skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should serve as an example to those that believe "the code is the comments" (regarding the very first point in this article).

Comments are important in non trivial applications. Please stop thinking they are not.
It might be worth looking at how pypy does donations .. the donations are towards specific subprojects (eg numpypy, stm).

This isn't listed on the front page of the project .. (and the Donations link, just goes to a wiki !? )
I always have a chuckle when Android users say it's open source and free. iPhone is worse, of course, but still. We all really need an actual FOSS phone that is liberated from the carriers. Maybe Canonical's (modulo Amazon results when searching contacts).
This article is so bad. I mean, there is a lot wrong with the affiliate world. Believe me. And, it attracts more than its fair share of shady characters. But, this guy is reckless and woefully uneducated.

I was all settled in for a sordid tale of intrigue or some yarn about a clever heist. I could spin a few of those stories myself.

But, of all the things this guy picked on, it's that his traffic is searching for discount codes and coming back with an affiliate tag? This is not a scam. It's perfectly legal and anyone wading into affiliate marketing should do his research and understand how it works. It's not just activating a magical digital sales force. Like any other marketing, it needs to be understood, researched, and applied to the business properly (or decided that it is not a good fit for the business).

The first tell-tale sign is that he didn't even know who his affiliates were. He just blindly flipped the switch. He could (and clearly should) have hand-picked his affiliates and worked with them to cultivate the activity he desired. It's ridiculous to blindly open the flood gates and complain about what comes floating in, then declare the whole affiliate marketing space one tremendous scam.

Even now, this is so easily fixable and could really be used to his advantage. His customers are telling him exactly what they want. He also knows where they are going to search for discounts. One supremely simple step would be to start creating and marketing the codes himself to his current customers. Let them know that the best codes are sent to their appreciated customers. Another step would be to cull his affiliate partner list to those where his users (and presumably others like them) are actually going to find his codes. He should also start by working with his account manager on the network (assuming he sprung for one) to devise a strategy around his goals. For instance, on all major networks, he can explicitly indicate that his affiliates cannot engage in keyword bidding or search engine marketing.

There's not enough space here to get into it. I understand his frustration, but he is being irresponsible and reckless in making the generalized statements he's making.
Yeah, sorry for that - first time I loaded it I only needed to "Continue to Foreign Policy" - didn't get the lightbox modal til a second look.
Yes, and when the new Eastern span of the Bay Bridge was proposed, it too was cheap and fast: less than $1B. The dramatic difference in the actual cost has a lot to do with the mayors of nearby cities pushing for a much fancier and complex design, and to a sudden spike in demand for global steel and concrete.

Trying to compare the actual cost of actual projects with the first projected cost of an ideal, untested project is a bit silly, don't you think?
99designs Launches Swiftly, A Site For Small, Quick Design Fixes
I’ve done the same - though in at least one case I did purchase eventually when I caught the promotion.

However that was still reduced and delayed revenue for the vendor over not having the box. And how many times have I completely given up… Lots.
Doesn't Amazon do the opposite? Charge less to newbies so they get hooked and charging more to the regulars because they're hooked.
Accountability vs micromanagement
Have you done this? Because the studies say the opposite.

For one, you might NOT find the coupon after those "15 minutes". What percentage of users will find it?

Second, if you have to go searching online for 15 minutes, you might be distracted enough to never return, or find something else to buy.
Getting Your S*** Together (According to Reddit)
I call bullshit. This reminds me of a story of Richard Feynman, where he was arguing with the painter who claimed that he can create yellow by mixing white and red. Feynman of course disagreed, and at the end the painter admitted, that indeed, "a little bit" of yellow is needed.

Either Agile is more productive on it's own, or it just doesn't work. This is just making excuses. The technological gimmicks like continuous integration, TDD and other things the author suggest should be tested independently of Agile.
People say the same thing about learning a good text editor. Personally I find that while I spend most of my time thinking, when it comes time to enter or edit code it helps a lot if I can do it as quickly as possible. That way I stay in flow instead of getting bored and clicking over to HN.
So, just a little hint: instead of writing "I'm not trying to be snarky or rude BTW" you could have just made your second sentence less snarky instead :-)
“Linux Jobs Are On The Rise”
I don't remember when this has last happened to me. If this is the major reason, I, most definitely, prefer the current Firefox approach: much less memory utilization and the chance that I have to restart the browser once in a blue moon (not a problem for me in real use) vs very high memory usage but I'm protected in the off chance that one tab messes up my browser (and I always have to live with the high memory usage).

So FF devs, if you're listening, this is a vote against Electrolysis (if it means higher memory usage than current FF).
+1 for this... Xamarin seems to make most of their money going the other way with monotouch, this is a proven way to revenue.

I guess ideally this would need a company that is the equivilent of Xamarin to drive this and objective C forward onto the other platforms.
Yes, I installed the greasemonkey script "Hacker News Threadify" and it makes for a much better experience.
Likely it's a compensation mechanism to protect the ego. I've been both rich and poor, and while extreme wealth is also unnatural, there is little that poverty has to recommend it.
I love that feature the most. Every phone and computer should have a feature like that. And permissions should be fine-grained and it should be possible to turn them off.
Drift compatibility in co-founders
as cool as it is to have this ability, just because you can doesn't mean you should. Lest your site look like the 2013 equivalent of 1998 geocities.
I don't think anyone is arguing that Soylent could replace breastfeeding (though there are plenty of people who use something similar: formula).

But for everybody else, Soylent sounds a lot easier to customize to personal needs. You can avoid allergens without losing the required nutrients, you can tune the amount of sodium and potassium to whatever you can deal with, etc. With normal food, you don't get that kind of fine-grained control.
Here is a link to the actual CIA document that was released:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/159950486/CIA-FBI-Referred-Doc
Props to Michael and team. More options for python deployment and config management is a good thing.
Would like to hear that as well. In my current project, vagrant is being provisioned with ansible. We chose ansible because it's easy to extend and its written in python. This project runs on freelancers, so its important the next django developer understands the provisioning system and custom modules as well.

For some reason I tend to prefer the idea of being more "abstract" like Salt is. So my private project (server+vagrant) is being provisioned with Salt. Like borplk i'm interested in opinions of people which have experience with both.
Reqwest (https://github.com/ded/reqwest) has worked well for me, and has EnderJS support too. The API is similar, but not identical, to jQuery.ajax.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: Google CEO did "evil" things, Apple is going down
How does a comment get a 0?
Sometimes I post comments and they go from a 1 to a 0. I don't see a down vote? I'm confused how they are given a 0.
It was a shock to me to discover that the livelihood and happiness of so many people depends on a dubiously-reliable unofficial API that was hacked into Dragon years ago and that has been lovingly preserved ever since, just below the radar. It feels like being critically dependent on Windows 95.
counterexample: before Snowden revealed Prism, it had been in operation for years, with thousands of people knowing of its existence.

the day before that leak you could have used exactly the same argument against the existence of a comprehensive NSA surveillance program ... someone would have leaked it already, right?
I think they are talking about e-commerce sites which have logons and order histories i.e. Amazon and Newegg.
> By the way, this comment here reads very differently from and much more reasonably than your

Yes, it does. I have no love for unions as they stand today. Tis comes both from personal experience at several levels. I was in a union for a few years and saw the innards of the beast first hand. I saw that the rules they put into place allowed lazy, incompetent and almost useless people earn a wage they did not deserve by any possible measure. I saw management poweless when dealing with such employees, wanting to fire them to hire a worthy replacement and not being able to.

Later in life as I launched into entrepreneurship I dealt with the other side of unions. I got to see just how efficiency, productivity and profit-sapping their rules are. I got to see the dehumanizing and almost surreal culture it develops. Example:

Javitz Convention Center, New York. Asked a union guy to hand me a cord so I could, in turn, hand it to the union electrician working on my booth. The guy refused, "not in my union contract" and walked off. The union electrician told me the I could not handle the powe cord. You know, an extension you buy at Home Depot for $30, nothing special. He had to get down from his ladder to get the extension. He also went out of his way to do it as slowly as he could.

I also saw an entire union crew drop everything amd leave this guy hanging and in fear for his exhibit when he dared to plug a cord into the electrical system in his booth. He was a newbie to unionized US trade shiow crews. They were teaching him a lesson, showing him who the alpha dog was. I had a talk with the poor fellow and shared some of my insight. Several hours later they returned, he apologized and they went to work.

I have never experienced anything even remotely similar to this in Europe in over ten years of doing business with their unions in various countries. If anything they've always gone out of their way to help and get the job done quickly and efficiently. In other words, by American standards you would not have guessed that these European workers were unionized.

So, yes, I do think that our unions, as currently realized and run have been damaging our businesses, towns, cities, schools and the entire country for decades. That does not mean I am proposing they be dissolved or that they have no place in our society, not at all.
Microsoft accuses Google of spamming users
>That he is wilfully avoiding the advice of the experts...

There are enough experts with differing opinions that anyone who does anything will always be ignoring the advice of a few of them at any given time. That doesn't him right, but participation isn't compulsory in any way.

>has demonstrably already made dangerous errors and could reasonably do so again.

That is the nature of research. By adding analytical feedback to his dietary intake, he can correct mistakes. Groundbreaking discoveries are often made by young researchers who are not prejudiced in their thinking. This guy may be disadvantaged by his greater lack of knowledge in some ways, but it may turn out to be an advantage in the end. It is also a kind of sad commentary on the state of the field that this stuff isn't either: known to a high degree of confidence or if it were then, isn't communicated to non-experts in an effective way.

In fact, nutritional technology, and medical practice surrounding nutritional technology is eff-ing pathetic. (Medical technology is pathetic too, for other reasons.) We ought to have toilets that will do quasi-medical diagnostics for us by now. There is no good reason why that tech can't exist. But instead, it is far more common that people wait until they are unwell, often partially disabled in the case of dietary ailments before medical intervention is available. Dietary tech. is relatively unchanged for most people even, in affluent societies since the end of subsistence farming. If anything, many people are worse-off.

>while using paper-thin disclaimers to try to excuse himself from wrongful death and preventable illness lawsuits by relatives and insurance companies.

I'll just assume he's hired legal counsel, and said what they told him to say.

>If I was selling flying cars right now that did no more than eventually catch fire, I would be dragged into prison for fraud and being a danger to the public.

You'd be the subject of a Popular Mechanics article once or more times per year, and you might even get a cover.

>But because this bloke is selling it as a "supplement" while all the press is about total meal replacement, it's A-OK. Hunky freaking dory.

The problems with FDA regulation, food labeling, media coverage of products, advertising industry practice, are numerous and neither do they start nor do they end with Rhinehart.

>It's unethical.

I'd argue not according to most peoples' ethics.

>But people want to believe.

So, let them. It will be a learning experience, either for them, or for you. Maybe both.

>That's the basis of marketing: a person willing to believe an impossible claim and another person willing to lie.

Nothing new about that.
You're not missing much. First it gets mad that the CIA kept a file on Chomsky, then it gets mad that they destroyed this file. And finally, it gets mad that, after the file was destroyed, they couldn't retrieve it anymore.
Hello, I've been working on this startup for quite a while and as I near a beta I wanted to get as much feedback on the website/idea as possible. (Note: not all of the features listed will be ready for the beta, but they are the goals). Thank you for spending the time to have a look.
Pentagon Now Sees Big Data as 'National Security Threat'
It's not a slap in the face of the customer. It's the company shooting their own foot. Whenever I see the coupon code box, I search for coupons. Sometimes I fine one. If so, they've lost money.
AB testing seems to disagree with you. I am more prone to t
rust the data.
JavaScript Enhanced CSS3 Media Queries
Yeah, my first thought was to go to washio.com, then to wash.io. I would've never made the jump to getwashio.com without being told about it.
This is the first use case of 3D/WebGL for actual web sites that I've found worthwhile. I could even see myself using a stereoscopic screen to browse sites like these. No flashy fullscreen effects or epilepsy-inducing adverts, just clean 3D pop-ups to highlight content.

It's just a shame that anti-aliasing isn't forced on by default; jagged edges should really have been left behind years ago.
There are sites that do that!
The linked article doesn't include any useful details. For example, was the cloned content open-source? If so, and if the originator's copyright notice was carried forward, the author loses the right to complain.

If not the above, if the cloned content was unprotected and similar to other products designed for the same purpose, the clone can be defended as a form obvious to a practitioner of the art -- this argument goes that it's difficult to avoid similarities, like two simple mousetraps that resemble one another for reasons other than deliberate copying.

But as I said above, the article only complains, without offering any relevant details.
How I currently go about securing a new server.
At my company we've tested having the coupon box automatically filled in vs. not automatically filled in and we found that conversions were no higher by automatically filling it in.

And if you want to be focused purely on the bottom line; conversions were just as high without it automatically filled in but coupon usage was notably lower; meaning automatically filling in the coupon was just giving away money.
I'd be happy with Lessig in office.
Last time I encountered a coupon field, my wife told me that there was a coupon code on the main landing page. Result: I have reread the main landing page, entered the coupon and was happy to spare a couple of bucks.
If you are making another dom traversal library, you must (imho):

* Explain why someone should use it over the standard: jQuery
* Clearly explain the stance toward browser compatibility (not hand-waving & "oh who uses ie8 anyway?")
* Come up with something better than "It's smaller than jQuery!"

Without these points hit I don't even bother looking at DOM library. :/
Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant, master it now.
Combine Creative Products with a New Business Model
And if someone would like a long-distance example, at its busiest the line between Tokyo and Osaka sees up to thirteen trains per hour each capable of carrying around 1300 people.
Actually, I'm not certain of what are the differences between the two. Maybe OP can explain.
Collectibles' Best Kept Secret May Be Amazon, Say Experts
People break down all the time, but mostly they pull over and are overtaken by the other traffic. I agree that heavy vehicles are a big problem which is why I suggested creating special provision just for them. Congestion from cars is bad for business because it blocks freight. Congestion from lorry's is bad for everyone. Imagine the benefit of removing all intercity freight from the roads?
Beware of the Theft and Fraud Bots! Great job team, love the new layout.
A quote: "To provide senators political cover and deniability, the committee put all recommendations under a 50-year top-secret classification, and restricted access to them to just 10 staff members."

Say what? In a democracy where representatives are accountable to the voters? How did real estate tax policy become a military secret?
Antialiasing is actually the default for most WebGL implementations I've tested, but it's not possible to turn it on everywhere. There are still lots of devices out there too weak to actually do antialiasing for everything, along with buggy drivers that crash or produce garbled output in some scenarios with AA on. AA can also introduce artifacts into certain rendering algorithms designed for use without AA (it produces some really strange inputs in your pixel shaders...)
From having built a few of these, my solution was to add a string to the end of the URL's in the promo material (ads, email, whatever) that, when clicked on, would trigger the coupon code box on the site for that user only.

Otherwise you didn't see it.

The company I worked at that used this did a lot of targeted and 1-off promotions so it seemed to work pretty well.
This could be an argument for doing what the Gap Brand sites do and sticking a banner with a coupon code in it at the top of every single page. Then everyone feels special.

Though I do suspect it A/B tests differently :)
I am a regular reader of both r/gamedev and Gamasutra, but was wondering if there were any larger communities. :) Thank you for your response though!
Lavabit and Nicholas Merrill on today's show
Everything you need to know except taking an 83b election? That doesn't seem very comprehensive. If you're serious about getting out someday - keeping an extra 10-20% of your exit seems prudent to me.
we are entering the 3D era of geocities
I'd assume that in addition to encryption, Snowden signed the email, so no MITM attacks.
> these formulas are mainly from union contracts.

All defined benefit pensions -- whether set by union contract or not -- use these kind of formulas. But the high pensions are not the product of the formula alone -- even if you work long enough at one of the formulas to get near (or over) 100%, you still aren't going to get 200-300K per year pension unless you have a last/highest/(average of last three)/etc. years salary (which ever is the base for the particular formula you have) high enough to push the pension that high.

Surprisingly enough, almost no rank-and-file workers have that kind of salary. The people with 200K and higher pensions are mostly people that are retiring from executive positions.
Google Doodle for Erwin Schrödinger's 126th Birthday
Same with most subscription services like ISPs and phone companies. Get you in with a low cost deal to get your hooked. Here's the trick though, you can call and just ask for a better rate, tell them X company is looking to give you a better deal, but you want to keep them. I did it with my DSL.
Not to pick favorites or anything, but ... ;)

If you're looking at this index page, but don't know where to start, try Kristofer Joseph's talk about building Adobe Reflow (a desktop app with web tech under the hood) for some amazing demos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpG6Ap7qhPw); and then try Mark Wunsch's stellar tour through the different geological layers of a long-lived production app (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFdwTz_hYAM). After that, it's all gravy.
I'm all for a suggested rewrite - if I could've thought of a better way to write in under 60 seconds, I would have.
Wait, is your argument that because we don't know, we shouldn't try to figure out?
Doesn't seem to do anything in Chrome/OSX.

Error creating WebGL context.
Dear Jesus: We survived animated gifs. We found our way through the "blink" tag with a limited number of lives lost. Please give us the clarity of mind to wield this great new power with discretion and aplomb. Amen.
This complaint comes from the discussion about affiliate marketing on this site yesterday. A large number of affiliates make there money with coupon sites apparently, taking advantage of this exact scenario. People see coupon, then they google for it.

If you think this blog post looks familiar, it is.
I haven't had any problems. Only one TSA security person noticed it, and they didn't give me any trouble.
How enterprise startups differ from consumer startups
Update: The owner of this monstrosity has been ordered to tear it down in the name of public safety.
Shopify launches independent Payment service
Grammars and proper unicode support are where my main interests lie with the language.

I use Perl to "get shit done" (GSD) it's not sexy, it's not my main job, hell, it's barely reusable. But using Perl has been the difference between failure/late delivery and success/early delivery/under-budget more times than I can even remember.

As late as the end of last year I has hacking Perl 5 code as a side project to GSD and took a project that went from not-existing because the scope was unfeasible for the next 3 calendar years to existing and producing measurable results 3 weeks later. That work got me a promotion and then a new better job making more money (and not doing Perl work) and overall joy and happiness because I was the guy that GSD (and Perl made that happen).
I think that grandparent's "theoretical" was a poorly-phrased reference the problem with the hyperloop in the context of CA HSR, not a problem with CA HSR.
If you have firebug installed, setting display:none on the modal divs works a treat.
That's strange the only browser I got problems with downloading files is Chrome. Sometimes it takes a long time between clicking the download and seeing any visual clue from chrome that it started the download.
The user flow issue that Ruslan is describing was probably already happening before he signed up for an affiliate program. The only thing that the affiliate programs did was expose that he may want to rethink the way he offers coupons on his site. Like most others have said, whenever I see a "Discount Code" box, I go search for the code.