skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article manages to leave out numerous important facts (such as it being a private conversation and Adria's blog post) and tries to paint her the victim here.

Lest we forget, she has NOT apologized. She has not shown a single iota of regret. For all we know, SendGrid would have let her keep her job if she had been willing to apologize.

Until we hear some mea-culpa from her, she is not the victim. She is the perpetrator.
I respect Krugman and agree with him often but this is obviously dumb. It's obvious to anything who knows anything about how the web works. Krugman should have consulted with such a person before posting this boneheaded entry.
Since when is "MOOC" == "online course"?

Oh, right. Techcrunch.
I opened a .odt file in Docs, but Docs cloned it into a new document and created a [filename].gdoc file in the local Drive folder. I don't see a way to work with the original file. It's nice that I can choose formats when exporting, and even export in bulk, but I want to decide which formats I work in. And it relies on this feature always being there.

It won't even let me just open a .odt. It opens in some kind of previewer when I click the file. Opening it takes clicking in a menu to select "Open in Docs." Then it clones to that magic format that's ethereal until exported.
I do get that, but lots of people either don't want to watch a video or can't, for various reasons.

I hope this wasn't a problem for too many people, because (tongue in cheek here) I'm positive everyone reads the articles first before coming to read the comments.
This is so true. I don't presently have a goal to rise at my current job, so I don't dress the part. If I did want to advance, I'd have to spend around $2,000 on more formal attire, and probably $1,000 on gifts and other kinds of spending. I might even have to get a degree of some kind in the field. I'd also have to go to bars and social events on a regular basis, after working hours.

I was like, "fuck that shit."
Bonus info:

if you add arguments to sl like -l or -a you get a different locomotive or other effects!
make it stop. please.

showcases like this is just indiscriminate bandwagon hopping and the content hasn't even been curated well at all.
I like YC. VC-istan would be far more degenerate without the influence of Paul Graham. However, they're not infallible.

Ridicule (what you called "fatuous snark") is a social immune system that sees degeneracy (e.g. funding Bitcoin) and says, "Stop doing that". It has a function.
if you click something that says 'photo gallery' or 'screenshot showcase' you probably should expect there are big images inside. IMO low res thumbnails are the most disgraceful way to showcase pictures.

OP website is just really slow though. the screenshots are just 150kb each.
Installing swank.js
4-5 hour interviews seem pretty standard for any higher level position. A couple years ago I had an 8 hour interview. Now that was insane.
Hulu making all Star Trek episodes free until April
Hi! Great to see another take on this paradigm. A few comments...

1. The tooltips don't seem to be aware of the size of the view screen. During the tutorial one of the tooltips appeared offscreen because it (probably) assumed my window was big enough to see everything.

2. The speed was too quick. I barely had enough time to orient my eyes then read the tip before it moving on. Considering that, I think automation in this way is undesirable. Each step should probably be user driven.

3. To make the site look a little more professional you could remove the space in front of the exclamation points.
As a non disabled person, I'd love if more sites were keyboard friendly.

I memorise all the keyboard shortcuts and keyboard navigate as much as I possibly can. My biggest peeve with webapps is that they usually slow me down to hunt-and-peck speed.
Thank you for being a voice of reason here. I think AR went too far by posting a pic and hunting people down, but her objection has merit. When you're at a conference in an official capacity, don't general workplace rules apply? And don't most workplace sexual harassment rules include something about not using sexual language and not making the workplace uncomfortable for others? Richards could've said something to the men directly, or to staff at the conference. It didn't have to get so out of hand, and two people didn't have to lose their jobs.
A Nokia spokesman is quoted in this article:
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/nokia-comments-on-vp8-pat...

as stating

“Nokia believes that open and collaborative efforts for standardization are in the best interests of consumers, innovators and the industry as a whole. We are now witnessing one company attempting to force the adoption of its proprietary technology, which offers no advantages over existing, widely deployed standards such as H.264 and infringes Nokia's intellectual property. As a result, we have taken the unusual step of declaring to the Internet Engineering Task Force that we are not prepared to license any Nokia patents which may be needed to implement its RFC6386 specification for VP8, or for derivative codecs.”

So their position is that since VP8 does not offer any technical or licensing advantages over H.264 (Nokia being at least one company that owns or claims to own patents on it), they’re going to use their patents to prevent Google from promoting VP8. At this point, I don’t see why any reasonable person would still want to use H.264 over VP8.
Yes, I have contents saved locally and in the cloud. But I'm not using Google Docs, just a my own files.
Edit: yes, I tried a spread sheet and won't work offline since there is no offline spread sheet app. There may be a way to make it work offline as a packaged app.
Is apple trying to patent a gyroscope?
Eh. I still think GitHub can be useful, it just might take a little more time. Instead of simply scanning the list of projects, take a quick peak at the commit logs for a few of them. It should be pretty clear based on the workflow if it's just a copy & paste job, or if the developer is actually working.

Someone could certainly game that, but it's a stretch...
It is also in MacPorts
Do not go with kibeloco. They are known for stealing content. There is even a verb invented to describe stealing online content thanks to them: "kibar".
This is the pattern that's recommended in Thomas Erl's SOA with REST book. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0137012519)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387864
The ADA is a decades old law. What's changed is that the Internet has become a critical too for people to live their lives, and not just something nerds use. It's entirely appropriate that the ADA be applied online now. And let's face it, putting up some alt tags and making things keyboard navigable is far less expensive than making things compliant in the real world. Remember, this I'd just for sites engaged in commerce.

And if this stifles "innovation" in web site design, well that would be fucking fantastic. We really don't need more "innovation" by web site designers--they've already done enough damage to the internet.
What about a marketplace for a solution to these problems?
If I build a website I can't tell how disabled friendly it is, the best I can do is follow practises I find on some accessibility blog and maybe test it in a screenreader.

It would be a value add service to have a disabled person test their use of my site for various tasks and give me honest feedback.
I'm talking about files made in Google Docs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428762
Also remember this doesn't apply to every website. Just ones engaged in commerce.
fact #1: when most people say 'minimalism' they don't know what that actually means.

fact #2: simplicity != minimalism.
We need one for "got"
Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View
What percentage of professors who teach offline courses think their students deserve credit?
There's (almost) no way of knowing if they are using cloud providers or not, since the real servers are hidden behind a tunnel.
Read up on accessibility. It's just about learning proper HTML techniques (for example, enabling your markup to support screen readers). We'll learn Ruby or Node or Backbone or whatever: this is just another skill to pick up.

I don't think we can take the attitude that it's an undue burden. Small businesses don't always get to say they're too small for a wheelchair ramp (I know this varies by location, but you get the point). If you can't afford to meet a certain subset, maybe you need a new career. In time, dismissing a group of users because it's not financially attractive may be deemed illegal for developers, as it has been for brick-and-mortar for a long time.
Cloudflare is having problems. Their DNS works fine, but at least some of their locations are suffering. They reported a DOS some hours ago, so I'm guessing that's it this time too.
Learning Haskell Through Koans
Google just killed Reader. How long before it will kill VP8?
There's a really easy solution here.

Google should just donate the Google Reader application to the Apache Foundation or another open source initiative so that others can host their own.

In fact, it was a mistake to shut down the service without also announcing that they were open sourcing it simultaneously. Look at all the bad PR that's floating to the top of HN right now.

They open sourced Google Wave around the same time they shut it down, and that was a far less popular and useful service. It avoided a lot of the bad PR that the Reader shutdown is causing, however.
Was searching for something like this, wanted to start playing around with local storage

Thanks
Question - can the script be modified to act upon a middle click or 'Open in new tab' function?
I don't see why an RSS app that resides 100% on a mobile device couldn't sync directly with another RSS app that resides 100% on your home computer or your work computer. No external RSS service necessary.

That said, I understand that sometimes externally controlled and centralized services can provide features and convenience at the expense of user control and privacy.

I care enough about my privacy, and aware enough of the alternatives to choose to tend to choose privacy over features and convenience (when I'm faced with such a choice).

I know a lot of users don't care about their privacy, don't realize how loss of privacy could impact them, or don't know that there are alternatives. So they often choose to use "free" web services that give them some features or convenience (or just because all their friends use it, etc.).

This is unfortunate, but hopefully as more people become computer literate, the media exposes more cases of privacy violations, and more people become victims of identity theft, internet stalking, harrassment, and discrimination based on their computer and internet use habits, they'll start to wisen up and care more about privacy.

I only hope that by then it won't be too late.
Article has huge spin on it, claiming "This is not a good sign for online education".

Phrasing of question is do they "deserve formal credit from your home institution." No of course not, the class is free and they are not enrolled in the school. If the free class gets full credit, the university falls apart.

Also, giving real credit means you have to have money coming in, proctoring on site in their country for the tests, and id card checks. This will massively increase costs and completely eliminate the ability of people in most parts of the world from being able to take the class. One of the reasons for these classes is to open up western college style education to people throughout the world. Switching it to a pay model that validates identity just converts the whole thing into online extension courses, which they have already, and those certainly have never been MOOCs, enrollment numbers have been modest not in the 20,000-200,000 enrollment range per session (yes, with 10% passing but that means little, they still have huge numbers passing).
Wasn't that the point of Gwene[1] (also by Lars)? Serious question, because I haven't used either but am interested in what you're describing.

edit: [1] http://gwene.org/about.php
> People don't seem to be faking this pain, but it gets confusing. I have back pain. My editor has a herniated disc, and he works harder than anyone I know. There must be millions of people with asthma and diabetes who go to work every day. Who gets to decide whether, say, back pain makes someone disabled?

I dunno, maybe the difference is that you don't have a job where you have to STAND ALL DAY?

If you're in a wheel chair you can still do a desk job. Does that mean you're not disabled?
Pair programming is really interesting. I've taken several courses where there was an optional pair programming portion, and after trying it a few times, I swore it off for good. I hated pair programming because every person I worked with just sat there (without interest). Which is just stupid.

But recently, I did some pair programming with folks closer to my skill level, and it was much better. I wouldn't swear by it or anything, but we were both working through a really hard problem, and it was helpful to write code together. It was slower, but I felt like I absorbed the problem quicker.

Also, one tip: plug in an extra keyboard. The driver is still the driver, but if the other chimes up and thinks of a better way to write a particular piece of code, it's easier to just let them instead of having them explain it to the driver or having to switch the keyboard over or something.
I think people like to throw around "innovation" as a smokescreen. What "innovation" has happened in online shopping UI's in the last decade that would've been hampered by ADA compliance? Last I checked Amazon works more or less the same as it did when I started using it a decade ago. I distinctly remember ordering a Dell desktop in 1998 from their web store, and in 15 years the store has only changed for the worse. I think 5-6 years ago they switched from a big list view to this weird wizard thing and it's sucked ever since.

The "innovation" has been on the shipping/distribution side.
I just installed it, thanks!

Also, brew seems to have added a beer mug emoji to the terminal output when it finishes installing something since the last time I installed anything. I didn't know the terminal (Actually iTerm 2 in this case) even supported that. Neat!
Google Reader has a number of features that are above and beyond simple RSS/Atom parsing:

* Starring

* Sharing amongst other Google Reader users

* Smart sorting of feed items

* Marking as read

* Indefinite retention on feed items

Most of these, by themselves, are not hard to replicate (maybe the sorting is, indefinite historical archive definitely is if you haven't already started), but all these "extensions" to RSS/Atom parsing, so to speak, were exposed via an (albeit undocumented) API that spawned a whole ecosystem of feed readers that rely on it, because a major selling point for the past several years has been "syncs with Google Reader".
Photoshop doesn't have overlay help such as this.

I'm not arguing against any help, I'm simply stating that if it's easy enough to explain with an overlay then it's probably possible to make the interface intuitive enough without it.
If it makes you feel a little better, he was eventually disbarred:

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/18/prolific-disabled...

Agreed on good laws problem, good laws applied poorly are bad laws.
There is a company that is putting the hygiene hypotheses to the test. Coronado Bioscience is trying to treat Crohn's disease with pig whipworm eggs. The worms can't live in a human host, but they do develop into full worms and thus trigger the body's immune system.

The initial phase 1 studies were quite remarkable, but I'm keeping an eye out for the phase 2 studies which should provide more robust data.

http://biotechtranslated.com/2011/07/30/the-hygiene-hypothes...
Heh, in academia, interviews can last for days. The minimum is typically an entire 9-5 schedule. Sometimes it's in multiple rounds.
Well, that's fine. If students want to receive credits, they must take some tests for accreditation. And these tests should probably be administered on site, so as to ensure the test-taker didn't cheat. I think that, over time, universities will move from teaching classes to being centers of accreditation, tutoring and socializing.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=108
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why wouldn't Google simply sell Reader to some consortium, public or private group to continue running it? In terms of money, shutting Reader down would get them less money than selling it, as long as the price is greater than the cost of transferring the infrastructure. However, maybe it will incur liabilities for Google?

http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-sell-us-google...
Derek Sivers maybe? http://sivers.org/book
A good deal of useful thinking involves models, and I don't particularly understand the anger that results.

Google isn't a monopolist in this situation either, but it is useful to understand pricing dynamics where there is no competitor. It sheds light on price discrimination with coupons, for example.

Krugman mischaracterizes the article[1], since it does not claim that Reader was crucial infrastructure, but he doesn't argue that it is crucial infrastructure himself either. They both talk about the dynamics of a product that has network effects and becomes a public good.

We generally know from cognitive sciences how we economize in situations like having a reliably knowledgeable colleague. This has served as a counterpoint to the silly arguments about how Google is making us stupid, but nevertheless says that the specialization in our expertise that it facilitates has Google search's continued availability as a vital component.

The original article talks about whether discontinuations will cause users to be more cautious about adopting services that create dependencies, and whether it will inhibit the success of new ones that involve network effects.

>Google wants us to use its services in ways that provide it with interesting and valuable information, and eyeballs. If a particular Google experiment isn't cutting it in that category, then Google may feel justified in axing it.

>But that makes it increasingly difficult for Google to have success with new services. Why commit to using and coming to rely on something new if it might be yanked away at some future date? This is especially problematic for "social" apps that rely on network effects. Even a crummy social service may thrive if it obtains a critical mass.

Anyway, the important issues aren't perfectly typified by Reader, but it is a situation people are familiar with at this moment. Personally, I think it is worth thinking about why more of the shuttered projects haven't been sold off or at least open sourced like Wave. Combine that with profitable businesses that are acquired for the talent, then neglected to death, and it sounds like a lot of effort is being needlessly trashed.

It is not difficult to imagine that if books.google.com were able to give even more liberal access to its library, that struggling municipalities would be even less willing to fund their libraries. This hypothetical would be unambiguously good for the world if it lead to more access to information, but one can also imagine that this hypothetical could also lead to a dependency that was itself vulnerable.

There are a lot of things that won't lead to the end of civilization, but they can still be nevertheless worse than an alternate outcome.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/utilitie...
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Unfortunately, this is the same pain every application has with managing external and native formats. In the case of Docs, the state for online editing and collaboration is deeply integrated with the browser, and doesn't have an analog in external formats. So, those features just aren't supported if you're not using native Google Docs, because the underlying support doesn't exist in other formats. And if you are using native Google docs, then the only way to get the document in another format is to export it.

Accepting all that, I still don't understand the claim that the document isn't synced.
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This is only true for content producers. As long as the content producers use other means than G+ to publicize their content I, as a consumer, have no incentive to use G+. So to me this still seems to be a losing proposition. Consumers vastly outnumber consumers and when the producers act as consumers they are still free to use whatever they want.
I really dislike the grayscale transition.

Why would you alter the examples that you're trying to outline?
on os x - brew install sl brings it in.
Veteran: "You should apt-get install sl."

Newbie: "What does sl do?"

Veteran: (perfectly straight face) "It trains you."
Android, Chrome OS Marriage Denied
One big innovation new rss sync engines can provide is linking of posts. For example, showing you blog responses from across the web to a post you are reading. I think Google didn't show it because they have an aversion to exposing the incoming links graph for whatever reason, but this would be a killer feature for users.

Reader did have an excellent "recommended" feature that used some kind of social metrics algorithm. That feature stopped being useful after the G+ debacle, but it could also be a killer feature. I'm sure there are many others.
well online courses by deemed universities is still in its infancy, so yeah it will take time before people will only take lessons from home.
Hey guys, creator of the site here, I'd love to hear the community's thoughts on my first serious MVP effort!
More than IDE, it's about the code you are doing. If you aren't comfortable with the IDE other person is using, I think you should request to change it and that person should allow.
The moving train uses js for motion. I stripped that part to http://jsbin.com/ujizup/1
But if you don't do the 0th bit - shooting awesome rockets across the solar system and dropping rovers on distant planets* - lobbying would be useless. Do you really think this is debatable? What do you think NASA's outreach budget was in 1969?

*and acting as cover for sending up military satellites, of course
> Can't tell if elaborate troll or serious...

Based on gwern's answer to you, I think s/he is serious.
Frankly, I hate this presentation, because I can't tell where the individual example starts and the container ends. It all looks the same.

Which, frankly, is also my argument against flat UI design as a whole. It's too restrictive and most flat UI ends up looking the same, which is good and bad.

Use it where appropriate, but it's just another brush in your toolbox.
I'm not disagreeing with the content of the original post but I do have a hard time accepting it as journalism. Ed Bott has been a part of the Microsoft eco-system for a long time.
Netflix has reached the convenience level for me. I didn't even know it had DRM nor do I have any reason to care. Netflix, Spotify, etc, are the future of content online: unobtrusive DRM with subscription oriented payment.
SSL is still the default for both GMail and Websearch.

Larry Page is still the current CEO of Google.
This is about how she portrayed the events.

She accused them of being sexist, referring to the action as harassment and calling the individuals involved "assclowns".

I don't really see how the joke is sexist either, but that's not really the issue here.