skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm starting to get tired of responding to gaslighting comments like these.

Do you honestly not understand that males and females are biologically different (and so have preferences for different types of ways to dispose waste), that they have strong emotional reactions when seeing each other nude or partially nude and that they might be embarrassed if a member of the opposite sex heard them taking a shit?

For the record, a lot of countries do have unisex toilets and that works out just fine too.
Josh Topolsky cracked the glass near the camera on his review unit:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3589280/google-nexus-4-rev...
Okay, I've been through all the comments and I'm going to try to summarize:

- It looks like in some situations, Facebook will send an email that has a link. That link expires after a certain amount of time, but in the mean time, clicking that link lets people access that Facebook account.

- A large number of services can be set up to automatically post any email received onto the web. One major category is disposable email services such as asdasd.ru. Any email to a throwaway account on asdasd.ru gets put up on the web. Here's an example Facebook recovery email that got turned into a web page: http://asdasd.ru/read/414831

- Once these emails are just webpages, it's no surprise that search engines discover those URLs. Note that this is not a Google-specific issue. When I search on Bing for the query [site:facebook.com bcode n_m mid], the first result is also one of these urls that has an email address embedded in it. For a debunk of the misconception that this is related to the Google Toolbar or Chrome, see my post elsewhere in this discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4733276

So: an email gets sent to someone. That email gets put up on the web as a webpage. Search engines (including both Google and Bing) find that webpage as they follow links on the web.
Turning an idea into a viable product
It's quite funny and genius. Article says that malware used by Georgia is not specified, but from original PDF report it's clear that they have used his own exploit to attack him!

From PDF: "then gave Cyber Attacker Fake ZIP Archive with his own virus inside and the name “Georgian-Nato Agreement”."

It was possible because they already had an access to his C&C servers.
Seriously, are dismissive and pessimistic remarks like this the top-voted comment on _every single_ Hacker News post these days?

Elon Musk has built a fucking space rocket company and is defeating Boeing, Lockheed Martin and MDD in a business they've dominated for the last 40 years. I think this is an incredibly impressive accomplishment, and SpaceX's ambitions to make it possible to do manned missions to Mars is exactly what we need to bring humanity forward. Just from the science side alone, having actual people on Mars would be of tremendous value. If you think of what we know about Mars, think about how much more we would know if we were able to do more complex experiments there. Whether you personally think it's a good idea to settle down on Mars or not isn't very relevant.

You're pointing at some very relevant issues, but why not phrase it in a more constructive tone? I'm sorry for the negativity, but it pisses me off when grand ideas and accomplishments are dismissed so offhandedly. Getting to Mars is not nearly "nothing", even compared to _anything_ that humans have ever done.
The iterable point was that the syntax is obvious but the behavior is not. They "look like plain data" sometimes, and some times they don't; and the only way to tell the difference is to know the characteristics of what you are iterating over. They're the same kind of too-clever-by-half design that C++ tends to confuse people with. People who know it love it, and people who don't think it's voodoo.
Yes. Elm is a FRP language that compiles to JavaScript. View source on some of the examples:

http://elm-lang.org/Examples.elm
Ubuntu PC Sales Skyrocket in 2011
It is. And the feature hasn't really been ignored. The hash-syntax was amended so that passing arguments as hashes can be made to look more like named arguments [1]. It's still not named arguments, but about as good as you can make it while still remaining somewhat backwards compatible. So yes, it took a long while but no, the pain was not very great. I never really missed that.

[1]

Voice-of-Evening:~ fgilcher$ irb
1.9.3p125 :001 > def foo(args)
1.9.3p125 :002?> puts args.inspect
1.9.3p125 :003?> end
=> nil
1.9.3p125 :004 > foo bar: "baz", foo: "bar"
{:bar=>"baz", :foo=>"bar"}
=> nil
1.9.3p125 :005 >
That video is kind of annoying. More gameplay, less talk.
TDD gets you all this and more - tests are like documentation, but documentation that's automatically verified against the implementation.
Yes! The idea of 0.38G water is fascinating. It must look "wrong" when it ripples or pours.
Predict the outcome of my AB test
But why sue and expose themselves to an injunction?
Startpup Chile gives $40k (equity free) grant to startups from anywhere
What I find most interesting is how bad mongo performance is.
Check out this article for a great explanation of using the cache manifest
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/application-cache-is-a-do...

There are quirks, sure, but it's actually designed for asset caching, unlike localStorage
Or, as Lawrence Krauss suggested[0], just send older astronauts first, who can then live the rest of their lives on Mars, building the first habitat and thus paving the way for further generations to - maybe - travel both ways.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_to_Stay#cite_ref-krauss_25...
This was the ad that Shackleton placed in the paper to find a crew for his most famous expedition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedi...
Datomic Free gives you that capability right now, for free, no strings attached, and no need to use a Datomic db. Not open source, but free as in gratis, a la Creative Commons.

We may trim down the deps a bit for that use case.
No because they also received value from me explaining what we're building and he was very interested by it. They are a much bigger market-leading competitor so it's not a case that people will deal with every day.

I can understand why someone wouldn't want to talk to a competitor but not when dealing with normal founders, users, etc. As you pointed out it can be risky but overall being open usually leads to a net positive.
True, but I find the lack of Micro-SD Card Slot to be particularly galling, especially as it's becoming an increasingly popular trend with Android handset manufacturers looking to add a hefty markup between otherwise identical models. Just ends up hurting us consumers who want to carry their music collections around with them :(
>Never experienced this

Privilege blindness doesn't just apply to straight white men. The relationship status of the people has nothing to do with it. Men are instinctively predisposed to helping women. Women can and do take advantage of this, and generally don't recognize or acknowledge that they are doing so. You don't see it, because you've lived it your entire life and it is normal.

How many times has a woman put a new water bottle in the water cooler here? I know the exact number, because it is zero. All of the women here are fully capable of doing it, yet they ask men to do it. And how often do men say no? This is very obvious when looking at tasks that are considered stereotypically "men's work" like lifting something, but it applies just as much to anything else.

I've watched my wife get men to do her work for her several times. She simply asks them to do it, and they say yes. When I point it out to her, she insists that they would have done the same for a man, and that had she asked a woman they would have done it for her too. Yet, she never asks another woman to do it, and I know I sure wouldn't do it if a man were asking me. She is taking advantage of being female, and it is so deeply ingrained that it comes naturally and she doesn't recognize that she's doing it.
That's definitely not correct. You should watch the Robocall Summit videos. All parties agree that it's a giant pain in the ass tracing both calls and people right now.
If only it was some kind of browser-independent way to do it. :/
Datomic adds support for Riak and Couchbase storage backends
If I were Samsung, and I read this, I'd dump or fork Android in a heartbeat.

Google is clearly just peeing in the pool with Android. Their goal is to disrupt the industry by sucking margins out.

From their perspective it makes sense. It may even be a positive thing for consumers. But it is really bad news for other companies trying to make a profit from hardware, especially Apple and Samsung.
No redirect after, just sitting looking at my news feed.
Why the ?icebox=true parameter? I can't see any reference to it anywhere else, so it makes me wonder if this is targeting - that, and what exactly is the "Icebox fiasco" (I know of the client, but never heard of a fiasco).
Do you really think "babysitters, online" is a novel, protectable idea?

And regardless, to start a company you have to let people know what your company does. You can't just say "give us money, we can't tell you why but it's totally worth it". So the idea has to be released eventually. What would you have had them do differently?

These guys were around for 5 years and somebody else beat them within 3 months? That's not a stolen idea, that's a failure of execution.
More like FAB than like Amazon, but a lot of the stuff on FAB feels a little cheesy. I'm thinking more like Uncrate without the supercars, yachts, and kickstarter junk.
One-click Twitch streaming in Planetside 2
Cached version at https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.di...
You hate Twilio because you tried to use it for something that it isn't? I don't see what you're saying here.
I agree that raw callbacks can get out of hand, but the typical solution in js is to use an event emitter (http://nodejs.org/api/events.html) or promises (like https://github.com/kriskowal/q), the latter of which seems to be pretty close to what this article is talking about. Is there a fundamental difference, or are promises an example of functional reactive programming in a language without direct support for it?
>Your assumption that "direct and clear communication" requires that you use offensive and exclusive phrasings is false

Offense is taken, not given. I am offended by your post, are you going to delete it and apologize? I would hope not, because that is absurd. You don't have the right to use a meaningless word like "offended" to control other people's speech.
A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit
Please don't post comments like this. It adds no value and it violates the HN guidelines, since no one who isn't a jerk would say this to someone's face when they were showing their work. You would simply keep it to yourself.
Thanks for this post. It was really good comparison.
I actually did have someone steal my idea. I was interviewing for a technical co-founder and talked to a guy who seemed really interested. However, after a couple of conversations I got a weird vibe from him and went with someone else. (Oh, and I had $1M in funding at this point, & I was looking for a full partner, not someone to "just build my idea.")

A few months later I find that he has started a similar company, with a similar name, and is out raising money. He even said that he came up with the idea when he was 'inspired' by his young daughter. (Dragging your kids into your lie is always scummy.)

(This was for a very unusual startup idea, btw, not a game or social app, etc. I am also a recognized expert in this field, 15+ years of experience, national newspaper/magazine profiles, blah blah blah.)

He ended up getting money in Singapore and launching a pretty sucky site that got zero traction. It's been a couple years now and I haven't seen anything else from him (but I've been too busy with my company to really look).

At the time, I was LIVID but after I cooled off I realized that 1) it was pretty great external validation and 2) someone who would "steal" my idea (and make up a story about it!) would never be able to execute, and I was proven right about both things.

My company is now nearly five years old and we're working on our third product extension off the original idea. :-)
$50k is what you get for writing up the idea. Not bad payback for a little thinking and writing. And if you come up with a solution that is potentially profitable, you've now got seed capital and publicity for your new business.
I wouldn't have such a hard time believing that if there were more small phones.
On the other hand, if you use the same category of native apps in different devices, you'll notice inconsistencies that disrupt the user experience. Whereas with an HTML5 app you don't care if you're using a phone, a tablet or desktop, it's the same application.

So, this argument about UX really depends in which perspective of continuity you are considering, single platform oriented or cross platform oriented.
Amazon’s First iOS Game ‘Air Patriots’ For iPhone & iPad Released
He reminds me so much of Clive Sinclair.
I object to your glibness. Probably both methods (first-principles cognitive modeling vs. high-degree-of-freedom black box learning) will prove informative, just in different ways.

Or in your terms, we may not get to pick the prettiest models, but we owe it to ourselves to explore the space of models to see if we can find the structure in it.

The engineer in me is pleased by the undoubted success the data-driven learning culture has had on problems of real importance. But this work is highly empirical, with a tendency to point solutions, and someone is likely to come in later on and generalize these methods (e.g., why do some families of black-box predictor or features outperform others for language learning). There's room for both approaches.

Norvig's reply to Chomsky's original remark contains a reference to Leo Breiman's well-informed remarks on this question (http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0...).

Breiman, as author of basic books on measure theory as well as on classification trees, was able to walk both sides of this line ("make a first-principles model" vs. "use lots of data"). He spent considerable energy over the years trying to introduce the data-intensive approach to conventional statistics. For instance, he was one of the handful of bona fide statisticians who would attend and contribute to neural net and machine learning conferences. Probably this strategy is more productive than Chomsky's grumpy-old-man warnings (or sagacious warnings, depending on how you look at it).
Heck, go back to when Steve Jobs visited the Xerox PARC labs in late 1979 and saw the mouse and windows-computing for the first time.[1] Not that PARC was doing anything commercial with it, but those ideas definitely got incorporated into Apple's products.

Jobs goes to PARC on a Thursday, and on Friday afternoon he is ordering one of his people to create a mouse for him. Now Xerox had invested in Apple and Apple got a tour of their research lab in exchange for that investment, but ideas do have value if you're not executing them efficiently and someone else can.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_...
Even if you take out the competitor factor the article was really about their opinion on Twilio's status as a company.

I expected an article talking about supposedly bad cancelation or privacy policies, something like that. Pretty bad headline.
Show HN: Talent Grade - Online Skill Assessments
Very interesting post for any non-tech co-founder!
Note that there is a difference between trade secret and a cool idea you have. If you have an idea that has been implemented, it's a really smart plan to keep it secret: if the idea's found out, your competition will also likely know how valuable it is. They'll know it's worth implementing. But unimplemented ideas are only as useful as their implementation. And getting people to go along with your ideas? Well, that's where ramming it down their throats comes in. And if your idea is obvious, well, it's not really a trade secret either.

And a trade secret's valuable because it has at least some protection legally.
I tried Bing and Yandex to find the email bodies. They didn't return many results (but they do return results).

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22wants+to+be+friends+on+Faceb...

When I try on Google to find the email bodies, I get 250k results, of which the large majority are on blogspot.com sites.

While mail bodies can be found on a few other sites, like the asdasd.ru example, and other search engines have found these links too, the main issue still seems to be with blogspot.com -- These aren't throwaway accounts with public inboxes, but likely some virus that is intercepting certain mails (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Twoo) and reposting them as a blogpost for everyone to see.

As Blogspot is Google-owned, this does seem to me a predominantly Google-specific issue.
Apple’s reformed ‘apology’ to Samsung makes an appearance in UK newspapers
Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 Performance Preview
>Yes it is.

No, it isn't. Hard mode would be elevated chance of balrog and death knight attacks. Not a trade off where one is more common and the other less common. That doesn't make it harder, merely different.
They each have their limitations. For instance, I can't use Gimp for importing my existing Gb of layered psd files - it flattens them into a bitmap. Gimp's support of other file formats seems to be limited to importing them without any of the metadata.
A trimmed down version is great news. Datalog makes Clojure so much better! Ideally it would be part of Clojure itself, but I'll take what I can get :)
All of structured programming consists of various controlled forms of goto.
Appears to be down, CoralCache link at http://www.nerdess.net.nyud.net/waffling/why-it-awesome-be-g...
Sorry for going off-topic, but is there any explanation why InfoQ does not have an entry on Wikipedia?

Is it just because no one has bothered to do it yet, or is there some other reason why this quite big, and frequently cited, site is not on Wikipedia?
Rails: Is JSON still REST? - Stack Overflow
Or to simplify the same thing, "it behaves like a bubble in water".
Is that their master plan? My contract is up right now, so a signal like that could affect my near-term decisions...
"Signing your name into history" does not have to equate to "having your name remembered." In other words, it would be great to make history (in such an important way as this), whether you are remembered or not.
I looked through the parse.ly homepage and even in the source code of the blog post, can someone answer a quick question:

How does parse.ly actually work? Do you sign up for Google Analytics and open it to them to they get the data from there?
Or do you embed a piece of javascript from parse.ly which tracks the referers, etc. in their database?

I did not want to sign up just to learn this and there was no technical information or FAQ on the homepage or I overlooked it!

Thanks!
Chrome supports policies: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
The flip side being that you can needlessly spend time fixing a bug in Chrome stable only to have it go away on its own in the next version.

So is it really practical to develop in canary? Possibly. Try it.
When we buy a phone, we expect it to work for atleast 2 years. Not having LTE for next two years is not a good deal for a user when a competing product from the market leader already has it.

And Wired says "Buy it now". I though wired is a Science & Tech magazine.
Oh, OK.. I just assumed that was common since the biggest carrier here in Norway does.

Costs ~5$ pr month though..

Gemini is the service for you to use two phones. You get an additional SIM card and can use both phones with the same subscription and the same number.
Both phones ring simultaneously on incoming calls.
Number will appear with any SIM card you use.
You decide whether incoming SMS to be sent to both cards.
thank you. In this case, maybe to compete an existing startup could be even better :))
Both D3 and PhantomJS look very interesting. Server side rendering of JavaScript... Some cool stuff still to be made with that.
Crowdfunding, the lame duck investment method (due to UK tax laws)
FTC staff: US should sue Google for misuse of SEPs.
You embed our JavaScript tracker on your site.

It's integrated similarly to Google Analytics. See http://parse.ly/api/tracker.html for more technical information on our JavaScript tracker.

Sorry that you couldn't find that information easily -- I'll try to think about how to make it clearer on the website.
Odd group of investors . Yoko One, Stephen Fry, Ka-Shing, Kutcher.

I like the idea of summarizing the web/content and it looks like the app is just the first step towards something bigger.
One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education
At first, I thought the exclusion of LTE was a major downfall of the phone. After I read about HSPA+ (I'd never heard of it prior to the LG Nexus 4 announcement), I didn't really consider it to be that big of a deal. (Note that I'm a Sprint customer and have no clue what LTE speed is like).

Being that inexpensive, and off-contract, is a major bonus in my mind. I have until 2014 until my Sprint contract is up. If I was able to end my contract with Sprint right now, I would. My ETF is around $175 IIRC.

I don't like that there isn't a removable battery though. That's my largest issue with the phone.
I apologize because I can't find the exact quote, but I believe Miss Manners said something to the effect of "Flirting, when done properly, means that both parties can claim they meant nothing by it." That's the flirting I speak of, the same sort of flirting/friendliness that was originally mentioned. It's foolish to assert that female approval matters, but darn it, no one knows why! It's just the way it is! In my experience, female approval matters because of the perception of sexual and romantic prowess that it grants to the receiver, especially in the eyes of other men. It's the idea of "Hey, she might sleep with that guy, under the right circumstances..." And that little sexual undercurrent is a huge part of your life when you're single.
And I'm guessing that Microsoft has enough smart business people to get a pretty good estimate of how many enterprise customers will stick with the recently released Windows 7. It was going to be hard to make a product that gave IT departments a compelling reason to upgrade from 7 which makes Windows 8 a great time to test the water for things like mobile. Enterprise isn't jumping ship on Microsoft and they're going to use that stronghold to attempt to gain new markets in an "off-release".
Here's the thing: if your idea is not a controversial and potentially groundbreaking one, then you are not the only person who has it. Chances are, someone else has already thought of it and is working on it. The example you gave with the SMS service is like this: it's a decent idea, but not exactly difficult to come up with.

On the other hand, if your idea is controversial and potentially groundbreaking, then it will sound so insane that people will think you are crazy. So from the beginning you are firmly insured against people stealing it. This was basically Airbnb. They started out renting inflatable beds to conference attendees. Almost nobody thought they would succeed because the idea on its face sounds crazy. But the Airbnb guys kept going and their idea evolved and today they have a successful business.

That the other thing: ideas by themselves are not worth anything because there isn't a single idea out there that survives the execution phase unscathed. The vast majority of the time what happens is that people start with one idea, realize how shitty it is, and end up executing on something else to become successful. But that's just hindsight: if you had asked their pre-execution self what their idea was worth, they would probably throw out big numbers because they have not yet seen how worthless it is.