skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that you are taking a narrow-minded, absolutist view here.

"How do I know that my OS got the time right?" Well, have a look. I've often changed the DST switch manually after noting it not being correct. It wasn't then overridden by the OS "knowing better".
What makes you say it was from a database leak?

I had a fraud issue caught by a bank once. What's strange is they caught the test at a bar I had frequented. That made me assume that it was skimmed. (But perhaps they saw many others tested there?)
The math for split jackpots assumes that people pick randomly distributed numbers in their tickets. But that's clearly not true, and that means by choosing numbers carefully you should be able to significantly reduce the chance you'll have to split a win without changing your chance of winning.

I'd love to see an analysis of how beneficial this could be and which numbers you should pick.
So this is google's crazy impression of what kids look like now. He can listen to 'adult' music/movies, but the guts of this tablet are _completely_ hidden.

When I, and probably much of this site was that age I was dicking around with Linux distros and trying to get nvidia binary drivers to work so I could play quake 3. Then there was that whole thing when I discovered shell scripts and python. There are cs learning apps for android, but nothing like opening up a bash shell in linux and getting the python interpreter and command prompt. Hopefully that kid has access to a real computer, and a bloody password on his account.
Ask HN: Interview Questions for Front End Developers
I am trying to aggregate a list of some good questions that could be asked for a Front-End Developer interview. What questions do you know of or have you used in an interview?
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." - Mark Twain
Sure, but the instant you take your hands off the keys (or the mouse), you're groping and flailing wildly to find them again.

I didn't think it'd be an issue until I got my Rift, and it turned out it was :). I'm sure there'll eventually be a clever solution though.
Interview with Tony Arcieri of Cryptosphere
Depends how you define "internet users". You're certainly right if you think of email and FTP. However, online services were more widely used by ordinary Americans until they got web access ... and an awful lot of them got their first web access via AOL.

You may recall the huge impact that AOL had when it connected to the web. AOL also bought Netscape, which had been a dominant force in the early commercialization of the web (along with Windows 95), before taking over Time-Warner.
"There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like…But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies.

What is this safeguard? Skepticism.

This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm."

Demosthenes, 4th century BC
Thanks for your reply. I don't want to start a company there, at least not yet. I want to work for someone there; something along the lines of a temporary worker (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/apply-who.asp) or even a federal skilled worker(http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/index.asp). The processing time for an FSW is about 19 months, too long for a typical employer to wait.
Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" talks about the process and how your mind (amygdala, really) will try to distract you from that mission.
It's a pain in the *ss when this happens.

I had a credit card # stolen from a locked hotel safe. (It was overseas, I hadn't used the card on the trip, and there were charges to a sporting goods store down the street.)

If someone wants the #, they can get it. The nice thing is that the data analysis seems to be getting better and better. It gets caught very quickly nowadays (the current story being a poor counterexample) and it's been a few years since I had a false positive.
I agree, but I think there's a bigger problem.

I think first time entrepreneurs are prone to thinking that raising money is a win. Second time entrepreneurs almost never think that, they view it as an obligation.

A lot of young, first time entrepreneurs, if you told them: you can with certainty raise a $5M Series A, but with certainty the business will not work in the end, which you will figure out in 3 years -- they would still raise the money. They have a burning desire to to be a CEO, to build something, and they'll worry about the rest later.

In my view, raising money when you either have no idea if it's a good opportunity, or believe on early data that it's actually not (but you'll figure it out or pivot later), -- this is what I see in "fake it til you make it", "hustler" thinking -- is that when you're successful, you've now signed up to use some of the most productive years of your life chasing an opportunity that is likely not to be any good, when you could have held out for something better.

Happiness research indicates that people are consistently wrong about what's going to make them happy (or sad) -- the shiny new car will lift their spirits every time they get behind the wheel, but within a few weeks, it's just another car. I think this applies to fundraising as well: raising money for an idea you're not 100% convinced on has proven to tempt many founders, but in my experience, they later come to regret it.
Right. So the better option is to secure passwords slightly by default. I suggested the additional information for those that feel that securing passwords is "lulling users into a false sense of security".

Either you make some attempt to secure the passwords, or you let your users know that they are readable in plaintext. Don't do neither, like Chrome is doing.
This is why I often include a "redlining representation" in contracts I draft or review/edit. [1] Of course, that only works if you check to be sure the redlining representation is still in the copy of the contract you're actually being asked to sign.

[1] Clause: http://www.oncontracts.com/general-provisions/#sec-35. Explanation: http://www.oncontracts.com/surreptitious-contract-changes/ and http://www.oncontracts.com/surreptitious-contract-changes-ii...
Wow, amazing. I'm about to launch a similar service. I like the fact that you are involving people who have lost weight before.

Well good luck, I will be keeping an eye on you.
No, that's patently absurd, although I have been known to use w3m while doing work in vim, and I'm super grateful when a site is usable from a text only browser. Screen readers and bots (including search engine spiders) have an easier time with well written HTML.

Progressive enhancement is far better for the end user and not all that hard to implement. Some people choose to disable JavaScript, and there are compelling reasons to do this especially if, for example, you're using TBB and want to minimize your attack surface, as has been demonstrated recently.

JavaScript isn't evil by any means, and it's really important for creating cool shit, but it should never be required. If I can't use your site with scripts disabled, neither can a lot of other people. Sucks to be them though, right?
Indeed... There are other benefits as well, for example: using high cash-back cards can cost you less for the same items.
I didn't say that DigitalOcean was better or worse than any other provider, I simply implied that they are not the first to be offering low cost SSD services and that dollar for dollar, there are other companies which seem to be doing it the same or better.

I don't see any reason to "trust" DigitalOcean more or less than a company like RamNode. VC backed money is not a guarantee against failure or problems with your hosting account.

The potential of instantly scaling up to 96GB of memory and an API are an advantage, but it's not exactly a killer feature. I would imagine it's a small minority of DO customers that ever use those features.
I think they're making a rational call that they can't weed out which ones will make it. So in your example, they would need to invest in more than twice as many at the lower valuation to get the same # of successes.

Just being the devil's advocate. (Not that I intend to compare VCs to devils!)
A truely important news. Thank you.
Thanks for asking!

1)I spent a year doing diabetes lab research at the University of Michigan and a couple projects focused on obesity at Cornell, but admittedly the bulk of my knowledge comes from reading a lot of peer reviewed journal articles, talking to a lot of successful people (people who have lost weight themselves as well as numerous obesity specialist MDs).

2) Right on with your observations. What we're trying to do is provide the necessary ingredients (social combined with technology) to make weight loss something people feel good about. We give people a leader, which provides trust/inspiration that they are on the right path, and a peer group for support. Early signals have been good that this keeps people engaged. That said, getting new users will always be important.

One additional thought is that people who are successful as members could potentially transition to the coach role after some sustained success. This could lead to very long term engagement, but it is too early to tell.

3) Honestly, we are focused 100% on making something that actually works. Current options for weight are not great by any judging criteria, and we are confident the business model will work itself out if we are able to provide real value in the form of good outcomes.
I don't think it was a mistake, and I don't think it's a static state. I believe that a group of people could come together and form a community founded on equality.

The problem, to me, is more of a logistics problem, because once you get more than ~100 people in an organization, you start losing the immediate connection with them, which means you care less about their well being, because you don't know them. The issue is managing people, and meaningfully punishing ne'er-do-wells.
Opengl drivers. Have not played with the haswell generation yet.
But that is completely missing the point relating to intent.

Browsing the Chrome's password page requires far less malicious intent than finding/writing a script to dump someone's keychain passwords.

That's the main issue for me with Chrome. I know people that I wouldn't trust not to navigate to chrome://settings/passwords, yet I would trust them not to actively attempt to defeat my computer's security (no matter how feeble).

Chrome makes it easier to breach trust. A bad design.
Definitely. Next time there's a big jackpot (maybe this weekend, if no one wins tonight) I'll do a follow-up post that looks at that.
Into thin air
Thanks chegra - good luck with your project as well!
Facebook Publishing Optimizer PostRocket To Shut Down On August 15
I've always hoped some language would have a prolog type system. Just today, I was pointed to liquid types [1,2] in haskell-cafe, and they look really promising in that respect. But the idea of having my compiler bail with a nice error message when I try:

fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)

fibPlus :: (int LESSTHAN 30) -> (int LESSTHAN 500000)
fibPlus x = fibs !! x + 100

Is definitely too good to be true.

[1]http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/liquid_types.pdf
[2]http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/haskell/blog/about/
"This is only the case when you have something to fear from superior competition"

What you describe also occurred/occurs in Cuba, and that's not a capitalistic regime.
Who are these 'hobbyists' who 'demand' 20K pages of specially-written documentation?

I suspect there are a lot of professional Engineers working on products that will ship fewer than 10M units. Sometimes these Engineers then go on to design products that ship more than 10M units and prefer to keep working with the chips they know. Sometimes those Engineers are 'hobbyists' too.
I love this analysis. Growing up in Las Vegas we did probability analysis on Casino games as a homework exercise. And it explained exactly why Casinos are a license to print money. It's even weirder when you consider the case where you gamble $10/week versus save/invest $10/week in a compound interest account. Guess who is happier 20 years later?

But of course our gambler is more entertained so there is something to be said for that too.
How Much Will Prism Cost the U.S. Cloud Computing Industry?
There's one error: Microsoft did raise venture capital. They did it a matter of months before they went public.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339287
How can you prove belief? Test by fire?
Agreed about abbreviations.

To distinguish "text_body" and "html_body", what about simply "text" and "html"? That's what we use internally.

Also, how does one send To: multiple addresses with this library? I think it'd be good if to_address could be a list (or their was a separate to_addresses, which could be a list).

I like it how cc_addrs / bcc_addrs can be a list already, of either addresses or (email, name) tuples. Why not do the same thing from from_address and to_addresses, and get rid of from_name and to_name?
Betteridge's Law of Headlines continues to apply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
The question is: what are the problems with slashdot's design? "Time" is not an answer.
I've started a running list: http://lksidedocs.blogspot.com/2013/08/list-of-articles-abou...
michaelochurch's closing sentence: "Unlike the typical enterprise Java stack, it’s optimized for lifelong learners. That, above all, is why it will win."

Here's a speculative reason why it may not win:

Java, Ruby, PHP, Python all won because intermediate level programmers could, all of a sudden, successfully build 2000-era sized apps.

These languages are not doing so hot for 2013-era sized apps. It now takes extreme skills to successfully ship 2013-sized apps which is why a small portion of the programmers are making most of the money.

The next language to win will be the one that lets an intermediate team ship apps again. Java let your average C++ programmer build much bigger apps without crashing. In 2000, Java forced you to program right by 2000 standards; the programmer needn't have figured it out himself.

A language that lets a strong architect say, "NO! you CANNOT do I/O in the view, that goes in the controller!", that lets an architect shape what good code should look like and have the language enforce it, can lead a team of intermediate programmers to success.

Clojure is like a musical instrument - a brilliant artist can do amazing things, but a mediocre artist will produce mediocre output. Clojure works great if you have 5 brilliant architects collaborating - Datomic, core.async, ClojureScript, all these are outputs of brilliant minds collaborating; the company behind these products has a reputation for only hiring the best of the best.

But I think a business can make more money by putting 5 brilliant architects on 5 separate projects and giving them a bunch of intermediate programmers. The intermediate programmers learn; the architect multiplies; the pointy haired boss gets rich, everybody wins.
How to parse JSON response with jQuery?

The problem with using posted questions or ones from online is that people may have already seen or look up the answer. This could cause problems getting a feel for experience and or skill level. I think for a frontend developer I would like to see what they have built. What frameworks they prefer and why.
I have the same problem with the Android version. I'm just waiting it out, and hoping my session doesn't expire. :)
Lyft drivers having "difficulties getting insurance coverage"
> slow banking to a crawl

So making them read what they force everybody to read would be cruel?

Besides. It has easy fix. Bank should sign the agreement first before sending it to the customer.
$4,000 compounded at 5% interest in 15 years is $8,315. (Ignoring further additions to the IRA, since those are irrelevant to current decisions). $8,315 will be about as meaningless to me in 15 years as $4,000.
I grew up in Minnesota, and lived there for 21 years, and I refer to the Midwest as such all the time.
That sounds like a totally legitimate case of first sale, so it seems evil to fight it.
Musk won't build hyperloop
In one out of the one trials I've expected OSX to automatically set the clock ("automatically change time zone") it hasn't.

This touches on to the relevant point of DST. I no longer have to worry about changing clocks; the worry has been replaced by the confusion over whether all my clocks have changed or none have.

At a bare minimum I'd expect any change of time zone to prompt the user.
It's unlikely for a skimmed card to be used online in this fashion, because the thieves wouldn't typically have the CVV2, only the CVV1 which is included on the magnetic stripe track. Most merchants which offer gift card reloads will decline on an incorrect CVV2.

Additionally, cost benefit wise, card data sells for $2-3 max, while track data sells for much much more ($25-50), and typically someone capable of acquiring this data themselves would not be wasting their time with Starbucks card reloads.
A Question for Julian Assange (vote or submit yours)
Twitter wrongly, but predictably, suspends transphobes
Amen. As an otherwise satisfied nexus 7 owner (first generation) a lighter and thinner model would be nice considering it is already a go-anywhere device for me.

But the inexplicable slowness as the device ages and memory use grows is a crappy reason to have to upgrade.

It's funny how quickly a market evolves and competition ratchets up. I can buy for $200 a device that gives me capabilities that cost an order of magnitude more 10 years ago, but I also still expect the cheaper device to have robust and long term performance capabilities.

I'll upgrade for "more, better features" but upgrading cause the old one kicked the bucket after a year is asking too much.

And given the market dynamics, even for $200, I'm not being unreasonable! Gotta love capitalism.
Bebo.com is back and there wont be penises [video]
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.1/html/users_guide/type-... has a decent explanation.
(Shrug) It seems like a no-brainer that people would want their laptop clocks to be correct. The problem is purely technical: there's no good way to ensure that any change made is correct.
I didn't mean the futuristic almanac style predictions. Kurzweil's main point is that mankind's evolution and abilities are exponential, or that Moore's law is not a special case but rather the norm in scientific evolution. His charts on stuff not related to transistor count do hold up for the near future.

More important than that, in this context, Kurzweil shows that scientific evolution has not stagnated or decelerated, in the last few decades, as the parent comment was proposing. Much to the contrary, the current pace is faster than in the past.
What is the advantage of having an Envelope class? Why not just have a send function?
That's the secret. Convince yourself that your startup is worth investing in, and then when you explain this to investors they'll believe you.

This is one of the best advice for both fund-raising or anything else in life and it's basically the same strategy Arnold Schwarzenegger used to become the "number one star" in hollywood [1] as explained by Steve Chandler:

* ...Then I asked just how he planned to become Hollywood's top star. Mind you, this was not the slim, aerobic Arnold we know today. This man was pumped up and huge. And so for my own physical sense of well-being, I tried to appear to find his goal reasonable.

"Easy, It's the same process I used in bodybuilding," he explained. "What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true." *

edit: attribution added - 1: http://biznik.com/articles/being-like-arnold-schwarzenegger
Instacart is a neat concept, but knowing that they charge more on items than the store charges irritates me enough that I don't use it.

I'd rather pay a clear delivery fee and not feel that I'm paying extra for every item than have free delivery but a mark -up on every item. I know that financially it might come out to the same thing, but psychologically I get annoyed that they charge me $4.99 when Trader Joe's charges $3.99.

I'm hoping they hit the scale where they can take some of their margin from the store (Trader Joe's specifically). Instacart Plus is a step in the right direction there.
BBTN - Open Source Buttons
One presumes that Microsoft, Apple and other major OS developers did exhaustive UX studies, and that this - "determine my location and set the timezone representation of the clock to that local time, rather than the original" - wasn't something that a significant portion of people felt.

Would these be the same studies that Microsoft cites to justify force-feeding Metro to desktop users?
The return is so huge compared to investment that you should play based on... what ticket cost means to you. Would you play if ticket's cost would be $0.01? Of course you should - $0.01 won't make any difference to you.
Interesting article, but hard to put mathematical facts over psychology in cases like these.
> an independent committee with input from EFF and such organisations (they should be able to find some technically competent people with TS clearances they trust)

I see no particular reason to trust these people more than Obama.
You realize this site is one big ad for YC and its minion fledgling not-always-entirely-legitimate companies, right?

The job of this site is to legitimize up and coming nothings in the eyes of you, the dear early adopter.

You've been had.

In other news, have you heard companies are hiring to CREATE DELIGHTFUL PAYROLL and for MINOMONSTERS (because nobody actually wants to work on that, they have to post job spam every two days) and, oh, look, immad has thrown up his 200th job advert for zerozap again too.
Spoon was my favorite band when I was 12.
Similar also to "the method" in acting:

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

I use this in negotiation as well. You convince yourself that you are playing a role and do what is consistent with the role you are playing. You are an actor. Takes quite a bit of practice.
Daily commuters are exactly the kind of person that will make this airline cease to exist, because the service could no longer pay for itself.
I Lived Out of My Car to Fund My Startup
I've never really thought of playing as an investment. I've always thought of it as a donation to the education system that also has a potential for a large payout. I don't play very often -- 2 or 3 times a year. I never feel bad about losing the money. The way I see it, I would've donated it to some cause. That, to me, makes it worth playing for.
So basically, they're doing something that saves money and is good for the environment, but it cuts into your profits.
This post shows one of the limitations to medium.com, namely, a lack for math/LaTeX formatting. This post was well written, but occasionally difficult to parse.
FeedWrangler: Rails db:migration became `Drop Table *`, lost 8 hours of data
I don't think it would have as much strength as having actually signed document in hand.
If you don't play, you definitely won't win it.
I already have this problem; both my bank and my credit union introduced 2FA but only with SMS. Once enabled, any attempt to log in using a not-yet-authorized browser or app is stalled until I get that text message. Presumably a call to customer service would sort it out eventually, but that prospect isn't terribly pleasant.
>Eventually, I hit a point with R where I was trivially doing pretty complicated things that would have been... ugly in Python.

I'm curious; can you give any examples?
So you are saying that bank actually doesn't agree to anything when it signs a contract with you if it doesn't delegate for that properly esteemed clerk?