skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel for you. It doesn't stop to amaze me how people still defend those countries economical models, just to spite the "evil empire" in the north it seems, because they don't make any sense. The video you post is indisputable. Also, Venezuela is currently suffering toilet paper shortage. Their government is saying it's because people are eating more and thus shitting more. That's the kind of arguments governments pull out here south. Frigging failed countries, one just has to flee as soon as one has the chance.
Ha ha, had to chuckle at that one. It's one of UK's "best kept" secrets, I suppose ;) . The course materials are bloody fantastic, and in terms of value of money, spot on :)
Whichever RFC it is, it is not so simple that everyone gets it right. For innstance, a significant percentage of websites don't let you register email addresses containing a plus sign in the name, e.g. john.smith+foo_bar@host.com
Looking back on it now, this experience had far more in common with the Middle Ages than the world of 2013. What's the difference between watching a lecture in an auditorium and watching HD-quality video in one's living room or beach cabana?

There's no difference at all but for any even mildly ambitious undergrad in a STEM field, physically attending a research university is an opportunity to get involved, however peripherally, in such research. For someone pursuing a graduate degree this seems more like a requirement rather than a serving suggestion.

Georgia Tech is not a respected engineering school just because it does a decent job of fielding 500-person classes.
Yet people continue voting for the same government. This is exactly why I think democracy cannot possible work in poor countries, sadly.
Google Buzz data to be copied to Google Drive for shutdown
Dear Buzz user,

In October 2011 we announced that [Google Buzz was shutting down]. On or after 17 July 2013, Google will take the last step in the shut-down and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your [Google Drive], a service for storing files online. Google will store two (2) types of files to your Google Drive and the newly-created files will not count against your storage limits.

1. The first type of file will be private, only accessible to you, containing a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts that you authored.

2. The second type of file will contain a copy of only your Google Buzz public posts. By default it will be viewable by anyone with the link and may appear in search results and on your [Google Profile] (if you've linked to your Buzz posts). Note, any existing links to your Google Buzz content will redirect users to this file.

3. Any comments that you made on other users' posts will only be saved to those users' files and not to yours. Once the change described in this email is final, only that user will be able to change the sharing settings of those files. This means that if you have commented on another author's private post, that author could choose to make that post and its comments public. If you would like to avoid that possibility, [delete] all your Buzz content now.

4. The new Google Drive files will only contain comments from users who previously enabled Google Buzz, and the files will not contain comments that were deleted prior to moving the data to your Google Drive.

Once the files have been created, they will be treated the same as any other Drive file. They are yours to do with as you please. This includes downloading them, updating who can access them or deleting them.

Before these files are created, you can [view the Google Buzz posts that you have authored here]. If you do not want any of your Buzz posts or comments to be saved to Google Drive files, you can immediately [delete] your Google Buzz account and data.
When people wanted to organise birthday parties at my last office they just added it as an appointment in the calendar. I suspect that if most email clients ever are well integrated with calendars then that'll probably be the end for facebook. ATM, however, there's no good calendar software integrated into most email clients so arranging a meet - even if you've got the social connections stored on your phone - is a pain in the neck.

:/
Only if you haven't read TFA and just wanted to add your uninformed opinion.

He specifically talks about blogs and explains why this works.

Because on a blog, the first page IS the very page people want to visit.

And they can spend several minutes in it (to read the latest entry) and then leave without visiting any other page. And that's not a "bounce" by any stretch of the imagination.

This behavior (counting a single page visit, however long, as a bounce) is fixed with the proposed change.

It's not "changing the meaning of bounce rate to ease your mind" (what BS), it's "changing the meaning of bounce rate to reflect the use case of your specific type of site".
> People pay $100+ per month and seem to live through tens of minutes of commercials per show.

I suspect that most people here with cable don't watch any commercials, due to the magic of DVR. At least, that's true for me. I can't stand not being able to skip them, so I hate Hulu.
This struck me as a surprisingly mature way of shutting down such a service - certainly more palatable than expecting all users to export...

Pasting the original e-mail here seemed the best way to avoid the subtle 'interpretations' of content in blogospam. :/
No, to what fits for a blog.
Not sure what's on baby bottles but on beer bottles I see stuf like:

- 2L - large coke

- 1.5L - popular for large wate bottles and regular coke

- 1L - Large beer bottles, medium coke and co., most family sized juice or iced tee packs, pretty much all regular milk.

- 0.75 L - wine

- 75cl - common in wine and some water

- 50cl - mostly water and some larger beer cans

- 33cl - regular beer bottle and cans

- 25cl - I think I have seen beer and wine bottles of this size

- 22cl

- 20cl - "minis" are small beer bottles, lots of juice packs and chocolate milk

Smaller is probably what they give babies, wouldn't find it weird to see mls used.

I overhear my cousins talk about full doses or relative comparisons. e.g. "one flask", "more than yesterday", "he was hungry"

Note that I rarely refer to the quatities. Usually I ask for a certain sized bottle like this:

- "small bottle of water" - I expect 25-33cl but 50cl is not rare. Sometimes I get asked in reply, "half a liter"?

- "a beer please" - 33cl superbock

- "coke, plese" - .33 either can or bottle - sometimes a cup with too much ice and the total volume of 20cl but I know I'm getting fucked

- "food for babies" - whatever I get handed...
This is a very interresting news if this is true. I'm managing a web site with one page containing article abstracts and references to pdf files. Our rank is surprinzingly not very good. I will try the proposed change and see if things get better. Articles are original content of scholar quality level.
Are there any ads on Netflix? I can't think of any.
Shown HN: Cats On Me
I really hate Lyft based on the behavior of their drivers in SF; I've had them on many separate occasions do crazy things like cut across 4 lanes to make a turn, block driveways, etc. Things which a taxi driver doesn't do, or which I'd call TL&C and report the cab for.
GPL code provenance fight on GitHub
http://f.cl.ly/items/232p1q3t0r1J2Z1l3K1s/Image%202013.05.25... q.e.d.
> As Marissa has publicly stated, Y! is the world's largest startup

All CEOs state that because its the hot, sexy thing. Especially for the new, younger employee generation.

The problem is you don't want a culture with the public perception, at least for engineering, you're looking for the the same culture that are leaving the company now. So many awesome things came out of Y! but I feel much like they are going the ways of Sun.
Continued:

https://github.com/markj338/KANGAROO-kernel/commit/da260aa72...

https://github.com/MattCrystal/clucking-goose/commit/46a7a01...
There's always going to be a place for University's to exist, there's certain amounts of skills that require a practical experience that they can provide, but for most courses shifting it online makes more sense. The costs are lower, it's easier to manage, it encourages more people to gain a formal education and hopefully strengthen their careers.

It's going to be interesting seeing which ones will offer an actual bit of paper at the end that says 'I'm educated in X by Y' and how much it's going to cost. $7k for a degree from a prestigious school is going to be a popular option, so whilst they lose the high amount per student, they gain it back in larger student numbers.
Thinking about scalability or portability of the code from day 1 is useful because it may be difficult to crowbar those things in on day 200.

That said, don't dither too much over writing code. History favours the doers rather than the vacillators. Most software except for utilities has a quite short working life anyway. There is also the standard advice of "expect to throw one away".
Temporary email
I find this unlikely.

If that was true, it would be a standard trick to send a tracking event at load time to zero the bounce rate and improve pagerank.
coldtea, please don't be disrespectful if you disagree with me.

On every site you want to know how long the user views a page. It's no different with blogs but it's a different concept.
Getting the fuck out was a smart move. You did the right thing, don't worry about clueless sheeple bleating about how leaving "doesn't help". It does. It helps you, and possibly your family too.
Why doesn't Apple cut its prices and sell more iPhones?
> Your argument is like saying you're going to build a house but don't know if anyone will want to live in it

The first houses in a complex are usually sold before being built, on the basis of a prototype - be it blueprints, 3D walkthrough, or a show-home. If they can't sell those houses, they don't build the rest. It's the cheapest way of establishing whether there's a market for the properties they intend to sell, and it's much cheaper than finding out there's no market having built 50 of them.

> "today's code become's tomorrow's legacy code"

Worry about it tomorrow. It's a nice problem to have as it means you're still in business. Most businesses started today won't be.

Until you've established that your product is going to have customers, the performance is irrelevant.

My favourite example is the fake 'Buy now' button. You don't need to build the payment process until you know people want to pay, and you definitely don't need to worry about how quickly it runs.

If people want it, they'll pay even if it's slow. If people don't want it, why are you building it? Nobody buys a product just because it's quick (unless performance is the central feature.)
Vagrant-sprinkle: A Sprinkle provisioner for Vagrant
I did receive that from the upper portion of your response. I was just eloboarting further for the OP as your first did insulate that de facto equals to correctness. Yes precisely but one with such a question has already deomstated anayalsis to a level of a threshold where such alternatives would not hwve been considered if not for the existence of prior sufficient evidence for valid uncertainty of accepted standard.
So it's impossible to discuss unsuccessful ad campaigns, as doing so immediately makes them successful?
I have been contemplating between getting an MBA or a PhD in software engineering (because I want to teach) for the past few years.

For the latter it would be strictly because I want to create something, be innovative, and give back to my industry. The former - you're really paying for the connections - and possibly a few lessons on economics that have grown dry in your head.

I am justifying the price tag on a two year (night) MBA because I feel like I am getting into that "club" that most of the bigwigs are in.

Am I wrong?
Agreed. I'd imagined a site like Stack Overflow would have a very high bounce rate.
>The bounce rate supposedly affects PageRank.

Huh? Who said that?

AFAIK, PageRank is independent of GoogleAnalytics and does not examine bounce rate (which it cannot know). PageRank obviously works for the majority of webpages that do NOT use Google Analytics for example.
Just my opinion here but I think this is a bad idea. You'd have to research to make sure that your hack isn't also artificially inflating the number of pageviews, increasing the pages / visit and artificially deflating the Avg Visit Duration. By screwing with one metric, you're probably affecting several others.

Better to just leave it as is and do a better job interpreting the data. If you run a blog, you're simply going to have a high bounce rate. But as long as your avg visit time is still high, you can interpret the data in a positive way and effectively ignore the bounces.
type it all on your phone? swype.com
Neat. Does anybody know what the neck/shoulder brace looking orange things the docs are wearing under their gowns are?
>coldtea, please don't be disrespectful if you disagree with me.

Sorry, but I found your comment to be disrespectful to the article (dismissing what it says as some hands-in-the-ears denial") and wrong to top.

>On every site you want to know how long the user views a page. It's no different with blogs but it's a different concept.

Still this is orthogonal to the article -- which discusses bounce rate and the way GA measures it by default.
You Can’t Reverse Engineer The Google Algorithm
The main difference is in the scale: you can't solder a thousand detonators before the police notices you. With a fast printing technology, you can.
> It's called democracy. It works pretty well in most countries.

Oh? How's Obama's "Change You Can Believe In" working out for you so far?
What's the purpose of getting someone to read your blog post? Rarely is it just that. You'll want them to share/comment/subscribe/sign up for a trial/dive into finding out more about your product/buy. Doing these things will cause them not to bounce.

Fiddling this metric is a fudge.
I've been argued that some parts of the design have been tested against users, and other parts of the design come from the authority of the designer, in the midst of "agile-based" decision making that drops huge, unspec'd components on yr lap mid-day at 3PM.

At the same time, no one is going to argue with yr Hypermedia hubris or API spec. =P

Or namespacings. Or syntax preferences. Or hacks.

Look, no One Person (or role) wins (or loses -- and none of this "dictatorship" sensationalism is really needful, methinks). It's all sausage factory at the end of the day. Just try to create enough black boxes before lunch so you have some dignity at dinner and can sleep after the midnight snack.

A CEO gently reminded me one day, "No one lives or dies by this." It's frustrating, not a "dictatorship." In just the same way that no one "killed the coffee"; and no your computer did not just "die." This sensationalist writing makes it difficult for us chill developers who just want to make a simple critique without having to be pigeon-holed with all the hyperbolic-complaint-machine because all of our critiques have the same content (this modal or that button) but the hyperbolic-complaint-machine suggests what's beyond frustration.
Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page
The very reason we started http://willthisfly.net :)
Why do you need a closure?
Library Unveils Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
what are you using for the REST API on the "server side" ?
Step 1: Change the way you measure bounce rate
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit

If you follow this article, you need to focus on Step 2.
There's product placement in some programmes, for example the Netflix-produced House of Cards contains jarring product placement for the Playstation Vita.
Thanks for writing this! I found the percentile of active users in X language helpful. Also liked the related users bit - powered by FLANN
I don't get it.. Description please?

It seems to randomly place cats on a picture.. what the... Doesn't make any sense at all to me..
Why VP8 vs H.264 IETF MTI for WebRTC doesn't matter
That was surprising and disappointing. I guess they need product placement, but some of the Playstation stuff was a bit heavy handed and ham fisted.
Eric Schmidt inteview: 'You have to fight for your privacy or you will lose it'
The variables obviously are Where are you getting the MBA (Ivy League MBAs, even evening ones, have more value), what is the price tag - there is a big difference between a $50K MBA and $200K MBA, and what field you'll be going into.

MBA has very little (some might almost say negative) value in Silicon Valley startup world, but obviously more value in mature companies, or companies that are transitioning from startup->mature (possible exception being the CEO, VP of BizDev/Marketing and possibly VP of Product Management). MBAs have close to zero value for people who wish to be simultaneously tactical and technical. I've never seen a network engineer, or firmware developer get any value out of their MBA. It's really for people who are either going to go into the business side of a company, and/or go into management.

Also - it's important to note if you'll have to quit working while you are getting your MBA - that makes the credential doubly expensive.
Here's something else to consider ...

Most stuff people make for free and give away is unfinished, and largely unusable. Yes, there are outstanding projects completed by outstanding people to a very high standard, but that is truly exceptional.

Give developers responsibility, let them take control, and how many products will actually get finished before they move on to the next shiny thing that attracts their attention? How many developers are willing to do the 90% of schlepping after the 10% of cool, fun stuff?

Genuine question. I have some outstanding programmers who work for me, and they still need motivating to complete the transfer of information to the documentation and training teams. They certainly don't write the documentation and training manuals themselves, and they still won't transfer the information.

They don't need motivation to do this interesting bits, but there's more to a successful product than gorgeous design and cool code.
Before they wiped out college tuitions costs back in Ireland in 1996 the cost of doing a an excellent CS degree in UCC (http://ucc.ie) was about 2000 Irish pounds (about $2800 at the time) a year for 4 years.

If you were wanted to do medicine it was a whopping $5000 or so a year over about 5 years.

There were lesser hidden costs (200 for a registration fee kind of thing) but thats about it.

We considered that outlandish at the time.

The costs of the US education system baffle me on a daily basis.

However I don't see online courses as the way to go. Most people don't complete them.
I think we need to have some A|B testing around this.

While I am a huge believer in this, my little finger tells me that Online students will perform worse when it comes to exam time.

There is an energy to synchronous group learning you can't duplicate via websites. I remember when I was in college and university, a bunch of us bonded a bit and got pretty competitive (in a friendly way) when it came to our grades and test results. If you developed a good relationship with your prof, they would often have high expectations of you and you didn't want to let them down. These emotional connections can be pretty inspiring to kids ages 18-22.

If they want to be competitive with campus students, they need to either duplicate these emotions online (via virtual worlds?) or perhaps increase the workload and adjust the bell curve so students fail out quickly unless they take it very seriously.
I've been meaning to get around to implement something like this myself. There are a few other annoyances related to this in Google Analytics the author doesn't mention, such as Google recording the time of visit for one page visitors as 0 seconds.

The implementation he describes here is just a 15 second ping. I was thinking about tying it to a scroll event and sending the ping if the user scrolls down (maybe a certain distance). This is actually a meaningful event in the context of a blog (since it likely means they are reading the article).
Unlike WhatsApp, Facebook chat is accessible via standard non-federated XMPP, so you can use it with any XMPP client.
I think this was an excellent response from Facebook. I don't agree with the message, but I also don't want to increase censorship just because I don't like what others are saying.
Rationale and documentation here http://swannodette.github.io/mori/

Feedback welcome on what people would like to see. I prefer to use the data structures from ClojureScript but I thought it might be interesting to provide them to JavaScript developers. Note it's not a small dependency (~21K gzipped) so I think people are more likely to use them from Node.

The library also provides access to Clojure style reducers as well as Clojure's functional zippers.

I'm open to ideas about making the usage more idiomatic for JavaScript developers - pull requests welcome.
This is late, but do you remember how he got his mailing list off of HN? -He started an interesting experiment about starting a business from scratch, and planning to reach X thousand dollars of income per month in only a few months. "The Web-App Challenge" or something.

That was a very interesting project, so I signed up for updates. Not long after that, his e-mails started being mostly about selling ConvertKit to us, interspersed with useful(-looking?) articles. I can't help but feel like selling ConvertKit was his goal right from the start, and that the web app challenge was just a ruse to get us to receive his sales pitches. This is very clever, of course, but it's sleazy too.
ClojureScript is an implementation of the Clojure programming language that targets JavaScript. You can find out more about the Clojure programming language here: http://clojure.org
I strongly disagree with you. How is encouragement to rape ever acceptable?
Looks intriguing. One website note, though: I think the animated slides are transitioning too quickly as I was unable to read them in time before they switched to the next slide.
it avoids putting cats on your face
AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: powering the PS4 and XBOX One, Kabini & Temash
ClojureScript is the Clojure language compiler that targets JavaScript. It compiles to Google Closure (not Clojure) JavaScript, but it can also target NodeJS. ClojureScript lets you use Clojure in the browser, adds Clojure data types to the JavaScript language, and allows for JavaScript to interact with the Clojure datatypes. Here's the side by side comparison https://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html

One of the most obvious additions to JavaScript is the ability to partition your JavaScript with namespaces.
WTF facebook? Encouragement of rape is not acceptable IMHO.
I don't think it's random - it seems to detect your face and then place cats around it.
What "Offensive Humor at its Best" is saying is take a woman by force against her will. That's hate speech. By choosing to not take the image down, Facebook is complicit in violence against women.
Is there any startups for second hand trading within colleagues?
I have been working for several companies and notice that many have some sort of internal second hand trading systems, either implemented via maillist or poor supported internal web service. Are there websites hosting second hand exchange among colleagues? I think it would work similar way as Yammer works.
I don't think that can even be considered humour, but I also disagree that the image is "hate speech". Women are not the exclusive victims of rape in any sense. Ridiculously stupid and unfunny? Yes. Putting down women for being women? I don't think so.
Facebook took a while to decide that videos of women having their heads cut off were not acceptable.

I don't find Facebook's decision here confusing.