skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For another, an integrated comment system that stores credentials for anonymous Internet users in the same data structure as the one used for site administrators.
A corporation is just a group of people. It's not possible for a corporation to be ethical or unethical, a corporation doesn't have a soul or a conscience.

It's possible for specific people inside a corporation to behave in unethical ways. However, the definition of maximizing shareholder value is not simply "make the stock price as high as possible in the short term." It's perfectly possible for executives in a corporation to take the high road as the optimal strategy for maximizing shareholder value.
Snazzy app - I've used a little program called Agave (for Gnome) for this http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ - it seems to be based on similar principles.
"Worrying about bandwidth, memory, and processing power (in user space) is no longer relevant."

What? Am I missing something, or is this a colossally irresponsible and narrow-minded way to approach software development?
i changed my password yesterday when i saw that. took name.com quite a while to contact us...
Reduce your attack surface by not leaving years and years of emails on your IMAP server. I know its convenient, but there is a privacy tradeoff.
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Doctors referred patients with osteoarthritis to surgeons for something called knee arthroscopy. They did this for years. Doctors, and surgeons, thought it was doing good. They were not dicks. They were not charlatans. They were not quacks. They were not idiots.

They just didn't have enough evidence, and persuaded themselves that the evidence they had was better quality than it actually was. The surgery isn't outlandish; it has a plausible mechanism of action; patients report good results afterwards. And the reason best standard research wasn't done is because there's a bunch of stuff we do that we've been doing for a long time and are only just now getting around to properly studying.

So, when a placebo-controlled blinded study was done we discover that knee arthroscopy probably doesn't do anything more than placebo for osteoarthritis.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthroscopy#For_osteoarthritis)

> Carving an exception like that for oneself

Well, I guess it depends on how aware people are of cognitive bias, and how much they're closing themselves off to the possibility that they're subject to biases.

These things are really hard to guard against.
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Can you elaborate more on the two pixel boundaries? I'm not familiar with that and don't really know what it means... Thank you
"Cow 'production' uses only factory workers now."

I suppose I should ask the folks around here (ND) about that line. On second thought, I am pretty sure they would have some words for me.
Thank you for sharing this. It's one of the clearest pitch decks I've found.
I've just been watching it for about 5 minutes, pretty entertaining actually.
We are a top seller of jewelry in Amazon U.S. We were invited to Canada jewelry beta but they keep pushing back the launch date. We would sell at the same price + some extra built in to keep shipping low. Waiting on you, Canada!
Works in Rubymine and PHPStorm as well. Little bit fiddly setting this up Rubymine, have to let the IDE install the debugging gems IIRC.
It was back in April, in association with an attack on Linode [1]. See this HN comment by RoboTeddy from yesterday for a great summary of the group's story about these attacks [2].

However, Name.com has not disclosed much information. I don't know if they were aware of the attack until the group released their story yesterday. The systems could have still been compromised.

[1] https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667391
It's purely coincidental that it is a weapon enamoured and used by so many spree killers.

May be. Spree killings are actually fairly uncommon, so trying to draw any inferences from such a small data set is fraught with risk.

Totally the same as a hunting rifle.

Nobody said it was. But I, and many others, refute any assertion that an AR-15 is especially deadly compared to many (most) other commonly available civilian semiautomatic rifles.

And then you point out a MASSIVE bullet used by almost no one but in bolt action rifles. A bullet that is essentially never used in the commission of murders.

The point is that .223 is not an especially lethal round. Bringing up something like a 120mm mortar round is silly... 30-06 is a commonly used, generic-as-can-be round, which sits in boxes and boxes in stores and houses all around the USA. And it is a more "lethal" round than .223, but the anti-gun fringe jump all over .223 and the AR-15 to evoke an emotional reaction. It's pure fear-mongering and appeal to emotion.

After all, it's not just a "gun" it's "a high power, fast-action, semi-automatic assault weapon"! Which one sounds scarier and is more likely to get people all riled up? FSM forbid that the thing might even have one of those evil pistol grips or a bayonet lug, or even gasp be black...
Obviously the importance of it depends on the product, and some things don't do it at all, but there is the consideration that although two products came from the same line, they were branded according to how well they passed QA.

Sometimes they keep the same overall brand (see: Intel and AMD disabling defective cores) and sometimes nobody even pretends that the product you are buying is not the result of failed QA for another product (bags of broken pretzel bits), but between those you get a fuzzier line. I have heard that consumer batteries do this for example: the weird-brand batteries that come in your remote control from the factory are probably rebranded batteries from a company you have heard of.
Yes he doesn't seem to realize that the larger the app the harder it is to scale i.e. thousands of requests per second for a <1mb HTML5 app could be a serious scaling problem.

Not to mention his complete ignorance of the variable bandwidth of mobile devices.
Generally your employer isn't going anywhere, and if a paycheck bounces, you will see them the next day and raise the issue (also, they are legally bound to make good on that debt). I wouldn't take a one-time contract job and expect to get paid by check after handing over the work, any more than I would accept a check from a Craigslist user in exchange for an item (unless the check was allowed to clear prior to my side of the exchange occurring).
Glasses are a poor example because they have to be customized for each customer. Did you really think that they had your prescription with your choice of lens coating in stock that they could just ship out to you next day?
Not at all. There's a very clear trend of micro-optimization obsession. It's funny to see how many questions on SO deal with absolutely silly micro-optimization issues when the rest of the code-base has much bigger problems.

Worrying about micro-optimizations (like making sure the size of your code is <= 1.44mb) takes time away from worrying about more important issues.
As a major Amazon 3P seller of jewelry, thats great to hear. It would be better if Amazon didnt take a 20% cut, of course.
You made carbonmade? I still have a portfolio on there (http://dangayle.carbonmade.com/). The pricing was too steep for me to pay for the full service though.

RE: url
Even in 2006-2007 that domain wouldn't have been cheap. Kudos for sitting on it that long without getting ants in your pants.
Idea: if the "as a"-field starts with a vowel, change the "a" to "an".
I am going to have to be the first to ironically use a hashtag to comment on this article?
This is generally called "Deceptive UX" or
http://darkpatterns.org/

“It’s difficult for me [or the other customers] to tell if they do this deliberatively to try to sell… or if they’re just careless with the way they’re designing things,” he said. “You need to see your product from the user’s standpoint.”
http://blog.web2expo.com/2011/10/deceptive-ux-how-to-trick-p...
Sure, but self-analysis isn't optional.
Webfaction looks really good. Many thanks!
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So "cron" for Twitter, yes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5676010
Scaling a service has nothing to do with client size. Like, literally nothing.
It's not a qualification, he's establishing his credibility and impartiality in the discussion.
Berkshelf is worth investigating simply because there's a lot of momentum behind it, even though it came out after Librarian. By "momentum", I mean that since the session introducing it en mass at the Opscode Community Summit in 2012, it's being adopted by the community.

No hard numbers, but the main thing is that Berkshelf could not have really happen without enough standardized community cookbooks. By putting the cookbooks into a global directory, it works more like Ruby gems and Bundler: instead of focusing on your customized (and probably divergent) cookbooks loaded into your project directory, you focus only on the few cookbooks that are specific for your needs. It comes out of a bigger theme in the 2012 Summit, that of creating "library cookbooks" that gets assembled by your "application cookbook". If it's a library cookbook, you don't necessarily need it in your project library any more than you need to import a Ruby gem into your Rails directory during development.

Test-kitchen is also worth looking into, though as far as I know, that still uses Librarian under the covers. Berkshelf support for test-kitchen is pending (http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KITCHEN-9).

In summary: Berkshelf is part of the overall trend in modularizing these cookbooks and developing tighter engineering discipline.
I think his/her point was that LinkedIn might have those features, but customers don't _have_ to use them.

So you can pay more for better targeting, which is probably an intelligent way to get the users you want, but there could be companies that just ignore logic and want the cheapest way to blast out a message.
In the authors case I think it means IBM isn't leveraging LinkedIn's data. It could the case that some HR person checked off "programming" and left it at that. I can't imagine someone at LinkedIn going back and fixing all the vague job descriptions that go through their system.
I have often experienced:

- Advertisers who don't understand what they are doing with automated systems [1]
- Advertisers whose specific target is too small, so they widen the net [2]
- Advertisers who would rather waste a bit more money to keep the net wide [3]

Point 1: remember that plenty of advertisers are old-school, they're used to signing off campaigns over lunch or drinks, not to fiddling with settings on a website. Hell, I'm 23, so far from oldschool, and a.) I have often chosen less targeted advertising options (based on performance of KPIs) and b.) I don't like getting involved in specific stuff like Facebook advertising - I hired someone to do that for me, but maybe if I knew even less about it I wouldn't have even thought to do that.

Points 2/3: Some people are going to be your target audience without the data showing it. Just because someone doesn't list SAP as a skill, doesn't mean they don't have it. Just because they aren't in Germany, doesn't mean they wouldn't consider moving for the right opportunity. Just because someone isn't a fan of McDonalds on Facebook it doesn't mean they won't be interested in a KFC advert.

edit: Of course, LinkedIn offering poor features is also a possible explanation. As I said I've never used it (for advertising) and have no interest in exploring it as I only deal with B2C marketing.
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"Building apps any way makes them cachable."

Not true. For example, a rails website out of the box doesn't cache content pages. Before sprockets the assets were not explicitly cached. There's quite a bit of work that you have to do to make an application highly cacheable. Using a static site generator like Middleman ensures that your app has no moving parts when its on a server, which makes caching very trivial.

"And why would you get bonus points for making it 700kb or less?"

Yes, you would. In our world we might have 10,000 people sitting in a room pulling our mobile app over a crappy wifi connection. Every byte counts and we need to be super aggressive about caching. I encourage you to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput....

"And setting arbitrary limits (1.44mb) is just silly."

It is silly, that's the point! Our app weighs in at roughly 2.5mb with Retina assets, which I had to cut to get it to fit on the floppy.

Laugh a little bit, this is suppose to be fun!
I have gone for http://feeder.co/ because it is very lightweight and in-browser. And in-fact I like it more than Google Reader.

I tried Feedly. It looks really shady as it adds something in the background and the UI is not good for reading.
>Except not everyone is running a top of the line desktop in a first world country. Even in a first world country you have people on older laptops, slower internet, or even metered internet.

If you're writing an HTML5 app, I assume your target doesn't comprise of Laptops from 1998 running IE5.

> Minimizing the size of your app is still a worthy goal. Maybe not to the level pushed in the article.

I agree.
Interesting to see the amount of different inputs that people are trying. Swastikas and attempts to DROP TABLE aplenty.
You can also SEO amazon's search.
I am honestly questioning the utility of LinkedIn in general. It seems to be a sink for recruiter messages when people don't know how to otherwise contact me. I know when someone is hiring bioinformatics developers locally, because within an hour I get LinkedIn messages from six different recruiters who are all trying to pitch the exact same job.

I am not sure how it could be useful in a job search scenario. I don't perceive it as any less annoying to send someone a cold-email just because they are a FOAF on LinkedIn. Am I wrong on this?

I've been on there for 8 years and have accumulated a ton of connections, but I've been tempted to just delete the account. I have avoided doing it though because I have this idea that if someone Googled me and found no LinkedIn profile, they'd think I don't care about my career.
WebGL is pretty scary since it's only a thin wrapper around OpenGL. OpenGL drivers tend to run in the kernel, have direct access to the complete memory of the box and not be hardened from a security perspective. It's only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to own a box via WebGL by simply visiting a website. This is why Apple leaves WebGL disabled by default in Safari, and I think Microsoft is hesitant to add support in IE for the same reason.
Ensuring your app loads quickly over the network is definitely an optimization, but to call it a micro-optimization is wrong. Size on the wire for html5 apps (frequently loaded over mobile connections) is completely relevant.
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you should add an algorithm to filter out the spam and make an app out of this. you could change the theme every day, e.g. tomorrow it could be "if I had [..] I would [..]", etc.

can totally see this taking off
I have used Vagrant in the past, and I had to stop using it. Shared folders were just too slow. 2 seconds to refresh a page was too much when you're trying to be productive.
Ditto. I still have yet to receive the email. Checked spam to no avail.
Then really, "unlimited vacation days" is more of a PR spin than a valuable benefit.
I knew it couldn't be trusted, so I gave a spurious one (xkcd style), and it said that it'd take a majorly long time to guess. (But entropy per character was low, it was all lowercase!)
IIRC OnTrac uses contractors, mostly of the "some guy with a truck" variety, of wildly varying quality, and is very cheap. When they're good there's nothing wrong with them but the bad ones do things you would never see a UPS or FedEx guy doing.
It says "aims to" - I could not see a portion where it said "is working". Do you know it's status?

Looks good though, with a dependence on browsers JavaScript vm it must be a nightmare of security
"...the bulk of collective social value is produced by people following the pack/tribe"

This is stated as fact, but is the most contentious statement you could possibly make. In fact, I would argue that nearly every 'hero' character from both real history and mythology/fiction (which speaks to our cultural 'beliefs' sometimes better than our actions which are as guided by fear as belief) are quite the antithesis. Our heroes are heroes because it takes something more to innovate than it does to join.

You also use the hyperbolic phrase 'loners, outliers, and dropouts', well if we're playing the word game, I say that what happens to the total productivity of society if everyone acts like an 'innovator, an inventor, an individual' is that we have a lot less waste, and we have people who move things forward rather than fill seats.

The thing that kills me about the path-followers isn't that they don't offer value, because they do, especially the smart ones. But most of the path followers aren't happy just following the path, they angrily defend the path as the 'one and only true way'. The rest of us are just 'doing something wrong'
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The fact that you are acknowledging that "people don't always read everything" makes it very hard to believe this is anything other than an intentionally deceptive pattern. A responsible and ethical UX designer would show the email and allow an easy path to opt-out of emailing anyone.
My biggest gripe with LinkedIn is that recently, I made the fatal mistake of letting it look at my Gmail contacts. Getting suggestions for contacts who are already using LinkedIn was the intention but they invited anyone who had ever mailed me!

Up until that point, my contact list was limited to people that I personally knew and could recommend. Now, months later, I am still getting successful "contact accepted" replies from people that I barely know. I.e everyone who ever contributed to any mailing list that I was ever subscribed to.

I even got replies from people asking why I contacted them. I have no idea how many people remain to accept my invitation or even who they are.

What a disaster. It has changed for me, an early user of the site, what was a useful database of the people I know, to now some random connection of strangers.

The worst part is the link to connect to Gmail still appears and I'm sure that it doesn't clearly indicate what it's intention is. So, if you have connected with an email provider in the past be wary of allowing it to connect again.

And yes, if you let any site connect to your personal data, expect the worst outcome...
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Berkshelf works nicely with Vagrant when you are using the chef-solo provisioner.

If you're looking to use knife solo for setting up production environments, perhaps one thing to look at is Vagrant 1.1+ support for EC2 provisioning (assuming you're using AWS).

You can also have Berkshelf install the declared cookbooks into a directory with `berks install -c $cookbook_dir` and then using knife-solo. Seems awkward, but I'd rather have dependencies managed in some way, rather than resolving the dependencies by hand.
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I have been apprehensive about asking that question, lest they judge me for a slacker.
I want to ask in an email, but want to learn something about how this works before I email them
don't captcha just rate limit by ip
He gave a sincere followup. It wasn't sarcasm.
Minimizing app size is quite relevant in some circumstances. For example, when an app is being used at a live event, you could have 1000s of people downloading it at the same time over the same wifi connection. Even a small decrease in the app size will help decrease that initial bandwidth spike.
It's written into our Constitution, which is very difficult to change? A significant portion of our population doesn't desire a change to gun laws?

And the point of the banned substances is that they're less expensive and more convenient. That's why they're used. Whether they're harmful or not is up for debate, but I don't think businesses use them because they don't work...
One more reason to use 2FA on your Google Apps account.
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Your interpretation of "consideration" is, according to the article you linked, the minority position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration#Monetary_value_o...

I'm not sure what you mean by "you can't sign your rights away". IP is of course transferable.
I like it. To limit spam, use twitter for auth and connect ideas to twitter profiles, then let people flag other people as spam - and hellban their account.

If you don't want auth, you can still just let people flag spam and hellban machines spitting out spam.

Edit: You can also use basic ratelimiting - maybe only allow 1 post per 10 seconds.
I'd be curious to hear about your experiences in the Corps as an anti-authoritarian sort. I nearly joined the Marines myself out of college but decided that I was not well suited for it.
I know a couple guys who do that. Their Steam app is also managed by Chef.

We got our dev setup partially automated like that. Even the partial setup was better than what I heard -- took a week to set up a laptop with the tools and the whole platform. When I was onboarded, it took about day, more or less hands off.
I made something so you can cheat at words with friends
I just closed my account, and I bet I'd still get a shiton of emails from them or people who finds me there.
Hey guys --

jmalter is the founder of FounderDating.

jfarmer is the founder of Everlane.

Both have terrible UX, but only one of them is being a total ass in this thread (vs. pretending to be oblivious to dark patterns). Mind who you're insulting about their behavior.
Huh, that's interesting. How old is your hardware?
Compare to the 200 kiddie pool deaths every summer

You have a very loose handle on facts. There are about 20 "kiddie pool" deaths in the United States in an average year. There are many more swimming pool accidents, which is exactly why there are endless regulations and safety actions around swimming pools, and it remains a serious tragedy that absolutely needs action. It is completely and outrageously unacceptable that children continue to die tragic deaths in swimming pools, and whether it's increased safety measures, or more education starting at a younger age, it is untenable and at some point in the future people will look back and marvel at the stupid risk taking that occurred.

Of course it's a garbage analogy anyways. Swimming pools provide recreation and physical activity for tens of millions of people. Guns generally sit in closets until that day it's used to commit a suicide, a robbery, a murder, etc.
The "geographical indications" are a simple trademark landgrab (pun intended). The geographical regions are trying to recapture exclusive use of a genericized term. Think trampoline, escalator, zipper, and aspirin. The goal is to exclude competitors and increase profits.

Next up: France will assert control of the terms french bread, french toast, and french fries, but only to eliminate them as inferior food products.
3g is virtually ubiquitous. And building an app having weird contingencies in mind (atrocious wifi connections, 5 billion people downloading simultaneously, downloading from outer space, etc.) is not good engineering. Unless you like spending time in development hell.

"Oh no, our application can't be simultaneously downloaded by 3 million martians because our client is too big." I'm being facetious, of course, but I think the point applies. Don't build stuff with weird contingencies in mind. The average user (of an HTML5 app) will not have to worry about processing power, bandwidth, or client size. As long as it's not like 20mb or something stupid.
I'm the 555 guy. Let's talk about semantic communication.