skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the interface became a little complicated. The previous version was more accessible for a casual user, for example the following article about the website was received pretty enthusiastically (retweeted about 1000 times)
http://gigazine.net/news/20121012-5000-best-movies/

I guess the right way to fix it is to hide some features and add a tutorial.
For me the magic about the humble bundles was never the games, but the charities. In this case more money for them is better, and one can never have too many games anyways. For as long as the bundles are still high quality I'll always get them.
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Cool thanks for that post I'll check that book out. I have very high profile apps on the app store I wrote for others and I can completely relate to all the hassles and insanity surrounding the market. It's very finicky and totally unpredictable. Honestly I attribute a lot of successes and failures to simple market variance.
To a degree, definitely. As someone who works in healthcare (both as a practitioner - paramedic), and whose other job is healthcare IT...

I know your example is exaggerated for effect, but there is (or should) be a difference between "general use" PCs in a hospital, and Patient Care / Management PCs (EHR, workflow automation, digital diagnostic imaging, pharmacy and the like). That in itself is a failling of healthcare IT policy.

Sure, your critical systems should all be be "certified", but even that is an area ripe for disruption - witness DrChrono in EHR, and I myself am working, or brainstorming on, better "field reporting" (i.e. 911 response laptops / tablets - most software in this field is horrific for usability, though admittedly there is pretty cool functionality, the ability to transmit 12-lead ECG to the hospital for prepping cath labs is fantastic) - definitely willing to talk to people interested in such a thing.

Edit: as an aside, I'm yet to see MRI software that wasn't driven by a Solaris backend, or even Irix, though that does demonstrate how this area works.
Great points. The sooner this medicine can be freely accessible and available to all the better.
Smaller _accredited_ investors. I not entirely up to date on how the JOBS act changed the definition of "accredited," but otherwise that seems like an oxymoron.
He was asking why so much media _attention_ was being focused on the TSA vs other government agencies, not how the US compares to the rest of the world, or if it was class warfare.

It's really true that the media uses the upper-middle class as the focus group. The upper class, the %0.1, is too alien, too small, too smart, too international and thus too unrelatable for most Americans, so the upper-middle sets the tone instead.

You also have to separate UCSIS, the scary border organization with teeth and a horrible attitude, and the TSA, the organization that takes your water bottles away.

Also, you need to have money to fly a lot, and that starts around upper-middle class.
In those instances I slide the devs money slider down and let it go more to charity. (And then give that copy to someone else to share the love.)
The only disturbing part is that Facebook feels they have control over your interpretation of data on your own machine, even after they've happily sent it to you. It would be kind of like the beef industry banning you from buying beef because you stir-fried a steak instead of barbecuing it; the latter being the only official way to eat the meat.
The patent laws of the US always seem to reach across borders, so it's not surprising to see pressure from non-Americans.
Does BitTorrent = Piracy?
In a world where ideas weren't patentable, they'd be worthless. For better or worse, the current US system says that ideas don't have to be executed in order for patents to be granted. Patents are valuable only because the current system says they are.
Predictability is no excuse for malfeasance.
That's basically where I'm at. There are so many, I've just stopped paying attention.
It's only open to accredited investors. This is for legal reasons, I think.

You can read more here: https://angel.co/help/invest
Way simple, yet charming. Loved the show-categories-on-hover feature, but it's impossible to see the categories when scrolled down.
Besides the charity aspect of it, the goal of humble bundles is to showcase indie developers so the more the merrier I say. That way exposure is given to as many game devs as possible.
This is sort of off-topic, but you'd also go for the Nexus 7 if you lived in a country that wasn't serviced by Amazon.

Canada, for instance. I moved to the US (from Canada) over 10 years ago, and even then one of the small things that occured to me during the move was that I could use Amazon.com. Amazon's odd treatment of Canada still baffles me to this day (I suppose there's some bureaucratic paperwork blocking things). Amazon Prime doesn't work in Canada, and Kindle tablets aren't even sold there.

I find it odd that I can drive a few hours and end up in a country that feels like a technological backwater (e.g., Netflix, Amazon, 3-year mobile contracts, etc.) compared to the US.
To anyone getting it: there is some way to play it "properly", I think you should play the base game before you _install_ DLC, or something like that.

I cannot find any source to this, so please someone who played, correct me.
Then tell your compiler to inline it - but don't bother doing it until you have measured it to actually have a measureable impact. Readability and rewriteability dominate that kind of unguided microoptimizations you seem to like all the time.

That doesn't mean to abstract for the sake of abstraction but to choose the right abstraction. Writing code so that it is easy to reach the right abstraction helps a lot.
I expect it will move closer yet before all is said and done. E.g.:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/316

However, the primary distinctive is that Gittip is funded on itself, whereas Flattr is for-profit and takes a hefty cut. I don't see that gap closing anytime soon.
I think part of the point of the Humble Bundle is that ... it's totally okay to do that.
These are the eight most popular adult classes in the world
Well-timed for sort-of last minute Christmas presents.

In that spirit, is there a place where you can gift extra keys (for games you already own) and they distribute them in a charitable manner?
I'm really impressed. The "recommender" system works really well.
That sounds like the beginning of typical amateur trader career that ends up with 90+% probability in losing all invested money.
the questions is how does he know how he looks like?
is he looking at other spiders? maybe he looked into a reflection on the water? or does he simply just know?
I disabled Ghostery but still needed to unblock requests to Facebook and Google that Disconnect was blocking.
Small typo on the "What's next?" page after you create a new app:

``They will be in your Dropbox folder under the followng path:``

Should be "following", not "followng".
I don't think it's very likely that the shutdown stopped them from communicating. Risk/reward? The risk is that the honeypot was the only way they could communicate, and that keeping it alive was the only way these attacks could continue. I don't think this is a very large risk. The reward, however, is foreknowledge of an attack. Maybe they don't think this is very useful knowledge?

In any case, I don't think these were the reasons for taking it down.
Probably, yes. But at least private entities can be (and frequently are) killed by customers starving them of their income - this can happen passively by simply not buying their products anymore. Public sectors ones need politicians to actively invest political capital in not just removing it, but figuring out what it was meant to do in the first place, how to do it better and then setup a new entity that's better - so there's very high friction to take on the task. Obviously, also, anyone who takes on TSA opens himself up to being labeled "soft on national security".

Of course, there are many anemic private companies that are kept alive for various reasons long beyond their reasonable lifetime, but generally this holds. Private companies come and go much faster than public sector ones.

That said, I'm not sure airport security is necessarily a good fit for a private company.
In other words, the TSA is a self-licking ice-cream cone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
Interesting, I didn't know this, though in retrospect, it should be obvious, versus compilation.
No, you are still wrong. I am morbidly obese and struggle with my weight daily. It will kill me in the end but I want to know what you would do when your metabolism is so low that your normal body temperature hangs at around 97.2F and resists being raised even by means of medications and heavy exercise. I'm sorry but when numerous doctors over 20 years all throw their hands up and say they can't help then there is nothing to be done. I admit, I could starve myself on something around 700 calories a day for the rest of my life but I would rather die; I think most would. I could hit the gym for 6 hours a day, likely with very little improvement, but I need to work to support myself and my family.

Finally, I get tired of arm chair nutritionists going off and telling people that it is all about eat less and exercise more. Obesity isn't a one solution fits all problem and it is only arrogance to think otherwise.

This article points out that there is yet another possibility to look into. Yet again, something that works against the old mantra eat less exercise more. We simply still don't know enough about the human body. There are going to be many more surprises for the obese population. In the mean time we have to combat our weight and jerks who think they know everything.
Score is different in each of the 55 rankings. I do not know if this is clear in the interface, but "Law" is one of the rankings, not a filter.
> I don't care if someone is fat. What I care about is the loons saying that it's healthy and fine to be morbidly obese and they use stuff like this to back it up.

Being morbidly obese and healthy? Very unlikely to be true. Morbidly obese and ok with? That's 100% legit, it's your body and you are free to do as you please.

> No, it's calories in vs calories out. Maybe these bacteria make you want to eat more, maybe they somehow pull more energy out of food than normal gut flora somehow, in the end it doesn't really matter. Eat less, lose weight; eat more, gain weight; the definition of 'more' and 'less' are individual.

Except we already have strong evidence to suggest that calorie deficit diets do not have a causal relationship with weight loss and that those diets are hard to maintain over a long period of time, leading people to have yo-yo issues with their weight.

> I don't care if someone is fat.

When you call fat acceptance folks loons, I don't think you can say that with a straight face.
Sure, it's a stretch, I don't dispute that at all. Maybe a spider witnessed another spider being eaten, and since it was spared, decided to make another spider-looking thing so it doesn't get eaten again. It's not really a matter of self-recognition or theory of mind, but more of a pattern recognition, something spiders (I assume) are good at. "My friend was eaten, and I wasn't. I should make something that looks like my friend so I don't get eaten." But, then again, Occam's Razor and all that. :)
Dude, poor people don't fly. It absolutely has to do with class.

The systems set up to serve the poor are significantly worse than the TSA in every way, and I say this as someone who hates the TSA with a white hot passion. But the blogosphere isn't filled with tirades about how stupid, ineffective, wasteful and absurd the process is for obtaining food stamps, for example. Or getting a menial job, or getting adequate legal representation, or fighting slumlords, or getting police protection, or any number of things.

We hear about the TSA much more often because it overwhelmingly affects the wealthy.
Seems like a desperate, almost pathetic, attempt to copy fundersclub down to the exact numbers.
Great site! I'm listening to "Slow Dancing in a burning room" while writing this comment.

You can even listen to "lisp programming" ;-)
https://wavo.me/search/yt/lisp%20programming
A dress code isn't (at least by definition) arbitrarily, or arbitrarily applied.
I like most of what you say. However the first sentence about being unfair to the TSA seems out of place. You're right about self preserving organizing but that doesn't mean we're being unfair. TSA is a horrible organization that needs to be dismantled.
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Homefront 2, huh?
I love the functionality, I wouldn't change anything there. I would just try and clean up the interface a bit. Bring some consistency to alignments, add some hierarchy to the controls with font weights, sizing colors etc... Normal UX stuff.

Honestly, it may not be a priority for you. I was NOT trying to bash. I just thought it was funny that the interface was drawing praise.

As a UX Specialist at my agency, I see interfaces like this all the time (I'm usually being paid to fix them). We call this aesthetic "engineers designing". Don't take it too hard, I'm sure my PHP looks like designers engineering :)

So after I used the site, my first thought was, "That's awesome, but it's definitely painful to interact with; engineers designing." Then I pop to the comments and the first one is about how much they like the interface. Excellent HN moment for me there.
I don't think people are browsing cutting-edge websites on their call center computers.
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Thank you. I was in top 50 in the Netflix Prize and wrote a book about recommender systems (http://arek-paterek.com/book/) if someone is interested how the bread is made.
Thanks npcomplete. With the current volume of growth I'm able to keep up with Gittip's fraud review dashboard pretty easily. As we scale let's start looking at more signals in an automated fashion.
Oh I dislike them, but lets have a holistic view of this stuff. Just picking out the TSA is unfair. They're no different than most bureaucracies.
Please no more frames, they are deprecated. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4263583 and http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html (1996).

Edit: Not entirely deprecated, but are obsolete and highly discouraged.
I think the real issue arises in organizations where self-preservation is actually at odds with, or at least orthogonal to, the organization's stated goal. Take the TSA, for instance (and many government agencies, departments within large corporations, nonprofits, etc.).

The supposed goal of the TSA is to efficiently and effectively protect travelers and the country from criminal and terrorist actions. In theory, if the TSA is doing its job well, it's actually reducing budgetary needs and slashing fat in favor of efficiency. The TSA should be trying to become clever and nimble, moreso than massive and overhead-burdened.

But the self-preservation mandate suggests the opposite. Self-preservation, for a government agency, means making sure you preserve or grow your budget year over year -- because you're fighting other agencies for it. Every dollar you get is up for grabs by other agencies next fiscal, and vice versa. Accordingly, becoming expensive and inefficient works in favor of self-preservation. As any seasoned bureaucrat knows, not achieving results means asking for more money to throw at the problem. If the TSA demonstrated that it was achieving its goals at current budget levels, it wouldn't receive the same budget next year. Or even face a budgetary reduction.
How do you design institutions to correct for this, anyway? In general, if you set up an institution to solve a problem, there is an incentive not to actually solve the problem because it would eliminate the need for the institution's existence...
Mind-bending, eh?

It's not too scary a though though -- taking the evolutionists point of view, there is no "underlying" reason that higher order life exists. It exists because the processes of natural selection have enabled it to exist and reproduce.

If bacteria contribute to the survival and reproduction of our species (they do), then they are simply part of the process. It goes both ways. We exist and reproduce because they help us do so, and they exist because we provide a nice host. One hand washes the other...
This is how the zombie outbreak starts...
This is what bothers me about a lot of programmer communities these days. What is a very mundane detail of K&R legacy, that C programmers know very well either from looking at old source trees or making sense of error messages, suddenly turns into something where 116 people (current stack overflow +1 count) are totally amazed and breathless that they've discovered something deep. I suppose it's fair if they just don't know C, so they've not seen it and find it interesting, but could this person's dilemma not be resolved with a simple google search? Or even taking a guess?
I don't know much of the science behind this, but monitor backlights tend to exaggerate pure whites and blacks, artificially creating contrast that wouldn't be expected by simply looking at the color value.

This becomes especially visible if the user is in low-light conditions (eg in a dark room). The apparent difference between blinding white light (hsl(0,0,100)) and a lukewarm almost-white (hsl(30,10,96)) can be startling.

http://hslpicker.com/#ffffff (0, 0, 100)
http://hslpicker.com/#F6F5F4 (30,10, 96)
They're a YC team and they have fans here. I'd argue these are more relevant to our day-to-days than the endless stream of "Twitter and Instagram battle!!" posts.
It is interesting to consider that periodic fasts and/or abstaining from certain foods for a time (such as Lent during the Orthodox calendar), seen in many religions, might have a health benefit by suppressing certain gut bacteria, or at least managing gut flora.
Let's have some scenes with talking and others dead silent!
To match, it would have to be:

value = test ? some_value * multiple
: test2 ? second_value
: false_value;

Which, you know, isn't that bad. But it looks really weird since people don't expect you to use ternary that way, while multi-part if statements are fairly normal.
> fast refresh/update, debugging inside firebug vs attaching your IDE to debug front-end stuff.

Have you tried out the new SuperDevMode? It lets you use sourcemaps to debug the java code directly in the browser. Only works with Chrome currently, I think. I tried it out a bit but it felt a bit clunky, and I actually prefer debugging in Eclipse to firebug/chrome, I think. Couple seconds of startup time don't worry me as much as others, I guess. I use the time to think through what should happen and where problems could show up.

At any rate I agree with you on how good the tooling support for localization/css/etc is - I think the learning curve is too steep for most people? The size of the getting started guide is pretty crazy, and there is a lot of confusing deprecated stuff, especially in the panels (some for html quirks mode (IE6), some for standards mode...)
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The problem this project attempts to fix is based on a whole lot of correct assumptions, IMO. 2013 is going to be the year crowd-funding really takes off and creep up on a lot of consumer facing industries. And so it follows a lot of the creators are going to be surprised themselves about the very real problem of fulfillment. Basically, fulfillment and inexperience is always a bad combo. Looking forward to see how Backer Kit attacks this problem.
I'm sorry, I don't know what @state-warning-text is, googling it only seems to point to this article, could somebody explain please? thanks!
The only power the WBC ever have is the power you give them. Stop making them an issue and they will stop being an issue.

It's rediculous how a little group can garner so much attention. You give it to them.
I think it is more likely something like this:

Many C programmers cannot make valid judgments as to the severity of a warning ('warning: bla bla may ...' => does it or doesn't it? I wouldn't know)

Also, those programmers typically would not know how to change their code to get rid of warnings. If they do, or if their compiler shoves a solution in their face (for example, a compiler might suggest to do "if((y=f(x)))") to get rid of an 'assignment inside if' warning), they do not see the advantage of the extra work.

The end result is code that produces hundreds of warnings. If a code change brings in a new one, people don't notice and/or don't care.

Some IDEs make things worse by allowing you to filter out warnings and messages from their output, so that you can focus on compiler errors. That is good for good programmers (they will fix errors, compile again, and then study every single warning), but bad for those who are happy to have code that compiles at all, as they will run into 'do not show me warnings' mode.
Notch was sued by US-based patent troll back in July, 2012: http://boingboing.net/2012/07/21/patent-troll-targets-minecr...

Notch just fights back.
They may be a hate group but they are definitely religious.

Check out the IAmA of a former member:

"""
Very little I miss. It was so destructive and took years to undue. I have talked about the sense of security and belonging I can recall feeling from time to time when we were having church services on Sunday evenings. Something about being tucked in that building that's half buried and feeling like we're the only one's that god loves...it's hard to articulate.
"""

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v99eg/iaman_exmember_o...
Art of bad customer service: rejecting support emails
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

support@basecamp.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
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Pretty good, definitely encouraging for those of us that are about to jump into the pool :) .

I'd be really happy with those income streams. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
So it turns out iPads make for dangerous projectiles. Let this be a fair warning to others.
First thought I had was that UI would look awesome on a TV screen.
I just stopped using spotify and I'm now using wavo. Any chance of a desktop app? I like app responsiveness.
It was just an example, but what this means is that they are switching to semantic naming, rather than style naming.
I am curious if you have experimented with the following:

1. increase iodine intake in some fashion

2. cut out all wheat products including whole grain

3. Atkins-style diet with restricted carbs in general

4. increased use of ginger as a spice or in tea (some believe it helps increase metabolic rate).

5. high intensity interval training (you mention exercise).
Wow, they're at 20 already? At that rate, they'll reach Firefox 100 in a decade. Frankly, it sounds quite ridiculous.
Yeah, we're kind of relying on context within the UI here to keep Wavo focused on music. That said, there's nothing technically stopping you from creating a playlist of any youtube or soundcloud content you like. :-)
Would love to see what some of the current Kickstarter project have to say about the service. Nothing validates project better than excited users :)
There are many uses of cross-site cookies that do not involve selling users' personal data. The most obvious one is customized ads (as used by Google et al), but shared logins and hosted commenting systems are also common.