skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about a protocol for web content. How many sign up forms have we seen? Users could design their own (or download from a free store) for specific purposes eg. "Registration", "Signing In", "List of things" etc. For a variety of reasons I don't think this is practical.

It sounds like they're looking for a dead simple webmail client that has consistent (unchanging) UI.
"Looks and feels like Twitter"

(actually uses screenshots from twitter to pitch product)
The reason the pre-1906 buildings are made of brick isn't that brick is superior for surviving earthquakes, but that much construction of the time was brick, and that which wasn't was wood. And most of the destruction of the 1906 quake came from the fire which followed it.

So the only structures which could survive were brick and masonry.

Most of those brick structures have been very significantly reinforced over the years. And if you've ever been next to a brick wall as it's bulging in and out as S waves pass by, you'll likely reconsider your argument.

Steel cage buildings are far preferable to either, from a survivability standpoint.
>Would it be wrong to judge my creditworthiness by the fact I'm white and gay if you could find some correlation between those traits and bill paying habits? What if white gays were typically irresponsible with money† (because omg shoes) and as a consequence my credit score is forever (or at least initially) tarnished because I'm a white homo, irrespective of my bill-paying ability. I can see many ethical issues with this.

Yes it seems wrong, but why does it matter what the data is if it's being used to make more accurate predictions? That's the goal. The data being used makes no difference. We aren't talking about humans which are irrational and go "omg I hate gay people and want to make them worse off by refusing to do business with them", this is an unbiased computer algorithm looking to predict how likely you are to pay back your loan. If you really are less likely to pay back your loan than so be it. It can just as easily go the other way and judge in your favor. On average you should expect to benefit from such a policy, not lose from it.

>LOL. People will do a lot in the name of money. If Ms. Sally wants a mortgage, like really, really, really bad, Ms. Sally is gonna drop her deadbeat Facebook friends and game the fuck out the system. If she's successful, not only is she more likely to be approved for that mortgage, but she'll get a better rate. I think it's naive to believe that any other behavior is being encouraged by this kind of predictive credit scoring.

It will probably be difficult to game the system (just deleting friends doesn't remove your info and might be a red flag that you are trying to do that.) The benefits are probably small (they are using all sorts of other data on top of it to make predictions about you.) And people don't know what the algorithms are or even what information they are using, which makes it harder to figure out how to game it.

But even if they do so, so what? That's their choice. The models will be readjusted to fit the new data, and the predictions will still be accurate.
How to Make Your Form Error Messages More Reassuring
To answer your question, maybe. I would rather that "technologists" (eg, readers and posters on HN), encourage people to understand the technology they use. Explain what an e-mail client is, dive into the "black box" of what an inbox is, a pop3 server etc.
I meant that risk prediction is insurance is very similar to risk prediction in loans. I'm not sure what you mean. What one is wrong?
I've become quite used to them, though if I can work in a non-distracting environment, I prefer that.
I guess what I found interesting is that this was something MILLIONS loved and yet it was a very specific demographic so the wider world missed the potential.

Heck, most people, if you pitch them on Airbnb today, will say: "That would never work". Half the people I know outside the tech niche haven't heard of it.

So something can be quite large, well proven, yet seem like a lousy idea if you have a set of blinders on.
Thoughts on The Sale of GiftWorks
I just would like the simplicity of use of sqlite on my server. No socket, no connection, no driver that has to match the server, no config file in /etc, no user in /etc/passwd, no cruft.
Yes, you should mimic a British accent. Your first impression should be correct choice for you. There are different types of accents and some would be considered too strong to be understood, but you probably won't gravitate to those. I recommend you watch all episodes of Peep Show on Hulu. The characters are English with a few Scots. The shots are mostly close ups so you can really study the mouth movements. The characters are very affected and therefore easy to mimic. You should be able to say "right" just like Jeremy or "turkey fucker" like Johnson from the first go.
Also, email me (details in profile) if you need some more help with this idea - it's a good one!
What other way to keep people thinking about it do we have?
This is a troll'ish comment that has nothing to do with the current discussion. Or what are you trying to imply here?
Probably you have never seen Bayesian modeling in action. It doesn't care what data you throw at it, it will establish models out of it. The theory IS neutral.
Due to their centralized nature, and the result of being located in the US as one of the largest communication platforms, Twitter has become the enemy. It was probably not their intention to become the enemy, but that's the consequence of being located on US soil and being one of the largest service providers (just as Facebook and Google have.)

When you decentralize, where providers are only responsible for a relative handful of the overall userbase, 'hoovering' is much more difficult.
Never used it, but I hold a special place in my heart (if not necessarily the more practicality-oriented areas of my mind) for alternative operating systems. I grew up with the Atari 800 & ST and the Amiga was a compatriot.

I'm sure it's just a matter of perspective, but I sure feel as if research into new operating system concepts (such as distributed operating systems) has been flagging since the 90s. So it's heartwarming that there are some rare souls out there still nurturing alternative operating systems.
Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature
PHP's worst feature is programmers who only learn PHP. Even worse when they become the most vocal members of the community.

This creates an echo-chamber-like environment that's not favorable to the evolution of a rich programming language. Since they never got to learn other languages (at least not enough) its evolution is guided by partial impressions of what other languages offer. It then becomes a collage of partial implementation of concepts similar to what other languages are based on.

Try explaining recursion to someone who only knows 8-bit BASIC (where all variables are global and functions are implemented as subroutines with known input and output variables). It won't work.
Try audiobooks. I use Audible.com, only $14 a month for 1 audiobook per month. The cost to buy the audiobook is almost always greater than $14 and unused credits roll over. I find audiobooks a great option for walking, the car, gym, subway, etc.
I don't see what the problem is. RSS works, why reinvent the wheel?
I've also used dB meters (there are Apple and Android apps), which can be quite revealing.

Server closets in offices can be amazingly loud, even through closed doors. The worst are false ceilings and hard-surfaced walls, which can reflect and amplify sound.

Agree on your anonymous conversations observation.
Jews have Israel?
Fact: Israel morally still belongs to Palestinians...
Here come the flames
Is there any intrinsic value in Twitter other than the plethora of people using it?
IMO child support should have a limit... What child needs over 25k a year? I live off of that today as a student... I feel that the other parent would take a large portion of that money for themselves.
Kickstarter is coming to Australia and New Zealand
Uhh, is there really any point to using docker for this other than bragging rights?
If you do everything correctly, not too much. But you can't assume the former. Also, having the thing baked into the language/runtime will encourage use. It's along the lines of what happens with refactoring facilities that aren't part of the browser/editor/ide. They stay "that esoteric thing over there" and don't get used that much.
> out there still nurturing alternative operating systems.

Indeed, and among the "alternatives", AmigaOS is certainly one of the most alive of them. RISCOS, BeOS, are way less active than the Amiga scene.
> We are building the first fully-conforming trsst server, plus an open source web client including javascript libraries for core functionality like the cryptographic functions.

Wait, wat?

From the first glance it looks like they just patched buzz words together and decided to call it bitcoin-like decentralized syndication network on a PKI

What about anonymity? Anyone who has the whole signing chain could track down the author. The anonymity of bitcoin is achieved by mixing hubs[1], you can't split a blog post in half and mix it.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity

btw what happened to Open Source today? You have to hype on Kickstarter and waiting for people throwing money at you in order to start coding?
Yes, thank you. I knew it has to have a name.
Yes. It's a data point. It's no different than taking into account their job, past history, age, gender, etc. We aren't talking about humans being irrational like "I hate black people, so I am going to charge them more or refuse to do business with them", but rather an unbiased computer algorithm that is simply improving it's ability to make predictions. What data it uses to do that doesn't matter.
This.

Also the word overwhelmingly is used to describe a meeting to discuss a topic throughout Europe.

It's not an unusual statement in Europe to have a moot or attend a moot. We're primarily a Finnish company so the name for us is meaningful.
There is a definite difference. The .gif has a dithered appearance, while the video is blocky.

A good animated picture format could be similar in size to video, while maintaining the advantages of a gif.
I want this as a screensaver
Really? I thought SQLite is for development purpose only. but 1000posts/day? Wow..
Twitter became popular because browsers didn't elegantly handle feeds. Tumblr blogs (or blogs in general) with post comments and following are much more open and just as usable as the Twitter platform, if you provide easy to use rss syndication and browsers support easy to use feed browsing without having to search out a google reader replacement.
Reading 24 books seems like an awful lot of time committed to doing something other than actually making a product.

One of the books was marked optional, though, so there's that.
I'm really glad to read that, and I was stupid not to do it.
> Also, wouldn't it be possible to ship the code in an intermittent form that closely resembles the hardware, but allows the OS to finish compiling it with the correct details.

That's what you can do with LLVM or Java byte code.
> In general all my Go programs have been more than fast enough, but on several occasions I've had memory starvation problems that I would not be having in other languages

The problem with GC's languages, is that GC is "good enough" for prototyping and for undemanding stuff, but there are still these corner cases. Really, it's no different than other forms of memory management in this regard. It's just particularly beginner friendly.
Oh boy! I'm flying overseas soon for the first time in about 7 or 8 years. Does this imply they have backscatter and there's no alternative? I'm guessing this is at every international airport?

I see it's random? Sorry I'd rather ask somebody who's been there then misread the carefully crafted Q&A.
I'm speaking from an architectural design standpoint. Exceeding the ability of the OOO engine to cover cache misses isn't a "gotcha" it's a design limit of the hardware. Being able to only predict three branches in a 16-byte fetch group, even though more than 3 branches can fit in a 16-byte stretch of code, is a gotcha. Being able to execute only 3 SSE operations per cycle is a design limit. Not being able to hit 3 SSE operations per cycle depending on which registers you use and how many prefix bytes they require to encode is a gotcha.
Looks like it's done using D3.
Here's one of the presentations comparing C++ to Haskell http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277

http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-... (PDF)
Here is the BBC coverage of the tool:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23822086
Steve Ballmer and the art of Monopoly
> He builds big and complicated programs that people actually use.

That's kind of an insult to, well, every working programmer.
Quantifying Private Company Growth for Startup Investors
Yeah, I'm not sure I get it either. They call it a "syndication network" which, for me, gives the impression of a distributed network that is strictly controlled, which defeats the purpose. I hope this is just poor wording.
I think it's a play on "trust". Maybe capitalize on the current v for u trend and name it Trvst? It's slightly more legible and won't be a kick in the ego to change.
I already know about its centralization and being in the US. So what? I don't put sensitive information into Twitter like I do in Google services.

Do you expect your blogging service to be encrypted and private too? I guess the private messages should be secure but oh well, I've even heard Twitter demanding warrants for giving out DM info.

Edit: I do wish we could expect "private messages" to be private.
Hospital billing is crazy town, but these negotiations aren't illegal or even unknown. They are placed right on my bill for every doctor visit I have.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-...
It's possible, in principle, that this "transaction" was the first of its kind in Inca civilization and only happened to involve gold because that's what the Spanish wanted. But since gold is the quintessential commodity currency and has much of its value tied to others' valuing it [1], I think the burden of proof is on the claim they didn't have money. (And that's even before considering this famous anecdote -- one of only a few available, about any aspect of Inca culture.) They don't even address it though.

[1] Unlike bartered goods or services, gold (like other good currencies) is readily divisible and transportable, transfers without any skill, and stores indefinitely. Unlike many commodities, gold is not valued primarily for its functional value (food can be eaten, cloth provides warmth, etc.)
I like this analogy much better than the one above about using a web framework. This is more in line with the amount of work it would be to build a game engine.
I don't understand the Australian impulse to push this technology when they are under a very low if not non-existent threat. When I was there I was 'wanded' multiple times.
And there are people who say the x86 ISA is just fine, that such kludges are absolutely normal...

I get the x86 is immensely successful, but being popular is not synonymous with being well engineered. Or engineered.
Presumably the web tier does slightly more than just reverse proxying. For example, it could build (render) pages based on an internal RedditAPI it queries. This RedditAPI (application layer) would then basically be a distributed database front-end with some state, like user sessions.

Seperating it at that point allows the web tier to offload much of the work (mostly rendering), while keeping it stateless, thus allowing effortless scaling of that tier.
Ah, thanks. I missed that that whole part was talking about the K10.
I should add, that we ran nothing else on the box. Just the forum and it was text only (no image uploads etc...).

Backups were pretty easy. ;)
> Is there any intrinsic value in Twitter other than the plethora of people using it?

s/Twitter/[any social network]/

The point is the people using it.
1pxdeep is more about showcasing relative color design, not so much the colors themselves.

I stand behind the algorithmic color generation I've put into SchemeLESS, but it's intended as a starting point. The theme doesn't just take any seed color, it takes any SchemeLESS color scheme. If you don't like the @color3 you get, overwrite it. You'll get a new @color3a, @color3b, and @color3c. Don't like those? Overwrite them too. Or just change the variables used in the rules SchemeLESS uses to generate them.

Make no mistake, this is a tool by a designer that's intended for other designers. This isn't about competing with designers or replacing designers. It's about enabling designers to work with color in powerful ways without significantly adding to the tech debt of a project.
Yes, there are plenty of American comedy skits about unintelligible British.
IMO docker is made to deliver plug'n'play apps/components. I think sentiment analysis API is a good example.
I hope it will create new virtuous loops: easier to install => more people playing with => more feedback => easier for devs to improve the sentiment analysis => improved versions deliveries => docker pull. Your thoughts? Any feedback on the analysis quality?
Yeah, but new development (like my project) is done on Qt5. Qt5 brings some really nice features like a typesafe and C++11 friendly signal/slot syntax.
My (not explicit) point exactly. All this fad about twitter clones makes no sense to me.
That makes sense to an extent. It goes out the door with family plans (to me). Is a spouse more likely to be healthier because their partner works? Child because parent?
"Shame on the developer" does not make this any better for the consumers either.
Out of the box php generally works so long as you have trivial php code (that doesn't take advantage of new language features, doesn't need routing, doesn't need to write to the filesystem, and doesn't common library modules). Needless to say, that generally rules out any serious project out there.

I'm not saying I chose not to invest in those 20 minutes, I'm saying there's nothing about PHP that makes it inherently easier than other things to deploy real projects. You still have to deal with version incompatibilities, you still have to deal with configuration, you still have to deal with differing resources. That applies to all stacks.
Britain has many incomprehensible accents, but as long as you stay in the realm of comprehensible ones you'll be fine.
I can understand saying he isn't an expert on languages, but to say he isn't an expert programmer is honestly just condescending.
It's a pretty large reading list though, would be nice to have a list of the top three to five.
Please clarify "for development purpose only"? SQLite is used in a lot of production software you rely upon daily, and is one of the most robust, useful pieces of code going.

http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html

Now it's an embedded database, which is why leokun's comment is out of place. However you can absolutely drop a queue in front of it, for instance, and serve many "simultaneous" users for a purpose such as a web forum.
Interesting development, but $1M seems a bit much.
>In the end however, I was faced with an ultimatum. Do I change the settings app JUST to look different than OS X, and lose out on the well-established excellence of Apple's design?

Which can be rephrased as: I'm a hack and could think of no original ideas of my own, so I opted to copy another OS verbatim.

Thankfully Apple doesn't think that way not even for their own design -- they improve (or at least attempt to) OS X's design with each release. And they have even more excuses than you to rest on their laurels (namely, that the laurers are theirs to begin with).
That's kind of a moot point, isn't it? Even if they do store it, it's literally just a picture of a generic drawing of a human.
The problem the consumers are having was generated completely and totally by the developer of the app, not Google. If you as a developer write an app using non finalized APIs, and release it, and the app breaks because that API changed, it is completely and utterly your fault.
Judging my creditworthiness based on the creditworthiness of my peers is akin to arresting me if half my friends had been arrested, or giving me a speeding ticket if a third of my friends had received one in the past year. It might indicate I'm more likely to be arrested or drive too fast, but I shouldn't be punished (or rewarded!) because of what other people do. What if 20% of my friends had abused prescription painkillers and I'd just had surgery. Should I be denied a prescription for painkillers because my social circle had a higher than average incidence of drug misuse?

Put yourself in the situation that you're punished because of your friends' actions, or the actions of people with the same gender, race, or sexual orientation. You'd feel it's unfair (if you're rational) because it is unfair!
> We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

I am not entirely sure of this btw. We've seen a number of very short-lived successful coup de'etats in Ecuador which can only be under the assumption that the military seized power to make a political statement on behalf of protesters, and then quickly relinquished power. Additionally I have to wonder about Felix Sulla's restoration of the Roman republic near the end of his rule. I think it is likely that these are exceptions that prove the rule but "no one ever" is way too broad to be true on its face.

I think the larger problem is that organizations have a will to live independent of their members, and killing an organization is hard. What is the object of surveillance? It depends on who you ask. For the government agencies involved, this is a matter of extending their territory and so your view may hold some water there, but for a wider class, the object of surveillance is money, and they are the ones calling the shots I think.
It is not clear to me from the article and from the brief googling I did, how they came to the conclusion that there was no trading class? What evidence did they use to prove this absence? It seems to me the ruling class of any society works by trading with each other, in promises if not in currency. I don't see how it could work any other way?
I thought SQLite locked the entire DB when doing an INSERT. Seems like that would slow a forum app considerably. Though I guess at 1600 INSERTs per day, which averages to about 1 per minute assuming even distribution throughout the day, you won't have that many lock collisions.
My experience with Scala was the opposite: it has great support for OO and imperative programming. The functional way of doing things often wasn't better, while on the other hand, traits are crazy flexible. I've seen people go crazy with functional code in Scala that is barely readable and impossible to debug; the JVM debugger is still optimize for imperative programs, while no one has really figured out a good debugger for functional programming yet.

OO/imperative programming isn't all "bad." Being functional doesn't really ensure that the code is "good."
Yet another reason why all marriage should be handled by private contract. Solves so many problems.
> I want to tear the TSA down to where it was pre-9/11

So non-existant.

> I do not respect the job these people do, and I like to degrade their position of authority.

Then you're just an asshole. Do you seriously think most people become TSA agents to go on a power trip? Do you actively degrade prostitutes as well? What about newspaper editorialists you disagree with?