skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Color theory, layouts and a better sense of design as a whole. Actually because of this very question I bought:

* The Non-designer's Web Book
* Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design (Voices That Matter)

I'll read those and tell ;)
I applaud the practical impact of this act, however I do not view it as charity. Acts of charity are anonymous. Charitable donations made in a highly public manner are publicity.
No, that's not what it means at all.

What it says is, "If a scientist truly wishes to make an advance..., they'll make an effort to engage with other scholars." In other words, anyone holding a nonstandard degree who is serious will engage other scholars who do have standard degrees.

Having a nonstandard degree is a red flag. Having engaged scholars who have a standard degree reduces that red flag, while the opposite supports it.
RavenTools to remove scraped data(rankings) to satisfy Google's TOS
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11403730774446099672... is more focused on HN Content and is a closer representation of the community...
Nice! Like a lobby for HN in which mingling and informal chit chat can take place.
Reinventing the Linkblog
In general, there is an assumption that the organizers of events are good-faith people who want things to go smoothly, not tyrants who want to use their power to kick people out for no reason.
Does bitcoin influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
Yup, RMS considers Debian to be not-free enough because they don't make it hard enough to install proprietary software on their system.
Never heard of elevator gate?

Seriously, guide lines used to be a good idea but they can only work when everybody agrees (or there is some written record) of what exactly sexual harrasment is.

And 'unwanted' sexual advances? How the hell can you know if the girl wants to talk to you, without talking to her? Heck if I was a girl who got asked out 50 times a day for coffee it would properly be annoying too -- does that make it harressment?

I mean, sure you treaten somebody that is one thing, but only because we have a pretty good societal standard for what is treatening -- yelling at people is, being black in an elevator is not.
Saw a demo from these guys a few months ago - they are on to something very big. Huge fan, go team OpenEra!!!
It was once said that the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. It seems the same goes for targetted online communities.
"D stands for Diversity"

It's a shame that has to even be stated ... the articles we've been seeing are related to technical events. How about we attempt to show each other a modicum of respect and argue the technical points without getting personal? And what place is there for harassment in polite society? My gramma often noted that it doesn't cost you anything to be polite or friendly.
Well, you're using their servers, so it's not really a freedom of speech issue. When you're on their servers, its their rules; and if you don't like those rules they'll politely inform you (when they're policies they can't change) that you can go elsewhere.

And when you start providing that sort of adult content, I imagine (in the US at least) different rules begin to go into play. Just to be friends with someone, you'd need to prove you're 18+; because, as you defined it, some friends-only photos could be 18+. Then you've got other issues, like what it makes facebook look like. When it's possible to have pornography on a website, it changes the demographic that's willing to go to that website. It certainly wouldn't be a large percentage of the world, like it is now.

Showing pornography also affects the kind of people that are willing to advertise on your site, and so you may lose money that way. Mature images open a biiiig can of worms.
I can't parse your comment, could you clarify?

(Possibly, "They[the public] didn't [fund public health through taxes]"?)
You misread that as backwards of what the author said. It's not that having a nonstandard degree disallows you from making an effort to engage with other scholars. It requires you to make an effort to engage with other scholars.

Turing wasn't a biologist, but when he had ideas about biology he published them in Biology journals and so it would be perfectly appropriate to have had him give a Ted talk on Biology, for instance.
No it is not. Stop lying.
It should be noted that charity is very political, so it is not surprising someone would talk about in that context. After all, charity attempts to make up for shortfall in social and political systems and institutions.
Post five honest reviews of Google+ on the Place pages for local offices. Problem solved.
Do you think that it would be possible for someone who doesn't agree with global warming alarmism to complete a PhD in Climate Science? Honest question.
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> but this conspicuous appeal to authority makes me much less inclined to watch the talks.

You prefer non-authoritative information?
yeah my app is J23. i will send you an email about the keywords.
I said $300, and I never heard back from him.
If I want to use the name, do you have any suggestions?

Bid more than $300?

If you don't know how much the domain is worth, you should do some homework. Here are a couple of sites I've used when attempting to determine the market value of a domain:

http://www.domaintools.com/buy/sales-history/

http://www.domain-prices.com/search/prices/5000
Life : Nothing in particular as such. May be because I am a guy who finds positives even in so called "Worst decisions". They teach you something and help you get better. May be wasting 3 years doing job in a big Indian IT company. I should have get into startups earlier so that I could have failed earlier, learned earlier, improved earlier. If not in my own startup, I should have worked in some other startups instead of wasting my 2-3 years as ABAP developer.

Programming : Not testing my code properly(I only do manual user testing). I still don't do it. I find it too boring. May be I'm too lazy to do that.
How does UXArchive handle...displaying images:

At a fixed size, aligned constantly 200px from the top of my screen without ability to scroll down, effectively cutting all images in half. (standard 1200*800 laptop screen)

There are other issues with the image popup, some times the images are displayed on 2 rows and some times on 1, still without any vertical scroll so i cant see the second row. When there are many images the horizontal scroll is annoying and sometimes my mouse wheel scrolls the background and not in the popup window. Keyboard navigation like next/previous buttons would be good.

Otherwise a pretty good idea, you just need a larger collection of apps.
How journalists can avoid getting their sources arrested
Fressian is an extensible binary data notation
> More granularity in the notifications.

This. If you're part of a big organization with a lot of repos, you'll automatically watch all of them (and forks) as they are created. I'm currently watching 451 repos and have a mess of Gmail filters to (mostly) ignore notifications from repos I don't care about. Priority Inbox helps some in that it makes email actually mostly usable, but Github really needs to fix this.

There's an option to turn off auto-watching and a button to stop watching all repos, but there's not really an easy to to say, "I care about this repo and all it's forks, but nothing else." Or, as you mentioned, a way to watch some repos via email and everything else on the web.
By literally you mean metaphorically?
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Who will peer-review the peer reviewers?
Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
The point I was trying to make is that his statements didn't bother me and I fail to see how it would any other, I admit just my opinion though. I didn't find them to be "super negative" so this is just a disagreement over how "mean" he was being. Therefore my comment red and people's feelings. I feel that a complaint over his negative ones is overblown and doesn't drag every one down. You may disagree with me but if someone feels bummed about negative ones preceding a statement then I have to feel they are easily bummed out I guess, since easily offended doesn't fit.

I agree that it's easy to be both honest and pleasant to read but there can be disagreements over the definitions of both of those. Plus, sometimes being honest doesn't lend to being pleasant.
Jeez you are so emotional, you should just calm down. If you can't say anything nicely, you shouldn't say anything at all. Who believes an angry ranter like this anyway.
A specific list of what is sexual harresment and what is asking girls out for coffee.

Yes I know the difference, but I want to be sure the conference chair does.

I have no interest in becoming a monk and I like girls with a brain -- which place would be better than a technical conference (I believe the technical term is 'networking')?
I use my phone about as much as you do and totally feel it's worth it.

What are your monthly fees though? I have an unlocked Galaxy Nexus (older version, $350) and one of those $30/month, unlimited text/data, 100 minute talk, no-contract plans from T-mobile. Seems reasonable to me.
anti-health-care people have no such reasons

If you think it's that one-sided, you need to spend more time listening to the opposition. Here are some good reasons to oppose public health care:

- It will be more expensive due to government inefficiency

- There will be no incentive to innovate

- Health care run by government bureaucrats will be uncompassionate, due to distance from the community, and may not appropriately value human life and suffering

- A government that owns your health care can deny it to you

- Public health care options compete unfairly with private ones

You may not think these are good reasons, but a person doesn't have to be badly misinformed, stupid, or spiteful to find them persuasive.
> Never heard of elevator gate?

No, but I'm not sure what its relevance is to this code of conduct and your wild hyperbole.

> And 'unwanted' sexual advances? How the hell can you know if the girl wants to talk to you, without talking to her?

Start with general conversation? "Hi, how are you?" when asked face-to-face is probably a good first step towards figuring out if your later sexual advances will be wanted.
When Galileo made his discoveries he didn't start handing out pamphlets in the city square, he worked to persuade other astronomers first.

And when he failed at that, he did the equivalent of handing out pamphlets in the city square - he wrote a popular book. That is what he got punished for.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chi... for the book.
No, charity is not defined by whether the donor is anonymous or not.
I find it refreshing too. I find it much easier for my programming to flow when I'm sparing in my object use.

But, I'm not quite ready to throw out bundling functions with data just yet. Sometimes there's no other use you'd have for a function, and the dot notation and discovery through autocomplete is really convenient.

Not quite sure how to resolve these things yet.
But at what cost? There is a tremendous opportunity for pretty-good, bargain-basement, automated legal services.
1. You should be profiling. If this is your bottleneck, then consider tricks like this, or write that loop in C. This is probably not your bottleneck.

2. This is very interpreter-dependent. Any JIT worth its salt (like, say, PyPy) would probably decide to inline the append code if we're in this loop long enough for it to matter.
That's a good idea -- in theory. In practice, how would that enrich Canonical from tie-in deals?
Bitcoin needs no monetary policy for the same reason that gold needs no (and has no) monetary policy. Do you consider gold as a "flawed" market? Of course not.

People feel confident using gold as a store of value, because gold, like Bitcoin, is not tied to the activity of a single country or economic zone. Therefore the valuation of Bitcoin should average out speculation/sentiments on the worldwide financial markets, and this alone should provide sufficient stability.

Sudden changes of value can only happen when there is not enough liquidity. Bitcoin was not very liquid last year, which explains the valuation bubble of June 2011. But as Bitcoin's user base grows, liquidity should continue to improve, and should reduce the risk of the same bubble re-occurring again.
My smartphone is working for me, but what I realized about two years ago is that I do not need the latest and greatest one.

Basically what I want from my smartphone is: phone, turn-by-turn directions, music player, emergency web browser, emergency email, wifi tether.

Essentially any Android phone will fit my needs, so I moved over to using much cheaper devices on off-contract plans. My first was an LG Optimus V ($150) on Virgin Mobile ($25/month for 300 minutes and unlimited data, since I use Google Voice and Groove IP that turns into nearly infinite minutes) which I recently replaced with a HTC One V (also $150 usually, but was recently on a one-day sale for $50... $50, no contract!). Sadly moving to the One V bumped my monthly rate up to $35/mo (Virgin Mobile grandfathered in older phones into their old $25/mo rate despite the lack of contract, which was nice) but that's still super cheap compared to most people I know with $80+ plans.

This route isn't for everyone, if you're one of those people that is really married to your phone and you actually use it for things like video streaming and such, use the latest and greatest, but for me it is working out great.
Oof, you're getting downvoted right from the get-go. I disagree with your stance, but better to talk about this than to just blindly vote you into oblivion.

First, yes, it's legal to throw people out of a private event for any reason you'd like. They can be mad at you for your vagueness, but being vague isn't a crime. ("Thank god!" say a thousand programmers and designers who've been forced to make presentations or give speeches – I kid, I kid.)

Second, your little "for (horror) talking to girls in an elevator" struck me as a snotty little dig at a serious issue. I know that you're most likely taking a shot at the Rebecca Watson affair [http://www.metafilter.com/105214/the-existence-of-greater-cr...], but some users might not, and your snideless passes over the complications involved in that incident.

Would you say that men, all men, take it for granted that they know how women feel about possible male aggression in private situations, especially late at night? That they know women have legitimate reasons to be worried about strange men who confront them, even in a seemingly harmless manner, in private situations? Would you say that women have a right to speak about their feelings on this topic, explain why they feel the way that they feel, or even just vent about how bothered they get by those situations?

Rebecca Watson didn't get anybody "thrown out" of the World Atheist Convention, she discussed an incident that happened there, and some people got really bothered that she considered it an incident. It was a complete flustercuck, not because talking to a woman on an elevator is HORRIBLE RAMPANT MISOGYNY, but because there are reasons why Watson found the gesture creepy, and there were many man – from your post, you included – who simply refused to admit that Watson had any legitimate point whatsoever.

Which is why, by the way, these codes of conduct are necessary. It's not necessarily that you would do something horribly wrong or alienating or offensive, but if something as simple as "being hit on at 4am by a strange man" is still sneered at as a legitimate concern, then probably some people think they're entitled to far grosser and more outlandish actions as well. And that means that either women might be actively harassed (possibly even assaulted), or they'll feel like they're not actually a part of the group, and then they'll leave, and the community will be immeasurably diminished for their leaving.

Again, the downvoters were wrong to knock you down – your opinion was relevant to the discussion and stated concisely – but your attitude here is exactly the problem which codes of conduct will attempt to enforce. I doubt anybody will miss your presence at the conferences, or at those expensive concerts for that matter. Enjoy trying to mosh in your own living room. :-P
So I'm a lawyer and you should take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I think you've misread the market.

There has been an oversupply of legal gradutes for decades now. Today, half of law graduates don't get a job, and 90% can't get a job at a big firm. Yet, big firms are still paying $160k+bonus to people fresh out of school, because that's what they have to pay to get kids out of the top 15-20 schools or the tippy-top kids from the lower-ranked schools. Why do they continue to do this when lowering their standards for pedigree could cut their costs massively?

You can say that it's because law firms are stupid and invested in the status quo, but corporate clients surely aren't. Why do firms persist in putting so much stock in hiring Harvard/Yale/etc graduates, and why do clients keep hiring such firms? If there was really an opening in the market you could drive a truck through, what has stopped anyone from taking advantage of it thus far?
some good articles and analysis regarding GMO, generally opposed to it as performed in practice (not necessarily in theory), from the Union of Concerned Scientists:

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...

> We see that the technology has potential benefits, but we are critics of its commercial application and regulation to date. GE has proved valuable in some areas (as in the contained use of engineered bacteria in pharmaceutical development), and some GE applications could turn out to play a useful role in food production.

> However, its applications in agriculture so far have fallen short of expectations, and in some cases have caused serious problems. Rather than supporting a more sustainable agriculture and food system with broad societal benefits, the technology has been employed in ways that reinforce problematic industrial approaches to agriculture. Policy decisions about the use of GE have too often been driven by biotech industry PR campaigns, rather than by what science tells us about the most cost-effective ways to produce abundant food and preserve the health of our farmland.

these are the real reasons GMO is better off being opposed, as long as companies like Monsanto are in charge of it.
hmm, then the same assumption should be made for conference attendees.

But somehow, it is not. I wonder how accurate the assumption of good will is for the organizers?
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FWIW I have a .ws domain I registered through iwantmyname.com. Whois says the actual registrar is 1API GmbH.
You severely underestimate the amount of processing power that Facebook utilizes. By orders of magnitude. They have kept and continue to analyze every action anyone has ever taken on Facebook and any site with Like button.
Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Someone balancing needs without numbers to back up their costly actions is why higher-order bureaucracies exist.

A (governmental) bureau is responsible for a delegated area of licensing (pre-emptive control), regulatory oversight (ongoing control), and "criminal" investigation (retributive action for violation), as granted by its enabling authority.

Bureaucracy is the discipline/science/art of managing a bureau, which isn't producing competitive market-action revenue (profits), so can only control efficiency by containing costs, which itself is an action that doesn't produce market revenue.

Oversight of a bureau (ascendant bureaucracy) exists solely to make sure some metric of cost containment and compliance with enabling authority is maintained within each bureau itself.

In short, bureaucracy is the regulatory management of regulatory management.
We received a Chinese-language (not sure if Mandarin or what) to a KDE mailing list the other day. We could see it was relevant to us but there was no translation, nothing at all, none of us could understand the problem.

Eventually someone replied asking for them to re-submit an English description of the issue, hopefully they're able to do so. :-/
I thought the reason these guidelines are set is so that everyone is protected--attendees feel comfortable, and organizers don't have to feel like they're on their own with making decisions on things that are making everyone(potentially) uncomfortable. Conference organizers certainly don't enjoy confrontation.

Also, thanks for the condescension behind the girl-elevator scenario. That really strengthens the argument. Ladies don't report conversations in an elevator. They report feeling unsafe.
My apologies, I'm only an amateur statistician. I'll defer to your knowledge in that area. =) (and I'm joking here, I'm decent with the stats, just wanted to focus on the broader issue).

I don't want to get bogged down in the stats discussion because I was making a broader point and don't claim to be an expert in statistics. We could extend the example to any area where one person has more technical expertise in any certain subject than the people they are communicating with.

So, let's step outside the arena of statistics for a second. If you were teaching someone to cook, would you really explain the process using terms like a 'pinch' or a 'dash' of salt. Sure, to an expert chef or grandmother, a pinch of salt is a perfectly reasonable quantity to add to the recipe. The student just learning to cook can only guess at what that term means. That's why most recipes come with specific amounts or weights of ingredients to add, because we need a common terminology to correctly express the recipe.

Taken totally as an argument for teaching or explaining statistics, I see your point. It's far more important to discuss and quantify the significance of the change rather than simply noting that something did change and by how much.

And yeah, irony went right over my head. I blame Friday. =)
I stopped leaving my Gmail account logged in while browsing almost two years ago because I was already sick of all their recommendations, personalizations and tracking (search history being shared across all devices was especially creepy). Now I just log in to check my mail and immediately log out, making sure not to do any random browsing in between.

Sounds like I haven't been missing out on any of the fun.
The previous submission of Larry Page's Google+ post

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4874293

led me to his post, where I commented, and where I was APPALLED to see how many people were making blatantly unscientific statements about vaccines, with one even saying, "Just google it" (without providing any links) to introduce flat-wrong statements. A follow-up comment of mine was,

"+Larry Page I'm wondering if your head hurts as much as mine does when people say 'Just Google it' to recommend websites full of incorrect information not based on science or rational thought. More work still needs to be done in developing the public's research skills so that most people can distinguish reliable sources from unreliable sources that happen to turn up in an online search. "

Ouch. I guess the co-founder of Google is seeing an example in the comments to his Google+ post of how ignorant people stay ignorant even when they use the world's best search engine. I wonder what the search quality team at Google can do about issues like this.
Say goodbye to before_filter, hello to before_action
Sounds like classic extrapolating from personal use to me. "I'm never on G+" doesn't have anything to do with how many engaged, active users they have, and they have a lot.
To clarify. The bullet points are listed under "Marks of Good Science". Holding a degree does not mean your publications or claims are good science. It's fine if Ted wants to only have degree holders as speakers, but they should be clear that it's a bias they've chosen, not "good science".