skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian government accused of sneaking in web filter
As others have noted, Chrome does show the data that will be sent in a modal dialog until the user hits "submit". Calling form.submit() should send the user to a confirmation page which also shows parts of the data back to the user, and allows them to confirm the purchase.
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> I think my co-founders are idiots, that they fouled up their side of the deal

If you are a startup founder, which it sounds like you are, and not an early employee at a startup, then this is unfortunately the wrong attitude to have. There is no "their side of the deal", you are all committed to making the business work and you should be prepared to do whatever it takes to make it work including pushing all your own personal boundaries in order to get shit done.

In my experience the startups that have performed the best are ones where all the founders are prepared to roll up their sleeves and do things they have no experience with if necessary. The ones that fail are the ones that squabble over who's messing up at "their part of the deal".

Too many times I've seen founders (especially tech founders) sit doe-eyed, waiting for someone else to set the direction, or raise money, or figure out the "business model". If this is you then you should look into joining another startup as an early employee rather than being a founder yourself.

If you objectively believe that your team does not have the skills necessary to succeed or even move on to the next step then you need to leave. Plain and simple.

But leave or stay, lose the attitude that certain things are above or beneath your ability to do, or even worse: "not your job".
Also, framing the problem a different way helped me put things in perspective.
"Given what I know now, if I wasn't already a part of this startup, would I join today?"
If the answer is "no", then you know what you have to do.
This is answered in our talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M50AXPd0Tg&feature=youtu...

What it boils down to is that hiding your form and calling requestAutocomplete allows you to reduce the number of steps in the checkout flow by one (instead of taking the user to a page with a form and then showing a dialog on top of that form, just show the dialog and afterwards jump straight to pre-sale confirmation).
Why more numbers start with the digit 1 than the digit 9. (by 6x)
I wouldn't call this man-in-the-middle, they are the man at both ends and in the middle.

MITM usually refers to 3rd parties routing your traffic. So if your ISP or network admin was sniffing your Skype messages, that would be what is generally called MITM.
Malarkey.

Jobs would breathe fire when hes incensed or inflamed.

Furiousness is a skill that your kind cannot internalize.

It brings out the best when rightly meant and rightly utilized.

One has a right to be inflamed when his or her world view is called into question.

The mediocre just acquiesce, the impassioned offer a caustic rebuttal.

Not some happy medium rejoinder that pleases all.
Its Ed Bott. A part of the Microsoft spin machine. Come on.
in this case, you can still use Chrome to remember your address information and use this dialog by entering (just) your CC info in from scratch every time.
I would much rather cultivate the habit of NOT quitting even if it means occasionally spending time doing something unecessary. Once you allow yourself to quit the slippery slope becomes whether you're quitting strategically in order to achieve a larger goal or underneath are you really quitting because of lack of determination or a million other reasons.

Because we all know 99% of the time you don't finish something because you're lazy and lack persistence.
So, suppose that (a) companies start sending useful metadata with their emails, (b) other clients like Outlook add support, and then (c) GMail capriciously removes support. As long as the metadata keeps getting sent, and there are clients which can do interesting things with it, I don't see the problem here.
There was no real practical application. I don't have the money to run a huge server farm serving hundreds of thousands of pictures to actually make it viable.

It was mostly an experiment of me learning how to work with OpenCV. I had no idea Bing had something similar. That's very cool. At least it shows I'm not completely bonkers.
for those that want to, is there a way to move back-and-forth between real and assumed identities without losing out on the hard-earned karma ?
did they isolate correlation from causation yet though..?
I know this wasn't really your intention, I find it more disturbing that society tells anyone who finds only a "nerd" hobby to be interesting that there is something wrong with them since they aren't interested in fishing or sports.

I actually find everything you listed on your second list to be completely banal. I do almost all of them regularly because it is better than doing nothing, but I can completely understand how someone wouldn't be interested in any of those things.
Well, I don't think a pseudonym gives people the right to act like assholes. I sometimes do, but its not on purpose. Its that I have the social skills of a rock. Anyhow, pseudonyms allow for my creativity to exists on a different plane. For example, had I started developing Nuuton under my real name, I would have already be dealing with the repercussions of my local social circle. Doing it under orangethirty gives me the freedom to simply express myself without worrying about what anyone might say. Sure, people can find out who I am, but locally, few people have heard of the pseudonym. Freedom not only protects, but gives wings.
I think the thing is, that JS can be executed separately from the layout engine, but CSS can't, however, I'm definitely not an expert in the matter.
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Yahoo can't even get its mail & homepage to sync correctly via the ajax calls it makes - I don't see it being overly successful at much, to be honest
OTOH Groupon's customers are mostly small business owners, so in that case some business knowledge might be useful.
Priceless? If you look at art from the perspective of monetary value, you miss the point. These people didn't. They win.
What is the one thing Emacs does well?

Emacs is the polar opposite of the Unix philosophy; it's more in line with the Lisp Machine tradition. Programs like sort, uniq, and grep don't embed interpreters for dynamic languages and provide thousands of different extensions for anything from reading mail to connecting to IRC.
XMPP is also used, behind the scenes, with Google Chat and Facebook Chat. It has a fair amount of adoption; you just don't really hear about it much.
The URLs are being pinged by computers within Microsoft, so even if the filtering was only occurring on the client side (which I doubt) it still makes its way back to MS servers.
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> but I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now.

This is dangerous thinking. It's never too late to cut your losses. If you are sure this will not work, just move on.
Sorry if I missed this - is this business generating any revenue? what's VC money for?
XMPP and Jingle. OTR with ZRTP on top of that.
Hi mschuster91,

I'm the other presenter from the I/O video. We hope to contribute to popular open source cart software in the near future so that vendors creating a quick shop can benefit from [autocomplete] attributes baked in by default.
I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, but thanks.

My Atlas Shrugged post was all about how the concept, while appealing, wouldn't work.
Andreessen is full of crap here. Plain and simple. These metrics were more about deception than perception. Mind you these comments came from the same guy who called for an end to "Bullshit Metrics." MA has no credibility.

http://allthingsd.com/20121217/andreessen-and-mixpanel-call-...
That's a remarkably dramatic response to Google announcing that (a) you can add structured event metadata to emails in a straightforward open format, and (b) G+ will use this metadata.
I would prefer they put their efforts into making a secure operating system in the first place instead of trying to nanny their users in such a creepy fashion.
In his book (http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Models-Causal-Inference-Di...) Professor Freedman says one of the reasons the social sciences have had virtually no beneficial impact on society (as opposed to the incredible progress in the hard sciences) is that their "studies" have unsupported mathematics. They make too many assumptions, and their methodologies don't support their conclusions. For example, you can do a study on the top reasons teens use drugs, and in a decade those reasons have completely changed because of the shift in culture.

The social sciences don't work well with the scientific method. You can't randomly select people, and you can't get them to make long-term changes to their lifestyle. Without experimental evidence, you are left with observational data, which is a nightmare to find causation instead of just correlation.
> I think you misunderstand sunk cost. Sunk cost basically just says to always employ a purely-forward-looking strategy when evaluating costs and benefits

I don't think I misunderstand sunk cost, but perhaps I didn't explain my point well enough.

I agree that you need to be forward looking, but whilst looking forward it can be important to consider existing investment. Existing investment is not ALWAYS worth nothing, so its value needs to be accounted for. Existing investment is also a metric that, whilst lending itself to entwining one in the Sunk Cost Fallacy, is an important part of answering the question "how much more investment is needed?"

The sunk cost fallacy applies in a situation where previous investment has been lost. The typical example is in gambling, where each spin of the wheel is independent of how much you have already lost on the table. When in a startup, however, previous investment is not necessarily lost, so switching to a new one is (typically) not the same as continuing one you have already invested in.

>> vs how much some other endeavour will take to become profitable AND how much it will cost to switch.

> Wait, what are these two costs? Aren't they the same? Where did the cost of switching come from?

The cost of switching is a way of characterising things like lost earnings and payouts that are not directly related to starting a new endeavour. They are typically, though not always, constant regardless of the new endeavour being considered, and so it makes sense to keep them separate.

Examples of switching costs:

* paying out a phone contract;

* loss of long service benefits (if someone is close to receiving long service benefits they will typically wait to receive them before switching jobs);

* non-compete clauses.
Once an alias gets old enough, I think it counts as "standing behind your comments personally" - if you cared to go looking, you could find some pretty dumb stuff I posted years ago on other sites when I was in high school, but I'm still using the same alias.

Why use an alias? Partly the romance - online handles just feel like they come from some earlier golden age of the Internet, when it was the domain of scrappy hackers rather than big advertising corporations (it's likely mythical, but it's before my time in any case). Also, my username is quicker to type and more unique than my real name - in some ways it is a better identifier for me than my name.
Really interesting, thanks for writing it! :)
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Pud knows an f'd company when he sees one. ;)
So as someone who went through something similar after diving headfirst into the Googleplex without a helmet, can I suggest that you really ought to move on for your own good and let karma eventually catch up with these guys?

The problem is that the career system (especially in software, which has this hypocritical sense of itself as a meritocracy) is the most elaborate system of victim-shaming ever devised.

I'm almost 30 and my IQ is over 150. I should be an EIR or doing cutting-edge machine learning work, and I'm not, because I was robbed by those fuckers.

Yes, they'll get their comeuppances. I'm sure they'll fall into the wrong fight. But I suffer every day from what those pieces of shit stole from me. I'm years behind where a person at my level of talent should be. Some of it is my fault, some of it is not, but the rest of the world sees it as 100% a reflection on me.

Work is the only society in which being robbed is treated as 100% the victim's fault. If your boss steals from you by giving you shitty work experience and then ruining your career, you are the subhuman piece of shit that deserves to die, not him.
Thanks for reply. The power of this concept is simplicity. It's based on a very simple API: publish/subscribe.

Anything that has these methods can be easily binded to DOM and can easily interact with data structures like new-list and new-object.

Frameworks are monopolistic. They don't let you take advantage of the open source at all. You can't replace the a core mechanism or data structure of a framework but if you use something built from small independent modules, you'll be able to optimize more, create more, reuse more, extend more, fork more.

This simplicity, the two methods interface, lets you create your own data structures that can be binded to new-reactive. Since your all dependency is publish/subscribe methods, you can easily replace each part of your code if you need to move on to another direction. But frameworks will force you to use or depend on only their own abstractions. That can be very expensive and dangerous your monopolistic framework gets out of fashion or starts implementing ideas that suck.
I hate it when these things pop up because they turn problems into self-fulling prophecies.

I hate being around my mother. I've never had a relationship with a girl in my entire life. I drown my sorrows into a mug of beer every friday. I barely get by as is - and have to work my ass off harder than everyone around me to get anything done.

And now I come across this article that says it's likely I'll make 6 figs less than some other guy because of these variables that are hopelessly outside of my control. How fucking depressing.
Ok here is another one:

I am 6'2 weigh 190 and I haven't had a significant other in 2 years. Seriously, it's confidence and understanding what your standards should be. I know that seems patronizing and an over simplification but these rules seem to hold true across couples. The greater exception that we like to notice more often is "How did that guy/girl get that guy/girl".

I don't doubt that women on a dating site say those things in majority. But there is a strong minority that don't look for those things.
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I use my real name, and I also use a real email address in my HN profile, however I have base 64 encoded my email address. This weeds out the spam, silly recruiters, and does a good job of ensuring that the only people who will contact me are people I'd be interested in talking to.
Some of it may be attitude. Others can read insecurity, which can be a big barrier to establishing solid relationships. I think it's true that many women have a bias against shorter men, but after getting to know someone can see that it was a shallow prejudgment. I can admit to stating a preference for men over six feet, but have dated men not even an inch taller than my 5'6" self. In the end, other things mattered much more than one uncontrollable characteristic.
More like so-so parents might try to become better parents. It's a continuum. There's a whole cottage industry around how to be a better parent. Presumably a lot of parents are buying those products.
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I already asked 2 times for the challenges but still nothing. Anyone experiencing the same?
Poll HN: Do you even take seriously the polls on HN?
God says...

5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to
let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go,
we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto
the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword.

5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and
Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and
ye make them rest from their burdens.

5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people,
and their officers, saying, 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw
to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for
themselves.

----

God says...

Netherlands hitherto harsh indued prose purchasing flies
Isaiah putrefied frozen twins praised opinionative Observe
incomparably Great unbecoming make dinner Arise fouls
judgements arent_you_clever commemorated Moon employer
filled Seven mastery wins PROVIDED hoping wicked act himself
doer spider's settling robing science gleameth absurdity
unravelled sadness imagination cultivated ungodliness
existeth diverse gives Nevertheless commendable assented

----

I think "Moon" comes from what NASA did to USSR?
I wonder why limit the study to men. Weren't women allowed in Harvard in 1938?
Didn't remember who he was until I saw the "Inventing on Principle" cover slide - that talk and what he was doing in it blew my mind. It just felt like some kind of breakthrough about how to think about and do things with tools that now make these crazy and useful things possible... with (it seems) lots of cool applications for more efficient and satisfying education/learning.
I am kind of an "other" though I voted "yes." I go by Michele most places on the web and a lot of people know me by the email address in my profile that I have had for years. "Michele" wasn't available here when I signed up so I shortened it (the M stands for Michele). Michele is my actual middle name that I go by socially IRL as well. I have stated that here on more than one occasion. There are people who know my full name. I think my last name is not terribly important to being able to ID me as "oh, it's her!" online. If I ever remarry, it would likely change anyway. (shrug) People online generally have no problem identifying me as someone they knew on some list or other elsewhere/previously. I am pretty distinctive. There is no real point in using a different email address or username and trying to pretend "I am totally not THAT Michele. Really!"

My online and offline lives have been fairly separate for a long time. I imagine at some point those world's will collide. I have been working on trying to arrange for a gentle, anticlimactic collision. I no longer work for BigCo, so I no longer worry that my employer will go "You were quoted in a book saying WHAT?!!" or "You have a website about WHAT?!!"

It's all good.
I have always had a eye for drawing and painting, but it took me over 13 years of practice to churn out half-decent sketches. I guess persistence is the key. As for writing - re-reading books and rewriting sentences can help. Each sentence should have enough spring to propel you and the reader to the next sentence. Of course, easier said than done and all that.
Read The Game. I've met Neil Strauss in real life and he's 5'6" on a good day. His fiance is beautiful, smart and taller (plus, she likes to wear heels).
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I tried Inky after following your link. I signed up, added an account, let it sync up and played with it. I then went to settings and deleted my account and quit Inky. I noticed my computer running hot a few hours later and it turned out "inkycore" had been running with 100% in the background the entire time.
I love this book and it likewise had a great effect on my life. That said, it's mostly affected me in career choices. It doesn't have much to say about relationships.
You really should not speak of things of which you do not know.
You are conflating multiple issues here: whether social science studies are valid, whether the effects of social science are beneficial to society, whether passing some "scientific method test" is a requirement for an approach to be "good."

To take one example (of many), all of consumer marketing is an outgrowth of social science - nowadays consumer marketing, behavioral psychology, and behavioral economics are overlapping fields which happen to go by different names.

We might debate whether marketing has been "beneficial," but I don't think you can reasonably argue that all marketing doesn't work just because the math behind it isn't as rigorous as quantum mechanics. (Not that we completely understand quantum mechanics.)
This isn't a matter of who is right but who wants to spend more money on lawyers. Which you have to do if you decide not oblige.

Been there. Done that.

If its not too much hassle just change the name.

You could also wait and see if they pursue it farther before doing anything. But companies with lawyers don't have much to lose when it comes to going after little guys.