skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you made an experience based upon one of the topics mentioned in this article? Do you know some Product Team Anti-Patterns everybody should be aware of? I’d love to hear your opinion.
Fair call, I'm all for fewer arbitrary rules. Especially if it's less code.

I still consider the "oh, but it's valid to have dotless on RHS!" to be one of those facts which is true, but irrelevant.

Those three hypothetical users can't receive email sent from most major web providers (e.g. gmail, who don't allow dotless To:), can't sign up to most web sites (who get their validation wrong), and are at the mercy of pitiless local dns resolver rules (pope@va will go to pope@va.com for US users, a lot of the time).
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will hear elevator pitch from enterprise startups
so you can write lengthy blogs to kill time...why do we need write down little thing like this and why is it at the headline at hacknews...
Or make them use Markdown, org-mode syntax, BBCode or s-expressions ({b text in bold {i and italics}}). User formatting should never go directly to the browser, without being reinterpreted by the website.
Anyone know how much he's suing for?
> What I don't understand though is how this drm is effective or why there aren't popular tools (I am guess there actually are tools though) that circumvent this DRM

Because there's no point - Netflix's selection is limited enough that it's still easier and faster (and less work) to pirate the content from DVD rips (available on Bittorrent, etc.), in which case you get the added benefit of much higher quality.

In other words, the only reason that Netflix isn't used for piracy is because the platform is still "inferior" to the existing piracy options already available!
Yes, everyone is ignoring all that hard work that Susan B. Anthony did getting everyone to acknowledge that women are equally likely to want to put obnoxious consumer electronics in their living rooms.

Not that this isn't ridiculous, but the article does discuss spouse approval which seems like a totally acceptable term to me.
Argentina is a serial defaulter yet investors still lend money to the government there.

If the U.S. decided to completely default on it's debt it would be more destructive to the U.S. economy since the majority of the debt is held by U.S. citizens & institutions. Insurance companies & banks would collapse instantly since the a very large percent of their asset bases would be wiped out.

We (meaning U.S. citizens) owe more to ourselves than to any foreign entity. Default is, at least right now, a political non-starter.
No. See: http://domainincite.com/10254-why-domain-names-need-punctuat...
Here you go https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...
Tutorialize.me is looking for beta partners
We've been working on Tutorialize.me (https://tutorialize.me) for almost a year and are looking for a handful of beta sites to help us launch. We think the product is production-ready and pretty swell to use. We'll give you free service and in exchange we'd like your feedback and patience.

Tutorialize.me is a service that provides tutorials to your visitors to quickly explain your UI. It's a great way to push visitors down a funnel or educate first time users. Tutorials can be created with no technical knowledge in just a few minutes.
I read through the article (first published in 2008, it appears) to see what issues were considered, and what the background of the article author is. "Deputy editor Thomas Goetz (thomas@wired.com) wrote about the Personal Genome Project in issue 16.08. He has a new blog about health and medicine at www.thedecisiontree.com" is what I see at the very bottom of the article. His blog appears to be updated every once in a while, to promote the article author's 2010 book.

The article submitted here is a popular article by a layman, and popular to a fault in that it discusses trade-offs in different screening methodologies, but doesn't even introduce the reader to important concepts like sensitivity and specificity of medical tests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity

It's very important that HN participants digest the article kindly submitted here with a compare-and-contrast reading of "The early detection of cancer and improved survival: More complicated than most people think"

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-early-dete...

by David Gorski, M.D., an experienced cancer researcher and experienced blogger about science-based medical decision-making for popular readers. His conclusion, "The bottom line is that the ever-earlier detection of many diseases, particularly cancer, is not necessarily an unalloyed good. As the detection threshold moves ever earlier in the course of a disease or abnormality (in the case of cancer, to ever smaller tumors all the way down to the level of clusters of cells), the apparent prevalence of the disease being screened for increases, and abnormalities that may never turn into the disease start to be detected at an increasing frequency. In other words, the signal-to-noise ratio falls precipitously," is a necessary caution in predicting the benefit of early detection of what appears to be cancer.

The American Cancer Society has a good 2012 publication, "Cancer Treatment & Survivorship: Facts & Figures 2012-2013"

http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurvei...

that provides more details on what it means to survive a case of cancer.
Great feedback, thanks! We have almost solely focused on making the best workflow for game dev possible, with things like updating the games live on your mobile phones while they run and a proper editor with visual editing. I really agree that we are currently sending a mixed message, we need to be more clear of what kind of service we are and what you can do with it.
While things break for a shorter period in Canary, they also break more frequently.

In my experience when they break something badly in Beta, they push a fix outside of the scheduled releases.
The “Few Months In” Checkup for Startups
DNS tricks are lame, but we need some kind of ISP-customer control channel and right now that's the only one that works.
Tell that to the scipy folks.
Thorium power is interesting, but in no way is it a substitute for other rare-earths.
> I think it is scary that politicians are put in charge of thousands of employees and billion pound budgets without having to have any experience managing in the first place.

This is what the civil service is for. In the UK the ministers set policy, while the permanent secretaries of the civil service carries out the day to day management of the department and is accountable for how the department spends money. This also includes ensuring the minister is suitably supported with research and advise to make decisions even on subjects they might not know very well.

Of course there's plenty of room for ministers to make stupid decisions by refusing to accept good advice and/or not having enough understanding to know when they receive bad advice, but the civil service is very much set up so that one function is to limit the damage a clueless politician will make.
> This is an HTML5 item, so it should eventually come to all browsers.

Though the date and time pickers which have been produced so far (outside of mobile phones maybe) are essentially garbage, in no small part for exactly the reason you suggest:

> Unfortunately, localization has not been properly addressed

which could even be extended to formatting in general. They also tend to look... bad. Not just "it's not a work of art" bad, but "this shit looks worse than most HTML/JS widgets created in the past 5 years and there is absolutely no hook anywhere to style them to match one's site"
http://www.copyrightinformation.org/sites/default/files/Inde...

Basically DtecNet/MarkMonitor is participating in a lot of BitTorrent swarms and recording IP addresses of peers.
Clearly, it's not the intent - or at least, not the publically professed intent - that's the problem, but the notion that instead of downloading and installing filters, it's simpler to just turn off the internet.

It's like when using contraception is too difficult for some people - so let's outlaw non-procreational sex entirely.
Hi, Roee from Soluto here, please see my full comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793863
EDIT:
See the video posted by stevenrace above. It's a sort of controlled road test with some good engineering moments. In sum, there are a lot of subtle factors that make the car surprisingly stable and maneuverable - for more obvious reasons, it just doesn't behave exactly as we'd intuitively expect.
So this is a meme now (animated gif stories)? Unless the meme involves some really interesting technical hack, some new product, or some new business opportunity, HN doesn't seem like the right place to post it.
Solid advice.

One thing, this might be just me, but I find the light grey on white text very hard to read. I'm on a Macbook Air, so it's not a retina screen, but still.
We currently have no exposed network support, but that will come at a later time.
Amazon does provide updates as well; not sure if O'Reilly offers this for their Amazon "prints" (I'm sure they would, but I usually opt for direct so unable to confirm), but I have received mails telling me my Kindle books have been updated.
Wasn't pg 31 when they built ViaWeb?
It's shorter than a most tablets, Nexus 10 included.
Working from home is great! You also cut down on commuting time, which can be a big source of unhappiness in your life:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/06/perils-commu...

Also, a +1 on the pomodoro technique. It helps me get back on track if I accidentally open up FB or HN. :-)
Telling technophobes to google "parental controls" and download one of the free options is a great way to get people infected with malware or scamware.
I would - as someone who owns zero Windows machines, this means that I can actually use Netflix as opposed to - well, not.

Amusingly, this was literally the last thing that I still wasn't able to do on Linux that I wanted to - GNU/Linux is a fully capable OS, but DRM is quite a nuisance.
I just can't take oracle seriously knowing an oracle 11 enterprise db license costs $47,500 per CPU core.
I like how they immediately assume that since everyone infringes copyright, everyone needs to be re-educated. Such an easy solution! It also tells us a lot about the people behind this whole thing.
It would also be beneficial to read what pro-central bank arguments are. The Regional Reserve Banks maintain extensive research & documents to learn how the Fed operates and the underlying argument as to why it should exist.

This wikipedia link could be a good start in addition to the selection of books above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
To be fair, just because it's in the fine print doesn't mean it's actually binding. I could put "if you use this device on Friday we get to kill you" but that wouldn't mean we could kill you.
Mozilla's Shumway: a Flash VM written in JavaScript
The last time on HN that I responded to blatant ignorance with a three-paragraph summarization of a complex system, I was called rude because I said, "You don't seem to know how X works."
The recommendation is for an opt-in filter that is easy to use for non tech-savvy parents.

The government aren't trying to enforce a filter, despite sensationalist journalism like this.
Great and innovate product. Keep it up!
There's no way for you to know the quality of the applicants who got an interview.
Why do you think you're so entitled to an interview? YC doesn't owe you anything.
Your suggestions are largely self-serving. There's no way to force alumni or anyone else to spend lots of time on every application, and limiting the number of apps just increases the chance YC will miss out on the next Dropbox.
I use it as my virtual printer.

Every online receipt or payment confirmation, flight details, etc gets inserted into evernote via OS X's "Save PDF to Evernote" link in the print dialog.

I hardly ever look at the stuff, but it's nice to have it all indexed and immediately searchable.
I remember hearing Amazon now allows publishers to opt-out of DRM. .mobi doesn't always cleanly convert to ePub though, so having multi-format from the source is still helpful.
Android native date and time pickers with Trigger.io
I'm working from home full time right now, and I've found a few things which have made it productive for me.

1) An office. Granted, the office is also my man-cave, so it's full of distractions: books, posters, a gaming rig, and comfy chairs. However, it protects me from human distractions (such as my wife), which are the biggest barrier to getting work done.

2) Dressing for work. This is just jeans and a t-shirt, but it's exactly what I'd wear if I was working in an office as well.

3) Working on something interesting. Even if there's grunt work, if I'm having fun getting to a goal, distractions aren't an issue.

4) Balancing work and fun. I work until I need a distraction, and then distract myself. When my mind is ready to get back to work, I get back to work.

The end result is that I get all of my tasks done in a week, even if I don't work every day, and I have fun doing it.
The enterprise strikes back
Something tells me it's more than 16 more gigs.
Just to clarify, the vast majority of our audience currently arrives through sites like LifeHacker, MakeUseOf and HowToGeek. "Bloatware" is uncalled for in this case, it usually refers to shit that's trying to make money of you without providing value. Please read my full comment that includes our bias analysis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793863
There are quite a few people

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is...

who disagree with you

http://dailycurrant.com/2012/04/23/matt-drudge-wins-web-desi...
There's not much to this article, just someone being snarky about Oracle. After a moment, I decided that was enough, and voted it up.
I'm not sure why you'd imagine Google ever wasn't on the "dark side". They're a company. They exist to make a profit. Anything else is just PR and attempts at image manipulation.
<input type=color /> also works
> my primary linux computer probably couldn't play back netflix video even without any DRM.

What? Why is that the case? Unless you have some incredibly old and/or underpowered hardware...
Mastery By Robert Greene, going on 20K
It's a very different web service now.
Feeling Success, Being Successful, Having other people think you're successful
I do not understand what you think is contrived about it. To me the assumption that quantum mechanics does not describe the human brain is much harder to swallow than the Everett interpretation is.
Introducing OpenBook, a simple and flexible distributed social protocol
> It starts up fast and never needs upgrades.

Its "window on the Web" is the Chrome browser and it never needs upgrades?
Apparently my internet is too slow to enjoy this, it's not "instant" :(
great work Federico! bravo!
As a dev and a user, I love that these guys are creating a better payments platform. Here's to the all the marketplaces that before Balanced were just twinkles in their founders' eyes.
Thanks for the feedback Josh. If you are having this issue a lot of others will to. We will modify this to improve readability.
I've worked at home full time for the last 2.25 years or so, and it's been the most productive working experience of my 15 year career. I think there are some misconceptions and hidden benefits that I held before being in a long full-time WFH situation that I'm sure others hold also. I've been meaning to write up a longish post on my thoughts/experience, but here are some brief notes off the top of my head:

1. I think the tv/fridge/playstation distraction thing is a myth. I think maybe it's a problem when you WFH occasionally because you're not used to being productive at home and you can make it up tomorrow at the office.

2. WFH has the benefit of forcing you to be vastly evaluated on your work product. This is seven million kinds of awesome. I have lots to say about the benefits of this, but one thing is that it changes the way I make things. I think differently about how my colleagues (and not just developers) consume and interact with my work. I care about their FTUE when running my code or trying a new tool more than I used to.

3. Your commute is killing you. You probably don't think this is true. I didn't. I loved my train ride. Now I can't believe I gave that much of my life away. It really makes me sick. I'd trade 25% salary for no commute in a heartbeat now that I've tried both. Hell, probly 50%.

4. Everyone asks if you miss social interaction. I don't, because it's not missing. I interact more with my current team than any other team I've ever been on. We idle in chat all day, and I probably have an avg of 2-5 VOIP quick conversations or meetings daily. The interactions are more intentional, and valuable (socially and work-wise).

5. I'm a better writer now and my task management skills are much improved, for obvious reasons. More asynchronous work means less walk-by task management and more thoughtful emails/tickets, etc.

6. I don't burn out nearly as easily (in the short or long term). 12 hour days feel like 9 hour days used to. Five minutes petting my dog is vastly more psychologically relaxing than a walk to the water cooler or an office game of foosball.
"Sorry, the 'arrogance/condescension' comes from the remembered horror of having to deal with autotools too many times."

That is a valid feeling, but it does not excuse arrogant or condescending behavior. It's not the user's fault that you've had these experiences; you just ended up working with a painful tool. Moving on and refusing to work with it again is perfectly fine. Blaming the users for your misery is not.

"I don't think it is fair to accuse me of "blaming the user", as though that were horrific and plainly wrong, just because I want nothing to do with that nonsense again."

I accused you of blaming the user because of comments such as "If they are using something particularly weird, that is their own damn fault"

Separate the problem from the people, because the people you're attacking are not responsible for your pain.
I am not saying that I deserve an Interview, what I am saying is that ALL applications and materials NEED to be reviewed so they really don´t miss the next DropBox like you say.
Good Reasons Not to Start a SaaS Start-Up
Looks really interesting. I mainly use C while working on embedded code, how applicable is this book to embedded C?

If this isn't a great resource for embedded C, can anyone recommend a different book?
These guys are just killing it, moving fast and building a fantastically engineered service.
Ok, I actually like that a lot more. I could see it being characterized as a "pop-up" by less technical speakers.

If an ISP is going to communicate with me outside the usual channels, I'd much rather they do it at a DNS level, where it's obvious something's happening, than at an HTTP level where there's a much greater temptation for mischief.
Full width or fixed width?
Pros/cons please
Indeed. OS and crapware taking a few GB's off a 2 TB hard disk is one thing. Taking 16 GB's off of advertised 32 GB flash storage is outrageous.

This is false advertising. I wouldn't laugh at this lawyer if I were Microsoft.
Where are people finding all these 100% work from home jobs?

Whenever I suggest it to HR/recruiters they just aren't interested. Most places will only allow a day or two working from home, if that.
Why France could become the biggest danger to Europe’s single currency
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I'll second that, I guess I'm biased as I wrote some early gnome stuff back in the day before I started writing graphics device drivers for Precision Insight and VA Linux systems. I rather like glib, even though the gpointer thing isn't something I like too much aesthetically. Everything obviously has its warts and trade offs, nothing is perfect after all. I think glib brings a lot to the table though and with it and a few other choice libraries I can code very complex projects just as fast or faster in C as I do in Java.
Taliban fails to BCC an e-mail, reveals its entire PR mailing list
It is in the interest of YC to accept/fund applicants with a promising future.
Looks like whatever the title was, an overzealous mod changed it to match the article title, which has no meaning out of context. I thought this would be about some biological study when I clicked on it.
If its just a matter of styling, then there is a movement to make styling these sort of components as accessible as anything else on the web. Its still in spec, but you should take a look at the Shadow DOM.

Not the most familiar with it, but I believe the gist of it is to allow developers to create self-contained widgets (or at least part of its usefulness). With it, you'll also be able to access/manipulate browser elements (they'll be presented with a Shadow DOM interface just like a custom widget).

Think styling an HTML5 Video/Audio Player. Each browser may have their own interface, but they'll be built using components, and you'll have access to them using CSS/Javascript in your web page. With the Shadow DOM, you should be able to manipulate said datepicker.

edit: styling a video tag example http://blog.romanliutikov.com/coding/discover-the-dark-side-...
Velocidades de conexión 3G y 4G de las telefónicas en Bolivia
Chrome updates are non-disruptive (e.g., doesn't bug you to restart your machine every 15 minutes) and automatic.

It's a far cry from "you have 7 critical updates that require your attention", or "your computer will automatically shut down in 3 minutes to update unless you click this button that extends this by another hour".

Or if we're talking about Adobe: "looks like there's another 0-day massive security hole, Flash player needs you to drop everything, shut off everything with a web frame so we can fix this".

Or to balance it out a bit Apple-style: "your browser, Safari, needs an update. We will inexplicably need you to stop whatever you're doing and reboot to update your browser"

So yeah, "never needs upgrades" isn't technically correct, but it's pretty close to it.
5 UI/UX tricks behind CSR Racing’s $12 million month
For me it's less about the distractions and more about not having people to pull me out of the rabbit holes I fall down. At the office I have constant reminders that I shouldn't be spiraling down into wikipedia hell while at home I don't.

So my solution was to download a chime app that sets off a bell every hour on the hour. Now every time I hear that I find I automatically turn productive again.
Or, Lawyer did read the fine print, then is savvy enough to sue and publicly drum up clients.
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Lua's core string manipulation has been kept (as I understand it) deliberately limited in order to keep the implementation simple. What is present - e.g., simplified pattern-matching - is cleverly designed and often useful but, by design, there's nothing to compare to Python's rich built-in set of libraries.
Actually it depends on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-...

Most Intel processors fall in the .5 core factor. Interestingly if you license an Oracle core(Sun, Sparc) it is .25.
I really don't understand this, if you're not happy with a device you buy, return it for a full refund and don't buy another. How is it even possible to sue over an issue like this?
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