skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "Add connections" the final step?

Granted it does allow you to deselect contacts and does (discreetly) indicate the interface is obscuring ~100 people it's defaulting sending invites to when you go to the next step, but you can understand why Joe VP might not expect clicking the blue button to send invitations to the mistress, disgruntled former employee and rival contractors who are hidden away somewhere near the bottom of the list.
No I'm not. Smoke AKA soot is carbon, not CO or CO2. And carbon is much more polluting than CO or CO2.
Linkedin is very motivated to design their interface in such a way to ensure that they collect as many members and connections as possible. In other words, I believe they specifically design their interface so as to make it more likely that this mistake will be made.
Well, even doing a

#define LED_GREEN BIT6

would be an improvement. However, I'd be willing to pay a small cost in terms of RAM/performance for doing something like this:

gpio_get_val(P1, 6);

which would return whether port 1, pin 6 is high or low. I think that can even be a macro so it would be compiled down to (P1OUT & BIT6).
yea it not even coming up for me anymore :/
I'd expect Amazon's trademark lawyers to descend on this quite quickly. Why not genericize it to giftcards from multiple vendors?
Clerky was so incredibly useful during our incorporation/fundraising. Talk about solving a pain point for startups...
+1ed for "How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami"
This specific case is not bloat at all though, it's actually you as a user having too much content that you care about. So I don't see why this is relevant at all.
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Absolutely agreed--this is a point I made in other posts. I apologize if I came across as harsh--absolutely not my intention.
Sony uses supermodels in showers to show off Xperia Z’s waterproof feature
Original: http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/03/08/now-this-is-how-you-sell-the-xperia-z-at-retail/
From what I can tell, you guys are agreeing on that point.
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Bingo. Mental illnesses, even mild ones, can and often do impede a person's ability to function even when nothing is visibly amiss to others. It doesn't take much.
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A big reason most hobby boards use LDO regulators is that buck-boost topologies are comparatively complex. PCB layout is critical and protections are more complicated.

You'll have a really bad time if you try to build a buck-boost switcher in a breadboard and won't have a clue why its not working. On the other hand you can throw an LDO into a breadboard with a couple caps and be pretty confident it'll just work.
This is brilliant. I will definitely use this in the future. Thanks for sharing!
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Here is an example of another LinkedIn Virus (or may Crunchbase-linkedin virus), that I experienced the other day and got really pissed.

1. Go to this page: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook

2. Click on the "In" Widget

3. It says X connections work at Facebook. with "X connections" hyperlinked. There is another link below that says "Follow Facebook"

4. Now you'd think that clicking on "X connections" will show you the connections.

Try it....

5. It actually makes you follow the company.

Now, its not bad to follow Facebook but the other day I was checking out a competitor company and realized it made me follow the company and NO WAY To unfollow from anywhere.

So SCREW you LinkedIn Virus!!
Yes, for the time being.
I hate that LinkedIn tricks you into endorsing others and accepting endorsements. It was embarrassing to get endorsed for my expertise on Excel from people I barely knew.
I wonder what their hardware cost is for that device. A comparable PC shouldn't cost half as much. How much of the price is due to the custom motherboard and case?

Just like the PS4, this is PC hardware. And actual PCs provide more hardware for less money.
It's a form that is intended to trick people. You should have to check all the people you want to email rather than uncheck.
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"maybe discuss with an actual attorney before you leap, eh? "

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
I don't see how it's a developers' fault that you opened 100 tabs in Chrome. 70MB per tab is really not that much, I don't think browser memory usage has actually gone up by much compared to other applications. I think the fact that it was usable up to that point is a testament to its design, though I personally think Firefox handles large numbers of tabs better overall (UI wise).
For the price? They should have called it the "idiot box."
Couldn't check comixology because it's down but from what I gather they're charging $3.99 for digital comics? Everybody wants to see the creators get paid but that just seems like bad business to me. Seems like they'd make more going totally ad supported. How many people out there are dropping four bucks on a digital comic book?
I wonder if it is easier to go without PMs where you have a focused product with a very specific type of users, often developers. In that case, your developers can more easily relate to the company's customers.

On the flip side, imagine a product that is used by accountants, doctors and other diverse users. I can see it being more difficult for devs to juggle coding and product management.
Ask HN: What's up with this "unknown or expired link" on HN? 
So a few minutes pass by when I open HN page, and if I press the 'more' link at the bottom, it shows me a blank page with the above mentioned error message. Same happens when I write some comment on any news article and some time goes by before submitting that.
Why would HN do that? Why can't you show "more" news items when some time passes by? What gets invalidated in that time? There might be some valid reasons, just that from usability perspective I don't find it quite good ...
(Edit: I didn't spend too much time typing this question, and when I pressed submit button it again showed me the same message. I had to go back, refresh the page and submit again)
Wikipedia has some links to studies collecting statistics on that. Though it's important to note that you're asking the wrong question; if I recall correctly, in something like 90% of defensive gun uses, no shots need to be fired. The threat alone is enough for the criminal to surrender or retreat. What you want to measure is how often a gun use prevents a crime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_gun_use

Anyway, it seems a middle of the road number from the studies is . . . about a million defensive gun uses per year? Lower bound is 55,000 - 80,000.

Wikipedia also gives a homicide with guns rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Stat..., looks like about 8,000 in 2012. It should be borne in mind that a lot of those homicides are from things like gang violence, and would be conducted with illegal guns or other weapons even if gun laws were super-tight.

So I'd say the numbers show a clear win for guns.
Why use virtualenv when there is pythonbrew?
You are choosing to assign the entire value of the internet to government. This is folklore that is nothing less than nonsensical. If your goal is to "destroy" my argument you have to do far better than that.

The ARPANET was going to go absolutely nowhere without private enterprise rescuing it from obscurity and launching it into every-day life like a rocket.

Government did not PLAN the internet as we know it today. They didn't even have a clue.

Back before the internet got launched to the masses the masses were using services such as Compuserve, AOL and a number of others. The "internet" was going to evolve out of one of these efforts one way or another. It just so happened that industry found something that could be leveraged to make this happen and they did. In fact, I believe Compuserve was one of the first to offer it to it's millions (yes, millions) of customers.

It's almost like the idea of giving some guy credit for the invention of the wheel. What, nobody else was going to invent the wheel if he did not? Nonsense.

For every government project that resulted in a successful transfer to private industry there's probably ten or more that are still sucking money out of all of us and are useless.

Government-funded initiatives are very important, but, please, don't give them god-like attributes as if claiming that without government programs humankind would still be rubbing two sticks together to make fire.
For many small business owners, they simply don't have time to be looking after a website in the same way you or I would. In many cases, web presence isn't make or break for the business, and a website is just one of many things they do that involve telling a company "we need X", handing over money, and getting X.

If you are the company whose job it is to do whatever they asked for - build a website, see if anything can be done to help improve traffic, install a gas oven - it is your job to not defraud them. Charging them to boost their ranking temporarily, knowing full well it will fall again soon, is fraud.
If guns have no useful purpose, police shouldn't carry them.
Why gold? Gold is a highly volatile commodity and not particularly correlated to inflation.
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Factory farming is insanity, not just in its contribution to antibiotic resistance but also because of its devastating impacts on the environment.

An article was published in December 2006 that described how Smithfield, America's largest pork meat producer, manages all the excrement from the 27 million hogs it slaughters every year. The article at the end is worth a read, but I'll give you a summary: 27 million hogs produce an unbelievable amount of shit. This shit is collected in what Smithfield calls "holding ponds" - which are actually lagoons - that can run 30 feet deep. These ponds contain many extremely toxic substances in addition to good old pig shit. Even light rains can cause them to overflow. And the stuff is so vicious that people are often overcome by the fumes and are hospitalized. And if someone falls into the stuff, they die.

How does this stuff affect humans? Well, gravity causes the toxic material in the lagoons to seep down into the groundwater supplies. From there it arrives in people's sinks, showers, and drinking water.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/pork-s-dirty-secret-the-nation-...
Understood - was just curious when it comes to CPU intensive portions what you would characterize as performant vs python. Scala/Lift is on my list to check out - So my question now is - if you got to the point of needing to write CPU bound services in Scala, why wouldn't you go ahead and write everything in Scala? Does python offer enough advantages to outweigh having to support multiple languages/environments/ecosystems?
Super cool! Can someone who has been through the process themselves comment on how it compares to doing it on your own? It doesn't seem super expensive but I am genuinely curious.
As I said in another reply to one of your comments, I don't think 70MB is a lot per tab. I'm fairly certain that if you run Firefox 2 for instance it'll use close to that amount for one tab.
That is something we'd like to do eventually, but this seemed like a good place to start.
I've been taught that your pitch deck should have a slide on TAM, SAM, SOM [1]. The idea here is that we show that the general market for this product domain is huge and then we drill down to the niche in that market who's pains our initial product addresses. It makes the opportunity much more attractive when there's a huge market that you could potentially become the Salesforce of, even if you're just addressing pains of flower shops right now.

[1]: http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2012/06/22/tam-sam-and-som-hu...
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As a tech co-founder, I thought this deck was spot on. Maybe it's because I've been through that experience that I don't feel threatened at all byt hat slide.

"Stop writing code/did you talk to your customers yet?" - he's so right. I've had to trash a lot of iterations of our code because we didn't heed (or grok) this advice.

I still think code is very important. But coding the best thing ever and it not being used is a nearly 100% waste of effort.

I can imagine that developers who haven't gone through such an experience might feel different, though.
Thanks! Clearly I need to talk to a couple more lawyers :)
"Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change at any time. The public API should not be considered stable." -- from semver.org

"The software is widely used in production."

Depending on how you define the "public API", things have changed from 0.8 to 0.10 (streams API, for example).

Your definition of Node 1.0.0 is based on your conception of how others are using node. People can use experimental software in high-profile places without deeming the underlying technology stable.

"Node's public API is not changing in a backward-incompatible way every day (or even every week, or every month). "

Also: in general, development is highly nonlinear. I would say the API is stable when the core developers deem it stable.
There's another view: Who cares? I like fireplaces and I'm fine with the supposed risks, so go F yourself Sam. Some people don't want their lives calibrated and micromanaged by statisticians and scientists and asshats like Sam Harris.
And a viral pathogen is different from a computer virus, but that term has been adopted because it effectively used an existing term to clarify the behavior of an unfamiliar phenomenon. Like both, LinkedIn uses subterfuge to coerce a host into propagating it, often against the host's best interests.
GPS was a military technology. The program was not developed with the forward vision of what it is being used for today.

That is the case for a lot of military technology. So, I guess, if we derive such great benefits from war and killing people by the millions we should continue to fund these great government programs. Right?

Right.
Previously (including a response from pg):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756

This has been discussed many other times:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unknown+or+expired+link%2...
I absolutely agree it's worth getting a good accountant if there's money flowing through your company. But for many early-stage startups, there might not be any money flowing yet, in which case hiring an accountant is a little difficult and almost seems unnecessary, considering there's no money to account for. I imagine a tax form for a startup with 0 revenue and low costs should be pretty cookie-cutter.

Of courses, there's not much money to be made serving startups that have no money.
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zero contact information, and zero information about their payment/delivery process

Those are a lot better reasons to have doubts than whether or not their background has a seam in it.
Python doesn't have first class functions?
So far so good, just got the first email - "Congratulations! We've received your payment and are currently processing your gift card order. We have to wait for your transaction to be verified, so it may take a little while before you receive your gift code. Don't worry — We'll email it to you as soon as it's ready. Thanks for using AmazonBitcoins! "

Let's see if the gift card comes through in the next couple hours (or however long a transaction takes to verify in bitcoin world these days)
Metaprogramming a full Virtual Machine
I agree, price seems way off. I built a Steam Box for around $400 based on a multitude of guides out there, and every game I've thrown at it so far has run wonderfully (Tomb Raider, Skyrim, NBA 2k13, etc)
a) python-pip combined with virtualenv gives very good requirement support.

b) python does have first class functions?

c) threading still happens, you just can't take advantage of multiple cores. This isn't as big of a problem as you'd think though, you can still write very fast code.
I don't read too many comics, so I don't mind spending $4 every few weeks or so. Back issues tend to go for a bit cheaper, too.
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."

That's a pointless response to an on-point comment.
Ummm, not sure where you're getting your information but Python has threads (http://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html), first-class functions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function), and dependency management tools (google for pip, easy_install, etc.)
GooFS: a ridiculously simple filesystem for cloud instances
you generally avoid incorporating in states that you don't transact in initially to avoid additional tax compliance and costs that are significant. But, its a case by case situation that depends on business reasons and personal preferences usually.

Legal entities are like "clothes" that need to be changed as a company grows and changes. Nothing ever stays the same forever, so theres a lot to think over.
Language comparison are so ridiculously multi-dimensional and my knowledge of Netflix's internal applications are shallow enough I thought specifics would be a waste of time. I see Go in general as a reaction to the overcomplexity of Java/C++ and the performance issues of Python/Ruby. Since Go seems to be popular with people who use Java/Python, and Netflix uses Java/Python, I was curious if Go was on the table. I would hardly call my original post blind advocacy...
I don't believe its so much as university credentials but the question of where you get those credentials.

Effectively the government has created a system that allows educational institutions to withdraw tax payer money through a backdoor. These institutions will help you fill out your student loan applications, get the money from the government and then it doesn't matter whether you fail, succeed or drop out. The educational institution has your money and now you owe the government to pay it back. With the changes brought on via the Bush administration, the student loan debt is no longer even allowed to be discharged at bankruptcy. The only time the debt is forgiven is if you die or are disabled and unable to work to pay.

This change has brought on this incredible education bubble where you could spend over 100K on a liberal arts degree.

The only way to fight this is to make a conscious decision of where one goes to school. If you are able to afford a $100,000 degree by paying for it in cash or via scholarships, then good for you. Otherwise, if one is going to go and get a computer science degree (as an example), does it make sense to go the "prestigious" university that is out of state with the $80K tuition funded by student loans? Or is one better of going to the local university which charges closer to $20k to $30k. If one is taking student loan's for the local university, the burden is somewhat manageable.

I believe the media and the culture has made an impression on everyone that going to the "best" university regardless of cost is the most wonderful thing a young person can do for themselves.

I believe in universities. I just don't believe anyone should be encouraged to pay extortion prices to get an education. The current bubble in education costs is extortion, pure and simple.
> that might just have saved Windows 8

...for traditional mouse and keyboard users, that is. This solution would make touchscreen usability much worse, IMO.

(Disclaimer: I work at MS. I don't work on Windows. My opinions are my own.)
In the case of Marvel, the 3.99 physical titles come with a digital backup.
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If this extension is not made to make money, why not Opensource it so that others can contribute to it.

or

Is it opensource already?
I am worried, It knows all the data you are surfing.
There's a known method to get reproductive rates down currently being applied across the globe: affluence. There's no need to mandate it, people are getting there on their own.

Of course, affluence is where most of the problem lies. The difference in environmental impact between a rich human and a poor human is much greater than between a poor human and no human.

Which leads to a more accurate description of the problem: how do you make not destroying the planet more appealing than destroying the planet on an individual level?
Completely understand - it's actually something that I've thought a lot about as an attorney.

Any specific form is extremely unlikely to have been tested in court. Especially with startups and VCs. Law suits are incredibly rare because people like to fix things quietly. There have been a few though - and every good startup lawyer makes sure their forms account for those outcomes. But if you define "proven" to mean tested in court - there are probably no current forms out there that meet this definition (although on occasion, specific provisions may have been tested as part of a predecessor form that made it to litigation). The lawsuits are so far and few in between that it's hard to imagine there'd be a form out there that has not been updated since it was litigated.

I guess what I was trying to say is that the forms on our system are as proven as any forms you'd find elsewhere. And we're constantly getting feedback from lawyers to ensure that we always have the current best practices and market-standard terms in the forms.
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The Firefox tab bar is naturally more usable than the Chrome tab bar with large numbers of tabs because it scrolls rather than trying to fit them all in the bar. (I sometimes wonder whether squeezing tabs to the point of absurdity was actually a conscious decision by the Chrome developers to limit the number of tabs people can open and thus memory use.) There are a lot of Firefox extensions that add additional tools to manage large numbers of tabs, of which Tree Style Tabs is perhaps the most popular. There are not as many Chrome extensions, since Chrome's UI is not as extensible.
It's not 'boat' per se but it's not caused by the user content. It's caused by chrome's process model. Firefox uses almost an order of magnitude less memory per tab.
Python really does hit a sweet-spot for many types of operations. Devops capacity in system scripting, crawling and scraping with excellent web frameworks (Django through to Bottle). On top of all that there are great machine learning libraries as well as good APIs to almost anything not written in Python. My site gets huge amounts of NLP, machine learning and information extraction done in just a few lines because of libraries available in python that aren't in the languages that it's usually compared to.

I've also pretty much replaced bash with the ipython shell at this point, as you can use all of the bash commands anyway and even seamlessly mix them with python, file_list = !ls, it's a excellent environment for data analysis and manipulation.
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I can't wait to get this right after I buy the chrome pixel in 2016.
What's the breakdown of engineering work vs. non-engineering work for your team?
I'm polling how companies break down their time for development teams and what their expectations are for engineering work vs. non engineering work. I'm trying to find a balance for my team, but I also want to be able to set realistic expectations.

Engineering work: coding, documenting code, integrating, testing, etc.
Non-Engineering work: meetings, email, presentations, brainstorm, water cooler, etc.

Here's a quick guess for a team of 10:

Dev Manager - 10/90 (code/meetings & management)
Team Lead - 70/30 (code/meetings & management)
Individual Developer - 90/10 (code/meetings)

How are company/product goals communicated to individual contributors? What's the size of your team?
Hope you got your $150 back. (You can probably get them to refund your money, or, failing that, issue a chargeback with your credit card)