skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should learn from their example.

I'm not sure if it's that they have no PR experience in the company, or just don't consider StackExchange/HN/Reddit to be worthy of a serious effort.

IMO, this is the kind of thing founders should handle personally once it happens. Maybe guided by a PR person or an investor, but a founder giving an adequate response gets graded on a curve, and is thus a lot more effective than a completely polished PR/marketing person.
Looks like your usual WordPress malware.
JavaScript Memory Analyzer Identifies Leaks in Windows Store Apps
I used to think like this. Many ideas from that era of my life were really foolish. I see the same thoughts.

God says...

1:5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the
brethren, and to strangers; 1:6 Which have borne witness of thy
charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey
after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 1:7 Because that for his
name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers
to the truth.

1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the
preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

1:10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth,
prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith,
neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that
would, and casteth them out of the church.

1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.
He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen
God.

----

First, you should know -- if this is good, why the heck aren't others doing it for the last 300 years?

There must be tons of writing on this topic, but if I had to guess...

These companies like valve sure waste a lot of time and effort talking and thinking about how they're going to do things and not doing them.

If I'm a manager, I don't want my employees thinking of their rate of pay every day, week, or month. Maybe, once a month they should happen to think of their rate of pay.

Differences in pay, are going to distract everybody. Do you actually want your employees to sit and compare themselves and mull-over if rates of pay reflect work? Oh, hell, know -- now you got ten times as many thoughts to distract -- what did he do this week? He! He sat on his ass!
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Stack overflow talks a lot about its C++ FAQ tag. It may be good to include this information:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/68647/setting-up-a-f...

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/c%2b%2b-faq/info

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-b...

NOTE: I am not sure I would buy it, but I might read it!
This was an interesting and well written followup but I'm disappointed in Herndon's decision to publish it on Business Insider. BI is generally full of blogspam and has interstitial ads.
> The only extra thing it does is ensure the data is valid JSON,

Even that's actually not quite fair, it has special syntax for queries within the JSON (->> etc), and a bunch of functions: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-json.h...
Most importantly -- when researchers know their data and methodology will be out in the open they'll have a big incentive to make it look clean and presentable. They know they risk getting called out on excluding certain segments of the data set, so they'll have to at the very least add a small remark in the spreadsheet justifying their decision. It also makes it really easy for other researchers to pick other start and end years to test if the result only holds for the original data. Which again, encourages researchers to explain justify the input data they've chosen.

In addition, researchers are likely to discover mistakes while cleaning up the excel sheet, data sources and code before publishing it. Just like we find mistakes in our work while refactoring and cleaning up code before we push it to github.

So even when nobody ever looks at the data and code we can expect the quality of the research to improve significantly: just because the code is there to be looked at.

I think the case in favor of making data & code public for academic research is pretty overwhelming.
On a related note, an anecdote which has long stuck with me:

In the foreword to the Complete Calvin & Hobbes, Watterson noted his excitement at receiving the first copy, a box containing his life's work nicely arranged and packaged. Then horror hit him: that was it, his life's work, in just one small box.
That's the point of PHP , you dont need a framework to do web development with PHP. PHP is merely a C Web dev DSL. Using a framework over a DSL makes no sense.
> Macroecon has the simultaneous hindrances of (1) not being able to run a controlled experiment and (2) a dearth of data.

Well, except #1 should be "not being able to run experiments in laboratory conditions". Statistical controls in an experiment are still controls, and it is still possible though (because of the point made briefly by #2, to run statistically-controlled experiments) sometimes of limited utility; the dearth of data (specifically, the small number of data points compared to the number of independent variables that need to be controlled for) is what limits the utility of many experiments with statistical controls in the field.
Have you heard of Belly?
It would be really interesting to view some statistics as to how accurate the test is across participants. It guessed I was 29 when I am 34, which seems relatively close -- but how do I compare to others in terms of error?
I voted Social Networking site, purely for financial reasons. I don't particularly care about Social Networks, but knowing what I know now, that Social Networking will be a multi-billion dollar industry. I'd ride that gravy train with biscuit wheels as far as it could take me.
How to explain Bitcoin to your grandmother
||markerly.com

into your ad-blocker config kills it.
On that note, I'll throw out an idea - maybe the valuation of company stock is not accurate enough. If it were, the problem would be much easier:

big co salary = startup salary + #shares * (stock price - option strike price).

EDIT: diving one level deeper, perhaps a company needs two valuations: one for investors buying the stock (market driven), and an internal one that employees are likely to accept. The two numbers should be the same, but during bubbles there might need to be a gap between them.
> I strongly believe that errors are a much more pervasive problem in science and related fields than malice is.

In science generally, probably. In areas tightly connected to perennial areas of sharp ideological policy divides, like macroeconomics, I'm less convinced.
Hmm. I've been in your position. I tried to eat better, continue working on things I cared about, be nice to people, and exercise. It didn't actually change much for me.

However, when I started taking anti-depressant medications things did change. I am still trying to live a socially and physically healthy life, but I'm noticing changes that weren't happening before taking the medication. Physical differences like food tasting better, feeling warmth instead of nothing, increased sex drive and similar things.

Your local city might have programs set up where you can go and get free help. It is something worth looking into if you have the energy.

Right now, even though my situation is very similar to where I was before, choosing to live is a lot easier. I actually acknowledge all the good things a lot more then I used to and its much easier for me to be happy about the improvements I see rather then focused on my failures. The really cool thing is that without suicide hanging over my head I'm a lot more able to actually do things. When people ask me out to eat I say yes. I've went on trips too. Basically, there are a lot of fun and good things that you will be able to do once you've dealt with this.

Good luck and hopefully you find my anecdote helpful.
What do you think questions are for?
In Chrome, right click, copy image, paste in Paint.
I guess because the apps are optimized to look nice, as opposed to being ergonomic and functional.

For any tracking that doesn't require support database (like food calories), I switched to TapLog [0]; it's the only sane tracking app I've seen so far. It allows you to place buttons on your homescreen to track custom-defined categories (I use, among others, Expense, Weight, Sleep time). You can store a number, a rate (1-5) OR a text description. And that's it. You press the button, type in the quantity, press "Log" and you're done. And it allows you to export all data to CSV - for me it's the most important feature (and without it, I won't be using any kind of tracking app).

[0] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waterbear....
I'm curious who has standing. One of the people who posted/commented in the original thread? A user who wanted to learn about CipherCloud? StackExchange itself?
7 Myths on Big Data—Avoiding Bad Hadoop and Cloud Analytics Decisions
David Weekly has a tough road ahead of him as the new Developer Program liaison at facebook.

This article seems to focus more on canvas apps, rather than offsite apps (which is what I see more of these days). Andrew is right on most of these points, my company used to build tons of bespoke facebook apps for people, not anymore. Seems like wildfire cashed out at the right time.
BeagleSNES: Now You Can Build Your Own Embedded SNES
Totally, what's the next sport you'd want to see?

I've added a few soccer teams already you can check out at http://tweetsfc.com/soccer
I denied her entry even though I didn't have any citations. Rules are rules. Her husband will have to think about how he thought he could tug on my heart strings by going through first when he knew his wife's papers weren't in order.

Next, please.
While I'm not sure about the "radically transparent" bit, I do like this statement:

It might sound crazy, but we see see customer support as the new marketing department. And so far it's working great for us.

We do this as well, for a product that has a low per-seat price, and it's a huge competitive advantage.
The damage to their reputation should be quite a good example. Nowhere near so many would have heard of this if they hadn't issued the takedown.
Scaling your legacy webapp is tough, breaking your read path dependency
If that's the case, then what's the benefit of advertising on Facebook? Isn't their main selling point that they can use their data about people to target ads? If they're just doing what the advertisers say, then what's the point? I guess it gets ads in front of people, but it seems they could charge more and have better results if they leveraged their data a bit.
We are considering it. Although, fair warning: it is not documented (save for our internal documentation) and we don't have the capacity to support its usage by third-parties. The reason we are considering open sourcing it anyway is that we feel it's the fair thing to do since we've included it in this project.
I'd be more interested in benchmarks that reflect production configurations.
I am 31. It guessed 31. For a moment I was sitting there thinking "did browser security just break completely and they somehow scraped into a social media profile of mine?"
It's open source, so if someone's willing to do it...
“The statement is patently false. Sid implies that what was perceived from a public demo is CipherCloud's product offering.”

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2013/04/20/notice130419/preview/p...
I think this is a great experiment. I'm curious to see it play out.

One of things at Google was that they told you a formula for compensation (base + (bonus target % * personal multiplier * company multiplier * median salary)) But then they chose to keep the "median salary" and "personal multiplier" secret. At which point you had no idea if your manager was being truthful at all with you about your compensation.

The weird thing was, the lack of transparency was a bigger issue than the money. Everyone I knew (anecdotal I know) didn't "care" what their bonus amount was but they cared a lot if they were being lied too. I tried and failed a couple of times to communicate that issue to the 'engineering council' (which decided such things).

So I think that this choice Buffer has made would certainly make people like me much more comfortable with the communications from our management.
That's nice in theory, but for years, Facebook photos had no download link, and the only option was to Save As the one you could see. It's very confusing for people when the only way to do something suddenly becomes the wrong way to do it, for no reason they can see.
wkhmtltopdf for the pdfs, and pandoc to convert to .tex, or .doc
IPhone: Still the Best Mobile Keyboard
Begging people to sign up to your email newsletter in the first few seconds on a page is a little reckless too. The only impression of the page isn't from their quality content, but that they want to spam me.
I built something simliar to this back in 2009 for college football coaches. I was planning on adding more for other sports as well as for players but there weren't too many using twitter back then: http://web.archive.org/web/20100325212936/http://www.coachtw...

Seems like everyone is tweeting these days and this is a much slicker interface than the one I built. Good job!
>sending snail mail (postmarks show that you're a real constituent).

The people I know who have worked for US senators strongly disagree with writing letters. For one thing, there is generally a two week delay, so if you're writing about that upcoming vote there is a timing problem. They recommend phone calls.
Paul Graham's On Lisp doesn't talk about configuring Emacs. It sticks to the important ideas which are not widespread. It doesn't try to be a survey.

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf

What I am suggesting is that a section on compiler warnings is just stamp collecting. The reader still needs to RTFM. Same with source control and development servers. At best these are items for an appendix or end notes. Don't drag the reader through context unless you are writing a textbook - and even then, don't.

I guess the tl;dr is that the table of contents looks longer than necessary for a book which has a thesis about design. Respect the fact that your readers will work out the implementation for themselves. Save "Use const wherever possible" for the supporting blog.

Edit away everything that is unnecessary, as I have not done with this comment. Do you really have something objectively important to say about namespaces, or are you just expressing an opinion based upon your preference? And even if you do have something important to say, about namespaces, is it something that a professional developer can integrate into their existing workflow without horrible disruption?

What is the MVB?

Good Luck
Not sure why it's news, but it is definitely an interesting thing to consider for web developers. Serving people WebM in contexts where they might want to save the file will be surprisingly problematic.
The point is it's on the ad publisher to target intelligently. If they run their ad to "Males 18-35" that's their problem.
The emergence of complex behaviors through causal entropic forces
Very cool. Can someone at Buffer share their formula for salary and equity?

It sounds like a stable system, and I'm sure many of us would find it really helpful.
"Proper". I agree with Oliver Reichenstein's argument[1], but Google does 13px and it's fine. The font-size in most desktop apps is less than 16px. Human's are adaptable. 16px is just more comfortable.

[1]: http://ia.net/blog/100e2r
Oh god that is priceless. In the right hands you could create a regex that would block all spam from this guy!
Isn't a trivial templating system like this a very easy thing to train a bayesian spamfilter on, even without the source template? I guess blogspammers mostly prey on entirely unmaintained sites for something like this to work.

But I'm going to have a hard time avoiding using "fastidious!" as a general expression of approval now.
Interesting essay overall, but I don't think 'arbitrage' means what you think, in " and arbitrage it against their virtual goods or ecommerce businesses."

Unless, maybe, there were somehow middlemen buying facebook ads and then reselling them to someone else, that's not 'arbitrage' (and even then, questionable).
An important way to evaluate others, especially prospective colleagues, is to observe how much information they use to come to a decision, and note what they do with it.

Do they judge a book by its cover? Are they confirming what they already know? Are they working back to first principles, or are they merely satisfied with oft-repeated heuristics? How well do they pursue additional information? How skeptical are they about their own ideas, knowledge, and mental models? Well over 80% of the population fail in this regard. (For a startup, you're attempting to gain an information asymmetry over the mainstream herd, so why settle for the mainstream herd's heuristics.)

However, before you do this, you should first turn such scrutiny on yourself.
Why we say things like "DATE-date" and "LIKE her-like her"
Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network
Nonzero chance Herndon gets a percentage of the ad revenue.
Can't say, but I imagine it is similar to the chapter in his book about it: http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-9-the-evolution-of-code... Highly worth paying for, Shiffman rocks!
Absolutely agreed, and I've been on both sides of the table. I even had another manager argue with me that we should push extra hard on offering the lowest possible compensation we could get away with, so that we could be sure of only hiring people who were "really desperate to work for our company". Sigh.
>>>is a bad sign that you are working on a startup fad

Or a good sign that everyone else is doing it wrong and there's still room for someone to do it right.

He cited the iPod. Nuff said there.
THIS.

worrying about money means less time working. Less time thinking about how to engineer things nicely / solve high value problems. If you want great work from good people, compensate them well so they can FOCUS on what you've hired them to do.
I am 31. It guessed 29.

"I have the motor skills and catlike reflexes of a man in his 20s" is my new pickup line.
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Some of that is only true with closed and proprietary platforms. The over-crowding issue is true on all platforms. Other that that though, these aren't really true with Android apps (as far as I know), or firefox plugins.
I apologise if you aren't American and I'm simply making sweeping generalisations innacurately, but this seems to be a very common response I see from Americans - the idea that in any situation there are only two responses ... do it or do nothing.

In actual fact, the UK government is quite at liberty to:

a) Take them to court,

b) STFU

or anything else in between, including

c) Start a debate about it.

I've seen the same line of argument a lot in debates around personal data used by companies, too: the idea that people should either a) accept whatever a company wants to do, or b) not use their services. It seems weird to me to imagine that people or governments are somehow no longer at liberty to complain and use peer pressure to get what they want as well as to use other routes.
>Now that Sundar Pichai is in
charge of Android I've been
looking at alternatives

Why does Pichai make you want to look at alternatives? just curious.
I think they were. Speaking as someone who is generally pro-austerity, I think R&R concluded that after 90% debt/GDP there was major drop-off in GDP growth. The corrections all but destroy this assertion. That's not to say that debt and GDP growth aren't inversely proportional/correlated -- just that there is no magic level that changes the relationship substantially.

Honestly, there are so many variables and dimensions in this system and so little data I'm not sure we should ever be drawing sweeping conclusions like this.
AppShopper is Back in the App Store with ‘AppShopper Social’
I kept going back and forth between Source Code Pro and Pragmata Pro.

For me, at least, Pragmata won.
I am 29 and it guessed 30 -- not half bad.
Users who don't know what JPG means are not going to be attempting to edit the images in photoshop. Although perhaps they are saving the files to their local windows machine.
I am glad to see that an ASD based tech company is going for more than just testing. Specialisterne and Aspiritech are excellent but slotting ASD folk into just software testing seemed a bit limiting. Also, the inherent conflict of testing (i.e. telling someone you think they made a mistake) always seemed problematic.
Very interesting to see that being transparent with salaries is so taboo in the states. Many parts of Europe (I know firsthand Sweden is like this) it's completely normal and acceptable to tell people your salaries.
This is true by my experience. I went online last night to buy a replacement garden hose. Was surprised Amazon was down. After confirming it wasn't just me (thanks isitdownforeveryoneorjustme.com), I gave up and ordered it this morning.
He left out an important reason: That Facebook can and will ban apps at will, regardless of whether or not they have actually done anything wrong. IMO, that's probably where the "uninvestable" comment mentioned in the article came from. If you have to wake up every morning wondering if your app that had X million users last night is still alive, that's a big problem.

I know of apps that have been banned because malicious actors were using access tokens from those apps to do spammy things even though the app itself wasn't sending those requests. Facebook returns access tokens in the URL upon authorization, so the user is exposed to it and can use it for anything they want. Given nothing more than an app ID, any user can send spam posts and make it appear to have come from any app they choose. This includes Facebook-owned apps.
As a fan of his work I do hope he realized how much everyone loves his life's work, and that ultimately the reach of that work extends far beyond what was in that one small box.
Do you think the same reason applies for iOS apps, given that the same is true there? I suspect investors (and people running startups) are willing to tolerate a lot of risk if they feel the upside is big enough.
Marissa Mayer Makes Good, Yahoo! Launches New iOS App with Summly Tech
We got pulled for the 2.25 rule back in December[1], but finally made enough changes and got back in the App Store.

1. http://appshopper.com/blog/2012/12/20/appshopper-app-removed...
This Is What Facebook's Green Roof Will Look Like
Amazing idea .really love it . How come there is no Dwyane Wade ?
It took you an hour to click "Remove App" n times?
Guessed 34 while I am 21. Will be interesting to see how they're guessing - I'm guessing it's not as straightforward as a lower age = faster speed.
The UI is very nice, I am really impressed. What did you use to make that ?