skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m saddened by this announcement. I’m an early Instapaper paying subscriber, a The Magazine paying subscriber of the first hour, I’ve read every article on his blog, I’ve listened to all the episodes of Build & Analyze, Accidental Tech and the Neutral podcasts — I’ve spread the word every way I could and engaged with the sponsors of the shows. I became a Tumblr member because of him.

Marco has always talked about how important he felt it was to be independent and to offer a paid service in order not to be acquired. Given how he handled the Android release, I believed he would never sell Instapaper.

Last week, Loren Brichter announced he would be moving to Facebook. I’m still shell-shocked about that announcement as a very active Letterpress player, now this. I’m worried.

I will continue to pay for Marco’s products and services, but I am worried what will happen to Instapaper, which is an important tool for how I acquire information and do business.
Interesting point. But how would you fix it
Creating a service shouldn't be a lifetime commitment to running it. There needs to be a way for Marco to continue inventing new products without dedicating an increasing percentage of his time to supporting existing ones, and this seems like a reasonable way to allow that.
Windows CE? I'm surprised. I always thought the NSA really seemed to be embracing Linux.
What would you recommend in general? Quality over quantity?
Nature makes an effort to enhance reproducibility in science
"I don't need to strain: what you're saying - that you can look a bunch of people, and based on their faces and clothing, decide they're not American - is racist."

No I didn't. In your straining, you are claiming
a stronger statement than I made. Again, yet again,
one more time, this time just for you, and read
carefully, I said that if some person X has been
in the US for a time too short to become a US
citizen, then a US citizen can easily detect
that person X is an immigrant.

In particular, there were years where a US
citizen could walk into a STEM class
and on the first day conclude that
the majority of the class was recent
immigrants, conclude that he didn't
'fit in', turn, and walk out. Why
could a US citizen do this? Because
the class had a lot of immigrants
only recently here. If the students
in the class had all been in the US
for a long time, then a US citizen
could not accurately detect that they
were immigrants.

Or, if you are a medical doctor working
in an emergency room and a person comes
in bleeding profusely, then you can detect
right away that he has a serious medical
problem. But this does not mean that
you can detect everyone with a serious
medical problem right away; indeed, the
ER and the hospital are packed with
diagnostic means for detecting who has
a medical problem. That is, being
able to detect an obvious medical
problem is not the same as being
able to detect all medical problems.

You mentioned that some people in the US for
a long time and non-US citizens can make the
same detection. True.

I did not say that a US citizen could detect
all immigrants.

It's a simple matter of a logical statement
and has nothing to do with racism. You
are not reading the logic correctly. Uh,
try to avoid courses in advanced mathematics
based on theorems and proofs.
A lot of money in my opinion.
i felt that i had good timing for getting wwdc ticket last year. after seeing how quickly they sold out this morning, i know i was very lucky to get a ticket this year!

like last year, i'll make a stop at the alternative wwdc (http://altwwdc.com) conference that has some good people from appsterdam spitting out the truth.

for me, wwdc is a great time to meet some cool people in town for the conference, but it's easier to meet people (and have a conversation) at the get togethers/parties/bars over a beer versus during the conference itself.
It's a "royal dick move" to allow users to copy data between competing applications? Uh, OK.
Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran to Join Equity Crowdfunding Site
I may actually apply for this. Although who knows.
So I tried out the service (followgen.com) today - targeting "#ruby", "software craftsmanship", "hacker news" and "software near MY_GEO_IP_THING" - because I was curious. It would be nice to have a bit more exposure to developers for things like technical blog posts and new projects, so why not?

It favorite'd several hundred tweets for me today (btw twitter makes it very hard to mass unfavorite, I had to write a bit of javascript). I got one new follower: a recruiter. Given the sub-one percent "conversion rate", I turned it off.

I'm not sure if I picked bad targets, or if more technical users are less likely to "follow-back". But, those were my results, do with them what you will!

edit: I'll add there were quite a few "misfires" that led me to favorite some rather strange tweets - particularly #ruby which I favorited several tweets about people's young children or pets named Ruby.
But they certainly weren't setting the world on fire.

Actually their growth was very good, among the steepest of all the 500 or so companies we've funded.
Student falsely IDed by Reddit as Boston bomber found dead
To me it sounds like she hear the term "good-looking" and interpreted as someone who looks like they're good. Not internalizing some societal idea about attractive people.

There are many defining visual characteristics that are anthropomorphically indicators of "good" or "bad" people, that don't necessarily have to do with attractiveness.
An Easier Way to Find Better Gifts
If it had grown bigger than one person could manage, why not hire somebody?
It's not part of the post, it's the personal website of the person who wrote the parent comment:

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/about
Wind power — even without the wind
Announcing Underscore-Contrib
Another job posting for a discovery app. This actually sounds interesting
Duraconf - A collection of hardened configuration files for SSL/TLS services
"You get what you deserve"

Please don't use that rationale. Lots of people never get what they deserve, and pretty much nobody deserves the shit some people have to go through.

Either way, there are some people who don't just follow back, so they don't deserve the spam even by your definition. Most people here can automate follows, favorites and similar interactions, but don't. Some of us would like to keep those meaningful.
Here you go:

"More than the Numbers: Independent Analysis of the IGDA 2009 Quality of Life Survey"

http://gameqol.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Quality%20of%2...
You bought Parse to Facebookize it. Whether that constitutes death is a question of semantics.
I guess the real takeaway from this article is that cheating encourages people to employ creative skills otherwise left unused in many class situations? I had a hard time grokking the underlying message of the article. Clearly just cheating to fake your understanding is not what's being advocated here.
Student falsely accused of Boston bombings found dead
who the hell wears a nice, light-colored suit like to an active construction site?
Fast Weight Loss Through High Intense Type Exercise and a Strong Mindset
The high intensity type (HIT) exercise deals with aggressive walking or elliptical, bike, resulting in fast weight loss effectively. The exercise has to be done for 30 seconds close to exhaustion then 90 seconds at a slower pace. This is repeated for 8 times.Trying to reach a heart rate of 220 minus your age.

The other effective exercise for fast weight loss is high intensity resistance type (HIRT) exercise. This type of exercise involves different types of weight lifting. A combination of both type of exercises seems to be an ideal routine for both men and women. No more than a total of three exercises performed per week.

Performing these types of intense exercises require you to permit your body to recover. Recovery time is as important as the exercise. Especially when doing the high intensity resistance type (HIRT) exercise because of minor tears in the muscle that results in doing this exercise. Rest is crucial. Our bodies are made to work, to heal and achieve.

According to Rob Poulos, a fitness author, weighing yourself on a scale is the worse method to learn about the success of your diet plan. A skin caliper is the most effective device to measure your success of fast weight loss adequately. Another indicator is the looseness of your clothes and ,of course, there is the mirror. Because doing high intense workouts you are building muscle and burning calories, the scale is not an adequate indicator of your progress.

The high intense type exercises will boost a fat burning hormone in your body helping your metabolism. Building muscle will burn more calories for longer periods of time, even after you are done exercising, for fast weight loss successfully.

You also need to change your mindset about how you look at yourself and others. Those gorgeous gals and guys advertising the latest hot health product, probably, have never been fat. They are chosen because of their genetic makeup not because they have achieved fast weight loss successfully.
I looked through that thread and what struck me was how small the body of research the guy draws from is. Maybe he is only citing a small sample of the research, but there seems to be a lot of conclusions drawn from very few studies. Especially on something as subjective and political as human attraction.

The top answer in the reddit thread discusses this (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689917/pdf/1038...) study. It says that women prefer the odor of more attractive men. The conclusions from that study are based on the odors of 6(!) different men.

And the t-shirt the men wore to capture the odor are washed, frozen, and then heated in a bottle. The women then smell the bottle and make their judgement. The study doesn't bother to explain why these actions don't change the odor of the t-shirt (which they might not, but that doesn't seem obvious to me).

There are other problems with the study, but I'll stop there.

I understand that all fields of science have to start somewhere, but this seems closer to phrenology than particle physics.
Indeed. Many companies are hesitant to fully activate their advertising apparatus, and go years without making revenues (eg. Tumblr). I worry when I see a company that isn't attempting to accrue meaningful revenues.

I'm actually quite happy when I see that companies begin serving ads substantially.
This is true.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
If you've conspired with someone to let you in, then your claim of authorized access is a sham. The question is whether the employer would have authorized such access, not whether you could successfully suborn a member of the employer's staff.

I don't know why, but there is this persistent misconception that just because you can do something easily it shouldn't be illegal.

It matters with what intent deeds are performed. If you come into my office at my invitation for a social chat, and while I'm visiting the restroom you notice a trade secret lying on my desk and copy it, you've stolen the trade secret but you were entitled to be there. But if you know I have a trade secret and you go into my office without permission, or trick me into admitting you under false pretenses, then you're guilty of criminal trespass as well.

The defendant knew that Korn/Ferry wouldn't want him copying client lists. Just because he used someone else as his man on the inside does not sanitize the unauthorized access. You're essentially applying the principles of money laundering to information and saying it's cool. This is total bullshit. I think you know better and that you would howl like a lonely coyote if anyone pulled the same trick on you.
Sure, I completely understand why he would do it, and he sold the service to the best party he could think of, but still, I am sad.
Is the goal of the site to have people post ideas that ran through their mind as they were reading a book?

Or is to share ideas the book was introducing? How can you be sure people will discern the ideas a book introduced?

Is the goal for people to copy an exact sentence from the book?

What made you start working on this project?
to eat one thing 100% of the time "is too radical it won't work". yep. To eat one thing as your 'go-to' filler is fine. but neither new nor radical. One addressed one argument, the other addressed a different one.
Will they also teach people how to use Bitcoin? Every time I try to explain it to someone, I'm met with a blank stare.

"So my computer is the wallet? Where do I insert the coins?"
Comet to Make Close Flyby of Mars in October 2014
In fact, this behavior is the very same reason people venerate Pinboard's Twitter account.
Why have we standardized on a tool which almost no one likes? Are we frickin sheep?
If you email us at previews _at_ fudi.st , we'll be happy to keep you updated.
Since it's a comet, I think there's a possibility of using lasers to alter its orbit. Maybe we could orchestrate an impact with Mars by using orbital lasers?
In the comments I think we kind of determined that music + democracy isn't exactly ideal for a variety of reasons. The subreddits everybody agreed were working were heavily moderated or a sort of republic of elected musicologists. Beyond that, beats me.
Presumably this is a problem that's been long-solved in scale up manufacture, and something you should just be concerned with on the small scale.

Generally though - yes - anything water-soluble is pretty easy to get very controlled concentrations of, since you can dilute until your in the operating range of your weighing machine.
The article doesn't say who owns the mineral rights to the land containing the site. If it's a private owner then they are the ones who have hit the jackpot. If it's government-owned, then the benefit we (as a nation) get from it depends on how well it's administered.
At least they're consistent in not liking Microsoft.

Ubuntu bug #1, for reference https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
I'm a big fan of unusual approaches to testing, good as I was at the conventional kind.

In high school astronomy, we could bring in a few pages of notes. I once wrote out the notes in great detail, FORGOT THEM AT HOME, and got the highest score on the test.

In college I learned a lot studying for tests, both multiple choice (geology) and essay (history), where the questions were highly predictable.

I love the test Hilary Putnam announced the first day of every class:

Part 1: Write a suitable question for this class.
Part 2: Answer it.
You will be graded on both parts.

(Note: The recursive answer of giving him his own question back turns out to be infinitely long.)

I once gave an open book test, saying exam questions would be chosen only from problems I'd assigned for homework. Students still did badly. (Ouch.)
That's a good approach for a generic class on game theory.

It's not so good for the specific case of animal behavior, in which the whole herd will indeed often prosper or suffer at once.
Like the colors, simplicity and the tagline. So excited for you guys! ~ Rhonda
Totally agreed that Parse kicks ass, which is why we bought them; we're looking forward to working with the team to continue to improve it!

As a brand new member of the team, I'm really keen to hear more about how we've failed at our APIs and developer support and what we could do to be way better.
No offense, but suggesting Microsoft to a guy who is turned off by Facebook made me chuckle
It would really help if you were having an argument with what I said, rather than what you are reading into what I said that I didn't say.

I never said that Chinese people are inherently worse people. I understand the effects of poverty, which my brother has also talked a great deal about. There are other possible explanations, such as the fact that China has had to put up with great population density for longer. But for whatever combination of reasons, my brother has experienced a higher rate of petty corruption in daily life in China than he has when he lives in the USA and Canada.

Are his observations accurate? Let's look at corruption in daily life as measured by http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results. I see Canada at #9, the USA at #19 and China at #80. (Lower is better.) So according to that he's right, corruption is more of a problem in China on a personal level than in the USA.

On the elites, despite the fact that I said it multiple times, you still have not acknowledged what my brother's basis of judgement is. My brother IS NOT working off of media accounts. He's working from personally knowing a number of them. He'd be the first to acknowledge that horrible things happen with great frequency in China. And with great frequency these things can be traced back to bad decisions by the elites. Who are an unelected group of bureaucrats that maintain power through military force. However he'd immediately come back with an explanation of exactly how huge the problems that they face are, and how rapidly things have been improving. His personal impression is that horrible mistakes notwithstanding, he's not aware of any point in history where so few people have done so much good for so many.

I have no idea how defensible that claim is, but he's a smart guy and he has more background on this topic than I do. And likely than you do. Have YOU ever lived within walking distance of the Premier of China? How many meetings have YOU had with cabinet ministers?

Finally you keep on accusing me of racism. I really don't think that the shoe fits. Yes, I know that it is a common trope to have a racist asshole who says he can't be racist because he's got a friend from group X. So I won't mention my various Chinese friends. And let's ignore the fact that of the half-dozen customers in this coffee shop, I'm the only Caucasian at the moment. But I do have several older half-siblings who are half-Chinese. I live in a neighborhood where many of my neighbors speak Mandarin as a first language. My daughter's best friends are Chinese.

Were I truly racist, some of this should create emotional conflict for me. I assure you, I feel no such conflict. Of course I can't stop you from continuing to accuse me of racism. But I would suggest that continuing to take personal offense at what I have said lets you reject it without having to think about it. Thinking about it might be a worthwhile alternative.
It will expand to friend of friend if it can't find friends and will show global ratings. It's been good so far for me when I travel
Growth Hacking - How to acquire links through Twitter?
Thank you very much! I don't think that this existed when I installed it, but I will try to get it working at some point when I don't have client work.

:)

Thanks again!
Why is that funny? Yahoo's news strategy has always been centered on aggregation. Do they even have any staff writers any more?
Kippster, a 3rd party app, has been pretty great for me on iPad.

I was an avid Pocket user. And it's great for saving things you want to read later and then just throw away.

A lot of these articles/videos I want to read later, then save for reference. With Kippt I can send pages to my Inbox exactly like I did with Pocket. Once I read them, if I want to save them for later, I can move them into any 1 of the categories I've set up. I have about 20 categories ranging from "App Store Articles" to "Analytics Videos" to "General Programming Learning".

I can't imagine how I would live without it now.
xgibbousx, if this is something you've built yourself, then
submit it as a "Show HN: ..." text post since otherwise
it kinda looks like spam.
Since the title of this and all coverage I have seen of this is ambigous. It appears the student comitted suicide _before_ being ID'ed by Reddit. Not the other way around
This couldn't be more true. I got an offer at Intel after working there for the summer. A finance company asked what they were paying and decimated Intel's offer. Upon telling Intel the recruiter at Intel demanded to know where I was going. Luckily I wasn't going to Apple, Adobe (or one of the other companies they allegedly had illegal no competes with or I would have no job at all.
How Jimmy Carter Saved Craft Beer
Thanks for sharing your story both here and in your website, and I agree with much of what you say, particularly your 3 points.

As the article points out, judging people based on beauty is deeply ingrained in human nature, but I think we can all agree that it's a bad part of our human nature. It's also in our human nature to want to rape, steal, murder, etc. to get what we want, but we create laws and social structures to prevent those things and I'd like to think that we as a species are always trying to transcend these primitive urges and become a more sophisticated Vulcan-like human race that is "above" such things

Accordingly, I'm always perplexed as to why judging people based on their looks is still so widely accepted and tolerated in society. Companies aren't allowed to advertise a product by saying "So good you'd rape/kill/steal from your neighbor to get one" and yet they're allowed to promote the idea that becoming more beautiful makes you a better person. I think it's absurd and I think/hope that people 100 years from now will look back on our society and shake their heads in shame and/or amusement at all the shallow advertisements we allow on TV.

I refuse to accept that "That's just the way human beings are, man. We gotta reproduce." Forgive me for thinking that we could do much better as a society.

That's why I abhor companies like Zynga whose entire business model revolves around tapping into people's most basic, primitive instincts and making money off of it. I love video games with beautiful graphics, an epic story, and great gameplay, but Zynga games have none of those things. They are the equivalent of a crack dealer getting people hooked on low-quality games which add nothing to people's lives, and just because they grow quickly in a new space does not mean they should be lauded for doing so.

Last point - I don't like the argument that because babies and children also recognize similar standards of beauty that we should just accept that there's nothing we can do about it. Children also want to eat candy at every meal, steal stuff they want, and shit anywhere. Children need responsible adults to teach them that all those things are not good for themselves and society. And yet we fail to do the same for both children and adults when it comes to looks, which never fails to sadden me.

</rant>

EDIT to add:

pg recently tweeted "Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?"

I'd like to pose the same question - Will makeup and cosmetic surgery turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before society got its shit together and collectively realized that we shouldn't be promoting beauty as a virtue?
Except its not nonsense - doctors deal with people with this type of narrow diet all the time. Or, not sufficiently varied diet on a day to day basis.

Humans are also awful statisticians - fat people don't think they eat much. Thin people think they eat tons of food. Nobody accurately assesses what they do and don't eat, and our entire society is negatively geared towards maintaining healthy eating patterns anyway (your above example of variety will get blown to hell for most people past a few stressful weeks).

Yes, technically this is unnecessary but that's hardly the point.
Just means that now I have to look elsewhere or roll my own cloud data store and push proxy. It is a small inconvenience, but not something insurmountable.
No, read the article. He died before the accusations.
A croissant is also about the most amount of butter you can possibly fit into a pastry.
The only redeeming factor, such as it is, is that he appears to have died before the bombings. So Reddit caused his family great pain, but probably wasn't a factor in causing his death.