skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think the creepy part about LinkedIn is you can actually see who views who."

Is it any creepier than being able to stalk some stranger's Facebook profile anonymously?
Trade show booth design for pipe and drape
Good for trade show booth displays, the area of pipe drape will be max height and max width.
"Authoritative parenting a combination of high responsiveness with the exercise of power that’s open to negotiation"
strict limits != open to negotiation
Wine tasting is bullshit
F.C.C. Advances Plan for Faster In-Flight Wi-Fi
This is a masterpiece of a backhanded compliment. Never have I seen such elegant transitions between briefly masked contempt and half-hearted admiration. It's really stunning.

I think analyzing these acquisitions from a raw dollars-to-dollars perspective is a mistake. When doing a turnaround with a company so fundamentally troubled as Yahoo, you need more than just a few patch-in acquisitions, so that's clearly not what they are about. These moves are part of a long term investment in motivating employees, building relationships with the valley, and regaining footing in the markets that they can win.
I think regex performance of Perl is nothing extraordinary. What it is famous for is pushing the scope of matching beyond regular languages.

Of all the common scripting languages I think TCL uses a different algorithm for regex matching and is considerably faster than Perl, especially on longer strings. Let me find some corroborating docs.

Ok this has some info http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Why don't you contribute to GIMP instead?
The Truth About Reddit
Good point, thanks. But assuming that the spam issue is dealt with, would you use it?
Node-sass
That's not Ben's username...you're completely wrong here.
I might be too late to jump in here, but here are my thoughts on TwoFactor authentication using "unique"* biometrics.

If I scan my fingerprint in to authenticate or scan my retina, on a device that knows my physical location, that is a more literal check-in than anything that exists today. Essentially a check-in would have near absolute certainty that the actual person authenticating was at that place at that time.

That's scary to me; one may have a GPS on their phone today, but that's the phones identity, not the owners. If one signs ones credit cards with a thumb print or a retina scan, one is proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that one was present at that place at that time.

This may or may not be something one wants and one should be conscious of the realities of biometric authentication.

*Just because no one has presented a copy of a retina that can pass a retina scan does not mean one does not exist.
Moneyball at Work
It's worse. It starts off with something that isn't even a good habit in C#, and admits as much, to go on detailing how a bunch of people have found out X can be a useful pattern, only to depict it as the way God intended and to completely disregard anything else.

It is a complete and utter pretentious circle jerk building on the idea of "C# has damaged you, find enlightenment".
This describes what I'm seeing as well. If you've got a good team with a good product and a good chance of becoming a business, it doesn't seem to be any more difficult than normal to find the appropriate level of financing.
Why did you infer that I was okay with this?
But also: People that I trained martial arts with, and I NEVER exchanged electronic messages with them, and I do not talk with them for 4 years now.

Well, if your instructor kept emails of all students in his personal address book, and he happened to share it with LinkedIn, then LinkedIn may deduce that each person on the list may be somehow connected to each other.
Speaking of looking like a dork, though, holding your phone right out in front of you while you try to navigate your way to a restaurant as a pedestrian is pretty much the height of that.
The reason nobody uses this is that it's solving a non-problem.

You can email links to friends just as easily by double clicking on your address bar, copy, go to email, paste.

No third-party browserware required.
I'm just being impolite to the theory. We've been civil so far.

Let me take on your arguments point for point:

> You can't protect against every kind of malicious behavior. Therefore, whether you have regulation or not, people are going to die from doctors doing stupid/evil things.

So it's 100% or forgetaboutit? I'm going to presume that there's nothing particularly special about healthcare and we can apply this kind of binary logic to everything? Why regulate safe drinking water? Why regulate car safety standards? Why regulate food safety? Why regulate really anything at all since by your logic, we can't make it perfect so to hell with all that. The market will handle it.

> The whole point of suing in this case is restitution.

Good, so somebody can sue on my behalf and bring me back to life? Please point me to a legal doctrine so powerful, a Lazarus Law, so powerful that the dead can be brought back.

> This gives doctors the same kind of incentive to treat you well in a freed market as in a state regulated market.

I recognize that "not getting sued" is a powerful motivator, but that motivator already exists. Regardless of the kind of market environment the care is given in. But relying on that as the only motivator isn't advisable. Lawsuits and regulation seem to be working fairly well. Eliminating regulation seems like a rather rubbish idea from any angle.

Re: what is my argument

Here's the original comment

"I would rather have judges, in a court case where parties get to represent themselves, applying common law, with a jury of my peers deciding the verdict... than random idiots elected by a bunch of other random idiots I don't know make laws without my input."

My argument is that relying only on lengthy, expensive and often untenable (because I'm dead) lawsuits, that involve not just you, a couple of lawyers and a judge, but now involving a jury (let's take a dozen people away from their daily lives because I have problems recognizing the benefits of making rules before people get hurt), as the only means of providing safer case is not the smartest idea I've ever heard.

The lawsuits are for when everything fucks up and you end up in a bad situation after the fact. Regulations are to have a good go at keeping you from ending up in the bad situation to start with. I know, it sounds like madness. But hear me out.

Sometimes, you make rules before you do something to try and keep bad things from happening.

Clear?
The best JavaScript habit one can have: learn Coffeescript (or ClojureScript, or BiwaScheme, etc.) ;)

Seriously, I came to Javascript from a C# background and everything I saw pointed me towards treating JS as a compilation target, and choosing a language that enabled me to do the Right Thing(TM) easily and tersely.

I'm not saying "don't learn JS" ... just that it seems a bit odd to be manually coding in JS when there are so many better alternatives out there.
Regarding the use of the "new" keyword, I found this stackoverflow question and answer illuminating:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1646698/what-is-the-new-k...
I wish I had this 7 years ago when I was first learning the language.
But if you build killer product but hate people who skateboard, what then?
Wow, this is totally awesome. This is my first time hearing about emscripten and I've been a Cocoa and JS programmer for about 9 years.

What are some of the coolest applications of emscripten?
Dual pol wasn't deployed when we first started Dark Sky. Now that it's becoming available, it's definitely going to make our job a lot easier!

Not knowing much about it, though, it'll take some time for us to become comfortable with the data.
David Parnas
I agree with you. Although what he said is correct, saying in such a crude way unfortunately helps it ridiculed and disqualified easily which leads to the repetition of it. Unfortunately not by mistake but in consequence of poor communication like that which results sheer encouragement of conspirators to try again for another war.
Sure, you're omitting around 6 or 7 steps, but that's the gist, yes.
To be fair, it's probably easier to read on any device.
If the gig looks like a real thing, I sign the NDA and other related paperwork after review with my lawyer. He quite often gives the agreement a good beat-down. My favorite voicemail of all time was from him after reviewing one such agreement. The entire voicemail was "Egregious".

I don't sign NDAs casually--that is if someone wants me to hear about an idea for a startup, I won't. But for any situation that I have done actual business with there has been a signed NDA.

For perspective, many of my engagements are multi-month situations.

If a company is into something interesting and you are doing interesting work for them, this means that 1) they are in some kind of competitive position and 2) waht they are doing is Interesting and 3) you are part of their leverage in their business situation.

I do like a lot dctoedt's recommendation (do check out his link), and have made some of them bi-directional. That is, they also have to pony up agreeing to keep whatever trade secrets I bring to the equation under the same terms. This, of course, triggers their reflex to say "well you have to tell us first" and then there is no trouble making that symmetric.
And just a few days ago people were discussing how that ATMs prefer to just give you money and overdraw an account rather than deny you cash when you go overdrawn. I guess this is the result? Systems that are only synced once an (hour? day?) provide a window to let thieves do a coordinated hit on different network partitions.
Actually that's supported too,

http://searchco.de/?q=def+reverse+repo%3Adjango

restricted to bitbucket,

http://searchco.de/?q=def+reverse+repo%3Adjango+url%3Abitbuc...

or github

http://searchco.de/?q=def+reverse+repo%3Adjango+url%3Agithub
If only someone had predicted this exact possibility 3 years ago...

"[2] In theory you could beat the death spiral by buying good programmers instead of hiring them. You can get programmers who would never have come to you as employees by buying their startups. But so far the only companies smart enough to do this are companies smart enough not to need to."

-Paul Graham, What Happened to Yahoo
http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Edit: giving this another 30 seconds thought, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a friend of Mayer's sent her PG's essay when she first agreed to take the job. If she hadn't realized it already, she almost certainly would have seen this strategy as the correct one (use Yahoo's war chest to get more A-players into the company through acquisitions), and she's been executing on it ever since.
Err, that's not what begging the question means. It means you are avoiding a question. I didn't realize he was using it in the colliqual way since it was kind of a strange way of using it there too (it's usually in the form "that begs the question: X?").
Why yes! I've used it (or Gerrit code review [1], to be precise) even in two-man projects!

As important as QA is to keep others in the project aware of the latest changes.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
Awesome app!

Would love to add a feature where if you swipe left, all the comments in that thread get collapsed.

It's useful when there are long threads that gets totally out of hand and you dont realize it until you're 1/3 way through. This way you can collapse all of them without having to go to the top.

AlienBlue does this currently with reddit.
> In the first robbery, hackers were able to infiltrate the system of an unnamed Indian credit-card processing company that handles Visa and MasterCard prepaid debit cards.

> The hackers – who are not named in the indictment – proceeded to raise the withdrawal limits on prepaid MasterCard debit accounts issued by the National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah, also known as RAKBANK, which is in United Arab Emirates.
I don't know, what's "Asian American Psychology"? Must be new. They didn't have it when I was in school.
Oh very nice, the links find the desired file immediately. Fantastic, thank you, this is now an alias for me.
Guys, I've been in New York for 70 years and these places are pretty bad. Trust me on this one.
suc·cess·ful

/səkˈsesfəl/

Adjective

1) Accomplishing an aim or purpose: "a successful attack on the town".

2) Having achieved popularity, profit, or distinction.

Attending an ivy league school fulfills both definitions, depending on why you went.
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Ughhh... Biometrics (fingerprints, eye scans, etc...) are not secrets.

This is the umpteenth iteration of a bad idea.
I'm paying $1200/month in Houston, but it's 800 sq. ft., newly refurbished hardwood floor, granite counter-tops with kitchen island, new stainless steel appliances, double vanity sinks, rain shower, a little balcony, washer/dryer in unit, and I have a five minute walk to work and also lots of restaurants and night life.
Well no, these are exactly the steps. Or one click on the bazillion of "sharing" widgets taking up pixels everywhere.
I assumed the point was to avoid paywalls or annoying pagination.
Feds demand 3D printed gun blueprints removed from Internet
successful. With the fruits of early success you can spend the remainder of your life figuring out what makes you happy, and it wont be limited to the things you can do in your home town for $10.
Hey, if you know the Path to True Happiness...well, quit hogging.
[ASK HN]: Best method for syncing markdown documentation with GitHub Pages?
Well it's very impressive that you got that performance without using any dual-pol parameters. Abstract submission for the AMS radar conference is next week, and I'm sure they'd be interested in this.
http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/fainst/201336radar.html
I think girls are more interested in "green" issues in SF than on the east coast, so if you are a rich guy buying a car to help with the mating game, a Tesla might be a better choice out here. It is also a $100k car you can buy to claim to be forward thinking on tech and the environment, rather than just flaunting wealth (which is discouraged here).
No, the steps are:

* Click-drag on the address bar and hope you get everything, or double-click if you know what it does.

* Right-click, making sure it's on the selection or you'll have to do it again.

* Click copy.

* Click "new tab".

* Enter your webmail's address, press enter.

* Maybe log in.

* Click compose message.

* Type a few characters of the person's name or email.

* Select the correct recipient.

* Maybe type a bit of a subject.

* Right click the composition area.

* Press paste.

* Press send.

* Press "yes" to the "no subject" warning if you have no subject.

* Click to close the window.

YourPane:

* Click the bookmarklet.

* Click the recipient(s).

* Click send.

* Close the window.
I'll write a post about this next week. Basically - we dream with founders.

From our perspective, there are always 30 reasons to say no. But if there is a truly compelling reason to say yes, on a path to a large company, we're in.
Completely agree. I find it difficult to comprehend how moving your lifetime earnings potential from 2M to 20M is seen as a horrible thing. You could work 1/10 the amount of your life, have the same amount of money, and figure out what makes you happy with the other 9/10.

I get the feeling most of the people that say money cant buy you happiness have never been dirt poor. I'm not saying money buys happiness, but its damn hard to be happy when you r stressed out over how to pay the rent.
What are the largest sites using PyPy in production?
I support reading, but it's far more important to learn how to distinguish truth from fiction than it is to read a lot. Ironically, that's the one thing that it's quite difficult to learn from reading.

You can see it easily on this site where there are so many people who can argue eloquently and passionately for diametrically opposed perspectives on an issue. Both sides can't both be right, even though a comment would in isolation be more than enough to convince someone who was not skeptical. If you can't distinguish which pretty words are the true ones, you'll be lead by the nose by the guy who can put his words together best, which isn't necessarily a great idea except if you're trying to learn to write and argue.
These insane prices are driven up by people like you who come here, don't know the proper prices

You should then do me a favor and tell me how I get a deal at the proper prices. I agree; the cost of living here is ridiculous. Show me how not to pay four-digit rents for a 1BR within 30 minutes of work and I will be very grateful.

don't know why the hell we have rent control or what it is and never check to see if you're being ripped off

Rent control was originally set in place in the 1940s to prevent a housing spike when people came back from the war. A good thing? It would be, if everyone could participate. Right now, though, that's not the case.

I have no problem with those who were alive during that time keeping rent-control. However, I do have a problem with it when people making $250,000 per year get in on RC because they have connections and pay key money to the children of the deceased. That I have a problem with. And then these hypocritical limousine liberals brag about how they're "sticking it to The Man" by using their connections to get a deal literally superior to ownership.
The word "experience" occurs at least eight times in that announcement. Come on, folks. They're just documents. Documents don't need "reimagining." We don't want "experiences;" we simply want a product that works well, has great features, a fair price, and from a company that will be around long enough to make our investment worthwhile. CTOs aren't sitting around asking for "experiences."
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I think this is an underlying strength of Elon's success and the success of innovators in general (there were a few pages on this in Salman Khan's The One World Schoolhouse) -- starting from first principles. When you have an old model, it's come about due to whatever the situation in the industry was like at the time, and it's evolved due to past forces acting on the old model. To take a basic idea that seems figured out and "fine" (education, or a car) and get rid of any preexisting notions or ideas of how it should work, and start from first principles and think from the very start how it should be given modern advancements, is a difficult and powerful thing.
Good point. I guess I should say "borderline tolerable, from a distance" instead of "okay".
> Sure, you're omitting around 6 or 7 steps, but that's the gist, yes.

On a Mac, Cmd+Shift+I will open a new Mail.app compose window with the URL in the body and the page title as the subject.

With auto-completion for addresses, it's another step (and a half) to fill in an address and then hit Cmd+Shift+D to send.
I can't answer for taste, as I don't drink wine. My wife does, and it's my job to remember what she likes. The nose, however, can usually type a grape or at least distinguish things like Cabernet with soft reds like Pinot Noir. Does that mean they taste better or worse? No idea, but the combination of color (intensity) and smell lets me guess the grape pretty well.

Given the repeated success of things like $2 buck Chuck, it seems that typical people would do well with $4-14 bottles of table red or table white for most applications. There's a lot of options in these price ranges.

My wife has obvious preferences for wine selection based on meals. So I have to assume there's taste differences involved.
I'd rather be acquired by Yahoo than by Google or MS. They are the underdogs.
Actually, the moniker fits perfectly thanks.
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Yeah, that wouldn't be the slightest bit confusing.
If war is a necessary course of action, then it is possibly the most important lesson. War is of course the least desirable course of action. But his job isn't to find peace without war. His job is to do his job (win wars) if called upon. The people responsible for peace are the political leaders. If they fail, they turn to the military.

Yes, sometimes they turn to the military without exploring all avenues to peace. Whether or not those are good decisions can be long debated. But do not put the onus for peace on him. Rather, be thankful that he is capable to do his job. The responsibility for peace lays on the shoulders of political leaders and diplomats.

Quoting the only line that ever stuck with me from Alien vs. Predator:

"Why do you have a gun?"

"It's like a condom. I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it but not have it."
The Feds do realise Defense Distributed removing the plans from their site does not mean they'll disappear completely from the Internet, right? This touches upon a new area of legality because the plans are just computer drawings and really no more different than that of a 3D game designer working on the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield franchise (both of which model their guns off of real guns). It'll be interesting to see how this plays out as 3D printing and the ability to print weapons and illegal objects becomes more and more common as the cost of 3D printing drops.
McKibbin isn't in Wburg. It's where the people too hipster for Wburg go.

Besides, McKibbin is so 00s, as explained by Gawker: http://gawker.com/5431831/bushwick-artist-communitytrailer-p...
Pentagon scrubs 3D gun plans from Internet, says designer
Dear Marissa:

The next logical step for Yahoo! is to move into the enterprise. I know a great startup you could acquire that would accelerate your move into that space. I expect it could be had for a very reasonable price. Call me.

Mindcrime
Wanted: designer/developer for ticket resale disruption.
You're probably like me...tired of getting gouged by ticket prices on Craigslist and Stubhub. Not too mention all of the inefficiencies you have to deal with along the way.

To present a resolution to this, I am in the res process of developing a ticket resale network that emphasizes people selling for "Face Value." I am in need of of designer/developer that would truly like to fk up the way ticket resale works. It is an industry that is in dire need of disruption and you could be a key part of this..

If interested, please email me at: ebach00@gmail.com
@d23: You are correct, I used "begging the question" incorrectly, raising the ire of HN language pedants everywhere. :-p
The mistake most make when criticizing US is when they put all the US into one bag. Like any country there are many competing forces in the US. Especially a country like US, big and dominant, those forces are trying pull and bend the public opinion for their own agenda. That said arguing that it was for the oil (in the literal sense) without substantiating it only good for self-debunking. I think it would be known by now if Iraq's oil was really stolen (literally shipped overseas). I do not believe in that. Hegemony is all about controlling others so was the reason of this war. What has US gained can not be described in one sentence, especially if that sentence is just a rant. As much as it gained something she lost a lot as well, especially average American and multiples of it by the poor Iraqi people. Corporations, special interest groups and countries in that region which has deep and dirty ties with the congress (interestingly Iran as well) gained a lot.
This is exciting for eventlet. Coupled with recent resurgence of work on it, it might bring it back into spotlight.
Let's not turn this discussion into what's pretty big and what isn't
It is well designed and I like what you have built. Maybe a couple of reasons why this hasn't taken off.

1. You need to install something. I personally try not to install anything unless I absolutely need to. Maybe this could easily be done as a bookmarklet instead.

2. Just email isn't interesting. In addition to emailing links, you could provide the option to tweet it, publish it to well known blogs, post on fb walls etc.