skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a content marketing perspective, I don't think they should sell their own product on their own blog too much. Constantly providing valuable content in the freelancing domain will help build more trust with potential customers in the long run.

They do have a small pitch at the end of the blog post about GroupTalent. There's also more call-to-actions on the right column. It's about the right amount mentions.
Strictly speaking, they should be returning HTTP 410 rather than 200, but this isn't half bad.
The most interesting line of the press conference: "We're going to try something new. We're going to put the news items in chronological order."
That's funny, we came to the same conclusions and implemented them for our checkout flow. Here's an example:

http://crop.to/fW

Combining first/last name into a name field and auto-detecting card type were easy wins for the shopper, but in user testing, we found that detecting city/state from a zip code had some potential issues.

First, the format of the form without city/state surprised some users. One user said something like "where do I put my city and state?" They ended up appending it to the street name. Then they filled in the zip code and saw that it fetched the city/state and then realized how it worked then went back to delete it from the street name field.

Also, in the U.S., some zip codes can return multiple cities and states. Our solution was to populate a pull down of the possible values for both fields.

It turns out there are small towns/cities that we didn't return from a zip lookup, so city had to be editable for these users. We added a "Let me type it in" option on the bottom of the city pulldown for those users, who are hopefully the minority.
Still, I wouldn't be shy about the fact that you did CodeMirror. It makes a huge difference to me....you are a known quantity and convinces me that this is a solid project.

And I'd think that CodeMirror is the obvious thing to hook this into, for the rest of us as well.
Apparently has caught on to the fact that most people nowadays don't like to read. sigh
Looks great with professionally shot, high res photos. Most of the photos that will be shared out in the wild won't look nearly this good in the new layout. Same thing happened with the Cover Photo.
Good catch on the first link - it seems to have moved since I first looked it up. Here's the current URL:

http://www.risep-fiu.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/FL-Minim...
Protecting the weakest in society != zero Liberty.

The world ain't black and white and I didn't say the government should be responsible for all negotiations.

At the lower end, the people who are stuck on minimum wage, the people who cannot improve themselves, these people need some protection. Yes, there are humans who are not good at looking out for their own long term interests or even their short term interests, lots of them. Looking out for them, protecting them from getting into (for instance) unfair contracts is one very useful government function. One could consider very low wages to be an unfair contract, pretty much by definition.
>Which means it's possible the error wasn't caught till it was in production.

Statically typed languages have plenty of errors that aren't caught until production. If you're really serious about compile-time guarantees, you'll want to use something like Haskell, Agda or Coq (in ascending order of extreme guarantees).

Of course, even formal verification won't protect you from an incorrect specification of your program.
Great. It isn't Schadenfreude exactly, but I hope big changes ups (that they have to make because doing nothing is not an option) like this accelerate their decline.

I don't think Facebook will go away any time soon but it will become another Yahoo and that can only be a good thing for the ecosystem in terms of opportunities.
A photo is worth a thousand words. Cameras are ubiquitous, mobile bandwidth can support it, and it's generally more visually enjoyable.
[Citation Needed]

Also, what do economists know? Where were they in the buildup to the '08 crash? Nowhere to be seen, that's where.
> Inspired by mobile

Interesting move to adopt a mobile UI to desktop users. I agree having a cross-platform uniform experience makes sense but like YouTube, their left sidebar feels out of place on desktop.
JoliDrive: one cloud to rule them all?
> Stop caring about ONLY the money

It doesn't say you can't like money, or consider it. They just mean take pride in your work, and love what you do.

If you already know the answer, is it worth writing a comment about? They phrased the headings fine, you read them wrong.
The Top Most Promising Startups At SXSW 2013
San Diego Airport Taxi in La Jolla got better by SEAL 858-224-5474
Show HN: Foursquare meets LinkedIn for Business Cards
Intuition can be very misleading and can be a hindrance when trying to understand new concepts. Intuition is intellectual drag.

Think about what intuition is. It is your brain applying known patterns of how the world works to a new situation. If something works as expected, or close to what is expected, that's great for normal situations, but leads to false positives, where you get an expected result for completely different reason. Intuition teaches you nothing about the underlying processes.

If you come across a situation which doesn't behave intuitively, the human brain scrambles to find something - anything - that might come close to explaining how how it works, filling in the blanks as appropriate. The human brain is great for filling in the blanks and finding patterns where there are none. In other words, it often makes stuff up. Again, intuition and feelings are not helpful for understanding underlying processes except for formulating an initial hypotheses.
I'm resistant because it's so hard to do a prudent level of testing on a single individual. If you have some method of determining that there is no shred of full-functioning in their brain, that they truly have the mind of a lower animal, that you can show this to others, then okay it's viable to eat them.

But it still gives a misleading impression when someone hears you ate "a human".
Spotify Web Browser Client Released
Remember the political declaration (from the Administration, I think) and news stories the other week about how we need to 'work with Mexico' (and Canada) in relocating and re-invigorating U.S./North American manufacture? Yep...
Yes, and Listen to Your Gut
Hirethere definitely needs an RSS feed, or email subscription option or something.
I'm a little surprised that people refer to these sites as "sharing" sites. It's pretty clearly another form of commerce to me. Last time I checked my hotel bill, the hotel wasn't sharing anything with me. It was charging me a fee for a service. If I rent my house out, I'm not sharing it with my tenant, even if I continue to live there. I'm engaging in commerce. Why does this change if I do it short term?

I'm curious - does anyone know how this term (sharing economy) was started? It is no small rhetorical victory to get your commerce site referred to as a sharing site. I recall a sarcastic comment on an earlier HN thread about airbnb: "Unregulated sharing pisses me off. Let's put an end to this madness.".

While people generally (especially on HN) don't like onerous government regulations on commerce, I still don't think the statement would have had the same impact if you substituted "commerce" for "sharing". Most people accept that the govt would place reasonable regulations on commerce (there is a commerce clause in the US constitution, but not so much on "sharing". I understand that sharing has a broader vernacular use that may incorporate an exchange of money, but the associations people have with the words "commerce" and "sharing" are very different, and this doesn't seem like one of those ambiguous cases.
I'll play devil's advocate here: making special deals on benefits other than salary is a land mine. Everyone is used to the fact that people are paid differently, but people are used to uniform benefits (all you out there: please don't call out your exception to the rule... it really is generally a rule). It's likely to have a negative effect or morale, whereas giving you more salary won't. (Yes, people find out these things.)
What about from The Shire to the Misty Mountains? No need for both the Hobbit and Lotr trilogy.
can someone post some screenshots on imgur please? No access at work =/
It looks so pretty. Oddly reminiscent of G+

+1 for the redesign
Dita Von Teese Debuts 3D-Printed Dress
No, you don't need expensive chairs for coding, you don't need to "sit down well" because it is not possible or good for you. Do sit for hours in a "correct" posture and you will discover that your body tries to move constantly from it (blood circulation needs your pressure points to change constantly or bruises will appear).

Instead of buying expensive things go buy experts book on the area of posture, or better, go talk with expert people in the field. Books like this helped me in the past(I had pain in my back years ago) :
http://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Shoulde...

But I assert you that in the area you live there is already lots of good people that could help you. In my area I found a martial arts expert(that won Olympic gold medals when young) that could identify wrong postures from an eye shot.

PS: I code mostly standing up and with a high stool.
It's gotten better, but the implementations the first years were abysmally bad. You're in this somewhat skinned payment flow, and then suddenly you're redirected to an un-skinned page, that maybe has your bank's logo on it, that asks for your secret password, or asks you to log in to your internet bank. And you would be on some sort of unrecognizable third-party url, because the merchant redirected you to their payment processor's webpage, which through 3DSecure redirected you to your bank, which in turn redirected you to some partner they used for that, because the bank couldn't figure out how to do it in less than three years because making software is hard or something.

I think I abandoned every such purchase on reflex because it just screamed phishing attempt each time.

Extremely high friction indeed. Most merchants these days give me the option to skip it. Thank you.
It's more than just finding your weak points, it's about creative solution finding that resonates with both parties. If Brenda had offered the author unlimited mountain biking time, the author might have left the station.
I'm not sure I agree with that comparison. Slackware-current will become the next stable release once all of the kinks have been worked out. Is RHEL ever really a snapshot of Fedora?
That's great. If it was another provider doing this 10 fold increase, I'd suspect they would fuck up and wouldn't be able to deliver. Linode earned my trust and I can't recommend them enough.
So my guess is that (a) the Google Sets feature is discontinued, much to the dismay of the implementing team, (b) they (you?) see a lifeboat in putting this into Google Docs. It's way better there than deep-sixed entirely, but Google Sets was pretty useful to me as a standalone tool - cleaner UI for the capability.
Lived in a lab cage for 50+ years? That's disgraceful.
I would also like to postulate the element of surprise. Sauron would never expect a weak, feeble creature like a Hobbit to be an adversary. But mostly I agree with your points.
Do either of you minimally make note of the time you spent on an invoice and mark it as No Charge or skip that altogether too?

I wonder what method results in better good will? I would guess not putting it on the invoice since putting it on the invoice a) moves the social aspect/norm to a market norm/aspect and b) shows you track time and are knowingly and willing to give some away for FREE (which I would assume might lead to a client abusing it later or questioning why or pointing out that you didn't charge for X or for that one time but now you are charging me this time or for similar thing Y and then having to explain yourself.
YouTube's API inspires startup to create a rival Spotify & Grooveshark
Great article. I do think cutting out "account creation" is something to look at. My friend, Joe just launched a very easy to use check out procedure for his new start up - https://www.getphotogasm.com/. Great example.
I thought the same thing. Isn't that what they SHOULD have been doing all along? I know they had the drop-down to switch from "most recent" and "top stories", but I was interested by that also. I wonder if they meant something more "grey".
The others are more subject to market pressures. Take a look all over this thread for some really well-cited explanations of exactly why employment is not like these other things.
Yes. Keeps liquid hot for hours.
> people have been trying to control nonlinear systems since the 18th century without much luck.

Not so. Nonlinear systems are not difficult to control as a rule, with appropriate understanding of servomechanisms. To see how extraordinary such control can be, look at this video:

http://robohub.org/video-throwing-and-catching-an-inverted-p...

> If society/economy/culture is a dynamical system that generates the power-law income distribution and this system cannot dissipate its "energy" and the exponent reaches some critical value then it will collapse or we'll have some kind of catastrophic phase transition.

These things happen, but usually because the system is not fully understood, or there's a reason it isn't being controlled, not because the system is innately uncontrollable. Obviously this moves away from technology and into philosophy, because the question becomes -- not whether the system can be controlled -- but whether such control is consistent with democratic principles.

> I don't think power-law distributions have 2 tails

Of course they do -- for example, any power law rule involving a power that's an even number:

http://i.imgur.com/HU3KZQ7.png

In fact, strictly speaking, all power law distributions have two tails, just not in the same direction:

http://i.imgur.com/tcPYrJW.png
> Bursting With Color

Facebook know my locale is UK English, not US English.

A small niggle I know but these things annoy me!
Threatmetrix assigns a fraud risk/score based on multiple factors, including the geolocation, IP, & browser. Additionally (to your point #1), they anonymize data across their customers and alert if a device has been flagged in a fraudulent transaction elsewhere. On top of their own customers, they partner with Cybersource so there is quite a network of data behind their fraud analysis.

(I don't work for Threatmetrix- but I do use their product as provided via Cybersource.)
> They phrased the headings fine, you read them wrong.

Fair enough, that may have been the case. I guess I just took it differently.
It looks like a Wordpress.com Reader.
> Goodbye Clutter. Hello bright, beautiful stories.

Unless you consider inline advertisements disguised as posts from your friends as "clutter", because uh, there will be way more of those.
Yep, but then it would be a thought experiment and... what about half-life in that case?

But thanks for the pointer.
>>The appeals process for a traffic ticket already is incredibly easy and efficient. You show up at the court on the date and time printed on your ticket

So basically, at least two hours taken out of your workday, plus however long it takes to drive to the courthouse. If you have other work-related appointments at that day and time, you need to figure out another day and time, which in itself is a process.

The process should be made online. If the only thing the judge is doing is listening to five-minute long arguments, create a secure online forum and have the respondents type out their arguments there. The judge can then read them when they have the time and issue a ruling online.
This is great news. Along with a feed that shows you EVERYTHING the people you follow post.
http://i.imgur.com/mp2QNad.png

Just 2 pics though.
I used to be, and the Kinesis works great there. It is a super configurable keyboard. You can swap the definition of any two keys (make enter -> backspace, caps lock -> escape, etc.)

The only OS that I've had issues on is Windows. There's a USB3 driver issue there. But I don't program in Windows, so doesn't affect me.
Depends how selective you are with your friends list.
An incredible map of which countries e-mail each other, and why
SimCity's Glassbox engine reducing everything to a shortest path problem
Neat. But it's really the hardware size that's the restricting feature of linode. In particular: Memory.
One point the author, perhaps prevented by modesty, does not make is that he/she too is a good negotiator. He/She wanted to make it work - actually recognized the efforts of their boss as genuine and feels grateful for what they learnt from the experience.

I have seen too many engineers go into negotiations with the attitude that there is only one right deal - the one they have crafted and proposed on their own. Yes, management does offer a lot of bull, but its important to re-evaluate every new offer that is different from your own starting position.
This is one of the reasons why I am happy to support Linode with my business: they seem to care about doing things the right way and keeping people happy. I've got a simple 512 Linode server that I use infrequently (I like having a Linux box available in the "cloud" to SSH to from home/work) and yet I've always been treated as a "real" customer. I know it's sad that I'm impressed by it, but grandfathering in customers like this just by default, and always having great support turnaround times (within a couple hours at basically any time of the day) makes me like the Linode guys a ton. This sort of stuff is the reason why I don't really care if there's a cheaper alternative; I know what I'm paying for and I'm very happy with what I'm getting.
All of the points you've made about poor SSL security could just as easily be made against software that communicate over SSL using a username and password. At least with OAuth, there's only potential for a username/password leak on sign in—after that only the revokable token could be leaked.
Today's average 3D displays are "stereoscopic": they have 2 views, for the left and right eye. A real hologram shows the whole object, so multiple people can walk around it and see it from every angle at once.

But this isn't even stereoscopic. This is just a 2D image reflected on a piece of glass.
"Great news guys! Bigger pictures!"

translation

"Great news advertisers! Bigger ads!"
Any thoughts on how this will affect FB connect stories (positively or negatively).

I love Graph search, it has helped tremendously pin down who are users are without using FQL or our DB.
And repostings of smug political memes, and repostings of trite pop-culture mash-ups, and repostings of alarmist linkbait... And then a welcome anecdote from a family member that brings a smile to your face just as you were considering deleting your account for the fiftieth time.
Satellite data being collected/streamed (semi) live
Oh cool. A Google+ skin for Facebook?
great book, but you need to have a very high level math background to understand most of it (in my opinion)
Not necessarily. His grandfather, while breathing and possibly ingesting toxins his entire life, did one thing most programmers do not do: exercise a lot. Yes, I saw the "work out at a fancy gym" part. There is a huge difference between going to the gym a few times a week and doing labor like his grandfather did.

My own grandfather did hard manual labor his entire life and drank whisky like a fish until he was in his late 60's. Chewed tobacco his entire life. When he was 88 I saw him working in the back yard and he had muscles that I didn't have at my prime (in my 20's). He died at 95.

I walk 4 or more miles a day, 7 days a week, some up steep hills. That's my commute, on the days that I go to work, my exercise when I don't. I really don't expect that I'm simulating my grandfather's level of exercise, but I hope it does something to get me to 95, in as perfect health as my grandfather was when he died.
Cant Love them Enough, they are meticulous in their efforts and the most trustworthy VPS providers.. Just love them - can do free advertising for them - call me fan or follower.. we love Linode
I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of.

Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwidth."

Don't get me wrong, I have used linode in the past and enjoyed them very much and never had any problems, and support was top notch. but their offering is not very impressive at all.

Edit: wow, thats a lot of hostility... didn't realize linode reached fandom status. I guess I should keep my opinions to myself then?
I agree, my initial thoughts were that it reminded me of G+.

I personally love the G+ feed, the issue was lack of content to fill it. I was starting to get pretty tired of looking at the same old cluttered feed on facebook. I always felt that the feed column was surprisingly thin, and that the left column took up a lot of real estate for something I interacted with so rarely.

I think this will be a refreshing change for Facebook.
Is anyone else getting really, really bored of the term "beautiful" being bandied around so much in this type of context? It has long ceased to mean anything at all.

I understand the importance of aesthetics in design, but it seems odd to show off the design under the banner "bright, beautiful stories" - surely that depends on the stories?
Must be rolling out slowly. My account (premium) doesn't have any web based player options yet.
Ironically, it is also totally right that I get downvoted for downvoting you, too. Sigh. What we do for love.
My first thought was: will this work with Borges' "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge" taxonomy? It (mostly) does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen...
It's extremely generous... hell it's just wrong.. to call Go's NullString/NullBool/etc monads. "Monad" is not a synonym for "Wrapper type"
Linode hands down is the best VPS company. I fully expect SSD drives to be available in Nextgen as well, looking forward to it.
What's a 'simple' algorithm? You can fit a brainfuck interpreter into a single tweet, and from there use the data to handle any other computation.

Or does 'simple' mean like an extractor for a standard archive file? Did you know that RAR is turing complete?

Maybe 'simple' has to be defined by limiting how much execution time you have per output byte?
Whether they should have been doing it depends on how you use Facebook, I think. I tend to log into it once a day or so, so a non-chronological view actually suits me great. It'll be a shame if it goes away.
Here in the US, a place like hoovers.com would be a good starting point for that sort of thing. There's probably also something like the "Sunglass Manufacturer's Industry Association" which probably maintains such a list. There are also government databases of various sorts, and things like the Chamber of Commerce, etc.
That's exactly it. It's important to look at a whole bunch of factors. For example, fraudsters tend to go directly to the payments page, whereas good users will browse around the site before making a purchase. There are tons of little signals like that which allow you to distinguish legitimate users from the fraudsters.

We don't do things like two-factor auth -- in general, we believe in minimizing friction. It's a better user experience, and if you can prevent fraud without burdening the user, why not?

We have more information with some examples of signals our system uses here:
https://siftscience.com/large-scale-machine-learning
It's a half statement without a time scale attached to it. Stable over what period? A day? A month? 5 years?