skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post to News.YC Bookmarklet (Modified for ease)
Just a minor modification on the existing bookmarklet for submitting links to News.YC

Existing bookmarklet redirects the users to the page to post the link. Instead, it would be better if a new tab is opened for the same purpose!

Edit the existing bookmark (Right Click -> Edit, usually) and replace the link with the link below, and you are all set.

Modified link (Paste this to the existing bookmarklet):

javascript:window.open("http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=" + encodeURIComponent(document.location) + "&t=" + encodeURIComponent(document.title))

Original link for bookmarklet (written by Phil Kast for News.YC):

javascript:window.location=%22http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=%22+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+%22&t=%22+encodeURIComponent(document.title)

PS: Are there any issues with the modification?
Actually dressing too well probably adds to people's cognitive dissonance. If her intention is to exploit this to her advantage, then that's one way to go about it... probably better then the OP's.

The OP didn't say anything about how she was dressed for these interviews. I'd put down good money that she was dressed better than the average SE. Just because some schmucks are tactless enough to blurt their confusion doesn't necessarily make them "sexist".
Women with degrees from high-status colleges tend to use them less
The Simplest Demonstration Of Evolution You'll Ever See
Wow I had no idea Spotify's valuation was that big. I stand corrected.

(Pandora is an interesting case, since they've publicly said that they're not going to be profitable for another 5 years...)
Hawking: Mankind has 1,000 years to escape Earth
I don't think I know anyone who doesn't turn off the sound effects as soon as they discover them.
Let me add to the surprise. I once wrote a nice piece of software that controlled hospital equipment (automated blood coagulation analyzer, to be precise). It is a quite serious piece of equipment used for post-operation patient recovery. As far as I know, a well regulated area.

Equipment went through stringent certification, passed all tests, deployed in hospitals, etc. All well and good, right? Did I mention, that I was 13, when I wrote that piece of software ;) And I guess you can imagine the quality of that code :)
Calligraphy?
Carmen Ortiz?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR
Anonymous to the Rescue in Canada Rape Case
A couple of problems. You didn't really address any of these issues. Apparently to you dumping a little oil in a ditch or some tar in a bog is equivalent to dumping millions of galleons into lakes, rivers, and oceans. Did you know that with all those beautiful stories of Exxon and others cleaning up oil spills, washing off baby ducks and sea lions, that most of them die? A 1996 study by UC Davis found that in the years following an oil spill in 1990, only 10% of pelicans that were "saved" from the spill survived beyond two years (while nearly 100% of a control group were still alive)?

Furthermore, You probably need a dictionary for Christmas. I didn't even suggest you were something as harsh as irresposible. My use of the word "criminal" in no way implicates you as a criminal, nor implies an illegal act. "Criminal" in this context is a synonym for shameful or disgraceful. So cool your jets.

I'm not sure what you're arguing beyond that. Somehow a couple of anecdotes makes for proof that we're hard on oil companies? We nowhere near make it painful on the oil industry. A company reporting billions in pure profit doesn't feel anything from a $20m fine. And how does that $20m compare to the $10-50 billion the oil industry got in subsidies alone that year? Looks more and more like a slap on the wrist to me. Some poor schlub got 16 years for leaking 6000 barrels, but no one at BP or Haliburton--knowingly installing bad blowout valves and other cost-cutting measures--did any jail time for loosing almost 5 million barrels into the Gulf? There's much more evidence for leniency on our part than accountability.

I'm just so tired of no one wanting to do better in this country. Be it guns, energy, education, poverty: it's everyone else's problem, it's just the way it is, and there's nothing we can do about it. I guess we're the Not-So-Greatest Generation.
Phabricator - Facebook's collection of apps to scale software companies
And the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) has lowered yields on fixed income to next to nothing. No longer are there less-risky investments that yield anything near the rate of inflation.
Honestly, there isn't much on this landing page to review. The online dating space is quite crowded. What benefits do you bring to the table? You should stress them. Or put a video together. Something to entice users to sign up. As it stands, there is nothing compelling me to sign up.

In regards to design, it's a bit old looking. The font (including the logo) is far too generic. The image is a bit clip-art-esque. The generic submit buttons aren't helping either. These are your calls to action... they need to pop!

Sorry to be harsh. But I think being honest is the most helpful thing.

Good luck!
You know, after looking into this some more, I'm not sure my assumptions about how the system works are founded in much, so you can safely ignore me (I didn't intend my second sentence to come across as authoritative as it may seem).

I was thinking that the exchanges act as verified sub-networks, reducing the amount of verification and policing requires if transactions were within or in some way linked to those networks. I do't really have enough knowledge about how it works to be making any such assumptions though, so I should have kept my mouth shut...
History has shown that Wordpress developers prioritise shiny new features over all other concerns.
I don't get how "the music" and "the chat" are good reasons to stick around while ping-pong table and xbox aren't.
I think this is a really good point. Management is a skill just like software engineering, and from my experience there appears to be a wide spread of management ability among the ranks of those who call themselves managers. If managers create a toxic atmosphere workers are going to leave regardless of how many xboxes, espresso machines, travel opportunities or whatever.
Why do people get paid six figures right out of school?

Easy, the people hiring them think they'll make them a lot more money than that.
This seems obviously false to me for several reasons. Are you being serious? Perhaps I'm ignorant and you can enlighten me, but I think the water rights situation in the United States is pretty clear-cut.
Regardless of whether they are wrong or not, the fact that you would use a gender-specific word to tell us why all men who disagree are incorrect is very telling.
Ouch. I think I would've quit that job when I found out there was an "open source review board". That reeks of bureaucracy.
$2 trillion in 15 minutes might be a wee bit of an exaggeration... considering the monetary base needs to, um, actually buy something, usually Treasury Bills. Which are managed by whole swath of administrators in the Dept of the Treasury (and could lead to printing presses -- for the T-Bills, anyway), as they're usually issued in bond series, etc.
Having it externally can be an advantage in that it doesn't matter if you have an extraneous space when you type the code in because it will be cleaned up by the formatter, whereas making it part of the language makes that an error (and possible quite a confusing one).
Yeah, but yesterday the same was true when it got to $100 or so. After a crash, there are always enough hopeful people to support a price for a little while, before it starts sliding down slowly again, until it reaches its next plateau.

I would expect this to get back down under $50 again (and I think even down to $30-$40) before it makes any kind of real recovery.

But of course, I'm guessing as much as anyone. I just wish I hadn't been busy at a trade show this week, or I would have sold when they were in the $150-$200 range.
New Bookmarklet to submit links to News.YC
Uh, but why is it so terrible to make these assumptions? Stereotypes are a major part of how the human species has gotten as far as it has, or even how, as individuals, anyone of us efficiently navigates the society of strangers.

What really matters is what happens AFTER sufficient introduction, ie. how quickly mental crutches are thrown out the door.

I'm sorry, nothing in her story, except the HR bit, sounded sexist. Even the HR bit is more an observation about how tactless some people are when re-evaluating mistaken preconceptions.

I'm done mansplaining now.
Maybe she just dresses much better than the average SE. Some people might be equally confused if they walked into the room and where greeted (without introduction) by a guy who was better dressed than they expected.
How about: raises. When your engineers can realistically get a 20, 30 or 50% raise switching jobs, go ahead and match that. Does your entry level person now have two years of experience? Boost their pay. A lot. Give people raises based on market rates, not based on their current pay.

Also, performance review processes at companies are generally horrid. I think it more often de-motivates people, lowers morale, and makes people want to go to other jobs if they feel under-appreciated or feel the process is bogus. Employees shouldn't have to write a 3 page essay justifying their growth and goals. It should be evident from their work. And peer reviews are all the worse. If a manager can't competently review performance of engineers, the manager isn't doing his/her job.
If we let the banks go down should we have let the counter parties go down as well? Should AIG have gone down? While I agree that it would have been better in the long run to let them fail there would have been tremendous consequences to doing so in the short term.

If a public pension fund went down with it should it have gotten tax payer money? How about GE? Was the intervention in the short term commercial paper market appropriate? Incidentally this is the one intervention that I still feel was absolutely necessary.

While I can hate on the banks as much as the next person there would have been real consequences to letting them fail and I don't think that most people would have gone along with it. If JP Morgan had fallen into bankruptcy and companies (regular ones) that bank there had been unable to make payroll since there cash (and cash convertibles) were frozen there would have been chaos.

This started with small interventions like the latin american debt crisis and now that the genie is out of the bottle its not going back in.
It's not by definition a fiat money, but has similarities:

- it is declared by a group of cooperating people to be a form of tender (legally protected only via contract law),

- they effectively have no intrinsic value,

- nor is it fixed in value to any objective standard

It's effectively not that different from currency of the "free money" era in the 1700 through early 1800's, where there were hundreds, if not thousands, of currencies in the USA issued ("by fiat") by independent banks. The civil war mostly was what changed that.
There's a whole range of "management skills" that are pertinent to being a manager. This is what really complicates things.

My former manager was extremely gifted at salesmanship (selling our "product" to the C level) and was deft at dealing with interdepartmental politics (including posturing to make our product/team more important in the company) for us. But he was a squeezer, and honestly just didn't care about the well being or mental sanity of each of his team members. This made him (in my view) a good or even very-good manager, but far from a great one.
If the compromise was a brute force, then there's no need to reset my password.

If the compromise was due to a flaw in Linode's system (potentially exposing other accounts) then a global password reset makes sense.

Can you imagine if every service you used reset everyones passwords every time one of their users got brute forced? You'd do nothing but reset your passwords all day...
First Break all the Rules is relevant to this discussion. It also has the virtue of being very data focused (they did thousands of surveys to come to their conclusions).

here's a summary of the key conclusions.

http://www.refresher.com/!breakalltherules.html
The water rights situation in the U.S. is a total disaster. You have California, Nevada, Arizona, etc, fighting over ever more overstrained output from the Colorado river. Even in wet places like Florida you're having to dig deeper and deeper to hit water (1,000+ feet in some cases). Aquifers in the western midwest are threatened by fracking.

And in the midst of potential scarcity, the law is a total mess. Basically, you can do whatever the hell you want with groundwater as long as you can pump it out, even if it decreases the water table for people around you.

The reaction to this is that some people now see the potential for profit. There are forces that want to privatize water resources, taking water from the places that still have it to water lawns in fucking Scottsdale and Phoenix (which shouldn't even exist). That's where the "slavery" part comes in.
The "information" on the web is not doubling. The number of accessible bytes are.

Ten million cat videos don't constitute prior art against RSA, for example.
It seems that the primary reason for owning stock is almost never the voting rifbts or the dividends (obvious considering there are nonvoting stocks and nondividend stocks which are still valued).
Where does my tweet Go? RT spreading with three.js
It doesn't always redirect...

If you visit http://manager.linode.com/session/index it'll happily let you log in via HTTP.
This makes me wonder what the optimum sleeping schedule
actually is. Is it sleeping twice each night, like mentioned
in the article? Or is something like the uber schedule
better? I've been on the "hacker" schedule for the past month
or so (10PM to 2AM) and I've been getting more work done than
ever.
I agree. One of the things I've learned over time is that when I have lost my cool like this, 100% of the time it has been a direct result of me not being open enough with my boss or coworkers.

"HEY! STOP! LISTEN TO ME!" is frustration in another area "coming out sideways". For her, it might be ambient frustration at this sort of insulting behavior that finally bubbles up to the surface and is expressed poorly. I have made it a habit, when I'm being frustrated or otherwise impacted by something, to bring it up directly and immediately. You're not doing anyone any favors by suffering in silence. Just the opposite. You're hurting yourself, your boss & coworkers, and your company by not piping up immediately.
Kind of disappointed there wasn't a 72 point FUCK within the first 5 slides.

Slippin', dude.
Bitcoin: Get over it.
You're nitpicking and /or not reading carefully: No one said they're identical. The point was that Google and Microsoft are using all tools at their disposal against each other.

>> I think this is missing the OP's point anyways, which is that if the perception of developers is that Microsoft's platform is hurting, then they need to publicly focus on positive boosting of that platform. This is the same complaint many have had about the whole scroogled thing.

I guess you didn't read my comment, because I addressed that. But I suspect that as soon as this lawsuit is over the one and only person working at Microsoft http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT+Key+Statistics will focus all his energy on boosting their platform.
There would still have to be different hardcoded signatures and implementations for cross-product, transformations and "angleTo"-type methods that you would have to worry about, depending on how complicated your vector class gets. I don't know if there's really a good way to handle those cases generically. So keeping the classes separate might still make sense, even with that feature.
New Direction for Social Media?
The purpose of the Marcott, et al study was to understand what happened during the last 11,300 years. We already know what happened during the last 100 years. (Nonetheless the uptick at the end of their graph is almost certainly a byproduct of misaligned proxies.)

What's more, the FAQ selects quotes from the article; the FAQ offers no additional information. In particular, from the article and FAQ:

>Without filling data gaps, our Standard 5×5 reconstruction (Figure 1A) exhibits 0.6°C greater warming over the past ~60 yr B.P. (1890 to 1950 CE) than our equivalent infilled 5° × 5° area-weighted mean stack (Figure 1, C and D). However, considering the temporal resolution of our data set and the small number of records that cover this >interval (Figure 1G), this difference is probably not robust.

It's disingenuous to imply that this clarification was tacked on after the fact, as the blogger suggests.

Finally, there's this from the blog:

> If your methods can’t resolve data points in a given period of time, then DON’T REPRESENT DATA POINTS IN THAT GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME.

Marcott, et al clearly state (in the paper) that there is zero preservation of variability in 300 year resolutions, 50% at 1000 year resolutions, and nearly full preservation in 2000 year resolutions. This blogger takes this to mean that the last 2000 years should be arbitrarily trimmed from the graph. Following that logic, we might as well continue trimming along the x-axis until nothing is left.
The music and the chat are about the people in a way that ping-pong and Xbox really aren't...
I like the cut of your jib.

I try to leave out the cussing but cutting through smarmy corporate BS to actually accomplish stuff with minimal process is a valuable skill and one that should be cultivated by everyone.
It's really about the character of those things rather than the things themselves. Any company can just buy an Xbox or a ping-pong table, whereas the particular selection of music or friendly banter in the chat helps define the unique culture of GitHub.
I'm a new WordPress user. Are there any guides online with best practices that I can follow? (Some suggestions I see in this thread: rate-limiting plugin, don't have user id #1, don't have user "admin".)
And some movies go into the category "pornographic" and are not supposed to do anything but turn you on.
I don't understand the carpenters' trick. Why is asking where to drill the correct answer?
Absolutely amazing storytelling. Gripping yet hilarious at the same time.

Nothing to do with HN, but I'm so happy I got to read this. Now I'm going to read his other stuff, brb... :)
Not having seen the actual talk, I can only assume that "the chat" means being able to chat with lots of very smart people. (A huge benefit to any job like this)
I would take that further: I want to work for a company where you need a form from the VP to allow any work in the company to go un-open-sourced. Everything is MIT-licensed and posted to Github by default. Only the secret-est of secret sauce gets redacted.
Yeah, to me those really all fall into the same category.
Seriously. Had I been in the same position, which I have, I would have just silently observed the heated discussion, identified the linchpin, and approached them afterwards.

On one hand she describes these guys as loud, wrong, assholes. And then she takes action to interject the correct answer in a way that just proves she's the loudest asshole there (but RIGHT!). Then all of a sudden, the whole episode is ascribed to sexism? She must have left out a lot of details, cuz I don't see it.
I usually see the term "fiat money" used in the context where people are arguing that a central banks ability to control the money supply is either good or bad. Fiat money in that context is used as the contrast to something like the gold standard.

In this current context, bitcoin is more like the gold standard that typical fiat money. The supply of bitcoin can not be manipulated to manage the economy.
I disagree. Where I work, the ping-pong table and (proverbial) xbox is where you find the people you're going to work on your next project or hack with.
No it isn't. I use bitcoin for currency exchange and it saves me about a hundred dollars each month by lowering my transaction costs. Rather than pay a percentage to the banks and often another percentage to VISA, I pay a flat fee to transfer assets into bitcoin, and then another flat fee to transfer them out. Total costs end up being something like 1 percent instead of 3-5 percent. And the exchange rate typically ends up being better too.

So I am bullish on bitcoin, although I think it will be less a currency than an asset store for many early adopters. The way to deal with volatility if you are worried about market fluctuations is simply to buy and sell on multiple exchanges simultaneously, ideally holding a small float so the exchanges are near-simultaneous and you aren't exposed to downside risk.

On a side note, I pay for server hosting using a credit card now and am interested in saving the 3 percent VISA fee, since that adds up to almost a thousand dollars a year at this point. So if anyone can recommend a professional server colocation and leasing company that accepts bitcoin and is based in California (ideally the Wilshire facility) I would be interested in hearing about your experiences. Please note that I'm not looking for shared hosting or VPS provision -- I need to lease actual hardware.
Well, with tempi, my main gripe isn't the exact BPM but rather the fact that you have to memorize all this obscure Italian (+ other?) terminology in order to understand what's going on. Why can't we have standard localized terms instead?

As for exact note lengths, I mostly agree with you, except for certain pieces of modern music (EDM, for instance) where the meter is fairly rigid but the note lengths are off from the defaults. It would be nice to be able to represent that accurately.
It seems like this phenomenon is something you'd expect to hear about from thru hikers on the Appalachian Trail.

Never specifically asked or looked for it, but never heard anything about it either.
For many young people, Facebook Messages have mostly replaced the functionality that Email is typically used for. It has also tied in the Chat/IM/IRC functionality with the integration with Groups, as well as getting people to sign up to send their SMS through Facebook Messenger. You can share files and photos. They have replaced a massive chunk of communication for a lot of people.
Iterative Map Reduce - Some prior art
Start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

Find a good host, use a secure password password, pay attention to the 3rd party plugins you're installing, and keep your install updated.
I think it can be hugely advantageous if it's an optional functionality. Switching to another app is slow, whereas responding to a popup is fast. On phones, it seems like a much better way of multitasking than having apps side-by side (I have a NoteII).
> A less mean way to say that would be, "most users don't perceive what you perceive" and that's for the very simple reason that you look at your product through the filter of a creator.

That's really not what that part of the slides was about. It's more about the common adage, "users don't really [consciously] know what they want." A customer might not be happy even when you give them exactly what they asked for; and a customer might be ecstatic when you give them something they didn't mention wanting at all. Don't listen to requests; just iterate and observe the real reaction of the market.
Instead, you'd just let an engineer grab some AGPL code and use it in your web stack without considering the implications? I've seen it happen, and the engineer in question didn't understand why — or even that — it was a problem.

Sure, it's a little process-y, but it's not there just to check boxes on forms.