skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said the exact same thing yesterday but my comment never made it here (Internet connection blew up on me). This whole "stop using noreply" thing is just a bunch of silly hip dogma now. Soliciting feedback and cultivating relationships with customers is definitely important. Only a fool would argue otherwise but it simply doesn't scale. And there's much to be said about context and rules. A noreply email is usually meant as a one-way communication. There's no reason to reply to it and if by chance there is then make sure you give easy access to the proper channels.

I'm opening up my own site to the beta list in 10 days (shameless plug: https://writeapp.me) and I thought about noreply and I came up with this: Some emails are meant to or can reasonably be expected to generate feedback. Replies to those will be handled swiftly and efficiently. Others, like transactional emails the app generates warrant no reply. Changed your password? Okay, we'll click the link to reset it or ignore this email to keep it the same. Replies to such emails will be accepted but they'll be directed to a very low priority inbox.

The problem is that when you have X types of emails and X inboxes, accepting replies on all of them is an organization nightmare. There's a lot to be said for setting proper expectations. If you make sure to direct users to the appropriate channels from day 1 then you don't have to worry about support requests coming from marketing emails or transactional notification emails. Letting users reply to all emails and giving them personal attention no matter what they replied to from day 1 sets the expectation that they'll have that forever and are then entitled to it. There's a reason noreply is used. It's not because someone was an asshole and didn't want to interact with users. It was because its impractical at a certain point.

By all means make it a priority to get feedback and interact with users but just be careful and don't be short sighted about it.

The example in the post is actually a bad example. The author is saying not to use noreply and references an email that is in no way similar to any kind of noreply email youd normally get. He got an email from a founder. The context was personal. Why in the world would that ever come from a noreply address? The example would be far more compelling (yet still take a position I disagree with) if he had gotten a transactional email or a marketing email that he replied to. But he didn't. He got a personal email because of something he said online that was noticed by someone at the startup. Apples and oranges.

The post's point should have been simply to encourage startups to engage more with users and make them feel special. This post seems to have little to do with noreply email addresse at all. By taking a story about startups engaging with users and turning it into an anti-noreply article the real message is buried and becomes disagreeable.
I wish flightfox.com would let us (regular users) run cool contests like this. The options for running a contest are much more limited than this.
The huge drawback for me is that the web version doesn't even go fullscreen. Seems kind of like pointless design decision.
Can you not simply modify the way in which you calculate the statistics?

Since doctors tend, as I understand it, to state the expected success rate to patients before surgery - this could be used as a factor in the reporting.

A more confident surgeon might be willing to quote a higher success rate, which would attract more patients (or patients willing to pay more) but would be more punishing were he shown to be incorrect.

Obviously this is very vague, and whilst I work with statistics I don't deal in medicine. But the difference between a surgeon/hospitals success rate and the expected success rate seems like a good measure of competence?
This feature is totally useless for Ubuntu users from countries like India where Amazon is not present.
> Then when the centralized registry decides it wants everyone to start using their real names, we're back to where we started.

Not really. Directory lookup should use a standardized API so that when one directory service goes rouge, clients can just switch to another they trust.

I do think that it's essential for this to be standardized. Not only for this reason, but clients/hosts shouldn't be forced with the responsibility of indexing the entire social web themselves.
A Guide to Dividing Up Early Stage Start-Up Equity
Good article on Tech Cocktail about how to divide early-stage equity.
Article includes an example where linking to the iPhone wouldn't work.
How Technology Gave Us Cheap Food At Huge Quantities - And Why It Has To Stop
Fantastic Cleaners in London
"It’s a direct result of an unemployment rate for software programmers that in the first part of 2012 was 4.4 percent, slightly more than half the national average."

That's about the rate for college graduates, see this chart:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS14027662
You're just hung up on your definition of "release", which is "release for production use". "Release early release often" doesn't dictate how you release your application, just that you expose it in some form (private beta, public beta, pre-release) to the real world for vetting. Projects that fail to vet their assumptions are more prone to poor data structures and over-engineering.
Nice hack.

However you really should look into static website generators such as Jekyll, Octopress or Hyde. They provide a much cleaner interface for that kind of stuff.
> There is 100% hardware compatibility on many laptops already, I'm not sure that that is the problem.

Then what is the problem exactly? Every time Ubuntu comes up, people ask if it is fully hardware compatible. Is that just a branding issue, where people think Ubuntu isn't hardware compatible with most modern laptops?
That is a bit of history, not as attractive as the X or Y-MP (to my taste) but still a neat machine. Folks have been comparing it to a smartphone today, which is inaccurate, it would be better to compare it to the GPU in a smart phone where the GPU shader engines don't have nearly as rich an instruction set as the CLUs of the T94. (and the T94 only had 4 CPUs rather than 16 or 32) But a amazing I/O bandwidth of 8 GBytes second was pretty cool. This thing would have been capable of an awesome render of most 3D scenes.
Biei, Furano, - Beautiful Landscape
50-beautiful-and-user-friendly-navigation-menus
Gale - Tornado AsyncHTTPClient For Human
thank you! let me know if you have any problems or suggestions! my email is president@nanch.com
When I order from amazon.co.uk to Finland, often items get delivered from their German warehouse, so it seems that something like this does happen, at least in Europe.

But I agree it would be nice when I'm linked to amazon.com to easily be able to see that the same item is available from one of the european sites. As it is I have to manually check.

The lack of region/language differentiation is something that bothers me a lot from a lot of websites. As an English speaker currently living in Finland, I often change the language to English on a particular site, only to be redirected to the UK regional site which has different information that is not useful to me.
C.E.O.’s and the Pay-’Em-or-Lose-’Em Myth
Ask HN: Grade my Landing Page 
http://www.crunchfit.com/lsw-rewards/

Tell me what you think. Advice?

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The whole point of continuous delivery is that correcting things like data structures is no longer the big deal it once was because it happens frequently. Rather than letting months (or years!) of data migrations pile up, you have a few days worth (or weeks). In my opinion, it is best to ship something that works today and have a system in place that makes correcting it as painless as possible.

That's the real problem with the current model. The data structures will never be perfect and you cannot know how they will change. Yet they do. Then all the FUD from the last migration that scared everyone prevents the team from due diligence and correcting issues when they are discovered. The team waits until the problem comes to a head, management has to be involved, new FUD is created and people dream about perfect data structures to prevent this whole mess.

Remember,

Shipping > Shipping Shit > Not Shipping
Saying homeopathy was more advanced than regular medicine at the time is akin to saying rain dancing was more advanced than irrigation of crops from a polluted water source. At least the latter method is based on the assumption of certain evidenced-backed empirical principles. The former method has no correlation or effect on reality under any assumption beyond pleasing the rain gods and associated bullshit.
Co-working robots like Baxter promise a future for home robotics
Seems like FUD. The title has 'pollution' but the article only has one mention of pollution:

> The pollution from data centers has increasingly been cited by the authorities for violating clean air regulations, documents show. In Silicon Valley, many data centers appear on the state government’s Toxic Air Contaminant Inventory, a roster of the area’s top stationary diesel polluters.

There is some interesting information, but reads as if it wants to be some kind of scandalous exposé with all the off the record quotes.

I like the proposed solution though:

> "Some industry experts believe a solution lies in the cloud: centralizing computing among large and well-operated data centers."

This of course doesn't always meet needs. Sometimes you need bare metal and your own network for security or latency reasons like maybe in the finance industry where milliseconds matter.
"We then analyze an "idealized" genetic algorithm (IGA) that is signi cantly faster than RMHC and that gives a lower bound for GA speed. We identify the features of the IGA that give rise to this speedup, and discuss how these features can be incorporated into a real GA."

"As can be seen, the time to reach level one is comparable for the two algorithms, but the GA is much faster at reaching levels 2 and 3. Further, the GA discovers level 3 approximately twice as often as RMHC."

"We have presented analyses of two algorithms, RMHC and the IGA, and have used the analyses to identify some general principles of when and how a genetic algorithm will out-
perform hill climbing."

I'm not sure this paper says what you're claiming that it says.
Also interesting village subway by Леонид Мулярчик from Russia, 20 years of elder man's work :

http://victorprofessor.livejournal.com/106201.html

http://suriso.livejournal.com/381310.html

http://video.yandex.ru/users/paninbar/view/1/

Hand made everything: tunnelling shield, waterproofing, electricity supply and stairs at entrance halls. More than 200 metres of tunnels, including fire-safety tunnel. All grunt removed by shovel and handmade conveyer belt. Guy ever installed security cams and cash register. Only cars and rails remained to make before he died a month after heart attack from visits of journalists. Also he wanted to place water supply and canalization pipes in subway but can not to win over authorities.
One person's backdoor for police is another person's backdoor for criminals.
As Amazon gets more and more established, the value of their affiliate program drops. They end up giving up margin for a sale they are likely to capture anyway.

I predict that as time goes on, they will cut back their affiliate program. Once you have the data to determine on a per-product-category basis what kind of affiliates are worth it and which aren't they next step is to prune back the latter.
If you go to an interview at a hot new startup in 5 years saying I know MongoDB and Coffescript they'll just chuckle and say sorry old timer, we only use UmbongoDB and Congoscript here.
MemCache++: An example of modern C++ design
Just ran through this quickly, I don't know too much about algorithms, so I can't judge GA's usefulness when compared to other methods, but it certainly seems like a cool/fun thing to implement.
Cool but the URL structure seems crappy from an SEO standpoint. I wonder if there's any flexibility there when generating static files from WP.
What you're describing and what the author describes isn't noreply email. A noreply message is a one-way communication that doesn't warrant a response and if it gets one will be sent to a low priority inbox. I'm 100% for your idea but what I take exception to is the idea that noreply emails are somehow wrong or bad. They're not. They're quite useful. This is where scale comes in. At a certain point you just can't accept replies to every email you send out because you somehow have to filter them so they get the attention of the proper person or department. There's lots of room for personalized auto responders and all that but somestimes one-way really does need to be one way. That doesn't mean bouncing replies if you get them nor does it mean literally naming the email address "noreply@". It just means drawing a line somewhere so that users know that you really do care about them but for you to be able to serve them as well, as quickly, and as efficiently as possible, they need to be in contact with such and such email or read the knowledge base articles at X URL. In the end I think that will make everyone happy.
For the sake of the argument let me try to defend Homeopathy for a moment. Sure, people can bash it all day long and it might have very little "measurable" effects. But as long as people believe in it, I expect that it leads to the same results as placebo effects.

Placebo effects have been proven in many cases extremely strong and a main obstacle for the pharmaceutic industry to prove the statistical significance of their products. And as long as people get better, even if it is just by the believe in the effect, it is in my view a legitimate approach.
My kids are sick of me harping on this. But now they use different pseudonyms for every site, including Facebook, and I'm proud of them for it.

They rarely use Facebook anymore; it seems it's becoming boring.
> like, instead of , say, 9-5, you arrive at 10 and leave at 4?

Exactly. But I work on the train. Also, I work from home two days a week.
Does anyone have a link to a good beginner's guide explaining the output?
This seems to apply to all kinds of "writing" (symbol sequence generation), from math to poetry, though the terms differ, e.g.:

Bad novelists worry about the plot. Good novelists worry
about the characters and their relationships.
Well, I live in rural Germany and the trains I am taking are mostly filled with commuters between small towns. And swiss people. I don't think there is any reason to fear being mugged here.
No, it’s pretty certain he meant Core Duo since (and that was the problem he was running into) all Core 2 Duo MacBooks support Lion while Core Duo MacBooks do not.

It’s easy to massively mis-estimate the age of the stuff you own. Happened often enough to myself, so I’m not really surprised about that.
Funny you mention that. I, a Linux user, was deciding between the 13" Air and this Zenbook Prime, and chose the former, because the Zenbook reportedly has lots of issues and annoyances:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbookPrime

Installing on the 2012 Air wasn't exactly a walk in the park either, but that wiped out any Zenbook advantage. Now that it's set up, I absolutely love my Air running Xubuntu — it's the nicest laptop I've used. I'd recommend it to anyone. And as a bonus I can reboot into OS X if I ever want to.
And if you can't win on either, win on patents.
Your comment reminded me of other Ubuntu incident - when they were stealing profit from Banshee (they changed banshee's amazon ref id to ubuntu's).
No, in this case it's actually not. Mathematically. See your parent for proof. And please do not bring the "a billion flies can't be wrong" argument into this.
Hijacking a thread?

OK. Who created Uber's problems?

Was it Uber? I don't think so.

Is it a technical problem? Nope.

Bad code? Nah.

Bad service? Not really.

Substandard cars? No.

Too cheap or too expensive? Don't think so.

Nope. Uber has been experiencing friction purely and exclusively at the hands of government. A government that caters to the unionized (or collectivized --however you want to put it) taxi groups that are intent on protecting an industry that is in obvious need of disruption. Politics has EVERYTHING to do with this problem. It is not a technical problem at all.

Isn't it reasonable, then, to ask why it is that government is allowed to interfere with progress this way?

If you want to accuse me of hijacking a thread to promote my political views, so be it. I don't see you offering any sort of an explanation or solution for what Uber are running into.

This is no different than what Boeing run into with the NLRB from the standpoint of a government body's interference with industry and progress.

How do YOU explain the Uber problem?
The police reacted as police do when outnumbered by an unexpected and unpredictable large number of people concentrated in a given location.

The problem is a person making a private party invitation public, while being naive about exponential growth as the invite is passed from friend to casual acquaintance to complete stranger to anarchist to criminal.
Haha! I hadn’t even noticed that. I’m not sure that’s a problem, though. It’s not like I watch movies on YouTube and 16:9 videos use all available space on the screen, so that extra chrome is pretty irrelevant (so irrelevant that I didn’t even notice it).
Top Mobile Apps for the Busy Mother
Yep, I would pay gladly for ubuntu. But dont make me work your affiliates when searching my own stuff.. then suggesting something else.
Its from 2009.

The first four links in the article have since been redesigned so cant see the menu noted in the article.

Bah!
Lian Li releases a Train case with top end version that actualy moves
It doesn't seem to me that you're storing the per-user salt anywhere.

I'm glad you're working on a project that is fun for you. It will be an opportunity for you to learn quite a lot, but I would urge you to question your design choices and keep asking "How could this be done better?". Read about how other people have approached similar problems.

Get a small group of friends, family, and other technical acquaintances to pick this apart. I wouldn't endorse this for the general public.
> We work to keep people safe...

Real name is unsafe, outside of Facebook's control. The unsafe aspects include bullying and robbery, e.g.
I am reminded of this Simpsons scene: http://youtu.be/ClynhFKMs3c?t=40s
> I hope they don't sue themselves in to a corner by ultimately staggering [sic stifling?] future innovation.

I actually hope they do. That would be one way in which it would be clear for everybody that this is not the way to go.
Apple Could be Worth $1 Trillion on April 9, 2015, at 11 a.m.
If Apple continues on its current trajectory, it might break a barrier on April 9, 2015, that no company has ever touched.
Glacier CLI
It would be critical to ensure that people meeting share the same goal in the encounter. The goal of the meeting should be explicit. One way to do that would be to target a very specific demographic which might be likely to use such a service in a gratifying manner. This would have the benefit of helping you market to your target audience, if you can make the case that it solves their specific problem.
Forgiving Design and Reversible Choices
And come second if you're handy with a photocopier
Wow what a comment. This is some alright feedback, but are we treating this like a paid product much? Feedback is one thing, but are you really entitled to such a good (free) product (that you didn't help make)that you can bash it like this? Go buy redhat and complain to them.
There's nothing wrong with protecting people from themselves. We do it all the time.
I LOL'd, thank you.

I agree with this sentiment. It's something that has been going on for a long time. Even as far back as 2006, Canonical and the Ubuntu community seemed (to me, anyway) to be overly focused on convincing my mom to use Linux.

But here's the problem: my mom doesn't care what OS her computer runs as long as she can check her email. She doesn't care that she can hit the Windows key and search for stuff (she doesn't even know what that funny key does).

Traditional desktop Linux is for power users. Plain and simple. Everyone will be a lot happier once we all accept that fact.
Top Free Antivirus Software for Windows
Ubuntu: EOL-ed at 12.04?
This relates a bit to the problem of copycat crimes and the reporting of suicides causing an increase in suicides. Publicity increases the problem, but it's hard to get all the media to agree voluntarily on not giving it too much attention.

It can work in reverse aswell. If car fatalities are reported more, people might become aware that cars are dangerous, and drive safer, hence reducing fatalities & injuries.
How do you know that?

The iOS maps app with Google data sucked. No vectors, no turn-by-turn, no 3D. It wasn’t a modern apps app like you can find on Android. It was perpetually stuck in 2007.

What if Google refused to give Apple access to all that modern stuff and forced Apple to do it on their own? Why do you think it was Apple that made the choice here to switch? It could as well be Google that forced them to switch (by not giving them access to vectors, turn-by-turn, 3D).
The salt gets stored with the password hash in 'userstocreate.txt' so a line in userstocreate.txt looks something like:

username:$6$salt$passwordhash$:email

Then the password is sent to the /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow) file by /usr/sbin/useradd in createusers.pl.
A link to the canistrea.it would be helpful. It aggregats availability of movies in streaming/renting sites.
Example: http://www.canistream.it/search/term/The%20Shawshank%20Redem...
Alternative JVM languages
I heard a rumor that they changed some street signs to confuse the people, now that is wasting time.

Sounds kinda pointless because people can use the GPS on their phones & maps to get to the correct place, signs or no signs.
I like the comment. So far, I know for a fact that entrepreneurs love traveling and meeting people, so that definitely is a group I am going to cater to. Additionally, there's a layer of folks who just want to get showed around town by a local, possibly even paying that person dinner or whatever - which is a bit of a different scenario. So I am still trying to figure out which one I should be focusing on first. The "same goal" topic is crucial, I am currently wrapping my head around a solid haves/wants type of profile that is as little typing as possible and a lot of pulling data from other networks so that you'll immediately get an idea of the other person's social profile. Plus, your one-line meeting reason.

So, yeah, thanks. I really appreciate help at this point. Solid advice!
> I also referenced a product I built. The app is called SleepBot and it's a very simple mechanism to help people track sleep and get an idea of their sleep "debt" over short periods of time.

Hey, nice to meet you :). I'm using SleepBot on my phone for over a year now, it's great!
Windows has libraries for stuff. It isn't very intuitive and I'm not trying to justify it, but that is probably where the sentiment comes from.
Save the posts for future reference
they could just have directed people to a soccer field outside the village

One disadvantage to that is that the pitch could be ruined then. Thousands (or hundreds) of people on a grass field and it'll be mud city. What happens afterwards when that pitch is supposed to be used? Who pays (potentially) for reseeding it?
In the hello world example, no matter what text you put there, the assembly is the same. Where does the string content go?
I'll second this. It's the Resque backtraces that have caused us a few problems. And on a VPS RAM is your most expensive resource, possibly making Resque/Redis not such a good fit.