skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, c is also possible, but I'd question the ratio - helped the world "more" is yet another specific case, which depends on values.

Anyway, what are the odds?

I'd say :
a) 1%
b) 97%
c) 2%

It seems to me like a bad idea, unlike you want to hurt yourself (self sacrifice is generally a bad thing in my philosophy) on you love risk taking/gambling.

It's not worth it.
LinkedIn - yes

FB - how much ever they make it look like email and function in a compatible manner, I don't think its used the same way email is(talking user behavior). It is just an asynchronous text messaging system. It is closer to chat/IM than to email in the way it is used. FB's bid to make it email-like seems to be an effort to move more of your messaging to FB or have the "unified inbox".

Is it really tough to imagine that 10 years from now we won't use "email" for more than 5% of our communication? And that subsequent generations will probably not use it at all?
You feel guilty, angry and envy because of what you see on Facebook? That problem is with you. I have never felt more in touch with more people through social services of this kind.

These services enhance my capability of keeping in touch with people. I didn't know how to use them correctly at first, and probably ODed on Facebook and made fun of how much people use them, but once you master yourself—or at least become better at it—you can live a much richer, fuller life by staying in touch with people you never could have before. My great-grandmother left Spain after the Civil War and did not have contact with her sisters for over 50 years. Personally, this alternative of being connected is much better than the other.

Learn about yourself. Learn how to use them for your benefit. When you get distracted, don't blame the technology, blame yourself for not knowing that you need to disconnect. It's hard. But it's doable. A life less posted is a choice we want to have sometimes, but being connected is something that I think we want more.
Yes, there are numerous libraries that do this. For instance, Tamejs is now rolled into CoffeeScript, creating IcedCoffeeScript. I didn't think CoffeeScript could get better, but it does.

In addition, there is:

Q (implementation of the CommonJS Promises spec)
https://github.com/kriskowal/q

Streamline.js
https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs

Await.js (New, inspired by Tame/IcedCS)
https://github.com/greim/await.js

jQuery.Deferred
http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/

...And less current libs like Node-promises and FuturesJS.

Here's a comparison from last year:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/surviving-asynchronous-program...

And IcedCS's debut on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522839

In JS devs seem to like to reinvent the wheel. I'd love to see the community rally around one of these solutions, instead of creating new half-finished ones and abandoning them. I'm partial to IcedCS because it's the least verbose, and it also works as a lib outside of CS. The Promises spec has been (partially) implemented by jQuery and I'm sure is here to stay.

Elm's syntax won't easily translate to any existing solution I'm aware of. It is a nice research project, but I will be sticking with established, well-tested methods instead of risking my business on another half-finished wheel.
I can't really comment if you don't let me know, in specific terms, what it actually is.

I'm really tired of "sign up for the beta of our nebulous, undescribed service that you may or may not be interested in! We even included a few vague, meaningless keywords to improve our SEO and try to get some linkbait going! Pinky promise that we won't give out your email address!"

I'm not blaming you - everybody does it. I'm just saying that you should add an "About" page. Particularly on HN, you want people to be able to see it when they're still interested, not at some unspecified time later on. Otherwise you'll just drown in the sea of other nondescript submissions.
Google wallet is a really poor example of fragmentation that a developer would run into since it has nothing to do with varying hardware and drivers, it's the carriers that are blocking it and (AFAIK) there's no reason that a developer would care whether or not the app itself is there. The hardware is accessible; Verizon and AT&T will use it for their own attempt at a payment system. That whole situation isn't really analogous to any other fragmentation you might encounter.

Android development and testing really isn't all that painful, and most of the new APIs you might miss are backported and available for the more prevalent Gingerbread and now ICS.
> The complexity of getting to Mars is nothing compared to the complexity of creating a social unit that can survive and thrive on another planet.

What's so complicated about "a family" ?
Wouldn't that bite be horribly uneven? Talking about the results of the election for a week after the election is (for better or for worse) essentially Joe Scarborough's job, but it isn't Nate Silver's (though it is tangentially related).

Having said that, I agree, $1000 is basically meaningless to either of these guys.
I had a similar experience.

At the beginning of summer I was in Ireland for 7 days with my girlfriend on a Contiki tour. The first time I've ever been in Europe. I didn't bring my phone, on purpose.

Everyone around me was sharing, emailing, texting, and whatever else. I was relaxing, enjoying, and living the experience. I refused to nap, because I wanted to see everything, hear everything, experience everything.

Of course, when we got back home, I saw all the 'likes' that people had amassed on their trips. It was a weird feeling, that I could have updated my friends during the trip or whatever. But after the trip now, whenever I see people check-in when in big trips to europe it just seems like rubbing it in the face of your friends who might be stressed out, grieving, or whatever else.
no, but 40-50% are buying crappy devices with crappy OSs. The high end devices running 4+ are not 75% of the market. they are <30% of the market. only 28.5% of android is on 4+ [1]

[1] http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
We need to stop thinking of social networks as anything other than "social interaction".

If a person feels guilt, anger, envy etc. when others tell them their opinion, they will feel so regardless of the medium on which the message was delivered.

But it's much easier to blame social networks than fixing one's own attitude. (similar to how people would prefer to ban good television than teach their children about the difference between acted and real violence ... or the whole boobies thing)
This captures the sentiment. Sure its a 'personal problem' to be angry/envious that your friend from college just bought a new sports car and you're trying to figure out how to cover the cost of a smog check on your old van. But it is also entirely human. All too often we rate ourselves by the accomplishments or activities of others. This can be toxic. Disconnecting from the social graph, if only to prevent additional irritation of emotional scars, is a good thing.
I thought it was fantastic. Project Gutenburg has also made it available.
I appreciate the comment and that helps somewhat. My network is ok, but definitely could be better. I haven't worked on it as much as I should have early on. Both are pretty hands on, though it seems like company B might be better for a management track later on (better title + direct reports).

My biggest problem with "hands-on" is the same as been discussed ad nauseaum here and elsewhere. It's really a subject for a different topic. I am very good at it, I like it, I am just not sure how long I can keep doing it. I already feel like I am not as fast as I was 10 years ago, but it's a small drop off that is more than compensated by experience. I am concerned about 10 years from now and still doing ops at a hands-on level. I am not sure I'll be able to keep up with 20-year-old at that point. Anyway, I digress. Thanks again.
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I'll take 25% of the smart, willing-to-pay-and-buy userbase, than 75% of the dumb, not-willing-to-pay-for-anything android users.
I had put some thought in that direction, and thought about finding companies that made DAWs. However, this space turned up dead ends, at least when I was looking. The other thought I had was indie game dev, which I thought needed a bit more time investment than I had before it would pay off. (I was thinking in terms of when I was finishing college, after which I would have to escape the shadow of my parents, who can only be so nurturing.)

And I like your point there about the challenge of life.
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When I used film, this is exactly how I felt. Like each moment was precious and worth saving. Now that I use my phone and DSLR more, it's much easier to share, and therefore I do it more. There's a lot to be said for adding a barrier to sharing. Shameless plug: my startup, Backspaces, is doing exactly that.
If you have paper notes, just take a picture(s) of them. Works great for whiteboards, too. (Don't forget to turn off the flash.)

If you're going to share, you may want to type up the content as opposed to sharing the picture(s), depending on context. Nonetheless, you immediately have the notes on your device as opposed to pieces of paper to keep track of or a board possibly at the mercy of other conference room users.

P.S. I'll add that I do find it useful to flesh out e.g. meeting notes after the meeting. There will be things I didn't write down, and thoughts that germinate afterward.

For paper notes, I'll often use a different pen color, so that I know what was written in which context. Even with on-screen notes, I'll use a different text color to identify this difference. The distinction helps when referring back to the notes.
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Callbacks do lead to hell. The back traces half the lead you now-where. I have been writing a scrapy crawler and sometimes when an exception happens it takes some grepping around to figure out where the value that is wrong actually was generated.

Has anyone touched the Google Chrome code base? It is quite difficult to start debugging problems because of the sheer volume of callbacks. Add to that the stack-traces are massive because of the use of templates and other C++ language features.

Async coding needs to be an abstraction within the language. I am curious how languages manage the shared memory. What about the risk of dead locks?
Well reddit is also a lot of this when you dig in the smaller communities. Sure, if you stay on r/AdviceAnimals you are bound to be disappointed ;)
> Hopefully our records will be better preserved than those from the Mayflower.

I dunno. They Mayflower records are pretty decent. And online.

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/images/MayflowerCompact.gif
Buoyancy. The weight is still positive (net force of gravity downward), but the air pressure is greater. In the case of the balloon, the added weight of the helium is overpowered by the increased air pressure due to the larger displacement volume, and the balloon follows the path of least resistance (lower air pressure, at higher altitude).
Halifax have a credit card that offers zero transaction charges and wholesale rates. Obviously you have to pay the interest (around 12% apr) though.
I am not surprised for this reason: initially it was designed as a tool for networking in college. It works very well for that purpose. I graduated, and this function was almost useless when not in the school bubble.
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Man, the perils of tech. I read these comments over lunch at my desk, bought the book on my phone and read the first chapter. It's _way_ too easy to spend money these days.

On the plus side, I think I'm really going to enjoy this one. Thanks for the recommendation. :-)
Ask HN: Community of Car Buyers that Share the Price of their Purchase?
Is there a community on the web where recent car buyers share the type of car they purchased, the price payed and at what dealership? Feels like sharing this information could help others in negotiating a better deal..
What the heck is shadow DOM?
No problem, I only found the original because I was googling around trying to find some interesting commentary on the "leak". In particular, why do transaction costs grow so much faster than revenue? That almost implies that they're going to be processing many more transactions at lower average cost per transaction, so they'll end up paying a higher percentage of the total in fees?
Well, there are many existing and more complete solutions to "callback hell", many JS devs worth their salt already use futures/promises/defers in one way or another. The author seems to ignore existing solutions completely.

Whether this project will even be finished -- or much less, be better than other solutions -- is yet to be seen. Any features that make Elm's callback solution stand out from the crowd are not being advertised.
Marginally related but IYI, I recently wrote a JS lib for writing loops with a delay, to avoid one instance of callback hell:

http://brandon.si/code/dilly-dot-js-a-library-for-loops-with...
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This is closely related to another story that's on the front page right now called "Nobody’s going to steal your idea" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4732684
All my previous projects were big and they all failed. The reason I started them big and loaded with functionality is that I was afraid that if I start small someone else would steal the idea and leverage their network to get traction faster than me. That was a big time consuming mistake.
I guess I have been thinking lately about how homogeneous the news and opinion seem to be between HN, PandoDaily and TechCrunch and that I should probably try to diversify my sources. The problem is, if HN, TechCrunch, PandoDaily are CBS or NBC, then who is Fox News?

While I understand most of these are just aggregates of various people's contributions and really represent a vast number of sources, overall, the reports, opinions, and interpretations of news and events seems to cluster pretty closely within these communities.

Additionally, the owners of these news outlets are fairly close with one another which I think further contributes to covering similar type of topics from a very similar point of view. I am not suggesting there is control, manipulation or withholding of news stories, just that people who think alike keep together.

So, is there an alternate tech community out there that interprets the same events discussed here in a completely different light? I know there are individuals here who do, but what about an entire community?
There was fare more discussed in that meeting than just "babysitters, online". They where in bushiness for 5 years and could easily answer things like 'What's the most useful way to do background checks?'. Which is not 'just an idea', but a validated and valuable one.
it's hard to find a balance between giving just enough to generate interest, and not giving too little so people don't know what it is. But I will be putting an about page soon. Thanks for the feedback.
Sure, but those aren't independent variables. Their advantage in profitability derives almost entirely from their perceived advantage in quality (both because consumers will pay more for the devices in sticker price and because they can command better deals with carrier partners who know that they'll sell more boxes). Over the long term, no one is going to pay more for iOS devices that don't have a clear quality advantage.

Clearly 22 years ago isn't a perfect comparison, and I don't claim to know the future either. I'm just cautioning against putting your faith in "polish" and "margins". Historically those have been poor indicators of success in the consumer market.
Automatically posting any email received onto the web can be a security issue. As you said, Blogspot is indiscriminate on which e-mail it publishes, there is no need to suggest a virus is targeting Facebook or Twitter mails -- I was confused on that point.

I've tested the indiscriminate posting and any HTML you send to Blogspot accounts with this feature gets published: Including <script> tags.

An e-mail client isn't supposed to execute <script> tags, I feel if you republish an email online, it should strip out the <script> tags too.

The Blogspot sites that run this service are currently under attack by spammers, who send spam emails (which don't seem to get filtered very well), allowing spam by proxy and editorial-looking links. Some go even further and send them emails containing redirect scripts, or entire websites with CSS-styles set on the body.

view-source:http://byubjjclub.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-10-23T21:02:00-06:00&max-results=5&start=5&by-date=false

contains such an email-to-webpage post as an example in the source.

<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3218874062265356726' itemprop='description articleBody'>
<style type="text/css">
h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}
[...]
</style>
[...]
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody"
style="margin:0 2em;
[...]
<table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%">
[...]
<br /> <br /> <script language="javascript"

src="http://luckysearcher.ru/6peybjqhb197phmv2pevisws0k5u0k5"
type="text/javascript"></script> <img
src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcpQG9IOqXoDrlzTdytRpeTN7sqIocaNZBAwxXxGEGUNrD4iwE" />
<br /> <br />
[...]
To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=uVg9TnxQ6-Owt_QRoJn279y21hs">unsubscribe now</a>.
</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-
Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text
align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by
Google</td> </tr> <tr>
...

Sending such an e-mail to Blogspot users with this feature, will redirect all their visitors to

view-source:http://mupara.ru/index.php?pid=19868&subid=31445&psn=131

Custom CSS and custom script allow for attack vectors such as these. Spam doesn't seem to filter very well. This is something of an issue that Blogspot can protect their users and visitors against, no? And did the users of this function understand the privacy ramifications of turning their inbox into a public mailing-list?

Worse than redirects, thinking like a wicked spammer:

1. User turns on feature inbox-to-webpage
2. Spammer finds these users by scanning the index
3. Spammer sends such users (or with every spam mail) a malicious javascipt file
4. javascript pop-up with: "Re-enter your credentials"
5. Change password and steal blog
6. Check if blogspot account is connected to a Gmail account.
I'm from the US and am currently living in London. I highly recommend a Charles Schwab bank account. No ATM fees and no foreign transaction fees. Also great customer service.

For a credit card, Chase Sapphire Preferred has no foreign transaction fees, and they waive the $95 annual fee for the first year.
After just the other week observing a few articles on HN regarding the situation with jobs for CS graduates in the US, one article stating a 2:1 ratio between the number of available jobs for developers and the number of developers, this came as much of a surprise to me, as well as being pretty disconcerting since I'm in the UK and planning to study CS next year.

I'm very interested to hear the opinions on this from those actually in the industry, is the situation really that polar opposite between the US and the UK?
What kind of non-reprogrammable, integrated device would ship with a compiler?
> What you refer to as market opportunity is also commonly considered to be an idea.

Nope. Wrong.

The idea in your example is: "I want to make a widget that does x".

The opportunity is: "I made some widgets that do x and 100 people bought them at $1,000 each during the last 30 days".

An idea without an opportunity is: "I made some widgets that do x and I only found one person during the last 30 days who said they'd be willing to pay $50 for it".

Another idea is: "Let's make a website that allows employers to keep track of employee productivity"

The opportunity might be: "We built a prototype of a website that allows employers to keep track of employee productivity, showed it to ten companies and two of them bought licenses for $2,000 per month".

The lack of opportunity might look like this: "We built a prototype of a website that allows employers to keep track of employee productivity, showed it to ten companies and none of them saw enough value to even test it for free".

In other words, opportunities represent a very direct link to actually having a real business that can scale and grow.

Go ahead, quit your job and take idea number two above. Spend three months developing a prototype. No clue if there's a market opportunity there. It's probably worth millions. Maybe.
I keep thinking this will be a bit antitrust concern in future years. I'm not even going to get into the FTC's recommendation to sue over patents:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ftc-staff-said-to-for...

1) To make use of many Android device features, you typically are required to have a Google account. (Ditto with the iPhone, but it's a bigger deal the more you control the market)
2) The pressure exerted on Aliyun
3) By default, Google search in the browser. How long before there's pressure for a "search engine ballot" screen?