skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent yesterday and today playing with the API from MailChimp, it's easy to use + they have various embeddable widgets.

It would be viable to just use them although you'd need something for the analytics as well.
found the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaOjMXyJGk
It's not mispronunciation. The author and the internet are merely misinformed.
Yea, as always, depends on what you're doing. I agree 100% with your points for when I'm writing mission-critical code from the start. But when I'm busting out UI at 2:00AM, it's all fast and loose. A lot of code I write is somewhere in the middle.
GIF creator: "You may claim, I'm a dreamer..."
If you don't recognize Chrome you need to debug your code in the browser more! :P
Hell, I've made thousands of dollars from stats. You'd be surprised how many image thieves at big companies throw a link back to your stolen images, as if that makes everything all better.
I'm skeptical that your bespoke approach is better than gluing together well-known and battle-tested tools, but if you stick at it, you naturally have the chance to do something better, because of the singular vision. Best of luck with this!!
Not to mention you're probably turning away signups that think a completely free API is too good to be true. Check out the first question of the Van Westendorp test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorps_Price_Sensitivi...
That's how I'm rollin' from now on.
I'm still hoping for the rise of <video> tag based "gifs". Better compression, sound as an option. Vine provides a decent attempt at this.
I used to pronounce it incorrectly, but my friend who built the NSFW site theworstdrug.com, which lets you click through the most popular GIFs on tumblr (hint they are all porn) enlightened me
At least until Google Glass catches up
How to Deal with Angry Customers Online
It's hard to believe these completely.
And under George W. Bush the Republican party created the Department of Homeland Security, the purpose of which is arguably to "gobble up more of the economy to spend through the federal government." And engaged in new excesses of deficit spending (since exceeded by Obama, true).

The broader point is that politics is multidimensional. It's not just one axis. The history of tech policy votes in Congress is a good example that's close to HN home.
This person measured the wrong thing, determining in the process both why what he measured was useless and what he should have measured (things directly related to income), and somehow learned the lesson "measurements are useless"? :(
The interesting thing is that he's hardly alone when it comes to this type of muse…

Might as well arrest Ab Soul for his "Terrorist Threats"… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_71q5lVEjc

And Ice Cube for his recent song "Everything's Corrupt"…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dGXUJ5iOd4
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While Chrome has a menu bar for bookmarks, your screenshot does not in any way show that.
Lack of sound may, in some circles, be considered a feature.
When he wrote in Latin, it was "Americus Vespucius". Martin Waldseemüller decided to name the continents after him on his 1507 map, using the feminized Latin version: "the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women" (thus, America holds the name it was given.) Amerigo was apparently never made aware that a continent had been named for him.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Waldseem%C3%BCller , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_America#Etymology_and...
> Why does he now think it's acceptable to market this to everyone?

Because he and a number of people have been "eating" it for a number of months?
This is such an oversimplification of self-enhancement and a great example of confirmation bias.
> Let's not pretend that Google's open source products in any way follow an open development process.

You said "product", but you should say "project".

If you want to assess the openness of the development process, look at the process itself:

https://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/Contributing
https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...

If code reviews are happening in the open and there's a process to bring new contributors on board, that's a great start. This early in the game, you can't expect random members of the open source community to start contributing more than a dedicated team at Google.

> It would be nice if Google maintained mirrors on Github and accepted pull requests and such, but I don't see that ever happening.

Oh? http://github.com/google https://github.com/dart-lang

Also, FWIW on the Go project we have more than 300 non-Google contributors and a solid core of dedicated committers. https://code.google.com/p/go/source/list
Same problem as GIF.

Gib, short for giblet, the innards of a bird, can be (and is) pronounced both ways — "j"iblet and "g"iblet. Where I'm from, it's always been "j"iblet, but I wouldn't mind if someone pronounced it differently.
Amusement: So Indian - use of 'MNC', equation of enslavement therein with success.

Summary: Back-slapping traditionalists meet cold reality.

Takeaway: You can't tell the future, so don't lock yourself in to a single high-risk decision! (Or a socially mandated view of 'acceptable' or 'successful')
Yes, yes, very true.
Don't talk bad about GIF! GIF is a great format. Once upon a time I wrote a GIF89a library that supported animation, etc. I found it straightforward to parse and write, eminently extensible, with a clear and easy-to-read specification.

No one has been able to get their act together and propose a successful PNG animation format, but I'm disappointed that the "PNG in GIF" proposal never took off. Size wouldn't be so bad since most images would share a global color space, and browser makers could easily implement it.

ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/documents/history/png-in-gif-proposal-20070413.txt
As noted in that Wikipedia page, there is also the MNG format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphics). Unfortunately it's over 10 years old and there is still little browser support.
If you want to be well liked, don't ever be the person who directly corrects other's pronunciation of words.
DA's working with the CCA… Kanye West had some words on this subject.
And, the article went right on to talk about the median, in fact :)

> Most people believe that they are above average, a statistical impossibility. The above average effects, as they are called, are common. For example, 93 percent of drivers rate themselves as better than the median driver.
Qualcomm shows off its Mirasol display
Might just be tired but I don't get this...care to explain?
I disagree. Sure, "beauty" isn't a very robustly-defined term, but the headline is reasonable. The most important point is that people's views of themselves are objectively wrong, because the identify modified images of themselves. Conversely, people can reliably pick the correct image of others. Finally, this depictions differ in that the self-image has characteristics society deems attractive, for our purposes, "beauty". I don't think beauty is quite the best term, but I wouldn't call it wrong.

Also, I think your proposed study would undermine the whole point of this study, since someone who didn't realize they were looking at themselves wouldn't have the cognitive impetus to distort reality.

edit: I just realized I may have been missing part of your argument. Would you be more satisfied if the title were "You are less beautiful than you _say_ you are"? This study itself doesn't offer any real evidence that people actually believe they look like the picture they say they look like. However, the other cognitive studies linked in this article, including some other similar studies I've read about, make me think it's extremely likely.
'jif'? what!? http://qkme.me/3uig7w
I agree that there is nothing "unfair" about charging exorbitant sums. People fail to acknowledge that price is not a representation of innate value (such a thing does not exist), but is rather a manifestation of what the market is willing to tolerate. If everyone is willing to pay $100,000 for the book, it is worth $100,000. There is nothing that makes a product intrinsically "worth it."

That said, I think that "reasonable" prices are probably those that offer lucrative revenue while still permitting a large portion of prospective users to buy the book. This is where the $39 model ceases to be optimal. Although it might increase revenues, it will ultimately preclude many purchases, and limit the ability of the book to proliferate. This is because most people, despite their interest in the book, simply cannot afford such an inordinate expenditure. This is certainly what occurred with me. Despite the fact that I was quite excited about the book and am optimistic about Meteor as a framework, there is simply no way I can front the money for such an expensive product.

I suppose that if revenues are the only thing that one desires, this is probably the preferable model (and there is certainly nothing unethical about it), but more accessible pricing is better if you want to reach a large audience.
That was my reaction, too. The idea seemed ridiculous from a scientific perspective (although it may be very good advertising).
Ask HN: How it Works: what do the Dave Winer threads tell us about sexism in IT?
In the past 48 hours there have been two threads "about" Dave Winer, and I think they have given us food for thought about the Hacker News Community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738455
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5744224

First, I recognize that in many ways, Hacker News was abusive of Dave Winer, and for that, I am sorry that we were abusive to any person. And I hope we can conduct this thread without any more such abuse to anyone.

I think the Dave Winer threads are the control in an ongoing experiment in Hacker Community Sexism.

And so I do wonder how it works: http://xkcd.com/385/

Significant themes in the two Dave Winer threads were:

Dave Winer is a *blankety blank*
I'm sick of hearing about Dave Winer
Dave Winer is expected to suck it up when we tell him off
Our behavior in telling Dave Winer off is just SOP for IT
If Dave Winer complains, it just proves our point

In the past year, we've seen many similar incidents all around the Internet, and at Hacker News that work like this:

Wow, IT is really sexist.

But when something very similar to these other incidents occurs to a man, it works like this:

Wow, IT has a lot of jerks

So I wonder, if Dave was a woman, would either thread have gone down the rabbit holes? Would the same participants in each thread have behaved in the same way?

Substitute a woman's name for "Dave Winer"....

And would we be reading about Hacker News sexism today at Salon, Slate, The Washington Post, Reddit, Huffington Post, the Guardian, The New York Times, Jezebel, etc.?

Maybe we ignore our real problems by lumping individual misanthropic jerk behavior into a claim of collective misogyny. Perhaps people should stop projecting onto all of IT, the behaviors of a few.
Actually, I think I may have to start doing that now.
Either way, congratulations :)
I use ctags with Python, PHP and I'm sure it will works with most other languages invented.
I've personally seen points used as an area measure, but I think you're more correct. I'll update the article later tonight.
Overstock.com (founded in 1997)

Buy.com (founded in 1997)

NewEgg (founded in 2001) is getting there with 12 years.
It's a cold world if you try to reduce everything to logic and probability.

There's nothing about what the author wrote that struck me as though he had some tremendous guilt weighing him down. There's guilt and there's humble recognition of one's own privilege. They aren't the same thing. He strikes me as someone who understands the opportunity cost of what he's chosen to do, and not only appreciates the fact that he has a choice, but feel conviction that he made the right one.

I'm sure you intended your pep talk out of a genuine desire to help, but I think you missed the point of why the author wrote what he did, at least my perception of it. He's trying to bring a little perspective, through the lens of his own experience.

We romanticize what we do in the startup world like we're living on the edge. He's comparing one sense in which working on a startup pales in comparison to other challenges people face, versus the sense in which you truly are out there on the edge. There's truth on both sides of the coin.
If you assume a normal distribution, it is statistically impossible for more than 50% of people to consider themselves above the mean on a given metric. However, if the distribution is severely negatively skewed (i.e., the "bulge" of the distribution is moved to the left and there are many outliers below the mean) then more than 50% could be above the mean because the outliers on the left end of the distribution drag the mean down significantly.
GIF will be around until there is another animated image format with decent support. APNG seems nice, but needs to be supported more. Personally, I like GIF. It's simple and can be included everywhere with a simple img tag. It's possible to animate with CSS, Javascript or video, but that's a lot more hassle and cannot be done in a comment box.
You're saying it uses time-of-flight of light? Do you have more information about that because it seems awfully unlikely.
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
perhaps this is an evolutionary advantage for humans to perceive themselves as good at things they do even if they are average or worse. It provides motivation, confidence, and enhances risk appetite. All necessarily attributes for a long term adaptive species.
Whoops, meant $65 / month.
They feel so outdated compared with the internet culture of open source and sharing. You can almost feel the dinosaurs crumbling and dying!
Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github
A blog would be a more suitable format for these opinions and speculations.
There's selection bias: some engineers may choose to move to the SF bay area in part because of the perceived views on social policy. One example of this is SF's Castro district especially a few decades ago.

Speaking as someone who lives on the SF peninsula, I think it's fair to say there's near-uniformity of views on gay marriage (though drive an hour east and that will flip). Climate change, on the other hand, is an area where reasonable people even in this area are more likely to disagree.
Use of succinct language requires context and common sense. Would anyone actually think he was describing a magical content generator?
Very interesting video about WWII, radio/radars and technological entrepreneurship as a vehicle for progress.

Highly recommended.
I used to say "Ihm-grr" (imgur.com) instead of "Ihm-jer" so I guess I can learn to say "Jiff."
I dont like this as the top comment because its a tangent and doesn't address the topic of the article at all - The New York Times being crazy about what they consider copyright.
I'm not offended.

- Not everyone that pays with their information is aware of the risk they are taking.

- Many people that know the the risks are misjudged their probability of coming to bear.
[disclaimer: I work on the Dart team]

The Dart VM is 2X faster than V8 on a few benchmarks already. Check out https://www.dartlang.org/performance We've still got a bunch of work to do, but the initial results are encouraging.
I don't feel that there is anything "wrong," just limiting, because the C preprocessor makes it harder to use tools that walk the abstract-syntax-tree while editing code (or to analyze code). LLVM-based tools are really nice. I don't care whether it is "const uint32_t ..." or enum, or anything else, as long as it is the C/C++/ObjC language.
I've been on the internet for nearly 20 and didn't know. How would I find out? I wasn't aubscribed to alt.pronunciationpedantry
Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way
Well, a fool and his money are easily parted.

We have enough knowledge and resources to lead healthy lives without believing in possible snake oil. There is a whole bunch of physiological feedback that they are glossing over. E.g. the act of eating a meal mindfully.

I don't wish them ill. If they have a product which is better than the best thing out there for us, I wish they succeed.

I would not have stopped you if you wanted to invest with Ponzi himself.
Insightful comment. You might be interested in checking out the book Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes. It talks a lot about societal inequality and the concept of "elite failure", which I think you've alluded to.
With what populations have the studies been conducted?

First, if all the participants have been American, this is likely not applicable across the earth. I have lived in both Asia and the US, I'd say that on average Americans express significantly more self-confidence than those in Asia (whose customs tend to value humility and self-deprecation. And they tend to do so, at least to other people.).

Second, if the populations have mostly been students at universities like Chicago and Virginia. They are far from average people. Youths could be more optimistic. Those in good universities might have been exposed to the good sides of things much more than most people. Their academic success could stem from their optimistic outlook and vice versa. And so on...

Psychology needs to diversify from studying Americans, esp. students in good American colleges.
The strangest part of the ruling to me was the following implication that it would have been fine if the tenant had gone into the housemate's room (not just been allowed access, as per the verbiage of the law)
"... Morrick noted that his renter did not go into Warren's housemate's room during her stay."
I'm more concerned about the lady who gave Bon Jovi severe chest trauma, thereby giving love a bad name.
"It would be a big relief if we all suddenly realized, like Christian Andersen’s ugly duckling, that we are in fact beautiful."

This is a tongue in cheek comment in the article but it's all to common to read comments that "each one of us is special", etc. This, of course, cannot be; however, it is a common fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_...)
And, yet, it is overwhelmingly to your advantage to believe that you are attractive. Confidence counts for more than actual physical beauty.

This study provides an interesting example of a situation where it is in your rational interest to hold irrational beliefs.
Absolutely nothing, which is why it's all the more absurd that the article pretends they cannot.
What Makes a Risk-Taker
Here http://valleypatriot.com/methuen-police-arrest-high-school-s...

At least most of the commenters seem fairly rational.
>The techniques and the wording seem snake oilish.

You know, every time this guy's story has popped up on here I've defended him. I like that he's trying to do something big, I like that he wants to solve a very real world problem, and I like that in his blog posts and updates he phrased all of his results as personal findings needing further study.

However, this:

>>"Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition"

and

>>puts you in excellent health,

...This I do not like. At all. It's a massive, massive leap to go from "this is something under test," to "this is something that 100% works and will cure [insert list of ailments here]."

It's completely and wholly intellectually dishonest. It's put a sour taste in my mouth over the whole thing. It's gone from personal experiment to fund raiser and company structure in what? Five months? All of the early adopter "testimonials" sound like little more than confirmational bias rearing its head. "Oh, you bought a magnetic bracelet on the internet and you do actually have more energy now that you're wearing it!? Whoa! Amazing that it worked out exactly how you wanted it to!" These testimonials carry the exact same weight.

I feel like there's green in their eyes. Rigor be damned if riches can be had. Also, his ego is now on the line. I'm sure his brain is still being objective about the results.

IF is works, and IF it's safe, and IF the claims can be backed up with ACTUAL DATA, then by god, more power to the guy... but in the mean time, at the very least, can a guy get a trial with some other vanilla flavored sludge acting as a placebo?

Hell, I'll settle for an footnote on the page that says "None of our claims are backed by any form of relevant data."
Does the New York Times really want this sort of policy? Are they offering that anytime they write a story about someone, and that person doesn't like what the New York Times wrote, that the New York Times will be happy to simply remove such stories from their website?
Which "criminal activities" would they be, specifically?
Apple tax bill raises the bigger questions
More to the point, what kind of company starts blabbing its secrets to people it hasn't even hired yet?
How to properly mirror a git repository
Ditto. When I was watching The Matrix and everybody's "residual self image" in the Matrix was super cool, I thought: "If I entered the Matrix I would probably be in jeans and an ugly t-shirt"
When I was young, a lot of other people thought I was "beautiful." It had a lot of downside to it. My looks have mellowed with age and I generally have fewer problems and I am generally happier. I really cannot parse out how much of that positive change (edit: I mean being more comfortable with how I look and how people react to me) is due to mellower looks and how much due to behavioral or other changes. And I still get weird feedback, like people guessing I am a lot younger than I really am.

I have never figured out how to get some kind of objective measure of just how "attractive" I am. Unfortunately, this article isn't adding anything useful to my keen interest in understanding such things.
Here is Hacker News and I think people here may prefer Firefox, Chrome to other web browsers.

And thank for your information, I will ask Firefox Support Forum later.
What is the defining characteristic of a "bro gamer" then?
Thanks! Which "dealership feeds"? What they pay for cars at auction?
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500px also mechanically crops your images to square in the main listing, completely changing your compositions. This is a deal breaker for me.
It's a commercial not an experiment... you don't need to look for experimental errors in commercials. They're all lies. In fact, it would be criminal for them not to lie, since company-enhancing lies are good for the bottom line, and corporations who don't work to maximize the profit of their shareholders are breaking the law.
New Tumblr Competitor Launches On Kickstarter
While this product clearly doesn't meet the risk-reward profile for you (or me), do you not enjoy the idea that a few thousand people are about start an interesting experiment?

One though I had was, if Ben and Jerry are adored for making a product that is delightful but contributes to the obesity epidemic, why can we not also praise people trying to do the opposite?
In reading the above link, it's obvious that her arrest stems from more than just that one email, but rather a series of email messages and online comments that some had claimed were harassment.

That being said, it most likely is still protected free speech, as odious as those messages and postings were. I think the case will be dismissed, but her future in law school is probably over.
It's pronounced "bikeshed".