skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age? Sex? Location? That’s how predators started their hunt.

It's also how teenagers started conversations with each other in chat rooms a decade ago. It may still be, but I haven't been a teenager in a while. I imagine predators open with the same question, but actually using it as a filter would produce an unacceptable amount of noise.

This is a useful story about some of the mistakes one can make dealing with VCs, but it sounds like the product itself was a little questionable.
This is awesome. I've been waiting for them to show this and get it out there for peer review so no-one can say it's just he-said he-said.

It's yet another example of how the New York Times which complains so much about the hardships it is suffering in the new media economy has brought most of the problem on itself by no longer being worthy of its once-exalted status.
You're right.

They booked net income for 2011-12 as $15.6B. So a $20B payrise would put them in the red.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=WMT+Income+Statement&ann...
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I also underwent Lasik surgery, with excellent results. Before the surgery I had a 20/200 eyesight correction (that's pretty severe).

About the halo effect around bright points of light after dark that the author mentions -- over a period of years this effect has diminished for me as the seam around the surgery cut has gradually smoothed itself out. Now, after dark, stars and other points of light are nearly as cleanly focused as they would be to one with naturally good vision.

Overall, after over a decade of experience, I'm very glad I got this surgery. Because I'm in my 60s, I need to wear reading glasses for close work (true for everyone at my age), but in outdoor activities like kayaking and skiing where distant vision predominates, activities where glasses were once a real pain, the surgery really pays off.

Definitely recommended.
You're completely correct. This is how corporate works. There is a very well defined system that has been created over decades or centuries of networking. You're not going to break into the corporate system on merit alone after all these years of 'by the book'.

Startups - especially your own - are the best method for getting 'around the system'. Startups are nearly always very heavily based on what you can accomplish and ship in the first couple months you start there, and you will quickly build a name for yourself if you can succeed.

There are also a number of ways to get 'back into the system' regardless of your age, such as the numerous degrees and diplomas offered directly at someone like you. Choice is up to you, but the reality is: there is a system to corporate HR and it is not based very heavily on merit. Decrying reality won't help you here.
Sidenote : you can use Markdown with Pelican if you want. You just need to install the Markdown package.
Funny - I thought this was a really interesting article - but I couldn't stand all these annotations.
And when I was selecting text (what i do mindlessly when I am reading an article) all the hell broke loose and it tried to load something.

Very annoying when I want to concentrate on the technical details. So we'll see once again - everyone's different.
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> I've tried to get small examples that show the bugs, and failed.

Have you tried setting up an automated process which tries to gradually reduce your large codebase to a small one which still reproduces the bug?

Some similar existing projects: Tigris Delta for C/C++ code, Bugpoint for LLVM, and my own DustMite (https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite) for D code. I wonder if something like that already exists for HTML.
I do wish that the process for extending docutils and Sphinx were better documented.

There's also a bunch of things in Sphinx that need improvement with the PDF and ePub output.

But for what it is and does, I like it a lot. I don't know of anything for Markdown that lets me do as much structured markup as I can do in reST.
That's a time window that is just small enough to include the single most lethal terrorist attack in the past 150+ years[0]. That's a bit too number massagey for my liking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_viol...
And blitzgreig was yesterdays war.

Only by the narrowest of definitions. The US modus operandi with armoured warfare could be straight out of the German High Command's playbook. I strongly suspect that Guderian, Rommel and Manstein would be completely at home with US non-COIN doctrine.

Also, what's this about the Soviet Union? I'm having trouble parsing that sentence.
Now that's how you respond to media - with the truth.
For HTML generation Markdown is much easier for most people to get used to and understand. When needing to provide output in various formats reST is more suited but also have a bit of a steeper learning curve.

It depends on what you're doing. For documentation I'm always running reST but for articles for sites etc (with a static site generator) I will turn to Markdown.
I think that Tesla have been expecting this kind of shenanigans after the Top Gear pulava. It's clear that they have made sure that they have all the key data capture points switched on for a journalistic test drive.

It doesn't surprise me that a big media columnist on a topic is so in-bed with the industry he covers that he goes out of his way to defend incumbents from newcomers. I'm just glad that this nonsense has been exposed for what it is.

I'll be interested to see how the NYT handles it - though I suspect it'll be with denials and obfuscation as is par for the course for them in what has been a shameful decade or more of bogus stories, fabrications and toeing the establishment line on everything even in the face of countervailing evidence (that's as long as I've been in the US and paying attention).
If Tesla needs someone to do a fair review of the Tesla, particularly in urban environments, or for SF-Reno, I'd be happy to make the extreme sacrifice and take them up on it.

(what I'd really like to do is test a Model S in police/security duty cycle. Lots of idling, powering accessory equipment, high speed short pursuit, long highway cruise. Or test the vehicle through something like the Blackwater driving/carbine course, where the low center of gravity would make it pretty awesome I think (especially vs. a Crown Vic or an armored GMC).)
I think this is an important lesson to all startups who are disrupting an industry with powerful incumbents - particularly those whose advertising spend pays the salaries of the journalists who create the narrative in their marketplace. We can all learn from Elon Musk. Yet again his startup-fu is masterful.
I think we both agree on why Quora does this (viral spread mechanism, juicing numbers, etc). That's besides the point.

When we are guests in someone else's home, seems only fair that we honor their requests. Asking you to simply create an account shouldn't be such a massive chore.

I believe this attitude is dangerous for our community. I fear for what happens when we ask you to pay.
In 2011-12, Walmart paid $5B in dividend and bought back $6.2B of stock. They also spent around $13B on capital expenditure -- new stores, equipment, warehouses and so on, all of which would be employing new people.

People latch onto Walmart because of the amazing numbers involved. Hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue! Thousands and thousands of stores! Millions of employees!

But the thing is, retail is a really tough business to turn a buck on. After this massive machine has sprint through a year, the result is ... about a 3% profit on revenue.

Compare that with Google: On ~$50B revenue Google walks out with ~$10B of net income. For eight times less revenue Google is still managing to make more than half as much profit as Walmart.

Where are the picket lines outside Google HQ?
>>Personally, I went to a very traditional private high school and received a great education. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with education.

Of course you would say that, since you went to a private high school and received, in your words, a great education. There are many others who were not so lucky (to have parents who could afford private school tuition).
Fair enough. So far we decided to stick to SVN, I might contact them in a couple years. Who knows maybe by then it will be cheaper.

> Where do you think the largest cost in an app like this comes from? Especially the onsite installed version? It's in support of the users.

Absolutely agree with that, this is the reason why we prefer unlimited licenses. I work at research facility and every year we have thousands of newcomers who stay here for several months and then leave, we simply cannot take on us management of their accounts.
If it helps, I learned to program last year. I wrote a blog post recently with a few tips:

http://coryliu.com/post/42990233356/how-i-learned-to-program...
The desktop version basically begs you to login with facebook or google account. Sign up with email is a much smaller link. Basically, the site screams "We need your data so much! We're begging for your data! It's our only monetization scheme" and if someone is that desperate for your personal data, chances are they're not going to do good things with it.
Great to hear it can get better. Even if mine never recovers and I will forever have this halo, I would still go through with it.

Other feedback I got on the post was that in some countries you don't need several days of checks before getting the surgery. In some places they do it on the same day.
xhtml and html5 after that
Nostalgia!!

Did LASIK about 5 years back. This post makes me feel bad about not maintaining a journal of the process.

Was very sensitive to light for the first day, couldn't bring myself to open my eyes(Middle Of summer in INDIA!! ). But the next morning, where i could see every small detail without the spectacles(Which I hated) was awesome.

A bit of advise if you had done the surgery recently, is that give your eyes a bit of time to heal and stay away from TV, Computers for at least a fortnight... Not absolutely necessary, But you know...
I was just reading about "Surfaces and Gaps." There is a concept there called "reconnaissance pull" versus "command push." Basically, that's MVP, A/B testing, and pivoting.
Maybe I'm being too nice, but I'm willing to give the NYT a little benefit of the doubt that this might just have been a single journalist embellishing a story for publicity, as has been known to happen both there and at so many other publications many times over.
I will certainly not pay a dime to read anything on Quora, but I'd be less upset if asked, because it would seem to make some sense.

Asking to download an app to do the exact same thing as without the app is upsetting because it seems completely pointless.
I'd have put "Monastery" as "Living at Home".

Free laundry and all that.
I think it's in case Google's auth (or even Google itself!) goes down—Facebook's was down the other day, and if you don't provide alternative sign-in mechanisms, users can't sign in.
I tested it - it reveals the text just fine but the text sits off to the right of the page and you can't scroll or zoom to reflow the text in to the screen size.

Thanks for the first-pass at it though!
+1 for log files.
Interesting data.

And of course there is another course of action that can settle this once and for all. Repeat the journey with an unimpeachable witness along for the ride.
Introducing Semantic Logging
Was almost the same when I had the surgery in India 5 years back , at least 5 visits to the clinic before the surgery.
Ender's Game is one of my favorite books!
Can't wait for the movie.
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Yes, was told not to do any office work or spend time focusing near for about three days.

That light sensitivity part was strongest after they put in eyedrops as part of some test on the second day of testing. That day it might have been a good idea to go home in a taxi and use sunglasses. Less strong after the surgery itself.
It can create animations using pure css or use requestAnimationFrame to animate. Here are examples http://lvivski.github.com/anima/#examples
I had LASIK just over 6 months ago, and I'm really happy with the results.

How much does it cost in the US? Down here in NZ, it cost me NZ$5750 (~US$4877) for intralase (laser-created flap) on both eyes.

I didn't have a lot of those follow up tests mentioned where they poke your eye. I had a follow up the day after, then a week after, then a month, then two months after. All they did at each appointment was get me to read from a chart and examined my eyes with some kind of digital microscope.
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It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest."
Regardless of who you think is right the data is kind of indisputable.

Unless Tesla is faking the data (which may happen but I really doubt it) it is up to us to determine the veracity of the NYT's article. Is it within journalistic means or did Broder straight out lie?
It's like saying EC2 should tailor its virtualization to Fedora 16, or Mac OS X should tailor its windowing system to Photoshop CS4, or Apache should tailor mod_proxy to Joomla. There may be specific attributes of popular applications that need to be adapted to, but those adaptations need to be built in a generic way and exposed through a standard API.

Since even many Rails apps now do not follow a single threaded request-response model, that model of running a web application needs to be considered as one case of many, and building a platform that supports many/all use-cases as well as possible is more complicated than building a platform that fits one use case like a leather glove.
I think you misunderstood: they optimized the long running requests and the optimization incurred 5ms performance loss for short requests. It is not that the additional 5ms solved the problem.
Also annoying: the "you're missing out! -- sign in" appeal to associate your browser with .. what exactly? On Ubunutu, it's suggesting that I sign in to Chromium.
This isn't quite news, Chrome has been doing stuff like this all the time. When the new nexus came out they had a link there...
You want affinity by Host: header, not by cookie/session.
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Lol totally evil product based on making people lives awful through fake fear.

But I guess that's many successful products, make people feel bad or their lives are missing 'something' and give them the solution for the $

Myself and friends have often talked about it. Be unethical but make money. Individual vs Herd mentality. And in the first world is it really that evil to fool the people who fall for it? I find it hard personally but maybe that's a weakness I should train to get over, not sure. I do give a % of my wage to 3rd world charity so would I still be up positive ethics wise.

Interesting article to see into that world anyway, something to think about.
My off the cuff answer to your question is, because it's probably not quite that simple ;)
The problems that the New York Times complains about are not at all incompatible with the self-inflicted wounds.

When your budget is being decimated, it is hard to attract and support the quality employees who can deliver the product that you want. It gets worse with the way that new media is turning into a more virulent rehash of the old "yellow press", thereby lowering journalistic standards among the companies that the New York Times has to compete with. This means that people you try to hire are unlikely to come from a culture that cares about facts - which accelerates the downward spiral.

I do not personally believe that it will get better until it has gotten so clearly bad that the public hungers for high quality news enough to pay a premium to subscribe to it. (Which is how institutions like The New York Times got started in the first place.)
I came to the US in 1999, and understood the NYT to be the "newspaper of record". Then witnessed their atrocious coverage of WMDs and the drumbeat to the Iraq invasion. There was Jayson Blair. There was Rick Bragg. Just off the top of my head. They're always "isolated incidents" ...until it becomes a pattern of behavior. Just my 2c YMMV
Yeah you're all probably right. However, with average walmart wages of $10/hr I think that's a realistic target for minimum wage. Also I think it's a shame that we charge any tax to people making minimum wage. I plugged $14500 into the ADP pay calculator, and in my state you walk away with just over 10k per year.
The worst part of the "We have an app" div/interstitial is that sometimes I have that app - and I'd love for the page to redirect me.

Instead, that's too hard, and they can't detect installed apps on my phone, so I get the spam every time.
I expected this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209596). A few days ago when I read Musk's claim that the computer log contradicted Broder, I realized Musk would have to be crazy to make claims that might later be contradicted by the computer records, and therefore his account was likely to be true.

And it seems it is. Apparently the desire to tell a damning story about the Tesla is overwhelming, as it was in an earlier case that resulted in Musk's decision to turn on logging for media-driven cars. This time the log has prevented a classic "he said, she said" controversy.

The Tesla might have problems in cold climates, the special charging stations might be too far apart for convenient wintertime operations (as Musk has acknowledged), but according to this result, the Broder account isn't a useful evaluation of the car.

What a position Tesla Motors is in. If you only allow friends of the technology to evaluate the car, the reports aren't meaningful or useful, but if you let a "neutral" party perform an evaluation, the wish to report something "interesting" is apparently irresistible.

Ten or twenty years from now, when battery technology has greatly improved, this might all seem like a tempest in a teapot, but at the moment, without computer logging, a few unchallenged reports like Border's could destroy Tesla's chance to produce an early example of a promising new technology.
When you use a non-Chrome browser and use Google websites you get the "for a faster web" in all variations with a chrome download button.

Relatively annoying over time ;-)
I personally think mine is the best one. :-)

Public boarding schools.

Lots of folks are hurting financially these days, so there's a lot of distraction for teenagers and not enough structure. Boarding schools will go a long way to solving that.

I also think what Obama mentioned in the SOTU address is a great idea: pre-school for all, not just those who can afford it.
If I didn't live next to a journalist, I'd say it was a single journalist. But job of journalist is not to discuss the truth, inform the public, but to garner eyeballs.

"Enhanching" the truth is their standard MO.
The kicker is the "detour". Not a detour as the journalist claimed but rather that he drove the Tesla in circles in a parking lot to ensure the battery was flat when returned.
Huh. I submitted this as a link to a story about Stripe starting a limited UK beta. Then it morphed into a dup of a previous submission of mine! (And if I try to re-submit the Stripe thing, I end up here.)
In Japan the total cost was about $3500.

Some clinics claim to do it for half that price, but it seems like they will try to upsell you to a more expensive type of surgery (supposedly more accurate one) after getting you to commit. They even called it "premium lasik".

I could not figure out from any online sources whether there would actually be a difference between the two types of surgery (and if there was, what kind of a doctor would really allow a lesser surgery in such an important situation?), so I decided it was probably just an upselling attempt and decided to go with a clinic that was more straightforward with their pricing and had a less marketing-savvy look to their landing pages.
That's an oversimplification of the situation. A Q&A based site like Quora can be compared to it's predecessors like Experts Exchange or Stack Overflow because the content is simply enhanced by greater participation of experts. The early adopters could be techies or otherwise, but they will notice the increase in friction for sharing and using content.

Also the problem is not really "signing up". As the article points out, downloading another app just to read content on the web feels like a overkill to most people (even non techies). Especially when the most common means of searching for answers remains Google which is usually found in the browser.
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The article is direct, factual and Brother should undoubtedly be fired.

Just why did Elon Musk not link to the article, for everyone to easily see Broder's embarrassment beats me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the...
Absolutely brutal way for Broder's career to end.
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I work in hardware.
I assume people are willing to pay for actionable intelligence on things that matter to them. Or to be entertained. But you pay an entirely different amount of money to find out an answer to "should I build a factory using natural gas in the midwest, or will prices rise, or will a pipeline be constructed in time that we can keep using our factory in Texas" vs. "what is latest on Tom Cruise and his wife?".

Unfortunately, since voting is relatively ineffective, information on political/social/etc. issues, even if it fully determines how you vote, is closer in value to entertainment than intelligence.
I've been around a few companies migrating from EY/Heroku -> AWS and the cost effectiveness is always astonishing. In addition you gain full control over your architecture, which is a major plus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/books/escape-from-camp-14-...

“In writing this book, I have sometimes struggled to trust him,” Mr. Harden writes understandably in “Escape From Camp 14.” Mr. Harden tries to fathom a cryptic, troubled and not entirely sympathetic young man whose circumstances lend themselves to exaggeration.

What’s more, the new book uses dialogue borrowed from Mr. Shin’s disingenuous 2007 version. “Escape From Camp 14” also includes simple line drawings (as Mr. Shin’s book had) that give the most traumatic parts of his story — torture, imprisonment, maiming, executions — the look of action comics. The most benign of these pictures carries this caption: “Children in the camps scavenged constantly for food, eating rats, insects and undigested kernels of corn they found in cow dung.”

(...)

Mr. Shin did not spend his imprisonment missing love, joy, civilization or comfort, because he had never experienced such things. As the spawn of a “reward marriage” — considered “the ultimate bonus for hard work and reliable snitching” — he had no real family ties.

The book says that he regarded his mother as a rival for food and was right to do so; she once beat him with a hoe for eating her lunch. As a young child, he saw schoolmates maimed or even killed for minor transgressions and he learned to obey the camp’s totalitarian rules.

(...)

But “Shin’s misery never skidded into complete hopelessness,” Mr. Harden writes in typically plain, forthright style. “He had no hope to lose, no past to mourn, no pride to defend. He did not find it degrading to lick soup off the floor. He was not ashamed to beg a guard for forgiveness. It didn’t trouble his conscience to betray a friend for food. These were merely survival skills, not motives for suicide.”
I think I could do the sacrifice as well ;)