skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting if some kind of client (javascript)instrumentation - recording hover times, focus times could reveal the WTF results. Crowdsourcing is effective for top/most common queries, detecting WTF in the long tail of queries (where they would be more common) might be very expensive.
Actually—as shocked as I am to write this sentence—a comment on Reddit explains some of the bizarre legal wrangling behind the Assange case: http://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/yh6g6/why_didnt_the_uk_... .

I'm looking for a way to excerpt the comment, but it's sufficiently cohesive that there's no good way to do so.
I cant and wont do phone calls for many things.
Everything has to be by email or text like skype, ect.
Nothing about trust and purely about documenation so it can be referenced word for word later.
The problem is that it's just a little too convenient. He's suddenly wanted in the US for the Wikileaks piece, and right afterwards he's wanted in Sweden. The prosecutor drops the case, but then it's picked back up with an arrest warrant. Suddenly Interpol is brought into the mix for what really isn't typically an Interpol matter. That's a lot of money and time spent across international borders for an allegation with no evidence. It's too convenient to not raise questions about ulterior motives.

He might be guilty, I don't see anyone credible saying he's not. What I hear people saying is "why is this suddenly an international incident?"
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International politics (and to some extent politics in general) is another topic where this happens a lot
If you say so. I find dubious any assertion that Ecuador is making a principled stand for transparency. The Correa administration took office in 2007 and almost immediately seized major television stations and revoked licenses for additional TV and radio stations. It sentenced the directors of newspapers to prison time simply for allowing columns critical of Correa to be printed. It charged journalists with crimes for writing books critical of the administration, "pardoned" them, and then had its corrupt judiciary "overturn" those pardons and levy farcical fines against those journalists.

The idea that Ecuador as a disinterested third party is somehow objective or fair about the Assange incident is to my eyes laughable. The Correa administration is despicable.
Depends on just how cocky/good-looking the "creep" is.
There's a big difference between the kind of "learning" that is absorbing a lot of data (reading business books, studying chemistry, reading history) and using that data to draw solid conclusions. The former is kind of fun, in the same way that watching TV is fun. It can be mildly entertaining, and your role in it is mostly passive. The latter is hard work, but yields a much better high on success. I don't think the pleasure is due to the greater effort. Instead, it seems to come from the awareness of the new vistas you've managed to unlock.

Programming has elements of both kinds of learning. You need to learn the rules of syntax. You need to understand the libraries you are using. There are plenty of other basics that you need to know, but aren't particularly satisfying to learn. But once you start solving problems, the experience is very different. In your fist six months, everything is new. Your sense of achievement is great. As your skills expand, more of your work is simply good engineering. Unless you are constantly pushing the boundaries, your new discoveries are more limited.

TL;DR: reading business books is comparable to studying programming libraries. Successfully executing a business deal is more comparable to building a MVP.
I've also gone through the same process of being a strong introvert and learning to be more sociable. And I thought that was a really excellent application of the idea of the growth mindset for the article to point out. But I've gotta take issue with the idea that learning to be sociable is the same as learning to be an extrovert. It's just learning good social skills and learning to enjoy using them despite being an introvert.

I'm pretty well convinced that introversion vs. extroversion is just a part of everyone's neural anatomy, as much as being right-handed or left-handed is. That is somewhat plastic, but it takes fantastic levels of effort to fundamentally change. In/extroversion is a matter of how you think and what drains or recharges your mental energy, not how good you are at interacting in social groups; those things happen to be correlated, but there are some really awkward extroverts as well as really sociable introverts.
I use a mocha pot. You can get them for like $15 or so, makes really great espresso (its a high pressure kind of clever system). Use espresso beans with a pretty fine grind. I love the concept behind it and it yields great espresso without the expensive machine.
I guess it really depends. I, personally, would never see a 300 million plus exit as a shitty deal, however they could have been the next $n billion dollar IPO.
The latter. I know a lot of great coders, and most of them set the bar for "decent" very high. By decent I mean that you could actually write code to solve most problems you come across. Is the code going to be less than optimal? Of course. Most of the time it's even going to be pretty ugly code (you should see my backend code for a case in point). I'm not being presumptuous, I just have lower standards than most of you guys :)
Do you really have to learn "math?" Is dividing by two "math" or just intuition? I rarely use the advanced math I learned in my math minor in college. Instead it's just like business: you need to have an intuitive sense of numbers and be comfortable shuffling them around.
> everyone has a certain picture of it in their mind.

Which is impossibly irrelevant.

> consentual sex, supposedly started without a condom (contrary to agreement)

If it's contrary to agreement in whole or in part, it's not consensual.

> after the women agreed.

Or she acquiesced. (EDIT: as in, surrendered resistance)
Can you explain that a bit more?
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So at today's FB price, this would put the acquisition price at just over $700 Million.
My guess is that they haven't acquired it yet since the deal isn't closed. The deal was also pre-IPO, so I believe they'd be subject to the same freeze.
During the first bubble, one of the companies I worked for used just about all of their IPO money to buy another company.

The buzz was that the owner of the company being bought refused to take any stock and only took cash (smart move), and within a month or two of the purchase, most of the acquired people had already left. The company I had worked for ended up selling the remaining assets for something like 1/40th of what they paid a year later.

Considering my company's stock price tanked on day one of the IPO and continued to go down, the only winner in that deal was the guy who took cash for his company.
I think it's not just slogging through it, but associating the slogging through it with success. That is at the end to enjoy slogging through it, or at least embrace it as part of the process. That way you don't have to delay gratification completely, just change your attitude towards what is gratifying.
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So we should develop software on a development server. What a crazy new idea.

There's these new things called "remote X11 displays" that might revolutionize the way we work on remote servers from local computers. If only it ran in a browser[1], though!

[1] http://lifehacker.com/287085/control-tightvnc-from-the-web
No, that's a straw man. The logic is: because the U.S. has a track record of punishing people deemed by the executive branch as threats to national security without due process of law (up to and including summary execution of its own citizens without so much as a formal charge -- e.g. Anwar Al Awlaki) it is not unreasonable for Assange to suppose that he might also be subject to such treatment if he happens to fall under the physical control of the U.S. or one of its vassal states. IMHO this fear is not entirely unjustified.
Well it sounds like you're still learning which is a testament to your article. Well done and keep it up!
In developer speak, this is called 'fire fighting'. Welcome!
A constitutional law prof explains the legal strangeness of the Assange case
I got this far:

Another interesting tidbit is that Assange is only sought by Sweden for questioning and has not been formally charged.

... and stopped reading. Assange is wanted for arrest --- it's an EAW we're discussing, after all --- and can't normally charge him until they have done so.

There are lots of great comments on Reddit, for whatever it's worth.
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That's pretty cool.

Now I'm still wondering how to autoplay a mp3 on page load and on subsequent clicks on a button. I've tried tinkering with an audio tag, never worked. The future is now. Kind of.
The color-codes do not denote categories...
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Listed as a drawback: "the autonomous car may encourage the use of single-occupancy vehicles"

I don't agree that's a drawback. When enough cars on the road are autonomous, I'll feel much safer riding in a smaller car. As it is, I want a larger car for the safety of it. People keep saying to me, "I'd never ride a Smart Car - what if a semi hits you?!" And a single-passenger car has a much lower environmental footprint than a mostly empty larger car.
I agree. However, I definitely did not know about those alternative structures.
The key point of this article is that Gen Y'ers are actually demanding and getting a lot of perks, instead of just complaining about bad working conditions.

This sounds about right in my experience. I've seen some places where the expectation is that seniority = respect, and that younger employees have to go through a few years of "paying their dues." This is stupid and wasteful, so of course we're demanding more. If someone is producing 10x the value of their coworkers, they shouldn't have to wait two years for a promotion just because they joined recently. And nowadays, they won't.
meh.

This is almost certainly an instance of "a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track an IP Address" (IOW, a vast simplification written or edited by someone who doesn't really understand the field) rather than a planned attack on open source.
Web development is definitely getting easier, but it's still not easy. I spent a lot of my past 4 years doing conversion optimization and testing out different marketing channels. So I was exposed to basic html/css/php/mysql. But that didn't really prepare me for web development.

I'm about 4 months full time into web dev, and there's just so much that goes into developing a web app. And then there's the team component. And then the web app needs to scale. Ruby, Rails, MySQL, MongoDB, Javascript, how to set up the hosting, software design best practices, debugging, etc. If I didn't have a mentor or peers help me through this I seriously don't know long it'd take to figure out all the different pieces and how they fit.
I'd sell right away, even only 300 million is better than the nothing instagram has made since it was created.
Nothing like a writer playing "Monday morning quarterback." I like the closing sentence...

"It is a lesson for those who strike deals in the heat of the moment — and perhaps too hastily."
I've found the following guide to be a good refresher for interacting with the non-programmer crowd:

http://www.pgbovine.net/geek-behaviors.htm
Anyone else hit 'command + w' to see what it does to then have the damn window exit on them ..... ARGH!!!! :)
I wonder whether you'd actually want many small investors versus few big investors?

While I love the efficiency, convenience and transparency of FundersClub, I think the big value of investors comes from the personal relationships you can build with them, as well as the domain expertise they can provide to you.

Plus, doesn't it make you hit the 500-shareholder limit pretty quick?
Thanks for posting. It would be fun to see the ages of accepted YC applicants compared with the rejected applicants. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get the data of the rejected applicants though. Maybe they would self-report their information if you posted something here on HN.
This could be very useful. Do you have any other templates or themes for the guide itself available to show off?
Wow, I'm surprised they allow me to sign up and make an investment without verifying that I'm an accredited investor. I simply checked one box, and full access was granted. Screenshots: http://pix.am/ui9z/ and http://pix.am/cdQU/.

I realize that following through on the investment would undoubtedly get me into legal trouble, but you'd think they would prevent this from happening.
I would rather have one of these:

http://www.venomgt.com/
The other possibility is developers are given a computer that's in a locked down jail cell state. But pointing this out (and other configuration scenarios) distracts from the central idea: developers battle configuration hell because our processes are disconnected from each other. It's more than a configuration script, this is about solving a bigger problem. Think of remote development too and collaboration, this is something we can solve with cloud tooling.
A lifetime of observation of painful personal experiences. I don't really want to go into it publicly.
If it can do 0-60 in 3 seconds, I'd bet that it could do 0-124 in much less than 18 seconds. Heck, my 330i can do 0-120 in less than 18 seconds... (or so I've heard ;) ).
45 arranged marriage individuals in the study. 24 of them over the age of 45. Not sure how this satisfaction study can be considered conclusive in any context.
These types of structures are actually very common in the biotech industry where uncertainty is everywhere.

The deals are typically upfront payments of several hundred million dollars in combination with milestone payments that often comprise of 50-90% of the total deal's value.

It's a smart move on Facebook's part since it shifts a great deal of risk to the Instagram owners. Facebook does well? Instagram does well. Facebook flounders? So does Instagram.
Who's the overly-PC type who removed the "fucking" from the title that was originally here?
It may eventually be a better deal on the long term if FB shares go UP in the long run :P
I think this isn't a good demonstration of trying hard. These little puzzles only went on for a few hours so a person who is highly intelligent but perhaps not so diligent over a long time won't see bad results in this test. The comments here demonstrates survivor bias.

Furthermore, it's easy to quote Alan Kay about perceiving reality, or non-verifiable comments about 80 IQ points, etc, but what about all the Alan Kay-s who failed that you never heard of, that tried harder or were smarter? What about them? What if no matter how hard you try, how long you try, you still fail?

What about people with learning disabilities? What about people who might be mutants? I.e., in the same way our nearest primate relatives are a few percentage points of DNA different from humans, what if having a few hundredths of a percentage point difference in the right direction, away from me, makes the difference? A thousand years of chimp intellect won't produce an aircraft. A thousand hours of me contemplating won't be the same as someone else who is smarter and contemplates for just ten hours. That's just the way it is. I feel like I know this because I'm on the wrong side of that few-hundredths of a percentage points.

Trying hard is important, and trying hard over many years is also important. But for someone like me, the window is permanently shut as far as what ever biology I have been born with compared to people who excel in ways I simply cannot. Not that I haven't tried. It's just that there are limits on all of us, and this method. Some people, fortunately, have less limits on what they can do.
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there is no reason it would improve

Well, except for the fact that BSD projects have people working on them to, you know, improve things.

The claim that there's too many packages is even more crazy. My linux server has more than twice as many packages installed as my OpenBSD desktop.
"$300 million in cash "

Enough said.
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Do you have a link, paper or book recommendation for those wanting to read more about how kids "fail" repetitive logic tests as you just described?
It's nice to see something like this as a jQuery plugin. It would be amazing if they could be adjusted by swiping on mobile!
> Why is it suspicious at all for the Interpol to hunt for a possible rapist?

When does the Interpol ever get involved in a rape case? Especially one where someone is suspected of not-actually-rape -"rape", and supposedly only wanted for "questioning"?

What the fuck? Does this not sound suspicious to you at all?

> If the U.S. really wanted Assange, why haven't they charged him of espionage, hacking, anything to pressure the U.K. to extradite him?

Who knows? Maybe they came up with the bullshit rape charges in Sweden first, before someone thought of doing that? At least at this point, they kind of have to go through Sweden to maintain any tiny shreds of credibility.
>Ecuador simply isn't a party to this controversy

They became a party to it the moment they granted him political asylum.
Ask HN: Where can I find a US city to metro-region association?
For example, the SF Bay Area is commonly broken down to the City, Peninsula, North Bay, East Bay and South Bay. I need to build a region to city association table and wonder if someone (or site) has done the work for me. For example, I'm looking for Peninsula: Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame ... Woodside. Or East Bay: Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, ... Walnut Creek.
"Mindset" by Carol Dweck is one of the greatest books I've ever read. Sadly though, I didn't discover it until the age of 41.

Of equal value is "the War of Art" by Steven Pressfield.

In my opinion, these are the only two "self help" styled books anyone needs.
Looks interesting, It would be great to get a description of what the app does and what the benefits are...
To save everyone the math, 23 million shares is now worth ~$458.8 million.
Just because you read it a long time ago doesn't make it less petty or silly.
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The integration with Chef is enough for any engineer using Chef to configure and deploy their software to choose Vagrant over any other solution.

The Chef community has had major success in automated testing of their Cookbooks (units of configuration in Chef) and it is all made possible by Vagrant.
My claim is that it is fairly easy to translate any Java program into an equivalent Python one. That some things need different constructs is not evidence against this claim.
One point in the article, that "uncertainty magnifies the stress of waiting, while feedback in the form of expected wait times and explanations for delays improves the tenor of the experience", is definitely true for anyone waiting for mass transit. For example, NYC has recently been installing train arrival signs on some of their subway lines (and also some bus routes). I can say from first hand experience that waiting is much more tolerable when I know roughly when the next train will arrive.
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That's a pretty good point which I had not considered. However, I would still maintain that it's a drawback compared to the promotion of mass transit which is already hard enough to sell even though it is often as convenient or more convenient than SOV's in city cores.
I doubt the dichotomy is between the cathedral and the bazaar.

All software projects have a list of gatekeepers or maintainers, who decide which changes should go in and which ones shouldn't. Some of them have a long list of people with commit access (like Subversion), while others have a handful of maintainers (like Linux). Some of them have grand roadmaps and bug trackers (like Firefox), while others have no agenda or bug trackers (like Git). Some projects have many dependencies, use libtool and a lot of auto-magic (like Subversion), while others are still adamant about not having a configure script, maintaining a handwritten Makefile, and having 1~2 dependencies (like Git).

From what I've noticed, as a general rule of thumb, the projects with few strict maintainers are better off than those who give away commit access easily/ have lazy maintainers. It seems obvious when I put it like that.

The way I understand it, the cathedral model is about carefully planning out the project, assigning various people chunks of the total work. The bazaar model is open to accepting random contributions from a wider audience, and runs on a looser agenda. It's just that the cathedral model works better for certain kinds of software (games, office suites, professional audio/ video suites), while the bazaar model works better for other kinds of software (web servers, version control systems, development toolchains). When it comes to an operating system, having a curator decide APIs and standards (OS X) certainly wins over an mashup of billions of packages (Debian).
It does for thieves, kidnappers and so on.

I think this is the heart of the matter.

A couple of months ago my wife's car was robbed. The police did nothing but document the theft for insurance purposes, making no effort to identify or apprehend the criminal. I've no doubt that if my wife was assaulted, they would have made some actual efforts; and had she been killed or raped, they'd have made it a priority.

It must be that the authorities have some kind of scale for severity (and locale) of crimes, relating to how much effort they're willing to expend. Minor crimes don't get as much effort. Assange's accused crime is toward the higher end of that scale, but is also somebody else's problem; perhaps foreign police aren't willing to go as far for foreign crimes: would the Swedish police be willing to invest much if my wife's hypothetical assailant were known to be in Sweden?

The OP's point seems to hinge on this logic, which really does seem to be the way these thinks work. What we don't know is how the Swedish authorities (or any others) would rank the accused crimes in their table of "how much resources do we commit?".
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
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"Now I wish people online would put a huge disclaimer saying "I'm only interested in arguing for the fun of it, not in finding an actual solution" before their posts. That would have saved countless hours of online typing wasted for nothing."

there's many things that get expressed "between the lines". arguing for the fun of it has benefits. for one, ideas get exchanged, validated and who knows: maybe something useful comes out of it.
The power of Facebook advertising is not on showing ads on their own pages. Very few people look at the ads on FB's pages, and many (most?) people browse FB on mobile devices, where advertising is very hard.

No, the power of FB (and its future, IMHO) lies in FB becoming a data provider. So when you visit a page, the advertisers query FB about this opportunity, and based on the answer, pick an ad or decide how much to bid. And FB then collects 25% of the ad's price as a fee. Given that online advertising is a $30B market, you can imagine FB will have no problems making a lot of revenue.
At least with software you can rollback, not exactly something that works with hardware. A year may seem like a long time, but to test all the ramifications of something that sounds simple like a higher resolution camera is not an easy problem. As the dpreview article highlights, a change in resolution affects multiple subsystems.