skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, ebooks are always 50% off at O'Reilly...at least for the past few years that I've been buying from them.
Both. This ad works better than any other ad in this thread. :)
You tell me when in a few years you use a different ebook reader...
I'd believe that, but the men I hang out with tend to be genuinely curious people, so the so-called "control group" shows that I should be encountering at least as many curious women as men, and yet, I don't see that. So what else?
Cleared cookies on FF in linux - Worked

Cleared cookies on FF in windows - Did not work

Versions of Firefox were the same, Linux version has various dev related extensions installed but I cannot figure out why this would change things.

[EDIT] Site just died for a few minutes with NGINX error pages. Probably HN fixing it.
> a lot of the advice misguided.

The goal isn't to write pleasant code; it's to explore what's possible with the language, even if you should be slapped for using the techniques in a real project. Reducing LOC is akin to code golf; the shortening is an ends to itself, and sites like codegolf.com are essentially competitive problem solving with a very strange goal.

Tangentially: In a different subject, there was an ad hoc competition to write the shortest science fiction story.

One example is Knock, by Fredric Brown: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..."

Another is Cosmic Report Card: Earth, by Forrest J. Ackerman. The entirety of the story is "F".
I'm French and receive email in English and French; spam detection seems to work just as well in those two languages.
World's smallest drone looks like a housefly
But the point here is a "day against DRM". O'Reilly has really nice DRM-free editions, in multiple formats: PDF, ePub, Mobi, etc.
How did you eat?
Yep, they could easily add this to their donation system, I am kind of surprised they didn't do this already.

Hell, this is one instance where they wouldn't even have to be sneaky about this like some scummier apps.

A big "Post this donation on my facebook page" checkbox/link etc would be enough since a good number of people would probably want that feature.

It seems we are living in an age of increasing open'ness (dare I say narcissism?). Might as well harness it.
Regarding the browser logout I had the same happen here, I was actually concerned I had been shadow-banned or something when I realised I had been automatically logged out.
I agree with you, I'm not saying that the video can be low quality because it doesn't matter, just that the content is far more important to them, but yeah, I think is better if you have a proper camera and mic. Wouldn't leave a nice impression if someone submit a video shooted with their phone.
TripAdvisor acquires CruiseWise (a Startup Chile alum)
Make Users Love Your Product
Their widget did not advertise eBay at all, and when clicked it lied to eBay claiming someone clicked a eBay ad, when the person probably only wanted to see the widget about page or something like that.
Doesn't seem like a very "Google" thing to do, though.
I'm assuming it would be a hidden iframe and then trigger an actual click on an ebay affiliate link, so it would appear the user has clicked the link.

Your hypothetical scenario is actually showing products.

According to the article, it seems eBay's gripe was that once the cookie was placed, the transparent .gif on their homepage was never triggered, so these affiliates were not sending traffic to eBay, but randomly waiting for these eBay users to purchase something from eBay.

This method was actually used by several successful affiliate marketers, now considered "industry veterans", in the early 2000s for Amazon.com and other big affiliate marketing programs.

It would eventually get one kicked out of the affiliate program and the violator would not receive any of their commissions, but this is the first I have heard of the FBI federally prosecuting affiliates for cookie stuffing.
But then you're not solving end users' problems, but Google's; and who's going to pay you to do that...?
There are plenty of inquisitive and curious women, today and in the past. There is a certain kind of cultural and social pressure to not be this way for some women, which may affect how many women you know who are vocal or outwardly open about this attitude and personality.
Kill your CMS
Not random. To open-source developers. The Google <3 open-source. To say thanks. A blanket is a gift. A gift says thank you. So does $175. Got it?
Are you A/B testing?
F.I.R.S.T.? :)
Like c0riander says, your experience seems skewed. Here's some responses I wrote the other day that relates to this (this article is about men and women being polled about why more women aren't in tech): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5635451
The automatic trademark blacklist in Google adwords is really idiotic even if the trademark is valid. I once tried making an ad for my Mac app, and I couldn't include the word "Mac" or "Mac OS" in the copy because they are trademarks.
Call it Distrupathon
I agree, but the line that defines fraud is scarily unclear, IMO.

Should the Airbnb founders be sent to prison for spoofing interest in Craigslist ads and breaking their TOS? If the consensus shifts to yes, then our industry will become a very scary place to invest time and energy.
1. See Mailbox launch on HN and TechCrunch and immediately sell for $100mm.

2. Launch mail app on HN.

3. $$$?
The public should have much control of their online privacy--especially the right to be left alone.
Show HN: Script to download last 10 comments from my favorite Hackers News users
I'm sorry, but are you fucking kidding me?
Not my choice, that's my budget. I don't set the budget.
I dont do this anymore. Its too easy, and its dumb. If you want to make a point in a meeting, dont be positive or negative at all.

Instead, what I do if I feel its important enough, is to instead interject lightly and tell a story.

This story will be usually about 60-120 seconds longer than it needs to be and will be misunderstood by 80 percent of the attendees and the other 20 percent wont get it until a couple hours after the meeting.

This story will be allegorical, involve myself and potentially other actors in previous situations at another usually big company.

I will then (if necessary) paint a picture of a series of events which may or may not have unfolded as a result of making certain decisions that either led to massive success or tragic disaster.

By the time my story is over, everyone in the meeting room is spellbound, with the exception of the folks that realized I hijacked the meeting and usually the meeting ends.

None of it is personalized to anyone in the company, and I make sure its entertaining and not overly exaggerated (beating the dead horse).

No conclusions are drawn and no decisions are made.

Its that simple, tell a story, and as you walk out of the room forget the plot, because it matters not.
> Put simply: the problem isn't positive attitude. It's positive attitude that is in direct conflict with reality.

I disagree that an attitude in conflict with reality is a problem, not for those that have it. If you haven't seen it already you wouldn't believe just how long a company or group within a company can muddle on without any grasp on reality whatsoever. Of course you are better off leaving while the termite-eaten building hasn't collapsed yet, but in this recession that is easier said than done.
Hey, I wrote this, so I can answer a few of the questions.

Why not discourse/reddit/telescope/etc...? I looked into those. Solving the problem we needed a few basic things, posts, threaded comments, and votes. The killer feature that we wanted it to be private to our company, and we wanted authentication integrated with http://teamtreehouse.com. Hacking any existing solutions to fit that auth model seemed more work than it was worth.

When it comes down to it, it's a ridiculously simple app. There's a few models, and not a whole lot of code. When we gauged the effort of integrating most of the OS solutions into our oauth system and locking it down to be in-company only, just making the app was way easier. Plus. we can easily extend it to fit our needs, and we have. Also, I wanted to play w/ rails 4 + ruby 2 for the first time.

Regarding the name, it was a code name. The tool is built for having conversations (convos), and I though convoy was a cool codename. As soon as Ryan saw my working prototype, he told me to launch it, and the name stuck. I didn't even know there was a movie.
How about https://moot.it ?
If they're DRM-free mobi, which I think ORA books are, then Calibre can easily convert them to ePub, etc.
I'm working on an idea to tackle/nudge slacktivists into become really active ... or at least make visible to them how volatile and in the end meaningless their +1, Likes and Favs really are when true/real world/operative support would be due.
If you are interested please stop by at www.sustinion.com as I'm looking for "external" feedback to validate the ideas.
Did anyone drop out of college to start a business? [r/entrepreneur]
Handling missing data in K-Means
I've bought a book just to say "O'Reilly, this is what I want ebooks to be!".
I know a lot of people find OP to be one-sided, but I think it's accurate.

First, there's the engineer-manager impedance mismatch. We're told by compilers to fix our work in very annoying ways. The machine has no fear of us and refuses to execute nonsensical instructions. (We generally prefer this over blind compliance.) Managers are simply not used to negative feedback because they never get it. People will lie to them rather than risk their careers on delivery of bad news. We, on the other hand, think everyone should be like a compiler and complain hastily when given bad instructions. And we don't take it personally when that happens.

Second, what most of us fail to realize until too late is that work is about social status for most people. It's not about getting the right answer or maximizing profits or anything else. I wish these assholes were greedy, because greed can be positive-sum as opposed to their short-sighted zero-sum social squabbling. It's about being the boss, and fending off the other guy. That's what most people care about at work, at least in corporate jobs.

Most bad ideas fail in a way that can still have positive expectancy for the originator's social status. That's why you see the bike-shedding. An idea has to be really, really bad to hurt the originator's social status before he can get promoted away from the mess. So, when you challenge a bad idea, you're actually stepping in the way of that person's career (or, at least, it's perceived that way).

That's why I can't tolerate executives. I understand that there's a need for management to a limited degree, but these entitled high priests who job is to "have ideas" (who also have the power to fire people who push back against awful ones) are a scourge. There should never be a culture where ideas are unquestionable because of their originators. We all have shitty ideas from time to time, and it's only these narcissistic executives who aren't honest about the fact.
Memcache: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 12.10
>The human brain is crappy rng so it cannot create proper high entropy passwords. No way getting around that...

Yes there is: you use a real RNG to generate your password. A good option is http://passphra.se. Just remember that you can't go clicking "Generate Another!" until you find something particularly memorable, or you'll be sacrificing an unknown amount of entropy by narrowing the space to memorable passwords. Better to keep the phrase somewhere safe (encrypted) until you have managed to drill it into your head. I like to fit the phrase into a sentence, which adds both memorability and entropy.

For example, it just gave me: "song surprise calm task", which I might turn into "Sing a song of surprise, and resume your calm task.", which Dropbox's zxcvbn tool estimates at 141 bits of entropy. If a password form has a character limit, you can initialize the sentence, yielding "Sasos&ryct", which zxcvbn rates at a not-too-shabby 52 bits.
Working for me on FF 20.0.1 / Win 7, after the suggestions to delete HN cookies.
I replied in more depth, but it came down to making it private and authenticating against our own app via oauth. Hacking existing solutions seemed like more work than building our own. Plus it's fun to make things.
This looks awesome. Nice, simple, purpose-specific tool. I can imagine a lot of SEO nuts would love this.
In addition, when signing up for an invitation to my gmail account, this thing tells me Gmail has problems.

Dude, if Gmail has problems, how the heck do you think you're going to do better? Gmail doesn't have problems. Gmail IS e-mail.
It's worth recognizing that the Google Open Source Programs office absolutely makes financial contributions to open source projects as well!

(I've been a recipient of both the individual award, and projects I've worked on have been recipients of grants from the OSPO).
I think he means "You can't afford to stop using email"

I'm from the UK and I've never heard anybody say mail when they meant email.
I had to refresh the page after cleaning the cookies and before the login, too.
I think you're missing the point, which is that that information is already unavoidably leaked by the signup form. So leaking it from the log in form doesn't change anything.
I'd say this is true. I can count the number of times I watched TV over the past 2 years on one hand.

The only time I miss it is when I miss some huge event (earthquakes, shootings) and my friends look at me funny when they realise I haven't heard after 3 days.

On that note; I really want a twitter account that tweets these and a Facebook feed like algorithm that condenses my missed tweets for me so I can just see the major ones.
Good for them. The system getting a little taste of its own medicine and the copyright damages could be worth going through the court system.
Whenever I see "Tutorial: X" on the internet I immediately think "What if a beginner read this".

Therefore whenever I see an article without a "Do not do this in real-life / production because..." warning I immediately take a negative view.

In this case I evaluated the site with that in mind, all the techniques are useful but the examples are pretty badly shoe-horned. There are much cleared ways to give examples of multiple assignments than the examples there.

Other things like writing methods on one line, probably useful in situations like defining error classes

"class MySpecialError < StandardError; end" but apart from that I frown upon it.

There is also the "Hey, this is a nested ternary operator" example which is... well, demo'ing nested ternary operators without a big fat "Do this in real life and people will hurt you" warning is a no-no in my book.

A bit rambling but I suppose to sum up my main problem with this was "Here are some things you can do" without actual discussion about when they are suitable, when they are not, and why this is so.
You're totally right, but I was replying to the parent comment.
Yes, I am planning to go Ubuntu as well.
Recently there were some interesting articles about JS optimization by the Turbulenz guys: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/186171/making_the_move...
Not saying it's a great analogy, but it seems like SaaS would be the McDonalds (scalable, commoditized) whereas bespoke software is the fancy restaurant meal.

It doesn't really seem to hold up though, or say much either way.
I've refused to do things I found unethical in the past (bulk spamming, lying to vendors to get better discounts/terms/freebies). I also have to argue the merits of technical solutions with my manager. Sometimes I help out on projects where solutions seem sub-optimal but if it's flat out wrong I'll be loud about it until people catch on and it gets changed. I've decided to use a different language on a project and had it eventually become the default language for new development (from VB.NET to C#). And I've never had my employment threatened doing any of these things, though most of them have occurred in a corporate setting, working on a framework for enterprise crud apps. So I definitely feel that there's room for being ethical (or at least relatively true to yourself) within a corporate environment without getting totally screwed over in short order.
At the beginning of 2012, Obama ordered federal agencies to build web APIs. What ever happened with that? Has anyone tried using them? There's probably a lot of interesting use cases.
cool. I liked part I. Looking forward to the follow up.
You can't confuse acetylene or nitrogen, old or new style; acetylene uses maroon for the whole bottle, nitrogen uses black for the shoulder only. Also the cylinders are quite different shapes.

Also the colours are for "the room is on fire, quick what's in that gas bottle over there?" situations. Are you allowed to be a safety responder if you're colour blind? For everyone else the rule is pretty simple; GTFO, and if acetylene is involved, GTFO out of the postcode.
I can confirm that there was a technical change on HN today that affected other browsers. I have been just turning on my browser (Chrome running on Windoze) and coming over to HN already logged in for months now. Just today I had to log in again, which because HN's new emailed link for password updates allowed me to specify a password, has let me choose a memorable password specific to HN. (The former way HN updated passwords by email was to send a new, random password to my email address, as for example when I logged in via a different computer without an HN cookie set.) So far, so good.
Departing 48-Year-Old Alibaba CEO Says He's Too Old To Run An Internet Company
> Much of Hogan's apartment was a clutter of screens, hard drives and keyboards — which the FBI confiscated.

That must have been some very advanced and dangerous looking screens and keyboards.

Why do we still accept this kind of confiscation of unrelated goods, while throwing big objections if the police had confiscated jewelery, clothes, or anything other non-connected but expensive items? By now, for all the tons of electronic items confiscated during raids, has any single screen or keyboard ever been part of the evidence provided to a court?
OVH launches dual octo-core cpu, 256 GB ECC ram server for 299€/mo/no setup-fee
Personally connected with this team. They are talented and motivated to serve the search community!
It could be many things other than a lack of curious women in the population at large. Not saying any of these are true, obviously, but some possibilities: You have biases (conscious or unconscious) in the "type" of woman you befriend? Social signaling or dynamics in your conversations leading to not discussing curiosity-inspiring topics with women? You are not interested in the specific areas or things they are curious about? Etc.
Sounds a lot like what I'm experiencing in my current role. We are supposed to be launching in a month and the product is riddled with problems. From creating 5+ threads per user and not being horizontally scalable. Offered many alternate solutions, but none of them ever get noticed.
I had literally the exact same issue. They said I had to get them paperwork from Apple's legal department, ignoring Apple trademark page saying it's okay to use the Mac trademark to sell a Mac app which I forwarded to them with an explanation.

My exact ad said "Try _____, a better way to _____ for Windows and Mac".

They didn't mention the Windows trademark. Pfft.
I was imagining building a list of books which are included which are generally recommended as must-reads, so people could fill out their libraries of known top books.
The better word may be Food Scientist, or something similar.
they're on board now, that's all that matters.
20 years of technological evolution
It's there. The latency tables show the standard deviation, as well as the maximum latency.
FF20 on Mac works fine for me.
Show HN: Stringer, a self-hosted anti-social RSS reader
There was a log-in code change on HN today that made a lot of people think they were site-banned,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650171

but in fact they were not. The comments of the user you mention do not appear dead to me (I have showdead turned on).
Douchebag Invasion: when we as a tribe lost the high-autonomy blue-sky R&D environment and it became the reality for most of us to answer to clueless douchebags who lack any respect for what we do.
There are a number of off the shelf motor controllers. I tend to build my own but the folks at Sparkfun [1] have a number of of them which other have used with great success.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9107
My problem as a designer living in code is that by calling myself "UI Designer" (or "Web Designer" for that matter), I'm putting myself in the same boat as people who don't know any code (I'm basing this off of seeing what people on Dribbble's titles/"skills" are). I much prefer "UI Developer" to "Designer" because that implies I am actually able to build what I've designed while acknowledging the design/interface aspect.
How to stream files from Raspberry Pi to a smartphone
Agreed. Plenty of free programs do the job, but "costs" one way or another (ex.: ads). I'll pay (more) for programs which improve the experience by not distracting me with ads or irritating user interfaces (looking at you SONY). I'm old enough to start realizing life is finite; better to pay more for a good experience on top of getting something done (be it remote data access or topping off my nutrition for the day).

The short answer: it's why Apple is making boatloads of cash. "But you can get an equivalent machine for a fraction of the price!" arguments abound; nonetheless, its that "fine dining" attention to detail which rakes in tens of billions of $$$ profit per quarter.
Any recommendations for ruby related o'reilly books that may be hidden gems? (Not aimed at beginners)

Also any recommended books related to web-development / scaling / new languages like go in general which a dev may not buy as a matter of course would be nice also.

I get most of my stuff from pragprog but am open to other options.
I went to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) site and searched for the word "hackathon" in their (US) trademark database and it didn't find anything, so US-based hackathons should be fine (for now).

In Germany, I'm sure the Germans can come up with some long-German-word-like-'marathon-of-hacking'-that-means-the-same-thing-as-hackathon, if they haven't already.
Yes, it's not our main focus right now. We have planned this for later next year. It's not just the Google - everyone who runs online app or shop needs to get to you with order information, registration confirmation, invoice... If it's a pain to get into your inbox for them, it's a pain for you too not getting what you want. We will make it impossible to send out and receive spam using our infrastructure.
Steam makes it super easy to get games but installing it is friction?

I am a gamer with an interest in the indie sector but don't have steam because my first experience with that extra platform abstraction - Origin - has put me off. Neither do I want a game as a web page. I want a gaming experience and that for me is still a standalone executable. I even dislike not having a physical copy of digital distributions.
This team knows what they're doing, very excited to see them evolve!
AngularJS Translation Module 0.6.0 is out
Now with support for asynchronous loading of localization files
But ISBNs are available on Amazon.
They were using iframes to drop cookies on visitors computers without them actually intending to go to eBay - or even being aware that they had "visited" eBay at all. This is against the ToS, but isn't necessarily a crime.

The crime was their attempts to obfuscate and hide the activity so that eBay could not legitimately tell if they were doing so against the ToS. Fraud includes intentionally deceiving someone in the context of an agreement, statement or contract (iirc). They got caught because they made a long-running habit of hiding their illicit activity to a degree which made them guilty.