your offering compare to the composite bundle?
Similar to what personal.com is trying to accomplish
I like a good screed, and this was a good one. The best polemics come from a jilted lover, and this has that wonderfully venomous tone.
If your vim is on a box with an X server, look into client/server mode. You can then specify if you want to open a file in its own process or in the server process you spawned earlier.

Also, you can set the default yank register to be your X clipboard. Look into set clipboard = unnamed+ (make sure your vim is complied with X support for both of these)
For what it's worth, stock in companies at these stages are often pretty damn liquid-- not quite as much as an IPO'd company, but still plenty liquid. YC could sell their stock in either company at or near their recent valuations on SecondMarket. For all we know, they could've partially cashed out in any of the rounds (though I'd bet they haven't).
Why The FTC Let Facebook Buy Instagram
Logitech releases new water-friendly, washable keyboard
Since you mention Freedombox – did you also check out ownCloud as well as the unhosted movement, with the remoteStorage protocol? There is a proof-of-concept social network build on unhosted: http://friendsunhosted.com

Do you have an IRC channel? Feel free to also join our channel at #unhosted. :)
perhaps its time to bring "the game programming megasite" back, too
Just FYI: With facebook now (for quite some time) integrating/implementing Jabber/XMPP -- OTR (Off the record messaging) works fine with facebook messages right now, if both users connect to facebook chat with something like Pidgin.

I guess the deniability part is sort of out the window, seeing as how facebook will be logging the traffic pattern(s) -- but you might at least claim that "no, that wasn't what I said".
I don't understand programmer's obsession with typing efficiency. We're not typists. Typing is a tiny fraction of the time I spend programming. Most of the time I'm thinking, or talking to another developer about a problem. I could have the fastest typing skills and most efficient editor and not even be marginally more productive.
For me it's most noticeable in the lips - they just don't move as much as they should.
Using CSRF token should protect against that and is good practice.
So is the difference just the stylus? Because they look the same.
The Quora response to the general subject that usually gets quoted is excusing her egregious inability to play nice with others by leaning on her putative intellect.

That's not a rejection of the picture painted of what it was like to work with her by (multiple) others.

I've worked with smart people who were unable to listen or otherwise interact with others. It was pure hell.

If she was like that, I'm confident most Googlers who had any skin in the game (meaning, they weren't her peer or superior to whom she was pleasant and respectful, but someone who answered to her at some level) were happy to see her go.
Startup Strategies: Growth Hacks To Get To Critical Mass
You might want to have a look at federated wiki for this:

http://wardcunningham.github.com/
Found this over on Fark and thought the guys here would like it. This has to be one of the most amazing feets of engineering in our lifetimes.

(Speaking of the rover landing of course ;)
FF15/Win7 here, and I'm also having trouble with underscores
Today we still need human actors to portray humanoid robots in movies. Robots will be able to portray themselves long before they can portray humans.
It's effectively being reclassified as a form of autism, which is what neurologists have been calling it for years now.

You're being incoherent--why on earth would psychologists "abandon" a diagnosis that they "love" because it's "bread on their table"?

On second thought, don't bother answering--I already waste too much time jousting with conspiracy theorists on HN.
>The article isn't clear about this, but I assume paternity and maternity leaves are treated equally.

That's an irrational assumption, given that the whole stated point of the policy change to 5 months was to retain females at the company.

If anything, depriving males of paternity leave, causing them to depart the company would achieve the gender distribution they desire much more quickly.

I don't believe anything so nefarious is at play, but it does highlight a weakness of a purely numerical approach to these sorts of problems.

That aside, I'm willing to bet a beer at an expensive Palo Alto bar that no, males do not get 5 months paternity leave or anything like it at Google.
What's the difference between many religious concepts of gods and an extraterrestrial civilization that (at least on our scale) appears immortal, omniscient and all powerful?

Two major differences:

1. Evidence. Extraterrestrial life is definable and testable. "God" by most definitions is unknowable, and most religious definitions of "god" and his/her/their/its work are contradictory to scientific evidence.

2. Purpose. Nobody has committed genocide in the name of extraterrestrial aliens, but religion has been used to justify all manner of atrocities.
Light Weight Hubs 88mm wheelset
Nice find. I wonder what they were guilty of?
> Loud, front-facing stereo speakers. These should be standard equipment on all phones and tablets.

Then you don't hear anything when your phone is lying screen down (which is very often). This was a major flaw in many older Android phones, I had a Dext and wouldn't hear the alarm in the morning - took me a while to figure it out.

The rest of the article is just full of mindless rehash of popular opinions. Tablets are supposed to be media consumption devices, but he praises multi-tasking split screens and a stylus. Seriously, browser and e-mail on a 10" screen? I can barely do it on 13".

> I'm monitoring my ram […]

What? You don't want a tablet, you want a miniature version of the computer you already have. You should be thankful you don't have to care about RAM usage anymore, leave it to the machine!
You raised a legitimate concern but threw in unnecessary derision. I wish I could downvote you.