skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I just haven't put the effort into scoping out exceptional vertical vendors with the exception of electronics, so Amazon gets a very large percentage of my purchases, and I'd imagine that most people are the same way - buy from niche retailers in the things they understand well and buy a lot of, otherwise, Amazon.
It's a tipping point, but not of the kind that they thought.
Too often the original article's title just plain sucks, even if the article content is good.

Many authors are good at writing interesting, informative, and useful content, but simply suck at choosing good titles.

I think some of them don't realize that on news aggregation sites like HN, articles often sink or swim by their title. At the very least, HN users will often not bother to look at something with a boring or generic looking title, and never know that the content was worth it.

Of course, if the submitted title was clearly abusive, like some ebay auction titles, using visual garbage like "* * * * L@@K * * * *", then those those submissions should just be deleted and their submitter warned and then banned if they persist.

But changing titles (by their submitters) to something more informative and interesting than the original article title should be allowed and even encouraged, as long as the new title is not misleading.

If HN admins did this themselves, that would be great. But way too often they change the titles to be more boring and generic (which is sometimes closer to the original article title, and sometimes not). This helps no one. They're effectively making HN less interesting, because fewer people will look at articles with boring and generic titles.
Firefox to block content based on Java, Reader, and Silverlight
I have a feeling neither of you have had the titles to your own submissions changed.
Show HN: Contextwit...give your social media stats relevance
This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area.

Here's the announcement from December:
http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-down...

Frankly, Time Warner needs to increase their internet speeds to keep up with LTE. I have one of the higher speed options and my LTE speeds are about twice what I experience on my Time Warner connection.
Thanks. This was to-the-point and useful.
I'm not particularly fond of the ACS. I was provided with membership by my work and started getting a large volume of email from them. Unsubscribing from their mailing lists was a complete ordeal[1], and it was impossible to completely unsubscribe online - I had to call someone at their office to get taken off a mailing list. In the end I gave up and filtered their emails instead. Despite the fact that my membership has since lapsed, I am still receiving their newsletter and invitations to various events that, as a non-member, I can't attend.

[1] I had to log in to their account management system, which involved finding a randomly generated username and password that had never been sent to me.
It is a bit annoying re-read or click the same comments on what seems a different or tangential story, get confused, and realize it was a title change.
I went to grad school with a guy who, while traveling in Brazil, encountered a shaman/teacher, and decided to take a so-called "heroic dose".

Apparently the roof of the sky ripped open and voila, GOD. Was a bit much as he took 2 years to recover and, AFAIK, has been substance free ever since.

Also know a guy who lived in the Amazon taking Ayahuasca daily for 6 months -- came back stateside completely & utterly beaming with joy.

it seems, YMMV ;-)

p.s. why do threads on the use of psychedelics pop up on Hacker News? Thought this was for start ups and general technology topics...
Why is the author's opinion more relevant or acceptable than the submitter's or HN's? You state it like it's obvious, but I don't see why the author's opinion is particularly special.
Exactly. I was reading skeptically and trying to guess what were the errors in the methodology that create this effect. Until I see the Figure I, with the almost aligned dots (If you ever made some physics or statistical experiments, you would be happy to get a measure like this.) The dots are almost aligned and one of the axes is the A/B/C/D/E grade, that is very indirect nonlinear measure. A graph like that usually means that the data are cooked.

Apparently this is only a humor piece, but many of the comments seams to take this seriously.
Ask HN: What makes a good entry-level developer resume?
I mean "resume" loosely, kind of like "body of work".

The kind of stuff I'm expecting: "Python", "contributing to open source projects", "personal projects on GitHub"

Obviously could just say "Loads of experience" but I'm more interested in the low end of the scale - the stuff you'd need to get that first software engineering job or internship and get "on the ladder"
How would signing gems have prevented this situation?
For those unaware, this polemic is by Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer. He's been very outspoken in the Australian media about over-regulation of industry and outdated think tanks stifling innovation by recommending tactics that reinforce the status quo.
Ugh, the anti-aliasing kills most of them for me. I realize I'm probably in the minority, and my opinion might change as screen resolutions get better and my eyes get worse, but I vastly prefer crisp fonts for screen use.

When I switched from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu 6, I spent hours tweaking fonts.conf in the hope of getting something that looked as good as the standard Windows fonts, without much success. It's gotten easier now.
If you're not trolling, you may be interested in Jensen Harris's fairly detailed blogs posts on the rationale for the new UI [1], which I found informative.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/tags/why+the+new+ui_...
Interestingly enough, for a contrasting position, the Verge review calls out the OS for being poor at handling multitasking:

"I don't feel BlackBerry 10 deals with multitasking or notifications as effectively as other platforms do (most notably Android), but it's not a total strikeout."
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/30/3929760/blackberry-z10-rev...
Siri coming to Honda and Acura
I forgot that the ACS even existed, just let it fade into obscurity on its own terms.
The goal is not to reflect anyone's opinion. It's to make HN a more useful and interesting site, which isn't going to happen when the tendency is to make article titles more boring and generic -- resulting in most users not even bothering to read the articles.
MyTitle: Another discussion of something on HN that will not change.

If you don't use the original title it'll probably get changed. There's nothing you can do about that.

If you care, add a comment after submitting, and put the title you would have preferred there, as I did at the top of this comment. In fact you could do that even if you're not the submitter.
Agreed. In 99% of cases, the hard part of developing a software system is not the actual coding.
Can I reply with another question: why does it matter? I mean, even if C++ were context-free, that does not make it any better or worse of a language. It certainly does not alleviate the fact that the best-case number of passes required to compile C++ code is (if I'm not mistaken) 3 all the way up to 6 for proper optimization.

(Note: I love C++. But that doesn't take away from the fact that's one of the worst languages to parse and compile.)
Unless u have a very good reason to deploy and distribute 80 different DLLs it should feel wrong.

Many people think that In order to have a well layered and decoupled application you need to breakup every single piece in a separate project and that makes no sense. Thats what folders and namespaces are for.
Even after reading to the end, I wasn't totally convinced that he wasn't joking about joking. With hash fragments, URL shortening, JavaScript and numerous other obviously-bad ideas being widely considered "acceptable", it's hard to tell when web developers are and aren't serious.
What are you referring to when you say DMCA boilerplate? You don't dictate anything about that, the process is defined by statute. Copyright holders send infringement notices to your DMCA agent listed at the copyright office, you disable access to the content in those notices in a reasonable time, you gain the safe harbor liability protections.
Don't get me started on python eggs :)
Why give the credit to capitalism? Suppose the government were to provide quality broadband service -- would that not also force the ISPs to act (e.g. how UPS competes with USPS)?

This is a win for competition, not capitalism. Not all competition is capitalism, and capitalism does not always imply meaningful competition (it does, however, generally fail to serve people best in the absence of competition).
responsive content: latex paper gets tl;tr-ed to a tweet on iphone retina display.
Donate to charity to demonstrate how important cell phone unlocking freedom is
Yep, and flash fill, too, which if it were introduced by Google instead would probably be hailed as evidence that the strong culture of AI at Google gives them an innovation advantage in the long run.
I basically joined the ACS because it's there and I figured I ought to.

They gave me a post-nominal: CT.

If I want the next grade up -- CP -- I will need to take thousands of dollars of synergising-outside-the-box courses.

Basically the ACS isn't really for software engineers. It's for middle management.

I won't be renewing.

(I might renew my ACM/IEEE memberships).
It's nice that they change linkbait titles to accurate ones.

Yes, and if that's all that happened, I doubt most people would complain. The problem is when more accurate / descriptive titles get changed to ones that are less representative of what the linked content is actually about. And yes, this absolutely does happen.
physical keyboards are not over!

the growth of the blackberry was driven by communicating when you are out of the office, whereas the iphone is really a portable computer with cellular antenna.

the original blackberries were a 2-3 line screen with a keyboard, and the screen grew in size from there. that's what most of corporate america first got hooked on, at least in my memory (a young geezer).

from what i see, folks that chose the iphone either never cared about writing an email remotely, or forego that capability (or compromise) in exchange for the apps, games etc.

iphones in the workplace are comical.

folks who have iphones tend to write back "ok" or "talk tmrw" etc in response when they are out of office. they can't use the keyboard, and it's hard to pretend - takes a lot of effort. or, if they try to write more, it is endless typos or bizarre auto-correct comments.

i write this as a blackberry bold user, so understand my biases, but for actual email communication, nothing comes close. (and i tried iphone/android for a while to see if i could do it - can't).

so, i'm looking forward to the q10, at least one idiot still functional in the blackberry ecosystem. maybe a 12-step program will help.
be cafeful yourself not to conflate capitilism with corporatism.
Thanks - I know. I think there's always the possibility that the 'malicious' user in question could edit db/configuration files anyway, but it's definitely the correct thing to do.
Sure.

But the question is whether it works best to have a high level abstraction which resembles a natural language.
Start here:

Software Development: A Legal Guide

http://www.amazon.com/Legal-Guide-Software-Development-CD-Ro...

and

Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

http://www.amazon.com/Consultant-Independent-Contractor-Agre...

both by: Stephen Fishman J.D : NOLO press
That definitely fits the nasty criteria.
I'm a professor in a university. For us a photocopy of the obituary, death certificate or an equivalent document is enough to allow the students to take the test ~1 week later. But the exact documentation needed probably depends on the university.
Exactly the same experience but instead of emails (filtered out) I get a ton of snail mail asking me to re-join / attend events, its probably been 2-3 years since i've been a member and I still get the mail forwarded to me from my old address
The best entry level developer resume is a friend.
Chris - love your ideas here. I head up our API at Crowdtilt and spearheaded the CrowdHoster project. We're psyched to get cracking on features like this.

Product pre-sales drove Lockitron to create SelfStarter in the first place...clearly a huge use case. With our API we'll be able to get more creative with the payment flow, allowing dynamic cost calculation like you describe with different shipping scenarios.
I agree, but only because the office installation in this screenshot is set to use the darkest theme -- by default all that gray is just more white.
It was almost certainly previously submitted if it changed immediately like that. (It's not listed in your submissions page)
Yeah, Comcast is doing the same thing in my hodunk little town on the East Coast— sans the price decrease.
Very original! Although it's a joke, it boggles the mind he actually thought of it and implemented it. Kudos!
Some feel that psychedelics have had and continue to effect our industry?
> laws that state any home improvement must bring the entire house up to current building codes

This is patently false

> this leads to urban decay and property abandonment on a massive scale

Australia does not have property abandonment nor urban decay on a massive scale. Go to Detroit to witness such things.
I think I can explain the Electrical Engineering thing.

A few years ago the ACS geared up to join some sort of peak body for professions. They took the view that they should represent all software professionals of any kind.

Then Engineers Australia put in a competing claim for jurisdiction over software engineers. The scoundrels.

I remember this because I was a student member at the time (hey, free BBQs) and they sent a sob story email to all their members about it.

Basically everybody is pissing on everybody's curtains.
Gemfury also supports private Python packages
The Million-Core Problem
US Petition for Next Giant Scientific Leap
Rent control is usually one cause of urban blight. We don't have that in Australia.
There's a long symbiosis of psychedelics with hackers. Something about information wanting to be free, curiosity, and deep insight...
Rapid Prototyping Google Glass
Anecdote: My kids are preschool age. Obviously we regulate what and how much TV they watch; I don't let them watch violent stuff or stuff that's agressive on TV but occasionally things slip through the net like power rangers or spider man cartoons, etc. I live in the UK and I have noticed that often when they play a game that involves a lot of aggression they put on an American accent, it was amazing the effect one episode of power rangers had. I haven't spent much time in the US but from consuming plenty of US media, it always seems like violence and aggression in general is a big part of American culture and is portrayed as heroic, rather than tragic. I don't think you can change that through legislation.
It was the "Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money" article. I was incorrect that it changed from a number to "some;" but it did purge the number.
I'm curious, does the QNX OS on BB10 also have Dtrace?
Capitalism my ass, this is another flavor of fine-tuned government and industry collusion.

No government on earth would tolerate any kind of capitalism other than the competitive bidding for multi-year exclusivity agreements (ie: guaranteed ways of sticking it to consumers).
"Security experts found evidence that the hackers stole the corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain access to the personal computers of 53 employees"

Does this mean the NYTimes is storing passwords in plaintext?
Now they spend €150 million a year on bags.
I'll concede the point that pip can't handle non-python packages. But it can handle side by side versioning by way of virtualenv. But if I need a specific version for a project I just install that version into my virtualenv's /bin/ folder and that becomes the version used whenever I activate that virtualenv. It's super easy and doesn't add to the cluttered package manager ecosystem.
Different countries can be good at different things.
The problem is this is the professional body that determines what we teach in universities, that promotes the technology industry as a whole and who decides who we let into the country on a skilled visa.
Similar to mushrooms? Maybe the perception change, but as for...

"a mixture of foot-rot, raw sewage, battery acid, sulfur and just a hint of chocolate. Within about 45 minutes of drinking it you frequently begin to suffer bouts of severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhea."

This is NOT anything like mushrooms unless you've taken the wrong kind.
For those wondering to accept Bitcoin or not, the price of Bitcoin has been bullish the past few weeks.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg90zig6-hourztgSzm...
I look forward to some social news site offering some version of this; it could help create more informative and time-saving titles. Alas, I don't expect it here, given the HN minimalism.

Roughly how it might work: in addition to the 'comments' page, there'd be a 'headline' page. (Borrowing terminology from journalism, this might also be called the 'hed' page.) Posts here would be proposed alternate titles; the most upvoted would be the default on lists (like top stories).

Perhaps, list views could show the top 2-3 titles (maybe as a user-specific option, or only when there's controversy).

Each submission could also get a 'subhead' ('dek' in journalist lingo), for more exposition/teasing of content. It'd be voted on the same way.

Perhaps, even, a similar approach could be used for competitive summaries, but I suspect that's likely to result in more controversy and less consensus/convergence.
Have you tried not smoking AND not drinking? ;-)

Same boat, I smoked a lot of herb growing up (never drawn to drink particularly), but stopped in my 20s for about 6 years.

No longer clear, smoke every couple of weeks, and trip a couple times a year, 1/4 of shrooms and off into the woods, goodbye world.

foolish pride
in you I am broken
praise

The love in and beyond all things, is there anyone more blind than myself?

Sorry, got a bit off track there...back to "reality"
I think if they have the ability to steal the passwords, even if they weren't plain text, they didn't do the proper precautions of encrypting with a salt. So either way, they failed.
On the Verge review he stated that sometimes he could go from 9am to 6pm and the phone would be dead and other times it lasted a bit longer. I'm wondering though if this is because BB10 has real multitasking (judging by the Playbook) and any apps he leaves open are actually running.
10.2% (2011 census data) of Australian properties are sitting there vacant.

[ http://blog.id.com.au/2012/australian-census-2011/the-where-... ]

And there is certainly urban decay all over the city I live in (Perth).

Also, building codes are local government, aren't they? So it depends on what council you are in. And I've certainly heard some bad stories.
Hi Dan, I'm aware of how DMCA works, but from what I've seen there's a fair amount of variation between how the DMCA Notice pages are written.

Examples:

http://secondlife.com/corporate/dmca.php

https://www.dropbox.com/dmca

EDIT:

In case anyone's interested, here's the relevant info and forms from the US Copyright Office:

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/

as well as a few other resources:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/dmca-righthaven-loo...

http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/
Meanwhile in Canada, internet prices trend upwards, and google fibre-esque offerings are nowhere to be seen.
We Just Launched Search on Communly
First NZ copyright tribunal verdict
I was recently involved in an ACS "Re-accreditation" review for my University which I graduated from in 2011. It was clear from the outset that the whole thing was a farce - to be re-accredited required the ACS to ask past students generic questions (such as "How important is ethics to an IT Professional") and for us to give canned answers. While the university didn't explicitly tell us to give the 'expected' answers to ACS questions, it was strongly implied that we were expected to represent the virtues that the ACS "teaches".

It is in the universities interests to advertise that their IT degrees include ACS accreditation (despite no Australian IT employers I know of giving a damn about it) and it is in the interest of ACS for the university to keep paying the exorbitant fees. If anything, I feel that ACS accrediation is detrimental to the students as it requires the university to include such useful courses as "Ethics for the IT Professional" in their degrees. While being ethical is obviously important to any professional, this is time that could be spent learning real skills instead.
At this point, passwords should be considered obsolete when it comes to securing things. We should be using smartcards and cryptographic techniques; humans are just not good enough at generating or remembering random strings for passwords to be considered a good idea.
Paying to vet the qualifications of people who have studied and worked overseas is not unreasonable -- but having to pay them $425 to certify that an accredited Australian university's CS diploma is, in fact, an accredited Australian university's CS diploma is ludicrous.
Thanks for the link, I think that will be very helpful filling in gaps in my knowledge and thought that applies to this topic. An excellent source!
not sure, I think the article was careful to not disclose how their passwords are stored, but the article did make mention of encryped passwords and the use of rainbow tables to crack them.
I feel that the idea that software engineers are trying to ape civil engineers is itself a stale cliché.
Keep reading....

"From there they snooped around The Times’s systems for at least two weeks before they identified the domain controller that contains user names and hashed, or scrambled, passwords for every Times employee."
They most likely spent 2 years porting the code to ARM. Can you imagine the decade of legacy code they had to wade through to get that done?
Not necessarily. All we know is that they stole the password files. We don't know if the passwords were encrypted (but I'm assuming they were), and we don't know if the thieves were able to decrypt the passwords (they probably did for some fraction >0 and <= 100%).
A cool toy I'd play with
My take on the situation, from a mathematician point of view (M.S. in math, but very rusty):

They started out with a toilet on each car and ended with a toilet on each car, the cars just happened to be twice as long in the end.
"DMCA notice pages" are something these businesses made up for their own convenience, to better funnel the notices to the right people and make sure they're in the right format so they can deal with them faster. You don't have to make such a page -- most businesses don't. You don't lose anything; the act is in force whether you copy its terms onto a page of your website or not. Until you have millions of customers, "too many companies are sending notices to our sales and support mailboxes instead of our DMCA agent" probably isn't a problem you have to address.
I don't see how the phone's android emulation can be slower than the Playbook. The Playbook emulation actually works pretty well. The same goes for the multitasking. I'd be surprised if the BB10 multitasking was worse than the Playbook which multitasks like a beast. With that said I wonder if it has a mode to turn off "showcase" type multitasking to save battery life?
Like what? I thought the GIL and GC forcing COW were the largest problems bar none.
the laws stating the building code requirement for upgrades are not implemented at a federal level, however many cities (such as brisbane) do have such requirements.