skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but I can sympathize with their reasoning.

One requirement is consistency; users of Android phones (of which there are many) will feel right at home using a phone UI on a tablet (of which there are relatively few).

Another is, in fact, usability; holding the device in your left hand while manipulating it with your right is probably a common scenario, and I've personally sworn at my Android tablet with the traditional UI when my palm grazes the Back button. This is also annoying in games, where using your left thumb on a virtual joystick leads to hitting the Back/Home buttons at inopportune times. It seems that moving these controls back to the center forces users to have the intention of navigating through the system, and I have to say that is a pretty good reason.

However, I believe that all of these issues could have been solved with palm-detection or simply disabling the buttons when swiping from another part of the screen.
Where Facebook friendship is too much, and nothing too little ...
PG: Big trend this batch
I've had a similar experience with Google Music. I have iTunes Match for my iOS/Mac devices, but prefer Google Music as it works on my Android devices and anywhere a decent web browser is. If there was a nice web interface for iTunes Match so my play counts and playlists synced nicely, I'd probably use that, but for now Google Music works.

Bonus benefit of iTunes Match + Google Music is that I can redownload my older iTUnes songs DRM-free so the uploader will pull them in.
Tesla Hot Hatch concept
>4. How do you determine if a given data sample is statistically significant?

That's a weird question - what am I to prove? Are there differences in the dataset? How does the data look like? Is there a second dataset against which to compare? What kind of data is it, ordinal or nominal? Is the dataset normally distributed?

I can't just say "that data sample is statistically significant" without a background against which to compare against!

>3. Explain how Bayesian spam filtering works.
I would say the majority of non-web developer scientists don't know how this works, why should we?
This is right up my freakin' alley. Awesome.
Libraries like Akka <http://akka.io/>; or the Celluloid stack <http://celluloid.io/>; are nice and bring the good parts of OTP to more "friendlier" languages but you're still missing some fundamentals the Erlang VM which bring predictable performance such as distributed garbage collection.
They deserve it. They did a great job on the product w very little resources.
Why isn't any history prior to 2000 still valid? We've had 10+ year secular bear markets before. I'm not arguing by authority here, but by Taleb's own arguments, it's just as likely that the pre-2000 history is still valid - there is just no way of knowing yet.
And get immediately blacklisted. Seriously, who on earth would have thought this to be a good idea? Twitter took a lot of shit for messing with the browser back button.
>"On average you will do just fine! (Check against history if you want to verify)"

Famous last words...
Yeah, the app store model keeps the reviews out of the hands of the developers. Almost like a consumer protection.
Wow... I didn't know anything about the Norwegian Pension Fund. That's really cool. At a 2012 net worth of $654 Billion, it's greater than the country's debt ($548 Billion) and represents >$130k for each of Norway's 4.9 million people...
> If the queue gets badly backed up, you're probably fucked.

Isn't that true of any queue ?
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-text/

http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_SearchBasi...

Thing is you need to be able to interpret the results, understand how Vienna Classification works, what the limitations are on others names, et cetera.

In the case at issue I'm surprised that the US trademark system allows a mere geographic location as this seems to lack distinctiveness: The mark has to be an indicator of the originating company and the name of an area, when that area is close or coincident with the companies operation region, tends away from the use of a mark for such purposes.

Perhaps the specific form of the mark is what's registered in which case one may need only use a different presentation of the text, eg different font, to avoid conflict.

Marketing materials that fall in to someone else's registration classification area must be a known case; I'd be surprised if the courts were to follow the line of it being considered infringing as it's clearly not - in the general case - a genuine infringement and the chance of confusion has to infinitesimal.
Why do people rob banks? Because that's where the money is. Facebook and Twitter are where the people are.
Intelligence officers sometimes have clandestine meetings, even in DC. Sec. Gates had at least one such meeting with then President-Elect Obama, before it was decided he would remain SecDef in the Obama administration.

As for FBI and CIA catching spies, I point to Robert Hanssen, who was brought down by his own arrogance. As ironic as it sounds, he was brought down by a system he devised while working counter-intelligence at the FBI. Hanssen came up with a system for ranking foreign operatives by what they have access to, not by their rank. When they were searching for the KGB mole, they checked who could have accessed the compromised reports. In some cases it was actually a small number of people had the access, including Hanssen.
I agree with your main observation, but don't forget that 'jobs' in the sense of selling yourself to pay for your basic survival needs (and maybe a bit more) are historically a fairly recent phenomenon. The negative connotations that come with 'eliminating jobs' all have to do with that.

I think that automation could play an important part in a post-capitalist society.
Maybe he left because, you know... he wanted too?
...and if they semi-randomly charge someone over their credit limit or overdraft their bank account, or someone forgets entirely that they signed up and submits a chargeback?
That would explain why I thought most of the early words were too common and not unique enough.
With so many social services, it seems like some meta-service or RSS-like application will subsume them all.
Dreeves~ Loved the post myself! Thank you for sharing. I at times wonder about my startup name, but your criteria laid out does help rationalize a decision.
Still am curious about names with numbers...37signals, or 86..
Ironically, it was the same technique pioneered by "terrorists",

"An even more secure method of communication is that which involves using one-time anonymous public email accounts; two terrorists who wish to communicate to open 30 anonymous email accounts whose usernames and passwords are known by each side. To communicate, one terrorist creates a web-based email and instead of sending it, saves it as a draft online. The “recipient” then logs onto this account, reads this message and deletes. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_and_terrorism#Communic...
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What on earth are you on about? Facebook doesn't just put stuff in your feed for no reason. Brands I like appear in my feed because I like them. If you consider this spam, why on earth would you follow the brand? This argument is just so so so bad and it is used over and over whenever people talk about facebook advertising. Its basically like signing up for a mailing list and then freaking out when you get an email. You got it because you opted in to seeing updates. If you don't want those, there is a simple way to opt out. You don't need to defend facebook no matter how wrong they are to do that...
The folks planning 911 used this same technique of using drafts to send messages back and forth. I'm certain that these are now always saved permanently for law enforcement use to comply with CALEA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...
Doh!

"Don't get me wrong, they've been noble useful efforts" not "Don't get me know, they've been noble useful effects"

Stupid autocorrect. TBH I prefer typos than autocorrect. At least with typos it looks like a typo instead of making you look like an idiot.
I currently work 4 days a week on a barebones salary in Tokyo of all places .. If your priorities are aligned with the lifestyle I recommended it! Good luck.
Akka does have supervisors. If you find Scala to be a happier syntax than Erlang (eye of the beholder), than Akka is worth looking into. It appears to be directly inspired by OTP and Erlang's "let it crash" ideology.
http://pages.github.com
I agree with you completely, and perhaps to clarify my comment (the one you've replied to): As you say, developers shouldn't have to worry about the fine details of crypto. What I mean by that is: Common tasks like hashing a password, creating a secure http connection, encrypting plaintext asymmetrically, etc., should be obvious, clear, and as secure as technology allows.

But, there are so many different crypto libraries with so many varied defaults, that in the end, we need some basic education on what is secure and what isn't. This particular blog post states in the 3rd sentence that developers using libraries are already making a grave mistake. How can we know which libraries to trust? If we can't trust libraries, what can we trust? Which magic combination of alphabet-soup abbreviations is the most secure, and how can I, a layman, be sure? For example: For asymmetric encryption, GPG on Ubuntu 12.04 defaults to the CAST5 algorithim. Is this better or worse than AES-256? I hear about AES-256 all the time, but I've never heard of CAST5. How can I, a layman, know it's the best default choice, considering that I only hear about more popular algorithms?

I feel like there should be a single best answer for most possible use cases. For example, today the best answer to storing password hashes would be to use the bcrypt library for your language of choice. But there's just so many options and so little clarification and consensus to a lot of these things (for regular developers, at least), that it's nigh-impossible to be confident about what you're doing. People are still MD5'ing passwords to this day--and it's not because they're idiots, because even knowing about MD5 means they had to have the initiative to Google "how to hash a password".

If I've misread the intention of this blog post, then perhaps I'm arguing the wrong point. If I am, I submit that this blog post might be better located in "crypto-researcher-news", not "hacker-news".
I got curious and googled a bit, here's what I found: http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-fo...

Where the first answer states that: "RabbitMQ presumes that consumers are mostly online, and any messages "in wait" (persistent or not) are held opaquely (i.e. no cursor). RabbitMQ pre-2.0 (2010) would fall over if your consumers were too slow, but now it's robust for online and batch consumers - but clearly large amounts of persistent messages sitting in the broker was not the main design case for AMQP in general."

(It's contrasted with Kafka, which is "designed for holding and distributing large volumes of messages")

Still, I see no reason why you say that it's Erlang that causes this?
Why I'm starting a blog
LTE is very new and data plans are usually terrible in a lot of European countries.
Hi,
the purpose of my post was not to "justify" what my friend did. I, and he first, am very aware that he did things that were not allowed by the Google Guidelines or very low quality link building.
Remember also that he is not an SEO and that he was simply following what "all the the world" was doing, especially in his niche.
No, my purpose was to underline the absurd of the reply Google sent to his reconsideration request. Absurd because it says something like: "Ok, we have penalized your site, and we thank you for your reconsideration request. What a pity that we don't understand a heck of italian, so we cannot verify what your are saying us in english about it".
So... Google penalizes a italian site (but maybe happened also to french or polish or other not english ones), but don't process reconsideration requests because that site is in Italian.
As I say in my post, that leads to other questions. For instance: if a site is penalized, but the search quality team does not have "italian" support, those penalizations sound as if they were simply algorithmic.
Or, if the site is flagged by italian quality raters (I'm sure they exist), how Google can then penalize a site just based on an human judgement if it cannot after verify the reasons of that penalization have been corrected because they don't support italian?
Absurd.
Be the Next Microsoft Employee
But... Erlang isn't new technology.
Hi there, CTO at Chartio here.

1. We've been keeping the demo link a bit hidden, but we're among friends here, so feel free to check out: https://chartio.com/demo/ for some sample data.

2. Absolutely -- we're going to be developing an SSH version for Windows in the future.

3. MS-SQL support is in the works, so stay tuned.

4. Very good point -- the CSV export is relatively basic, and will be more fully featured in the future.

Glad you enjoyed what you've seen so far, and let us know if you have any other ideas for us to focus on!
Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug
He should keep doing whatever he wants to do.

You could propose him a venture on life supporting devices and see what he tells you.

There's a (tiny) chance he hasn't gotten into life supporting devices because the opportunity hasn't shown itself. On the other hand it might just be that this area is too far out of his domain of expertise or he's just not interested in it. Maybe he doesn't feel like immortality is a worthy goal to pursue. Maybe he donates thousands monthly to whatever charity he feels truly help people. Maybe he drinks all that money with friends after race driving.
Haha - this actually goes for most products, but Apple is crazy at this type of thing - buying CNC machines by the 1000s at a time...

To be honest - I think a lot of it isn't the right direction for product design - it's designed to be HARD to implement, so I feel like a flanking maneuver is required in industrial design to start new aesthetics that will drive different ways of manufacturing.
The claim that working past 40 hours is unproductive is pretty weak empirically.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/12/work-hour-skepticism.h...

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/12/construction-peak-60hr...

The most current data suggests the optimum is actually 60 hours (in construction), and there is little info on knowledge work.
Haha - this actually goes for most products, but Apple is crazy at this type of thing - buying CNC machines by the 1000s at a time...

To be honest - I think a lot of it isn't the right direction for product design - it's designed to be HARD to match, so I feel like a flanking maneuver is required in industrial design to start new aesthetics that will drive different ways of manufacturing that are most accessible than Apple's current methods.
It appears in need of a little maintenance (broken tables) but I like this. Nice work.
Hi Portman,

Just replied to you via email as well. For everyone else: we haven't yet tested this, but look forward to adding this as an officially supported datasource in the future.
The best thing would have been for them not to commit adultery.
$25k is not expensive at all for anyone doing serious analytics. I haven't looked at Tableau for awhile but I thought it was windows only?
BofA takes aim at Square with new mobile-pay service
Meetings.IO acquired by Jive Software
If you've had any exposure to Bayesian statistics, it's very easy to explain the approach. You're basically tokenizing the email by word, and then predicting the probability that P(email is spam|token).

I would expect any data science candidate to have (at least) a basic understanding of Bayesian statistics.
Loosecubes, they are great team, shame it did not work out. And as others I hope we get some insight on what actually happened.

1.There is some insight on a comment from "Chris Di Fonzo"
on TechCrunch article. Though it may be just his own opinion
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/loosecubes-shutdown-casts-a...

2.I am ready to pick up the mantle..if I find a developer, have been researching this sector for 2 months and have got a good understanding on what kind of product is required, how to launch it and carry it forward.

3.It is not a side project, this is full time, just came back form the Paris coworking europe conference and after meeting numerous space owners, software providers I feel there is huge gap in what people want and what is being provided. Secondly end users, people like you and me, are not even the focus on most of these products.

4. Someone said below the space owner can mange their marketing, space bookings etc on thier own, that is not the case, I have had completely opposite feedback.
that post took me 5 hours to write. i really hope at some point I can write better and care less.
Ask HN: Best web servers - UK based
Simple question, i was with 123-reg and they were shocking! So im moving and where should i be going? Need ssh etc.
Thank you for the update and I look forward to 11/15. From looking at the website, all of the photos are primarily male, so I am hoping to add some female diversity to Y Combinator for 2013. What women wouldn't want to be surrounded buy hundreds of intelligent men for three months? :)
> for fun or for profit?

It occurred to me that not only there are many other reasons to write code, but also that the two reasons you mention are of the weakest sort.
Thanks for everyone for pointing out their typo. I posted them a note, and its looks like they corrected it.
Not true on mobile. I see advertisements for Samsung, Amazon, even Salesforce (what the hell?) right in between all the things I care about, just because my friends like them. Believe me, I can't express how much I don't want to see them. But there they are. I bet if I pull up the Facebook app I can find one sitting there right now.

One: http://i.imgur.com/0FXVv.png

Two: http://i.imgur.com/3Xfbj.png

We'll see them on the website soon enough.
FreeBSD on top of Xen has limitations (such as only one virtual CPU (AFAIK)) and in my testing is really unstable. Would you consider using something like KVM instead which has less issues?
True?: Hacker originally meant “one who makes furniture with an ax.”
I have to agree with this. There's time and there's money. After graduating from college, I've taken a lot of time to re-learn math slowly. I've also studied a lot of neuroscience and machine learning on my own time. I also quit computers and taught English for two years and moved to a foreign country and spent some time working on my people skills. (Sadly, I'm back to computers now, with a "normal" job...)

For me, I'm happy that I invested my time into myself, rather than investing money into some mutual funds or something. Very happy.

YMMV.
Dutch Sandwich with a side of tax relief may soon be off Google's menu
I was working 20 hours, 16 hours at home + 4 in office in the last two jobs.

Imho a coder is more productive if he focus 4 hours a day, then if he procrastinates 10 hours.
Anecdotes like yours are one of the main reasons I read HN. Thanks for sharing.

Now back to the subject of the thread, kudos to the author. Every time I try conveying an idea into a poem I get stuck on the sounds of the words; it's rather hard to me to find the right rhymes, especially since English is not my native language and I'm used to read far more than to listen to it.

And back to another side note, I stumbled upon this writing by Joe Davis called Telescopic Text [1] a few years ago, and loved it. He also built a tool [2] to aid writing texts on the same format and, though I never managed to finish a text myself, I found the tool rather amusing too.

[1] http://www.telescopictext.com/

[2] http://www.telescopictext.org/
Its true that if you make it rain by working 20 hours, you get to be the superstar of the team. But that's not possible, at least not in 90% of the scenarios.

Office as we know it, is more than a workplace for an individual. Its a place where people meet together to collaborate with each other. Its also a social network where people eat lunch, drink coffee and talk about life, and such stuff together. If you are not there 50% of the time, unfortunately I don't see how you will fit in with everybody else. Nobody likes calling and discussing things over phone/chat/email what could easily be discussed by meeting at ones cubicle and talking over it for 5 minutes.

Coding might be your 20 hour job, but the other 20 hours is many other things apart from coding. And trust me that is equally important for your career progression.
Nokia Lumia 920 sells out in less than one day on Clove UK, Telstra Aus
When people hear about the struggle to get one of these phones they get curious. I clicked like crazy to and luckily bought two phones... I have to say I look now a bit more forward to them because they took effort to get. This kind of stuff works for most human minds.
The "external debt" number quoted on Wikipedia is the total debt of all Norwegian companies to external debtors. And note that this is the gross number; I have no idea what the net number is but it is a lot smaller and might be negative.

The national debt is only 100 billion dollars, and is there primarily to ensure smooth trading with our trading partners. (It was roughly doubled due to liquidity measures in 2008, but supposedly some smart bond trading ensures that this won't have any dramatic effect with regards to making or losing money).
I've actually gone back to a 40 hour work week (as a consultant) after working six months doing 80+ hour work weeks (as a salaried W2, Employee).

I'm happier, and healthier (I've dropped 30 pounds since moving into the role).

To each their own.
Hours don't linearly scale with accomplishment in software. Measure accomplishment, set goals, pay based on salary not hours.
an older day where a faithful employee's reward for long-term service was getting a gold watch on retirement or a $10K bonus for having invented the thing that made the employer hundreds of millions

You think startups are any different? Unless you are one of the very first employees in a startup that is massively successful, you're not going to benefit financially compared to a job at BigCorp. In fact, the loss of higher salary, bonuses and benefits mean that startup employees are often working longer and getting less in return.

It's time to get rid of the culture where you have to stay in the office as long as the founder does- his incentives are totally different. A 40 hour week sounds great to me, but it requires a cultural change, not a legal one.
I don't think CALEA applies to email. Am I wrong?
So do you like any of the names I suggested? You can use one for FREE! Check out OpenDomain - we have given domains like Drupal.com, OsCon.com, schema.org, openajax.org and recently webplatform.com
I don't like the conception that a poem should rhyme.
I know that the poems I find most brilliant never do.
That's why I said government maybe needs to redistribute wealth if these rich folk genuinely don't give a shit about poor people. They can keep their money if they invest in society improving stuff. That's why I said immortality tech. He could get involved in miniaturizing extra-corporeal devices (artificial organs) that keep people alive even if their hearts or lungs get too damaged. He can start by watching that video and contacting those people and putting together a team of engineers to get it done. If you're not doing an Elon Musk, then maybe the government needs to raise your taxes.
The employment cost index only goes back to 2000, but employee compensation has certainly gone up since then.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECICOM
Whoever made that comment was probably joking.
As far as I understand it, China currently has a monopoly on rare earth minerals:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/06/08/rare-earth...