skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*>"Why isn't there something that makes it super simple for me to take surveys on my phone while I wait somewhere?"

Judging by the going rates on mturk, you aren't going to make a quarter for a simple survey, more like a few cents. In my experience, a task that pays $0.25 likely to take 10+ minutes and require some actual effort.

Not that these are bad things necessarily. I've seen some pattern-recognition type tasks on mturk in the $0.25 range that I'd call fun.

Also, in the case of actual surveys I wonder how the value of a regular survey taker's responses would change over time?

Would it go up by creating an ever more specific profile of yourself or go down as the collector already has data for your demographic?

Are the surveys even necessary? Could someone simply create an open market for personal data?

Just put some subset of your current snapshot up for bid and collect small passive income from accesses to it cutting out the middlemen who currently collect and market this data via their "free" web services.

Fascinating possibilities, imo.
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How exactly can I "fuck it up" if I simply refuse to participate in someone's schemes and refuse to violently intervene in anyone's affairs (unless I have no choice in self defense, but I don't justify violence in self defense - I tend to avoid being in such situation in the first place)?

How can peaceful (even ignorant) people fuck things up? Unless they pull the trigger, it's someone else who is to blame. E.g. one who pulls the trigger.
Jeez dude. Stop oppressing Europeans by discussing speech rights.
Yes, indeed! My thinking was that you could use this Route 53 feature to route traffic across several ELBs to accomplish the desired effect.
How could the third comment down in a thread be the first thing you read today?
The constitution also says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", but try walking down a street in DC bearing arms. It seems the current federal view is that the constitution is a document to be worked around, not respected and followed.
github, it provides hosting for her websites and source codes!
Yeah, another thing to try is to connect it to my head to see what I get.. I'd need to increase the gain a bit though
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I'm not so clear on the why, but the who is pretty easy:

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/editor-blog/162/just-why-...
I am expecting the author to mention the single most important factor that worries most cljs users: the interfacing problem with other JS libraries that cause by google closure compiler. But apparently he does not use other JS libs.

And yes, we need Closure advanced compiled mode when ClojureScript ships with a standard library nearly 7500 lines long.
Any empirical evidence to show any of these things are actually good? Some "seem" to be common sense (e.g. less form fields to lower sign up friction) but a lot of the other things appear to be what one UX designer thinks it's a good idea rather than anything that might actually help you.
A relatively small lookup table for the sigmoid function can also work well. Here are the various sigmoid approximations that Theano (a library used for deep learning research among other things) offers: http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/library/tensor/nnet/...
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Agree with this. When I saw "no solution" it immediately removed the faith I had in the site's ability to follow the scientific method.
When you're young, it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to authority. But go spend any significant time in a developing nation that lacks basic infrastructure, get close to the people living there, learn about their struggles and their dreams, and then come back and tell me that the solution is to abolish government.
But all may be worth testing to see how they perform with your particular market/audience. The whole idea of A/B testing is to not rely on intuition or tradition, but on tested approaches.
> And who claimed it hasn't? I didn't.

You did, in a way, with

> No, it was being collected, until the Bundesverfassungsgericht put a stop to that

Have a look at http://www.datenschmutz.de/moin/TK-Verkehrsdaten as to which data are currently saved and for how long, keep in mind that the mentioned numbers are old (but realize that collected Bestandsdaten includes data from people with flatrate, which would never be necessary for billing purposes).
What this then? http://www.tyresum.co.uk/images/graph.png
:)
re: 1.)
Among other things, a good practice for indicating something is clickable is to set the cursor: pointer css property.

Also, it'd be nice if the text were centered vertically. Since your "li"s are all a fixed height you can do this easily without relying on table hacks or css3 by simply setting the padding-top to 20px and adjusting height accordingly. (Box-align will eventually support this, but you still can't count on people having compatible browsers so for a simple layout like this one padding should do just fine).
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Maybe http://neocities.org/ for starters.

However I believe a local xampp install will be better for the long run. It's fairly effortless to install, gives a nice control panel to turn it on/off and it's very easy to edit and see your changes.
When the enormous advertisement appeared, I laughed, and assumed that the page was making a point about bad UI.
With stuff like this I always refer to how my mom uses computers. (Note - This a person who thought when you copied text on her iPhone that the text magically went into her finger, only to have to click paste with another finger so the text didn't get lost in her finger...)

I agree. There is no way she would know to scroll properly in this interface and in most cases would get confused and give up. The objective of the presentation is to make it easy for someone (like my mom) to understand A/B testing. Make it a video, or at least provide a link to a video version.

EDIT: This akin to Amazon's usability - http://www.nngroup.com/articles/amazon-no-e-commerce-role-mo... i.e. once some behavior is establish on your site, keep it that way, but doesn't mean you need to emulate it.
Putting Germany and bold in a sentence seems still to go down badly across many European nations. Some might even suggest that (the/a) purpose of the European idea was to keep a reunified Germany from going bold again.
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> consolidation and centralization of power.

Yes, that's the dangerous part, here.

What I'm seeing is an extreme centralization with the goal of projecting extreme power on the outside, while neglecting - worse - working against the citizen on the inside.
Funny, I just looked for that. Make her take the red, not the blue pill Morpheus. Let her solve problems on her own, don't instruct, but give usefull hints. If she has or you have any question, just ask, don't be shy. I or someone else is sure there to help (just in case you/she need it).

For easy php stuff: http://www.square7.ch/

A real shell and more:
http://shells.red-pill.eu/

(Btw. I recommend SuSE or Ubuntu for the beginning, Sabayon, Gentoo or Arch later when she's good enough and wants more. But I'm sure she would perform well on a Mac too, Macs teach you to become a consumer though)

I recommend her to NOT install LAMP or XAMP.

She should use a prebuilt appliance from http://turnkeylinux.org instead. That will teach her howto sftp too. KDE and Gnome integrate sftp into their "Explorer", just ask or google and you will find howto do use that without a "FTP-Client".
Applying Dan Ariely's TED talk to software development
There's no next year, this has already been happening for years. The requirement (used?) to be 35 hours or less is considered part time and dd not require insurance. Walmart, which you mentioned, is infamous for making everyone a 'part-timer' to avoid health-insurance and other benefits.
Planned Economies, Post-scarcity anarchism.

Alain Badiou, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky. The only reason we're all seemingly fucked is because the U.S. DID a decent enough job to lock down knowledge and disseminate according to their time tables.

I'm not going to answer your thought experiment. I've been through it too many times. Go read HLA Hart. Go read Donald Dworkin. If all you can think in terms of is coercion, you are NOT in a good spot intellectually to deal with these problems. "So what if I hold a gun to you?" is so demonstrably non-critical, HLA Hart had to write a book "The Concept of Law" in order to demolish it with VERY, VERY, VERY boring to read, DRY analytic philosophizing.

Stop feigning dissent, and actually start reading.
that last poll - that makes me very sad. From this, and the news recently, it seems like Brazilian politics needs a fresh start - either by a genuinely impressive electoral challenge from a credibly honest party, or by some extra-electoral means (which are always of questionable morality, even if they do "work".)
It's unfortunate the general population is ignorant as to what a government actually is. A government is violence. Their only tool is violence. Their only service is violence. If you don't understand what that means, you don't understand what a government is.
I left my cell phone on consciously. I'm not, not going to hide my attendance at a protest from the NSA. It's my right to attend. If you feel you have to hide your attendance, then they've won.
I'd also love to see support for draining - and it seems like we might be in luck in the near future:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=61278&sta...

^-- BenF@AWS commented on June 10th saying that amazon is now actively working on it!
I'm not a spelling/grammar nazi or anything, but seeing mistakes like this really puts me off things. Like, to the point where I have to close the tab because it annoys me so much.

I probably have a disorder. I should get help.
On the subject of UIs: In my opinion it is a bit confusing to make the footer positioned fixed as it causes the scrollbar to span the whole height and giving the impression that the footer scrolls as well.

But still a nice site. Thanks!
Off Topic: The word is "grateful" (although greatful is a common misspelling). I was just thinking about this because I've been listening to a lot of Grateful Dead and I was wondering which was the correct spelling. Turns out they spelled it right.
European designers seem to enjoy tweaking the noses of font snobs.

IKEA and Verdana being the classic example.
No guns or triggers are involved when they draft these laws or play these very critical decisions at an international legislative and economic level.

Guns don't sell guns.
If you can't export cheap power, bring the industry to you.
Ceci n'est pas un prisme.
Apparently you can buy fish online.

http://www.pikeplacefish.com/buy/
If you are asking about developing in the cloud, there are two options:

https://www.nitrous.io/ or https://koding.com/

On Koding it requires an invite, but I have a couple of invites.
If there is no way to save a life (or several) other than to use lethal force against the attacker, then I wouldn't consider it murder, but (self-)defense. Otherwise, I couldn't care less if it's legal or who does it, it's not justified.
I got excited--it looks great in ELinks! But doesn't actually work (none of the buttons are clickable). http://i.imgur.com/zH5E2Ib.png
For the US market, there's at least one company that provides this data. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name, sorry. :(

I do know it exists, though. I used to work for a major American tire manufacturer and maintained a couple of versions of their tire selector application. They would send over a huge file (I think a spreadsheet) with a combination of every year/make/model/trim and its associated OEM tire sizes. I think we also sent over a list of our tires (models and sizes) and they would include that in the db for us. I believe it was left to us to import and normalize it, which was kind of a pain in its own right.
Which is funny since many of the US wealthy regard their homes outsides the States as bailout refuges if the situation in the States gets hostile to them. (Which is probably a good insurance policy...)
I think there's still value in hiding the conversation from the server even if you must still trust the server to not behave maliciously. If some three-letter agency contacts the server operator asking for a back channel to listen in, he or she could respond that it's not possible without malicious intent towards a user:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apples-imessage-encry...
^ The x percent (of people still browsing the web on massive monitors) represent! (really? come on... surely not everyone's watching on laptops and tablets and phones at home?)
Anything but to talk about the real matter. Reminds me of politicians in general. Distract you, and while you're not looking - get away with blue murder.

The annoying thing is, _they_ go on about it so much, and it just permeates your mind, and it becomes normalised.

I can't help but worry the whole thing is a fabrication, but to what gain? To normalise surveilance? To enforce good behaviour via fear - a panopticon? To shit stir your enemies - mine is bigger than yours? To hush dissent?

I do hope Edward is real, he gets asylum and that he'll further release some more gory details. I hope people are rightly shocked and debate the issues, and push back on this. I've yet to really meet anyone in the UK who gives a shit - that worries me.
http://bitbucket.org is probably better.
Yes, this absolutely. I'm not so personally worried about intercepted communications, as distasteful as that is. The danger is in having a government that is wholly unconstrained by the Constitution. These are not spot violations by corrupt individuals. These are government programs supported by billions of dollars. This isn't individuals, it's policy. That's horrifying.
It's offensive on your part to call my reaction knee-jerk. It's not me who is holding a gun. It's not me who educates your children and gives out licenses for radio, TV, internet service providers and satellites.

Suppose we are in a developing nation (I'm from Russia, born in 1980-s, by the way). And you want government and I don't. I fully respect your choice, morals and ethics. I disagree with you, but I will never imagine to coerce you not to act on what you think is good. Will you give me the same respect? Will you allow me to withdraw my participation from government activity, not to pay my taxes, not to use the money you want when cooperating with other people? Or will you call the cops? If you will, would you hesitate to threaten me directly, or will you cowardly make a call and try to avoid knowing all the details of what cops do to people?
Publisher gave me boring cover ideas for my new book. This is what I gave them
US has other points of leverage on the Irish.

(How about we close this nice tax scam you got going...)
Your target audience is going to heavily influence most of these.

At a previous company our target audience was older women. We A-B tested every single element on our landing page, and I can tell you, using the advice on this site would be a complete disaster.
Only government has trained sadists with well-oiled guns.

Clearly not true: "Employees of private military company CACI and Titan Corp. were involved in the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison scandal in 2003, and 2004."
Swell. I write this from the Sacramento area (yeah, "the other valley" - Central, not Silicon) as somebody who was born by Bakersfield.

OTOH - doesn't every place have its own local diseases and parasites???
Alternatively, you can move your hand back fast enough for it not to register.
Consider that for every protester there are a handful of people who would never attend a protest of any kind, yet agree or are influenced by the fact of the protest. Those people are talking about this right now at dinner, at work and at the gym.
In addition to what others have already said, the summary at the end is somewhat misleading. The directive does not lay down any rules for access by law enforcement or intelligence agencies. It only requires ISPs to store the data, not to grant law enforcement or intelligence agencies access. Such access would still be subject to national law (i.e., warrants and such).

The primary concern is not that data retention will directly lead to law enforcement going on big data harvesting operations, but that the chilling effect from having that data stored outweighs the practical benefits that law enforcement would derive from it.

A particular concern in Germany is the interaction with §98a+b of the Code of Criminal Procedure [1] and similar laws enacted by the states, which allow for not just particularized warrants, but dragnet searches ("Rasterfahndung"). While such a search still requires a (non-secret) court order and is allowed only under a limited set of circumstances, there is an undeniable chilling effect associated with it.

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stpo/englisch_stp...
Another list of subjective suggestions.
Meanwhile rendering it took a while.
W.r.t idea 15, I don't see how numbering things suggests continuity. The one on the left looks just as false-bottomy as the righthand one to me. Unless you have something sticking halfway on the page, or an arrow that points down or something, numbering doesn't solve this.
Internet Etiquette: The Rights & Wrongs of Publicly Criticizing a Friend
I have the same opinion, but she need a web hosting too
It does not matter how you call it: "private" or "public". It's paid from the same source covered by "patriotic" propaganda. Can you show me those private Bob and Alice from Arizona and Texas who invest in these companies? Who pays them, how do you think?

You may equally say that newspapers are private, but there is a very strong pro-government bias if you MUST have a gov license to operate or trained people will come in and take your property and you. And then people blame "capitalism" for when media fails to explain how government is fucked up.
> When you're young, it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to authority.

When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion.

> But go spend any significant time in a developing nation that lacks basic infrastructure, get close to the people living there, learn about their struggles and their dreams, and then come back and tell me that the solution is to abolish government.

Just because government isn't the answer doesn't mean destroying it is.

> But go spend any significant time in a developing nation

These developing nations seems to have plenty of government and regulation to go around considering their non-existent economy. Shouldn't they be fat and filthy rich by now?
Note that the subject of the article is precisely the thing it's calling a distraction.
Interfacing with other JS libraries isn't really a problem - that has been relatively pleasant for a long time now (:foreign-libs compiler option allows you integrate arbitrary JS libraries).

Also note that the most popular JS libraries like Underscore.js and jQuery add little value to ClojureScript given the rich standard library and pure ClojureScript solutions like Domina.

Integrating with functional frameworks like Angular.js isn't too painful as evidenced by Weathertron - http://keminglabs.com/blog/angular-cljs-weather-app/
Civil disobedience in the US is either caged in "free speech areas", co-opted by undercover police, or totally ignored/denigrated by the media. The power wielders learned their lessons in the '60s and have worked on eliminated this issue since the '70s.
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But you could have it set up such that in order for the wolves to eat the sheep, they must first repeal the law saying you cannot eat living animals. While the majority might be in favor of eating the sheep, they would also realize that to repeal that law would put themselves in danger, so the sheep is protected.
I couldn't even see the "close" link because my font was too big and there was nothing that indicated that something was hidden.
Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hovfy/zerotier...
Wow. Stacked area charts are so bad at conveying information efficiently or honestly - this one would be a good parody if it wasn't presumably an honest attempt.

RE: dishonesty, see for example http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/11/i-hate-stacked-area...

RE: inefficiency, note how bad the trend lines become near the top as the noise accumulates from the curves below. e.g. the galaxy tab curve on the left. I am reduced to visually converting areas into numbers (something humans are quite bad at) and searching for the previous data point, etc.

The one major thing this chart has going for it, though, is that it makes me want to play some old school video games.

See also: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
thanks, i will work on that next
People will reply to you: "But look, government also does nice things: educates, provides care etc".

My point: it all does not matter in the slightest. If you enjoy something government does, that's great. Good for you. I will never think taking it away from you. But please also allow me not to participate, not to pay and not to be threatened as a consequence of YOUR preference.
The footer is completely broken on the iPad

As I scroll, it keeps reappearing right in the middle of the content, then flashes away after 2 seconds

When I got to the end, it was nigh impossible to actually get the footer to show (or whatever the sign up box was) I finally got to enter my name but then going to [Next] on iPad just made the whole thing disappear and I couldnt get it back.

I like their ideas, really dislike their execution, that was a frustrating experience.
Lots of actions are destructive and can't work with an "undo" quite so well as in that example. I would prefer to see a confirm diglogue for deleting an account, changing a password, that sort of thing. I would tend to avoid it anyway, as an undo button isn't something users are going to be looking out for in a web context.
Any examples? Would be interesting for many of us here
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A blog I wrote for teddle.com today. Celebrating our 1st birthday and startup life!
This isn't a politics discussion site and to top this off this is an extremist view which doesn't add anything to the discussion.

It's not even remotely related to the article.

Why is this not d/ved to oblivion? Are you even from France?
Definitely-- I'm a admin on the DigitalOcean IRC channel and we often have large discussions on development and server configuration on our channel. Please feel free to stop by and join in-- you may be able to find a lot of peers that think the way you do :)
Should he call them squares instead?
Andorra or San Marino maybe? I hear Liechtenstein doesn't have a big intelligence agency. In fact, more people are employed in American intelligence gathering than there are people living in Liechtenstein.
The problem also is that you have people who are constantly getting exposed to anti-fungal medications without their knowledge. E.g. almost all supermarket lemons/limes/oranges are coated in anti-fungal cream before being coated with another thin layer of wax, so when you make zest from them (or order a drink with zest at a bar) then you are probably reducing your body's ability to fight off things like this. So much better to avoid things like that entirely I think, as fungal infections are often not possible to cure.
I'm not saying we need to exclude people from publishing their furry porn collection. I'm saying that using it as an example to win people over to why the Internet needs to be distributed isn't going to work well. It makes the entire idea easy to attack, "Don't want furry porn on your Internet? Sign up for Facebook Walled Garden(tm) now!"