skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that she comes across as non-technical and not knowledgeable about how these things work, I think that's quite harsh. Maybe she simply hasn't checked her listing since the article was posted.
“The Business Of Literature Is Blowing Shit Up”
This is bad. Tying the worth of a website to its presence on a proprietary service, reminds me of yahoo's paid-for search directory service.
Agreed. There's been a few of these plugins and saas offerings recently, and neither of them feel quite right to me.
I'm rooting for them, but they definitely need to communicate more.
Oh god, the video where you explain the meaning is hilarious, I am in tears here.

I am glad you have seen the funny site of things.
10 Red Flags You're About to Get Scammed
>Here's a quick quiz for you: name a woman/asian/black person that is active and does interesting things in the Python community?

Mahdi Yusuf, Audrey Roy, Bryan Veloso, etc. You see what you have always seen. Open your eyes, there's more in front of you than what you consciously choose to know.
But Twitter doesn't make any money, and Facebook not that much. The bulk of Google's revenue comes from leveraging the openness of the Web; were there only Facebooks and Twitters there would be no Google Search because there would be nothing to index.

This may be completely off, but the killing of Reader looks like a desperate move to help Google+: since Google can't kill Facebook, they're willing to hurt themselves instead -- to cut their left arm so that their right arm can grow stronger.

If this is indeed the case, it's very shortsighted.
That seems authorative with no evidence. Not commonplace sure, but I've read a few positive case studies recently.
Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5422563 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5422288
They probably don't make money on this service, but just look at their website - they offer tons of other services in few different countries, that's where the money is coming from. Their raspberry pi offer is more likely a promotion thing, because it costs them very little to run and attracts people to their company.
Facebook definitely make a lot of money.
This Anime shows what we expect from Google Glass in 12 years - form & function
If RSS is too old to deserve existence, I wonder what we can say about http,smtp,ssh ; tcp/udp/ip ; ethernet/wifi ? :)
I've not but I'd make the counterargument for working at a business where I'm not sure I care.

I occasionally get curious for curiosities sake, but I've never really been bothered. So long as I make enough to support the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed the fact thtat I probably won't be buying a yacht any time soon doesn't really bother me.
YMMV - Two of my friends have theirs there and they work fine as far as I know. I personally had problems with providers where I was actually paying money for their service, so there is no perfect company.
Predictive analysis for pixel retargeting.
This is absolutely an issue that needs to be handled immediately. When there is real money involved, trust/faith is by far the most important factor. If there is any concern about missing money, people will lose faith in the service and usually stop using it. To give an analogy, consider what is going on in the minds of the Cypriots while their accounts are in limbo.
It's also worth noting that most current MOOCs were designed and implemented before there was any chance of getting college credit through their platform. Many of them chose to dilute their content in order to make it more approachable, and not to focus on delivering 1:1 parity with the in-person class.
Valve has exactly this, clearly it's not only possible - but possible within the IT industry.
So what is Orkut slang for in Portuguese?
My understanding is that legally he's supposed to return the money if he can't provide the promised benefits, but that Kickstarter don't encourage people to have that understanding because it would damage the intention and culture of the site.

There have been a lot of kickstarter projects that failed or delivered late, and I don't it's common at all for any of them to pay money back, despite the legal situation.

I doubt that in reality he is bearing any of the risk of failure, except as regards to his reputation.
On launching We Build At Night
I predict people who work for HP are likely to leave. No software required.
can you imagine such glasses on 3 years old children?
You cannot fund literally anything. Check the rules. "We allow creative projects in the worlds of Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, and Theater. Everything on Kickstarter must be a project. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it."

If you're writing a book about a car that falls into the above, and you put on your kickstarter page that you need to buy the car in order to write the book, that's within the rules. Many, many, MANY kickstarters make it clear that they will be buying physical goods in order to create the product. If you want to do this, by all means go for it. I wouldn't be surprised if people decided not to fund it because they think you're trying to get a free car out of them, but purchase of goods (and services) with the kickstarter funds to help make the product is pretty much the whole point of kickstarter. In your case, I wouldn't be surprised if kickstarter themselves decided to squelch your project on the heavy suspicion that you don't really have a passion for a creating a book about the car, but that's up to them.
Using the dominant position of Google Search to push other Google properties, isn't this what "Don't be evil" was supposed to be about?
Opera did it too. Opera mini for lowly java feature phones did it too.
The button still exists, though you may have to add it yourself. Right mouse > Customize.
Well the article is about the synchronisation, not the RSS client.

I can read the same set of feeds in Flipboard on my phone, Reeder on my ipad and NNW on my mac.

The people who were building alternative synchronisation systems gave up when Google moved in with Reader; hopefully someone will step in with an alternative now, but there are a LOT of apps that will need to be updated to take advantage of the new system.
I'm very put off by thus attitude that Google owes us all a free RSS reader, as if they are the tech equivalent of the social safety net. Google has and always will be a company focused on profits. They would be supremely unprofitable if they sunk time and resources into dying technology just because it had a few fans.

It's not hard to make an RSS reader and if you miss Google Reader so much, sign off of HN and make your own, better version. But you won't, because you know that Google is right in their decision to axe the whole thing.
Someone must open-source Google Glass type thing otherwise it'll go the same way as our medical bills.
Not sure if my story syncs up with what everyone else is seeing:
-I purchased 10 coins on the 14th.
-Money came out of my account on the 18th.
-They said they were available to me on the 20th via e-mail
-Have tried multiple times to send money to external wallets with no success
-My account balance went from 10 to 0 to 10
-Support has been horrible
A few points after reading the original article from The Chronicle of Higher Education:

They spend a bit of time talking about how much work went into creating the courses. Of course it takes a lot of time, but you get the payback when you run it the second time, the third time etc. I'm surprised this was not mentioned.

Also, they mentioned that Robert Sedgewick of Princeton didn't wanted to be beaten to the punch creating a MOOC algorithm course. But he already was. Tim Roughgarden of Stanford gave the first course as far as I know. I took both part 1 and part 2 of his course, and both were excellent (more here: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-course...)

Finally, Clay Shirky wrote a good piece on MOOCs a while a go: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the...
One of the points he makes is that producing "live" lectures (as opposed to using MOOCs) at a university is a little like only assigning books that the professor giving the lecture has written. Of course you want the best book on the subject, regardless of who wrote it. The same goes for a lecture on the subject. His article is well worth reading.
Ask HN: What is a "developer evangelist"?
During last week's PyCon events with Adria Richards, the role developer evangelist was mentioned a lot. We don't have those where I come from (or at least I'm not aware of), so please enlighten me what the official duties of a developer evangelist are, how do they fit into a company, and how their success is measured?

Thanx
I hope they figure this out soon. This is the kind of thing that scares me and the primary reason that I decided against speculating in bitcoins. For someone like me who can't really afford to lose a lot of money, I need to trade in historically stable stuff (even if they are as rigged as they are..).

I don't really understand bitcoin very well, that is reason #2. I hope the Coinbase folks though have a solid grasp of it and can fix this otherwise this is going to look very bad.
As great as it sounds, transparent salaries are harmful.

I was in an awkward situation where I was paid much more than other people who joined at the same time as me. One day one of my coworkers found out (due to some accident in distributing stubs) and the relationship became really tense -- he thought he deserved more pay (even though he did half the work I did, he saw it as a measure of the value of his time)
It is true, Eric Schmidt said: “Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”
I wonder if we'll get a deluge of jokes about which side a buttered iPhone would fall on.
Isn't this all a /tad/ hyperbolic? It's just an application, folks. Applications are born, they live and they die. Nothing is forever.
Yes. And it will ultimately sully their core product. When I type in a phrase I'm interested in how involved in Google+ the potential results pages might be, I just want the most relevant information - a Google+ affiliation is noise in that data set.
Yes, the Gizmodo article is hilarious!! I saw it shared on my Facebook timeline a lot!

For Gizmodo it is an absolute win - lots of sharing.
For Rego, I am sure it is a short-term win. But at the long-term there are a lot of challenges to make the transition from novelty to consolidate, real value delivering app.

My 2 cents would be, keep the branding as a purpousely funny. Rego is a funny bad word, but not one that a newspaper can't publish. It's not that strong. Also it is very well known, but, at the same time, is not that commonly used so people won't associate it to a brand.
I think you're being unfair. I don't know how large the crew is for those events, but I'd venture to say all would call themselves "outreach people". I take your point that a lot of what airs is not very good, but to throw all outreach efforts under the bus is uncalled for.

Another outreach example that allows you to rove the same terrain as the Mars Science Laboratory: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/explore/freedrive/ . I'd say this is pretty damn cool, and actually informative.

The folks who do this work are rather nervous right now.
Miniflux, minimalist and open source RSS reader
Get good at launching fast and you can work on more projects.
Heyzap hopes its new in-game ad tool makes gamers happy and developers money
Their recent documentary TPB:AFK was pretty interesting and a worthwhile watch on a slow day.
Do you have any evidence to invalidate Googles claim of declining usage? I trust Google on this one. It served its purpose in 2005 but much better services have replaced it. Move on and get over it.
"so many great games that I can't possibly play them all"
Are there? Outside of the shooters.

For example, I'm a fan of turn based strategies but I don't see much of those in the recent years.
And not much other kind of strategies either.
Blizzard does it cool and CIV still survives, but this isn't "a lot" compared to the times that were.
GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks (fixed)
My experience is that few people care to learn how to code. Even fewer people can learn to code, even minimally. Learning to code just a little bit takes a long time and is about as frustrating and dangerous as learning how to ride a motorcycle just a little bit.

I'd rather work with people who have good ideas, management skills, financial savvy, marketing expertise -- a well-rounded team. Only hiring programmers, or telling potential hires they will have to learn to code is just going to create a monoculture and alienate good people with valuable non-programming skills.

Making everyone learn to code is neither practical nor necessary. Dr. Johnson said "You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables."
Strange indeed...I've never used Coinbase, but I had heard good things about them before. Hopefully they can resolve this issue in a timely manner.
The FEC mandates many political groups detail all transactions in publicly available databases. If the relevant laws cover you, you can use that to see what other people in your organization make.

I never found it too upsetting, except as additional evidence for why people I thought were incompetent should go.
Am rooting for them too - they are in beta folks, that's quite an honest communication on its own.
Fog Creek has transparent salaries. Or at least they did when Joel posted this. It doesn't seem evil to me when it's all out in the open and it's obvious to individual contributors what to do to climb the salary ladders.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
As bdt101 mentioned here[1], the way they're using Array.prototype.slice.call is supported by IE8. It is not supported when trying to slice a NodeList, as a NodeList is not a JScript object.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424874
This is awesome, the video made me smile, glad you guys have a sense of humor! Grats on the launch!
None. It is a completely strange word for us, our words normally doesn't end with a consonant (never with a 't') and we don't even use 'k' in our alphabet.
I guess not even Google knows why it went so viral here. A proof of that is that now Facebook is by far the most used social network here (Google didn't even try to make Orkut -> GooglePlus transition, I don't know why).
Fun anecdote: There was a worse than usual flu season here in Boston and since a lot of other people in the office were getting sick, I was wondering if I should get the flu vaccine. Being lazy, I didn't bother with the vaccine, yet I have never once gotten the flu, despite taking a crowded bus and subway to work every day. Furthermore, I don't recall the subway or buses ever being filled with lots of sick people. I suspect most of the sick people in the office drove to work.
This is where it can get murky. If you are firing off a bunch of resumes to jump ship from a poor situation, honesty doesn't get you very far. While if you were targeting the company from the get go, honesty is your best option. It doesn't sound good to say "my current job sucks, and you guys responded to my resume", but if you don't want to say that, then you will scramble to come up with something that sounds like what you think they want to hear.

I can understand how a company wants someone enthusiastic for their product/company, on the other hand I can understand how alienating it is to have to bullshit about the reality of your situation.
Nope, it's just you, I think.
Transparent salary only works if you start off the company with transparent salary and make financials transparent too, along with linking salary to real product performance to remove a lot of harmful politics.

So transparent salary can be good if everything else is transparent also - otherwise it is very bad and leads to terrible politics.
How do we evaluate whether a one-on-one is productive? How can a business, in aggregate, learn from the hundreds of independent weekly manager-employee meetings to see what kinds of issues keep cropping up?

This of course presumes both a good manager and an employee who is willing to speak candidly with them. This may not always be the case. (How often is it not the case? Let's examine the data and see! Maybe there is a systemic problem with trust between managers and their employees that needs work?)

It is not uncommon for businesses to periodically do "employee satisfaction surveys." I don't think crunching data to measure the effectiveness of management (which affects employee attrition) is ridiculous at all.
It's always been possible to stalk people and gather lots of information about them in order to increase ones chances of striking up a romantic relationship with them. it's always been possible to do this with many people at once.

It's always been creepy.

"Do you really think this the only guy or girl who's tried this?"

How did you get that? He didn't say anything like that. He pointed out that this is creepy. Just because people have been creepy for as long as there have been people doesn't change that.
That's the opposite of transparent salaries - you just described a leaking of a small bit of information in a closed salary system.
Can the control over domain names be decentralized to prevent it be single point of failure? Bitcoin may do it for curreny.

.onion pseudo TLD may be the first step in evolution. But the names are 16-bit hashes making it too long and complex.
Consider taking a closer look at NuoDB. It has MVCC and an interesting distributed objects architecture for elastic scale out. http://www.nuodb.com/techblog/2013/03/13/mvcc-part-2-pretty-...

MVCC doesn't solve all concurrent access conflicts, only certain read-write ones, but snapshot isolation works well for many types of workloads.
Their wiki answers your question: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Posterous#Can_I_donat...
I've met Terry personally, and I didn't knock Super Hexagon. I've just said it how it is: Super Hexagon (and VVVVVV for that matter) are examples of how to make games on the cheap.

We don't do that, though. We put AAA polish and content into every title.
Interesting project. I haven't had the time to look at your project in-depth, but keep in mind most retail traders are at a disadvantage due to routing. Most orders are routed through providers such as Getco or Knight Capital, and often you are not aware of whom your counter-party is. Therefore, any expected P&L may vary by x amount of basis points, due to latency and liquidity.
Useful Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts.
Because that's what Valve tell us to sell them for....
That's not what backward-compatibility means here. IE6 sees ordinary JavaScript code and executes it. It's true that it can't do the typed-array magic in the background, but it doesn't have to. The JavaScript code that IE6 sees has the same result as compiled asm.js code would; it just does it in a less-optimal way.

That's all that asm.js really is: a set of JavaScript coding conventions that (when followed) prove to be easy to optimize to near-native levels of speed, along with a compiler hint to tell the runtime that these conventions are being used. IE6 doesn't understand the compiler hint, but because the asm.js code is still valid JavaScript, it'll still run.

I suspect that either nnethercote and I are using different definitions of backward-compatibility, or nnethercote is mistaken as to what exactly asm.js is. Authorities are less likely to make mistakes, but they can still make them.
The first startup I worked at, the founder wanted to make salaries not only transparent, but made known as a fraction of the CEO (e.g. 1/3*CEO_pay). The board, made mostly of VCs, did not like this idea at all and convinced the founder it would bring down the morale of the engineering team if they saw what the sales guys were making (the sales guys were compensated mostly by commissions, of course). I still think it would be a great thing to establish if done when the organization is small enough (and before any investors were involved).
The company I work at have a completely opaque approach to salaries, I don't get to now anyone elses salary and no one else gets to know mine - the only people who would be privy would be my employer and the external company accountant, but my last job had a pretty open attitude, so I know both sides of the coin:

This is both a positive and a negative in a few ways:

A couple of positives:

Nobody else knows how much I earn, there isn't any envy for the people junior to me and it doesn't make them feel undervalued - as someone who used to work for less than minimum wage, I know how demoralizing it can be to know how much less valuable to your employer you are than other people.

I don't get jealous of the people above me, I know they have nice cars and bigger houses, but I'm not constantly thinking about this figure and trying to work out why in the hell they are £30,000 per year better than me.

A few negtives:

Negotiating a higher wage is much more difficult, I don't know that A co-worker of equal level gets £2,500 more than me per year just because he negotiated, so I'm more likely to stick with the status quo.

It becomes taboo to speak openly about wages, the boss hides it from us, so we hide it from each other. Any questions to each other are effectively met with "none of your business."

Feeling uncomfortable talking to my employer about wages and increases in salary makes me more likely to leave a company - it's far easier to go to an interview and negotiate with a stranger you don't care about than potentially having hard feelings towards someone you have to work with daily if they refuse you a raise.
I'm very put off by people presuming to tell me what I think or plan to do.
Just more 2 cents on this boring Saturday morning. If you launch it in portuguse and/or for Android, you should a great launch paying a tweet or post at https://twitter.com/kibeloco (they are very big here, and they are the funniest site by far).
Another huge player on funny content is http://www.youtube.com/user/portadosfundos.

Just some tips if you decided to invest in this branding
TIL dragging a link into the Chrome console opens the page... in the console
I don't know if you guys already knew this, but today I accidentally discovered that dragging a link into the Chrome console lets you view the page in the developer tools area. So for example, if you're browsing HN you can drag a link to the console and view the page without having to open a new tab.

Edit: here's an example http://imgur.com/4jfNHnK
>It served its purpose in 2005 but much better services have replaced it. Move on and get over it.

Much better services? Name one! (much less "many"....)