skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site needs better division between Mac and PC hints.

Some of them, e.g. "resize a picture," are Mac-specific but not marked as such.
Is it enough to identify yourself as a hacker to everybody in order to potentially signal fellow programmers, or do you want to "out" yourself as a hacker only to fellow Hackers? The former is easy... slap a bumper sticker with your github on the reverse of your laptop screen. Maybe make sure you have a picture of yourself on your github (to prevent false signalling by people pretending to be you).

If the latter is what you want, though, you have to think about how do you prevent people from gaming the system to learn about you. For example, you (you being a user of whatever system you might set up) may not want people hitting on you based on your github profile.

As an aside, a quick google search brought up http://lamakerspace.com/
Computer Code as a Medium for Human Communication
PDF.js is used by Firefox to render PDFs in the browser.
Exactly. Perl regexes have _poor_ performance in terms of running time, but good usability, including by squeezing non-regular features into their allegedly-regular expressions, and also things like numerous and flexible character classes, consistent behaviour for escapes, etc.

I love vim, but jesus I can never remember which vim regex metacharacters need escaping to get their meta-meaning, and which need escaping to get their non-meta meaning.
In many cases, you want to be careful about using JIT'd platforms. Many people forget that the memory requirements skyrocket. When you want to use a language on many different platforms, including embedded, you start to see how having a JIT interpreter as your reference platform can be disadvantageous. CPython isn't exactly slow either, especially when you consider many 'intensive' modules are written directly in C.

Pypy should stay as it is, an experiment that can be used for people who require more performance for certain workloads. Of course, having part of your language written in C for CPython can hurt sometimes, when you can't easily use the functionality on other interpreters.
When I originally read about how much trouble it caused him, I was shocked at how bad the abuse was. I had seen the video and thought it was in more or less good fun -- it was cute. I, however, was an adult looking at this thing in a completely different social context than the kid in the video. Perhaps you, too, forget, or were never exposed to, the type of mob mentality that runs rampant through school-age kids forced into a structured institutional environment for 10+ hours a day. Random people on the internet got a laugh out of it. His schoolmates, on the other hand, used it as a source of cruel torment. Laughing it off generally does no good with school kids, unless you are already extremely popular. And if something like your weight makes you stand out, it's 1000x worse. There is almost certainly no better way he could have handled the situation - he was lucky that changing schools was enough to (apparently) stem the flow. It was a serious situation that was way out of control, not a matter of a few of your buddies giving your a hard time for doing something stupid.
I'm sorry. But the argument that there are more important things for companies than making money is getting old. Maybe it's because I'm from the Midwest (gasp!) and you're from the Valley.

Companies exist for one reason - to make money. It's their oxygen.
Thanks for your comment. Regarding #1, it is a bookmarklet, although I call it a browser button becaue most users don't know what a bookmarklet is. Regarding #2, it's a good idea, I'll see how I can fit it in the existing workflow (maybe an "also tweet" button), thank you.
I'm always amazed at how many ATMs I have seen with their cables showing on the back. Wonder how many get cracked that way.
That is the older daughter, not the younger daughter who had the outburst.
Revenue can be deadly friction in many early stage startups.

If you are in a market with network effects, you need to acquire users FAST. What would grow faster: Facebook monetizing each user from day 1 at $1 a user or Facebook growing fast, kicking in network effects, and delaying monetization. What would ultimately have more value?

So this isn't saying "don't make money", it's about examining the market you are in and making a strategic, thoughtful choice.
> "With five account numbers in hand, the hackers distributed the information to individuals in 20 countries who then encoded the information on magnetic-stripe cards. On Dec. 21, the cashing crews made 4,500 A.T.M. transactions worldwide, stealing $5 million, according to the indictment."

If true, that's hilarious. Seriously, ATM reading magnetic stripes? What century are we, again? It seems I've traveled backwards in time. Either that, or it's a new Terminator movie plot.

I haven't seen a credit or debit card without a smartcard (which requires a PIN) in Brazil in more than a decade now. Not sure if it would have stopped this particular attack, as the magstripe readers are still there because of foreign credit cards. However, there are stricter restrictions on foreign money withdrawals which are enforced regardless of the originating bank.
You really seem to be conflating the problem. There's also plenty of extensions (that can hook into webmail) for this too: e.g. the Send from Gmail extension[1].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-from-gmail-by...
I was just feeling creeped out going to my linkedin page and seeing one of my wife's relatives in the recommendation and wondering how the hell? Then i come and see this in hacker news! Talk about timing.

I think linkedin creeps me out a little more than usual because, with facebook for example i almost expect them to pull off stuff like this. And since linkedin is a professional network, maybe i expected them to be more professional :)
This article vastly overestimates the value of tech buzz and considerably underestimates the value of revenue.

Buzzed about tech companies where their founders are giving talks, they get mentions on twitter, they're talked about on HN, etc., but that are actually going nowhere are a dime a dozen.

Revenue actually changes the underlying economics of your business so it's close to the essence of what a non-vanity metric is.

This article takes a really short-term and dismissive view of revenue. If you're at $1M ARR after a year, throw a party and invite all of your best friends -- you've done something that less than 1% of startups will ever accomplish. If you're at $1M ARR after a year, imagine where you will be after 5 years.

Of course, revenue is just part of the picture. You have to look at revenue growth, whether it's transactional or recurring, how monetization happens, the market opportunity, etc. etc. But I'm pretty confident that revenue is a better indication of how a company is doing than Facebook likes, Twitter mentions, web traffic, etc. that currently comprises the author's startup momentum index.
Seems like a logical move. Since there is supposedly a dearth of A* developers at Yahoo, since it appears many left in the previous years. This has made it a less desirable place for great developers to work for. To change this image and negative spiral, acquire good development teams. The products are secondary. Yahoo becomes a more attractive place to work again. Looks like its the early stage of rebuilding the team, before kicking it on to develop products into growth mode.
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20% revenue growth each month isn't sexy? That's crazy.
You make an excellent point. Being a member of various forums I have encountered again and again the "clever arguer" who is someone who is able to convince lots of people of his opinion even when he is wrong.
I have a feeling that there's a certain crop of high-school overachiever who, upon finally being free, ends up failing for the first time and in a spectacular fashion after they go to college.

How has your life evolved since 25? Did you end up losing the weight and the beard? Did they finally leave you be to pursue your own goals?
None of the above has anything unique to do with testing on a floppy drive. You need a good way to simulate different network conditions, and a good inspector to check the various states on the client.
It's been 10 years?!
You can shoot yourself in the foot in any language....have you ever tried Perl?

Also, if you name your objects and functions like most anyone in CS would suggest, e.g. objects are nouns and functions are verbs, there really shouldn't be a disconnect between the 2 when you need to call them. I am confident that is not a mistake I'll tend to make.
US debit cards just require magnetic strip and pin to withdraw from ATMs.
Like finding a USB floppy drive and a floppy disk in 2013?
What is the infatuation with violins? Why not a Chinese folk instrument? Why are violins and tiger parents so closely related?
This POV pidgeonholes startups into an investor dependent mindset.

Why raise 20k if you you'll make that next month?

Early Revenue is only bad for pump-and-dump startups that KNOW they'll never be profitable, but hope they can fool everyone long enough to get funding and make the company somebody else's problem.

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If the data _was_ in fact available, I have no doubt in my mind that it'd be one of the most important indicators.
Is it really that scary? There are quite a few countries in which insults, hate speech etc. are crimes that can even get you into prison.
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This article reads like a crazy person wrote it.

I'm not crazy. YES I AM.

Seriously. Are they in favor or against? I'm confused.
> If war is a necessary course of action, then it is possibly the most important lesson.

I think all wars since WWI were probably unnecessary but they were fought for economic reasons. It was all about money.
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I survived the other end of the scale. I managed to live with a heart rate between 25 and 45 bpm for 7 hours. My aorta was 6.5cm in diameter before they found the ascending dissection, which started about 1mm from the aortic root, and terminates in my left iliac.

I had a pacer wire for about 5 days post-surgery. Shocked me once. That sucked.
Another data point: I once threw a party, to which people had to bring a wine, priced between $10 and $15. On arrival, each wine was placed in a numbered container, so the identity of each wine was unknown, and attendees were given a score sheet. My contribution was a $5/bottle and $30/bottle wildcard.

The $5 wildcard came out top. I also had a "slop bucket", into which all the dregs from the bottles went. The slop bucket was served up and came middle, of the pack, next to the $30 bottle. The bottom wine was a truly dreadful, dirt cheap cask wine that someone had brought and decanted into a bottle for a joke.

At the end of the night, the scores and identities were revealed. Interestingly, some people began to revise their opinions, saying how the expensive wine was good, but they "weren't quite sure", so down rated it.

The other party trick that night was trying to distinguish between red and white wine whilst blindfolded and holding one's nose. Apart from one person, the results were more or less random.
I think you are wrong. Smart people have high earnings regardless of Ivy League or state school.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2...
The intern
I wish they would only link to mobile sites. Mobile sites regardless of the device are usually ten times easier to read.
"Last I know Sweden is not doing too well compared to Finland."

'But from another perspective, Finland’s performance looks disappointing. An alternative destination from Helsinki on one of those monster cruise ships is due west to Stockholm. Unlike Finland, Sweden chose not to join the euro. Until the crisis, that made little difference. Both countries did well; if anything Finland’s performance was stronger. But over the past five years their fortunes have diverged to the detriment of Finland.'

http://www.economist.com/node/21560865
Reading is fundamental! Outside history and military, another profound effect reading has is that fiction can actually increase empathy in the real world: http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20ficti...

Between that and the general's words, how can one not spend any spare minute reading?
It makes me peeved when these reports omit the names of the parties that were compromised in the intent of "protecting" their name. If I was a customer of one of the banks that got broken into, I think it would be my right to know that they're insecure so that I could put my money elsewhere.
So to clarify, you realize that's what the saying means and yet you posted to complain about its usage when the meaning is perfectly clear. OK.

Using a widely-understood word or phrase to express an idea concisely is sort of the basis of language. Most people prefer a terse expression over "plain English" several times the length.
There's a huge step between collecting emails and launching - and that's talking to those potential customers. I suggest you read Running Lean by Ash Maurya. It contains actionable steps on how to get feedback from your customers so that when you launch it's something they love.

But, mind you, you'll have to "get out the building", which most people (including me) tend to stray away from.
You know, unless Junior wants to go pro.
Except in Ruby, you'd just as likely see named arguments too.

`employer carrier_id: 123, max_return_count: 10` is very much valid ruby.
I think this article may be overstating the point through its use of the term "mainstream media" to refer to sites like the Gawker Media network. Those guys have had the same business model for upward of a decade, and the only change the rise of sites like Reddit has made to that model is that it's now even easier for them to find content to syndicate.* When The Washington Post and the New Yorker and the BBC are sourcing their big stories from Reddit -- that is when I'd be alarmed.

*...err, syndicate implies paying the original content owners. Is there a word for credited and monetized reproduction of media without profit sharing?
I don't think this is at all a problem with schools. It's just that you can't avoid people in school as you can in the "real world".
Ha ha, I get your point.

There are SEO tea leaf readers who think Google+ plays an increasing role in search rankings. It's probably just speculation coupled with coincidence, but as I was reading some articles on this last week, I was reminded of the Googler that wrote about why he was not going to his high school reunion. It wasn't just sad - it made me angry that adults condoned the activity. I was struck by the irony that this Googler had escaped the high school social pressure cooker, only to go on to work for a company that has engineered the world's biggest popularity contest.
When I first started downloading and compiling a lot of open-source packages (in the early 2000's), semantic versioning was a pain point for me as a user.

Mainly because download sites would sort names alphabetically, so e.g. 1.11 would come after 1.0 and 1.1, but before 1.2, 1.3, ..., 1.9.

The instinct is that the latest should be at either top or bottom, you see that numbers are increasing, so you scroll to the bottom of the list, and end up downloading the obsolete 1.9.
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my reasoning is this: i lived in [texas, kansas, tennessee, california, d.c.] -> i directly experienced racism -> i do not live there anymore

i lived in new york city -> i did not directly experience racism -> i live here now

im not making any more general claims about the existence of racism in nyc. i dont have enough data for that.

for whatever reason, i do not have to worry about my skin color here. that is a valid reason for spending extra money to live in a smaller space, in my opinion. i believe that i have 'perspective'; the op was claiming that someone like me would not.

your reasoning seems to be: i experienced racism in nyc -> racism is part of human nature from tribal times -> there are definitely racist people in nyc. you should fill in the arrows with more evidence. i do not see how one conclusion follows from the other.

i will also make the point that racism against a majority race is different than racism against minority races. minority races in america have less available resources to prevail against racism, when averaged across the population. i sympathize with your incident, but my priority is ensuring that, as a minority, i minimize the time i spend dealing with racist acts towards minorities.

the above paragraph can be summarized as 'for an individual of a particular race, all racist acts are not equal'
The holding the nose experiment isn't surprising at all. It's a common children's technique for eating 'gross' healthy things and not tasting them.

This led to my 4th grade science fair project which was blind taste testing of Jelly Bellies (Coffee, Strawberry, Licorice, and Buttery Popcorn). I can't remember the results perfectly, but in general, people were pretty worthless at telling them apart without their nose.
I wonder how this mindset affected the failure of the original referly. Could they have shunned revenue in order to try and get more investment funding? This ultimately send them towards a pivot. A pivot that I'm still to understand. Dmor shows good promise with her data gathering, but I wonder where that fits into the pivot.
StavrosK, I hope that you've posted this looking for some feedback, because after seeing your site I really wanted to give you some constructive criticism.

If you want more people to use it, I'd suggest making your site more clear and easy to understand. I find it extremely frustrating now. Let me take you through what's going through my mind. Firstly, I have to tilt my head looking at a half formed image, and even then, I have trouble wrapping my head around what's going on.

I look to the right, and it's asking me to log in. Ok, but log into what? I thought this was a browser plugin? My two choices are Log in or "Persona" ?

Still struggling, I carefully read the description text in the bottom right (however at this point, you've already lost 99% of your audience).

"Just drag the browser button to your bookmarks bar to install." Great! Let's try it out. Wait, what browser button? I try clicking and dragging around everything that resembles a browser button, but I can't figure it out. At this point, I give up.

It's very frustrating, and it's a shame, because it's probably well made.

To make it better, I'd explore doing the following:

First, the low hanging fruit. Move your "Share your links, easily!" to the top bar. The second 'heading bar' doesn't add anything, and is distracting. I'd also come up with a better tag-line too, one that's less generic. "0.7 seconds to send interesting stuff to your friend!" "Need to share? 'Share now! Copy/paste' is more like 'Copy/waste of time'. 2 fast clicks and you're done."

Obviously, I wrote these quickly and need a bunch more thought.

Then, I want to see screenshots of what it actually does.

[Picture 1 - I see an interesting site, I want to share it!]
[Picture 2 - I click a button, select the people, and click done]
[Picture 3 - I make a coffee, because picture 3 is unnecessary, we're already done here]

Then, once I'm interested in it, I want to see how to install it. Once again, ideally with screenshots and a very easy button that shows me where to click and drag. Ideally, detecting browsers and showing browser specific instructions.

Of course, none of this stuff will actually save you if this doesn't turn out to be what people consider 'a real problem' worth investing the time and effort to solve, even if it's just 3 seconds to install the browser add-on. But following this advice and making the value proposition and instructions to install it, will help you get that feedback, since you'll be removing the considerable barriers currently in place to get people to give it a shot.

All the best and I hope everything goes really well!
Meteorologist turned HN junkie here: this is really cool and I love the commenter suggesting using dual pol data to do the heavy lifting for you.

My question about your radar data is this; it's beautiful but I absolutely hate the color palette you are using, from a weather perspective - why not just stick with the 'standard' green-to-red colors we all know and love? The purples are different, for sure - but really hard to make sense of!
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Another vote for space-to-drag. Though, I guess us photoshoppers probably will continue to use photoshop for this sort of thing so our muscle-memory shortcuts might not be so important :-D
> So it's 100% or forgetaboutit?

Sigh. You quoted me out of context. Right after that, I said: "(I'm not saying this justifies freed markets! I'm saying this makes your argument bunk.)"

Neither freed markets nor state regulations are perfect. Which is my point: your particular criticism applies to both equally.

> 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.

You have not shown me how being sued for wrongdoing is any different than being punished by a state sanctioned regulatory body for wrongdoing.

> Lawsuits and regulation seem to be working fairly well.

Depends on what your measure is. In broad strokes, sure. Governments in first world countries tend to work quite well based on our standard of living. But how much juice do you really want to squeeze?

Hint: That this conversation is even occurring suggests there's enough going wrong for people to be unhappy about the status quo.

> Eliminating regulation seems like a rather rubbish idea from any angle.

Adding/changing regulation seems like a rather rubbish idea from any angle.

> 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.

I'm completely and utterly baffled to hear that all of those resources are necessary in every case. The threat of all those things happening is enough to make people settle in most of the cases.

> 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.

This is equivocation, plain and simple. You've arbitrarily designated lawsuits as "only for really really bad things" and claimed regulations are "preventative." But this is true of both lawsuits and regulations.

Reason to sue: Doctor kills you because of negligence.

Regulation: Don't be negligent.

Same thing. You kill someone because of negligence without state regulations? You get fucked. You kill someone because of negligence with state regulations? You get fucked.
I can't help but suspect that this blog is a subconscious reflection of the state of the author's venture. SXSW not in the cards this year? Attending conferences is for chumps. Site not generating revenue? Revenue isn't important. Et cetera.
agreed. It's a phenomenally "true" interpretation of Vim. Focusing on the "operator", "motion" and "text object" abstractions and making them composable functions is just sweet. Honestly, I think it's a better approach than how Vim does it...
Less bullshit than cancer research though, apparently?