skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars are also very prevalent, and surprisingly most of the people in my mandatory auto class in high school didn't give a shit. Just like the compulsory computing class they had to take.

How much programming knowledge is required to use a smartphone? This is the thing nobody in the software literacy camp seems to acknowledge: tightly integrated devices with walled-garden software ecosystems are the industry trend. Yes, some people in maths-heavy fields will need computing more and more: financial analysts, engineers. These people are already taking intro computing classes at the undergrad level (engineering computation is a prereq for mech eng where I study). But the average person with an iPhone isn't going to put up a hundred extra dollars to write an iPhone app to fix their own problems.

I think the longer you've been out of high school, especially if you're working or studying in an insular environment, you forget just how broad 'everybody' is. I know lots of people from my school who are now bricklayers, or auto mechanics, or grocery store clerks. Understanding a while loop has not substantially improved their quality of life, even though we had a kickass comp sci teacher. It's just not as relevant in daily life as we want to believe.
I think people have a right to expect "find contacts in your address book" not to mean "indiscriminately spam contacts in your address book", especially from a service marketing itself as being a professional network and whose user guidelines expressly forbid you from connecting with people you do not know. Its UI explicitly violates the guidelines it expects users to follow by defaulting to inviting people -thousands at once- and not asking you to confirm the nature of your relationship, never mind giving you the chance to personalise your email.

For that reason I've purposely avoided intentionally connecting my address book to LinkedIn (other than registering with a gmail contact address) and yet all its "suggested contacts" are clearly people I once shared gmail mailing lists with. It's clearly pretty aggressive about finding contacts in address books at one end or another.

It's not like the UI behaviour is consistent - sometimes clicking "connect" on an individual's profile allows you to edit a message before sending it, sometimes it sends the autoinvite email without further prompting (which is a great way to look like a dick to someone you haven't spoken with in three years). Sometimes if you choose not to edit an English message it decides to edit it for you, sending a user you've corresponded with elsewhere exclusively in English an invitation in German. Basically, if you designed a tool to help people piss off their business contacts, you'd probably come up with LinkedIn.

And yeah, some people don't know what browser tabs do. But it's not like LinkedIn has a visible "undo" feature...
I like Python for the speed of development. Also, at least for these internal apps, speed is generally of secondary concern, since these aren't typically high load applications.

At reddit we solved the problem by writing the most often called parts in C and using c extensions. There is definitely more work to do there, but overall I think Python gets a bad rap as far as speed is concerned.

It's certainly not the quickest, but it isn't a dog either.
I'm neither a user nor a fan, but congratulations on the release and good luck for all of Node's future endeavours.
> The price doesn't matter all I care about is performance, up-time and scale-ability.

AWS only has your 3rd requirement (scalability). If you care about the first two, you'll have to build that yourself using the API's to handle the random failures from AWS. I've never used Azure so I'm not sure on that side.

If price really doesn't matter (over the other things) you probably want something like Rackspace's Storm On Demand servers.
Awesome article. Puts some classic and well established theories to good application. The age-old advice comes through again: focus on a niche.
I believe we do have one or two people here looking at Go.

Given our culture, there really is nothing stopping anyone from using it, other than the fact that they would have to figure out how to interact with the platform.
There's only three types of folks that contact me on LinkedIn: bots, recruiters and prostitutes.

Correction, that's only two types...
First up is the internet's inability to block malicious traffic as a whole.

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Seriously, though, can any network guys/girls spread some light on this? This sounds like adding features for easier censorship and forbidding anonymity:

SAVA fixes this by adding checkpoints across the network. These build up a database of trusted computers matched up with their IP addresses. Packets of data will be blocked if the computer and IP address don't match.
FWIW, I knew he was kidding. He's a reddit engineer too. :)
I love his closing comment, "Whatever you do, don’t stand in front of investors and pitch them the 1% fallacy. It makes you look an idiot. I should know, because I’ve done it."
Total page size as measured by the http archive project is currently growing 20% per year on average. Any benefit to be had by chrome's speed-ups is lost many times over by web designers bloating their pages. The web is becoming slower to use.

http://httparchive.org/trends.php?s=All&minlabel=Mar+15+...

And yes, that's pure raw bloat. Sites haven't gotten richer content the past 2 years, they've just put on some weight.
After you send a message, you can select open in chat from the actions drop down.
I wish I took screenshots, but honestly my memory is I only saw six invites to review and in tiny 10px text below the "connect now" button was a thing saying (and also 1,132 more).

For what it's worth, a designer that works on this feature tweeted an apology and said they should add a warning, as it was way more common than intended.
Marc Andreessen: Facebook, Twitter's Success Means Ning Could Soar
If it's not upgradeable then it's disposable. Get the new one next time.
I was going on the assumption that I was guilty ;)

Being falsely accused of a crime and incorporating are not analogous. I agree that for some things paying an expensive lawyer is worth it. Incorporating is not one of them.
That's exactly what he's saying though - that the Freakonomics article does NOT break the numbers down sufficiently, for either Drownings nor Gun Deaths. As such the 100x figure they came up with is bogus.

And yes, the Maths is simple. But gathering the right figures to plug into the Maths is hard.
Please forgive me: I know you are probably a great attorney and this is a relatively simple part of the law.

When I say "proven", I'm thinking "has been tested in court" or "has withstood challenges by shareholder lawsuits".

That may very well be the case with these documents. I'm just not qualified to make that determination and neither is my esteemed colleague.
> Not a programmer? It’s cool. Be good at something. If you’re awesome at making pitch decks for your boss, spend a weekend making a killer pitch deck about your own idea.

This is great advice. While it's important to push your limits and learn new skills -- hacker culture often looks very favorably on jacks-of-all-trades, or "learning to build x" with no prior experience -- it's also important to know exactly what you can bring to the table, and then deliver quality work, in whatever it is you do best.
I have to disagree with you at one level. Yes, a lot of SEO is pure crap. Agreed.

Where SEO is of value is in helping those who do not understand how the internet works optimize their sites to have them be more relevant. Perhaps a new term ought to be coined. Something like SRO (Site Relevance Optimization)?

Anyone with even a basic understand of what search engines are looking for (or trying to do) has come across sites that just make you want to cry due to the lost opportunities. A lot of these are smaller local shops that just don't have the tech and marketing horsepower to deal with it.

Being in the business of advising business owners on such things as posting content-relevant articles, carefully choosing titles and related tags, etc. is not evil at all. This is actually a good wholesome service.

SRO (or whatever) is what most sites should be doing. Ranking higher would come as a side-effect of SRO.
Same here, unfortunately :(
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I had some business done through LinkedIN
As a lawyer, I know, and I know the founders understand, that you hire a lawyer not for rote form-filling. You hire them for the consultation and advice as to which forms to fill and what to include in them, along with broader strategic planning.

Form filling is nice and does empower clients a bit, but I would advise users to pay a lawyer for an hour or two of their time, and then fill out forms and get documents generated, whether through this service or somewhere else. That approach is cost effective and combines the strengths of both. You don't want to pay your $500/hr lawyer to generate documents for you. You do want to pay them $500/hr for their advice and to pick their brain.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.03 Released with KDE SC 4.10.1
Bit.ly CEO Peter Stern Steps Down
Please, Stop Helping the Hackers Guess My Passwords
"early adopters" of "websites" on the "internet"

you don't have to live in the bay area.
Hey, you're right I was being a jerk. I was in a bad mood (for completely unrelated reasons). Sorry about that.
CORRECT.

So maybe not all tangles with the law are equivalent in their need for specialized outside expertise, eh? Maybe it makes sense to think about it and maybe discuss with an actual attorney before you leap, eh? Maybe more than a few.
Microsoft does not provide a trial version of App-V
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> when you think of execution speed in web applications

The whole web application is not CPU bound. The parts which are CPU intensive are rewritten in performant language. For eg, if you are twitter, you still render templates in Rails, and write CPU bound services in Java/Scala. Replacing the whole app with Scala/Java will be pointless.

That doesn't mean that every time you need a service, you can't use Ruby/Python. If all your API server does is check cache for data, load data if there is a cache miss, encode json and return it, Python/Ruby will do just fine.
Pre-rendering AngularJS on the server with Node.js and jsdom
This product is an awful bunch of compromises. The price is far too high for the performance it delivers. No console owner will be tempted by a $1000 price tag and limited game catalog. No PC gamer will be tempted by tepid performance in a small package.
I have my camera set to take a picture every 20 minutes, but when I need privacy I just stick a post-it over the thing, and fold it down.
What kind of changes can this 'steam-box' generation bring about for developers as well as consumers?
I've pondered having the device use the fridge bulb plug for power. But that's only designed to be powered when the door is open. So we can use batteries or capacitors, which is back to problem #1. Or we can tape the door switch to be always-on, but I'm concerned about the power drain.

Ultimately, this device would influence refrigerator manufacturers to include this technology in their base models. I'm tired of fiddling with dials to try and figure out if my fridge is at 2C or 5C or -1C. (38F or 42F or 30F). I want fridges to know what their internal temperature is, and what we think it should be.

I'm thinking more about ensuring wide adoption through low-cost and low-intrusiveness. Modifying my fridge would make a good Hackaday post, but not such a good Kickstarter project.

(Maybe even a fridge/freezer with a barcode scanner and multiple compartments -- give it a database table of appropriate temperature ranges for different foods and let it set the temp in each compartment automatically. It could keep your ice cream from melting and prevent your lettuce from freezing? How about sectional temperature controls, like in car cabins?)
I have to say that after doing a python project I totally don't get why people love it so much. The syntax is slightly cleaner, but the lack of threading, first-class functions and dependency management tools make it waste at least as much time as it saves. I honestly don't believe in the concept of a programming language being able to make code more or less readable. A Java project with a POM file can be up and running on any OS in about 5 minutes.
so sick!
I learned by taking the free Stanford iPhone class. You can find details here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/

The lectures are on iTunesU and you can even do the assignments to get some practice.
If I had to invent a new diet with a simple short list of dietary requirements, I would only have two: forbid binary thinking/lists and require mandatory prioritization.

Nothing wrong with a slice of birthday cake at grannie's 80th. Something hugely (lol) wrong with two packs of twinkies every lunch.

The "newer" it is, the worse it probably is to eat, and the older it is, the better it probably is to eat. Do your weekly/monthly meal planning based on that. I intentionally eat roughly 100 times as much apple by weight as chocolate. That doesn't mean I only eat apple or never eat chocolate. Most of my meals look something like a large salad, a large vegetable side dish, a relatively modest hunk of meat, and some citrus / fruit / berries for desert. I'm hardly starving or restraining myself. I'm actually something of a gourmet glutton. I just eat "old school" instead of modern stuff.

BTW in the olden days not every piece of fruit was supermarket scale picture perfect, as anyone who's hand picked their own strawberries probably knows? You're hungry, the somewhat fermented grapes still taste OK-ish... your liver evolved to clean up the poison... Ethanol is not supposed to be a primary source of calories, its a moderately toxic systemic poison which your body is fairly tolerant of, well at least compared to cyanides or organomercury compounds. Drinking it on a regular basis is about as stupid as eating arsenic or lead salts for kicks. Another good comparison is getting buzzed drunk is about as intelligent as sniffing carbon monoxide until dizzy. None the less as per the granny example above a glass of booze once in an occasional while is OK. Just as long as most of the time, lets say 10000 to 1 ratio, you drink water instead of chugging a beer. I actually like beer, I just don't drink 12 per night or even 1 per week. How often would you be comfortable drinking anti-freeze? I drink booze a little more often than that, but not much.

In a similar way there's nothing really wrong with an occasional pack of twinkies, as long as your lifetime average is running around 1000 carrots (or equiv) per twinkie.

I have noticed long term that tastes and physical reaction changes... I used to like jello, but now it kinda grosses me out. I mean I could eat some once in awhile, but I really don't want to anymore. Or ice cream, once you're not carb addicted anymore, lets be realistic, its sickly sweet combined with a mouth feel and texture like cold olive oil pouring down your throat, eww thats just gross, like sugar mixed with crisco shortening or "equal" artificial sweetener mixed with lard. Once in awhile I have some anyway and remind myself why I don't miss it anymore. This is before I start thinking about how it comes out of a cow and is designed to fatten up a calf, but I'm not a baby cow nor do I need any more fattening up.
I believe you still have that backwards.
Here you go http://thesecretlifeofcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/marvel...
Valid points, but they don't support the unnecessary flame bait in title. A virus is something completely different from an inconsistent UI.
For whatever it's worth, I was one of the 1,138 – but, of course had no clue that I was x of N requests at the time rather than 1 of 1 or 2... but it seemed odd.

I've been on Metafilter for about a decade and I've interacted with Matt enough to know who he is – but also little enough to be completely surprised by the request.

I accepted it and then followed it up a shortly after with a note asking if we'd interacted more than I was aware of or if there was some other story to the request. It always seems better to be receptive but questioning to me – who knows what the story is behind all sorts of events in life..

Anyway, Matt was kind enough to respond and explain what happened. I thanked him and removed the connection at that point – I try only to keep connections with people I really interact with (or have interacted with) enough to want at least recall, but preferably sit down with and have coffee/beer/dinner, etc. if we were to cross paths.
That's the other bsimpson. ;-)
I've always stuck to Firefox for its customizability and because it has less reasons to collect all my data and become an Apple like walled garden which Chrome is slow turning into.

That said, yes, they also have less reasons to be 'answerable' to their users or to fix problems. On Bugzilla, I've mostly seen arrogant and rude contributors who are mostly like, if you can't contribute or fix it yourself, go away! Don't even complain. See the example of this major/critical 12 years old bug, which no one wants to fix, and now they don't even want users to express their displeasure on that. There's no resolve, while other browsers have fixed that problem.

I've always stuck to Firefox for its customizability and because it has less reasons to collect all my data and become an Apple like walled garden which Chrome is slow turning into.

That said, yes, they also have less reasons to be 'answerable' to their users or to fix problems. On Bugzilla, I've mostly seen arrogant and rude contributors who are mostly like, "If you can't contribute or fix it yourself, go away!" Don't even complain. See the example of this major/critical 12 years old bug, which no one wants to fix, and now they don't even want users to express their displeasure on that. There's no resolve, while other browsers have fixed that problem.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414
There's a difference between "top concerns" and the tone on this ridiculous HN thread. You'd think the world was ending. I hope all the downvotes help these people find relief from their vexing anxiety.
I have two Facebook accounts that are complete strangers to each other.

When I sent a message from one to the other one, message didn't pop up. It was in "Others" section of my account inbox.

So it's basically a normal message that you can send to anyone now. Even Zuck
Oh, I'm sorry. Please pass on my apology for the "poor dear" thing. I realise it is patronising and unnecessary.
Dude, if you haven't known this for years, then you probably didn't read any book about building up a startup. You should probably put this as your rule number 0: read about how to build a startup.
I agree that you should never go into a market thinking, "If I can ply capture X%, we'll be hugely successful." It's putting the cart before the horse.

You go into a market by finding a pain that you solve. You can go into the CRM market if you have a method that, for even just a few companies, solves some significant pain they have. Then, over time, you analgesic grows to soothe more companies' pains. Then you find you captured some percentage of the market. The capture is the result, not the plan.
Not sure how important it is for others, but I was surprised by the lengthy wait time to form an LLC in California. I filed for formation at the beginning of February and it still has not gone through. If you take a look at http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/processing-times.htm you'll see there is an almost two month wait time for new formations. This prevents me from opening up a business bank account and cashing checks, amongst other things.
Interesting... my reaction to the OP was "Duh, everyone knows that!" But my reaction to your sivers.org link was "Great story!" Not sure if that says something about me or about the relative writing skills of the two posts.
Companies live or die by their inclusion in that index

In a way that's true, but it's also true that some companies make a choice about how critical search engine traffic is to their core business. Other companies live or die based on things like word of mouth, repeat business, critical reviews, protected niches, the whims of fashion, cronyism, whatever.

Every time I see people spend time and money on "SEO", it makes me wonder about what could have been if that time and money were spent on making the core product more awesome or indispensable or beloved or well-known through other means.
> So I think the media focus on drug-resistant bacteria is oversimplified.

This article is from the UK. Our media's focus on drug-resistant bacteria isn't oversimplified, it's FUD. The whole nation is scared stiff of MRSA because the papers all used "the lab that gets results" - aka some dude in his shed who had no idea what he was doing. They used this lab because it repeatedly confirmed that large numbers of journalists samples (taken from various areas in hospitals) did indeed contain MRSA.

Not that there isn't a problem, and it merits attention, but the hysteria they whipped up was unwarranted.

I'd be less angry, but despite all this antibiotic fear, people still keep taking them for colds. Grr.
Well that's written by Greg Rucka, who's really good, so anything by him. He did a new Punisher about a year ago that was fantastic, not sure if that's included in this or not.
We may be talking about that, and that would be the figure to find, but that's not the figure the Freakonomics article used. That's the point.

Here's the quote from Freakonomics:

"In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. Meanwhile, there is 1 child killed by a gun for every 1 million-plus guns"

And then the author draws conclusions based on that. It says nothing about "drowning in a pool" - only drowning. It says nothing about death by a gun at the gun owner's house. It says nothing about households with multiple guns (nor households with multiple pools, I guess).

The point UnoriginalGuy was trying to make is that this is absolutely shoddy statistics at work. Now his statistics may be equally as shoddy, but he's not selling books about this stuff.
> 1) Where can I find official-ish Chromium for Windows?

Apparently this is the page to look out for. http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-sna...

But looks like the downloading part is not straight forward. Look at the second answer at in the following link.

http://superuser.com/questions/203606/where-can-i-get-chromi...

>2) On Ubuntu, Chromium always seems to be behind Chrome wrt updates.

This has to do with an Ubuntu repository (for chromium) vs PPA from Google (for chrome). Ubuntu is always going to be a bit behind upstream. The same way it is a few days behind upstream firefox or other software. If you absolutely need the bleeding edge version of google chrome, either use something like archlinux (where you get updates within a day or two), or continue with Ubuntu, but use a ppa for chromium beta which is available from here (http://askubuntu.com/questions/126092/where-are-the-daily-bu...).
Yes, but privacy.

A lot of activities are incredibly hard to actually catch someone in the act of, and incredibly hard to actually get hard proof of. Possession, on the other hand, is a strong correlation and proof of itself. The reasonableness of this correlation is what draws the line between whether or not possession is illegal, and that's going to be subjective.

It's really easy to forget that the first and foremost reason we defend privacy isn't because its breach is icky. It's because illegality is sometimes the right thing to do. However, usually it's not. This is a natural contradiction that makes writing law difficult.