skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought his very sincere Groupon exit memo[1] is what made me think he is a good guy. I've never met him, so my opinion is based solely on what I read here. However, the backlash against Andrew is akin to Jason Calacanis's battle with DHH [2] and Jason Cohen's "King vs Rich"[3]. No one here is "right" but I suspect many more people in this community are far more motivated to want to become kings than be rich, hence the backlash.

[1] - http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/one-thing-could-save...

[2] - http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2219-jason-calacanis-vs-david...

[3] - http://blog.asmartbear.com/rich-vs-king-sold-company.html
How about providing this as a transport layer for: http://briar.sourceforge.net/overview.html
Angular also adds new tags ( and custom ones too).
You can decide whether you want to use your component ( or "directive") as an attribute , an element, or a css class, and angular will automagically replace them.
>> how about the Broadcast.com deal? Billions for a bunch of servers...
Well, it certainly made Mark Cuban a billionaire, if nothing else!
id suspect VIM would have a very hard time if it was coming out now and nobody knew about it, even for free. That doesnt mean its not awesome, but VIM is all about its legacy, huge ecosystem and hype.
Unless you don't believe in a physicalistic universe, in which case there's not much point in science, a child's personality is formed entirely by its environment and genetics, both of which start with the parents.
> Looking forward to more 50% off jokes! Can't wait!

You could collect and bundle them, and release them as your autobiography.
It seems to me the 4 year campaign was key to do the transition successfully.

> In 1963, the Riksdag approved the change and established the Statens Högertrafikkommission (HTK) ("state right-hand traffic commission") to oversee it. It also began implementing a four-year education program, with the advice of psychologists.[1]

> The campaign included displaying the Dagen H logo on various commemorative items, including milk cartons, men's shorts[1] and women's underwear.[2] Swedish television held a contest for songs about the change; the winning entry was Håll dig till höger, Svensson ('Keep to the right, Svensson') by Rock-Boris.
Just because it's a phenomenon you don't have experience doesn't make it trivial. I would argue that there's a link between these teenage girls and our culture's depiction of the romantic side of 'bad boys.' I know far too many young women who stay in abusive or worthless relationships because they think they can fix the guy, or that deep inside the guy is just misunderstood. Where does that instinct come from?

Conversely, think about how easy it is to write someone off because he or she looks like a low-life. Why do we always try to understand the motivations of attractive and female killers, while other segments of society are ignored entirely?

Obama's good-looking, but people don't admire him because of his policy on drones. We don't have videos of him launching a drone strike and melting away into the crowd. The parent raises a good point, but it's not exactly relevant to this discussion.
Brain Training Helps Clear Cognitive Fog Caused by Chemotherapy
Should IT Classes Be Required?
no. Don't use your real identity on Internet.
Doesn't it totally undermine the message made on scroogled.com, Microsoft's anti-Google advertising campaign?

http://www.scroogled.com/mail

THINK GOOGLE RESPECTS YOUR PRIVACY?
THINK AGAIN.

Google goes through every Gmail that's sent or received, looking for keywords so they can target Gmail users with paid ads. And there's no way to opt out of this invasion of your privacy. Outlook.com is different—we don't go through your email to sell ads.
Same with me.

I made a Limp bizkit fan site over several lunch times in high school.

I don't know what is more embarrassing, being a limpbizkit fan or using lunch breaks to create websites...
They'll change, some things will break, we'll endure thousands of blog posts proclaiming the end of the iPhone, 80% of devs will race to fix their apps, life will go on...
This post is a marketing ploy. This guy developed Followgen, and this is one of his other controversial but popular posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5607186
If you are on Linode kind of hosting then I guess they do provide some backup options. I am not sure whether it's paid and do they do full server backup or specific data backup. You will have to find out. Pls do post here when you do so. I will also be needing this soon. Anyone else with any experience on this front?
Would using Mozilla's Persona instead of social login be a good alternative?
Same here. I try to maintain a clear separation between work-me and Internet-me.

I don't even see the value of providing accurate information to most websites.
Looks strikingly similar to Mozilla's XUL and XBL for web. They were far too ahead of their time.
Relevant and different are not mutually exclusive.
Pointless study. Bad methodology, bad logic (correlation = causation) wrong or irrelevant conclusions.
Here is a talk by moot, founder of 4chan, about identity online.
I think that he argues that having multiple identities is part of human nature, that it makes us richer, and that forcing users of a web-site to use their official identity is misled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Zs74IH0mc
Everyone seems to be talking about "sunk cost" here. But it seems like you're working on a product that believe in. Is it possible for you to disrupt the company's current trajectory and try to get things onto a better course?

If your co-founders are doing things wrong, perhaps you can do some research into their side of things and figure out how to do things better. Teach them things, and learn together. Do their jobs for them if you have to. Since they are family, perhaps they will be easier to persuade?
Try and build a social network probably. Its a massive omission in their portfolio, especially as G+ is finally starting to gain traction.
What happened with people who logged in with Facebook and Twitter?
Imagine that learning social skills from scratch is like tuning a feedback loop. You need to have something in the loop to begin with in order to tune it. If you're a child, good news, you can just feed your imagination's random number generator into the loop and see what happens. If you're an adult though, you might find yourself with absolutely no starting data on which to iterate, and your internal RNG has been forcibly shut down by growing up.

It's like trying to run Newton's method with NaN as your starting value, or like you're trying to follow a linked list, but your ->next pointer infinitely redirects to itself.
When Spotify launched in the US, they disabled signups through their in-house authentication system and required that new accounts be created through the Facebook login. I never quite understood this, since I have a strong aversion to paying actual money for anything associated with my facebook account.. Thankfully they kept the old login system around for existing users (and they've since re-enabled sign-ups through it.)
ah, you're right, but it's a different account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678949
Linking to Business Insider for science? Seriously? Business insider is just barely on this side of tabloid.
A black person shooting other black people doesn't induce enough emotion in the American media's viewership to produce ratings.

Pretty sad really.
What would interest me is what effect this has on parents. I would suspect that caring for a child has an equally good effect on the parents as it has on the child.
Ah Instagram, Facebook, twitter, tumblr... You really think that all the google ads you've seen in your life (let alone on a given site) add up to a return of $15? I'd be much more likely to give geocities $15 for a premium account than I would be to ever click on an ad.

This space can be lucrative, but every success is over the bodies of many failed companies. This phase we're in now is equally silly.
If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from http://reocities.com/ , simply append your old url. There is a 'self service' bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you.

It's been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily.

From a commercial point of view it is a complete failure but the emails from happy people that I keep getting about the project are more than enough payment.
No Android update at Google I/O and that’s perfectly okay
I think there's really no good reason why this shouldn't happen.

We're talking about potentially a significant amount of money here going to what I assume to be a good cause. (I don't know who the actual charity is, but I'd bet it's a good one)
I am amazed at how much web page designing progressed from 1999.
I listen to Justin Timberlake now, 4th grade me would be disgusted.
Its not relevant because there are different circumstances. Not because they are different.
Strongly disagree. Anonymity comes with the promise of zero responsibility. You don't need to be a natural dickhead to find that tempting. Anonymity means you don't have to think too much because even if you're wrong nobody will know it's you
So you're saying that this person was implying that even though the price is 0 euro, the consumer surplus is greater than 100 euro? I can understand this reasoning, so thanks for explaining it. I'm not sure I believe that consumer surplus can be measured outside of controlled psychology experiments, since it's only speculation and talk is cheap.

I guess I always thought that the value (or worth - these are the same, right?) of something in an efficient market is its last sale price, and because vim is widely available for free it's an efficient market with a last sale price of zero.

I would agree with, "The value / worth you derive from your use of vim is greater than 100 euro, assuming you actively use at least one of your vim installations." But then again you could say something similar about most common free or nearly free tools and consumables, for example cutlery, oxygen, and linux.
The Steve Jobs quotes, "The Toy Story Story" Wired 1995
This wouldn't be perfect, but it would at least leverage Geocities a bit more than shutting it down:

Start Tumblr-style side venture. Pitch it to existing Geocities customers in various ways with advantages like shared logins and some semblance of import tool easing adoption. Let Tumblr roll on from that kick start. Eventually phase out or shut-down Geocities.
They're solving an educational problem -- that is, how to deliver instruction to a large audience --, but not an learning problem. Does it support / improve deep learning? How are social-cultural factors of learning taken care of? What exactly is assessed? How is students' (and teachers') reflection on their own learning process supported (if at all)

I think most of these problems can be overcome, although probably not by translating traditional instruction and educational ideas more or less directly to MOOCs, but by exploring new ways of instruction, teaching, studying, and learning. I fear, however, that this will not happen (soon, or at a large scale), and MOOCs will become the poor mans' only educational opportunity, creating an educational/learning divide between those who will have access to small-scale quality instruction and those that have only access to MOOCs.

For governments and schools MOOCs make it easy to implement 'education for all' while cutting costs. For example, I could imagine high schools to stop offering advanced placement classes or some subjects locally, but instead offering access to MOOCs on those topics with some local supervision by people not schooled (and payed) as teachers. Similarly, I could imagine the government giving free access to MOOCs to all, while, at the same time, cutting on general scholarships.
>If you think the law amounts to "nothing," then go ahead and ignore it. Don't bother with your taxes. Refuse to take USD payments and demand only Bitcoin. Put your money where your mouth is.

None of those things actually back the dollar. They just make it a little more inconvenient to use another currency. But if inflation is high, the inconvenience will be a small price to pay.

>You would have to be delusional to think that the US is even remotely near such a situation, or to even think that there are signs that such a situation will occur any time soon.

If we really do have hyperinflation, which I think is likely within 15 years or so, the government will be no better off than Mugabe's.

>Or, you know, that other things: taxes. We may have a large debt, but we also have historically low tax rates.

That's true but misleading. We have historically low tax rates, but actual tax receipts are above historical averages. Back when tax rates were really high there were all sorts of tax shelters that are now illegal, and there were no cash transaction reporting requirements.

>Yeah, like across-the-board budget cuts. Not that we are likely to see anything resembling that...

Those budget cuts are tiny. The actual YOY reduction was insignificant. Real cuts on the order of what's necessary will have people rioting in the streets. There isn't enough money in the world to make good on all the promises the US government has made.

Printing money is the only way out, politically.
ts; dr

Need to unlearn the font-size attribute!
> The entire point of that talk was "this is the kind of tool you could make if you stepped back a bit".

That's not the entire point at all. It was fundamentally about having a personal principle about what you feel is important and following this principle in all of your work. Why do you think it was called "Inventing on Principle"?

Everybody obsesses about the ideas for tools he had but the talk was about inspiring people to create and follow their own principles. It wasn't about developers copying a better way.

He could have just made it a talk about his own very great ideas but he didn't, he told you a way of thinking about "your work".
Anonymous members targeted by Italian police - 410 arrested
I didn't feel sympathy for Tsarnaev because of his cute face. I felt sympathy because his case is under the jurisdiction of Carmen Ortiz, and from Aaron Swartz we know what happens to people who cross Carmen Ortiz.
While I agree (mostly) with the conclusions of the article, the reason social login buttons exist, is that people want easy access to services without having to fill out a bunch of stuff. Services like social login, persona and other open id are a step in the right direction for solving that, but I think it would be best if it were implemented in the browser. Specify how you'd like to identify yourself to the web (or specific pages) and just add 1-click confirmations. Can't believe I'm saying this, but Microsoft's InfoCard would have been perfect for this :)
I disagree with this article. Apathy didn't kill anything; the unstoppable juggernaut of technology can, is and will replace all pseudo factory robots with actual factory robots. What we do about that is the question of the ages indeed.

If you're interested in a much more insightful discussion of this issue, this is very much worth your time: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/sam-...
"Don't let's" is grammatical - "do not let us" is the opposite of "let us". A bit old-fashioned, though.
And then they disabled it a good while ago except for a few servers that they had whitelisted, thus my "again".
It's actually so much faster, that the operating system's method of drawing windows is the prime determinant of startup speed perception. Surprisingly, the winning OS is windows.
If Yahoo! wanted to buy a kind of useless service to get younger users, SnapChat would be high on my list, not Tumblr. (Vine too, but I guess Twitter already got them). I'd make a bunch of $20-50mm buys, not one $1b buy.
Recently I have wondered if forcing posts and comments to be anonymous might be worthwhile to try. Perhaps there would be less fighting about ego?

I have my contact info in ,my profile, but I worry more and more asbout being identifiable on the net. My opinions are not always aligned with the majority. Also, I worry more about fanatics than about the government, for example publicly discussing religion seems dangerous.

Another thing: my cleaning lady signed up to Facebook recently, and was immediately confronted with my Facebook account.
Why is that depressing? Odds are its not those six figures that make them happier.
...

The state is run by corporations. Haven't you heard?
I think using an email address (and/or a uniquely generated username), as an identifier is the best comprimise. Then a generic 'credentials invalid' => retrieve your account: 'enter email' page to reset passwords. And require a confirmation click from your email for two step sign up.

You could always sniff out if someone has an email address on a lot of systems by visiting the 'forgot your password' page. So perhaps on the account rescue page, just ask for a valid email address, then give a generic thank you message. If the email address exists, send out an email, if not don't bother - but don't give feedback of the sort 'that email address does not exist on the system' etc.
Internationalisation for beginners
Show HN: a premium cheat sheet for the Grails web framework
Some people apparently use UUCP-over-SSH to get mails from their remote mailservers to their local ones, because, you know, fetchmail is evil or something.
I wish Salesforce would follow. At the moment 2Gb of database storage costs nearly same as 2Tb of storage at Redshift. And yes, that doesn't include the licence itself.
Much of socialization is making a fool of yourself---and other people spending time with you anyway. I socialize to get out of my head, and it sounds like you could use it too.
Rankles is a great word. Google appears to have at least as many googlepologists as apple does fanbois, tho one doesn't recognise that whilst the other sees it for what it is.
Investigating ASP.Net MVC: Extending validation with IValidatableObjec
The question is not how much you can sell it for, the question is about how valuable it would or could be.

So while it's unlikely Vim would ever sell, then or now, for 100 euros, VIM is worth that much both then and now. Discovering the VIM text editing features today for the first time is just as impressive as discovering them 20 years ago.
Man, I'm glad to read some anti-social login stuff, as I personally do not like everyone depending on FB. I've read articles on tech crunch which say to ONLY have facebook logins for MVP, which made me cringe.

However, the key thing to realize here is that 3% of mailchimp's users use the social login buttons. That doesn't translate to 3% of your users. One app I work on is a social app for music fans. Most of our users hit the facebook button. It's also mobile, so that might have something to do with it as well (people might not want to type on mobile devices as much)

Takeaway: you need your own stats.
Related: according to this study in the UK alcohol is the most destructive drug: http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/~mmiller/espanol/Variedades,%2... [PDF]
Perhaps Google login would be better for them then - it would work especially well for companies that use Google Apps internally.
Ping for: 67.211.196.101
Science. Correlation != Causation. In other words happy people are more likely to remember their relationships with others in a positive light. I used to think I had a bad childhood, I wasn't happy. Then I was happy and would rave about the wonderful childhood I had. Now I'm kinda in the middle and am satisfied with my childhood. Your current attitude affects your view of your own past.
AI as a whole did not suffer as much as Neural Nets research did.
it would be interesting to have a map of countries showing the % of people actually HAVING neighbours of different races.
then you would be able to see if what they answered was based on experience or theory.
Bill Gates Retakes World’s Richest Title From Carlos Slim
Previous discussion from a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603204
you are who you choose to be. so well, every identity you choose to be, is your real identity.
Thank you for being the only free host back then to give a 12-year old a sql server.
I am in an almost identical situation myself and can empathise.

I came to the realisation that

* I no longer enjoy what I am doing
* I'm not particularly happy
* Going into the office is now a chore
* I can't see a future where I am at the moment.

Once I realised all of these things - it took a few months - alarm bells started going off. I have now started to make steps to change my situation:

* Seen my Lawyer
* Written and dispensed my resume
* Spoken to friends about jobs.

I'm now much more comfortable, knowing that I can survive without the company and will probably be much better off without it.

I quite liked the following articles:
http://westonmcbride.com/blog/2013/05/06/why-i-abandoned-my-...
http://harj.posthaven.com/co-founder-breakups
http://jamesmaskell.co.uk/2013/how-to-get-a-job-after-startu...
Thank you for that. Without a working demo it was hard to wrap around how this can be used. The video totally made me want to use it now!
+1, I don't find the reason why some apps require almost all the permissions
Sorry, but it's rather funny that what you deem depressing is not making 6 figs rather than being a lonely alcoholic. Maybe some pondering about happiness would do you some good?
We clearly have different views. I believe that a transaction of value (i.e. a payment) is not limited to money, it does include indirect values as well. I.e. if I send my personal data to a advertising corporation - that is a transaction of an indirect value. The direct value of that transaction is of course when receiving money from the one buying the advertisement which is exposed to me. Yet without my personal information, they could possible not have sold it for as much.
I understand the issues you've brought up in your post as well as the traditional methods of pruning the search space of query plans through using left-deep join trees and histograms for calculating selectivity.

My top-level point was that there is no way humans will come up with the optimal query plan by hand, and like you said even if they do - the data will change.

As an aside, the reason Mongo can use such a simple but effective strategy is because it doesn't support joins, which makes calculating the optimal plan much, much easier. RethinkDB does, however, and as such, a CBO is that much more important.
Java SE - Change in Version Numbering Scheme
Check out the lecture notes as well, they are thoroughly just as awesome:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/
How much money would be GeoCities acquired today?
Here is a link to do all these exercises properly:
http://lifehacker.com/these-12-videos-show-the-proper-form-f...
This guy is conflating empathy with something else. Not sure what the word for the something else is, but it's when you're charmed by someone attractive for no good reason. That isn't empathy.
Also the funny part is that there are many nice ML algos that do not need harsh optimisations or even do not need optimisation at all (see random ferns for instance). Thus it might be hype for hype.
I would start with http://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator .
One nitpick, I think the social aspects should disappear after 15 seconds of no events.
ABN was acquired by RBS, which then went bust and was bailed out for a bunch of reasons.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/dec/12/royal-bank-of-s...
This just highlights how much it pains me that Bell Labs is now in the hands of a foreign firm like Alcatel, which has also been quick to hijack its history.
Please, not Yahoo! - the company that buys out great focused sites and stifles them, dilutes their focus and kill them through neglect.
I was referring more to IE, which was bundled with the OS to circumvent Netscape's business model.
Yes, but they haven't realized that yet!