skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your drastic metaphor. I don't think that using a single word: "Recomended" is any kind of masterful psychological ploy. It's very subtle, and undemanding.

And a trick is only a trick if it dosen't work. Otherwise, they are providing value. Even if it's just a Japanese Robotic Dog.

If you consider it a "trick", then I would suggest you look into "Dark UI patterns" -- there is no intention to deceive.

"Whatever happened to the idea that maybe, just maybe, some people land on your page for whatever reasons, and not because they have any use for what you're selling? " -- then why would the user even be there? It'd be a void of information, without attempting to provide value to the user (even if the value comes in the form of a item they need to purchase).

Prodding and nudging have negative connotations attached to them-- and I really don't think that just by attempting to humanize a the user experience deserves such harsh judgement.
The science of viral content: Find out the psychology of sharing
None of the buttons are clickable for me in Chrome, either.
> Try Fewer Form Fields instead of asking for too many.

Asks for Full Name to subscribe.
The bullet contains everything you need, not the gun. Lead and propellent, the gun is just a convenient tube and handle.
You didn't answer my question. How I "fuck things up" exactly?

Laws don't kill, right. People do. I point out that people kill only because they believe that law is "good". I point out that assumption and highlight how dangerous it is.
I think the title is an oversimplification.

> To test this idea, they used slivers of wood from yellow pines. First, they coated these with carbon nanotubes, to improve their conductivity. Then they applied a film of tin to each sliver.

There's a lot more that is going on than just the wood.
The ODNI Defends NSA Surveillance Programs - Schneier on Security
Because it's not intended to deceive. It's intended to provide additional value to the user.
American arrested in UK for "thought crime"
I have a possibly slightly tangential question for the community:

Any solar experts willing to weigh in on the author's assessment of the current state of solar?

Specifically, were a sodium ion battery commercially available (with similar efficiency to lithium ion batteries) tomorrow, would we be living in the golden age of solar energy?

This is something I'm extremely interested in as a citizen of planet Earth.
Not sure what angular buys you when the power of clj is available - way too low level imo. I wouldn't mind a cljs version of seesaw though, I don't think something like that is out there yet.
Aren't threads on MRI evil?
Ah, now that I can almost get behind.

One of the few plausible ways out of the mess we find ourselves in right now is a strong movement towards states rights. Nominally, the states have a lot more power in our system then they are currently exercising, so it doesn't require any new law, just some assertions of what already exists (albeit in the form of Constitutional Conventions rather than simply asserting laws, which would be simpler). It's not my perfect ideological solution by any means, but it's one of the few practical ones, inasmuch as it does involve walking up to a group of people and asking them to go grab more power as competing interests, rather than asking people with power to unilaterally disarm, which is pretty much a "fat chance" option.

Secession is in some sense the ultimate State's right extreme, but I wouldn't advocate it until more normal avenues were tried and failed. It has... proved hazardous, to say the least.
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You seem to hide an answer to my simple question into "go read these sophisticated books".

Again: if I simply don't agree with you and don't give you a penny from my peaceful income, will you point a gun at my head? Will you endorse someone to do that? Yes or no?
how do you explain the fact that this was not observed with Massachusetts' very similar health care system? http://www.urban.org/publications/412583.html
European states were told Snowden was on Morales plane, says Spain
These developing nations seems to have plenty of government and regulation to go around considering their non-existent economy.

Which nations are you referring to, specifically?
You are just keeping your own hands clean, for appearances.
My dad is 75 and my mom is 73 and they are quite strong and active still. I don't actually think of them as old. In fact, my mom behaves more like a teenager in that she loves hanging out. Morning coffee or afternoon tea gossiping with friends or her kids is the best for her.

My dad has his own ritual. He wakes up around 6AM, goes to Dunking Donuts to have coffee with a croissant and then goes about his day to manage three apartment buildings.

My point: They are not old.

I'm 35 years old by the way.
Crimes of reasoning occur before any bullets are fired.
What? How would you keep living in society but isolated from its government? You would continue to be using services that exist because of taxes for one thing. If you can't accept society's contract it's not really possible to live in it with no conflict.

Not saying government is perfect, and I agree with you that if you don't accept the society's government you are still coerced to live in it, but you can't really just choose to not take any part in it. You accept it, leave, or try to change it.
It actually already exists (minus the black market part). My friend is an RN an she and most of her co-workers use it in their clinic every day. I forget what the app's name is though.
The TED Talk [0] being referenced is excellent.

What rang particularly true to me wasn't harder work feeling more rewarding, but that people are willing to work longer and for less direct pay when they see that their work is valued or at least not immediately discarded.

0: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_...
Date Night is Not Just for the Honeymoon Phase
The suggestions themselves are decent but I have a hard time taking UI recommendations from someone who insists on using low contrast text: http://www.linowski.ca/. I can barely read his copy. Why and how anyone thinks that usability isn't made worse by using medium grey on white or light grey backgrounds is baffling to me.

It's been a while but the next time I hire a design firm, my first test will be to see if they use low contrast text.

EDIT: I just found this http://contrastrebellion.com/.
>I do hope Edward is real, he gets asylum and that he'll further release some more gory details.

According to Glenn Greenwald [1], Snowden is now fully out of the picture and that the leaks will continue regardless of what happens to him.

[1] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/351730381478821888
Trans*H4CK, First Hackathon to Create Tools for Empowering Transgender Community
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I'm one of those who has signed up. I guess I'm probably one of the many developers who are also really bad at copy out there also. (As you can see at usehuman.com)
Sovereignty at stake in Snowden saga
Also, a new coronovirus in France and the middle east, which although it's killed 50% of the people who've caught it so far is probably not going to kill us all[1].

Also H7N9 (a new bird flu), although it's a bit of a lightweight having killed a mere 20% of sufferers. It may not spread human to human, although we don't know that, and this one hasn't yet reached "the West".

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23179570

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H7N9
As a U.S. citizen/taxpayer, I look forward to the time when the U.S. shutters bases in Europe. I think you make a good point regarding the US having so many bases due to past wars.

The fact of the matter is that the US has absolutely secured trade routes throughout the world for our own economic benefit. However, this action has, as a side effect, benefited other developed nations. Historically, US intervention in the Persian Gulf region (BEFORE the absurd 2003 invasion of Iraq on false pretenses) helped stabilize oil prices, benefiting the US hugely, and Europe to a lesser, but still large, degree. In financial terms, European citizens have paid nothing for these benefits, while American taxpayers pay out the nose for military. If American taxpayers weren't so brainwashed into financing such a large military, we would have either lower taxes or more spending on European style social programs (free university for qualified students, universal health care, etc)

Now we are in a situation where the American public is, without question, going to be against future foreign interventions. One can only hope that somebody, anybody, will take up some of the slack.

Any German who is old enough or studies history knows about the Berlin Airlift. One small detail that is easily forgotten in today's populist tide of "Amerrikka is evil" is that France and the UK gave up on holding Berlin. Their view was that it was inevitable that it would be taken over by the Soviets. The U.S., in an odd and, at the time, insane plan, decided to find any way to keep West Berlin supplied. While it would be naive to think the US didn't have any self-interest here, this was a case where a pushy, interventionist foreign policy was a good thing.
> would have less code

Based on what?
I'm going through "ClojureScript Up and Running" right now, and I'd also recommend it.

However, for folks who just want to give cljs a try, lein-cljsbuild does make it pretty easy at this point. Once you have lein and the lein-cljsbuild plug-in installed, the basic information on how to get a project up and running is here:

https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild#just-give-me-a-da...

They also include example projects in the lein-cljsbuild repo that make use of some of the popular clojure web libraries like ring and compojure:

https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild/tree/master/examp...
I am pretty sure the problem with the Nazis was not that they were exceptionally efficient at war. The problem was rooted in their goals and the means they considered appropriate.
Am I too old for a startup?
There are a few good ideas in here, but a lot of questionable ones.

For example:

Turn your content into marked lists rather than have a gap?

The list format is only really useful for indicating additional content if you're providing some sort of marking like 1/16, 2/16, etc. to indicate position relative to "the end." The whole thing about the visual gap is just as true with the gap between list items and other content formats.
I live in Paris. My comment is extra-relevant because in every discussion of something that government does "wrong" people miss the big picture. The problem is not in some particular "bad action", but in concentration of violence.

Now, it's offensive that you call my view "extremist". It's not me who teaches you how to leave, makes apologies for taxation, inflation, controls, restrictions, violent intervention and threats. It is people with guns who are "extremists" because instead of seeking peaceful solutions, they "solve" everything by decree and a gun.

I will never ever pose a threat to you or your lifestyle. If you like your government, party or president - that's fine. I will never threaten you based on your beliefs. Now will you threaten me based on my beliefs? I don't want to participate in your club, receive "services" from it or support your laws or president. Will you respect me like I respect you?
Ask HN: What's a good place to work in Toronto?
Hoping to move to Toronto within the next month or so, but I'm not really sure where to focus my job search efforts. I'm looking to work in web development, preferably at a startup or smaller company.

Anyone have any suggestions?
It seems like these are more ideas to try than hard and fast recommendations. Think of it as 16 ideas to try that may improve conversion, rather than 16 things to do that will improve conversion.
He's quoting Heinlein, who is one of the major reasons people confuse democracy with mobocracy. The idea originally came from Aristotle, who thought democracy was a bad idea: a degenerate form of a constitutional government. While it's usually claimed that Aristotle's objection was based on the silliness of having everyone decide everything, his actual objection was that democracy would allow that pernicious evil to flourish: egalitarianism.
You're thinking of the cartridge. The bullet is just the projectile, and does not include the propellant.
In the lifetime of the site c# 3 came out with a lot of new programming paradigms, ASP.Net MVC has come out, Silverlight has come and gone, WPF has gone from being something no-one uses to something a lot of people do and windows phone and now windows 8 have come out.

Contrast that to Java which had Android, which people don't seem to bother tagging as Java? And that's about it I think? And Java grew and stabilized, so it really is probably just down to their initial users consisted overwhelmingly of .Net developers.
Here's a bad food analogy:

The two parties are two separate flavors of ice cream. Everyone loves ice cream, so they argue whether chocolate or vanilla is better. What they really need is an actual balanced diet, but that's not going to happen since most of the voting public is politically a 4 year old child that wants ice cream...
I think he was referring to the pluralization of box.
Have a look at http://www.datenschmutz.de/moin/TK-Verkehrsdaten

"Unter dem Stichwort Vorratsdatenspeicherung werden solche Daten speziell für Repressionszwecke gespeichert. Sie ist derzeit ausgesetzt, die Verkehrsdatenabfrage als solche bleibt aber in Kraft."

The data detention is "currently suspended" according to your own link... sigh.

You did not address the distinction between the police/intelligence agencies having access to the data providers collect and keep, unfortunately but mostly voluntarily -- and the EU data detention directive, which Germany only implemented for a short while and is now in gridlock about, and which would force the providers to keep that stuff around, wether they want to or not.

I mean, if it's all the same, what is the fuss about? You did not answer that. Just because it is still bad, doesn't mean it's all the same, and that accepting and implementing the EU directive would make no difference.
New Lisp-like language Harlan takes aim at the GPU and supercomputer speeds
It seems like an incredibly odd method for getting used to human interaction. Showing a bizarre staring video instead of actual human interaction.

I don't know anything about Japanese culture but just based on whatever random bits I've picked up - it doesn't surprise me to see a video or a robot used to avoid an uncomfortable confrontation with a depressed person.
Hi, one of the team members of Immersion here. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thanks for your feedback and comments!
"Balance of powers" is neither a moral imperative, nor a historically effective way of preventing war.
I'm not a "UI" guy, but I loved it.
For me, it feels like a presentation, but the transition from slide to slide make it feel like a video.
My 20 cents.
Wasn't advocating or not advocating Angular, just addressing the question of interop.
That's a valid interpretation.

Another is that since the median income in the US is lower than the mean, coupled with the fact that rich people are disproportionately represented in the public sphere, most people believe that they have more to gain than to lose through redistribution. So they "redistribute" the sheep among the wolves.
Oxford has an electric bell that's been ringing for 173 years
It looks like you can multi-select (through ctrl-clicking or click-dragging), but it doesn't appear that that has any influence over the results. It seems to only choose one item from each row to search over.
Sorry that you feel that way, but since you made a comment which called into question the validity of the article and the character of the author without any evidence or apparent research to prove its validity, I think calling into question your assumptions and the potential harm they cause to be perfectly fair.

It's not right for me to generalize, so I should have said "These types of comments..." but my point still stands.
Russian ex-spy proposes marriage to Snowden
Good writeup. Is there a feed for that blog? I only found one for the comments.
That's the first we've heard of that error. When the user logs out, they are also presented with the link to revoke access via Gmail. Sorry you weren't able to get to that page. If you want to make sure that your data is deleted, we can do a manual delete of your metadata (if it exists on our server) for you. Just write to us at the address on the website.
??? I wouldn't. But clearly these governments will.

We're getting muddled here. Stop asking "me" as if you are asking me, this user: wittysense. Whatever I personally would do is irrelevant, and the answer to your questions are NOT easy. They don't come easy. You don't just get the answer to these questions in passing in line at a coffeeshop, dude. And no one is calling these books with positive, pompous, bourgeoisie descriptors.

I said DRY. BORING. ANALYTIC. BORING. I didn't have fun reading this crock of shit, and I don't think I'm cooling on behalf of it. But talking about "what if they point a gun at me" premisses is so uncritically off the mark, and absolutely not at all even the beginning stages of how these people are thinking at an international or federal level.

The only way we can avoid fucking it up is by giving ourselves the opportunity to understand the conceptual schemes they are using. They use these schemes to produce vagueness and unclarity which results in MISMANAGED human lives (people shooting people because they follow orders) which results in SOMETIMES carnage and death. Yes, sometimes people just mug you. Shit happens. We're talking about GLOBAL if not effing INTERGALACTIC surveillance.

THIS is not a "shit happens" scenario. We need CRITICAL THINKING. May I say "critical thinking" without seemingly advancing some posh 1% tone? Everyone agrees with critical thinking. I am here trying to point you in the direction of those people who have given us critical thought on concepts like "amorality" and by analogy "alegality."

I'm [not] going to teach it to you. I had to read it myself, and I am quite confident I am not WAY of the mark. I can say "I have a degree in philosophy from a top school" but that won't convince anyone of my points. So I'm not arguing in that way. I'm telling you that "I have a degree in philosophy" at least affords me the telling of which authors one should read. Have SOME faith in that. Or just bloody a Google search. "Error Theory" "amorality" -- my typings here are DENSE with connected keywords.

"What if the President points a gun at you?" is the obvious response. It is RADICALLY different from "What if Joe points a gun at you?" You're asking the latter. I'm underlining the former. Why are they different? Why is one representative of this debate and the other not?

[EDIT: Some of my typos are so bloody self-defeating.]
I thought this was assumed to be the case when AdBlock added the "Allow non-intrusive advertising" feature?
I checked out your site. One quick suggestion is your list under "Reasons Companies Choose Prospect For Hiring"

If you're going to break up a list into two columns, the numbered items should travel vertically before continuing in the second column, it's the natural reading style for people in the West.

ie. (*edit HN is collapsing what should be vertical numbers on separate lines into one line)

1
2
3

(column 2)

4
5
6
You realize that the excample you provide has absolutely nothing to do with what the article is about, PRISM, or my post. A chat board is PUBLIC which is the exact opposite of what PRISM is supposed to be.
Yes, sounds like a good idea (if you have control of the DNS)
I found this an interesting read (I happen to use noscript and so saw a long scrolling page with no jumping footer).

However, as the 'call to action' at the bottom of the page suggests more content to come, I have to wonder if the address of this page (http://goodui.org/) will remain the same or if the new content will replace this content. There appears to be no easily discoverable 'permalink'. Is this a noscript artefact?
Is their new API out yet? I seriously hope they stopped using RSS.
I used to do tasks now and then, but it feels like Amazon abandoned the platform. Early on there were more interesting tasks, engagement by the team, even improvements now and then. Now it's full of spam and scammers that Amazon doesn't seem to be doing anything about, and the platform doesn't seem to have had any improvements made since 2008 or so. To the extent it still works at all, it's because there's a subculture of "turkers" who use 3rd-party message boards and browser addons to navigate the mess.
Maybe there should be an A/B testing version. One with video and one with animation :-)

Personally, I liked the animation.
First thought is if shes serious about being a developer

a) setting up a development system is a good and necessary skill to have for a web developer. As other posts mentioned XAMPP, WAMP, etc are good methods to do it painlessly. Having a development machine makes development way easier as you can turn on error reporting, use interactive debugging tools, etc. things that are not as possible on a 3rd party host.

b) getting some inexpensive hosting is a good thing for her career development. There are some quite reasonably priced hosting out there, I hear Dreamhost name a lot in that respect, I myself use Bluehost, quite good and inexpensive. Experience dictates to stay away from GoDaddy they are kind of the bad side of town internet wise with hard-sell pushing of services and misleading/confusing management pages.

Being a developer isn't just having everything set up and ready to "make stuff" you have to learn a little bit of how it works underneath too.
Good point. We'll take care of this during our next server update. Thanks!
Day in the Life at Pinterest: Jason Wilson
Please, read again what I wrote two comments above. I specifically adressed the difference.
I'm currently using a Dell U2410 display with a resolution of 1920x1200 and the banner was abnormally large.
Well that article makes you feel horrifyingly hopeless.

Somewhat related I've read that people who visit other countries for weeks at a time can also get all kinds of illnesses their immune system isn't familiar with, like Americans visiting Japan for a few weeks can catch all kinds of stomach viruses.
It would be interesting to see similar data for which tags are marked for ignore by users. That might be a more indicative of users moving on...
Everything up to calling the police and them searching his house is fine, even expected. Police investigate and find that this is a random, sarcastic comment from an otherwise normal 19 year-old and warn him not to do that again - that's what we should expect, not sitting in jail awaiting trial.

But at the same time, I have to ask where the line should be drawn. Our babysitter's boyfriend was arrested and jailed (charges of making "terroristic threats" again) for leaving a bomb threat in the bathroom of their high school His stated reason: he wanted the day off. He's harmless, but ridiculously stupid. However, he did make the threat. Even if it was an empty threat, he has to be held responsible for the cost of evacuating the school, bomb-sniffing dogs and police searching and the general disruption that ensued.

In the case of this story, though, I'd like to believe that the police or the DA would have had the balls to say "this is just a dumb kid shooting off his mouth. We told him to be careful and let him go."
I was talking more about the average sentiment of residents, not the government's posturing.
Then the recruiting companies will just pay a dev to write a tool for them to bulk post job req's all day.