skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet's Most Niche Website Is Also One of Its Most Brilliant
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Go and innovate on Android, what's the problem. Or make your own platform and innovate there. Or use HTML5.
What makes me sad is constant whining about stuff like this.
I understand the premise now, but it took me a while to figure out how it worked. The problem is, what they really need to say is something like:

"You can put any email address in here. If Persona has seen you before you can just put in your password and you're set. If you put in an email address that we have an integration with (like Yahoo) then you're all set. If you put in an address that we dont know, we'll ask you to create an account and then you'll be signed in. We might well have seen you before, so maybe try your 'normal' email address but the chances are you won't know whether we know about you as this is all too new."

Because THAT is basically how it works (AFAICT) but obviously that's a lot of text and no one actually reads text on websites.

The problem is that no one knows WTF persona is. Like my Dad and my wife have no idea what it is. They are also REALLY nervous about just putting their email address and password for a separate account into a website they have never seen before, AND FOR GOOD REASON!

This is a total usability clusterfuck. You expect my Dad (who calls the entire internet "Google") to accept this and not get worried about it?

They need to put MASSIVE INTERNET BRAND LOGOS in that box. Like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Apple. Brands like that. Brands that, you know, my Dad has actually heard of and might actually have an account with.

I can see they are going in that direction with the Yahoo announcement, and MASSIVE KUDOS to them for that, that's a big step. Bit right now the usability is fucked and will stay fucked until the Persona brand as as big as Apple's or Google's. So never.
You did get 8 cores, which is what they promised.
You're losing 95% of users right there, including many techies. What's "Persona" vs "persona.org" vs "Persona identity provider" vs "persona.org fallback identity provider"
As the other commenter pointed out, three people doing a startup like this can easily provide 10-100x times more value to society when compared to them just being regular employees at a random large corporation.

Easier problems are solved first, and that's fine. There's less risk and so more growth per money invested. Not everything should be invested into super-high risk technology or something. Besides, this company might be bootstrapped.

It's also worth to note that first-world people tend to work on first-world problems. There's nothing wrong with that. It makes sense to work on problems that you're familiar with. I wouldn't start a restaurant since I've zero experience in that industry.

The problem is not that they're fixing a "easy problem". The problem is that for some unknown reason it hasn't been fixed yet.
I think the main reason for this is that (to my knowledge) you can only buy the newest model of the iPad at any given time whereas the market for phones is far more segmented. Thinking of my friends, I know simultaneously people who have the 4, 4S, and 5, and you can purchase pretty much three models at any given time. Differentiating them would be far more difficult if you only had one name across the board.
I suspect that, in the general case, keeping away people/projects for whom $20/month is prohibitively expensive ends up being a virtue for caker and the Linode crew.

(Note that I'm not intending this to refer to you specifically, since you're already a subscriber anyway.)
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Build quality also got drastically better. The hardware buttons are impressively responsive. The phone also got considerably lighter and denser, which I definitely notice in my daily usage.
Awesome list. Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be reviewing the pricing model per the comments from HN. Would love to hear more on what you think would make sense :) team@polychart.com
Different fields. Collada was for 3D graphics (and I don't know what's going on in that field).

STL is for manufacturing. STL has long been popular for commercial FDMs and CNC machines, and it is also what hobbyists use for their FDMs ("3D printers").
What would Efnet lose by redacting the name of the operator themselves before doing it? They still show timestamped logs, and [operator redacted]@ef.net would be enough to note that an operator reported the issue.

If the log included chat between the malicious user and the operator, the malicious user __already knows__ the operator's nick, so there's no additional information. If the log doesn't include that, then what reason is there to include the nickname of the operator?

Rather than expecting Someone Else to sanitize our information (which fields do you feel are critical to redact? real name? phone number? IP? zodiac sign? Made-up-nickname?), it seems like it's a good idea to proactively redact the information ourself before making that abuse report.
You're right , but that's a pretty difficult and expensive solution.

The more practical solution for now is 2.5D stacking - stacking all the un-packaged chips on silicon/glass die instead of a pcb. That's already being used in some fpga and communications equipment.

But 2.5d is still pretty expensive and complex. Not yet ready for low cost stuff.
I actually like reading the Markdown, it's intuitive and then I get to have display text that makes the sentence easy to parse.
No, that's not useful. Cookie tossing attacks need not generate their own cookies -- it's just as effective, if not more so, to toss cookies for a session that was generated for another user.
Really enjoyed the intro to your post. The comparison to Hungarian was a good hook.
How to innovate. Focus on jobs to be done.
This inspired me to create a simple page where people can update their status in real-time. It's similar to the firepad.io text editor, except you can only edit your own status and not that of others.

You can try it at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8554242/live-status.html
From my experience all I need know is if there is a delay or not, which I check quickly on the airport's page.
If on time:
For international flights and large airpors if you have about 1h to travel (traffic, distance etc) leave when the plane is landing. By the time the plane gets to the gate, people get out, find their luggage and so on, it will be ~ 1 hour. You won't need to park your car, go straight to the door for pickups.

Speaking from experiences. Also my gf is a FA.
Pragmatic Cosine Similarity
Android exists. Samsung is on Apple's heels. Now that Steve is gone I'm seriously considering how long will Apple be able to keep it up so I would not worry too much. Tim Cook is just another business guy, no comparison to Steve Jobs the artist, visionary, distortion field inventor, (and yes an ass*hole too but that is OK because he gave us the iPhone,iPad,Mackbook,iPod). I don't envy Tim Cook, he took over Apple at its peek and without a strong vision he will probably rule over its decline (I hope I'm wrong).
But their network is horrible. I moved my irc client/mumble server to DO when they were first announced on HN, and the intermittent lag made it impossible to even chat (mtr confirming multiple times that the issue was on DO's end). If I can't even irc from their servers it doesn't matter what price they charge.
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Our founders have been true to their promise of work/life balance, and I believe this contributes greatly to our team's success. We're quickly expanding around the country without any VC breathing down our necks and growing at a quicker pace than competitors who try to emphasize the usual work hard play hard mantras. Some of the other comments on here ring true when they suggest that certain kinds of investors benefit most from employees burning themselves out. I think our well rested team with plenty of time for friends and family tackles problems with healthier vigor than our tired competitors!
why is everyone these days so afraid of investing time? d3 is well worth the time invested learning!
We'll be reviewing the licensing option per feedback from HN. Please send a note to team@polychart.com, would love to hear more about what you think would be reasonable :)
Madison, WI, please. Then have a look at the WI university and trade school network, including Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's a bit of a race against time vis à vis Governor Walker and the Koch et al. interests, but they haven't done in the state, yet.

Behind the current fractiousness are a lot of people who care deeply about their state and have a long-standing record of investing in its public infrastructure and services. And U.W. Madison is a top tier public university, set in the midst of a rather creative community.
OBJ is for 3D graphics, STL is for 3D manufacturing.
Author vastly overstates the importance of the tech press: do I really need to point out that the iPhone 4S and 5 both sold (and continue to sell) like crazy, mostly limited by their availability?
You might find this one interesting too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520321. It is about the new desktop semantic merge tool...
I understand what you mean. I don't imagine I could work very long on a project like this with asking myself if it's the most important problem I could be solving.

But we don't know these guys, they may feel the same and this is a means to an end. Luckily the entire generation isn't working in Silicon Valley and there are similarly motivated people in climate change research, biotech etc.
And I am still interested in hearing from you if you are female. (Edit) Previous (closed) thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5074151

I guess you can post here or shoot me an email (my gmail starts with talithamichele).

Thanks.
Well, way to give them more ammunition.
Implementations would no doubt be similar, but here they are targeting hardware/manufacturing, not gaming/graphics.
It's hard to evaluate when the projects are so new. It was a similar problem with Crossfilter/Datavore/Data.js/Miso Dataset when they all came out.

If I had to pick, I'd go with Vega because I think it has the most potential to develop a community around it. Especially as a bridge between Python/R and D3.js through JSON. Think iPython notebooks, R Shiny, etc.
Obligatory comment about response bias. Glad we've gotten that out of the way.
Yes! I've been considering switching to Linode for a few months now. Last month I made the leap when they introduced 8 cores. RAM was the only thing I found lacking for the price. This now completes it :-)
Yes, that's right, the parent literally meant that an entire generation - millions upon millions of people without exception are dedicating themselves to precisely this cause.

I think it's pretty clear what he means and there's plenty of room to argue against that, no need for this kind of post.
Apple vs. Saga #12
Isn't this a bit like FirePHP (except FirePHP has more browser support) ?
As a counterpoint, I'm looking quite seriously at an Android as my next device, this after being a "life-long" iPhone fan.

It's simply gotten to the point where Android works well enough for my big use cases, is open enough to changes to allow me to do some things I can't with the iPhone, is cheap enough that it saves me money, is big but light... overall, iPhone has less of an advantage every day.
FiOS clocks in at 150+ Mbps and starts at 25/25 Comcast is the prime offender in the you have no other options game.
For someone who genuinely complains about "first world problems," it seems that being upset about what smartphone apps a couple of random guys are building should make it pretty high on the list. I'm sure people living in third world countries would love to have the luxury to experience lamentation about which lucrative business choices a bunch of first worlders are making.
The interaction model is something that very few charting libraries have. Also we try to make Polychart.js very easy to get started in, so that creating a simple line or bar chart would take minimal amount of code. Vega is amazing as well for how flexible it is.
They are still selling the iPad 2 and the iPad 4 side by side:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/compare
I did. Many times. But I'm glad to have been wrong!
The main reason you might want to use Firepad instead of Etherpad is if you don't want to run the server-side piece of Etherpad. For example, if you're stack is different than theirs it might be a pain to set up a special server environment just for the collaboration portion of your app.

Firepad is fully client-side code, so there's no server software for you to set up.

The other big reason you might use Firepad is to get all of the other goodies that Firebase provides, like the automatic scaling, Forge debugger, declarative security, etc.
The iPad 2 is (or at least was) still available, as a low cost non-retina option. I believe it continued to outsell the iPad 3. Now that the iPad Mini exists to fill that segment, they may be more likely to remove the old options.
Take a peek at the headers:

$ curl -I https://raw.github.com/Polychart/polychart2/develop/polychart2.standalone.js

You will see

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

This is a deadly combination: browsers may reject script tags with incorrect MIME types if nosniff is set.
I try not to draw conclusions about what would happen in D.C. given X, because Y is often something I never would have guessed, but here goes (all that follows is IMHO).

I think if you managed to increase corporate tax revenue five-fold, we would spend more, because political capital now via spent dollars is more effective (politically) than long-term doom and gloom over an increasing debt.
All SSD storage isn't created equal. I assume you don't mean the Pixel as an example of the reasonably priced machine. Before that you had the Acer Chromebook with a normal hard drive, and the Samsung ARM Chromebook with a tiny 16GB eMMC drive.

Any eMMC devices I've used in the past have had pitiful throughput, low iops, and random stuttering. Barely good enough for something like a tablet. Not really for a general purpose computer. Now, I haven't seen any detailed benchmarks of disk IO on the ARM Chromebook. Maybe it's got some new advanced controller that's capable of decent performance. But I'd bet that it's still far behind a high quality SATA SSD controller. And that's going to cost real money, and won't be present in a $200 device.
Errors cancel out when they're errors of magnitude, which is what I believe he was referring to, and is often the most important property of Fermi estimates.

If one estimate is off by 2x and another is off by ½x, those cancel out because the exponents are additive.

Edit: Parent deleted comment…oh well.
Why convertible notes are evil ...
they typically eat your data by corrupting their internal state. I hear about this kind of ssd crashes way more often than conventional HDD crashes.

flash wear is a red herring and is dwarfed by these FTL corruptions.
Use one decent server for all your side projects. $20/month is not very much, unless it's just sitting there doing nothing.

Alternatively, Hetzner will give you a 512MB VM for about $10.34/month.
Paypal API Destroys Sanity
I've heard a lot of things from AT&T customers, and "satisfied" is never one of them. This is too little too late, and I'm pretty sure that most of their current customers can't wait to jump ship -- regardless of whatever carrots that they bring out at the last minute.
It also discourages developers from making high-quality apps. If I have to buy 5 different apps for $3 to find the one I like best, I've just given $12 to the developers of apps I'm never going to use again and the best app developer still only gets $3. So where's the incentive for anyone to improve the quality of their apps if they all get paid? This doesn't hold true in cases where there's one clear leader in a category, but I've definitely seen it in more specialized categories or ones with multiple popular titles.

I'd much rather get a free 1-day trial on each of those 5 apps and pay my whole $15 for the one I like best. The problem with this is that it'd kill all the mediocre to lousy app developers, but I just see that as a problem for those developers. It's a win for Apple and consumers, right?
A site such as bitcoin-24.com allows you to create an account with no personal identification. It also allows you to send cash money (converted from bitcoin, usually) to an address.

And if you want to avoid the address issue, you can (currently) use one of the many 'exchanges' at localbitcoins.com and pick it up personally. Hell, if that's too dangerous you can probably get a minion to do it for you.

If the government ever cracks down on this kind of stuff, for example by making it harder to be a local trader at localbitcoins.com, then I have no doubt that a small industry of 'illegal traders' will appear, or methods of laundering the money.
Where is Varnish in this mix?
Assuming you mean non-response bias, how would that figure into this poll? Do you think men or women would be more likely to vote?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-response_bias
I agree, but can understand why Linode might want to stay away from the real lowend side of the scale.

Personally I've started using Digital Ocean for those smaller non-production servers (staging, dev etc). I still wouldn't trust DO for anything production.

The Linode service and support is second to none, and I'm happy paying the price (which now gives effectively twice the value!).
SSDs in your database server is a wonderful thing.
I'd rather be considered a person in engineering rather than a woman in engineering, but I'm still interested in the stats.
Expensive SSD recovery is also an option.
Love the app and just downloaded it. I do airport runs all the time for my roommates. Really beautiful.
Externally HDDs and SSDs are identical. Not sure what "implementation" you're referring to.

They'd just order SSDs from the exact same manufacturers that they're buying HDDs from. They put them in the same holes and attach them to the same connectors and Windows detects them just the same.
Good idea and looking great!

I just signed up and here are a few observations:

- the editor is stuck every few minutes on latest Chrome

- helper buttons (clone/delete) disappear after a few moves

- content elements are disappearing when typing (heading titles on marketing layout) - not sure if that triggered some shortcut

- the "undo" button is missing there badly
Can you also leave the clickable linky? I am on an Android and can't copy-paste. Thanks.
My advice is, be yourself and provide references.

With a HN account created only 2 hours ago, and no information in
your profile ("about" section) of who you are or supporting references
for why your claims should be believed, asking for email addresses is
asking for a lot of blind trust.

Your site has no information, save for a "potential" offer of a game
at a reduced price. Explain what you hope to do (group-buying games),
and explain how the "Doom & Destiny" game offer is just the first
endeavor.

Since the agreement with Heartbit Interactive [1] is conditional, getting
an announcement on their site seems undoable, but getting a tweet or
something from Benjamin Ficus is probably doable, and you can cite it.

I'm not a gamer so my email address wouldn't do you any good, but I will
give you an up-vote.

[1] http://www.heartbit-interactive.com/
Google, Tulsa, Oklahoma is waiting with open arms.
Don't blame Apple too much for this.

mSATA's reused mini-PCIe card form factor was physically too small to contain all the chips needed for a high capacity SSD, given the capacities per chip that were available when the MacBook Air/Retina were released.

There is a new "NGFF" standard that basically apes Apple's longer form factor with a standardized connector, but I haven't seen any devices that use it yet:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6293/ngff-ssds-putting-an-end-...
Ah, sorry about that. I will take a look and see where the issue is. Thanks!
Should have had her buy a cheap 1 TB external caddy at Amazon for $50. Makes much more sense than ruining a perfectly good laptop (and paying for the privilege).
Before, "good enough" for the iPhone was good enough, as nothing else came close. But with how polished Android has become of late, the bar is much higher, and Apple's "good enough" is no longer at the same level of other players.

Siri woes in comparison with Google Now (look at the comparisons during hurricane Sandy—Siri confused it with a sports team). Maps can be synced offline on both Android and Windows Phone. Want to share a photo to Instagram as soon as you take it with the stock camera app (the only one that has a "shortcut" from the lock screen)? With Android, one tap. With iOS, you have to load Instagram, and share it from there.

There are many little things that were okay when iPhone was still young but they appear to be resting on their laurels.