skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does honestly bug me that LivingSocial's CEO is lying or at least misleading employees and public about several very important facts, and is coming up with more only when forced to do so by privco questions or the press.

First, it bothers me that in this initial memo announcing the funding he said nothing but how terrific it is that their investors love LivingSocial's financial performance SO much that they doubled down with more money. NO mention that they were down to their last month of cash left. NO mention that they had to give up the farm to get the money. NO naming (as is the custom) of the investors who invested (i.e. hiding that some did not...usually ALL prior investors put in at least a nominal amount and a new lead investor "leads the round). Here it was very bizarre the investors weren't named.

And he doesn't say anything about this NOT just being a standard straight VC stock round, but only when pushed by PrivCo he coughs up yea ok the securities do "have some bells and whistles" that makes the employees' stock worth less. No mention of that on Wed. announcement (before privco forced the issue). Then he has the balls to suggest that don't worry if we IPO all of this won't matter. He the the guys KNOWS they'll never IPO.

So call me old fashiond but that just bugs me. And hats off to PrivCo or any other media/research firm that calls companies out (esp private ones you can't even short sell...they took all their time prepping their research and went out ona limn for what? Bunch of blog posts criticizing em b/c CEO who has no more credibility IMO just says so, and he's the son in law of the CEO of the Washington Post, so he can say whatever the f'k he wants and we're all just supposed to take it all at face value.

Obv PrivCo made every effort to get the facts right - they just even outed the sr. exec at Living Social to prove they didn't make up quotes: http://www.privco.com/livingsocial-receives-emergency-110m-c... (at the bottom) - nobody even the NYTImes bats 1,000, but this LIvingSocial CEO's arrogant dishonesty to those 4,000 employees while he cuts a side deal i'm sure so he gets some millions no matter how badly it tanks....well I just don't like it and I don't trust him one bit. It's drip drip drip with this guy. Spit it out: we basically borrowed money, we were almost out of cash, we call it equity but it has interest, loan's due in 4 yrs, we call it a "VC round" but look we had to do it. Now we need a new strategy and streamline.
I did it in Clojure once[1]. It's quite fun, I recommend it as well.
Justice Department Joins Lawsuit Against Lance Armstrong
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The modern version of this jargon file is maintained by esr here: http://www.catb.org/jargon/
This blog is calling for all sites to not set a font size, and then adjust everything relative to the base.

That would allow you to set your preferred "not huge" default font size and have it work everywhere, and it would allow me to set my "huge" default and also have it work everywhere.

At the moment I have to zoom[1] in lots of websites while you have to zoom out others.

[1] And I strongly preferred "zoom just the text, not everything", so if there's some secret key combo to do that it'd be great. (Chrome on OS X, but I'd switch to Firefox if I know it did it.)
The first thing I do on a new browser is to drag the 'zap colors' bookmarklet to the bookmarks toolbar.
Justification without gaps works best with aggressive hyphenation. If the hyphenation isn't good, the text is full of surprises at line wraps. It's hard to do justification well as a result. It's usually restricted to newspapers with limited space these days.
Another thing that's missing in this overall thread is context....

.... context of companies like SF, Yahoo, etc. Basically, SF (Yahoo, etc.) has been in existence before the days of dropping server costs, dropping bandwidth costs, dropping storage space costs and before the term devops was even being used in conversations ;-)

Given this, and the fact that people were still figuring out how to scale and serve in the 90s, SF (along with Yahoo and some other web pioneers) was going ahead and practically doing it to scale, and doing it for "free" (if you train yourself to ignore the irrelevant ads, it is free!). To put this in context, Github/Bitbucket are all <5 years old by contrast. They've had all the time in the World to learn from the mistakes of these giants, and use all their learnings to get things right, and capitalise on EC2/AWS etc. (which was not possible during SF's setup period) :-)

So, given that some of these companies are the "giants" whose shoulders have enabled us to come this far, context is very inmportant in trying to understand these venerable beasts! They may appear to be long in the tooth by today's standards but they have lent us their shoulders, on whom today's jazz and pizzazz depend upon.

And for that I will always have a soft spot and gratitude for these internet pioneers like Yahoo, SF, etc.

EDIT: Also to remember is, the business model around file hosting/repository management was not the same in the 90s until mid-2000s as it is now, so that also needs to be kept in context.

P.S: Not affiliated to Sourceforge in any way.
First do a pinch zoom, then double-tap to make the text reflow using the new size.

(Unfortunately not in Chrome for Android, since it's too cool for usability. Should work on anything using Android's built-in webkit).
Juvenile, yes. But offensive toward women? How?
Chrome's version is confusing and applies oddly. (IME, YMMV, etc.)
I didn't get any relation at all between this pic and the article until reading some comments.. Ok, some juveniles might interpret it in a funny way, but I mean, in the same manner half of real surnames can be made into crude puns.
There are a couple of sites you can lookup or subscribe for alerts:

http://startupdigest.com/events/

http://lanyrd.com

http://www.eventbrite.com

http://www.meetup.com
I see the exact opposite where I come from. My kid wants to go out and play when the temperature is close to 40c (which is normal BTW).

I think kids just adapt to the weather and we just get old!
I'm struggling to understand what you're referencing. The database contains both links to the visualization and thumbnail URLs. Chris posted an example of a gallery with thumbnail previews, which you can click on to see the original.

The Google Doc is where the data is curated, and available for developers to make their own visualizations of the data.
If you cannot describe your algorithm on a paper... it will be difficult to debug this code afterwards.
So what? It's a penis joke? What is so bad about that if it's the case? Honestly, the only thing this (the article) accomplishes is making it appear that women have no humor...

If people are offended by this, I simply would not care. I mean, there is nothing more I'd love than to have more women in the programming world, but having people with no humor? Nah, I'd rather pass that then.

(If this comes off as sexist or anything, it isn't, it's not a thing against gender, it's a thing against peoples attitude)
I haven't found genuine 'rooster sauce' in The Netherlands where I live, but have partaken of it multiple times while in the states. In Dutch Tokos I have found something called Tuong Ot Sriracha imported from Thailand and I cannot tell them apart. It's also a clear bottle with a red or green top made by Foodex.

I like Sambal Oelek as well, but for the past couple years I have been in love with Surinamese pickled mango chutney. It's great on pizza.

This is the stuff:
http://www.surinaamsetoko.nl/data/upload/Shop/images/1656.pn...
Why has it barely been mentioned that the platform powering SF is now open source?

Don't like the ads? Think it takes too many clicks? Fix it, deploy it.
Display tweets in real-time on a large screen
Storm in a teacup IMHO
What I think is particularly interesting is that anyone doing this in North America would probably be tried and convicted of child endangerment purely due to unfamiliarity and outrage at the practice.

It wouldn't matter whether someone presented evidence that it was a norm elsewhere. We are just wired that way.
Nonsense. The equivalent JavaScript is clearer, albeit more verbose.
The go import tool does version go std lib packages, but I think the worry is more about external packages - later when the go ecosystem matures, and I'm relying on lots of packages from different sources (say for a web app), with interdependencies, and I must update them regularly for security updates, but don't necessarily want the latest master for all, I have no way to specify versions without rolling my own personal package management, downloading the packages and changing urls etc. If I'm in an org and sharing this with others I'd basically end up reinventing a package proxy internally in order to control what software versions are used to build.

This is a small flaw in the go packaging system (and it is a flaw) which I'm sure they'll fix, either with a convention to always use branches for versions (which I guess is doable, but only if it becomes widespread), or by changing import to take an argument for the version. So something like:

import "github.com/gorilla/mux/1.0.3"

or

import "github.com/gorilla/mux", ~> "1.0.3"

which would let you specify any minor updates say and possibly other permutations, and thus might be more flexible. I believe a few things have been suggested on the list but I haven't followed the conversation, not sure what the outcome was - perhaps just that it needs further thought.

At present the first solution is possible, BUT it needs to become a convention which everyone follows in order to be useful (involving named branches or tags at the repo). The other advantage of this is that it states requirements fully in the package concerned - otherwise all we know is that this code requires github.com/gorilla/mux, not which version or when it was last tested/imported, whether it will work with the latest release or not, etc. But then it would let you run into conflicts by accidentally importing two versions of the same package with different paths.

The current convention of no version certainly puts more onus on the package maintainers to maintain backwards compatibility, or on users to maintain their own library of packages which they periodically update, and I see the arguments for it.

Of course none of this matters if you're just one person using packages to build an app at one moment in time, but if you yourself supply packages/apps to others, or want to setup members of an org over time with the same set of packages in the same state, and rely on other packages to compile yours, it can become more complex.

Other package managers tend to have a central point to adjust package dependencies, and make sure packages are always available forever at the same uri, so it'll be interesting to see how go manages this when go packages become more complex and widely used, start to be removed by maintainers, and start to have complex chains of dependencies on specific versions, or whether the much simpler go system in the end leads to a saner situation and puts the onus for this problem back on end users.
> one of the pleasant surprises of seeing TBL's original WWW documentation posted to HN last year was how readable plain, unstyled HTML markup is.

And readable on any computer, with any OS, with any browser, whether it's going to a screen or a printer or a speaker.

It is baffling why text heavy sites (where the product is the text) get display of text so wrong.
Anecdotally it sucks. The ADSL people generally have in SF is terribly slow. Even my moms internet in the Dutch country-side, 8 miles from the nearest city, with cows for neighbors on all four sides of the house, had faster internet than that.

For the Bay Area numbers:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395970457545...
I've never seen one of these supposed "Smartphone of the Year" Lumia 920s in the wild, so I'm guessing the answer is "no". Perhaps they are turning the corner in stuffing online "Smartphone of the Year" polls.

edit: from the same blog yesterday: http://blog.pluralsight.com/2013/02/22/video-unleash-the-pow...

I wonder if ColdFusion was the "Engadget Reader's Choice Web Framework of the Year".
Could someone explain it, please? I don't know if I should read "PHPness" in a different way, or is there some context missing? I just don't get what's wrong with that text.
And RhodeCode:

http://rhodecode.org/
@viraptor: PHPness sounds like P-H-penis. "Enhance your penis" is a common spam email subject line.
The business in a box
I must be getting old, or it's late here but I didn't get the "penis" joke till you mentioned it.
Couldn't agree more. It's a trend which I've also been noticing - i.e. tiny text or tiny light grey text on a white background. A few CTRL-+'s fix the problem, but I shouldn't really need to do that in the first place.
Quite otherwise, I dislike the trend of large font sizes with huge line heights. But is it really an issue today when you can easily zoom in or out to your preferable size on practically any browser/device?
I also didn't get it at first, but I am not a native English speaker. I think it's a play on the phrase "Enhance your penis" that is typical for spam emails trying to sell dubious medication.

I understand that, but I fail to see how it's especially offensive women? I consider it primarily against good taste. ;)
There is also Gitorious for Git project hosting, and its open-source.
Unfortunately it shows the project's commit history when you visit a repository, and doesn't provide a way to show a description/README instead like all of the above hosting sites do.
Remote work often means out of the daily bustle work - thats one of the reasons folk say "let me work from home for two days, I have to get this done"

If you can translate that into a continuous cycle of working on the most valuable not the most urgent problem, and a cycle of picking the valuable problem that turns you on, productivity should go through the roof

All the crap that must get done - I am much more willing to do crap when I have hit a home run the day before

Edit: this sounds like one expects to do productive work day in day out - I don't think that's true - one should aim for a home run every two-four weeks and be prepared to learn and measure during that period.
Would it be more acceptable if there was a "female version" of this shirt? I'm glad we're examining this at a meta level more often, and I can see how this is exclusive, certainly. Would it become (more) inclusive or even "ok" if there was some other jokey concept for women as well?
Javascript is not the web's assembly language
> expecting the average user to know that they can zoom

I'm all for never overestimating the technical literacy of one's users, but .. really? The average person doesn't even know they CAN zoom? That seems an "ignoratum too far", like not knowing they can alter the volume on their stereo.

Touch screen devices make it ridiculously easy, too. Surely the average user has worked out by now that they can change the size of a web site they are viewing.
The secret sauce here is not the ability to solve "maths puzzles", but specialized domain knowledge.
I remember a time when shirts and ties were expected clothing for work.

Wanting the right to wear penis joke t-shirts while not allowing others to have the right to complain about those t-shirts feels surprising.

I happily accept that many places just wouldn't care about this t-shirt. It seems pretty harmless.
Well, considering the phrasing is a bit like what you might see in a viagra add, and the fact that if you say it out loud the Pness part in PHPness is almost literally pronounced penis.

Either way, I would have given it any second thought if it weren't for the article, so I know what you mean.
There are people who haven't heard of the Jargon File?
Touché. I hadn't discerned the true darkness of your vision of the future!
I think a lot of the "coolness" factor of Go comes not from its parent company, but from some of its core developers, namely Rob Pike & Ken Thompson. That gives Go a serious Bell Labs/Unix/Plan 9 pedigree.

I don't follow the mailing list anymore, so I don't know if it already led to the same "cargo cult" fanboyship that Plan 9 sometimes evokes, where a lot of the idiosyncratic opinions of its developers (e.g. "shared libraries are bad") are basically never questioned and repeated almost like holy scripture.
Hooked on hacking life.
And different languages - German, for example, has massively longer words, so the problem is worse over here.
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> There are no transactional guarantees on queries that touch more than one document.

Any plans to change it in future?
Startup Farming
Microsoft has lost all possible credibility by astroturfing. I'm doubtful of any bit of positive feedback that I see about their products.
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That depends.

Do you mean this version of the Jargon File or the one on ESR's website?

As the intro points out, there's a difference.
Maybe on tablets and smart phones most people know they can zoom.

I strongly believe, but have nothing to support it, that most people don't know they can zoom their browsers.
You didn't read the article did you
> Maybe you've only ever opened documents fullscreen or your work involves little more than punching brief commands into a terminal window

No, neither of these things are the case. I'm currently working with Xcode, Blender, terminals and a debug app, as well as my internet distractions, and it's not slow. I do make heavy use of virtual desktops and cmd-tab, and when I was working on a dual-screen workstation I found that most of my work centred on a single screen because I would rather move the app than scan the screen. For me at any rate, a large spatial organisation is visual clutter, and lends itself to hunting for information, whereas the apparent bottleneck of cmd-tab actually sorts information efficiently.

I'm not sure if this is making sense, I'm going down with a cold and focus has gone out of the window in quite a different sense today, but there's my 2c.
Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile
TIL making a joke about a male body part is misogyny.
"Cyber" - a prefix used to let you know a shitty metaphor is coming.

I'm sorry but I grew up in "cyberspace". There is no need to make the distinction between online and offline, for me and many others they are one in the same, we don't need cyber task forces to go after cyber criminals in order to uphold cyber laws inside cyber space. Its a stupid & redundant term, and coining it is not something to be proud of.

> And it was a way to present that investigation to an audience who most likely had little to no frame of reference.

That doesn't even make any sense. Lets tell people the internet is like a place they can run around in, that makes total sense yea? No, no it doesn't not in the fucking slightest. Have you seen Tron? This is what happens when idiots get a hold of shitty metaphors.
Opera has that too.
Slightly off-topic, but I remember doing flow charts in college back in 2008. I hated it. Everyone hated it. It was boring, awkward, and confusing, especially for those of my classmates who had never written actual code before.

The assignment was to break down everyday activities (e.g. brushing your teeth) into atomic steps, and have conditionals and loops in there. Not only was it unclear how granular the steps were supposed to be, but I also thought that this is probably the lamest, most uncool way to introduce someone to programming.

At another college they used Scratch for that, which was a whole lot more fun, because it makes it easy to avoid syntax errors, draw graphics, get instant feedback, and have a nice visualization of the program flow/structure.

And those god-damn Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams. Ugh.
I'm on a dual GPU system running Linux + bumblebee. When using the Sandy Bridge GPU, I also see all black with only the lighting highlights visible. Just tried again with the nVidia GPU and it worked fine.

I really like WebGL, and I want it to succeed, but for this to happen developers are going to have to make sure that their code works on reasonably low end hardware (i.e. integrated graphics). This sort of GPU inconsistency is so common with WebGL right now that it reminds me of trying to browse the web on Linux circa 2000.

Not a pleasant experience.
That's odd, as such a language would benefit most from a "word for letter" writing system like the Chinese one, yet Malay ended up being written in jawi arabic alphabet. I wonder if there are other languages with this type of "mismatch" between the writing system / alphabet and the language structure...
The 920 is really a beautiful device -- if you haven't gotten your hands on one you should try it out. It's the first phone I can't stop fiddling with since the original iPhone.
I thought GO was dead... just like googlevideos and igoogle...
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Oh hey look, another dick joke on a t-shirt promoting programming to the masses. How funny, right? Hur, hur, hur.

At this point, I don't know what's more of a joke, this type of marketing or the joke itself.
It's not even a penis joke - I and many others didn't notice the penis reference until it was pointed out.

This is just begging for a t-shirt that contains:

a) a male insult, female insult and transgender insult;

b) a christian insult, muslim insult and an atheist insult;

c) a white-trash insult, a black insult and an asian insult;

and a caricature of killing babies for fun to top it off.

So that everybody is offended equally without discrimination and we can leave it that.
I'm just throwing out my own intuition here, but I think that firstly, there's an implication that you have a penis. You don't? Odd one out.

Secondly, if a woman were to say that verbally to a man, there would be a flirtatious connotation, which would lead women to feel uncomfortable wearing a shirt saying the same and hanging around with a load of strangers.
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I understand it well. If they (and founders) don't sell--and they can't easily without causing a major share drop--then the shares available are limited so the price goes up for those that want them.

If what you say was the case, why would investment banks spend all that money for researchers? Sure big financial investors and mutual funds do their own research up to a point? Do you think Citibank would buy based on Henry Blodget's 'research' http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2003-56.htm ?
Don't use dropdowns for a few items only
Meh. A record that doesn't evolve is dead; ESR gets a lot of criticism for his stewardship but I'll take a Jargon File that updates over one that doesn't any day
Ask HN: Mom Sent a TON of personal info to WRONG gmail account. Any options?
Hi,

I am reaching out to the HN community for help.

About two hours ago my mother sent a TON of personal information from her company email to her newly registered gmail account. But she misremembered the username and now a lot of her, my dad's, and my personal information is sitting in some stranger's inbox.

I'm talking about passport copies, ID cards, diploma copies, medical information etc.

Yes, it was perhaps stupid to have that stuff in any email at all, but she made a mistake and I didn't know about any of this until she called me in panic half an hour ago.

Can you PLEASE help us? I wrote some stuff on a gmail froum. I sent an email to google (got back autoresponder). I also emailed the stranger's gmail asking for a deletion in 3 languages.

But all that is very unlikely to get any attention and it's hard to stop worrying when you are an open book to a stranger.

Can you please help me get in touch with Google and try to find a definite solution to this? Or any other recommendations?

Thank you sincerely,
Jasmine
I saw a woman wear a "Byte Me" t-shirt at the last conference I went to. Who do I talk to about fixing this? :)
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