skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't quite the case. Reddit has been presented with situations that called for a response: do we take action or not? In the case of banning /r/jailbait and doxxing, Reddit decided to take a stance against those things. When it comes to enabling communities whose primary purpose is harassment, Reddit has decided to allow those things.

> Reddit's position against doxxing means Reddit is against doxxing - any further extrapolations are your own. Reddit's stance on doxxing may result in women being harassed and photographed in compromising situations, but that in no way means that, quote, "Reddit is expressing the moral preference that it’s okay to harass women and photograph them in compromising positions".

Reddit (as a company) has taken a position that enables harassment of women instead of taking the right action to police their own site from content in the same league as doxxing. A stance against doxxing followed up by actions that excuse the very things that lead to doxxing in the first place is a symptom of a cover your ass mentality that shows Reddit staff could give a shit less about actually cleaning up the site they run.
For those of you that are confused as I was, they are referring to the site as the "Github for food", and are not managing their content using Github as I wrongly inferred from the title.

EDIT: title was changed to make this clear.
Google reveals surprise profit slump
Singapore and the Singularity
I did not hear about realpython so thanks for the link.

The email is missing from your profile(only the about me field is public). I have added my email in my profile so you can contact me.
Conway's game of death - making an IOCCC winner
Apple didn’t buy Color, it bought 20 engineers for a few million
Google Down 10% - Falls After Third Quarter Sales Miss Analysts’ Estimates
>There is nothing inconsistent about affirming someone's right to say something while acknowledging that the content of said speech is deplorable.

Sorry, the SJ guardians live in a black and white world where you are with them or against them and being against creepshots AND against doxxing is completely impossible.
It's because there's a false semantic implied with the checkmark (that it's true instead of false), where instead the only thing that reallly matters is the encoding of the character. So it's not the most elegant solution (but it is pretty cool).
What are some of the tools you use to synthesize the learning from the usability testing?
Bigger, Better Google Ngrams: Brace Yourself for the Power of Grammar
I don't think there is a way in the MAS to differentiate between who gets the discount and who doesn't.
Keep track of the entire stock market using nothing but a glance
Turning off Javascript moves me from being unique and fingerprintable, to being 1 of 161,000. This is with Chrome in incognito.
Twilio's Shadow: A proxy that aids continuous deployment testing
Paper always works.

http://static-mb.minutebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/c...
I haven't used Twitter's ad platform at all (I honestly don't have much to advertise).

But is this pricing universal? $50 for 130 clicks, aka $0.39 per click? That seems like an exorbitant price for a click with unknown and probably low intent.

A CPC of $0.39, a CPM of $32.70!!!

I'm not an online marketing expert - is this realistic?
A lot of readers seem to think HN is only for tech. It isn't:

> Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Well, if the encryption is in client side javascript, people should be able to find any flaws in it pretty quickly.
Speculation is that their filing agent may have accidentally released them early.

update: confirmed by R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contacts, Notes, and Calendar are also Apple apps, and, well, yeah.

However, everything that Panic makes is incredible in both quality and Mac-ness. I use Transmit and love it, didn't think of it when making that list since it's not something you have open all of the time.

Then, look at Panic's iOS apps. They feel like iOS apps. Diet Coda and Coda are companion products, but they aren't identical. They each look and feel how an application on their respective platforms should feel (which is fairly open ended on iOS, but restrictive on OS X due to the shared desktop canvas).

Few other apps I use or have used in the past, non-Apple, fit in pretty well:

* Adium

* Colloquy

* Chrome

* NetNewsWire

* Reeder

* Sparrow
The modesty is refreshing indeed.

"I do not know how to lead people"

"[Company] will remain small - to grow the company of several hundred people, we do not want."

Compare that to the typical Silicon Valley swagger of all the productless please-sign-up-launching-soon startups; different mentality indeed.

Good for business? Who knows... but I have to wonder what the reaction of the US investors to all this was :)
A platform that encourages anonymous sharing has launched in beta.
Their iPad app was $5 so you should recheck your expectations.
The first Google result for me is Urban Dictionary, which has good definitions for it.
I disagree. In fact I think they've skewed more to the left. Since Tina Brown took over it's become more like vanity fair or the New-Yorker i.e more a collection of puff op-eds by "intellectuals", than a news magazine. Granted there are a few conservative writers on the roster (Niall Ferguson) but they are more European-style conservatives i.e NOT religious right at all.
In this case, I'm sure you're right.

But it might be worth noting that you can use spread-spectrum techniques (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum) to overcome jamming. Spread spectrum has some similarities to an encryption scheme, because the method used to smear the signal around uses a pseudorandom sequence which is known to the encoder and the decoder.

CDMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_division_multiple_access) cell phones use this idea.

As you note, this type of encryption takes place at the RF level.
Attacking ignorance and recommending a long course of study won't put someone in better shape. Part of the problem is ignorance, but your answer isn't solving that problem.

"Losing weight" was absolutely necessary for me, and it will be for most people -- unless you're suggesting that humans can be healthy at 5'11" and 260lbs, or 5'5" and 210lbs -- but that seems too unrealistic.

What I learned of nutrition (after that experiment) taught me that most of what's in bread, pasta, fruit, etc is cruft. Most "health" food is just more empty calories in a "healthier" package.
That site is a misuse of the term. Passiveaggressiveness is not about being assertive
I think there's a stage where companies can get huge value from using "as a service" products. Sure it's initially more expensive but the risk to your business is the product and market, not really the exact economics.

As you scale you can then start building your own datacenters to decrease your costs, place a higher value on security, etc.
If you want to go full cheapskate (not that I disapprove), AppFog has a generous free trier[1], no SSL though.

[1] http://www.appfog.com/products/appfog/pricing/
Not having used TweetBot before, I struggle to justify the price based on the feature set. No scheduled tweets, no short link analytics, etc.

Personally, this app falls into a weird space between the native Twitter client (consumer) and HootSuite (professional). I can't bring myself to label TweetBot as pro-sumer, due to lack of features.
I'm happy to pay for quality software but $20 for a Twitter client is ridiculous. To me it seems like they are using this and the Twitter tokens reasoning to stir up controversy. Has a popular app actually reached this limit to see what Twitter does? I'm betting they increase your limit.
All Whole Foods markets have cork recycling run by Cork ReHarvest in North America and someone else in the UK: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/cork-reharv...
In my opinion, that is innovation and is somwhat related to the discussion.
> a mid-day earnings release like this is highly unusual. One thing that is clear, though, is that the stock market is not happy about this. Google’s stock is now down about 9% and currently trades for well under $700.

This sentence makes it sound like the stock market is not happy about the fact that Google released results early, rather than the market not being happy about the financial results.

</english-police>
Thinking like economists
Looking at their current faq, it seems that they've better defined (and perhaps somewhat re-defined) what is to be asked there. Understandable as I stopped browsing the site because the questions got annoying. Compare the old faq: http://web.archive.org/web/20100912194040/http://programmers...
No, U of Phoenix makes u of Phoenix bad. That they have been able to be accredited just makes it worse.
Bitcoin transactions are taxable in both the U.S. and Europe, regardless of whether Bitcoin is a currency or asset.

Not reporting Bitcoin transactions is income tax fraud. In the U.S., at least, that potentially means that the statute of limitations for when the IRS can go after you for back taxes and penalties never expires.
Sorry, if it’s confusing.
What we meant is Cucumbertown allows recipes to be forked and changed upon.
Matches are the New Hotness
Yeahhhh, good luck with that defence when the man comes knocking.
This kind does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-sequence_spread_spectrum

DS Spread Spectrum spreads the signal over a larger frequency range- because power is conserved it can even hide behind ambient noise.

When un-spread, the noise is spread out and the signal is "collapsed" back to the original bandwidth.
For people saying "don't use flags", and "especially not for languages"...

I totally agree in theory, but...

In a lot of interfaces, having something visual helps a lot. Especially when you need to pick something from a list where you don't even know what language the user speaks!

Obviously, you can present a text list like "English (American)", "Português (Brasil)", "አማርኛ", "贛語", but it can look kind of ugly, how do you decide to sort them, etc.

Plus, a lot of times the language is tied to a country, because each country has their spelling and grammar differences, etc. That's why many times you don't see "Portuguese" in language lists, but rather "Portuguese (Portugal)" and "Portuguese (Brazil)" -- because there's no such thing as a general-purpose Portuguese.

So while flags aren't perfect, a lot of the time they help far more than they hurt. In a perfect world, there would actually be language-specific icons that everyone recognized. Suggestions, anybody?
do you like the idea? tell us your reviews about it please.
How come ability to hire isn't a criterion for investment?
I can't tell from their website what exactly they do. Do you have to buy in for real money to win real money? Or do you play with play money that they allow you to cash out for real money if you get enough of it?

Either way, this is certainly illegal in at least 6 US states. Believe it or not, you can't have games of chance with cash prizes even if entry is free in some states. Nobody ever gets prosecuted for doing that though.
When a Chinese tech company expands into the pork business...
But they will have the keys if something is being widely distributed.
> The only way you can stop it is by censoring the Internet, thus human thought.

Sneaking pictures of people's bodies isn't about human thought, but it is a part of institutional sexism.
I'm not prepared to pay this amount either, especially because I believe there is no way for this to be a combined twitter/app.net client down the road. We saw this with their their separation of the apps on the iOS platform.

If it were, on the other hand, that would make me more inclined to purchase. It'd be great to combine those experiences.
Escaping Captivity: Social Apes making Software in the Wild
The limit was only introduced a couple of months ago and Twitter really has no reason to increase the limit once they hit it. They've made it very clear by now they want to limit third-party apps rather than try partnering with them.
As well as to avoid paying transfer fees between regions. If you're querying a database in a different region, you're gonna have a bad time.
news.ycombinator.com is too slow for me, I don't know why but I get a lot of latency trying to connect and it can take several minutes to load a single page.

hackerne.ws is the only way I can reliably connect to this website unfortunately
> not to say CrOS is worthless, far from it

I think that the biggest ingredient of Apple's success is the "it just works" aspect. iOS and CrOS are much closer to this ideal than desktops have been. It is also possible to get even closer.
For cloud hosted API driven voice, plivo.

For voice in general, thousands of random VoIP/etc providers, mainly built on actual standards like SIP and H323, linked to on premises or collocated servers.
> What about the respect of your peers? Do you also find that completely meaningless?

Did you ever take a look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs? People evolve in different ways: For some, "respect of peers" is a need. It might well explain the demographics of reddit, for example.
We know. For god's sake, of course we know. What do you think, that we are blind? That every stalker has an expensive long-range camera and magical cammo where we can't see him? That you visit one Reddit, but we visit another Reddit? Or that we visit the same Reddit but just can't make the connection that pictures that happen to other girls can happen to us? Do you also think that it's ok to have sex with a girl who's drunk and passed out as long as you clean up afterwards?
>and people look down on the people those photographers and often grief them

And in this case, the people publishing those photos (gawker) are hypocritically bashing other people for publishing much less invasive photos (reddit). So the idea that the invasion of celebrities privacy is looked down on already seems a bit unrealistic.

>Cyberbullies taking pictures with their phones behind someone's back for fake internet points that give them some sort of credence in their community is just flat-out disgusting.

You just keep stating your opinion as if it were a logical answer to the question. I understand that you feel that way. I am not asking what you feel. I am asking how gawker's photos are less bad than creepshots. I don't think taking pictures of fully clothed people in public areas is disgusting, so expecting me to suddenly just take your word for it is pretty silly.
It depends on your goals. As someone stated the other day in the ThePirateBay thread, their priority is mobility, rather than keeping their setup close-knit.
I'm a little confused. I thought fractal trees worked cache obliviously or am I mistaken?
There was a lot of controversy when Tweetbot for iPhone was released and people were complaining about the same design thing, that it's not iOS-like and now a lot of people love it. But I see your point.
I've been using it since it first came out as alpha and I had no problem with the design choices especially because it looks a lot like the iPad app.
Is DHS Ready to Take the Lead on Cybersecurity?
Traction is the new IP
That's redonkulous, rocket surgery is timeless.
So glad they finally did this. I've been begging them to do a $250 Chromebook since day one, because I think that's the sweetspot for a "Chromebook", and the only way they could've achieved that, while also having good build quality and whatnot, was to use an ARM chip, and not an Intel one, so I'm glad they finally did that, too. I think it's long overdue, but perhaps they were waiting for the Cortex A15 chips to come to market, which I guess makes sense.

If Google would partner with Verizon or AT&T to offer these things for free (much better marketing than say a $50 price) with LTE and a 2 year contract, I think they would see even more sales, especially from businesses and professionals. Obviously they should be getting the data plans they get with an USB modem, not the amount they get with a cellphone plan.
Pricing is explained in their launch post, here: http://tapbots.com/blog/news/tweetbot-mac

Essentially because there are some users who will pay the $20.00 amount, and there are limited seats, they are maximizing earnings/user.
That isn't the part of the post that's offensive, and therefore wasn't the part I quoted.

I do not take issue with your line of argument re: free speech, though I disagree with it.

I do take strong issue with your baseless ad hominem attack against every person who works for Reddit. Their actions (or rather, lack thereof) is not an "expression of moral preference" for the harassment of women.

That portion of your post was deliberately intellectually dishonest to the highest and most vindictive degree.
Well that was an easy short. RRD dropped long after your update. Nice work Uptown!
Should be enough time to understand and implement a basic raycasting engine ala Wolf3D/Doom though.
AppFog, Heroku[1] and dotCloud[2] are all great

[1] http://www.heroku.com/pricing

[2] https://www.dotcloud.com/pricing.html
My Posse’s on TheReg
Thanks for this comment, it prompted me to read up more about Twitter's new policy for auth tokens. I had seen some headlines passing by, but didn't bother to read them. Anyway, then indeed it makes much sense for Tapbots to get the most out of relatively limited quantities.

I guess that this also makes a strong point for App.net: users won't be bothered with apps and growth of the third-party ecosystem isn't artificially restricted.
Ask HN: Is there a web service API provider for receiving MMS?
There are a lot of SMS API providers, but I couldn't find any providers that support Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Even Twilio doesn't support MMS.

Is there any MMS API provider, especially receiving MMS?
Dear community,

We just launched http://tcrn.ch/REN2RU our public beta.
Analyzing H1B data with Python & Panda
Navigation results in following error:

DNS Points to Prohibited IP

You've requested a page on a website (www.cowonder.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, it is resolving to an IP address that is creating a conflict within CloudFlare's system. If you are the owner of this website, you should login to CloudFlare and change the DNS A records for www.cowonder.com to resolve to a different IP address.

Timestamp: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:20:58 -0700

Your IP address: x.x.x.x

Requested URL: www.cowonder.com/

Error reference number: 1000
The word ‘persian’ there is a little misleading. The European satellite providers stopped carrying the Iranian government's channels, not Persian-language channels in general.
Show HN: A middleweight CSS grid-able unframework
/r/videos and /r/funny often have blatantly racist submissions or posts. Basically, someone will find an example of bad behavior on worldstarhiphop and then a bandwagon will attribute the behavior to race. It's hard to miss.
I don't think it's silly. I found it to be funny in a good way. At least that's my opinion, and I'm usually a grumpy person.
Google Stock Takes Plunge After Q3 Earnings Report Released By Mistake
Panic anyone?

If it has indeed been an accidental release, someone is going to pay very dearly for it.
This is why Facebook's new retargeting is pretty exciting (disclaimer, I'm a cofounder of a company in the space, http://perfectaudience.com)

Facebook has/had the same issue: huge audience and targeting that just didn't capture intent. By opening up inventory to folks that have that intent data, retargeting companies, Facebook's able to "sell umbrellas to people in the rain" to use the lingo of OP.

It's going to make a big difference for them in the longrun and we anticipate Twitter doing something similar in the near future.
> "Reddit (as a company) has taken a position that enables harassment of women"

That is fair, but where is the link between that and "expresses a moral preference" for the harassment of women?

You can say (and it would be reasonably fair) that Reddit's actions (or lack thereof) enables deplorable behavior - but that's long, long, long, LONG way from condoning or preferring it.

I don't take issue with the fact that people find Reddit's stance problematic. I do take issue when people go off the rails and essentially resort to ad hominem character attacks and smearing.
Lean split testing with Nginx and Mixpanel in 5 minutes
New Patent Could Saddle 3D Printers With DRM
> Editors that make me take may hands off the keyboard in order to click around in the gui to move around my files are productivity killers.

A couple thoughts on that:

1. Allowing you to take your hands off the keyboard in order to click around in a GUI is not necessarily the same thing as making you do it. Even in Visual Studio experienced users' hands tend to stay put. For example, to open up a file to see some other element's code, there's no sense in bothering with the mouse. Not when with a single keypress you can jump not only to the correct file, but to the correct position within that file.

2. On the other hand, needing to consult the manual in order to find out how to do something is often more time-consuming than mousing through a menu. In a well-developed GUI, mousing through a menu is also the quickest way to figure out a new keyboard command. Much quicker than Googling or digging through manpages.

3. Even if you haven't bothered to learn the keyboard commands for your graphical editor, if you're switching what file you're working in frequently enough that the fraction of the second it takes to click on a tab is adding up to anything remotely significant, then you've probably misplaced the blame for your productivity issues. If you're switching files that much, the amount of time you're wasting on mental context-switching is probably immense.

Naturally all this assumes that one is using a well-designed graphical text editor, and sadly the vast bulk of graphical text editors simply aren't anywhere near as refined as emacs or vim. Especially not if you need one that's cross-platform. But let's be careful not to make radios out of coconuts here: The reason emacs and vim are so effective is because they are venerable, not because they are textual.
Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io
We recently launched a Continuous Integration service called drone.io. We wanted to reach out to the community and get some feedback on the service, the pricing, and any other ideas you might have.

Site: https://drone.io
$250 in the US, £249.99 from PC World in the UK. That's just over $400. Even if you take off 20% UK sales tax, that's still $320.

Last time I checked, the exchange rate wasn't £1=$1!
Problem with Buffer’s Analytics (And How to Fix It)
Google launches 11.6-inch ARM-based Samsung Chromebook
We definitely need to get to the pushState change but #! is the way to go for being indexed properly without pushState (via _escaped_fragment_).
This came about out of a desire to build a semantically correct framework, without the heaviness of Foundation & Bootstrap etc, and with baseline aligned typography and forms. Demo available here: http://wail.es/opendaws/demo.php

Feedback hugely appreciated.
This is an issue that I feel strongly about and have a few words to say. In 2012 working at large (Fortune 100) companies, the only way to get a significant (or market correction) raise is to quit and get another job. It is unfortunate but thats how it works.If you stay, they will give you the standard 3% raise or so.
I want to know why unknown number, regardless of actual origin (spam or otherwise) is even permitted to go through PBXes or the like. Why isn't everything in the network, including my phone, set to drop "unknown number" calls right on the floor?

My phone should be saying to itself "Hold on a second, am I about to turn on the buzzer and display the text "Unknown caller" to the users? /dev/null it."
FOR SLEEPOVERS

They got me.