skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just don't read content you aren't interested in" is paradoxical, because the determination of interest requires reading. The problem is that Quora presents users with content they aren't interested in, and don't give users tools to filter that content. If left unchecked, Quora may converge to a monoculture, which would make it much less important than it could be.

But you're absolutely right to point out the racism of the phrase "India problem." The problem is with Quora, not the users or their countries of origin.

> What if most of the content on facebook was suddently in spanish? Would you stop using it or ask for a anti-hispanic filter??

Absolutely, if Facebook insisted on showing me Spanish-languge content no matter what I did. The relevant metric is not "majority of content on the site" but "majority of the content presented to me."
I'm not so sure. It makes some sense: Here is a service we are happy to provide, in a sense a form of insurance. The point of it is that the community pitches in, to cover the catastrophic case that we hope no one has. If you decide not to pay into such a cooperative scheme, you're abusing the trust of all of your neighbors if you expect them to save your home anyway. This is part of the reason we often use taxes to cover the cost of things like this.

On the other hand, in this case they had already deployed, and it would have been nicer if there had been SOME price that they had thought of as the "fee" for service to non-subscribers. 5k, 10k, etc: better than losing the house. Once you advertise something like that, though, people will stop subscribing, and decide to gamble that they won't have a catastrophe. The price has to either be high enough to discourage that, or high enough that the fire department can cover its operating costs by servicing X fires per year.
The world IS pretty big. Always interesting getting unique perspectives.
These downvotes are AWESOME - (hellban me I can change my IP in 30 seconds)

SO, the rules of VC and SV dont apply to oranges, I assume my posts were downvoted because oranges are a "precious" resource, even though no other country in the world has problems growing them, so Im being downvoted (and HOPEFULLY hellbanned) for calling out a corrupt, piece of shit US food cartel that is committing ritual suicide in its own crops.

Oh "boo fucking hoo". Fact: No one needs OJ. Fact: The idiots that have pissed on their own crops are complaining about the fact they cant do their jobs. FACT: no one in silicon valley would have the fucking balls to complain when they cant run their own business but they feel sorry for pussy farmers who CANT RUN THEIR BUSINESS.

In fact if these farmers were SV startups they would be taken out and shot by their own parents and pushed into the bay in front of hungry sharks.
Is funny to watch people decry state enterprise as being always doomed and wasteful, on the internet.
Why is there always this focus on protesting on streets? It's a serious question. People clearly don't like doing that. Is it old fashioned?

Why does my protest only count when I am on a street, and how can I make non-street based protests count more?

Clicking Like buttons is lazy and meaningless. What's the middle ground?
The other possibility is that he's complicit in the NSA's game.
Basic idea: https://github.com/superjoe30/naught

My doodling: https://github.com/radekstepan/trajan
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Ok, conspiracy theories gone crazy here but here goes...

GreEnwald is exposed down there in Brazil. A petty street robbery gone bad, a car accident, or a simple "sudden" heart attack, could all make this into a nothing event.

People in this kind of position have habits of "committing suicide" from the "stress":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

I would put money on the act that Gareth Williams worked on, or knew about both Tempora and Prism.

"Williams' working life, after graduating with a first
in mathematics in 1996 aged 17, was spent in Cheltenham
at GCHQ, Britain’s signals intelligence agency. He joined
in 2001 after completing a PhD in computer science at
Manchester University. His final role in GCHQ had been
designing "practical applications for emerging
technologies".

In 2007, he applied to become a secret agent by
transferring to SIS, the UK's human intelligence agency
responsible for spies and spy recruitment. He was put
through a series of aptitude and skill tests. He failed.
He also attended Black Hat 16 the same year, according
to an SIS witness, presumably also then staying on to
attend Defcon."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/03/gareth_williams_inqu...

Maybe he was Snowden part 1: the failed mission.

End conspiracy theory...
Based on my experience, agreed entirely. I've worked with stellar people at multiple large and small government contractors. The structure of the contract just doesn't lead to a mentality of "let's make something great", but rather "lets get these boxes checked".
For example, the radio button confused me. I thought that it's a toggle button because of the tick mark.
And Jean Charles de Menezes.
I've had multiple people ask me about that. There are already tools out there that do it, so I didn't really have any motivation to make it
Remember, most of the time the 911 caller is not the person needing the service.
Once I plugged a toy race track to the outlet (in portuguese we call it "Autorama" I dunno the name in english), I knew enough of physics to expect it to burst in flame...

But instead the car got REALLY, REALLY, REALLY fast, shoot out of the track and smashed into the wall.

Of course, I happily put a second car on it, and changed the track so that the car does not end smashed, and indeed, I could launch cars all over the place. Also as the car raced, sparks came out of the contacts with the track.

Now that I am older and know even more physics, I have no fucking idea on how I made a DC motor work only forward with a AC current.
I am the creator, thanks for posting it on here! I had no idea so many people would have any interest it it, for me, it had a vary narrow use-case
I don't. I think 911 should be run by the Government. I just see the difference between 911 calls I had in the US and their equivalent in Eastern Europe (Poland). To exaggarate: in the US you're like: "Help! Fast! Somebody's dying here! That's the address right here:..." Dispatcher:" What is your name, last name, shoe size, and how do you like the weather? Wait! Too fast! Typying it down!".

Poland:"what is the address? what's happening" Bam, dispatch!
Yes. Everyone knows that Jesus had a time machine and appeared in the early 21st century.
> The system of "who can check all the boxes for the lowest price"

Basically, the problem is that their system crashes. Uptime should have been specified in the contract.
I wasn't replying to the article. I saw a handful of posts in the discussion blaming lazy, incompetent, or malicious government employees, and didn't want to post the same thing multiple times within the thread.
I hope this website dies. It is Expertsexchange reborn, with the downside that all questions are open-ended and consequently all answers are rubbish.
For posting data, you could check connection status (or $.ajax error callback) and if the client cannot access then store the data locally using localStorage [1]. When the connection becomes available again then post all data from localStorage to the end-point and clear out local store.

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp
The supposed advantage of a hodgepodge is that somewhere the right approach has been tried and is working well, and pressure will mount on cities with inferior systems to either match or adopt the better systems. Where, if anywhere, is 911 being done well, and how slowly or quickly will the successful approaches spread? Do you think this dynamic will lead to places like New York having faster and more reliable 911 systems, or should they concentrate on their own efforts?
Your more than welcome to submit a pull request for any new features you'd like me to add/support. As for my code. I wrote it in a day for a specific page. After seeing people with similar needs on stack-overflow I decided to clean it up a bit and make it a plugin, never really spent a whole lot of time on it. I think my filterable plugin deserves more attention this this one does (http://lightswitch05.github.io/filterable)
I'm not familiar with embedding ipython, so maybe I"m way off the mark, but I use ipdb for the use case you're referring to. Works within ipython and all
Solve the Travelling Salesman Problem in Google Maps
GTVhacker - you are a badass mofo
I use my thumbs for control and alt on a regular (scissor type) keyboard. I remap alt to control and super to alt and have had no problem since I switched, about 4 or 5 years ago.
In what crazy world is that documentation better than C#?

There are no examples, the lifeblood of documentation, nor any notes about gotchas?

It's early days in the language so that's not at all bad, but claiming the documentation is better when it's clearly not is odd.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b9skfh7s.aspx

Also C# and java are going to have tons of examples on SO, so the amount of examples and extra documentation available is incomparable.
1. Every book on computers, or anything technical should read this guys blog before they get fire up the word processor.

2. My biggest gripe about 99.9% of COmputer programming
books are: They are long. They are poorly written. They
read like a telephone books.

3. I once heard one famous programmer state, I won't read a
programming book with more than 500 pages. I think
he was off by 400 pages?

4. I truly believe if you take 80% of words out of most
books; it would make learning a subject easier.
I am from Brazil, he is not formally taught at schools, but I heard many geography and history teachers mention or cite him.
Never "bet the farm" building on top of an API / service / platform that you don't control. It's almost inevitable that it will come back to bite you. If it's just a side project, or just something you want to try and generate some passive revenue from, and you won't lose your shirt if you get shut down, then sure, go for it. But if this what you intend to be the next billion dollar thing, and you're hamstrung by being tied to someone else's API, I'd consider going in a different direction.

Just search HN for all the horror stories over the past few years where some promising service got screwed over by changes from upstream providers (Twitter, Craigslist, etc., etc., etc.).
This site is a collection of articles written by scores of writers of various political persuasions over decades.

I would expect Chomsky supporters with an iota of critical thinking to be able to read them and see for themselves how reliable they are (and not just jump to wikipedia to check who assembled them).
Good point! I will look more closely at the Notebook site's library of samples. So far it seems like the main reason is to have documented analysis or good plots / calculations for data.

Usually I am looking less at analyzing reams of data, though, and more at the relations between objects. ("What kind of object is User.things? It's a query set, but do we ever have more than one? Do we have any users with no Thing associated?") While notebooks can surely express that, I rarely feel like I need to re-create the asking of the question. Perhaps it is that I have not yet graduated far enough in my explorations of data that a Notebook is the best tool.

I'm going to look more closely at them this week, though. Thank you for the encouragement to do so.
I've been considering giving EVIL a try. I feel that non-standard bindings would be a pain to deal with.
Fernando Perez (the force behind IPython) has done several in depth tutorials at various pydata confs... I'd start there.
I'd argue that it's a great tool for companies that have paid designers on staff too. What it provides us is a consistent and predicable framework to lay out pages. Anyone can contribute because it's becoming a well known/understood tool to work with.

I doubt that more than 1% of websites need such unique designs that Bootstrap is too limiting.
Sure you might get away with it, that’s not the point. The point is tags are a type of relational data and there are already better (and proper) ways to manage relational data in a relational database.
Hypothesis: The purpose of Google Chromecast is to gather data
Let's get these boxes checked... while attending two meetings a day with different groups of stakeholders with entirely different visions for the product, that want to use it completely differently.

Let's get these boxes checked... while every stakeholder wants to see our project fail because they'd rather waste a few million dollars and get a proof of concept so that they can then hand the contract off to the vendor they wished had won the bid in the first place. (Note, this happens to ALL vendors, because every group has a different favorite.)

Let's get these boxes checked... while having to justify every single change to the environment to the Enterprise Architecture Board ("Why do you need to use Python? Can't you build it in Java?") as well as to the Change Control Board ("Why do you need to open port 80 to this server? Can't we simply proxy that through our dated and oversaturated proxies? Why won't your load balancing work without sticky session support?")

Let's get these boxes checked... even though the government has given us three conflicting visions of the project and now refuses to pay us because we're behind schedule because we cannot meet all the new feature requirements that have arisen.

Etc., etc. It's a hellish game.
I don't think worrying about database portability often makes much sense for projects with beyond the simplest access patterns and projects that one does not ship to a client, where one anticipates needing to support many possible databases that are supported on-site. Oftentimes, using features supported only by one or a few database management implementations can make things substantially easier.

Ports are often difficult and risky without substantial continuous integration all along because of other quirks in the implementation regardless, both of any ORM layer and of the DBMS.

One advantage of arrays can be performance: not having to locate several rows in another relation can be a time-saver; in this case it can act like a nicer denormalization. But, as array elements are not quite first class in SQL (as the manual notes) it doesn't work quite as smoothly if one plans to enrich their tags with a lot of meta-information or other relationships.

In any case, I have used this strategy on an analytic-oriented system and it worked great: the queries were simple to read, performed well, and the representation of the row was convenient to use in client programs. I've also used hstore to convenient effect on more OLTP-oriented systems although it too is a Postgres-only (for now) data type extension.
In this regard, Quora seems to be in a unique position among similar web sites. Why doesn't StackExchange have a "race problem", for example? (And what I really mean by "race problem" is people complaining about it, somehow feeling uncomfortable or discouraged by it, rather than the "problem" itself.)

I think Quora's more fundamental problem is that the rules of the social game were not well though out. For example, I find that the user's feed can become too noisy too quickly. It is too easy for someone to add a crappy unrelated question into a topic you follow.

As a result you see people who value their time leaving the social network, no matter how "intellectualist" the network wanted to be in the beginning.

Indians just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time: exactly at the time of interesting people (including interesting Indians) leaving.

Somehow I'm still hoping to see Quora's revival. Just noticed a question about Noam Chomsky and thought: so why doesn't Noam Chomsky himself answering it? This wouldn't sound like a fantasy a few years ago.

If I were Quora, I'd re-think the user's dashboard with those who value their time in mind.
The structure of the contract just doesn't lead to a mentality of "let's make something great"...

This mentality is probably true for most systems that are built for the internal use of an organization rather than as a product that has to compete on the open market. For example, software built by IT departments for use inside large corporations is notoriously badly designed and hard to use.
Those bold things in the first paragraph would be wonderful if they were links. As is, I was deeply frustrated by my inability to do anything other than highlight them.
This is a superb comment that has clearly come from experience. Thanks!
If anyone has problems with updated data in the arrays not being persisting, I actually wrote a post on that today http://paweljaniak.co.za/2013/07/28/rails-4-and-postgres-arr...
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Go is interesting and I use it from time to time, but I'd hesitate to call it excellent without runtime constants and generics. Also, the "and not used" errors can get annoying.
I see Windows blue taskbar on the photo. HOW ITS POSSIBLE TO RUN SUCH IMPORTANT SYSTEM ON THE FG WINDOWS???????

Answer me please!
They're only identical within a cultivar, right? If the fruits are different (e.g. navel vs. mandarin) then the genes must be different.
I'm hosting on a Joyent SmartOS instance where the Node.js application is kept alive using the Service Management Facility (SMF).

I recently tried Heroku and Nodejitsu (business account) and ended up going back to Joyent.
They should make one for Whatsapp. Who uses SMS these days? :)
Yes. Although that site keeps no history, doesn't allow you to download a list of blocked sites, and only works for China.

And it bizarrely replaces its headers with Flash.
Financial has been largely moving to Java (looking at Goldman Sachs), so I don't see them switching anytime soon.

Qt is a fine framework and I see little reason to reinvent the wheel.
Actually, an awful lot of the "we rewrote X in language Y" stories on the internet have this as the true story, even if they don't admit it. (The LinkedIn mobile rewrite from Ruby to Node was like this. The official line was all "here's how to kick it in Node", the truth was the original implementation was single threaded across all users.)

That said, I'll happily read this story over and over again, because it tends to provide insight in what works and what doesn't.
it does iMessage at least!

Hope to add android eventually
That's the same way RubyMotion handles trials; it's great to see other developers adopting the same policy/model.

(At least from an end-user standpont. Obviously, you should do your own testing for conversion rate/etc.)
There are many examples in the Go docs, e.g. http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#pkg-examples (runnable and editable too!) But I agree that there aren't enough, and that's probably the worst thing about Go documentation, especially when dealing with the lower-level libraries.

Just to be clear, I don't think verbosity means that documentation is better. Documentation is better when it gives you the information you need, and nothing more. That being said, I mostly think Go's documentation is better than Java's, and on par if not slightly better than C#'s. Here's a better example of what I mean, e.g. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/allclasses-noframe.... vs. http://golang.org/pkg/

Granted, if you have no experience at all with the language--e.g. you haven't even taken the tour at http://tour.golang.org/--the documentation may be hard to read (what does "[]" mean, for example), but that's not the fault of API documentation, which rightly is clear and concise. Rather, that's the job for a comprehensive tutorial, which Go has: http://tour.golang.org/
Watch a good tech talk at x2 speed. I would say most technical talks end up on Youtube and/or Vimeo (or Blip.tv). I remember there was a good one from Pycon..

If the project is notable enough a search like this usually works:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_sort=video_view_count&...
I hate to break this to you, but airplane systems, medical systems, banking systems, fuel pump systems and a lot of other systems all run on Windows.
it's a very nice app!
I remember when they used this system to block an image on Wikipedia. Much hilarity ensued: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Cleanfeed#Wikipedia_.2F...
Hey yeah so that's the default out-of-the-box Stripe payment solution. Wish I had more time to setup something more familiar like paypal. But got rejected from app store a few days ago and wanted to release this weekend.
It's a distinct style of C that evolved over decades for implementing APLs. It's more akin to an embedded DSL than it is to normal systems code, and the reason people use it is not that it's obscure but that it fits the problem space well.

The "shock" of looking at it is exactly the same as the shock of looking at APL or K programs to begin with. They don't look anything like code that most people are used to, but since they tend to be highly regular, the impression of noise is misleading.
Greenwald and Snowden are my heroes of the year (at least). The amount of lies in .gov and Internet-industry is amazing.

I hope none of the involved politicians and companies ever speak of "privacy" or "security" again. It'd be embarrassing.
also, not sure how I feel about charging for this in general. Figured I'd try as that was the original app store plan.
Here's a free link for HN types though:
prismviz.com/download/hackernews
Link added to the first article, anything else you would like linked?
I think you're right, which of course makes the entire statement a tautology. "The NSA has assured me it's not legal to do anything that's not legal." Thanks for sharing.

Never mind that it's not legal to read emails, except with a single court order saying that it's legal to read EVERYONE'S emails. Which I believe they have.

The main problem is the "business records" clause in PATRIOT must be found unconstitutional. If it is somehow constitutional, then there is no privacy.
Would be happy to elaborate on any of these points if you have any questions.
And all answers are anecdotal.
I can't help myself but think it's the whole point of a recommendation engine.