skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most important advice I saw here was to not get attached. And this is probably a basic piece of advice that applies in all negotiations - always have an alternative (where possible).

I recently got my four letter domain for a very reasonable price when I made it clear that the domain seller that I was willing to change the name. When people know that you're an emotional buyer, that's when you get screwed.
For what it's worth, my mother -- who is not at all good with computers -- was upset about the new Gmail compose UI too.
I always seem to evaluate that training a new fisherperson returns longer lifetime value. One to the mysteries of my generation is how persistent poverty can be in places.
Having to use the new Google Groups, I'm really, really glad I never went the GMail way.

Seriously, the Groups interface is an abomination. "Post" at the top? Really? I had to look for about 30 seconds to find the button when switching from the clear old Google Groups interface to the new mess.

"Ma, look! We're native mobile! Ma! MA! Look! Mobile! Ma!"
Feels snappy to me on Firefox/Win32. Tremendously sluggish on Chrome on my Nexus4 though.
Squatter implies no legitimate rights. I've bought a lot of things with the sole purpose of selling it for more. Nothing wrong with that.
Excellent, you've made my day. Perhaps they will pull back from the brink.
Or fence lizards!
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/15/ticks-lizard-lyme-...
Also feels snappy to me on Firefox/Xubuntu
Blurry for me to. Safari 6.0.5, Mac.

It's the combination of -webkit-transform and -webkit-backface-visibility that causes the blurriness. Wild guess: those attributes turn on 3D acceleration, and rendering is incorrectly offset by .5 pixels.
> let's see an honest discussion with more facts and less name-calling

I don't see any name calling or dishonesty.
great stuff, sadly its almost unusable on mobile (tested with a quadcore HTC One).
Are you sure you talked to a person and not a robot? I'm sure that each and every domain you ask about is one of their "prized and sought-after" domains.

The "five-figure and higher" line (repeated four times!) is pretty funny. I'm not sure of any other market where price estimates span multiple orders of magnitude. It is just a transparent way to get you to name a figure first.
Forgotten email patent holder pings Chennai
Hmm, maybe it's just a problem with my setup then.
I don't have to install any extensions in my browser. It Just Works™.
I only have about 10 dvds, and I've got one that they encoded the black bars on instead of doing anamorphic (first region 1 release of Dune), and at least one 4:3 that was released in 2004 (Grind... I only have this as a result of a disturbing practice of giving horrible birthday gifts in my circle of friends)
>It's also a known fact Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 research paper, that tried to discredit the MMR vaccine by linking it to other complications is fraudulent and wrong.

1. Straw man

2. The paper didn't "try to discredit the MMR vaccine" it said: "We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers." and recommended/asked for further studies. It may have been dead wrong. I don't care. It was never the sort of thing that a reasonable person would base a decision to vaccinate solely upon.

>That research paper was nothing more than a work of fiction.

Did you read it? It's a pretty low quality paper, it was a "study" of 12 patients. Hardly enough statistics to make any strong conclusion. No reasonable person would consider it such a strong statement.

>The problem is, decades on 'vaccine victims' still quote Andrew Wakefield’s research paper as a reason to not vaccinate.

They don't need to do that. They can just use the CDC data or the NVIC data. Or the drug companies' own data (when they've been forced to release it)

>Those are the 'vaccine victims' he was referring to and they are alive and well, working hard to bring back the iron lung hospital wards of the 1950s with their stupidity and ignorance.

I like your links to photos of Polio victims. Thankfully, people back then weren't afraid to notice that the first generation of Polio vaccines actually gave Polio to some who took them. Instead of denying the possibility that their vaccine was imperfect, or telling everyone "our vaccine is good enough!, sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet", they improved/perfected the vaccine. Good for them. Shame on their successors.
I knew someone similarly in my youth, when he was between 10 and 13 years old. He would walk around with a gas nebulizer that would give him the necessary meds intravenously, and get the stint in properly I was told by him and his mother was an experience filled with pain, screaming, and terror. Even with a friend who mostly able to live a normal life, the pain difficulty of the disease and treatment literally scared me for years after.
What Netflix Does
(I'm not a c# expert and I may be wrong)
IEnumerable really only requires a

IEnumerator GetEnumerator()

method most of the real "meat" of ienumerable is in the
static System.Linq.Enumerable class. You see c# doesn't have multiple inheritence or scala like traits or type classes but it does have a cool compiler hack called Extension methods(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb383977.asp...). You take a static class with static helper functions like you might make in java and you add a this keyword to the first argument then you can call it with a syntax that makes it look like it was a method on that class. For example something like

public static class Enumerable
{
public static int Count<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source
{
int i=0;
for(TSource t in source)
{
i++;
}
return i;
)
}

And if you use Extensions methods on an interface type you get all of the extension methods for free once you implement the minimal interface.
One of the downsides is that you can only really define it in one place and can't override it and if you want even somewhat efficient type specialized versions you need to cast.

I believe in scala you can use traits in a similar manner for default implementation and specialize them for collections but traits are more complicated/powerfull feature.
Tested it on my HTC One as well, seems fairly responsive to me. Not native-level smooth, but for what it is, worked better than expected.
I was offered by one company that posted on HN: $36k/year with 1% of the shares in options.

I said no thanks.

I know it doesn't answer any questions about averages, but I'm hoping that's at the bottom end of the distribution.
40. Coding as a very enjoyable hobby since around age 9 on our Apple IIe. Anyone have advice on how to turn that into part time $ ?
It depends where you are. I'm currently 21 here, but I think I'm still 20 in the other side of the world. :)
I sympathize with the attempt, but you're in the wrong place for anything but incoherent babbling when it comes to Google.
We're so lucky to be in an industry where our biggest problem is too many people trying to hire us. Thank god I'm not an auto worker.
The government has leverage to control mainstream media, and thus manipulate people's perceptions. If you're labeled a terrorist by their organization, you are not human anymore and your rights are nullified. Sad, but power does what it wants.
They seem like an awesome company. Very inspiring and hope they do well.
I read this too. I really hope he's ok. I wish we had contact with someone who knows him personally...
Better than the screen capture app, QuickTime is able to start a screen recording session.
Fragility of entanglement no bar to quantum secrets
That's nonsense. Apple is not praised because of the lack of option!

it's praised by some despite the lack of option!

it's a price they paid to have somethings, because you can't have it all. it's not the feature per se.
I'm not a cryptography guy, but do you think it would be possible to come up with a technical solution which has these properties:
- License plate numbers are immediately encrypted at scan
- A judges possess some sort of encryption key
- Upon obtaining some sort of warrant, judge grants police specific encryption key
- Key can only be used to decrypt certain kinds of data - say, only decrypts license plates in a certain geographical area or around a certain time
>self-described ‘vaccine victims’ — perhaps similar to people today who claim the MMR vaccine causes autism. Back then, they said that the Lyme vaccine gave them arthritis.

It's the air-quotes, and the unfair comparison to "people today who claim the MMR vaccine causes autism."
Apple’s OS X 10.9 Comes with Siri (Confirmed)
i would if they had any movie worth watching.

why people subscribe to a service that is 95% tv shows, and then complain about the few movie image quality?
If you're labeled a terrorist, you are not human anymore and your rights are void.

Well, from what we have seen, it's more like if you are even within a kill zone of the latest guided bomb of someone who has been labeled a terrorist, you are not human anymore and your rights are now null.

And we will have to be naive if we think it will stop here…
Wait a second, wouldn't this statement imply that things like cert-pinning and PFS are completely useless?

Does skepticism of remote patching while trust of the original chip not protect you against being specially targeted if you assume that the chips aren't being wholesale manufactured with back doors built in?
Fads come but they never seem to go. Even COBOL is still out there in daily use. EVERTHING is still out there in daily use.
Use Tumblr on iPhone or iPad, give your password to the world
Also this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/07/mmr-row-doctor...
I'm wondering why are they doing it? RIM does not need your password to check your email, your phone can do it just fine.
The tv show "Louie"
Yep, there's Grab in Applications -> Utilities. I often use Command-Shift-4, spacebar, "click on touchpad" to capture a screenshot of a window. A summary of methods is here: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscre...
This is the wiki page for Anwar al-Awlaki, the son of the author who was the target of the drone strikes. It is worth reading for some context on the family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
appfireworks.com is launching soon - apply for beta.
Exactly. The good times are not going to last forever. Then we'll see how happy the recruiters are to talk to you if you've been an arrogant arse in the past.
I realize you're just being a troll, but what you really mean by "Google's demonstrated willingness to hand user data" is "[...] comply with U.S. law and valid court orders while doing everything they can to push back on overly-broad fishing expeditions by the government."

Yes, I'm a Googler, and yes I'm tired of hearing this horseshit. Every single U.S. company complies with warrants, court orders, NSLs, and FISA demands. Every. Single. One. If you don't like that, work to change the bloody laws.
This is a great example of a mature vanity website. I mean that in the best possible way. It's a throwback to the early web days, pre-geocities even, when people would make unique websites about themselves and their hobbies. The UI and the information architecture might follow some best practices, or mimic slightly the arrangement of another site, but they were fundamentally unique to the site in question.

Brown's in particular is full of personality, not only in his writing, but in the layouts, color choices, photo choices, quotes, et cetera.

I also have benefitted from many hours spent reading through Brown's site. What a great resource and gift.
eh? change it in the settings. settings/inbox/type
>Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked?

Not me man, I have a job. I just said taxes because that seems like the favorite/most humane weapon of gov't with which to influence people.

>All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions.

Such is the case for doing nothing as well, I believe.
Ask HN: Finding open source collaborators (is the open source too fragmented)?
There is a vast number of open-source projects out there. Which is certainly very good. From my undestanding most devs want to make something of their own from scratch. We come up with a lot of ideas on the way and sometimes seems easier to do it yourself than participating in someone else's project. Also, "mine does A others does slightly A but also B and is much too complex" notions appear when you first may glance at a project. Of course all great things start small and prove their value through the community, one might argue, but wouldn't it be better sometimes to concentrate efforts on more "valuable" projects? What might be the channels of promoting (even advertising) open source projects and somehow rank their value?
that's because they're offline. if they were online then you'd get the chat message dialogs. makes left sense to me.
I did some research after asking this, and the studies' results seem to contradict each other. Apparently, our brains are largest at the age of 14, and we're smartest at about 15, especially in terms of new concept absorption. While that may be true, I once read that a fatty substance called myelin, which apparently facilitates rapid and efficient processing, is most ubiquitous in the brain in your early twenties, and a gradual decrease in this substance is probably responsible for mental decline. But a major longitudinal study on the topic found that mental abilities are largely constant from 20 to 60, and that through training, elderly brains can be significantly revitalized. I theorize that a major confounding factor is the tendency to retire around 60.
My first reaction was "What the fuck?" (Sorry for the profanity)

Imagine an alternative scenario wherein the grandfather had created his own drone that killed some random government agency dude (by mistake). He'd been labelled a terrorist. But, now the government officials that killed his grandson aren't terrorists because they work for the government.

What a skewed definition we (and the media) have set for terrorism! Sigh!!
A meme generator that builds meme generators
FastMail can do this just fine.

However, it has a really nifty feature that makes this idea work much better, in my opinion. You can configure FastMail to use "virtual domains" that will reroute b@a.example.com to a+b@example.com. (To use this, you need a MX record for *.example.com, but that's fine.)

So, for example, I may sign up for a SpammyService with the email spammy@myemail.mydomain.com. Then all emails from SpammyService will be redirected to myemail+spammy@mydomain.com, which will then be filed in the appropriate folder.

This lets me (1) get around services that disallow plus signs in emails and (2) not let an automated system know that I'm auto-filing their emails (and potentially deleting them, etc.)
Hold on. Why do so many civil liberty proponents such as yourself insist on dismissing and trivializing the Trayvon Martin case?

Isn't it possible to care about both racism and wiretapping/drones/secrecy a the same time?

Isn't racism one of the most serious issues in the US?

Why are you so sure any riots were 'incited by the media', rather than an autonomous response from the many people directly affected by racism?
Why I am a good programmer and will always be
Hi: Narrative mapping the world
It would be great if your blog had an RSS or Atom feed.
actually you can change it. settings / inbox / type
A few thousand dollars a month is a modest budget if you want to outsource this. Try negotiating price if there's a vendor that does everything you need.

If you only need to analyze <1B events at a time, then an old-fashioned relational database is fine. Beyond that, CitusDB, Redshift, and Vertica are analytics databases that might be in your price range.

Bigger mobile publishers will usually consider analytics a core competency and handle it in-house; if you continue to grow you'll quickly reach a point where it's no longer possible to outsource this.
<tldr>App author found a nasty example of a common antipattern in library code which caused a bug in his app. Documentation was updated to point out dragons.
The sad and dangerous thing that has happened is that a new category of criminals has been made: Terrorists. Once someone is put in that category all his rights cease to exist. It's sort of like the outlaws of medieval Europe.

The only right thing to do is to start treating terrorist suspects exactly like those suspected of any other crimes, be it murder, theft, rape etc.
PayPal Mistakenly Credits Delaware Man’s Account with $92 Quadrillion Dollars
Withings Raises $30 Million
In which the reader is invited to engage in comparative lispology
You are likely wrong. Here's why.

Taking the "outside view", the success rate of startups is small. VC's, whose entire living depends on picking the right startups, are still living with low odds.

It's true that VC's have different priorities, in that they are optimizing for large successes and therefore are part of the reason that the success rate is so low. On the other hand, if you join a startup and get options, it almost certainly raised VC money, and is therefore also being pushed in the "get big" direction. And if it's not, your payday won't be particularly big either.

In other words, taking an outside view in this case, you probably can't do better than VC's, and their success rate is what the article talks about.
It should be noted that some people believe that governments should also be held accountable for killing innocents that are foreign citizens. I realise that "but he was a citizen" holds some cachet with the American national story, but really it shouldn't. An innocent is an innocent, and the concept of 'collateral damage' has no place outside total war.
The Library seems awesome , but the off screen navigation bar feels a little jerky when turned on.
I love this. I modified it for my own use:

https://draftin.com/documents/95708?token=uf_BIHiv8xAonKejRl...
So true.

My take, in my role as VP engineering at Radius, I have hand-written every recruiting email I've ever sent. No template. I personalize it to you.

A lot of people discard it as spam, or don't accept the in-mail, or whatever. I understand, but at least on the off chance they read it, I know I tried my best and showed legit interest.

Sad that recruiters don't take the time to do such a thing, but it's often a pure numbers game for them. They get paid based on this stuff, just like sales people, and they just crunch through.
Agreed on the two-factor auth bit: their implementation seems a bit wacky. (At least, their Google Authenticator TOTP implementation. It seemed like their Yubikey implementation was pretty good, but I don't have a Yubikey.)

However, their "alternative login" thing is pretty useful. I have separate (completely random) passwords for the IMAP sync for my phone and work machine, so I can revoke those at any time without touching the master password. In some sense, that setup is similar to the one Google has for two-factor auth and service-specific passwords.
Why did the chicken navigate away from the news page?

To get to the comments.
I have no words. There is just nothing
This is cool. Makes the prototype web page design easier for the back-end developer.
As a black man, who grew up in the "ghetto", seen friends killed by former friends, and robbed by my own friends, I learned a little bit to know that if you are going to go out into the streets against the same government (if at best, most of the time it is just to rob some stores and burn down a popeyes in anger) that commits acts of violence against is own citizens extrajudicially, then you aren't really trying to solve any problems…

civil liberty proponents

I just love it when people place this label upon me because I adapted to train of thought of not wanting to fight anyone else's battles… when you get called a nigger by refs at your soccer games when you're the only black kid on the field and keep on playing with your team because you just want to play, come back and tell me how I should respond.
Great job. What is the licensing on Effekt.css? (I couldn't find it in the repo or the demo page)
Me too. I was inferring there was a ~SMOKING~ merit badge back then.
Linus Torvalds Defends His God-Given Right to Offend You
We used to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Arrest.2C_trial...

http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/08/yousef.update/

Unfortunately, Congress isn't so keen on going back to that system. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/khalid-sheikh-moham...
The same issue already exists in more limited form with fingerprints. Often random prints are found near the scene of a crime. That's not proof, however--just cause for questioning. If the police didn't question potential suspects they wouldn't be very good at their job, but I'm sorry it freaked you out.
Very cool!

I've been playing around with an animation concept for submitting a note: http://dhotson.github.io/envelope/ .. is it too much? :-)
Jon—two questions.

1. Why does your site disable my back button?
2. When are you shipping? I'm interested.
Context on the family? Is the son guilty of his father's crimes?
That was the one that got my attention too.

How long until people start using similar effects to turn their single-page web app into a multi-page web app? Similar to Linux 3D desktop, compiz and the like.
Both are serious issues, but the mainstream coverage and outcry over the Trayvon Martin case drastically overshadowed Abdulrahman al-Awlaki's. It's very telling of the power of those in government and mainstream media and how if they stamp you as a terrorist and drone you without due process, most of their constituents will accept it without a second thought.
I just searched for my initials, found ajf.net and ajf.com were taken, so I took ajf.me. No squatters. :)
> You could argue that every media shift does that.

I think the huge difference for VHS, CD, DVD, BlueRay is that every publisher supported the standard (after a format war). That can't happen for iPhone/Android, but yet another standard can be built atop - java, flash, HTML5 etc.
I share your exasperation and agree that while I hold back such emotions, sometimes I am tempted to reply back in a bit offensive manner. And I have never replied to any such mails in past, not doing it in present, nor I am inclined to do this in future.

But I cannot agree with your second point in Additionally section. The recruiters are doing their jobs, whether or not just sending cold emails. They are not obligated to understand or even know the 'work style of engineers'.
Personally I like the inline reply UI and the new compose window. I actually like every change that they did, including the new tabbed Inbox.
I strongly believe that you should do whatever makes you happy. I think people tend to underestimate the practical value of being happy. I tend to be much more creative and energetic when I'm happy. I also feel that being happy makes me a better influence on the people around me.

I'm also going to point you to http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html. I think that essay is very applicable to living life well.
Yes. Great idea. I'm going to add that.
Wrong; one example: your CPU's instruction set has well defined behavior for signed integer overflow. C doesn't.
If you work relentlessly to completion, count your blessings (assuming you're actually achieving completion, not just stuck in recursive perfectionism). The problem most creatives I know encounter is not completing things, because they chase the shiny new ideas that come to them constantly.
It looks like you guys are more on the attribution analytics side similar to Mobile App Tracking. Do you guys do funnels/retention/segmentation analysis like Mixpanel/Flurry?
I doubt the username will ever get you hellbanned. The useless comments might.
wow thats some impressive engineering on the watches..im blown away! would love to see more of this!