skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: The Anatomy Of People of Hacker News
I just made it to the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5780456 ), and started tracking when people click on the demo link.
Here's an quick view of what people are using to view Hacker News: http://bit.ly/11nd4we

also https://bitly.com/11nd4we+
I would imagine that it doesn't prerender the next page until the first is actually displayed.
Is this distinction interesting in some way I'm missing? If the engineering standards are mandated by law, they are effectively law themselves, so I would assert that "the text of some laws was restricted by copyright" holds. Referring to external standards was the mechanism in the cases I was thinking of, to be sure.
Doesn't have to be. Legislators elected with small majorities can easily vote for legislation that is supported by less than 50% of the constituency.
Cato's funding comes from a fortune made on fossil fuels. They have a job to do.
Keep on dreaming: The Xbox One isn't Steve Jobs' dream TV device
I really think you should enter the password twice to verify it.
Why? Tax breaks are just a subsidy. I'd call it a subsidy in disguise, but it's hardly even "in disguise". When they aren't going to the Good Guys (TM) people have no problems calling this corruption.
*Obviously my desire to go to Stanford may seem like I was pursuing the 'name'. But I thought I made it clear that I wanted to go to Stanford because of the types of people there, not the prestige associated with the school.
I'm pretty sure the HN reader uses the Android webview [1] to render all webpages, which is the same thing that is used in the Android Browser. Chrome Mobile is not available for download on devices before Android 4.0, and didn't become the default browser on Android until 4.2.

According to these stats [2], Android Browser has about 55x the usage of Chrome Mobile as of April 2013. This means ~97% of Android devices will likely show up as they do in my screenshot.

In short, the problem is not with my HN reader, the problem is with this CSS library on the most common Android browser.

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebVie...

[2] http://caniuse.com/usage_table.php
Well ... depends. The website stuff is awesome. The current "problem" is that people want to build what are in effect native apps using the browser as a runtime and presentation layer. So there is lots of things that need to be done for it to work.

In a sense we need our MFC for the web.
I'd give someone props for getting these questions all correct in half an hour, even if some could do it sooner.
>This is an article of faith for the green crowd. I and many others are skeptical of such a claim, especially when temperatures have dropped despite higher emissions the past 10 years.

Am I reading the graph wrong?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A.gif

Looks like a rise to me.

Source: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
Your scientific background and a link to your source would be helpful, because the vast majority of people who study this issue disagree with you.
>especially when temperatures have dropped despite higher emissions the past 10 years

How do you figure? 2012 was the hottest year on record.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/130109-warme...

Or 2011:

>The WMO, part of the United Nations, said the warmest 13 years of average global temperatures have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/us-climate-confere...
Not a surprise. Singapore is only two or three shades off of mainland China in controlling its citizens.
I would personally like to see a CSS framework that has absolutely zero opinions about design. Meaning, radio buttons are actually the standard html5 radio buttons, but perhaps with titles handled in a unified way that works across all browsers. Form elements are given proper layout CSS that solves a lot of common issues across all browsers but no additional styling is added. Etc. I don't want my site to look like yet another bootstrap site (YABS) and overriding all of bootstrap/foundations/whatever's styles is a huge PITA. I usually just end up rolling everything from scratch for sites where I want full control over the design.

edit: I'll post this as an edit since there are multiple responses referring to http://www.getskeleton.com. Skeleton is similar to what I'm asking for but it seems to have stopped short. I would love to see unstyled carousels, alerts, modals, sticky headers, images with inline comments, etc. Basically, all the really nice stuff you get in Bootstrap and Foundation but without any of the styling.
This is cool. However a few points:

1 - Most small variations on A/B landing pages do not show conclusive uptick. You usually need to do drastic changes to see a big difference. I wonder if the managing one code it would be messy or is there a way to have two or more different files?

2 - Many organizations have a problem understanding how much better one form is performing if they have low volumes. Is there statistical presentations that with C confidence can tell A is better than B.

3 - Sometimes is great to do A/B/A or A/B/C does your tool provide that?
Ha! That's awesome. I'm going to have to remember that if I run a follow up test.
A little scrounging finds no obvious official press release, but at least one claim that it's a hoax.

http://now.msn.com/the-onion-is-not-shutting-down-its-a-crue...
It's not an "article of faith", it is a scientific certainty, and one that we are witnessing happen today, not in some vague future.
Fisker was never really building their own stuff though. They were just bolting together a bunch of parts from different suppliers. Tesla has real technology, especially in the battery department that they are already beginning to licence to other auto manufactures.
Electric 1967 Karmann Ghia runs on social-media fuel 
Back when a certain 1967 Karmann Ghia rolled off the assembly line, nobody could have expected that one day it would be gutted, filled with batteries, and turned into an electric car that runs thanks to social-media feedback. The car is part of the Minddrive after-school program, a Kansas City (both Missouri and Kansas) organization dedicated to working with at-risk students...
So, if I get you correctly, you're saying they get a tax break by not paying taxes on something they don't use? Why stop with them not paying gas taxes? Since they are American-built, they also don't pay import taxes. They aren't luxury yachts, so they don't need to pay a luxury yacht tax, either. Why, there's all sorts of taxes they don't pay.

Claiming they get an effective tax break by not paying gas taxes is absurd.
Turning off new account signups won't reduce low-quality comments, unless in the rare case that HN is being raided. (i.e. during the Adria Richards incident)
An offense without mens rea is an offense without malicious intent. I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming that there was no malicious intent, only incompetence. How can you not get this?

Drunk driving laws use strict liability, meaning that absolutely no mens rea is required to prosecute a drunk driver. Incompetence, rather than malicious intent, can be assumed but the drunk driver is nevertheless pursued and ultimately punished in a proportionate fashion.

Nobody here is suggesting that we drag these school administrators off to criminal or civil court for being spineless tyrants through incompetence. What we are suggesting is that in the "court of public opinion", their 'crime' should use strict liability. School administrators do not need to act maliciously for us to criticize them. Incompetence, without mens rea, is fair game for criticism.

Who gives a shit if they are just incompetent? I assume that they are. That does not get them off the hook.
Cause you know the big three never got any government money...
It's never too late to provide an explanation. In fact, providing an explanation will probably drive even more traffic (depending on how interesting whatever it is the heck you're doing).
Gamer, tech
Nope, but it does influence adoption rates, which was the goal of the subsidy.

If .01% of cars are electric and the chargers are not conveniently placed, then everyone will continue purchasing a ICE vehicle.

If 5% of cars are electric, then people will see the benefits and that the cars are practical, then people will be significantly more likely to consider an electric vehicle for their next purchase.

75 million per 10,000 electric vehicles? It's costly but it's necessary, and in my humble opinion, it will be well worth it.

The sooner we eliminate oil tankers and oil rigs, the better.
It's Android's WebView [1], which is used in all apps that render web pages and also in the Android Browser, still in use on the vast majority of Android phones (see my other comment in this thread).

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebVie...
Then they should also A/B test the comments with big red fonts, because it's possible users will read it more.
Absolutely.

Every reviewer that I've met does plagiarism detection on their own. My advisor has even found instances where the author copy+pasted articles from the likes of the Wikipedia article on the subject or 'about.com'; such papers get desk-rejected without review, and in some cases, the author is forbidden from submitting to IEEE conferences for the rest of their career. That's how important plagiarism is.

Just copy+pasting the abstract into Google is often enough to find it. At least for computer science conferences, the conference organizers run the papers through additional plagiarism screening tools before publishing, but it's mostly the reviewers' job.
To me, an avid cyclist for more than 15 years, helmets are less about protection from a car and more about protection from bike failure or small obstacles on the road. It doesn't take a very large rock to cause your bike to crash, especially road bikes with skinny wheels. A low impact crash like that is where a helmet could truly save you from concussions or worse.
especially when temperatures have dropped despite higher emissions the past 10 years

Could you please provide a citation or otherwise indicate where this information is coming from.
Twelve years later, Caltech provost David Goodstein wrote http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
Skip down to "honesty and ethical behavior" for his remarks on peer review.
That means it's not real.
Scientists transform cement into liquid metal
Stipulating your claim (are you a jurist?), how does this shake out? Do you expect the likelihood of referral to law enforcement/prosecution to be zero? If it is non-zero, how do you expect the set of self-incriminating surveys to be partitioned? Is it possible that the school administrator will consider the wealth of a student's parents, and their propensity to seek redress through the representation of an attorney? This would make these surveys more troubling, not less, because now they're putting just the poor kids into "real, not baseless" criminal proceedings.
French Expectations
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience. I work at a small software company, and I have made an observation over the years.

We have customers across the globe, but our software, website, documentation etc. is only available in English. When customers contact us it seems like almost everyone contacts us in English. The one exception appears to be French native speakers. They appear to be the only ones that always contact us in their native tongue.
I'd guess "yes": http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels
The article should take sales tax into consideration, ranging from 3 to 8 percent, while the average is 5.75%[1]. That's pretty close to the $7.5k federal taxback bonus.

Another critique of the article is that Leaf's sales numbers are not good evidence for future sales. Electric cars will make a lot more sense when fast charge stations become more commonplace. It's like saying (in 2004 or something) that nobody ever wants to buy a smartphone because there's only a few apps available.

1. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/cost-of-car-own...
If I recall correctly, apps must explicitly ask permission (above and beyond the login) and authorizaton which just gives access to your "basic information".

Oftentimes you can deny the post ability. You can't tell until you arrive at the screen, but if you don't click okay, nobody's posting anything on your wall.
From your link:

The term "coercion" is an elastic word that
may mean different things in different settings. In the public school context, for example, an administrator may suspect a student of wrongdoing" and threaten to impose a penalty unless the student makes a statement. The administrator may threaten to suspend or expel the student, to call the police, or to impose a less "severe" penalty such as keeping the student after school. At some point, these threats become coercion, thereby implicating the fifth
amendment

Considering what is happening to the teacher, I'm sure any reasonably skilled lawyer would be able to make the case that such an atmosphere of coercion does in fact exist in this particular district.
True, to some extend, but see the comment by gcr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781899
The total cost of the referenced program in California is $55.7m spread over four years, or just under $14m per year[1]. In a budget that measures into the billions of dollars per year, that's nothing.

[1] http://energycenter.org/index.php/incentive-programs/clean-v...
I'm positive that anyone who misuses the word "closed" to refer to patent encumbrance has never had to suffer through working with actual by-definition closed codecs.
But there's no need for it to continue forever here, since there's a finite target. The question is if current growth can be maintained until there are no more Bitcoins to be mined, not if the curve is sustainable.
As I pointed out in the other thread[1], this argument is pretty silly as the Cato Institute and most electric car critics have openly advocated subsidies for the industries they support. These "subsidies" are paid for by companies who CHOSE to pay them to continue participation in the California market without producing zero emissions vehicles. In the minds of these critics, the fact that Tesla is a niche startup today in a small, renewable transportation sector changes the entire dynamic about the deal.

One needs look no further than Cato's full-throated endorsement of oil subsidies[2]. Despite admitting externalities exist, they put their stamp of endorsement on oil industry subsidies while opposing far smaller industry-paid subsidies for Tesla, a company whose product harms profits of oil companies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753993
[2] http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/big-oil-pub...
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-bush-tax-cut...

Notice how they don't apply the logic that these tax cuts were someone else's tax burden.
Singapore government unveils regulations for news websites
Icebergs Takes Visual Organization to a Whole New Level - The Industry
Freedom and "economic freedom" are two orthogonal, completely different things. You can (and often do) have one without the other and vice versa.
What China shows (and what counters the US rhetoric) is that evidently economic freedom can (at least to some extend) cause prosperity without political freedom. Common wisdom has predicted the rise of some kind of political freedom in China for years now, but what has actually been seen to be on the rise is better governance - an oft-cited example is the case of Bo Xilai[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai#Downfall
Too late. I've been one since somewhere in the early nineties.

And I gotta say, they throw the best damn parties.
A little scrounging at the bottom of the article will tell you that it wasn't written by the Onion...

Even if it were, it would have been written by the Onion.
So don't call it a "like". Call it something else, say "props" or "kudos".

The whole point here is to establish a currency for acknowledging quality, it need not represent actual "liking" of anything.

There is a deeper point here which is: what is a like anyways? Clicking a button to indicate you enjoy something has no use for the user. On Facebook users do it as a form of social signaling. On some other sites "liking" is essentially bookmarking for later use.

It's important to separate the actual utility of clicking a button vs. the concept notion of liking something.

> "You wish they were "recommendations" instead. But this is already a solved problem."

You're conflating two things. What you're talking about is sharing - you share a restaurant with a friend, or you share a funny cat picture with your cousin. "Recommendation" in this context means generating, programmatically, relevant things for you to look at. The power of "likes" (or any kind of quality score, really) is that you don't need to know the user's social graph to locate for them content they will be interested in. Even in a social networking context, a quality score allows you to expose the user to good content outside of their immediate social sphere, which on a photography website is certainly a desired feature.

The website in question is not about viewing the photo feeds of your internet friends, but about discovering the best content across the entire community, even from users who are completely disconnected from you in the social graph.

Unless I'm reading this blog post horribly wrong, when you click on "Recommend" you don't direct this recommendation towards anyone at all. It's simply "I mark this with my stamp of approval, which in turn will help surface this good content to other users of this website". There is not a social angle to this at all, nor any sort of directed sharing.

Anyways, I think this is a great idea. There was a website I used a long time ago called thesixtyone. It was an indie music site where discoverability was the core feature. You got "hearts" which you can give to specific songs. Your hearts replenish daily (use them or lose them), making them a currency, and preventing you from just heart'ing everything willy-nilly.

There's an elegance to this system that photographer.io can borrow: if you heart something (and therefore expose it to more users) and they in turn also heart the song, you get more hearts to spend. Essentially, users with taste that the community agrees with will get a louder voice, and the community becomes more directed as a result. It also allows you very clear visibility into influencers in the community.

There was also a neat gamification angle to it that gave achievements for tasks, with the overall goal of making sure you spend your hearts instead of doing nothing with them.
Waterbug App
Many publishers allow Google to crawl the full text of the protected resources. This is why Google Scholar works, for example. Copy+pasting the abstract into Google Scholar is surprisingly effective at finding plagiarism.
Visualizing CitiBike Share Station Data
If a place "has no political freedom and only limited freedom of speech", as you say, then how it is better than Belarus?
What a rag. Here they are talking about the Keystone Pipeline, a proposed way of pumping oil in north america to the shore where it can be exported at a profit. They cite job creation as a benefit of public funding for the pipeline, as well as the environment.

I can't believe this is on the front page of hacker news.

http://www.cato.org/blog/climate-impact-keystone-xl-pipeline
I was commenting on "There would be no one left" part. I don't think that is ever possible for critical jobs. If a job is essential for the society, usually there are enough workers to do it.
You are right about this point - if too many people have skills to perform "high paying jobs", those jobs won't remain "high paying" for long.
Often the term "patent troll" is used to denote NPEs which don't produce any technology. However a broader meaning is simply extortionist / racketeer. Whether extortionist produces anything useful is already secondary. So I think it's proper to call patent aggressors trolls, especially when this aggression is directed simply to block competition.

In Nokia case, their products are not harmed by VP8 in any way. They just picked up a pile of patents for the sole reason of attacking an open codec and to prevent its adoption. It's also probable that it's not even Nokia's own initiative, but someone's who is behind them. Using third party patent trolls to fight competition while staying in background to avoid attention is a common technique amongst patent aggressors known as patent privateering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Privateer
This is probably relevant

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/why-the-globe-hasnt-warme...

"The answer, according to a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters, is that a lot of it is being stored in the deep ocean, more than a half-mile down[...] [b]ut sooner or later it will inevitably emerge, which means that the current slowdown in warming may well be balanced by a period of rapid warming in a few years — nobody knows how many — from now."

I think he meant that the global rate of increase in temperature has dropped, ie temperature has hardly changed in the last 10 years.
They mentioned Honda, of all companies!

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute#Co...

American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, General Motors, Honda North America, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen of America
I don't know, what is the estimated monetary cost of destroying whole eco systems and the earth to boot? Whats the opportunity cost in fighting wars over oil instead of developing regenerative energy sources? What did it cost society to use leaded gas? Lead is one of the most neurotoxic substances on the planet, and an ever so slightly increased concentration in the blood can seriously hamper intellectual development. What price tag can we put on costing someone 10 IQ points?

The answer to all these questions, of course, is that it's impossible to correctly account for these things in the market without causing unfathomable transaction costs. This is after all the definition of a negative externality.

But I can tell you as much, $7500 is a freaking bargain.
What? Here is Cato praising Obama for proposing the end of oil subsidies:

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/eliminating-oil-...

I tend to disagree with Cato's brand of libertarianism, but they are consistent.
I haven't tried Firefox, but I can tell you what I do in Opera: default settings are restrictive, then when I want to enable something on some site, I go to "Edit site preferences". The site name e.g. news.ycombinator.com is already there. And imagine I want to allow everything on the whole ycombinator.com, I just delete "news." then allow what I want (e.g. JavaScript).

That way I enjoy the quietness (by default) of the sites and the higher security of browsing. When I really, really need sites which depend on too much moving parts I start some other browser, but for day-to-day browsing I enjoyed not having to install any extension but still having something like "noscript." If Opera fails, I'll have to discover how to get similar functionality on some other browser.