skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I can't argue with that, though I am meeting an increasing number of non-techies who are interested in different (better) ways of using the web and IT in general.
Ruby != Rails, but we hardly here about Ruby without Rails, and Rails does have this reputation.
A bit of a fluff piece just promoting Gaglers, but the underlying assertion is worth thinking about. A per-seat license model has definitely pushed me away from certain products, while a pure usage model is much more appealing to me.
Very well said. At the risk of taking away from your original point, going into academia (especially a non-engineering field) can give you a very different perspective and release you from the tech mindset. As an example, the CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp, has a PhD in German social philosophy. How the hell did he end up leading a billion-dollar tech company? Basically he was really smart, and his PhD gave him the framework to think about privacy and civil liberties concerns, something the company desperately needed. The humanities often give us the scaffolding we need to answer really hard social problems which are neglected by the tech community, but are extremely important.
Very few people really care about decentralised, and few people really care about privacy. And bitcoin wallet apps live on.
What is browser fingerprinting? Your website is not available.
Coming soon to the App Store - CapeShare
"If the URL looks like garbage people won’t click it"

I'm not so sure of this. URLs that are over-optimised seem link-baity to me and I'm more inclined to not click it.
Yes, but it would become a GET request were you to refresh or go back.
Love this idea!

I would love to be able to spend a few seasons in the Alps skiing from first lift till lunch then hacking in the afternoon. In fact i think that is in my life plan somewhere....

The only danger is you get spoilt by the nice days and decide not to ski when the conditions aren't perfect.
Giving out the emails associated with their accounts is a really bad idea. Having them indexed by Google is even worse, hence the phishing attempts.
The OP lost me at the Google example. The search URL is one URL that is completely unnecessary to be clean. Google wants you to get used to using the omnisearch box because it can provide such niceties as auto-suggest, instant results, etc...plus, the google query interface is no longer just a text bar, but voice activated...it works against Google's UI/UX intent for you to get used to hacking things in the URL address.

And yes, for hacker types this intention of Google's seems overbearing...but for the other 99.9% of the population, google is likely more interested in making search uniformly accessible than making clean URLs
I am already in the midst of it. Regardless, the PhD is not meant to build vocational skills. However, you usually find humanities PhDs in all walks of life, simply because they do teach you some things: In doing it, you are mostly on your own. No research lab, no research group, just you, a supervisor and maybe some discussion groups debating general topics and questions. What does a PhD entail? Self-sufficient, independent work. The hardest part of a humanities PhD are continuous motivation, time management, structure, reading and writing.

Humanities PhDs are fundamentally different from science PhDs, they set people up differently, teach different skills and have different requirements.
There is still field work to be done in anthropology, but I have it on pretty good authority that grants are very thin unless you have a last name like Leakey. My friend was on the faculty at Harvard; now she's a lawyer because she doesn't want to retire in poverty.
Just because it might be best to focus on just one thing at the present doesn't mean you don't have other things to do that you need to keep track of.
Jeez, I'm pretty sure I threw a few rocks at buildings in my teenage years, but I don't think that means my upbringing was shitty (it was about as good as possible, IMO). You're demeaning a lot of people's families if throwing a rock at a building (or something equivalent) is your litmus test for having a shitty upbringing.
The difference only matters at scale.

I've met people I think would deliver a quality product in 4-6 months I wouldn't get done in 3 years. (6-9x)

When you're talking project arcs that are on the scale of at most a month or two, it hardly matters because most of our time is consumed with meetings about the start, end, check-ins, etc.
Looks down for me now.
I didn't see it that way. Media queries do what their intended quite well, for the most part. What is described in the article should not be addressed by media queries at all. That's why I thought the idea was being described as element queries, which makes more sense in that context then calling them media queries.

Don't think of it as an improvement or replacement, but as an addition.
Isn't this what routing does? The problem you're describing seems to be primarily a PHP one, particularly with the lack of a dominant framework in the PHP community. (Possibly also a .Net one, I've avoided working with ASP like the plague in my career).
About a decade ago, I left a humanities Ph.D. program at Stanford after finishing the coursework, but before starting the dissertation. In my experience, my classmates thought very hard about what they wanted to do with their lives, and were very aware of the career risk involved - if not when they entered the Ph.D. program, certainly by a couple years in. (Hanging out in the graduate lounge with the eighth-year Ph.D. students will do that to you.)

However, most of my classmates were so intensely interested in researching their specialities that they decided the risk was worth taking. After all, it's not like they're particularly suffering during grad school. Grad school in the humanities gives you blissful amounts of time to really geek out in the speciality of your choice, and at top-flight universities, the first few years are free (except for the opportunity cost.) If you get in, your basic expenses and tuition are covered.

Note how we lionize entrepreneurs who intensely pursue a low-probability dream, whether they succeed or fail, while grad students pursuing their own low-probability dream get nothing but scorn. Odd, no? What needs to be changed isn't necessarily grad school, but academic culture - particularly its attitudes towards and adaption to failure. If their community was as understanding of their own failures as ours is of our own, perhaps there wouldn't be such drama about their low rate of success.
Unless the title is superfluous a la amazon.
I feel like this "data" could be embedded into an image and then no bots would ever get a hold of mass amounts of personal data...
MSR does research and prototyping. It's up to the product teams to implement important findings and they still might have other priorities first.

Also »Microsoft« isn't one big monolithic entity and it's not uncommon for individual parts of it doing things in quite different ways.
Rename the article to"How to explain REST to non-techies, my wife for example?"
67 Years Of Potato Chip Innovation, In 5 Animated GIFs
It wouldn't have to say "Reading these terms of service is a criminal offense". It would merely have to say "Reading these terms of service is a violation of these terms of service".
It's about more than having holding someone to an agreement they're legally forbidden to accept. It's holding someone to an agreement they don't have facility to read without breaching the agreement. Their terms of service are on the website which the minor cannot read without accessing the website... by which time they are guilty of breach of the terms of service. I don't think I'll never understand the idiocy of American law.
An In Depth Google Video on the Relationship Between WordPress and SEO
Possible solution - go to La Grave and I'd be too scared to actually go skiing...

[NB Fantastic film about La Grave http://vimeo.com/15315278]
Who said microeconomics was not useful :-)

For those who are not used to that, it's a very simple linear regression, followed by an estimated demand equation, which you then turn into profit by multiplying each side by prices.

To find the local optimal, you look for the spot where the 1st derivate cancels (and the second is negative, unless you have a quadratic equation like that)

It's an example so well though and so simple that it should be in economics textbook, so that students see how to make more money with a simple application of sound principles.

(if the excel spredsheet was turned into an online collection, using say OLS to calculate the estimators, Victor would have had a SAAS pricing software instead of entering the stuff manually on his laptop! ain't that cool ?)
http://www.nasm.us
Yowsa. You need go hole up in the mountains with your survival gear, guns, gold bullion and collection of Glenn Beck books.
You could also say that the agreement is void w/r/t a minor, because they don't have capacity to contract, via Statute of Frauds. Of course there are plenty of times when they can contract, but TOS in general seem completely obtuse and not actually conducive of anything worthwhile.
I wonder if particularly serious violators would be tried as adults.
>Which part of "reasonable complaints about the gender-oriented nature of this article [..] from people I respect very much" implies that to you?

All of it. It's a public apology for something he did in good faith and was never problematic for him until the complaints forced him to take it down.

So I read the "reasonable complaints [...] from people I respect very much" as:

"some people I don't wish to annoy and otherwise respect have been bothering me with this shit, so, fine, I give up".

I was clear that it's my interpretation, it doesn't have to be what he feels. But, then again, it _could_ be.

I don't always take what people say at face value.

The same way when you read a politicians statement you sometimes just know he means the opposite or something different.
I haven't tried it; but how about Yasm?

http://yasm.tortall.net/

https://github.com/yasm/yasm/
Isn't automatic bookmarking basically your browser history?

I have long wanted to see improvements for browser history because this is a data which stays local to you. People have provided bells and whistles to the Bookmarks manager, but there's nothing for Browser History, in fact, it has gotten a bad rep for alleged security concerns.
Uh, thanks for the hagiography on Karp. German social philosophy teaches you how to think about privacy concerns in an espionage organization?

He's a smart, good-looking guy who has a lot of powerful friends in multiple locations.

His knowledge of German philosophy isn't really relevant.

http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6717

Prior to Palantir, Alex established the Caedmon Group in 2002. Based in New York and London, the Caedmon Group offers clients access to high-quality investment opportunities in the areas of hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, and intellectual property in the United States and Europe.

Alex earned his law degree at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. A U.S. citizen, Alex is bilingual in English and German and fluent in French.
I recommend using #!/usr/bin/env python3 as the shebang for portability[1] reasons if you intend to distribute the programs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29#Portability
Time-lapse video of a 3D printer printing Weighted Companion Cube from "Portal"
I agree that Google is aiming at most people, and not the HN crowd, and that they're doing a good job.

But I remember the days when you could craft a Google search url by hand and tweak the results. It was part of an advanced user's toolkit. All of that has been taken away. Searching is now opaque.
I think I read somewhere that a good number Flickr's users just hack this url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/<tag_name>;

Like somebody else said, I blame the tools, the requirements (but we gotta track the referring url of the referring url!!!), and the programmers.
Apparently nowadays they refuse to send CDs and demand that you buy them through Lulu.
With the right case, I don't see how this would withstand Supreme Court review. The Ninth Circuit doesn't seem to like it (Drew/Duval). My guess is the the SCOTUS wouldn't approve of private parties drafting their own criminal laws.
I have to say it depends. Some are for people and some are for machines.
"By partnering with att & htc and building on top of android they have now gained access into the cell phone industry with no investment in hardware, cell towers or in creating a new OS, just redesigning a home screen."

There's always a flip-side to this argument though, and that is that by not heavily investing, there really are pretty low barriers to entry for other tech companies with means.

What prevents Twitter or Google from releasing the exact same thing and then splitting this market proportionally to the market for social networks/new sites in general? I rarely use Facebook so this release has little utility for me. I fully understand I'm not representative of everyone and that there are many teenage girls who will fall over themselves to install it when it comes out.

But if Twitter or even Yahoo released a similar product, I have to believe I would be a lot more likely to install it. This to me just seems like a spruced-up notification system for Facebook. I don't really think it adds a whole lot to their bottom line or site usage.
It's 2013 and browsers still fail at rendering fonts similarly
I've always end using bitmaps to do the job that fonts should be doing. This is a f* problem that no one solves. Why?
There was a time in high school where I came to the realization that I learned material better doing independent study than in actual lectures/classes. Reading/studying on my own allowed me to learn in a more focused atmosphere. Lectures seemed like a waste, time spent scribing what was being 'taught' (for review later) versus actually absorbing material. Also, I felt that a lot of my time was wasted on topics that I really didn't care for and was quite painful (American & European History come to mind).

I brought this up to my guidance counselor and asked why I was wasting my time in high school when I could just as easily buy a book. Half-considered dropping out of high school and focusing my studies on topics that were interesting (physics, chemistry, cs, math, and possibly finance).

Our dialogue went something like:

GC: Uhh...don't drop out. You should stay in school it's good for you

Me: But I learn better straight from the book, it's what I'm doing for my courses now anyway...

GC: You need to have teachers

Me: Why?

GC: It's hard to get into [a reputable?] college without graduating from high school.

Me: ...

Kind of wish I did drop out back then. I would have probably spent a lot of my time honing a particular craft, although CS and Finance/Accounting seem to be the easiest choices (lower cost of entry compared to chemistry/physics/biology - requiring labs).

tl/dr: I wanted to drop out of high school and study independently. Guidance counselor encouraged me to stay in school. Wish I left so that I could focus on interesting subject areas.
Being big doesn't necessarily means being right, and big companies have sometime good reasons not to follow good practices.

Case in point: it took a while to those same companies to switch from table layout to CSS based layout [1][2].

[1] http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20408/if-css-i...
[2] https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/why-does-google-use-...
Sounds like a great solution. Tackles most of the issues that I have with what's available. The only thing I'd love to see is bookmarking of invidivual snippets of text / quotes. Looking forward to test it :)
It would be great to see access log statistics of big websites' terms of service pages.
Coinbase CEO here.

Just updated with a blog post: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-public-mer...

These are merchant checkout pages. Your information is not going to be shown on one of these pages unless you created a "buy now" button, donate button, or checkout page and posted a public link to it somewhere as a merchant. Order pages are designed to be public so customers can reach them, but we messed up by making them publicly indexable and including merchant contact info there without being more explicit. The email in particular should not have been included. More details in the blog post. Very sorry for the trouble on this!
Long ago, I put together some early release tools/plugins for shopping carts to connect directly to a bitcoind RPC JSON instance. No one could figure out really simple issues, like port forwarding on their routers, setting up bitcoind with authentication and allowing connections from specific IPs rather than %.%.%.%, or even the idea of hosting the web service for their "business".

It gained little to no interest.
When has their ever been a research-only professor job?
The name of the job is professor, not researcher.
I agree with a lot of your points; ego is a dangerous thing. However, I think it's important to differentiate between the two major types of rewrites (or claims as to why something should be rewritten): 1) The code is obviously subpar vs. 2) the programmer doesn't understand the code.

I've had to deal with code written by 3rd parties where I doubted the person was actually a programmer who wrote it; nonsensical or nonexistent naming conventions, large methods of dubious logic that were often never actually called (anymore?), and a general avoidance of best practices (and I don't mean advanced code; even simple things like code comments along the lines of "this is a for loop").

#2 is a different beast altogether and I think this more applies to your last paragraph. Is the source code too advanced for the programmer reading it, or is the code/architecture too obtuse? Unfortunately, I think it's often primarily programmer laziness more so than the design itself. I've been told by devs they don't understand a system and when asked what they don't understand, they simply shrug their shoulders. If you don't make an attempt to "get" the current system, in no way should you be allowed to rewrite it from scratch. You need to at least learn the mistakes of the current system.
FWIW, here's the Russian designer who travelled to 180+ countries and took tons of photos during the process:
http://www.tema.ru/travel/

I've read he also has a bet with another Russian guy to the tune of $100k on who will visit all the countries first.
Dude, my humble advice - don't feed him/her. It's a troll, just check out the previous comments.
That's mostly true although there's actually no good reason for that, it's perfectly possible to have a non-flat UI without using any images or special image effects, say the new Google UI without the very subtle gradients, it's minimalistic but not flat, right?
Why wait for Google Glass? Epiphany Eyewear is here now
Essentially no one does "EPO drills" on their datacenters. Particularly in multi-tenant environments like commercial colocation centers. It's quite reasonable for your DR plan to involve a $200k+ cost per EPO pull or DR failover. Your business should have DR provisions, and you should test the DR plan, but it's probably not reasonable (or legal) to do a full test involving dumping agent, rapid power off, etc.

The fire suppression exists for two reasons. One, is to get code exemptions to be allowed to run wiring in ways which would otherwise require licensed electricians to do every wiring job, and prohibit people from being in the facility. Two is to detect small fires early, and to prevent their spread, as well as to protect facilities from catastrophic facility-wide fire.

Servers are just not that high a fire risk, particularly when de-energized. Generally inside a self-contained metal chassis, less than 100 pounds each, metal/plastic, etc. The power supply is the most likely component to start a fire, and contains a max of maybe 250g of capacitors and other components. The risk of one server catching on fire is low, and the risk of it rapidly spreading to anything else is low, so yes, I'd be comfortable pulling a single burning server out of a de-energized rack.

Also, in big or purpose-built facilities, those components most likely to be fire risks (batteries/power handlers, and generators) are in separate rooms, separated by firewalls from the datacenter. A fire in the battery room is going to be dealt with by sealing that room and powering it off, dumping suppression agent, and bringing out the FD immediately.

Life safety is much more important than business continuity, but a lot of people have jobs where they accept a non-zero risk of physical harm to do their jobs. It's certainly not reasonable to demand a datacenter tech go into a burning building to rescue a database server or something, but approximately zero datacenter staff I know would have a problem with assuming the level of risk I would to find problems. (it's probably a bigger deal for employers to actually discourage risk-taking by employees, particularly when it's risk-taking to save themselves effort, like single-person racking large UPSes or very large servers, etc.)
> FizzBuzz is useful only to weed out perhaps the lower 5% of the developers population

Problem is, that 5% represents way more than 5% of the pool of job applicants, since it's those folks that continuously get rejected from jobs and keep applying. Any company hiring developers needs a decent FizzBuzz filter to sort out this riff-raff.

> There is no place for a FizzBuzz once the company is already engaging

In a technical and sharp company, yeah. In a company where the resumes go through HR and nontechnical managers, such that the first point of any technical evaluation is in the interview itself, then yeah that interviewer is going to need a FizzBuzz. And this is distressingly common in companies who hire some software developers but whose primary domain is not technology, like medicine or shipping or education.
Completely agree... this includes domain names.

At some point, searching for terms like "best hdtv 2013" would return a page full of sites with perfect urls like http://www.best-hdtv-2013.com/, and all of them would be extremely spammy and lacking in actual content. Seems less prevalent these days.
This looks like an _awesome_ service!

If you don't mind me asking, do you have any grand plans for it business-wise? Will it become a paid service in the future?

edit: ah, I see it already is for higher volumes :) That's fair!

> This token will allow you to make 100 calls per day. If you wish more API calls please contact us, and we will be more than happy to help you.