skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I should've differentiated between visual design and functional design. I would think I made it clear enough that I was talking about the visual design.

That said, the functional design of the site is fine. Outside of the moderation system, which I think isn't thought out right, and the discussion threads, which seem to push out newer comments, there's not a lot to change.

As for the visual design, not much has changed since early Slashdot. As just a few examples: the rounded corners are dated, the colors are out of style (I'm not sure they were ever 'in'), the left-side menu is wasted space. There is some weird selection of a story that highlights it, which is meaningless in function.

Everything about the site is 'busy'. There's too much going on and I would guess that very little of the excess is used (I would love to see the stats on some features). The threading of discussions could use a ton of work.

Overall, I bet a developer had a lot of input into the design and not designer. It looks like something a capable programmer would create but they have just enough aesthetic ability to cause trouble.

Visual design is very intertwined with 'trend'. Slashdot is way 'off-trend'.
>credit card companies extend you more protection, which means they assume more liability //

I thought it meant they placed more liability with retailers &c.
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Maybe. I think there are more than a few people who would be ideologically opposed to paying a for-profit organization in exchange for being able to post on its forum. Maybe if it was a donation to EFF instead?

I really, really like that idea. Not just EFF, because that would tend to create an echo chamber. Instead, you should be presented with a dropdown list of various unrelated but preapproved nonprofits. A $5 donation to any of them would earn you commenting privileges for a limited time.

Want to comment as an AC? Donate $5.00 for a one-time comment without logging in. Want to comment as a logged-in user? Donate $5.00 for a month.

Somebody should totally do something like this.
It has a completely different UX for sending and receiving bitcoin.
Wow, talk about a hiring coup. Bravo!
"Why do founders persist in trying to convince investors of things they're not convinced of themselves?"

This line hit home with me. Applies perfectly to job interviews.
The last thing banks want is any regulators looking into how easily they can launder money.

Who cares about gift card fraud when they are laundering billions for criminals, cartels etc.

If you get too much oversight, they might accidentally find all the other crap banks are upto.

If there is any institution you can be assured of fraud; it's banks.
When government loses consent of the governed, it no longer has authority to govern. That won't stop those that believe themselves fit to rule from ruling if they have the power to do so.

As I had to explain the difference between lunch and arbitrary use of government power, do I also have to explain the difference between government of consent and tyranny?
Fake It Till You Make It is a fantastic strategy for some things, utter disaster for others. There is no panacea in startups, but don't discount the colloquialism as devoid of value, either.
Moore’s Law could stay on track with extreme UV progress
This isn't a product page made for anal programmers who want every bit of information condensed into a box the size of a terminal window. Average consumers are enticed by emotion and this is set to deliver in that respect.
I've always felt like the value of playing the lottery is not in the numerical outcome, but rather the enjoyment of thinking about what could happen if you win. How much enjoyment you get from dreaming about the outcome can, for some people, be well worth the few dollars it costs for the ticket.
Using votes to customize the experience is exactly what reddit was originally set up to do--that was their big founding idea (long before subreddits existed). I used to vote on every single story that made the front page, hoping to train my personal filter.

They abandoned it after a while, though, and it never really worked.
More and more blogs moving to Medium for some reason. This makes me sad, because it means horrible formatting with anything code or math related. At least until they fix that...
Clever Copywriting is Killing Your Marketing Message
Programming the app easier than crowdfunding
It's not a either/or situation. You can be brief on Twitter for the things being brief on Twitter is good for without avoiding longer writing.
Pfft. If they were doing things like that then they would have blocked or best-offered the purchase of ICQ by the mail.ru folks.
Assuming this was setup on a website/phone app, it was not a pin-based transaction, most likely run over the credit or debit rails as a card not present or pre-approved transaction.

The customer should be able to request chargebacks through their bank without issue.

I would suggest you investigate getting a better local bank, as this is something any bank should be able to easily do.
I would say no. Free accounts are limited to following 40 accounts but are unlimited in followers. Which means publishers don't have to pay anything to have a large following. But a subscriber may have to pay if they wish to consume a lot of the content.
In the 'but then it gets even more complicated' spirit:

When the author mentions buying a ticket in the end, for the entertainment of fantasising about a potential windfall, I was reminded of this interesting Less Wrong article: "Lotteries: A Waste of Hope" which argues even that is a bad reason to play lotteries.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/hl/lotteries_a_waste_of_hope/
It depends on which 0 is bigger.
I think this only applies when you pen in changes. These are clean re-prints.
Well, as a very rough overview, all they are is:

* read in words
* keep track of the frequency of "wordA wordB", "wordB wordC", etc.
* use that frequency, e.g.:
{ "wordA" : {"wordB" : 0.5,
"wordC" : 0.25, ...},
"wordB" : {"wordC" : 0.75, ...} }
combined with a word, say "wordA", and pick a
random word from the frequencies, weighted by frequency.
* your word is now the word you just picked. repeat that
last step until you get bored.

You can go 'up' and 'down' in how many layers of frequency you want to collect, like the frequency of individual word pairs, vs word triples {"wordA wordB" : {"wordC" : 0.25}, etc}, vs sentences, anything.

The more you collect, the more 'real' your generation will tend to be, but it takes more data to train it effectively since you want lots of possibilities for each 'key' so it doesn't repeat itself. Otherwise it might think that the only thing that comes after 'key' so it doesn't repeat itself. Otherwise it might think that the only thing that comes after 'key' so it doesn't repeat itself. Otherwise it might think that the only thing that comes after 'key' is a single phrase, so it keeps selecting it and it doesn't sound like something anyone would actually say.
I'm in a somewhat similar(though far less tough) situation. I am currently paying for my school myself and I simply was not going have enough to afford it even after my paid internship. So I opted instead to take a leave of absence and work for a while. I think this option is making more sense as the overall value of a degree declines, especially in fields like CS where a degree is not necessarily a requirement.
Yes, but it wasn't until the internet was opened up for commerce that it became widely adopted.
What is the difference between a "new contract" and an "altered contract"?
Your idea of a poor student and mine are somewhat different!
The TL;DR answer seems to be: because there isn't a good way to get the wisdom of the crowds without the crowds (yet).
Ever hear of a Regency chair, Tiffany glass, Fallingwater, Lever House, Buckingham Palace, the Sistine Chapel, a Ford Thunderbird, Porsche 911? Artistic merit outlasts fashion, and if anyone makes a website as good as one of the above, it will be an accomplishment no matter how dated the design is.
Generally formulas with no application or truth to them are avoided. What I think you mean is "With great power, comes great responsibility" It's subtly different, but "the devil is in the details."
Instead of having one or 2 machines that simulate a much smaller production environment by connecting out to digital ocean or aws you can spin up a full sized copy of your production infrastructure.

This is nice as it allows you to do performance testing as well as stability and provisioning tests and your normal unit\functional\whatever tests.

While you wouldn't want to do it for every commit (unless you had your own infrastructure with space(though you could still do a partial test and profile)) it would be nice to test every merge to master.
This is broken, and it shouldn't be this way. There are far too many broken bureaucracies in modern society, both governmental and corporate. And most of these impede those with the fewest resources or capabilities to work around them. Just because we've been trained to think that government or corporate policy is supposed to be complex and broken, doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to improve.

Without a ridiculously good merit-based scholarship from a great school, I never would have been able to attend any of the top-tier schools into which I had been accepted, because my parents' money was counted as my money, even though their money was clearly not mine, and not something that I could choose to spend.
So open-standards don't matter? While they haven't given their source for their backend, they've been pretty open about how it's built, plus they've open sourced several pieces of their platform (Omega, Pourover, Ohe).

App.net is for the general consumer that's not going to be able to run their own server stack. If you can run your own server stack, you can use all these open standards outlined in this blog posts to consume the data and do what you like.

There's even a http://dev-lite.jonathonduerig.com/ so you don't need to pay anything to tinker with their API.
Why would I take reserved instances into account when I don't have to reserve them with Digital Ocean? They're still kicking AWS' ass on pricing. Sure, big boys are still going to go with AWS (i.e. the CIA), but for small/mid-sized shops? Digital Ocean ahoy!
So again: they should display an FBI warning, just like they do on DVD movies.
This concerns real things, not mathematical approximations. So, we divide 0 dollar over 0 people, that means 0 people get 0 dollar. The answer is clearly 0.
It looks to me like 1.5M per day. The chart is a daily chart with clear weekend pattern drops.
There are many people who think the same.
Sounds like someone who has yet to try the Oculus Rift, lol.
"just make up an elemental analysis" on page 12 of supporting materials
Without other side consciously agreeing to your changes via initials - this is alike to graffiti on the wall.
Fun for artist - little nuisance (not much more) for building owner.
Funny I think I gravitate towards picking those.
To anyone wondering, every site that was linked to as response to the parent comment was built with ASP.NET.
Kelly bet amount just maximizes log(bankroll). Growth rate, utility, outcomes in series of bets etc. are just interpretations/uses of this fact.
IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence
How do you validate the results people claim??
That is something I've been trying to apply in my life (and apply it to other people as well)- words are cheaper than actions, so let your actions do the talking.
Summer of R
> I personally see the lack of a Factory Image for a single device as being very minor.

It's not the lack of a factory image for a single device. It's the lack of a factory image for Google's flagship device when they've made so much hay about it in the mists of time (oh, about three months ago).

I'm not particularly sympathetic to most "open" argumentation when it comes to devices, but Google should walk their talk.
What made you choose Ember for frontend, versus Backbone or Angular?
Entertainment derived from fantasy is fine. I've found that I can cut out the whole "buying a lottery ticket" part and the fantasy is just as rewarding.
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This task is beyond most recruiters' skill sets to do properly. Most recruiters are also paranoid about any level of direct interaction, since both candidate and interviewer have significant financial incentives to cut them out of the deal, so you'll have to deal with (and work around) that fear.

A five-minute programming exercise that you spend more than 5 minutes designing, that you grade yourself, will be about the most you can do before you start turning off qualified applicants, at least at this early stage. If I want to spend 3 hours on a programming challenge with no guarantee of payment, I can certainly come up with more enjoyable ways to do so where I don't get constant reminders that I'm taking too long.

The best time for the programming challenge comes after the initial "does this person look like they fit into our organization?" set of interviews. Those interviews not only screen out a large percentage of your pool, but also sells your organization to the applicant, incentivizing them to take longer to get the job.
Look I'm on the side of "the banks are assholes and they deserve to get slammed on this" 100%. But I also know that judges are a part of a big institution (government) and the banks are also big institutions. And historically we've seen that they're in cahoots outright or something close to it.

But just because I want them to get slammed, or because they deserve to get slammed, or even that it is legally correct that they get slammed, none of those things means that they actually WILL get slammed.

Trust me I want them to get hurt on this one and for it to reform the fine print bullshit and all of that. It would be so awesome if it did happen. But I'm definitely not optimistic that it will happen.
Analysis this questionable transcends the 'take with a grain of salt' threshold, in my opinion. They're not publishing this to inform anyone, just grab eyeballs. Hooray new media...
Seems like you want to make sure all your numbers are over 31, so that anyone who encodes dates into his ticket number won't match yours. What other ideas do you have for avoiding collisions?
Document A might have text talking about voiding if you change document A, but that won't do anything to a document B proposing a brand-new contract, not yet signed by the bank.
This is newly on google.com for me today, probably for the submitter too: http://i.imgur.com/Xzvk6zj.png
Thanks and good point and I think that's where new Angels or other investors without any track record or network can get the good deals.

By finding founders whose startups are just about to take off, even better with the founders not knowing it yet. :)
Thanks for the responses. It's good to hear that others have been in the same place as me. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one when everyone else at work seems to be doing just fine in their jobs.

I should add that my educational background is actually in electrical engineering, not CS or software engineering. So it wouldn't be a super drastic change of career fields.

I've also wanted to become more independent of full time employment for a while. Ever since I graduated college actually. But it took me a long time to actually figure out how. I wonder if suppressing that desire has resulted in me ending up as a lousy employee.
The laws of large numbers make any edge supposedly gained by "picking what nobody else picks" almost entirely moot. The probability is still incredibly small that any given sequence will come up. Getting the right sequence is the much taller hurdle to clear before tackling the problem of how many others have also picked correctly.
If people read some EULAs they'd notice how concise and easy to read they are these days.
> Kelly says, if there is a positive expected value, there is an optimal amount to bet

Yes, and the optimal amount to bet here is for all practical purposes equal to zero. In short, you don't have a large enough stack to keep on taking this bet until it pays you back.

I tend to agree with your wider point, that you can treat life as a long-term sequence of taking risky bets and use Kelly to approximate that.

However, even if you did have an equivalent opportunity to this all day every day (which is itself hard to assert), Kelly is saying you definitely shouldn't take it here. If you don't have that repeated opportunity, Kelly-type thinking just leads to an even stronger conclusion - you definitely definitely shouldn't take it.

Good luck to everyone if you're playing the lottery :) Until the numbers are drawn, you still have a chance ;)
Funnily enough I did choose those numbers once for the UK lottery. I think I matched 4 numbers and won £50.
Especially as it becomes an excuse to fund the schools by that much less from the general budget. It's an exquisite accounting lie.
For health it might not be best, but I think for ammo it would work well. I mean, in the real world you don't even get a HUD for ammo, unless you're in an airplane or tank I suppose. A HUD for health is necessary just because the game isn't real life, but the ammo HUD is just a convenience; you can be more creative with it.

Maybe gun models that give a visual indication of remaining ammo will become more popular.

Perhaps adding blur/color saturation filters to your entire field of view might take off as a primary indication of remaining health.
Interesting approach, and congrats on the coverage. I just signed up as a coach - I've found informal mentoring (in both directions) very helpful on other sites, e.g. Nerd Fitness.
Thanks! That's a good one! I'll include that right now.
I'm having difficulty squaring what you do with what pg is recommending:

> And by convince yourself, I don't mean play mind games
> with yourself to boost your confidence. I mean truly
> evaluate whether your startup is worth investing in.

Isn't "playing a role" a form of mind games?
Author here. Besides creating Typo as an exercise in implementing a language, it's also the punchline to a seven-year-old joke[1] about implementing RSA in Haskell's type system, which I did:

https://github.com/seliopou/typo/blob/master/examples/rsa.typo

Hopefully I'll have the time next week to write a blog post explaining how the encoding of functions work, as well as a cool transformation I employed to make the translation simpler than it otherwise would be.

Until then, enjoy!

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/132...
Good idea.

In terms of evaluating, I'm currently letting the seller do their own evaluation I guess. Any other ideas?
This is really interesting and I cannot believe that financial aid system can let something like this happen. Will definitely look into it.
It's less work for the developers, who might have more important things to do?
Could "false pretenses" also include the letter head on the document? If you were to scan the document, change the lettering and produce an exact replica except for the fine print, could that fall under false representation since the bank was not the author of the document.
Really? Have you even been near twitter? It promotes slogan like ideas, contrained thinking, ADD, silly one-liners, and BS self-absorbed tibbits.
I can't read the content. Instead, I get "Please sign in to continue" and a suggestion that I sign in via Twitter.
The only thing you need is traction.

You're only saying that because you've never tried raising funding for a company with traction. But except for very rare exceptions, even when you have traction there are a whole new set of questions about the nature of the traction.
This doesn't take into account the value of the "hope" that buying a lottery ticket gets you. Specifically, the owner of a lottery ticket has bought the right to dream about how their life could suddenly be turned around if only their numbers came up.

I admit that this "hope" may not be worth much to some people, but to those who are scraping by it might be worth quite a lot. (I will leave discussion about whether lotteries exploit the poor to another day.)
It is quite misleading to write native code in the same way you write the javascript.

A wothwhile benchmark would test optimized code in all contestant languages.
> See any problem with that?

Exactly. The purpose of the rule excluding improperly obtained evidence is to penalize the government for obtaining it improperly. It's a mechanism designed to ensure compliance: Take away the ability of law enforcement to benefit by breaking the rules and you get less rule breaking.

What this is is an end run around all that. The government benefits from violating the constitution by learning which rocks to turn over to make their case and the courts can't punish them for that by taking away the fruits of the illegal search because the government doesn't tell them about it in the first place.
For what it's worth, I don't find it good for readers. People tend to leave out context and nuance.
probably because it's too political and not of interest to most of people on hn; even if it was, still mostly political.
The girl in the picture looks like a leaner Kate Upton.
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Hey guys I found half a dozen stored XSS who should I contact ?
Concise implies both short and information-rich. In my experience with twitter, the former is certainly true but...
Every time the idea of basic income is discussed I think that universal healthcare, subsidized education, and - possibly - targeted infrastructure spending are much better approach.

The system is set up in a way that OP (and I am sure many others) found herself in this strange valley, where you are damned if you do, damned if you don't.
or simply have something like sub-reddits.
>any fixed time zone will do.

Theoretically, yes. In practice, you should just use UTC.

>If you're in a corporate setting and the majority of your users are in the same time zone as your servers, then it makes sense to use that time zone.

No it doesn't. Use UTC. The Internet does not have a time zone.

>There's fewer date conversions that way.

Your library is probably "converting" the date anyway, UTC or not.

>for the other half it's a 1 hour DST conversion - which many time handling libraries have optimized

Is it really that slow to convert a date?
Sounds like you're smart and have skills in demand. Try to get a job at a bay area company; living like a student should allow you to save enough money to go back to college within 18-24 months (if you even want to go back by then).
On the internet, everything was said by Mark Twain.
I remember a California Lottery ad campaign back in the 80's which featured "my numbers" for various famous people and the Steve Jobs version of the ad had these exact numbers along with an explanation of the odds being the same as for any other numbers. So I doubt you're alone.
Let's be honest: it gives authors permission to not write a lot.

The thing that differentiates Twitter from its competitors isn't the well-thought-out-ness of the tweets, it's the volume. When you can't write more than 140 characters, you feel OK tweeting almost anything. And you do, and you do it a lot. A blogging platform is a drag because it feels like work to write a meaningful blog post. You start a dozen blog posts that you never publish because they don't feel finished. So you end up never blogging because you "don't have time for it".

Twitter won because their 140 character limit encouraged constant, thoughtless posting, which allowed for an insane volume of tweets. And it turned out that volume is way, way more important for a social network than quality or thoughtfulness.