skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's an exaggeration to say "it doesn't look pretty for Microsoft" especially since the drop in C# can be explained in part by Microsoft actively encouraging C# devs to start writing TypeScript/JavaScript applications. Microsoft has decided the future is TypeScript. If you want C# on mobile your best bet is to look at Xamarin, which is run by Miguel de Icaza of Mono fame. I'm curious how much MS has invested in that company.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-5nExkCvAY
Speaking of courts, I have been wondering about another legal angle. What happens to someone that commits a crime in the transit area? What would happen if Snowden punched someone? Would they be escorted out of the transit area or do transit areas have detention centers for criminals (crimes against the local laws)? Can they be tried in court and imprisoned? Can someone commit a misdemeanor, got to jail for a small amount of time, and then be escorted to the border?
I found his full-length novel on the same topic, "The Windup Girl"[1], to be particularly insightful and disturbing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
This sounds ridiculous, but lately I've been of the opinion that this planet is borked. I hold out serious hope for Elon Musk and his Mars colony. I seriously believe that we as a species need a fresh start in a new place. We need a new planet so we can try new things, create new ideas, and generally liberate ourselves of traditional conventions. It sounds pie-in-the-sky, but people are actively working on it and I hope to one day count myself among them.

America used to be the place where things like this could happen, but that's not so much anymore. There's still innovation, but the trend doesn't look good and most of the world just doesn't care.
It's like "fake word of mouth".
Why I’m hiring graduates with thirds this year
Kuler without Flash
I have to agree ... the footer is pretty stupid. I didn't even see a way to close it until I read your comment.
As the proverbial nerd I can appreciate this, but as a paying customer I am not amused.

In my view, a company can joke and take on a more friendship-like role, but only if their core business is flawless. How funny would the google doodle be if the search results were below par that day?

Experiences may vary, but I buy tickets a number of times a year directly from the KLM site (I have to), and the process never fails to be mildly infuriating. 404's, timeouts, random vague errors, lost bookings, being logged out, not being able to check in for unknown reasons, having to fill out an identical form numerous times, there is always something.

Personally, I would have focused on some of the more boring yet fundamental issues of the site.
Those are different things. Just because there is no law forcing the ISPs to collect the data and providing a specific exchange interface following the EU directive, doesn't mean that germany has no other laws giving access to the data the ISPs collect anyway; and other laws permitting ISPs to collect those data. See § 113 TKG as source, which I linked below - it is not a secret.

edit: I'm trying to make that more clear. The difference is that right now, they are not forced by law to collect those data, hence the penalty and lawsuit from the EU. But they may do so - and that is done in practice -, and there is a law that if they do, law enforcement can get access.
What makes you think the rate will stay at 3%? Why not bump it up to 5%? 10%?

This new system will be even worse. We need to address the real problem: the price.
I have my own theory of ethics in line with what Stefan Molyneux describes in his UPB (universally preferable behaviour). But I don't wave it in the face of others because it's pointless. I'm voluntarist. Don't like/trust my theories or proofs - fine, just don't point a gun in my face. I won't judge your theories either on the same grounds.
It's not just any OAuth token it's a token that asks for permissions to "view all your mail" among other things.

Most Oauth tokens won't ask for this highly elevated permission.

OAuth is not designed around Authentication, the Auth in OAuth is actually about Authorisation. It was designed for this purpose, to authorise others to have access to your mail, or contacts, etc. That it has been co-opted for Authentication purposes (particularly in Oauth2) has just been a side effect.
The only one I caught was "state of the are" in the last sentence.
It seems to me that this graph represents newness not popularity (to the degree it represents anything at all). That is when tech is new or has a new release more questions are asked about it. Once those questions are answered, fewer and fewer questions remain.

However, the problem is there are lots of noise sources. Is the tech complicated/confusing so lots of clarifying questions are asked? Are there lots of updates and releases? It the tech a lot larger in scope, such that it takes more questions to cover it? Is it in very heavy use and people are typically well versed in it so there are fewer questions? etc.

All in all I'm afraid it is hard to draw any meaningful conclusions from this, and easy to be mislead.
I agree! I think "experienced" is open to interpretation.

Anyway, hence we're throwing it wide to someone who's got a passion and an itch they want to scratch. It's a bit of a stunt, obviously, but it's with good intentions. Thanks.
Does anyone else just want a written description of things? Make it look pretty. Create beautiful pictures/characters throughout the page. I don't care. I just want a good explanation of what a service offers.

- It's user-friendly.

- Compatible with everything.

- I can read as much or as little as I want.

- If I want to re-read something, I know exactly how to do that and it doesn't involve clicking a play head trying to find the place it was in.

I feel like people keep trying to bring back reincarnations of flash interactivity and since it uses html5 and other buzzwords, it's ok. Well, it's not.

Every time someone "fixes" the experience of what should just be reading online, they make it much more cumbersome and annoying. One day everyone will look back at what people did with html5 and laugh the way we all look back and laugh at flash intros and playing music on load.
Don't know about Germany, but in the UK the government gets it's backside whupped by the legal system on a regular basis.
Some of these are good ideas others are pure opinion and don't necessarily make sense in all contexts.
I like this, but what is the point of the "Looks like you have 16 unread ideas" part? A user is only going to see that when I first land on the page, and hence it's always going to read 16. When is a user ever going to scroll back up to the top to check the count after having scrolled part way down the page?
I'm good enough to follow along a diagram and build stuff I find online, but have no real clue as to the electronics.

Given I have a neglected arduino kicking about and a paramedic I could probably get some electrodes from how far removed is this kit from knocking up a very basic 'brain controller'?

I've often fancied feeding some 'thoughts' into Ableton for some synth tweaking fun.

[edit] thought I should actually do some searching on the subject and I just found the openEEG project which has some info in that direction.
> I think "lazy" is a cop-out explanation, since it doesn't actually explain anything.

In response to sibling comments, I want to QFT this. Laziness, as a diagnosis, has no explanatory power. It's a useless descriptor. It doesn't tell you how to fix it. You can self-diagnose as lazy all you like: that's, wait for it, intellectual laziness.
The arduino has an ADC conversor and sends it with no posprocessing at all to the PC. This could be easily used with a smart phone indeed, in fact that is my next step :)
User Engagement in the first 30 days
The majority of Americans do not believe the banks should have been bailed out. I'm speaking on behalf of the average SMB owner.
Being one of those that have no clue about tyres' sizes, I found the 205/45 17 combination after a few tries. It would be nice if the "tyres size choosing page" would retain your choices, after you get a "Size not found, please try again" or a "Please select Width, Profile and Size".

In the results page you may want to hide the table header's sorting buttons from the "Purchase column" and call the "back" button something like "New search" (this last point is quite debatable of course).

About the UI, it looks good overall (caveat: I have a bias toward non-distracting UIs). I don't really see the need for images.
Ask HN: Is Open ACH a legitimate alternative to Balanced Payments?
They're essentially offering a free open source platform to accept web-based ACH payments with their own secure gateway. I think you will need to obtain your own ACH processing service through a bank, but even with that, it seems a lot more attractive than Balanced's ACH debit option (1% + $0.30 per transaction). The problem is I don't see anything online that's written about it and their website looks a little amateur.
http://openach.com/
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This response is exactly the problem: "Live and let live." In the face of anarchy, this is not a mature or safe philosophy to hold for oneself or to recommend to others.

You have to understand that we are talking about (A) a legal system and (B) a moral system. We generally have moved away from absolutist moral systems, thus becoming more "error prone" there. At the same time, we all fully admit to the _belief_ that morality is "fuzzy" or "vague." So we allow for interpretation. However, no one will say thus vagueness entails a lack of any coherent system all together. So, they deduce that it must come from some supernatural substratum. Whatever. Belief in whatever you want in terms of metaphysics, but we are still in agreement about the phenomenological structuring of morality: it is underpinned by our capacity to agree or disagree. The moral system is available in virtue of our capacity to go one way or the other. Of course, the only "response" to a moral nihilist is to "slap" that person.

That's all within the framework of morality. What happens when we say it is METAPHYSICALLY impossible for there to exist disagreements at the LEGAL level of critical thinking? So ASSUMING that morality is the bedrock of legal systems, we're suggesting supervenience of properties related to the "spooky" properties that belie moral disagreement. Thus, legal systems (assuming the parasitic nature of the legal on top of the moral) become "error prone" and by John Mackie's argument: essentially erroneous.

We admit that law can be an artform. Who wants to allow for Dadaist lawyers ?

"That's a-legal" is just a can of worms, and you hackers are going to fuck it up.
Precisely my point. Extreme emotional reactions are not a good basis for an informed opinion. Learning about a subject is much more important than telling people on the Internet how mad you are about it. The downside (and I admit, it is a downside) is that it's much harder to maintain that sense of absolute certainty and self-righteousness that constant outrage affords. The world becomes much more complicated and forming an opinion that you can be confident in actually takes effort.
(A side note irrelevant to this comment thread. One has to applaud this essay for one of the most strategic uses of "Hell if I know".

I learned a lot about writing by reading what you write. Thank you.)
Thanks for that. But afaics, libgcrypt seems to be on a similar level of abstraction as the openssl lib? i.e. implementations of ciphers etc. I then fall into the mistake of http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/teaching/cs261-f12/misc/if.h... I think? [linking to berkely.edu because the page seems to have gone from matasano.com?]

And I think GPGME is a lib which "under the hood" spawns a command-line gpg process? http://www.gnupg.org/faq/GnuPG-FAQ.html#cant-we-have-a-gpg-l...

At the moment it looks like my choice is between implementing a cryptosystem on top of crypto primitives (from openssl or libcrypt) or seeing if I can get away with shipping a lib which spawns child processes via gpgme.
Its meant to be a list of ideas thats occasionally updated (hence the mailing list). If you go back to the page, it will instantly tell you if its been updated or not (assuming you kept the cookie).
I agree. Footer is annoying
If you are searching for an experienced entrepreneur (not a good idea - see above post) you cannot expect to pay him a 2K pre-tax salary. As far as I know, an immigrant gets almost the same amount for low-level jobs. If you substract the living expenses, you will end up with almost nothing. Maybe you should try Eastern Europe countries for a salary like that, unfortunately racism is off the charts in UK lately so that's not an option. I have a business in the UK also and even though my employees from EE are really smart they are still rejected by the british community.
New York City Restore the Fourth rally "couldn't have gone better"
Cockatoos crack lock-picking puzzle
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Yeah, this is marketing/ad advice, not UI advice.
That's for Route 53 (DNS). The subject here is ELB, a different AWS technology.
Oh, it is entirely unrelated to this particular issue. But the population of America could benefit from more local democracy rather than something far away as Washington, D.C..

Now one may argue that that is already defined in the Constitution and that even if it wasn't, more local politics could be enforced by law by reducing the reach of the federal government. But I doubt either of us are that naïve.

The USA have proved that democracy does not scale well. And that is why it has moved to centralise power ever since the Constitution was signed.

It may not be a victory for privacy, but it would be a victory for democracy.
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Perhaps Information should become a separate branch of government.

That way, at least we could construct a clean interface with the other branches and prevent the executive branch from having direct, unfettered access.

Information is vitally important and I can see the benefits of concentrating information into one place for security and even efficiency reasons but I think that sector needs some kind of overarching framework for access and dissemination to other branches of government and to the People. But, basically, without cooperation of the other branches, Information would be neutered. They would be incapable of acting on the information they possess. We probably don't want it totally controlled by career politicians so it would need a different structure than Congress and we don't want it run by the same people forever so we need a different structure than the Judiciary. And we need a way to look into the black box in a controlled and reliable manner as the People.

I am not sure how to structure it. It is just the seed of an idea, but it may be worth some real thought and debate.
It would be pretty neat if you could figure out ahead of time which combinations were possible, disabling buttons for impossible combinations and reserving the "Size not found, please try again" message for weird exceptions where your index is out of date.
Given StackOverflow's structure and operational methods, one would expect questions about products in the Microsoft stack to decline as searches return more relevant answers.

To put it another way, as the site matures, more questions about x will tend to correlate to the inverse of x's formal repositories of knowledge.

A user who finds an answer to their ASP.NET question on StackOverflow, doesn't ask a new question.
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Calling it a failure ignores the actual goals of a bureaucracy: consolidation and centralization of power.

In that regard it's been a roaring success because there has never been such a tight and unified cooperation between the three branches of government (executive, judicial, legislative), between congress and the White House, between government and private industry, between our surveillance agency and foreign surveillance agencies, and so forth.

If there's anything to glean from this entire fiasco it's that a global world order has indeed been quietly established, and the rumblings in the EU will undermine it. Expect the US' allies to start publicly picking sides as the USG starts spending political capital.
Mechanical Turk and its ilk are very important. One of the biggest barriers to achievements in machine learning and optimization is a lack of processed and labelled data. A lot of statistical inference is about algorithms and formulae, but in most cases the key issue is having enough data. It doesn't matter how fancy your technology is if you don't have lots and lots of clearly labelled samples.

Mechanical Turk (and crowdflower and a few other services) are important bridges for this. People can do important labeling and cleaning work for a cost that's affordable enough to be practical. Right now most of the work is translation, address finding or quasi spammy tasks. But the service itself has a lot of potential to do things that impact our lives in the future. Mechanical Turk workers can improve startups by helping with personalization and automation tasks, help with science and defense by labeling images and aid in all kinds of language processing and computer vision tasks that could make things cheaper and better for all of us.

It's good to see human capital being utilized, even if it is ont he cheap. For what it's worth, amazon does recommend that people set the pricing on their mturk tasks so that they come out to something close to minimum wage. Though I'm not sure that things like this are what the minimum wage was designed for. Completing online labeling tasks is a far cry from working in an actual sweat shop. It would be nice if there was some sort of exception for technical piece work. Mechanical Turk isn't nearly popular enough right now, but in the future as machine learning becomes more common there will be a serious demand for these tasks. I hope we can find a way to let people do data preparation work while avoiding virtual dickensian conditions of a kind of data processing industrial revolution.
I still don't get why Russia is not just putting him on military transport to Cuba. They should have "some" experience flying that route without US interference. Nobody would mess around with a military transport and getting him out of the country would probably reflect on Russia better than just harboring him around at the transit zone.
The most inconspicuous sign of RethinkDB taking over the world is what they named this release: Nights of Cabiria. It shows they have the strength to laugh at themselves, at how hard it is to build something like this, and how people have treated them so far.

I'd encourage you to learn more about that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_of_Cabiria
http://anki.com/ -- Some will remember them from the incongruous toy car demo at beginning of the WWDC Keynote.
Undo's, yes!

Power users aren't tripped up with an annoying confirmation. Novice users can revert. This seems a much better paradigm.

Are there any cases where this doesn't make for good UX?
So if they're beyond help you want to torture them? Why not put them into a mental hospital and try to work out what went wrong? They'll still have a sucky life, but at least we might get something useful out of it.
I'm genuinely curious, who and how do those people have a "vested interest in keeping the UK on the European fringes"?
Just because there is no law forcing the ISPs to collect the data and providing a specific exchange interface following the EU directive, doesn't mean that germany has no other laws giving access to the data the ISPs collect anyway

And who claimed it hasn't? I didn't.

You said "the data" is being collected anyway. This, without any further elaboration, seemed to imply "the data that the EU data detention directive would cover", and not "the data ISPs collect to enable their operations".

I think the difference is that if an ISP wants to collect as little as possible, and anonymize/delete any data they don't absolutely need anymore, that'd be legal; If the police wants it 12 months later, they can just say "sorry, we don't have it anymore", provided that's truthful. Under the EU data detention directive that's no more, as not keeping the data for at least X months would be verboten.
A good user interface
If it's not mature, what's you suggestion?

"There are evil violent people in the world. To protect from them we must allow violence only to a selected group of people and disallow to everyone else." I wonder who will end up among these people.

Will you point a gun at me if I don't agree with your theory of law and justice? If I withdraw my income and do not obey your laws? (Provided I don't make any threat on you directly or indirectly.)
That would be a direct action by Russia, currently, they have some play as far as their involvement and what's technically ok. They've done it before.
Get rid of all the financial data passing to the US! Fuck them, they were the absolute worst player in the financial crisis. How dare they demand that everyone send them all the details of almost all financial dealings.
Maybe to you. Where I was standing people were cheering and chanting USA! USA!
Ask HN:Where can I find free web hosting for developers?
My daughter is just starting her career and I wanted her to be able to get some work done without setting up her laptop as a development machine. She currently uses windows and is starting to use Linux but I want her to be able to get started right away.
Instead of letting me search for things that don't exist, use JavaScript to update the UI when I select from the top rows.
I am from the US and hope someone out there tells us to go to hell. Until there is real resistance our leaders will continue to act like they own the earth.
Signs you're veering from good REST API design
With the amount of possibilities this has, all the options could be included in the page load, making the filtering (almost) instantaneous.
Good job. Haven't we been doing this for a few years with CSS3? I have anyway.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Edward+Snowden+traitor

Let's not be pedantic about legal meanings of words when we're talking about public perception.
This was also my first protest. I'm in my late fifties. I joined the Navy in 1975, for six years. In joining, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and I consider my attendance at the Denver protest to be in support of that oath.

I think everyone who participates in this unconstitutional surveillance, and whoever approved it, willfully ignored it or bent the law to support it, should be taken out back and prosecuted.
This argument is against patenting 'junk' DNA: but European and American patent law both require a patent to have industrial application and to be novel.

So, I find it unlikely that this situation should apply in practice (although it is worrying that it might apply).
And, I don't find it an argument against patenting useful non-junk DNA.

Note: I'm probably on your side, at least in that I dislike implementation of patent law in general.