skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. ... It shows several stories at once, not just the google brainteasers stories.

It shows one article initially. It will load the next one as you scroll down and approach the end. This is not counted as a Page View unless you actually continue down into it - you'll notice the URL change at that point)

2. In general, people would rather read the real article
instead of a summary of the article.

I would argue that this is a "real article". The NYT piece were 8 questions and answers. This article is based on just one of those questions - and expands on it. I'm not an editor/write so I'll avoid going deeper but thats my take-away.

3. For long form articles, nothing beats reading the print-preview page...

Tru dat.

Even aside from that, the New York Times has some of the best
information architecture in the business. These are the guys
who did NYTProf. Their web team is awesome.

I used to work there :)

4. Some visual issues I had with quartz:
4.1: No left/right whitespace around images.

The Featured Image (between Headlines and Text) is meant to be full-width to a max. Inline images should have left/right whitespace

4.2: I see a vertical scroll bar in the middle of my screen on Firefox.

Can you email me a screenshot (email in profile)? There are a few Firefox specific bugs we're working on this week. This may be one of them.

4.3 The black header bar which is fixed and stays on the screen
all the time even though it conveys no useful information to me.

True. Intentional. It can be expanded which reveals the large site map. There are big pros and cons to hiding it. Its an on-going conversation.

However we used to have it disappear altogether and people complained about that too....

4.4: A bunch of text blurbs on the left side of the screen
that convey no useful information to me.

Its a list of Headlines - thats all that is meant to be conveyed.

You say you're trying to be as distraction free as possible,
but that's not actually true because it isn't possible to
have your business model and be as distraction free as possible.
The print preview page is as distraction free as possible.

I'm confused. That doesn't make much sense to me. Yes, I am saying that we intend to be "distraction free as possible" - I'm not sure that I have to add a big asterisk * that covers "within the confines of an ad based business model" any more than I should also add "within the confines of a browser running a web site thats not a book" - I'm not trying to be snarky, just hard know what to make of what you said exactly..

Also - take a look at the ads... do we have them all over the place? Nope - we have them at the end of an Article - not in-between, not embedded, not inline. Thats important.

We are not perfect, but we aspire to continuously improve. Focus is on the user and the reading experience but with recognition that we have to pay the bills for 20 or so editors and journalists across five (maybe more?) countries. (I'm not counting devs, sales, hr etc in that)
Deploying node.js with vagrant and puppet on AWS
The solution is not in technology, although I suspicion it will be the geeks that will move this forward. I've already laid out a plan at my site unfetteredspeech.com. The following url will take you directly to the plan: http://unfetteredspeech.com/?page_id=737
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You're living in a HN bubble if you seriously think no new projects are being created in PHP, or if you think there are no valid use cases for PHP in modern applications.

Simply take a look at popular job sites - you don't even have to look at Monster.

PHP devs may be the cheapest as a whole because there's so many. If you're dead-set on finding a Go programmer they will come at a cost because there's so few.

Once you get into the higher level of skill, though, it starts evening out. IIRC the average senior salary for Ruby/RoR devs is only ~$5,000 more than a PHP dev.
I don't think the entire usefulness of Bitcoin is related to staying anonymous as it's actually pretty hard to stay anonymous when using Bitcoin.

Also, wouldn't the government need to be operating a certain percentage of the Tor nodes to do effective traffic analysis?
1 million applications received. Say 10% of those go into some sort of evaluation process = 100k assessments/year.
Say 10% of those go through an interview panel of (on average 3 interviews) = 30k assessments/year
For 30k employees with (say on average) 2 assessments per year = 60k assessments/year.

So 1 million CVs per year on which to do some sort of evaluations, and 200k individual assessments per year. Over the past five years that roughly 6 million data points.

Since there's no hard-and-fast rule on this, that's why I called it small Big Data.
Why does JD have a trademark claim here in the first place?

AIUI, trademark is not a tool to protect the manufacturer/seller of a product, but a tool to protect the consumer, to help them avoid confusion in believing that a similar-looking product is from the brand "owning" the trademark.

How can a book (especially an ebook!) be confused as a Jack Daniels product? Surely the purchaser has no expectation that they'll be able to drink from the book.

My understanding is that similar names in unrelated industries do not clash over trademark. For example, Gibson Guitars and Gibson performance cat-back exhausts are so vastly different (despite both making sweet sounds) that nobody is going to be confused
If you are interested in this subject, check out "The Sociopath Next Door". It changed my perspective quite a bit.
I must confess my knowledge about PHP internals and the perspectives of being a core runtime developer is pretty much non-existent. All I have to go by are the API and language features exposed to any web app developer - and that paints a different picture. Are you, by chance, a core contributor?
From bitcoin.org: "Bitcoin is not anonymous"

http://bitcoin.org/en/you-need-to-know
Well, I am no expert but at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judge#Germany it states that in Germany "Lay judges are selected by a selection committee from lists that are passed by the municipal councils". Almost the same prosses as in Sweeden where "Municipal assemblies appoint lay judges for the district courts" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Sweden#Lay_judges .

I believe that a German municipal council and a Swedish municipal assembly is basicly the same, and both are staffed with elected officials ( aka "politicians").
You can have a modern development framework for php. You guys should try http://laravel.com/ such a fresh air into php development.
I'm sorry what? F*ck privacy, this way is more expedient? Is that what you're saying in effect?

That's not what I want from my government.

--edit-- I also didn't make any suggestions, I would have accepted a reasonable explanation of the legal and technological measures that were in place to protect my data from rampant proliferation through US corporate and government systems.

Instead I got (and this is a direct quote) "We don't allow Google to use or share our analytics data.", and a zendesk reference number. Fobbed off, basically.

And with the zendesk link, now my actual communication with a UK government team is being processed in the bay area.

This is unacceptable.

--edit 2-- Somehow other large UK web-based institutions manage without GA as well. The BBC for instance. Perhaps they could talk to each other.
How funny that I also done quite exactly the same app which came out something like 2 days after this one...
I blogged about it too : http://alexiscreuzot.com/#!/scribble/4
Snowden leaks highlight common data security mistakes
Ww also have a modern framework for php. Everyone should try http://laravel.com/ , such a fresh air into php development.
I am not very interested in karma, and part of the reason is that there is no distinction between comment karma and submission karma. I don't think that being the first to submit an interesting link should be comparable to being the first person to submit an interesting comment. But that's because I come here for the discussions. I imagine that people who come here for new links and never browse the discussions feel differently.
Are you trolling? You think Manning was a witting planner of Arab Spring?
That's not at all what the comments here are referring to. Adobe not going after students and hobbyists is an economic strategy. If you exclusively use Photoshop from age 18 to 23 and get a job as a graphic designer with a firm that uses something else, you are going to push for Photoshop. For the company to buy it.

Nobody is talking about pirating software for business use, and certainly not forcing coworkers to do it.
Would you be so kind to provide a link?
Oracle Built in Functions
> The allegation that PHP is being used by people who don't know anything else is just subjective and wrong, and ultimately nothing but flamebait.

That wasn't my allegation, though it's a good point you bring; PHP is sold as a language for novices, and novices tend to use it, despite being the most difficult language in common use due to its innumerable pitfalls, which isn't aided by the poor instruction material all over.

> You can get cheap PHP devs because PHP is so ubiquitous. You can also get really good ones.

No, but really, the pay is generally less. Being a good PHP dev is less profitable than being a good Java or Ruby one, if the same holds for other countries, then I guess that accounts even more for the reputation of the language (people who are actually good programmers tend to move to other languages for better pay among other things).

And, you know, this wasn't the point. With much better alternatives available, why choose PHP if not for familiarity or cheapness of labour?
Power law. Some submissions receive hundreds of Karma, which skews a person's average.
I strongly disagree. I'm pretty sure that chastising comments about people being dicks on HN are one of the major forces keeping dickishness in check. Sometimes people need a reminder of which arrow to click.
I think that mathematicians don't do well in software development because they simply have much less experience than other devs :) I think that what's most important in software engneering is experience, motivation, intelligence, common sense and good taste (aesthetics).
Politics doesn't seem to be working. I'm thinking technology. Our Primary Election system seems to be broken. It's dominated by extremists from both parties, and rarely reported on in the mainstream media. The media also tends to give the most coverage to the most extreme candidates, because they're the most interesting (and thus get the most viewers). It seems that a system could be developed using social media that allowed you to nominate those you know personally for office (using Facebook, Twitter, etc), and give the nominees a platform (blog, webpage, money-raising features) to discuss their views if they decided to run. This would at least move the vetting of primary candidates to a crowd-sourced model vs the media, which is struggling financially, doing most of the vetting.
I agree, even though the time-difference wasn't that big as far as I remember (I did read a history of CEKA and Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago", but that was 10-12 years ago).

Back to the conversation, what might prove slightly useful from this comparison is that in the USSR and German Democratic Republic surveillance was mostly done through the use of one's acquaintances and often-times even close relatives, because as the article mentions back then secret police forces didn't have access to today's technology.

That's what made it very personal and invasive and what ruined lots of lives and close-relationships, while today's surveillance techniques seem to be (and I'd say they are indeed) more remote and not that soul-crunching. In the old system you risked to have your sister or brother-in-law snitching on you for listening to Radio Free Europe or for making a regime-related joke, you had to be always on the alert of what you were saying and to whom you were speaking. I think this is why in the present day and age we don't see lots of protests against this new surveillance system, it's far too remote from us so we tend not to notice it.
China Interbank Rates at Record High (think Lehman Bros.)
Show HN: SharingMeter.org - Find out how popular a link is
Big Mac Index Goes North Korea
Removing things from a language is a difficult proposition. I think increasingly a case could be made for a cleanup of many of the core functions, and I personally would remove some of the OO sugar coating added as of late. But that's probably more trouble than it's worth.

As core function naming and argument order is a pet peeve of mine, I would welcome a cleaned-up API2.0 if you will, while beginning the long phase-out of the old one.

I would agree though that some features should not have been added in the first place. But they're in now, and once they are in they should probably stay in for a while.
The problem is "experience with GIMP" looks to a potential employer like "knows nothing of value to us." The quality of someone's work tends to be less important than the overhead needed to get you up to spec. An agency can throw a rock out the window and hit a design student with, probably, an adequate portfolio and experience with PS.

YMMV of course, if they're willing to put in that effort. I know GML and Dark Basic but that's not worth much on a resume either.
> You're living in a HN bubble if you seriously think no new projects are being created in PHP, or if you think there are no valid use cases for PHP in modern applications.

I asked for reasons. You just told me it happens. I know it happens, I want to see a solid justification.

> Simply take a look at popular job sites - you don't even have to look at Monster.

For less pay.

> Once you get into the higher level of skill, though, it starts evening out. IIRC the average senior salary for Ruby/RoR devs is only ~$5,000 more than a PHP dev.

Why shouldn't I take the job with better pay and a better language?
You'd hear that whether it was true or not, unfortunately; there are a lot of anti-trafficking activists who are ideologically wedded to banning prostitution and don't care too much about facts or whether it's actually benefical.
I cannot upvote you as much as I want.

Yes, yes, yes. The only time we should consider these attitudes is when real keep it from everyone security matters (you know MI5 style security, not pentest security)

And frankly my view on that is now: want to keep a secret? Keep it away from computers.
For those willing to wait, this should temporarily make arbitrage more profitable. People that cannot wait 2 weeks for withdrawals will have to use their USD balances at Mt Gox to (re)purchase Bitcoins, which can then be moved to other exchanges and sold. This will cause a temporary, artificial increase in demand at Mt Gox only, leading to a higher-than-normal price differential between it and other exchanges.

That said, this is only the latest snafu with these guys. I am tired of all of the issues at Mt. Gox. Someone else really needs to step up in their place.
This post from flurry [1] suggests that a big chunk of revenue is going to a small proportion of very successful developers (there was a HN post about which companies they were but I can't find it now).

That said it also suggests that revenue is increasingly moving down the long tail which may be a sign small app companies may become more viable.

[1] http://blog.flurry.com/bid/88014/The-Great-Distribution-of-W...
The IMSAI 8800
More about the Cambrian period, from the University of California Museum of Paleontology:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/cambrian.php

A book review, titled "Decoding the Cambrian Radiation," of the book On the Origin of Phyla (2004):

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/decoding-the-...

Lecture notes, "The Origin of Phyla and the
Cambrian Explosion of Life," with color slides for an undergraduate course about fossils and evolution:

http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kammer/g230/originphylacambrianexplo...
LocalBitcoins.com still up and running:
https://localbitcoins.com/sell-bitcoins-online/usd/
Iris - a decentralized messaging framework in Go
I don't know about cruft, but I just don't like it.

I'm going to try to be a little bit more helpful. At first I didn't really know why I felt a bit uncomfortable on the page, but I think it comes from a feeling a bit lost. My attempts to try to understand why:

1. The pictures don't have any borders, so at first I think a part of the picture is hidden outside the window. I widen the window to see the whole picture, but instead of revealing any missing part the picture just gets bigger.

2. If I continue increase the size of the window until the picture stops scaling, I eventually see the grey area to the right, which give me the feeling of locking behind the coulisses at a theater. I shouldn't be there and see that. Contributing to that might be the lack of shadow on the right side, which makes that border flat compared to the left side.

3. I scroll down to gauge the length of the article before I start reading, and it just continue to scroll and I realize after a while that I'm in some other article and I have scrolled through a whole bunch of them. The boundaries between the articles are very weak compared with the pictures and in particular the thick black fields with the captions.
Insert, Update and Delete - T-SQL Step by Step Course
In all the talk about this, I haven't seen any proposed solutions. What is the way out?

Stop all domestic surveillance? What about US Citizens in other countries? What about foreign nationals inside the US?

Increase oversight? What about for rare unambiguous national security threats? How can that be enforced?

And it sounds a lot like learned helplessness, but what is an individual supposed to do?
Where is your contribution? Usually if someone have better resources than the one submitted they post an array of links to these curated info.
A horrible question for many reasons. It requires not just knowledge of Monopoly, but instant recollection thereof. It says more about the questioner's limited world view (presumes everyone knows about X, where X is irrelevant to the job) than the interviewer's intelligence. It is a learnable answer: skim How Would You Move Mt. Fuji? and similar "clever question" books and you can recall the answer rather than deducing it (the latter being far more important to the job). The worst part, I think, is the automatic dismissal of any creative & applicable "wrong" answer; before seeing the "Monopoly" reference, I was imagining some despairing ex-executive cashing out his life savings, putting it in the car with a can of gasoline, pushing it down a hill into the offending hotel and watching it all go up in smoke ... but because I didn't say "Monopoly", no credit for creativity etc.

On that last point, I recall interviewing at Microsoft: Asked questions about automatic control of venetian blinds, for one question I knew I was missing some obvious simple checkbox-type answer. I told her "I know I'm missing the obvious here, so I'm just gonna pick some alternative solution and talk thru it so you can see how I think" and proceeded to elaborate on a complex yet viable & marketing-impressive implementation. Wasn't gonna let some "correct" answer stand in my way...
A little tool we developed as a weekend project to test and debug a bigger project we are working on.

We thought it would be useful to others.
As far as I can tell the only connection to the TPB trial is that he used the credentials of one of the lawyers involved in TPB case. Mongols comment from earlier in the thread (read it as well! Contains more info):

>One / some of the intrusions have by using the login credentials of Monique Wadsted, lawyer supporting the prosecution in the Pirate Bay trial.
Is there any theoretical way to defeat these programs and ensure anonymity? I'm even suspect of SSL given private keys can probably be demanded through FISA court.
Or at the very least just learn how to use Composer.
This doesn't use either of those, and yes, why don't we hold the evolution of the web back for no good reason whatsoever.
Real cool project guys!
This is data though. It's the same as them reading our phone bills. "Big data" movement was initiated to handle very large log files.
Thanks for this, you've renewed my faith in HN (and Rails developers ;) ).
This was a very helpful concept to learn and explain to my kids. Understanding the shape of a power law graph will help you not be taken in by misleading graphs; like wealth distribution graphs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
Sounds nearly identical to the Vudu / Ultraviolet model for DVDs.
I am very curious about this as well.
Eyeball-licking: the fetish that is making Japanese teenagers sick
No, it's a press release.

(sorry, I can't help my Airplane style of humor)
The users karma and karmawhore respectively have 1 and 15 karma. Shows you can't judge a book by its cover.
hacking and not "infringement"? is this like nailing Capone for "tax evasion" instead of the dozens of brutal gangland murders?
Phew! At least we can all take comfort in the fact that ClickBank is a Level 1 compliant payment processor.

http://www.clickbank.com/press/clickbank-achieves-level-1-pa...
An article that showed up here a few months ago, by someone who's been through a lot of stuff like this, argued that the more blustery the C&D, and the more impressive the legal firm sending it, the more rude and dismissive you should be in response. Generally, people go for impressive scary letters when they don't actually have a leg to stand on, so it's best to just make it obvious that it won't work.

I have no way to evaluate that claim but it sounds like the tone of the response isn't likely to hurt you in front of a judge.
https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus, https://github.com/jterrace/js.js, etc.
So if a link is popular I shouldn't share it cuz everybody else already did?
> Until PHP starts to take its core defects seriously I don't think it will ever make significant progress as a platform.

I'm sorry, but given that PHP the platform (forgetting about gripes with the language syntax for a moment) has been used on major projects for years, what more significant progress do you want?

Your talking about it as if it needs to prove itself as a viable technology, when clearly this is not the case.
Damn! Thats inspiring...
I can just see the Daily Mail headline now:

"Facebook records reveal convicted killer wrote 13-word post 5 years ago - red flag was raised - why was nothing done?"
I really don't want to be That Hacker News Comment, but isn't the story here essentially "made an app, tried to sell it, didn't get the success I wanted, gave up"? Or is there some major benefit to the reviews and download figures for the free version I'm not seeing?

(Although this does tell us one very interesting thing - that a topical app on the App Store, with minimal marketing, can get huge downloads if it shifts from paid to free.)

The part of this story that really impresses me is actually the $440 revenue. That's not at all bad for an MVP, and demonstrates there's a market and that the app sells. Those are the kind of indicators I'd look for before pumping a lot more time into the app and attempting to turn it into a real business.

There's every chance - particularly given the subsequent good reviews - that this app could have been an $xxxx/mo success.

Any chance OP can push an update and upsell his happy customers to a paid version, I wonder?
Standardising WordPress theme hooks
I believe he may have been implying that the cause is somehow linked to an outside agency, which in the case of Bitcoin discussions usually implies a government body somewhere.
Both the people I replied to implied that they have no choice but to pirate (first for a hobby then switcharooed to a career). I don't particularly care about Adobe's machinations and was commenting on the weak attitudes on display.