skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a case where a bad editor is amplifying a writer's misdeeds to cover up his own. Jonah is in no way defendable, but it's comical how Hansen says his writer violates "editorial standards" and then in the second paragraph admits that no editor or fact checker ever reviewed his work before it was published.

The role of an editor is to uphold editorial standards. Where was Hansen when these 18 problematic posts - and potentially hundreds - just magically found their way around Wired.com's incredible editorial standards? Historically, editors have resigned when their writers are caught fabricating because their supervision was too poor to protect the public from bad information. What will Hansen do to prevent this from happening again?

Oh, "spot check random Wired.com articles." Nothing to see here, everyone. Let's just keep reading.
I always find it a little fishy when startups put glowing quotes from news outlets without linking back to the original article. It takes minimal effort on their part and it's generally better to read the quote in context anyway. This only reinforces my suspicions.
7 years now? Hard to beat that:

https://www.google.com/finance?&chdet=1170450000000&...
As an end user, I just don't end up knowing quite how my privacy is impacted when signing in through a third party site.

I signed up to a site only yesterday that gave me the option of signing in (or was that signing up - I haven't a clue...) with a yahoo account or a Facebook account, or an email address and password. I thought what the heck I'll sign in with my yahoo credentials. I then went back to Yahoo - and it gave me some message about authorisation and data sharing. What data is shared? Who knows. I didn't want anything shared, other than perhaps my email address. But why not explicitly say that?

So for me it's just a case of pure confusion, and the worry and fear that I've shared something that I didn't want to with another application - for example I wouldn't want to share my address book.

Another service I know of demands a Twitter login, as a result I don't use it. Which is annoying as I do want to use it. I can't be bothered to set up alternative Twitter accounts just for this purpose.

I guess that if I don't get it - and I have a technical background - then what hope does anyone else have? Or do punters just go about and blindly trust services with their data?
The challenge of Desktop Linux is that it's not a product, it's a project.

Ubuntu is a very successful desktop Linux distro. It's pleasant to use and very modern. Nerds might hate it because Unity doesn't fall in line with Linux "the project" so much as its there to make Ubuntu "the product" better.

Overall, desktop linux as an overarching product failed, but so did mobile linux pre-android, but Android isn't so much mobile linux as it is Android.

Open source is a bit like herding cats and if you don't have a real product you are trying to ship, devs will scratch their own itch.
Hey SlipperySlope, where can I check out the latest source for Android?

What is the procedure for getting commit privileges?

Answer key: 1) You can't. 2) Become a Google employee.
> Android is not really Linux

I'll agree it may not be a traditional GNU/Linux with an X-based GUI, but it certainly is as much Linux as, say, OSX is Unix (despite the lack of teletypes attached to most Macs).
Don't Quit until you've Lost
Check out nodeify. It's a gem that allows you to use node in rails for javascript stuff.

https://github.com/dkastner/nodeify
Ask HN: Review my web app? Trying to get out of slump.
Like all Free Software, the source code for stable Android/GNU/Linux can be downloaded. That's how Amazon built their fork.

See: http://source.android.com/

I concede that Google locks up the code for upcoming releases. No need really to tell you that most mature Free Software projects encourage bug reports and patch submissions, but limit source code commit privileges in order to maintain stability.

Evidently its more useful to develop/maintain a Free Java library for app developers. Or submit/maintain a kernel patch for a mobile device driver. Understand that Google does not control GNU/Linux. And even its control of Android is not enough to prevent forks.

UI/API tinkering and fragmentation hindered desktop GNU/Linux adoption. Why go there unless you want to fork?
What? Desktop Linux never became a success because nobody profits from it being awesome. That can't happen until you can distribute Linux on a PC without making some back room deal with Microsoft.

I'm sorry, but this issue makes me very angry, and I feel like most people are childish fools who pretend that it's the fault of hobby hackers making software that's difficult to use. No, it's because no matter how awesome Linux is, you can't distribute it without paying.

Also: Microsoft may have not stopped Android, but that doesn't mean they haven't hampered it. Without that stupid license every phone would be able to be sold $8-$15 cheaper.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331462,00.asp

That might not seem like a lot more, but it's $8-$15 more than it should be.
I have a pretty high churn rate, so I've recently been rolling new features to try to stay afloat. User feedback is positive, but the usage stats aren't.

Any insight as to what I could be doing wrong?
So where did the quote come from? Was the text from a BranchOut press release that happened to be syndicated in Wall Street Journal? For example, the quote shows up in a press release on yahoo.com in a format that resembles a news article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/branchout-raises-25-million-su...
This is the only reason I don't pay for a Spotify account.
Bringing Black Talent To Silicon Valley
One serious problem with the way Google+ does circles is that once you post something, you _cannot_ change whom you've shared it with.
I don't see how you could theoretically index this in a way that supports the bloom filter query. Indexes rely on data being ordered, and b-tree (similar to binary tree) lookups. A where clause that's like "where col & val = col" can never be supported by a b-tree style index... right? Am I missing something?
I see the reaction to Sue Fortier's gesture as an example of ... the hunger among customers, employees, and all of us to engage with companies on more than just dollars-and-cents terms.

Ick. I think people want to feel like they are dealing with fellow human beings, not with "companies."
Sounds like another angry Apple fanboy on a tirade.
Your anecdote gave a different result than the one in the story. This doesn't prove or disprove that it's better to be nice or clever. It only tells that there is no absolute rules like "it's better to X than X". Those rules help to illustrate some points but none are perfect science.
I don't really understand the need for any of it. Has it been shown that innovating startups actually use patents to the market's benefit?
Everyone wants talented, experienced employees, but no one wants to invest the resources it takes to gain experience and develop talent. And why would they? After investing so much into their developer, a competitor would just come along and poach them with a cushier chair and a higher salary. Everyone would rather be the poacher than the poachee, and so those "rookies with potential" have no where to develop that potential into talent.

Of course, this is all a drastic oversimplification. Rookies can get jobs, and get some experience by exposure. But developing talent effectively & efficiently takes more time & resource investment beyond just having them do work, and that's investment with an uncertain and non-immediate return. It's a tough nut to crack, but the place where I would start is figuring out how to retain your good employees, especially when the growth of their market value is faster than your company's standard career advancement path.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/

Seems to be the same thing for Firefox
Electric DeLorean in 2013
Retail is not going away. It is evolving.

Big box stores killed the mom & pops.
Online retailers killed the big box stores: Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Blockbuster, Tower Records.

WalMart is right to be concerned.

Consumers benefit from online shopping:
- Skip the ride to the store and back
- Seemingly limitless selection in a few searches
- Confidence in pricing by comparing

Brick & mortars need to do their homework and understand the psychology of shopping in an Internet world.

There will always be those who:
- Want it right now
- Enjoy the social interaction of shopping with friends
- Want to talk to someone who knows what they are talking about
- Want to be 'seen'

They need to wind down and market to that segment of the population. That is where they are headed anyway.
Wow, what a blast from the past. 64mb of memory, 206mhz Intel StrongARM, "Internet appliance" was still a term, and 802.11b was still new.
I see a much simpler explanation. Linux has, for a very long time, followed the path opened by (and thus replacing) technical Unix workstations. Those were specialized machines built for people who would put up with cryptic interfaces in order to run the powerful software they needed. As any specialized tool, it has appeal to the few professionals who have actual use for them.

Only recently (3 years?) Linux distros started being friendly to "mere mortals". This change coincided with the acceleration of the demise of the PC. There may never be a year of the Linux desktop.

Yet, Linux is everywhere. As soon as you fire up your network connection, you are using Linux. Every time I look up the time on my phone, I'm using Linux. Most internet-connected TVs run Linux, as do most set-top boxes and e-readers. I amuse myself thinking the convoluted things Steve Ballmer is compelled to do just to be able to claim he doesn't use it.
It's straight out of their own press release boilerplate!
because price is same

Ah, if only. I swear, sometimes it seems like Amazon knocks 10% off MSRP, while Radio Shack adds 10%. And I'm talking sticker, not sales tax.
Nothing publicly citable, just experience working with IHVs in the course of my job. It happens enough that it's not really newsworthy in most cases.
> What is the procedure for getting commit privileges?

Make your own fork. You don't have commit privileges on the Linux kernel, Apache Tomcat or the GCC compilers and they are all free software.

Oh... As for the source, http://bit.ly/UhVbyk
Anyone know what the color gamut is on this? Matte and high res are great, but color gamut is make or break for me. It seems Retina is at 99%, which is really impressive for a laptop.
> And even its control of Android is not enough to prevent forks.

If it did, Android wouldn't be free.

> UI/API tinkering and fragmentation hindered desktop GNU/Linux adoption

OTOH, it allowed Linux to expand beyond the desktop, into mobile and embedded. Linux devices probably outnumber PCs by a large multiple.
In the United States that isn't technically true. Most states require people to pay a "use tax" [1] on the stuff they buy from Amazon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax
How long does it take in practice to swap out VM images in this way for different types of loads? How do you monitor that all 30 are ready to go and working right to spec?
You keep moving the goal posts. Earlier you cited the fact that Dean Karnazes ran 3000 miles as evidence that we can go a long way. But by your current standard we shouldn't count that because he stopped to sleep.

Anyways, you claim the point is that we have a cooling system that lets us keep going. Wonderful. According to http://www.austcamel.com.au/cache/Training%20of%20Camels.htm it is not hard for a well-trained camel to run about 10 miles an hour for about 50 miles without stopping to rest. That would mean that it is running like a human marathoner (not ultramarathoner) long enough to be running all of the way through the heat of the day, in an environment that is uncomfortably hot for people.

Our ability to keep running through heat does not seem to exceed what camels can do.

Now what is the real human upper limit by your current standard? The longest race that I'm aware of anyone running without sleep is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Sydney_to_Melbourne_U.... 544 miles, and the best human time is 5 days, 2 hours, and 28 minutes. That's about 4.44 mph.

I do not know of a recorded case where an animal ran that distance without stopping to rest. Wonderful! We win at something!

HOWEVER there are animals that could start on that starting line, travel on foot, leave the humans behind in the dust, and then the humans would never, ever catch up to the animal. Not at 100 miles. 1000 miles. Or 10,000 miles. Despite the fact that the animal took breaks.

To me that is a meaningful definition of "better long distant runner". And by that definition, we are not the best. (We are very, very good, but not the best.)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pharyngulate
Waiting for them to come out with an announcement that it was an oversight on their part and it's been removed from their site.
Python's "one obvious way" to do things changes over time too!
I had widespread engineering support, actually

From what I saw on the engineering-wide mailing list, where you told people who had many more years of engineering experience than you that they were full of sh*t, I'm sorry to say, no sir, you didn't have widespread engineering support.
Perl 5's parser manipulation doesn't go as far as manipulating an AST, yet. I would like that, but Lisps still have a strong advantage there.
This article was published on 2001-03-23. However, it's interesting to see that they called it the "Digital iPAD". Wonder why it never took off? Why didn't they ever trademark the name?

I notice that Gizmodo's already published a story based on this article: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/09/check-out-lgs-ipad-from-20...
Yosemite Virus Potentially Kills 1-in-3 Visitors
I agree that the name should be changed. If someone said they built their product "using Spark", it would be fairly ambiguous as to which one they meant, especially if their product has a data mining component.

[http://www.spark-project.org/]

Meteor Spark looks pretty nice though; look forward to trying it out.
Their customer service is "dreadful". The support guys are as unhelpful as it can be.

But if you don't need a support, their service is very affordable and good.
I ran a quick poll on PickFu and got a pretty split response across t0 50 responders.

http://www.pickfu.com/B7VOBA
Part of the problem is that people like me tend to prefer to work remotely, work on contract, and get paid more than $35 an hour.
One of my favorite documentaries of this year. I LOVED this movie.
I agree, but nothing in Python the language addresses any of my questions. Those concerns are so far beyond the language level that the language is irrelevant.
"Heck, you can even take them to court for searching you without a warrant."

Not at a border crossing - at least not for a non-US resident.
I had emailed you previously when the first incarnation of the site died -- so glad it's making a comeback! (EDIT: Or maybe I had emailed the original authors? Not sure on the timeline I guess.)
Less radiation level from telecom towers in India from 1st Sep
Hmm that's pretty interesting. I don't really like to depend on the engine for optimizations because you never know what JS engine people have, but it's good to know they do that.
Although I cannot find the URL, I recall reading somewhere that, on average, Amazon prices were 9% lower than big boxes' (BBY, et al). not clear whether that was 'bottom line' price comparison (in which case AZN's prices would not include tax whereas brick & mortars' would. Now that AZN agreed to collect sales taxes for a number of states that delta will shrink.

But, I do believe that convenience of easy ordering (for lazy ppl like me), is bigger differentiator than a couple of percentage points on pricing.
Show HN: HTML5 port of PC/XBox game with online level sharing
I am an advocate of looking at what makes pieces you find are designed well, and keeping a "scrapbook" (for lack of a better phrase) of those patterns. Then as you design you can refer to those scraps for things that worked in UI, design, or just enhanced experience. While I don't advocate copying, I think its always better to stand on the shoulders of giants than to start from nothing.
For the curious, you can find some more details on the port and the online features in the slides from my PAX Dev talk:
http://jsil.org/PAXDev2012

Any questions or feedback are appreciated. This port uses my open source C#->JS compiler that I've posted about on HN previously.
A few css tweaks and any theme can be made unique. I see no issue in saving time with themes, templates, or the like.
I'm sorry, none of what I read seemed very egregious to me. In many cases, I couldn't even decipher whether something had been really plagiarized or not. You DO use lots of material from other people when writing a story-- some of these phrases, especially under tight deadlines and late nights, likely jumble into a mish-mash of words and phrases that might spill out while writing.

Even the case of copying someone else's mistake (in the "10 sportswriters" example) also seems forgivable to me... and- forgive me if I'm too generous- just another mistake, albeit this time on Lehrer's part.
I agree you've got to make it easy for people to find and install software.

It's the same for all OS users though. I know enough Apple and Windows users that have never installed any software on their machines whatsoever.

My brother called last week asking how he could share some digital photos with someone, he had over 100MB worth of photos. I suggested he needed to resize them and possibly archive them. He was absolutely clueless.

People just want to be able to do something with the least bit of fuss. The goal surely is to make it easier for people to carry out said somethings.

Package management could and should be better than it is. I don't believe that an app store is the answer to these issues. I've yet to try an app store that I like (haven't tried Apple's.) Normally it's tricky trying to look for software, and find solid recommendations.

Ubuntu's software center offers me little extra. I still resort to Synaptic!

If you can't install software easily, then you better offer a good set of defaults.
Why?

I don't think the only, or even primary, value of patents is to encourage invention. I think they're valuable for allowing a separation of concerns between inventors and implementors. When you think of patents in that way, it makes total sense for them to be treated as transferable assets.
> Kindness is personified by Mother Teresa - a well-meaning person who can offer only succour to the dying.

Ooooh, bad example:

http://www.population-security.org/swom-96-09.htm

> One of Mother Teresa’s volunteers in Calcutta described her “Home for the Dying” as resembling photos of concentration camps such as Belsen. No chairs, just stretcher beds. Virtually no medical care or painkillers beyond aspirin, and a refusal to take a 15-year-old boy to a hospital. Hitchens adds, “Bear in mind that Mother Teresa’s global income is more than enough to outfit several first class clinics in Bengal. The decision not to do so... is a deliberate one. The point is not the honest relief of suffering, but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism

> She has also been criticized for her view on suffering. She felt that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus.[1] Sanal Edamaruku, President of Rationalist International, criticised the failure to give painkillers, writing that in her Homes for the Dying, one could "hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief. On principle, strong painkillers were not administered even in severe cases. According to Mother Teresa's philosophy, it is 'the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ'."[2]

[1] Byfield, Ted (20 October 1997). "If the real world knew the real Mother Teresa there would be a lot less adulation". Alberta Report/Newsmagazine 24 (45)

[2] http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/mother_teresa/sanal_ed.ht...

I probably wouldn't have even mentioned this if you hadn't explicitly said "succour to the dying". 'Succour' is the last thing Mother Teresa offered. After all, Suffering Is Good.
Given current trends and the aggressiveness of online retailers, its clear to me that increasing value percentages of the goods that we buy will be delivered to our door and not from physical stores.

So infrequently purchased items will be relatively harder to find at physical stores, and need-it-now items will be priced at a high markup in order to pay the rent and labor costs born by physical stores.

Another trend affecting all retail is the recycling of used goods via craigslist, eBay, and so forth. When such an item is purchased used, then its very possible that a retail purchase was lost.

Many people do not need to go to a physical store to learn about desirable goods, rather they observe what their friends have, maybe try it out, then buy online - with no physical store comparison or impulse shopping.
ARM also holds copyrights to their designs, which would still protect then even if they lost all their patents.
Site down for anyone else? Using Google's cached copy... Gotta love the Hacker News effect
Same here, his passion and work ethic for his craft is inspiring.
I do get your point. But unfortunately that's the way the world works. Those who have patents bully others and make money of them. Microsoft is playing by the rules. I still don't think there is any point in blaming them for the lack of success of Desktop Linux.
It's a play button, and when you press it it actually just starts playing cool music? I didn't know that sort of straightforwardness and intuitiveness was even possible. Why can't the whole Internet be like this?
I wonder if this is a world wide issue?