skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer, I can confirm this.

There are some records with only the zip/country & fake email (xxx@checkout.google.com)

But there are definitely some records with full name, full address, phone,

e.g. (format only)

John Doe
101/A, 2-14, Queen Road , Hong Kong .
HONG KONG ISLAND
HONG KONG
1234 5678
johndoe@example.com
As a parent of two middle schoolers, I am a lot less worried about adults using adult language to talk about business than I am about the people who can't tell the difference between that and actual threats to my children.
Interesting. Such tricks is exactly why Stack Overflow originally went against Expert Exchange, promising never to hide user-contributed content, and explicitly licensing it as Creative Commons.

Quora is its content. Its content is user contributed. Hiding such content from other users is just plain evil.
We just recently started using Pixelapse a week and a half ago, so I can answer a couple of these.

There is an app that runs in the menu bar of our designer Kevin's mac, which automatically uploads "revisions" of the design he's working on. It only captures changes to the file on disk, so he has to save strategically knowing that it will create a "revision". I personally don't like this, as it discourages saving often. To be fair, you can mark different revisions as "milestones", but this just seems like a bandaid for this particular problem.

Before using Pixelapse, Kevin had his own workflow (similar to what you mentioned), where he'd save different versions of a design as project_homepage_option1.jpg, project_homepage_option2.jpg, etc. Pixelapse absolutely does not support this. It will upload each one as a different file and offers no way to combine them so that you can compare them for review (and there is no way in Pixelapse to compare different files, only different revisions of the same file.

Also keep in mind that Pixelapse, along with every other similar app I looked at, uses the revision/history paradigm for comparing designs. But I think Pixelapse at least allows for the non-timeline-based approach a bit better than others, though it still didn't quite fit our workflow without some changes to our workflow.

Edited to clarify, I wasn't trying to be too critical of Pixelapse. I actually really like it, it just required some changes to our workflow to be effective, and I think we're still trying to figure a couple things out.
ZDnet interview with the guy who found the issue: http://www.zdnet.com/google-play-privacy-slip-up-sends-app-b...
The money was in the bank, man.
Some problems are easier to solve than others. Why needlessly halt progress in smaller areas just because the big problems are yet to be solved?
I too am outraged. I nearly lost my monocle.
Just FYI, Cloudfront does heavily discount committed pricing.
New AWS Route 53 Dns Failover Offering
Any first impressions?.
Is this the extra functionality to facilitate simpler AWS HA configuration and prevent the impact of LB outages experienced by simplistic setups on AWS a while back.? Or is it a sudo fix moving issues and well documented problems somewhere else. (to be realised at a later date)
When you buy a TV at Best Buy or online at Amazon, the shop doesn't send your personal information to the TV's manufacturer.

One of the reasons I prefer to buy my software through the Mac App Store instead of at some random developer's website is because I want to limit the number of businesses that have my personal information. Large companies are bad at keeping customer information safe, but I don't even want to think about how individual developers store it.
What a shitty situation. But why, oh why, would you sell your house and move from Houston to California before the check cleared? We started Matasano when my kids were pre-K and a a full-day every-day handful, and I had to spend a couple months away from my family while we worked out the move (mine from Ann Arbor to Chicago). I know I'm not the only founder to deal with that situation. Was there some additional circumstance involved here, some other pitfall people should be on the lookout for?
Hitler's stuff was way better than this. Search for it and judge for yourself. Not even close in my opinion.
Blob Balance: soft body dynamics in HTML5
I'm a pretty heavy user of Quora, and I have been "trained" the same way, at least on mobile.

When I click on a Quora link inside FB app or whatever, it takes me to iTunes to re-download the Quora app. Or, I click in Twitter, and it doesn't have my credentials, so same problem as you.

It also keeps me from posting links to Quora content anywhere else.
Something like 'When the Wind Blows' by Raymond Briggs (most famous for writing 'The Snowman'.) It's extremely powerful. Your idea is excellent.
Probably not a great idea to start WW3 based solely on emotions.
You're not committing to a usage level, you're committing to a pricing level. If you reserve a small instance, you get a small instance, no matter what utilization level you choose. It's the same exact resources no matter what you pick.

The utilization levels are pricing tiers:

Light utilization = lowest upfront cost, highest hourly rate.

Medium utilization = medium upfront cost, medium hourly rate.

Heavy utilization = highest upfront cost, lowest hourly rate.

The names are meant to signify the trade-off you're making. If you run your instance only an hour a day, you will pay the least by choosing "light utilization": the hourly cost is high but you're only going to multiply that by a small number, so the savings in the up-front cost will dominate the total cost. If you run your instance 24 hours a day, then the hourly rate will dominate your total costs, so you'll save money by choosing "heavy utilization" with a higher up-front cost but lower hourly cost.

Segmenting the costs makes the pricing table more difficult to read, but it optimizes for everything else: you pay the lowest possible price for guaranteed resources, and Amazon has better knowledge of how much spare capacity it actually needs to handle the reservations.
Hitler was an artist with extensive training and tons of practice though.
No, the real problem wasn't insurance; it was that a firm-seeming commitment to fund the company fell through at the worst possible moment.

A lawsuit wouldn't have fixed anything for them; it'd have taken years to resolve.
HN is not ugly.
Sounds very similar to my experience with Japanese culture. We call their Shintoism a 'religion' but it doesn't fit either, it's much more like what you list.
Kinda like Paypal.
I usually use the site's own domain -- so a fake account on quora gets an @quora.com domain.
I think it's not uncommon for companies get volume this way. I even saw on the recent PBS special "Silicon Valley" that Fairchild Semiconductor (then it was FCI) sold actual real-life transistors below cost, wagering that it would allow them to scale up their manufacturing. Ingenious, risky move. But, it worked.
Catfish is mostly correct but not really going to what happens on the gaming systems or alternate reality sites. All the fake profiles with images of dead people or family who aren't online is freaky. Then there are the superfreaks like talhotblond posting pics of her own kid to pass her nasty old self as a hot young girl. Sick.
PAC MAN'S SPLIT SCREEN LEVEL ANALYZED AND FIXED
"Sometimes I want to give the people I’m with my undivided attention."

and now I can pretend I am.
It doesn't work like that though. Quora still wants Google to see the content for SEO. Google still indexes your answers: https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Awww.quora.com%2FWillia...

(Quora does have a setting to hide your name from search engines for this reason though)
Whatever. Just another guy who thinks he's owed something because he did something that he thinks everyone should be gushing over.
I suspect that was a well-orchestrated commit to show that Opera had joined the WebKit collective. It was mentioned in Opera's press release.
Agreed. My favorite trick? I was going to sign up for a Quora account today, finally knuckling under to the stupid ExpertsExchange fuzzing crap. So I click "Sign Up With Google" (because the register page on the answer page doesn't show Twitter). They demand permission to "manage my contacts". This is a throwaway email, so I say sure, okay.

They go back to the registration screen and still want an email and password just for their special snowflake site.

I am forced to believe that the only reason for the misleading and, frankly, fucking dishonest path through my social media connections is to have more names to potentially spam in the future. Fortunately they won't get such from Dick Wickerson, Completely Fake Account.
Conventional wisdom is that China prefers to maintain the status quo in North Korea as a buffer against American power. Xi Jinping hasn't really signaled yet whether he will change direction on that. Yesterday the White House specifically referred to America's "nuclear umbrella" over South Korea, which is unusually explicit wording, so hopefully they are raising the pressure on China to do more to intervene. I don't think the DPRK could persist if China withdrew its support. I try to imagine a scenario for the incoming administrations in China and South Korea, working in cooperation with the U.S., to convince the DPRK to peacefully transition to a normalized and open country.
I always mark such messages as spam.
Just checked out their marketplace material[1] and found this:

> Category-Specific Product Mapping Template: Create category-specific product templates that use common attributes and data manipulation technology to map your product information to the marketplace’s specifications.

Very cool! Thanks for the tip.

[1] http://go.channeladvisor.com/rs/channeladvisor/images/us-ds-...
To amplify, I do a ton of queue adjustment work with Unicorn at the backlog level. It is so frequent that we set up Unicorn startup to read from an ENV variable on Heroku that we set as needed.

With two Unicorn workers we found that 25 was the best backlog threshold to accept (it refuses additional requests). When we were able to go to 5 Unicorn workers on Heroku we had to start to adjust that.
That wasn't a bug that jQuery reported or has encountered. The ones we report probably aren't half a line of code to fix. And as for why we don't fix them ourselves, I can't speak for the rest of the jQuery team but one unpaid volunteer open source job is plenty for me.
To be clear, CloudFlare does not bill based on traffic. However, resources are not infinite

So... what you're saying is that you bill based on traffic?
How do Free Services on the Web Make Money?
They would have been in a much better position if they had actually turned on the revenue model before asking for money. Without that, the only metric they had to impress investors was user acquisition which was dropping.
I was thinking about something like this could be really handy last night. Great work!
>The TSA performs a legitimate role-

I'm going to stop you right there: bullshit.

The TSA shenanigans make us less safe by causing a false sense of security while being completely ineffective. The private screeners we had pre-9/11 did a better job. The one or two things necessary to prevent another airplane-as-missile attack are already done and don't require any government intervention. #1, locks on the cockpit doors, #2, passengers who will kick your ass if you try anything.

The "mature" thing to do is to disband the TSA. End of discussion.
how does this do books?

If I provide a random book barcode, it's usually an ISBN (10 or 13 digits)
Why is everyone like against rapgenius.com for "forcing the issue with a public spat". They are the customer not getting a service they are paying for. I would be fucking pissed too. Heroku isn't being the darling the service they advertised. They tried to work on it with Heroku. This is useful information to most of you. Are most of you against Yelp?
This is cloaking and will get you in big trouble.
While you made a lot of mistakes here, it's also pretty frustrating that there's a good deal of VCs who are basically only looking for the next Twitter. Why would anyone think viral growth would be realistic for this product? How does one acquire that much capital while knowing so little about business?
It sounds to me like the problems here are very much like the problems with SW development in the early 1990s.
There is a social problem: lack of an engineering professionalism and lack of interest by management in fostering such professionalism AND
There is a technical problem: lack of the equivalent of a source code control system.

One way to at least start to approach the problem would be to put the equivalent of a SCCS into Excel. You'd be expected to checkin and checkout spreadsheets, changes would be tracked, you could diff against older versions, etc.

The analogy is not perfect, not least because many spreadsheets consist of a logic part, written by one person, and a data part, filled in by another. Even so, forcing a checkin/checkout model would provide an audit trail and, as has been said, storage is cheap.

Perhaps the second easy modification that could be made would be to make it vastly more visually obvious which cells are locked, and which cells are logic. It should be possible to look at a spreadsheet and just see the logic portion separate from the data portion. Imposing this by visualization would at least make it less likely that spreadsheets get checked into the SCCS without appropriate locking.

I could add more, but in all cases it seems to me the idea is: look at the problems we programmers had in the 90s, and how we solved them, and do likewise. I've suggested SCCS and syntax coloring, but one could go to talk about, for example, code commenting, or making it natural for people to name cells (make that the thing that's easy to do, and make the cell names easily visible) so that faffing around with B$3 becomes a weird thing that normal people would not bother with --- just like in coding I don't tell the compiler to use register EAX, I just use a variable name.
Yeah. Stupid guy talking about his stupid life experiences. He should grow up.
AppendChild "operation aborted" fix for IE in MS10-018 [2010]
It's a lot easier than you think when you aren't limited by artificial restrictions on the number of concurrent requests you can serve. Taking out what could be considered here to be a hostile intermediary will free up tech resources to fix problems that actually exist.

I can only imagine how these guys must have been beating their heads against the wall. Heroku charges a premium price and should be providing a premium service.
Great feedback, mikesickler. I'm one of the founders and I can tell you that your requests are in the planning stages. Our vision is help families build sustainable lives over the long-term (I'm 38 and I still get uncomfortable when my divorced parents are in the same room). The tool you describe will be part of it.

I'll share your comment with the rest of the team so we can add some of these to our features list. Thanks!
My thoughts before I left the project were to add increased granularity of queue times via having headers added at each passing server and show a rainbow chart for the 'depth' of queue at each layer, not sure if that ever got added.

There's facility for that in the Agent, to allow multiple copies of the header and use whichever came first (for the beginning) and whichever came last (for the end ), it'd be relatively easy to hook metrics into each of those.
Or he'd be in a much worse position, because his cost of customer acquisition was high and the money he'd earn from charging wouldn't come close to covering his operating expenses, and charging would slash his new user signups, which were probably the only realistic lead gen he had to work with. Which is, you know, the situation that gets most people to consider venture capital.
StackOverflow does modify user-contributed content and have very serious moderators issues.

Which is why I'm sure there's going to be something new coming along one of these days: something where users are in control of what they post (e.g. not a wiki unless the user who did post does accept himself others' edits).

Collaborating to answer questions is fine. But modifying and closing questions artificially (due to very serious moderators issues) isn't acceptable either.

So I'm waiting for the next big thing and I'm sure it shall come.
An Open Source Atari ST(E) IP-Core written in VHDL
No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfare Primer
I have to agree with you and disagree with the author, strictly in terms of artistic merit, Hitler's paintings are better than President Bush's... I'm just trying to figure out if there's some meta-violation of Godwin's Law going on here.
Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk client)
I've been working on this for a few months since I got my Surface RT, and realized there wasn't a solid gtalk/gchat app. It's a C#/XAML app, and I ended up writing my own XMPP stack on-top of raw sockets since there wasn't a good open source one available (that would run in RT). I'll open source my XMPP library on GitHub shortly once I've cleaned it up a bit.

Check it out!

Store link:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/gabberwocky/2d7a19c5-2522-461c-8706-99ff59bd84fe

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/gabberwockyapp
I'm one of the whitest, blond-haired, blue-eyed crackers you'll ever meet and when I had a large beard, even I got profiled. For a while, I understood it, just kind of shrugged it off. In 2013, it's getting a lot harder to do so when it's so clear the security apparatus largely exists as a way to get administration insiders like Mike Chertoff super rich without actually providing security. The failure rates of the scanners were actually SEALED largely I assume because they were so poor, or at least that was the public implication made in Congress when Napolitano was asked about this. The Congressman (no not looking it up) said "well, these rates are sealed, but do you really think these sorts of failure rates are acceptable?" Napolitano basically refused to address it.
The real problem was they had no business model; spending money to get users when you don't even know what your return is? That's ludicrous. That's a core business issue from day one.
My only experience with Quora has been Googling for a question, seeing they "blurred" the answer, and immediately closing the tab. Was I really expected to make an account? I don't have time for that, there's a dozen other search results I could be checking instead.

My first and only experience with them, and I assumed they were just another scummy ExpertSexChange type of site. We have open platforms, no need for this nonsense.
I'm an app developer and I don't want your spam
I've done dev-ops in the ads industry before, it's really not that hard if you're a competent programmer. You just have to take a more studious approach than most non-dev-ops programmers and read up on things before deploying them.

But if you want to let the various PAAS providers put the fear into you, that's your cowardice.

Let the others learn as they may.

Edit:

To clarify, Heroku is making the problem harder on themselves than it would be for an individual to serve their own needs because of the complexity managing so many customers and apps.

You don't have to be Heroku to do for yourself what they offer.
Simple Publish-Subscribe with jQuery
I don't care if the Google bots can read what I write, I care about clients, family members etc who Google me. If they REALLY want to read my answers, they can create an account. Most people wont bother though.
Totally agree with the article also. I've run into this in the past when getting there from search results, and it makes me really hate Quora.
To follow up on my own question (about naming being the hardest thing), here's a supporting quote towards your argument:

"The only real difficulties in programming are cache invalidation and naming things. "
-- Phil Karlton

Came across that quote as I was reading some style guidelines for Ruby. In case it's of any interest to you: https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide#naming
I'm a fairly experienced iOS developer and a Ruby beginner. I bought a license just to play with and learn about Ruby in a familiar context. But one thing I did not find mentioned is how slow the RubyMotion build-deploy cycle is.

For small changes, on a 2011 MBP, Xcode takes a few seconds to rebuild and deploy to the simulator. RubyMotion takes ages, easily exceeding one minute (single-core process?). Repeated a few times, it's enough to shift my thinking from play-mode to plan-mode. At this point I'm still too uncomfortable to begin new projects with RubyMotion, just because the slowness is so annoying.
Mods: change the link to the real site: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html
That is great, and I am personally a great fan of Celts.

However, what's up with the elves, trolls, orcs...? These are well-understood races, are they free to use?
I've never understood how anyone thinks they can be successful by making the web worse.
Yes it does sound as horrific. It should never route more than N requests to a dyno, where N is the number of requests it can handle simultaneously. It doesn't matter if N is 1, 2, or 10. And it should always send new requests to the emptiest dyno.
oh, and feedback is greatly appreciated :)
You don't happen to have any documentation for how to do that do you? Very curious. Never seen anything about setting up Unicorn like this prior (I'm just using 3 or 4 Unicorns/dyno currently)
Hi, I'm Shawn, and I work on categorization at Semantics3.

We use Naive Bayesian classifiers and other heuristics for categorization to help us with the disambiguation of products (merging multiple sources referring to the same product into one clean record). Knowing which category a product comes from greatly narrows down the search space for disambiguation.

We're planning to release this as an endpoint for the API, and we are currently working on fine-tuning the categorizer for this purpose. If you have any suggesetions/ideas drop me an e-mail at shawn[at]semantics3.com!
One hand guitar virtuoso
Fine, so replace the TSA with what? This is what bothers me, so much condemnation without supplying any alternative.
Wow that really sucks. In hindsight, could you have hit up your current investors for the bridge round before shopping around the Valley, or would that have put VCs off too?
Even worse are mobile sites that ALWAYS display a full "download our app!" page.

The New York Times handles this rather gracefully I think. Go to a mobile page and they have a swipable banner that says "hey we have an app, but you can easily ignore me."

I wish more sites would do this. I understand you want conversion to your app. I get it. But stop undermining your mobile experience. Sometimes it's what I need / want.
He had me until he put bloated (as a description of jQuery) in quotes.
Another thing I dislike from Quora are their annoying "Kumar asked you to answer this question" style emails that come in addressed to you. Its probably their way to increase the answer rate. I think I did actually contribute an answer on the first one of these I received.
Except people can still see the answers, they just make it more difficult to do so. (You have to click the timestamps below the comments and read them one at a time.)

So please don't try to justify their abhorrent anti-open-web behaviour with would-be privacy assertions.
Well Warcraft is basically Lord of the Rings, so you could just take an existing one and modify it.
Like paypal?
We don't have books yet. That's been a common request, so we'll be launching with books by the end of the month. If you'd like, I can notify you as soon as we do.