skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you would want men to look up your interests online so they can intentionally deceive you by pretending they like the same things? Even if you don't consider it creepy, it doesn't sound like the basis of a strong relationship.
Why wouldn't a scam like that be worth a $76m investment? The business is obviously very lucrative.

If a business is profitable in the hundreds of millions, as long as it is borderline legal, someone will invest in it. Thats the sad reality of how this stuff works.

Though it is disappointing that Business Insider didn't take a few seconds to make an attempt at journalistic integrity, and do some research here rather than once again simply regurgitating a press release as some fluff piece.
"The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes."

Many icons are bigger than that these days (and with Retina displays, will continue to grow).
Yes, but this is the internet where words take on nuanced meanings. Back when I was visiting colleges (pre-FB), there was a school that had a social network that was very similar to the early Facebook. Looking for possible dates on there was referred to e-stalking. And since Facebook has taken off, I've heard the word used in the same context fairly often.
Try this www.staandupdesk.com it's simple and cheap.
An electronic pressure cuff.
No, but all else being equal, code which is shorter and clearer is better than code which is longer. The latter is far more likely to contain bugs. It's the difference between composing a map/filter/reduce pipeline and writing every single loop out by hand.
Going from sputnik in 1957 to the moon landing in 1969, I can see how someone in the 70s might think we'd have space colonies by 2012. Then again, a lot of people thought we'd have blown ourselves up by now.

Of those two visions, we've come much closer to blowing ourselves up then we ever have to space colonies. I'm ok with the lack of progress on the space colonization frontier--I just wish there was more progress on the "how to not blow ourselves up" problem.
Not only ineffective, but its planned to make this deceipt downright illegal. You have to state all of the costs in clearly readable text on the signup page itself and change the button to indicate that you are signing up with recurring costs.
It would, however, indeed be paranoid and crazy.

The WebKit developers spend all day trying to drive the web forward. That's what they do. They're not pulling their punches. Try hanging out in #webkit on irc for a bit and see if you think they want the web to lose to native.
Considering the fact that, you end up on the checkout page trying to purchase an item, the jibber-jabber on the right side hardly helps.
I agree about the philosophic ideas. Everyone will probably figure out something different ;)

I don't think playing this game with accelerometers would be as fun, they are so imprecise it would end up frustating (to me at least).
If it was share-alike, why would companies develop tutorials, since they could be re-published by other companies at close to cost price?
OS X 10.0.4 was released in 2001 and had 128x128 pixel icons in 24-bit color with 8-bit alpha, at 66k each. It was not typical to compress them.
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> It's hard to go back later and say the charge was fraudulent after you received the bill and opted to pay it.

Not when it's lumped into a single balance that you pay significant monthly interest on.
This one is more like subspace radio than FTL travel.
To answer the question at hand: "Why was [this] company able to raise $76 Million Series B?" They make money.

What's more concerning to me is that the coverage in TechCrunch[0] and Business Insider wasn't able to raise a modicum of doubt. If googling "JustFab" returns "Class Action Lawsuit" in the first 5 results, it would seem that the reporters either didn't do the absolute minimum required for effective journalism, ignored it, or were instructed to ignore it.

We've all heard the "online journalism is broken" refrain, so I won't repeat it here.* I'll just note that if it's so far gone that googling the topic of interest is out of the question, this form of journalism is worse than I thought.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/fashion-retail-and-styling-...

* Edit: some forms appear to be doing quite well, e.g. nytimes.com. I'd also point out that there are some online articles I've found on TC or TheNextWeb, or AllThingsD that were quite good.
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I was a big fan of Turbo Pascal. It was a great learning language, and had a robust library that was really fun for beginners to tinker with! I'd almost call it the Python of its time.
Ask HN: Organizational system for learning via different types of highlights
This question involves architecting an organizational system for optimizing the learning of technical material via different types of highlights. The intent of this question is to define, with exacting specificity, what is "important enough" to highlight, with the goals of highlighting as little as possible, increasing signal, and decreasing noise.

Let's say that you were studying a new programming language book using Apple's iBooks app. iBooks affords six different highlight types: green, yellow, red, blue, purple, and underline.

1. How would you use these different highlight types to optimize your learning of the material?

2. What would you consider to be the principal benefit of your particular approach?

For example, hypothetically, one might reserve, say:

* Underline for "novelties", i.e., concepts that are entirely new.

* Green for benefits/pros of the language.

* Red for drawbacks/cons of the language.

This approach might be said to have the principal benefit, during review of the highlights, of reinforcing exposure to new concepts, and allowing one to know when best to use (or not use) this particular language.

Some other possibilities may include: best practices, anti-patterns, idioms, caveats, things that confuse you, and things that are contrary to your expectation.

It may be best that one's highlight types are mutually exclusive such that one highlighted passage can't fall within more than one highlight type, and it further may be best that each highlight type is "easy to judge" such that cognitive load isn't increased in trying to deliberate whether or not a given passage fits a given highlight type.

Imagine also that you'd be able to -- should you so optionally desire -- export the highlighted passages (with their types) for external use.
I very much disagree with this. Java is much more modern, but you can learn the entire language in some months of work.

I will grant you that it will take longer to learn all the libraries you want to use, along with the entire Java standard library, effective design of Java programs, etc.

But the languages haven't gotten much bigger over the years.
Then again since when TechCrunch really practiced journalism?
Great idea! Did you make that? Will there be an Android version?
It's tough to take your own blood pressure with a manual sphygmomanometer and stethoscope (not enough hands...).
It is a Netflix for shoes. The difference is that Netflix do not mention their price without mentioning 'per month', while JustFab never mention it.

I went through the checkout process. If you were introduced to this site as a cheap shoe store, rather than as a 'netflix for shoes', you could easily be mislead.

They are definitely in the grey area.
Imagine how much better Google results would be if, instead of returning what you wanted, they told you off for not typing an easier to find query.
What happens when you perform a one-off search? For example, lets say a friend asks if you know the score to the Yankees game? You really have no interest in baseball, but you do the search anyhow. Should that really influence your Google Now profile?
https://www.google.com/search?q=scamville

led to an entire industry being changed
I was really impressed by this, until it occurred to me that the source code for the C64 Forth compiler I used back in the day was probably considerably smaller than 39K. :)
I have tried tracking but data becomes too clumpsy to be of any use.
Did you include the "sic" as a joke? If so well played my friend, if not the streak continues. Including "sic" is grammatically incorrect because you are not transcribing an error or misspelling something on purpose.
It's the "or silent" bit that's remarkable. If something's not against the law...it's not against the law.
Thanks, that's less hyperbolic than the title, but I don't think you've quite captured what he's saying either. I think he's saying if you invent a new tech, YouHolodeck, you're not magically exempt from copyright law and you can't just post existing copyrighted material ("but it's different, it's holographic"). Existing laws should apply, without needing constant updating ("on the internet", "in the holodeck", "in the singularity").

If you want an exception you have to ask for it, you don't get one by default. That does not mean the new technology is illegal. If Disney says no Mickey Mouse in holospace, then no Mickey Mouse in holospace, but you're still going to be free to post holos of your local street corner mime doing his thing.
Normally you only see these types of action pages on adult sites (and Zynga games).

All the important info is far away from the button as possible.

Page is 'technically' letting you know that you're signing up for a subscription, yet the button only says "Complete Checkout"...nothing about 'Signing Up'.

They went through some verbal hoops to not use terms like 'subscription', '$39.95 a month' and to keep the '$39.95' away from the word 'month'.
As is allowed by Swedish law, not unusual, and approved by the district court. They can even extend it to a month if they need to.
And it's still available for download:

https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/turbopascal
Typical sensational TorrentFreak article. This is normal procedure in Swedish courts. The Swedish legal system is different and what would be called "charged" comes much later in the legal process. He's currently häktad[1] which is stopping him from destroying evidence or leaving the country, like he did previously when he fled to Cambodia.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remand_(detention)#H.C3.A4ktnin...
This is a great article. Like others I'm concerned about the direction of CSS. The initial intent of CSS was to separate format and layout from markups. We all remember the days of nested tables. However, as cool as shaders are, I wonder if this capability should have been introduced from a different approach.
I was thrown at turbo Pascal at university. Horrible language to be honest as it was utterly painful to produce any reasonable data structures in it. The verbosity usually broke the memory constraints of the machine just before you finished what you were doing meaning hours of search and replace on identifiers to shorten them to clean up ram for the editor. Ick.

It made me actually long to get back to a m68k based sun 3 with a c compiler which took literally 2 minutes to compile hello world if some asshat wasn't running emacs on the same box which was swapping to disk 100% of the time...

However what they managed to cram in was impressive.
I love this site, keep up the good work.
I actually hate Google Instant. I like to start typing before I'm done looking at what came up and I like to take notes in the search field. I wish I could turn it off, but that setting never seems to persist across sessions.
The point of posting your interests online would be to attract other people with similar interests. That girl was anticipated a stalker, but what she got was most probably a perfectly normal guy who checked her out beforehand to ensure compatibility.
I have a 2 foot tall stack of Java manuals here that beg to differ :)

Java is big, the java ecosystem is huge.

Sure, it does more than turbo pascal, but if you're able to go from 0 to learning the entire language in a few months of work then you're a pretty hard worker!

Going from 0 to knowing turbo pascal (language, ecosystem, ide) inside out in a few months is no remarkable feat.
Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments
What makes you excited about NFC? What do you want to see NFC do?

Most people center on the payments aspect of NFC but there are so many more. Off the top of my head:

* Payments (replacing credit/debit cards and stored value cards i.e. in a cafeteria)

* Building/security access

* Ticketing (especially plane tickets)

* Transit card support (i.e. Clipper/Oyster/Metrocard)

* Real world interaction with stickers (check into this place
on Foursquare, update Facebook, etc)

* Advertising opportunities ("tap here to watch the trailer" on movie posters)

* As MOO just announced, business cards with NFC

Do any of these excite you? Is there anything I missed?

The reason I ask all this is because every time I talk about NFC my peers say that there is no adoption and no use case outside of payments. Obviously the iPhone doesn't have NFC yet but that shouldn't stop it's adoption in the Real World. There is a long list above of valid use cases, why aren't we seeing adoption yet?
I agree, but the GP made it sound like a get-out-of-jail-free card.
I noticed that the page took a long time to load. Page Speed has some good recommendations for speeding it up: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
Nik, your articles would seem to be of a much higher standard (and, accordingly, posted with greater infrequency) than most others on TC.

Plain and simple, it seems that most of the time, most of TC’s homepage is not investigative, but sensationalized triviality.

Thanks for being a part of the exception.
This looks like and Ad, and nothing but. It doesn't look like a real experiment.
Yes. I'm glad Cook wrote the letter, but it does come across as a bit too meek.
Scheme, Haskell
I've recently taken to draping the strips over the rungs of the oven rack, and letting them drip into a foil-lined sheet pan.

I can't think of a better way. I strongly prefer to let the fat drip off.
Direct link to results: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...
39K worth of Forth is a very large program. Most forth code never grows beyond a couple of screens. That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of functionality, it just means that forth is unusually dense.
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The article says it was originally extended by two weeks, and then recently extended again by another two weeks. Can they extend it more?
Out of curiosity, are you using AssImp ( http://assimp.sourceforge.net/ )on the backend and rendering to your format?
I learn a lot from this reply that I think I could use in my own projects, thanks a lot for sharing.
That's great! What are you powering the site with?
Here's my theory. It's not that entrepreneurs are more risk-tolerant than the average person, but that their idealistic desire to "make a difference" and not having to "answer to the boss" outweighs their risk-aversion. Of course, most of them end up making no difference and having to answer to investors, but that realization usually comes after several years of experience.
>> Consider why newspapers are written in columns rather than across the entire page. Or why the text block on this site is only 600 pixels wide.

Why are multiple columns not preferred on the web as opposed to wasting half the screen space. I guess there may be issues with scrolling but those should be solvable.
Well, it's sad in a way but there are consumers that use it exactly like that. They order stuff and then charge back the money in the hope that the merchant won't care enough to fight the chargeback, which can cost a multiple of the original transaction.

Most large merchants have risk mitigation strategies that attempt to detect this before a charge gets processed and goods are shipped but that's a less-than-perfect mechanism.
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Considering drug companies are always fighting with the FDA to do the bare minimum in terms of clinical studies, I would fathom to guess that your theory can't be supported with the existing evidence.
As with all pre-mating rituals (both new and tech-based and old and non-tech-based) someone looking you up on a social network is simply part of the game if the person is attractive to you. If they are unattractive to you, it is [e-]stalking.
> stocks of cod are low in relation to past expectations

The last two paragraphs indicate that stocks are recovering and are the best they've been in years.
It might be useful to have the full story behind Aereo. If I recall correctly, they are trying to serve as an Antenna outsourcing service of sorts - you pay them to house your antenna and they let you watch TV from anywhere you have an internet connection.

From a consumer's point of view, seems very reasonable and convenient. A Dropbox for public TV of sorts.
how do you scan for credit card data with a rfid reader? very few credit cards have rfid.
Banks and, at least VISA, are not as quick to do chargebacks they used to be. Now, they'll only do them if the customer says their card was stolen. Found this out when my mother was scammed by a moving company for the 50% deposit (company never showed). She called the number on the back of the card to dispute the charges (I believe its the bank's customer service number, not VISA's). But the bank told her they couldn't reverse the charges since she was the one who authorized them. To get her money back, she'll have to take the moving company to small claims court.
Wow, this is actually a pretty sensible arrangement.

A person who was häktad but was not charged (or was freed after trial) is entitled to financial compensation, with an amount determined by the Chancellor of Justice. It is usually around 500 SEK (US$80) per day for the suffering, somewhat more if there was media attention, plus compensation for lost work income. 1200 people were compensated in 2007.[10] If the prisoner is sentenced, the time as häktad counts as a part of the prison time, so that less time will remain after the trial.
Childcraft, by chance?

If so, I loved them too.
Is there a lag in funding reporting or are fundings pretty much always reported on the day they occur? Are there any seasonal effects? This is a yearly graph, but 2012 is being reported at the end of September when there are still three months left until the end of the year.
The referral policy on workflowy is quite good, if you want to try it. I have like 5k items on my list since I promote it heavily among my friends, but hardly use anything more than 1k any month.
There was a conversation in a ruby channel about this recently.

I mentioned that if 15 years ago you had suggested that in 2012 you would need HTML, CSS (and probably LESS), JS (and probably JQuery + CoffeeScript + Backbone), SQL or Mongo and Ruby or PHP or similar just to do a simple form application - we would have laughed.

I got shot down - "it's a web application now, so not comparable".

But I really think it is comparable. The number of technologies you need to know reasonably well to do a basic business function online is nuts.

To make it worse the number of flavours of languages or components involved and the requirement to hire vertical developers (specialising in one language) rather than developers who could understand the full domain means that business web apps are becoming unmaintainable more quickly.

These tools and languages in the hands of startup teams with above average commitment/experience/knowledge are fantastic, but for general business use they are big step backwards.

I've noticed several sites recently that are including more than one version of JQuery (and a copy of Prototype) on the same page - which is a symptom of this to me.

Don't get me started that I could press F9(?) 15 years ago and Turbo Pascal would build in 2 secs on a 386. Takes irb that long to start on this 8 core.
It is an ad. No idea what it does on HN, especially in a form of blog post with embedded video.
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At KyivPy#8 I heard about new lightweight framework supporting Python3 - wheezy.web. But as you said it is not a mainstream among web-developers.

I think the most popular Django apps will move to Python 3 as a lot of people are interested in it. Time show us how Django with Python3 support will change the current situation.
1. I can't make you see the problem if you don't want to see it. The phrase "San Francisco International" is conversationally unambiguous.

2. I'm no longer in the area, but at the time I made the search I got something like 5-10 results, none of which was clearly the airport.

3. That's my explanation for why nobody is talking about what I feel is the giant elephant sitting in the corner. Maybe I'm wrong. If Apple partisans actually think that the search is fine, that might be a better explanation.
It's more obvious when zoomed in and I can see your point. But do you not experience the first image, the zoomed out version? In that one I can barely differentiate.
Didn't check the code out but it looks like p is something like:

obj.tap { |x| puts x }
But they are all looking _down_ at the monitor all the time.

I would get a crick in my neck doing that for extended periods of time.

How do people handle that?
Ask HN: Where can I find salespeople to market to?
I have a couple of SAAS ideas for salespeople to help them improve their selling skills. However other than blogging to build an email list and PPC I'm struggling to think up ways to target salespeople.

Does anyone have any ideas?
She may have inadvertently miscategorized some pick up artists as Facebook stalkers, for better or worse, as it's a fairly well known opener to talk about horses: http://becomingpua.com/blog/pua-opener-horse-girl.html
I don't agree with 4. I think the the name "shoutt" suggests that the app is heavily focus on content producing. The animated dot on the map further reinforced this impression. So I don't think it's necessary to tailor to the content consumption aspect. My understanding is that this app is strictly for expressing oneself, so who wants to "shoutt" if everyone else is shouting and nobody listening? There is still value prop in this case, if the app is intended to aggregate what people shoutt about and somehow connect people with that? Still have to see the demo video to find out exactly what it does.
That's the base case. It takes arguments, too, and if you give it a block, it prints out the result of the block called in the receiver's scope.
I agree. I don't know how you could have IP without patents.
I bought an EEE pc when they first came out and it had a 4GB SSD. I thought, no way would I fill that 4GB for this little thing. That lasted about a month. I had to put in the largest SD card I could find/afford (16gb?) to actually save all my files.

128GB may seem like enough but I am sure most people will go past that. We'll find something to eat up all that extra space.
As I recall it, when TP came out on the it meant that you no longer had to choose between Basic and 16 bit segmented mode asm.

Not many people had heard of C back then and Pascal was considered a very well-designed language. The PC C compilers of the time were somewhat lousy. Few people doing PC development had access to a proper *NIX machine.
So he's saying that we should have exactly what we always had? New technologies were never exempt from following copyright law.

What he's really saying is that he doesn't like that some technologies are actually legal (like Aereo), not because they're new, but because they fall under fair use conditions. And so he wants to kill them by making them "illegal until proven legal".
you registered a domain for this - a couple lines of code?