skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I get your point. But I think you're trying as hard as possible to not see things from the readers perspective.

We all know there is a continuum of sites on the internet from wikipedia who try to be neutral to sites that try to phish your information. When we visit sites we are forced to decide just how scuzzy a site is.

Consider your site:
When I first see it the entire right hand side has 3 advertisements, a follow me on twitter link and a buy my book link.

Not terrible but also it starts raising the alarm bells a bit.

Then onto the content, before I can even read the article we've got the scuzzy "share this story" links that are a pretty good indicator of a site that's trying to sell you something rather than inform you.

I come to the first link, not only is it an affiliate link but it's intentionally obfuscated so the user can't tell where it leads to. If this isn't a warning sign then I'm not sure what is:)

Having said that an affiliate link is perfectly fine. Since the link is obfuscated I look for another link so I can just get to the fitbit website, but all the links are intentionally obfuscated.

At every turn you've lead the user to believe your site is trying to pull something over on them. What do you expect me to think about your site :)?

I have no doubt you put alot of effort into your review, but I'd really drop the obfuscated links if you want to come across as an honest blogger to people who don't know you:)
Hacked Phones Could Be Listening To Everything You Say
One of the purported benefits of driverless cars is that they can drive together in packs. This article would seem to contradict the benefits of that claim. OTOH they would be less prone to the erratic behavior that can create standing waves of congestion.
I'm pretty sure the distinction is "It's inspiration when I do it, it's copying when you do it." :)
You nailed it brother. I'm not a government employee, but for the time being, I'm forced to work in their facility. I do have my own Macbook here which I use for all my scripting/data analysis/etc, but I have to leave the building to get to WiFi. It is infuriating that these idiots have been fooled into thinking that they are more secure by using IE8 over.... anything else.
These specific examples actually don't contain vulnerabilities. $startArticle is guaranteed to be an integer, for example.

Blaming some badly written tutorials on the language is just trollish-lame.
The refresh button on this page is surprisingly entertaining... For way longer than should be allowed.
I am reminded of Betteridge's law of headlines:

>"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
I'll post a text only version in a sec.
Heh, I have the same problem with my Galaxy S1... Count yourself lucky, I'm still stuck on Eclair!
Knowing about this and deliberately exploiting it sounds mighty evil.

Let's see. First, you create a famously high bar for hiring. Make it seem like it was a miracle anyone gets in. That way, once you're inside, you think you got a hold of something extremely valuable and you're not likely to let it go. Sunk cost fallacy and all that.

Next, go heavy on young people with no professional experience. They have neither the work experience nor the sheer number of years walking the planet to know when someone is taking advantage of them. They will be rather useful to you until they finally realize what's going on. When they start waking up, sour their milk and "manage them out".

Optimizing for people without families further ensures heightened commitment to the company.

Repeat every year with a fresh batch of graduates. Profit!
Sure, you can be a good manager and write great code at the same time. But not on the same project or company. Maybe your pet project outside of work or an open source project.

To be clear, I'm making a distinction between a great tech lead vs. a great manager. Both those roles are often confused with each other.

A tech lead will lead the project to launch by managing resources, unblocking team members, making tough decisions, writing productive code, etc.

A manager will ensure smooth operation of their team by making sure their reports are motivated, encouraged, challenged, etc. They will actively seek to recruit new team members, solve resource issues, have tough talks with underperforming reports, navigate politics and negotiate with other teams, etc.

You cannot simultaneously do both. They require very different skill sets to be good and even higher skill to be great. If you are looking to keep coding and do some of the leadership work, then being a tech lead is better for you.
The customer service reps at these companies respond to texts?
Why I write code
Did you change any habits after getting the Gunnars e.g. take a break from the computer every 30-40 mins?
I use it for my startup. I use SQL Azure, table and blob storage, worker roles and web roles.
I can't tell whether you missed my point or are making a nitpicking remark about how I chose to express it. Of course, it's the same cause either way.
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
I've always felt that driving in traffic is a sort of prisoner's dilemma.

Consider a two-lane highway that splits into two directions, a very popular direction and an unpopular direction. Inevitably, we will see a group of people who will wait to the last second to cut into the popular lane. These late-comers cause two problems: 1) people to hit the brakes who get cut off in the popular lane, and 2) people to hit the brakes in the unpopular lane who are forced to slow down to allow the selfish drivers to merge.

When I take the generous approach and wait in line, I hate people who cut in. On the other hand, I find myself clever for cutting in at the last second and saving time when I take that approach. I'm still not sure which approach is 'right'. All I know is that the latter will increase overall delays while doing the former will have little to no impact on overall delays but a major impact on my own.

Traffic is a pretty interesting subject.
The reason for the hype may have been to leverage the rich literary tradition of LISP. Understanding LISPiness of Clojure probably depends upon that literature - there just aren't Clojure specific equivalents.
They can drive together in packs because they can brake and accelerate in a synchronized way, instead of creating waves of accelerating and braking cars.
Any time. Please let me know any issues/problems/thoughts you have with it.
Of everyone who backed a project in 2012, only around 25% backed more than one. That seems kinda low to me.
Near the end of the presentation they show the numbers on launched/successful
http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#category

Art 49%
Comics 46%
Dance 74%
Design 40%
Fashion	26%
Film & Video 41%
Food 38%
Games 33%
Music 56%
Photography 36%
Publishing 30%
Technology 38%
Theater 67%
No. I asked an doctor about this and the answer was a straight 'those are bullshit'.

You either have an eye problem or not. If you dont, just protect your eyes from UV (sun light) and you should be ok.

Light sensivity is a symptom, not a cause, you should ask your doctor and maybe be talk to a neurologist
That must be the profit margin. $5 isn't enough to cover costs and living I think.
If I were you, I'd look at what similar sites in other cities are doing.

A friend of mine started this: http://www.altdaily.com/

They've been at it four years, and I know they've worked their butts off … and changed the model at least once. They've built huge influence in the community. I can get you in touch with them if it helps you idea-wise.

I heard the guy behind this site speak: http://rvanews.com/

Sounded like a similar, lots-of-work situation. It was borne of a smaller blog network, if I'm right. But they've gotten a long way.

A thought on the site's design: I like Jux as a platform for secondary (read: special feature) stuff, but you're really hurting yourself by making it a primary platform. One, it's very difficult to throw ads in, and two, while it offers a lot of creativity, you will feel somewhat boxed in because a lot of the design decisions have already been made for you. You should be making those decisions yourself.

FWIW, I'm familiar with the platform, and got a good number of visits from an interview I did with BJ Mendelson a while back: http://slides.shortformblog.com/465373

I did use ads in it, but I had to use some hacky techniques to embed them. (I also had to use hacky techniques to modify the CSS, but that's a different story.)

Also, understand your market: There are sites out there like Baristanet (http://www.baristanet.com/) and the New Haven Independent (http://www.newhavenindependent.org/) that have been mining this model for nearly a decade, and doing it well. Do your market research here, and see what they've done that's cool and interesting, and what can be easily translated to your model.

My suggestion: Don't be afraid to step back from this for a couple of months, work on the business model and start with a little more experience. It's way harder to get things moving without the business model already pre-considered.

Hope that helps!
Ask HN: Will WebGL be supported on all platforms soon?
Imagine developing online games if WebGL had been supported on all platforms. That would enable rendering of 3D graphics directly in the browser without any plug-ins. Do you think that will happen in a few years?

When will WebGL be a proper W3C standard, and will Microsoft ever implement support for it in Internet Explorer due to the security concerns?
What about enabling WebGL by default on iPhone and Android?
There has been support for object literals for quite some time now (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/objectarrayliterals) but maybe just not enough. It would definitely be a welcome addition to the language. At least we no longer need to write array() for arrays lol.
So you'd imagine it would be some sort of steam powered piston.

Oh, I see what they did there.
The agencies you mentioned are less than a hundredth the size of the agencies in the US Gov which are using IE8. The smaller agencies have the luck of getting to be forward thinking. The rest are crushed down by bureaucratic inertia and Microsoft development cultures (with some of the J2EE thrown in too). The IE8 stuff is mainly because they have built so many shitty .NET apps that won't work properly without IE.
Ask Wikipedia.
Apple Working on a Less-Expensive iPhone
I can't imagine the amount of penetration testing they'd need to do before opening up core components of a car. I would not want to be in charge of that project.
Can you tell me which Chrome version and OS are you using? You can also contact me on typezebra@sushaantu.com if you want to send some screenshots.
Facebook invites press to 'see what we're building'
American journalism is best journalism.
One of the things I really like about this study is that it captures not only road congestion but where the drivers enter into, and exit, the freeway system. And it reconfirmed for me yet again that starting/ending in Sunnyvale is reasonably optimized for working in the 'valley' part of Silicon Valley.
If people have the financial resources, then they can be an investor. I do not understand why the government should subsidize investors, or give "'poor'" people investing power.
Totally - they work great for me. I have 20/20 vision but I have an astigmatism that gets in the way. With glasses, the edges of fonts are sharper and clearer. Without the glasses, I'll get eye strain.
this, everything in moderation son.
Posting the gory details this early on is not a nice thing to do. It's probably best to hold off for a while until everyone has had a reasonable chance to upgrade.
Company patents bullet-proof robotic revolving door as answer to gun violence
Show HN: Lightningdesk - Real-time native in-app Helpdesk for iOS/Android apps
> What exactly should facebook police? Morality? Ethics?

Facebook have banned images of breastfeeding mothers. Facebook have shown they are happy to police their morality and ethics. Asking them to have some kind of anti-bullying clause, and report button, (which, I think, they have) isn't too much.

You're right the the responsibility is not Facebook's. But they could do a bit more to help.
Thanks; even some of us on full computers don't like to have to disable flashblock and noscript just to view what is essentially a list.
No, not yet. We create a complaint and reach out to the company based off of your text to us.
When big companies come calling, startups should beware.
> It makes me a little bit sea-sick, watching the transitions slide around each other.

me too. I had to close my eyes for the spin after a few times.
There are plenty of high-visibility websites on the Internet; it would not take long for the students to find one that is equally visible and not policed. Kids manage to smoke pot in school, they manage to cheat on exams, they manage to leave before they are supposed to -- they will find somewhere that is not policed on the Internet, or else they will set up such a thing for themselves. I would not be surprised if some high school students used steganography to share explicit photos without the moderators catching them (consider the way teenagers use proxy servers and Tor to evade school firewalls).

"Moreover, I'd argue that Facebook has a responsibility, as a company that makes a ton of money off these teenagers, that they don't when those teenagers share the same pictures via sneakernet."

Slippery slope: ISPs also make money off teenagers, possibly even more than Facebook (cell services certainly make more than Facebook -- teenagers basically demand SMS and 3G/4G from their parents these days, which has turned enormous profits for the telecom industry). Do you think it is acceptable for ISPs to be policing this sort of thing too? Facebook is a communications service; they should not be in the business of filtering the communications of their users, any more than Comcast or T-Mobile.

Really, there is a bigger picture here. Yes, bullying is a problem, but if the communications systems that teenagers use were to be filtered as a matter of course, that would just train teenagers to believe that they live in a world where communications are always being watched. Is that really what we want the next generation to grow up thinking? Do we really want the next generation of leaders to believe that one of the things people in authority are supposed do is to monitor the communications of those they govern? Do we want to create adults who shrug at the warrantless wiretapping program?
Vint Cerf's futuristic wine cellar
It is nontrivial to make data so anonymous NO ONE can deanonymize it and still preserve the salient information.
I was a bit uncertain at first, but Svbtle has really grown into a great resource. The writing on there is phenomenal and it's great that the list of authors keeps growing. Excited to see how they use their new resources.
When A Big Company Is Threatened By A Startup, It Looks Like
This research was published with supporting information in an open access journal (Scientific Reports [Part of Nature Publishing Group]). See the full text for more.

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121220/srep01001/full/srep01...
It actually seems quite high, assuming participation follows a power law [1] distribution curve.

Take, for example, the recurrence of a given individual's contributions to open source projects - many have not contributed, but I'd bet quite a few only do so once.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
Thank you for pointing out the numbers. I guess I should clarify: I wonder if the spike in the volume of Kickstarter projects has any impact on the percentage of successfully completed projects. My prediction would be that the percentage of finished projects declines a bit in 2013. Again, I hope I'm wrong.
This sounded awesome right up to the point that they said that this was a hotly pursued space due to advertising potential to a captive audience. If I am in my own car and my music is interrupted with an ad every time I drive by a McDonalds - I would find that extremely annoying.

On the other hand, if you could lease a car at a subsidized price in exchange for ads, that might be an attractive offer to some.
I'm glad that you took my post good-naturedly, Michael. I let out a sigh of relief that this didn't immediately escalate. It sounds like you are dedicated to bettering yourself as you have more experiences and gain more perspective, which is an admirable trait. It's not my place to tell you what to do, but if you're open to input, I would timidly suggest the following: if you play the tape backwards and notice that, every few years, you find yourself distancing yourself from some of your extreme behaviors or stances from a few years earlier, then you could try to get ahead of that trend going forward.

Emphasis on "long". One year is not "long".

Ha, okay. I suppose we'd just have to take this to longbets.org.
Calgary Startup: TypeWhale Connects Journalists To Expert Sources
So can I get a free car? Er I mean dev kit? :)
Meet the Man Behind America’s Most Dangerous Mail-Order Kits

I thought this was going to be about Acme Corporation's Roadrunner-catching kits
Hi HN - OP here. We've been developing customer support tools for mobile apps for a while now (mostly live chat), and we've noticed that most apps bump you into an email form when you have a support query, or mobile browser for their FAQ. So we decided to build a Helpdesk that lives inside your app - lets your users see and search the FAQ right inside your app, imports your content from Desk/Zendesk, lets users open tickets also inside the app, and alerts them with answers using push notifications. Happy to answer any questions, and totally open to suggestions!
When you say major impact, do you mean something like 45 seconds, or something else?

I'm asking in all seriousness, I have no idea what sort of traffic you are driving in.
Tweet This: ‘Hashtag’ Named Word of the Year
No, you are not 'running late'; you are rude and selfish
In what way has Congress forbidden poor people from buying shares in companies?
Read, Set, Go
There are a couple of "local website" groups in the UK that have generated websites for most large towns and cities (may be all, not sure). The seemingly most successful have taken on local reps in a sort of franchise system [that's the appearance from the outside at least].
Check out the symfony framework version 2.1+
Its the best way to write PHP applications today and i am pretty sure its ahead of the web frameworks in most other popular languages.
And of course, the truth of what you are saying is now evident with the vulnerabilty that 3.2.11 fixes.

What I still think this shows is that trying to keep information on the nature of the vulnerability to yourself is not a great idea. People who figured "Well, there's no way for params[:id] to be a hash with a symbol key" (such as myself) were wrong about the severity of the vulnerability.

It would have increased everyone's security to admit "Oh yeah, there might be a way to make params[:id] be a hash with symbol key even though you don't think so, yes you should worry about it."

Why not do that? Becuase you're worried you're giving someone exploitation hints, probably. But anyone that wanted to exploit had all the hints they need anyway -- as evidenced by the half dozen people credited with reporting the new vulnerability, all of whom got the hint from the 3.2.10 announcement anyway.
Yea PHP is wrong because of autoloading... Everything you wrote, applies only to small projects.
Cool! ... that solves it! One less unfinished side project
I started learning Clojure because it seemed to be the logical next step for me. In the few years that I've been programming full-time, I've noticed some patterns: in general, imperative code with lots of side effects in it is difficult to reason about and hard to test, and pure functions are easy to reason about and trivial to test. The same rule seems to hold for code that uses mutability vs code that deals only with immutable things.

Over the past couple of years, I've learned Common Lisp by working through Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp[0] and dabbled in Haskell via Learn You A Haskell[1]. I had a great time learning both, but I found that Common Lisp had a decent number of warts (e.g. four different kinds of equality) that seemed to be primarily due to backwards-compatability concerns, and I had a really hard time getting up and running when trying to write a simple webapp in Haskell. In addition, I've gotten spoiled by how batteries-included Python (which I use at my day job) is; the library scene for both of those languages seemed lacking in comparison.

What I like about Clojure is that it gives me fast immutable data structures, has a really strong emphasis on functional programming, and has access to a really huge amount of useful libraries.

So - I've mainly been learning Clojure as a nice treat for myself; the amount of jobs that exist that employ programmers to code specifically in Clojure didn't even really occur to me as something worth thinking about. It's just really a lot of fun to program in. Also, with any luck, I'll be able to transfer any lessons I learn from Clojure to my daily work in Python.

(Haskell still has a very special place in my heart [I do frequently find myself wishing I had types], I'm not trying to dis Common Lisp nor Haskell, I'm just trying to honestly answer the question of why I thought it was worth learning Clojure).

[0] http://landoflisp.com
[1] http://learnyouahaskell.com
Butterfly Labs reveals android powered bitcoin miner
I can't imagine any halfway competent legal department ever endorsing such a thing.
I think this is dead on. In meetings at work, 10 minutes is the norm. A quick "sorry, running late" seems to make people feel immune to keeping a room waiting.
Announcing Scala 2.10: A Simpler Way to Tackle Complex Problems
This makes sense. I want to be able to use software and my corresponding data/content no matter which device of mine I have handy. To a lesser extent to be able to use software on someone else's device.
> Now imagine someone who...holds business meetings at starbucks...[or] drives late at night...and...keeps himself awake by buying coffee from starbucks

These examples are unusual. The typical case imagined by the OP is that the value of movies and Starbucks is smaller than the price paid for them, and for a consumer in that typical case, it's possible to arbitrage by reallocating budget away from them.

From the article:

> I try to hold off or not buy at all, when it’s just a "want" without any real obvious value beyond the purchase.

It's pretty clear that he's saying to avoid purchases where cost >> long_term_value (where ">>" means "much greater than"). He is taking the benefits into account, but largely restricting his attention to cases where the benefit is minimal -- at least from a long-term view.

> There is a big difference between negative EV betting (lotteries), and positive EV betting.

You're definitely right to criticize the author on that aspect -- his stated reason for avoiding lottery tickets doesn't give a favorable impression of his understanding of probability.
The most striking thing is the across the board drop from one age group to the next. That to me is the more interesting story here.

Curious about Survata' methodology. Neither the author nor their website go into a great deal of information about this. (I mostly want to know who crafts the questions, as it's easy to inadvertntly skew survey results).

As an aside, linking to Survata's homepage not just once but three times in a ~600 word post makes this thing, aside from its casual observations, feel like an 'advertorial.'
maybe howdoi --reroll? (Repeat same question for a second opinion)