skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

Some people don't value freedom, they value food, shelter and health.

I personally value freedom, but I understand completely people that even volunteer to slavery (yes, it happens... it still happens)
Google Tells Congress: We’re Not Changing Our Privacy Policy For Google Glass
Site design is nice.

But points "1" "2" "3" need the language toned down a bit need something simpler to convey the point. Didn't pass the 1st read test of knowing what you are selling.

By the way don't forget to put effort into things other than YC. Not the only game in town or path to success in business life.
Money doesn't come from nothing, there are side effects of raising the minimum wage. Besides the fact that a small percentage of US work force are actually paid minimum, most more or less than it.
This is essentially what I do with my own server, but largely because I'm too dim to trust myself to upgrade things well.

That being said, he's abstracting the problem a little bit:

> If you absolutely know a system has been created via automation and never changed since the moment of creation, most of the problems I describe above disappear. Need to upgrade? No problem. Build a new, upgraded system and throw the old one away. New app revision? Same thing. Build a server (or image) with a new revision and throw away the old ones.

The key here is created via automation. You get a choice, I think:

* You can spend time/energy/worry/entropy on making sure the server is up to date

* You can spend time/energy/worry/entropy on making sure the automated process is up to date

The second one is a little easier, to be sure, though depending on the setup it could still involve a lot of research, and it's certainly more expensive.

But hey, if you're in a position where trading some money to buy some time is an option and you have the cash to burn, I'd buy the time at every chance.
Paper is accesible from the second author's website. Haven't finished reading it yet.
Yelp maps words used in reviews
One of the ongoing issues in the security industry is that there is no standardized form of disclosure. There are frameworks that have been put together, but only some companies embrace them. Other companies are openly hostile towards any solution that doesn't leave the power entirely in their own hands. Basically, many large companies feel that the public should remain uninformed, which then leaves the company free to keep producing insecure software.
Hah, you're right. A picture may be worth one thousand words, but Control-F "native" won't necessarily find it. Also, I apparently didn't search for "C++". sigh.
How we perceive time: stop it slipping away by doing new things
How does being a tourist based business mean you don't have to "provide a competitive dining experience". Sure local based businesses have to cater to local residents in order to win repeat business but that doesn't stop for tourism. People vacation in the same places each year, the businesses that do well are ones that not only cater to these visitors, but leave a lasting impression. Top business get reviewed by publications/websites and generally do better if they provide a competitive product.

Don't let the exceptions (aka tourists traps) cloud the rule which is fairly globally true no matter what sector you operate in.

Disclosure: I live and work (B2B) in a primarily tourist based economy. I talk every day with business owners who cater to tourists, locals and part-time residents. Tourist traps that do well despite shitty service are rare.
That might be true sometimes, but it depends on the expectation. If I have a team of great developers, I'd expect to be able to put any of them on anything and walk away with something great in the end knowing that they brought their expertise and best ideas.
Surely the best solution to "Firefox isn't very helpful about indicating when you've made a possibly breaking change" is "Firefox should indicate when you've done so", not "Firefox shouldn't let you"?
Woops, that's a fault on my part. I'll add a license now. It's under MIT :-)
This is going to sound antagonistic, but I'm genuinely curious: How many subscribers did you lose when you switched from RSS to email, and how do you know that all of them are receiving and reading your dispatches?

Personally, getting an e-mail instead of an RSS feed is sub-optimal - I can't easily add things to pocket from e-mail. I'm also wondering how many people trained their clients to re-route to spam.
Maybe the labor supply/population needs to decrease in the future?
Google said "fewer products". Doesn't matter whether or not they were going to start those products anyway, what they're saying is incorrect.
I can't believe any psychological studies these days unless they have been successfully replicated.
Can you share any specific incidents? This seems like it would make a very popular HN story.
From CD to ACID: Adding Consistency and Isolation to DynamoDB
The issue with Firefox is that some times the whole browser is freezing. That's what keeps pushing me back to Chrome, not performance issues.
You're both right, its just one of you is talking about Obama's most fervent supporters prior to the Snowden case, and one is talking about Obama's most fervent supporters in relation to the Snowden case. These are mostly not the same groups of people, and overlap only to the extent that both include the practically policy-blind cult of personality than any major politician (or celebrity more generally) will end up attracting, but this is a fairly small slice of either group of "fervent supporters".
Spike has specific meaning in agile terminology. Two weeks is more than I'd allocate to a spike, but needs vary and agile's biggest point is adaptability. "Mainframe" I assume refers to UI element and not Big Iron.

Seems non-parody, normal enough to me. Although, I did not read it in context.
Oh yes keep the web "free", alive, but very few seem to understand Google is stealing the freedom from the moment THEY said want to make a -better web-. Who? them. How? the way they like it. Thanks for trying but you are trying just too dm hard. Suddenly a lot of rules are being dictated by G around what it's good and what's not.
This is Thoughtworks we are talking about. They make money from "consulting" on agile projects.

Which means every ridiculous slogan they come up with is another way for them to paint companies as being stuck in the past and in need of some Thoughtworks magic.
Wow. This is the first time I've seen that chart. Not sure how I've missed it. Amazing.
For Google Reader specifically, probably $0.00 - it would feel too much like a hostage negotiation at this point.

I am, however, paying $24/year for NewsBlur right now, so I guess $2/month is my starting bid.
Yes it would be a crime. The fact that you think it shouldn't or that there are instance where you think it shouldn't doesn't mean it isn't. The statutes are pretty clear.

"Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it"

" Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—"
Why do you think it was unintentional? It's specifically mentioned in the "Checkboxes that kill" blogpost, so they're hardly unaware of it.

(I agree that the changing of existing settings is the offensive part.)
I don't think becoming used to something novel counts as brainwashing.
These types of headlines are so meaningless. On what benchmark on what platform?

On OS X Safari outperforms both for many tasks (again, YMMV depending on what you're doing.) But that's meaningless for the billions of Windows and Linux users out there.

I wish our industry would move past these kinds of silly headlines. When it first started when Chrome came out there was a massive difference between Chrome and the other browsers, now all of them are very capable and competitive for pretty much anything you want to do.
I also briefly had a temp job like this when I was in high school. I worked at an Acme Brick manufacturing plant one summer. I'd show up around 5:30 every morning not sure if I was going to sweep the plant floor all day or stack the bricks that had just come out of the kiln. While I was hired through a temp agency, I was at least had a guaranteed spot at work each day. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to wait in limbo every morning.

The worst part wasn't the physical labor, it was the atmosphere. Never mind the fact that I was pretty much the only English speaker there, the other workers didn't even talk to each other. We'd go on the 30 minute lunch break at 11, and they'd all pull out their lunchboxes and eat in complete silence. Everything was so somber -- it was like everyone had the life sucked out of them.
There you go! If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to open up an issue on GitHub
Look carefully, because this is the future of America. This is the plight of the average worker in a world where labor is increasingly replaced by automation capital owned by a select few, gutting the bargaining power of ordinary people in the employment market.
I dislike those options. I do not want to set a percentage to scroll by; I want to use whatever my browser would normally scroll by natively.
Cool! There is just a weird depth effect on the picture... Or is it just me? The left side of the screen is bigger whereas it should be smaller.
"only option was a limited hours telephone number that required lengthy wait times."

You don't need to play their game. Send them a letter cancelling and revoking the authorization to charge your credit card. When they charge you anyway, send a letter to your bank informing them of the unauthorized charge. You'll get the chargeback. Send another letter to the AG of your state, too, complaining about the credit card fraud.
A lot of users seem to be having a really tough time with the conclusion of the story.

Here is the gist of it: The differences in participation and performance in math between women and men are due to cultural and environmental reasons, it has very little to do with intellectual capacity.

There seems to be a huge reluctance to give up this prejudice, it's always some sort of "there are exceptions, but women and men are different" and whatnot. They really aren't, not nearly to the degree indicated by the gender gap. Same with race.
VS 2013 now comes with way more editing options than Xcode. It always drive me nut that I couldn't make IDE automatically insert space around function parameters, because it is not a popular style.
So, basically this article doesn't provide any insights and or technical background on how any of this was achieved.

Just promotes the author for conference speaking.

Well played good sir you got on the front page of HN, well played.
I can design, but I have to say that I do not believe the future belongs to PhotoShop.

I think you illustrate one of the problems with the "PSD" approach. You seem to think about design in this medium as a composition. But IMHO it's only a composition the same way a game is a composition. I.e. always in flux.

And it's a mistake to claim that just because people do flat ui they don't put enough time into the design.
I do think Snowden harmed the US somewhat with the leaks. By revealing what the government is doing, he made the US less popular with the world, and made companies and foreigners (and US citizens) less willing to do business with US based companies, for fear of the NSA.
In the medium/long term, I have little doubt that Snowden helped the US, but short term, it is reasonable to say he did harm.
That's the point that seems to be missed in the discussion: sure, let Mozilla shuffle options where they want, hopefully with some thought; but don't change the user's configuration. If you feel that it's absolutely necessary to do so, then pop up a big banner saying "We want to change your settings. May we?" To do otherwise is bordering-on-crapware-tactics rude.
It wasn't too long ago i worked long hours in removals. It still remains the only job (among quite a few) i've had that day to day I happily felt something was achieved and didn't go home drained.
[edit] I've been working as an EE/SE for the last 4 years.
I've often just seen it referred to as "designing in the browser." Simple enough I'd think.

Unfortunately any designing that's dealt with clients knows it's much easier to convince them of something they weren't previously aware of when it comes off as some new movement/idea/trend/etc. It's why Apple brands everything they introduce to their products, even if it's a technology thats been around for years. Telling client, "I know most designers do PSD mockups first, but I just design in the browser instead," likely wouldn't go over very well as they feel they're getting less than they otherwise would, even if the missing part is wasted time.

I personally havn't come across a client that'd go for pure designing in the browser (yet). Instead I've generally just encouraged a hybrid approach where the final PSD's are subject to changes and subtle tweaks once in development so that the PSD's can be seen as a rough draft and not necessarily a pixel perfect execution.

My most recent client was skeptical, but I think I managed to sell it with something like: "Does a painter paint a painting of his painting before he paints it?"
I would say no. There are readers who haven't read the original book, and still enjoy the fanfic. I agree that much of the fun is taken away from those, though.
The only difference between those "great developers" and those replaceable workers is that corporate America hasn't figured out how to make software developers into interchangeable cogs yet. But don't fret, people are working on it. There is an entire industry whose job it is to figure out how to extract the necessary labor for any particular function from a workforce that isn't skilled or happy or otherwise invested in their work.
I completey agree. Default block does not work for a userbase that does not have the time or inclination to read the documentation and configure it to meet their needs.
David Stockman discusses the contraction of the 1930s.
Here Maps Living Cities
Sounds like spam in an Eco package. I like the site design, the photography and you all look like nice, talented people, but I just cringe at reading about sending txt's to thousands of people. The reason for those statistics you quote (98% being read withing minutes) is because txt message are personal, 1:1, not batch sent from this spam engine.
> Only misogynists have problems with porn or pornstars.

Debatable but not actually relevant: This is about bringing "porn or pornstars" into an everyday work context, not about them as a thing in itself. I would rather say that "Only misogynists have problems with keeping porn out of programming languages".
I beg to differ.
Operation Barbarossa was the one turning point of the USSR invasion. Stalingrad was merely the consequence IMO as Barbarossa had led to German army being both weakened and stretched too far out. They simply could not compare to the Soviet war machine's recover-ability and production.

Of course Pearl Harbour was what got the US directly involved and nuking Japan out in the end, but I hold the speculation that without Pearl Harbour, US would still declare war to either Germany or Japan anyway because of several reasons below:
1) US businesses were being harmed by the Axis, i.e. Germans attacking cargo ships meant to supply arms to Britain. Sooner or later the piled up losses would justify the entry in front of Congress.

2) The Japanese was expanding fast in Asia and they would not stop just short of US territorial waters, plus the imposed embargo had been pissing the Japanese off anyway. A clash was inevitable.

3) Letting USSR being the major player and eventual winner meant letting communism spread throughout Europe. There had to be a sizable participation from the Capitalist group in the war and the rest of the Western bloc was too tattered to muster that up.
> Your country of citizenship should never have the right to revoke your own citizenship.

Revoking a passport isn't revoking citizenship (governments, right or wrong, can do both, but they are separate and distinct acts.)

> But being able to stop your travel once you're outside the country?

Revoking your passport is basically your country no longer vouching for you. Other countries choose whether or not this should impact your ability to travel.
Jet-setting?

"In journalism, jet set was a term for an international social group of wealthy people, organizing and participating all around the world in social activities unreachable to ordinary people. The term, which replaced "café society", came from the lifestyle of traveling from one stylish or exotic place to another via jet plane."

I'm pretty sure that tern doesn't apply to Snowden, a man who said he's fleeing because he's afraid of spending the rest of his life in some "torture dungeon" off the grid.
I don't think Google want to remain "experts" in the complex field of RSS aggregation anymore. It was probably a fun side project for a group of engineers, was written, then got sidetracked, then became not interesting to work on anymore, then was shutdown to focus on other more interesting tasks. Just like what their statement above says...
Raw HTML/CSS is god awful - especially HTML, which has to be about the most unfriendly possible syntax to type out on a keyboard.

Currently I'm loving Jade/Stylus to implement a fairly static website design, and that's just building it with a simple script (with Live.JS to preview changes).
This page: http://scaledagileframework.com/spikes/ talks about the "spike" term (which I had never heard, but I've not worked with Seriously Formal Agile folks, as far as I know).

It's summarized as "Spikes [...] are a special type of Story used to drive out risk and uncertainty in a user story or other project facet".

It seems they "drive out risk" by focusing on analysis and research, rather than implementing stuff. I think.
That's a pretty bold claim. I hope you have some evidence to back that up because currently all evidence points in the opposite direction.
Opera 15 arrives with Chromium-based rapid-release revamp
In all fairness, the sample set included all "release" builds of the browsers. The vast majority of users only use release builds, so it makes sense to test them when they get released. It also is important because it includes all performance fixes that will possibly go in to the released product.
Related piece from another Fowler:

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html
Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js
and PHPStorm from the same company..all their IDEs are pretty awesome!
The day the revolution died.
PSD and doing (visual) design upfront is analogous to bloated (not code, probably outdated by time it is done, disjoint to actual app/needs, not quick to change/adapt, etc.) specification and (non-visual) design upfront that is largely viewed (for many types of software development) to be a complete fail.

[Edit: but if it works for you, great]
I wouldn't call it a "great work of literature" - but I would call it a work of literature, and, as you put it, a delightful and addictive one.
I tried it when you posted it, but I gave up on it when it took 15 seconds to load any content after logging in :-(
There is one part of this that I agree with, that is the part where you say that if you delete all items one by one (why don't they have a delete all?) you want them never to be visible for anyone again.

The part I don't agree with is that you expect that the data is physically deleted from the server. I think and expect that big companies don't wipe all your data on command, they simply set a flag for deleted records. Really deleting the data also has a technical impact for them, it probably depends on the company's policy. It would be great if they did wipe all data but I really think most of them don't and have some sort of an aging process or really never delete your data.
The whole situation is ridiculous but I'm especially interested in this bit:

"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform"

This happened to me when I was travelling in Europe, a cop without a uniform approached to me on the train somewhere between Netherlands and Germany and asked me for my ID. I asked for his ID, he flashed something (obviously I had no freaking idea whether it was legit, no idea what was even written on it since I don't know the language).

What do you do in this case? Do you obey or challenge more? Isn't that dangerous as anyone can flash some random / fake badge and cause you to go with them, gather private information or worse?
> minimum wage or some kind of socialist initiative

The socialist initiative we need is to shut down unskilled immigration entirely. Read the article; they're all Hispanic. These people's plight is going to be made even worse by the coming wave of even greater unskilled immigration promised by the senate bill. This is why Caesar Chavez was vehemently anti-immigration.
Browse the Debian source code
>> I would very much like, now more than ever, for services to build on encryption

I would be very surprised if the NSA didn't already have the means to crack most, if not all, current practical encryption schemes...

Also, do you encrypt meta-data as well? Isn't that what the whole PRISM thing is?
Former Police Chief Bill Bratton Launches Facebook for Cops
This article is way too overblown for the simple concept they're trying to get across, which is something like "stop doing big UX up front!"

Ok. Six words. I got it.
I currently maintain and run a big ol' Django project running on Apache/Windows/MSSQL (and some Oracle) here (university of Arizona). It's not that bad although myself and the other developer both use mac's so its annoying having to RDP in to do anything in a python shell.
>They even relaunch previously failed projects in the same spaces where they've pulled this before, with Keep aiming for the same space Notebook (RIP) did. Do they think we're stupid?

This gets repeated a lot (understandable given its launches proximity to the Reader shutdown notice) but its inaccurate. Keep doesn't address the same use case as Evernote/Notebook at all and isn't trying to. Its more of a Notepad/Apple Notes competitor if anything.
This isn't news.

1) If the site is big enough, like Github, it will probably be back up before I can reach for my F5 key to refresh the page.
2) If the outage last longer than that, I've already noticed, and don't need you announcing it in my RSS feeds.
Hi, congratulations to the launch.
A little bit of nitpicking on the site UI:
The most prominent button is the "Get trexting" button.
Once someone clicks it, there is no further info about the product and no way back. The logo won't take you back to the product page and the signup alone might be a blocker.
Cheers
Chrome freezing is why I'm considering switching back to Firefox.
no FB blocks that entirely. Even itmes coded in their API or things such as JS, PHP and Flash items embedded on your profile won't be active to allow any sort of facebook tracking.
Can I just shoot 'em, Sarge, and make the paradox go away? All dis tinkin is makin my head hurt.