skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Information and search is usually easier and more comprehensive on the original site. With that said, there has to be a good reason for me to visit an aggregation service to view that information. For me this site doesn't do it for me. All your doing for me (in the housing category) is plotting Airbnb & 9Flats on a map, which since there are only 2 sites doesn't add a ton of value for me. I would rather go directly to Airbnb to find potential housing because more owner information and more powerful search options.

Again, I think aggregation adds true value to consumers when you save them from visiting 10+ websites, but not from 2 or 3.
Judge Richard Posner: Privacy is overrated
Apps can't send text messages without the user knowing it on iOS, you have to tap Send for each one of them, so this couldn't have affected App Store rankings.
A PhD should have a combination of high- and low-risk projects. An advisor who places their students only into high risk projects is gambling with _your_ life and career. If the project succeeds, the PI gets the lion's share of the kudos, and if it fails, you lose years of your life.

Ideally, the projects should be a low-risk project which gets your feet wet in the methodology and is "guaranteed" to produce a paper, combined with a higher risk project that potentially pays off big. Once the first low-risk project works, pick a second low-risk project to replace it; the amount of time you devote to the high risk project can increase once the first low-risk one has worked.
Well, you certainly passed my low bar for rationale. I still can't agree though.

Any argument based on statistics is going to be strongly biased against the FDA's current procedure. It is impossible to predict how many deaths were prevented from keeping dangerous drugs off the market, so it is impossible to make a meaningful comparison. Furthermore, a simple utilitarian argument about the net lives saved is not how most people would comprehend the situation. The situation where a drug kills someone will be weighed much more gravely than the situation where a life-saving drug was kept from you because it couldn't be proven effective. So a net-lives-saved calculation simply doesn't capture the intuition that most people have.

Being biased towards conservatism is appropriate at the scale of approving drugs and advertisement towards an entire country. Most people do not have the knowledge (even considering the internet) to appropriately evaluate a drug. I would wager that even doctors are not equipped to make this sort of safety evaluation for their patients. This is exactly the sort of thing that scientists taking a conservative approach should be doing.
On Shutting Up [2012]
Forget adding a .txt to the end of a file. I want Notepad to understand \n.
Didn't a few people voice their concerns with Dwolla recently on HN? Something about trouble with getting their money?
Judge Posner’s Surveillance Argument Would Not Withstand An Economic Analysis
They might run into troubles doing that. At least one security researcher has a lifetime ban from Apple's developer program for trying things like that.
I just completed their alternate system, which lets you identify yourself by taking a quiz of things 'only you would know.' I had to identify the last 4 of my social, the state it was issued in, how long I've lived at my permanent address, and which of a number of roads was closest to it.

That's not very strong assurance. You can easily look up on a site like Facebook where someone was born, which gives you SSN location. All sorts of companies have access to the last 4 of your social (ironically, the only unique part of it - the rest can be inferred based on where and when you were born). You can also look up how long someone has lived in a particular place. I literally used Google Maps to answer the roads question, as I'd never heard of any of them before.

I don't know why anyone would go through the trouble of opening an Airbnb account in someone else's name, but it's certainly possible (and easy to 'verify' using the tool I just described).
It's location agnostic. Most teams aren't located near a Mozilla office. All of the program is virtual.

I'm near Mountain View so I spent many a days at the Mozilla HQ but none of the other teams were local.
While it may make logical sense to some people, the ultimate implication when you see a .txt file is that the developer uses Windows. I'm not sure a lot of developers are comfortable with that.
No. File extensions are stupid and broken.
README_FOR_WINDOWS_USERS.txt
They are more related than you think . When WFH was banned, one of the groups that got the most attention was mothers who complained that they were no longer able to work and take care of their kids at the same time, but Meyer built a nursery for her own kid on-site.
This is the most ridiculously arrogant apology:

> We're sorry to hear of your issues.

Well I don't have issues, you have issues. And you should be sorry that you screwed up, not to hear about anything.
The current TOS clearly states that they do not sell user data. Until that TOS is changed they have no right to sell their user data to advertisers. Once it does change, which I'm sure will be soon, the question will be whether or not they have the right to sell user data that was collected before the TOS was changed.
although it doesn't seems to bring much I'm not against the .txt extension for README but '.md.txt' feels like an horrid idea.

Maybe it's only me but I think it brings more confusion for pretty much no gain.
is it markdown ? is it a normal text file? is it a custom extension ?
STEAM Carnival gamifies education, will it work?
How would this be any different from the situation today, where he writes a blog post titled, "Path fired me for not spamming millions of people's phones" and the community rallies around the whistle-blower?
Homejoy (YC S10) caught buying Yelp reviews
Is anyone aware of how the courts have interpreted things like this (if at all)?

> "Under the new policy, mothers can take 16 weeks of paid leave with benefits, and fathers can take up to eight weeks"

Would that not be considered discriminatory?
What I want to know is when did the first broken link exist and what was it linking to :-)
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better OS.
Seconding this. It's because I've been saving up for the past few years that I have the money to attend the summer batch. I didn't know that I was saving up for hacker school, but I'm glad I was saving :)
i think the general consensus there was that signing up for a service and immediately trying to transfer $40k was a bad idea.
Yea GUIs are stupid!
Launching American Astronauts from U.S. Soil
I doubt this is so. Lots of consumer software ends up being I/O bound, not CPU bound - even if they were completely rewritten to be crazy-parallel, you wouldn't notice. Good portions of games could probably be parallelized significantly more than they are, but they're quite a bit different than most software, so that's not very indicative.

Then there's stuff like parsing data. Lots of times data is context-sensitive - that "<item>" could be a tag, or it could be wrapped in <![CDATA[ <item> ]]>. Without reading through it in order, you can only make certain assumptions. Some of this can be redone in a more parallel-friendly way, some of it is not so much - if it's encrypted or compressed, you're probably forced to pre-process it sequentially, or lose some of the quality of the security / compression.

For those (and think of how much crypto and compression there is in consumer stuff! Every SSL web endpoint, secure wifi connection, zipped file...), a powerful-core CPU or a custom piece of hardware (that only does a few algorithms) is your only option.
It doesn't, but it might mean we need to look into how the pressure is being applied.

We can bitch at Path all day, but there exists strong incentive to do this, and people who don't do this will have unilaterally disarmed and be at a disadvantage. We need to encourage the first group to not do this, and encourage the second group to keep it up and not feel like suckers for respecting their users.
"Shippocratic Oath"

FTFY
I'm 6 for 5 at the moment - of the 6 companies I've hosted pet projects with over the years, 5 have been compromised at the control panel / infrastructure level while I was a customer:

* Layered Technologies, dedicated OpenBSD (Sep 17 2007) [0]
* Hetzner, dedicated Linux (Oct 21 2010) [1]
* Dreamhost, shared Linux (Jan 19 2012) [2]
* Linode, VPS Linux (Apr 15 2013) [3]
* OVH, VPS Linux via reseller (Apr 23 2013) [4]

[0] http://what.entwinedstudios.com/?p=21
[1] http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/16021-Hackers-hit-Hetzner.html
[2] http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-passwords-due-to-security-issue/
[3] http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632479

Food for thought.
Touch screens useful on PCs? (Poll results)
Keynesian Economics and Liberty Are Not Compatible
Why Windows 8 drivers are buggy
I assume this would explain how to open an extensionless file? ;)
"If you've got an entire history that's been heavily-rebased and your problem is This bug started happening on Tuesday last week", you have a big problem: You can't just track back through your simple, linear branch until you get to last Tuesday's commits. You have to keep going back until you're absolutely certain there are no other commits further back in the history that are newer chronologically."

I think the author is mistaken. As mentioned by jedbrown, git has a separate AuthorDate and CommitDate, and rebase updates the CommitDate. You can see them both using:

git log --format=fuller

Furthermore, when you use @-limiting to filter logs by date, the CommitDate is used. For example, if you have a bug that started last Thursday, you can show all the commits that were either written or rebased since then with:

git log HEAD@{last.thusday}..
No, the idea that I don't own the file name is stupid. The goddamned computer should figure out what data type the file contains.
Emacs or Vim? Get the Best of Both with Evil
You can cast your vote here:
http://polldaddy.com/poll/6880911/
Does this mean that we can't write software for drones anymore?

What about software for missile guidance? Is that okay by this oath?

Or do we as a community value not texting people at 6AM more than we value not killing people?
And yet I bet you build websites with IE support in mind.
Graceful page rendering during page delays
They should be different forms of leave. It would only be discriminatory, IMO, if this also applied for adoptions.
Braintree Poaches Google Wallet Co-Creator Rob von Behren From Square
Don't use NodeJs non-blocking functions blindly
Yeah that's what's stopping me from playing SS as well. I have an older Wii-mote without the Wii Motion+ so I need to buy that in addition to the first party game that will never see a price drop.
> An extension ‘txt’ also informs novice users about the role of these files:
they are not programming code, they are primarily meant to be read.

If only the file name hinted at that fact...
But nowadays, due to all the competition for emerging startups, you can't become huge until you start invoking privacy violations.

It's a Catch-22 of ethical misconduct!
Yes, tens of millions of developers are comfortable with the notion of developers using Windows.
First ever web page put back online by CERN
I'm looking forward to Glass, but man, I wouldn't touch smart contact lenses with a 10-foot pole.

Maybe -- maybe if they couldn't connect to the Internet. I know I'm playing paranoid devil's advocate here, but if they have any sort of connectivity, I'm going to be terrified (maybe irrationally so) of the prospect of someone figuring out how to intercept them and blind me.
I have found a general lack of hosted PostGIS solutions and would have loved if this was around 6 months ago. Cartodb felt more like a mapping solution than a spatial database solution. SpacialDB (https://spacialdb.com/) was the only thing I could find, but their pricing plans vs storage limits didn't make sense (I was loading up OSM data - full dataset is really big). Ended up installing PostGIS on an EC2 instance manually, worked OK for development purposes but I would have never felt comfortable pushing that into production.
> @stekenwright We’re sorry to hear of your issues and would love to engage. Please message us so we can help

Translation: "Your blog post detailing our scuzzy spammery is getting seen by lots of people. We're uncomfortable with that, and would like to get you to say we're not so bad after all."
Looks amazing, but unfortunately it will be very hard to come :(
Apple in record $17bn US bond issue
Amy will almost certainly have more/better advice, but I'd say:

1. Do something for fun/relaxation other than read HN.
2. Find a doctor who will run the tests you want. You're the customer.
How it works is that the leave is the same, but the person who gives birth can get 8 weeks of disability (I think).
RailsConf 2013 Schedule App, unofficial
This is exactly the best practice for feature branches.
Your comment is ignorant. There is nothing wrong with a developer that uses Windows and anyone who thinks similarly is equally ignorant.
I don't know why the OP is a screenshot of github that is linked to github. Maybe it is some new kind of link bait. Here is the content --

"But I really feel like these extensionless files are a bad idea for usability.
They look odd in Windows explorer, and they break Quicklook on Mac.

An extension ‘txt’ also informs novice users about the role of these files:
they are not programming code, they are primarily meant to be read."
Well, then it will mark them fixed in HEAD then
Title seems to be misleading. The article body states that they are offering ad targeting using checkin information. Such an arrangement does not involve the sale of the checkin information, not even access to it.
Cool, the Mikrotiks are perfect for getting into routing as the RouterOS docs are very in-depth w/ lots of examples (yay, wikis): http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:TOC

You can install OpenWRT to compare although it looks like installation is a slight pain: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/rb450g - it's probably easier to install as a metarouter if you're just playing w/ it: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter
Yup. SOP in the food service industry is to give employees who are underperforming 4 hours per week, on the slowest shift, and just leave them there until they quit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Not to mention the patronizing "Now go make yourself a baba ghanoush pita!" and "This space reserved for jelly stains."

Maybe the humor was just lost on me...
Now In 20 Cities, Grouper (YC W12) Brings On-Demand Group Dates To The iPhone
Lots of talk about how its not useful tech. Why does he think that? What development project could fail to teach useful lessons?
I think you're missing the point. The oath is to remind you to use your head, your best judgement and a body of ethics and to act in the interest of the public. Sure engineers still make mistakes, but the code of ethics isn't some magical document that eliminated human error.

Also, I think you're sort of merging the HO with the Code of Ethics for engineers in Canada -- two very different documents and I suggest you give them a read. And no, no one still thinks they're swearing to Apollo.
Do people use README or README.md for README files formatted in markdown?
"The console manufacturers really screwed themselves here."

In what way exactly? Would enabling homebrew in some way subert piracy? You can make games for 360 if you want through their indie games platform for a mere $100.

You could argue that enabling homebrew would sell more hardware and/or software I suppose. Is that your argument? That 360 would have been more successful for Microsoft if it allowed homebrew?
Very interesting. Does this fit in conceptually with circus at all? It seems like there's a fair amount of overlap between the process/HTTP management done by circus and this stats/data collection/analysis (specifically hekad agent in the architecture diagram):
http://heka-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/architecture/inde...

I'm curious if Mozilla is using these two tools in combination internally, and what that architecture looks like.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/circus
Oh shut up. The issue here is much more than just "Windows suckzzz!!!!". Get off your high horse and stop being an OS elitist, it's pathetic.

edit: I now understand this is a reference to a comic that was published when I was five years old. Hah.
That's because those franchises are what Nintendo has control of, and in their limited dev time/budget for studios, they are going to focus on putting out the next franchise title, because that's what fans want of Nintendo.

I think the problem is that the Nintendo platform differentiates itself on actually being different, and in this day that isn't exactly a selling point for game publishers, even if it is for the consumers.

Would you as a game designer/publisher rather build new game customized to the experience possible with the Wii or Wii-U, with their limited audience, or would you program to the lowest common denominator so you can ship on all consoles (keeping in mind that the more you customize for one, the harder it is to maintain the integrity of the experience of the game)?
Is this similar to piwik?
they will probably do something sneaky like change the TOS, and tell users by email "We changed the TOS, and all data before it was changed can now be sold unless you click on this link, press Disapprove, and confirm via email and text that you disapproved"
5 Social Media Start-Ups You Should Work For
But why quote the name? "gruseom wrote a comment to which tptacek replied" is no different from "Daniel did this and Thomas did that". Is it? If you don't evaluate the names, you end up talking about the names themselves.

(Not being pedantic, just curious.)
ZombiU? Great? I dunno about that. The others I have and are good but my WiiU mostly collects dust.
"Maybe it is some new kind of link bait."

Ghostery shows one analytics package, Disconnect shows 4.

Trying to rack up pageviews for future ads?
My quest for time freedom
Developers needed in Charlotte
This isn't only of use to Windows users - lazy ZSH users can set up a suffix alias for .txt, so that you can open README.txt just by typing its name, but that doesn't work for files without extensions (like README).
I wouldn't think so, as there's more than likely enough medical/biological basis for women to require more time. For example, 99.9999% of men are unable to breastfeed a baby, even if they do stay home.
In fact Winzip recognizes extension-less README files quite well. It shows them in a different color and most users understand that it is something to be viewed. The name 'README' is pretty obvious.

While we are at it, do we still need to use the three letter extensions which are a legacy of the MS-DOS era and FAT filesystems? A couple of years down the line, people would wonder why we tried to save one letter by typing 'txt'!
Learn Scala, Akka and Play with Typesafe's Activator
Most of this article seems to ignorance of the author and not most people.

I would take exception to "Native Americans were wiped out largely disease and plague (not us)" in #3 since it dances on the origin and misses some significant numbers. I assure the author that a reservation school does go into this subject in depth. I will let the historians pick apart "Hitler was primarily defeated by Russia (not us)" because Lend Lease Act discussions get a tad involved.
A Tale of Two Search Engines: Why Google Is Winning, Baidu Isn't
What a facile display of false heroism. Ignoring users is the second easiest thing in the world, right after declaring that you're too cool for Microsoft. But this opinion has neither heart nor intellect behind it. It's pure hipsterism — "Yeah, I'm above Microsoft and all the sheeple who use their products!"

If you don't want to support Windows, that's cool. It's your choice. But don't act like this is some great moral stance any more than companies refusing to provide device drivers for Linux.
Interesting... most commenters here (so far) seem to be against the extension.

Can someone explain why? Except for executables, all the files I use have extensions -- .jpg, .html, .png, .mp3, .sh, and so on. Why should text files be any different? "README" doesn't tell me if it's text, or markdown, or HTML, or anything. Having ".txt" lets me know the format without opening it first to see.

I just can't figure out why anyone would ever not put a ".txt" extension on a text file, when the entire consumer ecosystem of computing uses extensions to help automate actions more usefully.
There's no way to sue, but I suppose the FTC could take action and fine.

They will claim it's a "bug"... albeit one of those "viral bugs" that seems to lead to topping the App Store download charts. These tactics make me think there's no such thing as organic growth within the app stores.
Promiser: Manager of jQuery deferreds by name
I did not know that, and it definitely helps! Thank you.
Honestly, if you refuse to do something on ethical grounds and then are moved around, you know what's going on. Most people aren't clueless to office politics and at that point it's your decision to blow the whistle or shut up and watch it happen in spite of your oath.

It's not like hospitals haven't contended with this exact thing for a very long time. The wills of surgeons/doctors and their hospital administrators do not always match up.
Becoming a Better Designer, Away from the Screen
My main take away from what your are stating is that it doesn't matter whether you succeed or fail at something, it is whether you are running the engine too hot for too long.

Stop, breathe, relax, pace yourself.

One can burnout after a failure as quickly as after a success. However, one might want to get back on the stress train quicker with a success, since one expects a victory rush at the end of the stress which apparently made the stress worth it.
To be fair, unlike Ruby/Python/JS, Clojure actually tries to solve a relevant problem in a new way (concurrency). It is something that probably could have been built on top of Common Lisp, but at the same time, there is something to be said for having a relevant paradigm baked into the standard library from the beginning.
Is Programming Knowledge Related To Age? (pdf link)
Duke U.'s Undergraduate Faculty Derails Plan for Online Courses for Credit
> The post is proof positive that path still uploads phonebooks from the app to their servers right after installing it.

Is it? The texts were coming from his phone number, which suggests they were sent from his phone (not necessarily, I know, but you said "proof positive").

I don't know how Android text message sending works, but there is likely some rate limiting to how many texts you can send so they certainly could have been queued up to be sent later.
"The most frustrating thing for me about regular Vim is not being able to move around a line as easily when I’m in insert mode. With Evil I can have C-a, C-e, M-s, M-f, and M-b without jumping in and out of insert."

Assuming that in emacs, C-a moves the cursor to the beginning of the line and C-e moves the cursor to the end of the line, it's possible make these keys do the same thing in insert mode in vim by putting the following in your ~/.vimrc

inoremap <C-a> <C-o>0
inoremap <C-e> <C-o>$

I don't know what M-s and M-f do in emacs, but if someone tells me, I be able to figure out a vim equivalent.

Also, I strongly recommend visiting #vim on freenode. There are many very knowledgable people there who can help.
Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec
Max Queue - An optimized solution
The Best Ideas Hit You While You’re Making Other Plans
Strongly suggest mountain view. Avalon, etc. are fine.
Got ya. I did do more data points myself. Thanks for the commentary.
It's a reference to this Dilbert cartoon:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/
> unless there's something urgent

I'm so good at convincing myself whatever I'm doing right now is urgent.