skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some are overstating the potential difficulties of making the ADA apply to American websites. A large part of compliance is just utilizing the accessibility tools built into HTML: semantic markup, proper use of alt and title tags, etc.

I do still see the possibility of predatory litigation. To protect small businesses, maybe the burden should shift to the web developers that they hire. Much like we expect contractors to know the ins-and-outs of building codes, we should come to expect web development agencies to understand their clients' legal obligations.
Writer of Complex’s ‘40 Hottest Women in Tech’ List: I Tried
It's a very relevant fact (after all, this is a YC site and Coinbase is a YC company) that was explicitly removed by a moderator, and the action feels like dissociation. Can you present a better explanation?
Oh, it gets worse than all that. Every so often you hear stories floating around about managers, in these sorts of signal-ridden workplaces, who threaten the jobs of employees who don't consume to the appropriate level. Why? It's really much more straightforward than only "class signalling": if the worker consumes too little, they'll get out of debt, and thus they'll be far less captive to one particular employer. Therefore, employees must be encouraged to be do things like purchasing new cars every so often, to keep the Golden Handcuffs tight.
Quick, eveyrone get on the badwagon before the trend dies and we're forced to come up with new, original ideas again!
It's obvious why they removed it. It was a weird feature that didn't belong in the browser. Users didn't understand what it was for. (I use RSS and I still didn't understand why I would ever click that button.)
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Here it is, and it's quite good:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/utilitie...

"in the long run that's a problem for Google. Because we tend not to entrust this sort of critical public infrastructure to the private sector. Network externalities are all fine and good to ignore so long as they mainly apply to the sharing of news and pics from a weekend trip with college friends. Once they concern large swathes of economic output and the cognitive activity of millions of people, it is difficult to keep the government out. Maybe that deterrent will be sufficient to keep Google providing its most heavily used products. But maybe not.

I find myself thinking again of the brave new world of the industrial city, when new patterns of interaction led to enormous changes in economic activity, in culture and personal behaviour, and in the way we think. We upgraded ourselves, in terms of education, hygiene, and social norms, to maximise the return to urban life. And the history of modern urbanisation is littered with examples of privately provided goods and services that became the domain of the government once everyone realised that this new life and new us couldn't work without them"
If we're insistent on matching compensation to performance on a year-by-year basis, then we're going to struggle with transparent salaries, because it means that performance evaluations are public (and can be questioned) and, to be quite frank, that means we (as leaders) make high-stakes, not-easily-reversed decisions on imperfect information, and that's bound to piss people off.

I'd argue that the problem there is with the performance evaluation process. If it's broken in this way, then transparency will highlight that (and hopefully force you to fix it). If the evaluation process is fair and agreed to be fair, then that should not be a problem.

For example, nobody has a problem with a sales girl earning a commission on a sale she made, as per the agreed commission system. That's an entirely fair way to reward objectively measurable performance.

In other words, fix the performance evaluation system to be itself objective and transparent, and transparency works.
Blogging Tips From A Teenager Who Launched His Blog At Age 10
Coinbase (YC S12) hires first engineer http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5011361

Is that a launch or funding announcement?
alright, I don't know how many "professional" traders there are on HN but I spent a good part of my life doing prop algo-trading on Wallstreet.
The assumption that most trading systems are in VBA is perhaps valid for small or retail, but I can tell you that serious algo shops (trading desks, hedgefunds) run clusters of GPU harnessing CUDA with matlab, and R plugins, C++ etc. When/If you try this with real in the real world, you will encounter something called, "slipage" - slipage is the price the trade gets executed vs. where you thought it would be. This is due to various factors like the bid-ask spread, liquidity in that moment, order size, route, vol, etc you got the idea. As you said this is an algo system and in your description you do emphasize the diff between HF and algo. The strategy is simple and could work as any other strategy but any algo system like this needs lots of capital to make a decent profit, and when lots of capital is in question it needs to be redundant when things go haywire - and haywire go they shall. So the key assumption seems to be:

>buy stocks that are going up intraday and sell them higer

to be blunt it seems interesting, and I would encourage you to work on it further because complex systems rarely work right. but also bear in mind that its not any different than a candle stick trading strategy, or ichimoku clouds. The key is how fast you converge to usable parameters (time,money,trades), if you can do this fast the underlying strategy can be a multitude of things, and thats my 2 cents...
This is getting ridiculous. It's been three weeks of highly public complaining/pseudo-analysis about Google Reader. Now it's 'critical public infrastructure', on par with public transit systems.

Can we have a reality check? It's an RSS reader. It was really good. Now it's shutting down. Nobody relies on it to get to work so they can feed their children. Building a replacement doesn't require digging tunnels, buying trains, hiring drivers. The economic argument is interesting, but I'm wondering if this wins for 'Most Hyperbolic Google Reader Shutdown Article'.
https://github.com/languages

As primarily a Perl programer, I'd say there is a fairly even split between times I'm maintaining older code and writing new code in work environments. I've played with Ruby and Python a bit (by no means extensively), and when I started a web service last month (http://www.weightgrapher.com) I used Perl.

Dancer (Web framework), DBIx::Class (ORM), and other new tools make things pretty awesome; Perl isn't all CGI.pm scripts anymore.
Really good readme. Explains well without hype. I like the name too :)
And it's not just Reader: Google Talk is following the exact same strategy as well. It supposedly is the world's largest xmpp network, but with a few extra changes that makes compliant xmpp clients practically useless (e.g., not able to add anyone inside gtalk from the outside: _they_ have to initiate the request, supposedly for spam reasons.)

But then again, Facebook does the same thing...
Fairly sure that when discussing a nation with a still enforced caste system that the answer is "less"
Preface: I live in a very international city but with only 3 venues showing movies in their original language.

I speak a fairly good English and enjoy watching British and American movies in their original language, but I die everytime I check the "official" website of the ONLY film festival (called Sound & Motion - don't ask me why) that actually shows movies in English - http://goo.gl/t9MGh -

I'm a software developer. Always been using Java and always wanted to fool with the new kids in town.

So, together with a close friend and dev (Ruby/PHP), we started re-thinking the whole thing and set down a few points:
- we wanted to use nodeJS;
- we were going to use Heroku;
- we wanted to use Twitter Bootstrap;
- we wanted to use needed mongoDB.

We came up with: http://soundmotion.it

What do you think?

@soundmotionit

@mfirry

@dhinus

@harpoxgio (design)

--

hello@smallcapitals.it

ps: we named "our thing" smallcapitals but barely remember why :)
Fred from Coinbase here.

There are still a few lingering issues, which we've been working hard to fix and will be looking at again today. To those affected, I'm very sorry for the wait. Funds are safe, it's just a question of opening the pipes properly to let them flow normally.
At some point capitalism has to reap what it sowed. Deskilling peasant labor into manual-worker labor was an essential component of capitalist industrialization, but it creates a population that gets totally screwed over by capitalist post-industrialization.
This is a common view held by engineers. Engineers believe in meritocracy and thinks the market behaves the same way. "Build a great product and the customers will come."

Unfortunately this is consistently disproven in the market. Many technically better products do worse than competitors on the marketplace.

Marketing and sales has a significant impact on products' success. The average customer usually does not spend very much time evaluating alternatives based on technical merits.
"badwagon" is an excellent, if possibly unintentional, neologism ;-)
Are there problems with running flash on ChromeOS?
I used to work on a trading floor in NYC. And man, I doubt anyone (even the women) did not spend the day cursing up a storm. Of course I did too. There's a satisfaction that comes with hanging up with a client (on the phone) and then ripping him apart to your fellow traders for not "spending" enough.

Now, living in South Florida, it's almost the same environment. But, except for a few neighborhoods in Miami, most consider South Florida to be a borough of NYC.
All pop (and most academic) evo-psych is absolute rubbish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_stories
Last summer I was working at a small company and Adria came to 'evangelise' to the developers (I think) about using SendGrid in our product.

She came to the office, took the dev team out to a local ice cream shop (hot summer day, greatly appreciated) and then seemed to hang around after for a little while talking to our PR person, and a little to the CEO who is non-technical and wasn't going to make a decision about which email service we used.

To me, that didn't seem particularly good evangelism for developers. Conversely, I have seen a Twilio developer do a 5 minute talk for other devs, and it was basically a short bit of code, and a really cool 'wow' moment that got us all interested. That evangelist was a developer.

Maybe Adria wasn't a good developer evangelist, maybe this was because she wasn't a developer, I don't know if the two are linked. It is possible that she didn't really come to see us to preach the virtues of SendGrid, but rather just to make sure they were on our radar, which the free ice cream certainly helped with.
"The issue is one of accountability, not quality."

The issue is also one of dilution of the institution granting the credit and branding.

If someone is able to take an online course and receive credit they will then be able to infer an affiliation with the institution that will dilute the value of an existing degree from that institution.

This already of course can and does happen (just like locks don't prevent everyone from breaking into your home or office) but opening up the floodgates to people who will most certainly claim and fudge that they attended or are somehow affiliated with top shelf universities is definitely an issue.

Case in point is what happened with the Wharton Evening School. Although the link I provided certainly tells a different spin and story the real reason is that it was trivial to get into the evening school (compared to Penn as a regular undergraduate) and Penn had a bunch of those graduates running around with BBA's as students who graduated from Wharton. (Which of course they did but not of the same caliber as the regular graduates).

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v48/n23/WhartonEve.html
That's a start, but it's more suited for smaller tasks I think, with the main benefit being that you don't have to clutter your code with type conversion. A string with custom (no) encoding does fairly well for holding the binary data as is.

It was actually memory/GC issues that got me to give up on the js implementation - it's very hard to prevent js from creating huge numbers of temporary variables, which then cause the system to freeze for several seconds while they are cleaned up.
The crux of it is that you have designed a system which you feel can objectively quantify each individual's level of contribution, and then you are willing to directly reward people based on that contribution.

And I agree -- if you pull that off, and if you follow through with the reward, then it allows someone to take a lower starting salary, knowing that it is just a matter of time until things get back on the right track.

But for many kinds of work, including software development, I've never seen anyone figure out how to quantify individual contributions directly (as Paul Graham talks about [1]). Maybe your company has fewer of those kinds of jobs.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Actually, the Soviet Union didn't even fail for its lack of markets. It failed because entry and exit to economic activity was restricted, so no new ideas ever really got tried.

Remember, command economies work so well when the leadership knows what they're doing that they make up the structure of every successful business in "market capitalist" countries.
though a good article, I fail to see anything "new" in it, compared to what we already know.
Plus they must also know how to program. Don't forget that. It's the factor that separates the drones from people who understand what we do.
All in all -- sounds really good, short turn around times and raises also keep people really focused.

Sadly, it seems like this would only work in a specific "flavor" of industry. For example, wouldn't work for a software product that takes 3 years to develop and then is funded by ads. But, if you are in a sales-focused industry with short customer turn around, sound great.
As much as I love MongoDB it has way too many issues to use it as a primary data store for financial transactions. I hope they backed up and tested their backup recovery. Something tells me they're dealing with a data corruption/loss which wiped out their master and slaves without a backup. Perhaps if they've got decent logging they can piece it together with logs.
In these examples I see real-world textures, gradient overlays, gloss, drop shadows, etc. Most of these aren't "flat" as much as they are bold and somewhat minimalist. And they pay attention to their use of whitespace and fonts.

I also see a general aesthetic that most of web design fits into. Hacker News? Flat before flat was flat! And Yahoo! (http://web.archive.org/web/19961128070641/http://www8.yahoo....) -- seventeen years ahead of the curve!

Anyway: I love talking design, but could we elevate the conversation a bit beyond "hey, look: flat design is trendy."
Apple pulls iForgot password recovery system over security bug
One that I think is vastly overlooked is being able to really comprehend numerous forms of technical documentation quickly. I was always surprised how some developers take quadruple or more time to work their way through than other devs. I have even come across devs that seem to be unable to do so and must rely on tutorials and how-tos.
It's the pay channels that are "free" to do whatever they want. HBO, Showtime, Stars (etc) are all pay.

Oddly though, Showtime for example sometimes air soft-core porn late a night. And while tits and ass are bouncing everywhere I have yet to see the "money shots". Male or female.
This is why Nuuton features account creation sans-email. Plus it hath no newsletter.
Flat design is just a rebrand of minimalism design
This is a form of price anchoring.[0] By representing salaries as a fraction of CEO income, it makes all employees evaluate their worth relative to the CEO.

On the other hand, representing the CEO's income as a multiplier of the company's average income is standardized and represents a company-oriented view.[1][2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_pay#United_States

[2]: http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/compensation/articles/page...
I'm dumb as a bag of rocks. But I don't let that stop me from enjoying life. I guess it's the same for smart people without any ineriority complex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome
I wouldn't have thought that tweeting someone's picture was a sound method of conflict resolution BEFORE the brouhaha, no hindsight required...

although conflict resolution probably wasn't what was really being attempted. I'm not sure what was being attempted, but I'd venture to guess that "let the internet settle this" didn't have the intended result.
Oh, now I'm with you. I guess I've never tried that kind of build, in fact maybe I found a lucky vector into the optimizer the first time I came across it, as I now see if you read the optimizer docs from top to bottom it does initially guide you towards the whole dir approach.

Maybe the optimizer/r.js docs could do with splitting up into "how do I do X..." pages, so if you're purely after optimizing your JS, for example, the path is clearer.
Not to mention, it's an easy way to improve SEO[1].

[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-alt...
Not all industries have a very straight line between what the average employee does and how the company makes money.

Google makes 96% of all revenue from advertising, yet obviously they don't channel all 40+ billion dollars into the adwords group -- because the companies value / trust / products / features are way more complex than that simple (but accurate) number.
"I'm not inclined to make grand pronouncements about the future of software, but if anything kills off commercial software, let me tell you, it won't be open source software. They needn't bother. Commercial software will gleefully strangle itself to death on its own licensing terms."

If there was no open-source alternative companies like MS could have continued for ever and ever with ever more convoluted licensing terms and people wouldn't have had the choice...
I highly recommend the debian bug tracker on `sl`:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614158

Also, for those that love their cars "pre-tuned by german engineers", there is `gti`:

http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti
"Playing games with other peoples' money (and getting a resume/credibility boost no matter what happens) isn't nearly as risky ..."

Changing the subject a bit...

Having been a trader, I think that's a major problem with our system. A trader today rarely has his own skin in the game. Or even the firms skin in most cases. It's hella easier to make VERY risky bets with other people money.
How to banish mark inflation? Cancel exams
I think when Paul Graham makes fun of you for suggesting the disassociation you have your answer.
Great links, thanks!

Agreed that both probably have an impact. I imagine that there's some sort of scientific method out there to tease out the impacts of the two factors, probably via an aggregation of a number of such studies.
Well, guilty as charged. I've only solved this problem in my own context, and that's what I'm talking about. GrantTree is a fairly sales-driven business with relatively short customer turnaround.

When I start a software business, I'll solve the problem in that context too... you might have to wait a few years before I can talk about it though ;-)
Right, because you've carefully tracked all the actions of the mods. You definitely haven't only noticed those actions that somehow irritated you.
My First 5 Minutes Learning AngularJS
> But for many kinds of work, including software development, I've never seen anyone figure out how to quantify individual contributions directly (as Paul Graham talks about [1]). Maybe your company has fewer of those kinds of jobs.

That is true and a fair criticism. I'm only talking about the example of my company, not declaring universal rules. :-)
When you don’t have enough science: software development methodologies
If the holes you dig are all in a general area, you don't have to shift dimensions to switch holes, though sometimes you could do that. You could also connect your holes which helps create a mesh of connected knowledge.

Staying in the flow makes sense, but you also need to get depth sometimes and that means yanking yourself back from jumping to another thought-stream and sticking to the one you were on. Discipline has a role to play in the thinking process, I think.
I love stuff like this. It reminds me to stop worrying about perfection in my products and just ship it.
Imposter Syndrome: Everyone Else Being an Asshole Doesn’t Make You a Fraud
> that kind of thing is often the preserve of this week's preferred javascript framework project

Careful, you're bias is showing.
Nope.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=S1...
Zimbabwe. Or South Africa.
It is also worth noting that I had a very similar problem when I bought my first 10BTC in February. This is strike two...a very loooong strike 2.
YouTube video creators strike out on their own – with help from the crowd
I feel like this comment ruins the joke.
You clearly haven't been, or don't know what RSS is for as none of those solve the same problem as RSS. Social news != my news.
Different needs. You are clearly a pure consumer of information, whereas GReader users are curators of information. You are the 90 in the 90-9-1 rule and GReader appealed to the 9.

For curators, there are (yet) no good alternatives.
Thanks everybody. Our first reaction was, "Oh what a disaster!" but then we thought, "Nothing we can do now, and it is pretty funny so let's just roll with it!" BTW, Rego is really being well received — it seems like a lot of people (us included!) needed something Gowalla-like but without the social part.
Provisional Patent Applications for Start-ups
Provisional Patent Applications for Start-ups

http://www.pinskylaw.ca/News/patents_for_startups.htm
Asynchronous Patterns, Particularly in Node.js (Oct 2012)
These days, I see more "follow me on twitter" links than I do "subscribe to my RSS feed" links. I have no issue with RSS as a technology, but it clearly did not resonate with the non-technical user. Twitter and Facebook did. Geeks can lament this until they're blue in the face, but they're in denial if they believed RSS was ever going to be a viable mainstream solution.
$100k is rich, provided you're purchasing something with little dependence on land prices. $100k is middle-class if you're purchasing something with a land-price component.

(The fact that the FIRE sector, also known as the owners of land and large pools of money, can extract huge rents from the rest of the economy is probably America's chief economic problem today.)
My arrows are for causality. It's simpler this way. Evidence flows the other way. If sexism causes offence, then offence is evidence for sexism. How strong evidence depends on the likelihood of the consequence in absence of the cause. Bayes FTW!

As for concluding !S, most statements aren't sexist. In the absence of meaningful evidence for S, we should conclude !S (or rather, p(S)<.1).
It's important to note that he's not actually suggesting the government take over Google Reader, just giving an economics-based viewpoint on Google's situation. Combined with the linked article, it makes for good reading.
Oh god, everything hurts! I'm going back to bed.
> ... why should I, a white now middle aged male have a goal of getting a group of people "into science and technology" ...

I should have said "not stand in the way" or words to that effect. Obviously proactively working to get women (as women) into science and technology is reverse discrimination. But under current rules, to stand in the way of gender equality is both wrong and illegal.
Thanks for the tips, soneca