skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a matter of fact, I have. Except that I still owed the taxman a lot of money, and was hitting up everyone I knew for loans to keep him off my back just a bit longer, all while working 16+ hour days, 7 days a week in an incubator, trying to get a new business off the ground so that I could get some money coming in and eventually pay everyone back. I learned a LOT of lessons in frugality, and as of last year I'm finally in the clear, hopefully forever this time.

It's a shitty situation, but it's not an insurmountable problem. Life ain't fair and nobody owes you shit. You may not be responsible for the situation you're in, but nobody's going to drag you out, so you have to drag yourself out. Or just sit there and die. Your choice.
It's not something you can just pick up at your local retail store or order from Amazon, but if you're willing to use a soldering iron and a few other tools to assemble a kit, the Ergodox[1] might fit your needs. The Ergodox is a split design with a non-staggered key layout, thumb clusters, Cherry MX switches of your choice, and is programmable to have whatever layout you please.

[1] http://ergodox.org/
AngularFire - A real-time backend for AngularJS from Firebase
Could this also be called "data twerking" ?
If you have thick accent don't get discouraged, all you have to do is speak numbers. No one can ignore numbers if they are really good.
Syrian Hackers Strike Again
Dark patterns confuse the user in to spending money, whether they want your product or not. A/B testing communicates the value of your product, and the customer wants to give you money.
Why I'm rewriting a post that's already been written a dozen times before.
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What a vast oversimplification of my post, and also, a strawman. I never made that claim, nor did I insist anywhere that I thought so. However, notice how when mentioning the debate of "rights" (namely, my right to submit information to a company or service without fear that the business is being quietly extorted to dump said information to the government without speaking about it under threat of prosecution), I said it was a "perceived" right. I used that adjective for a reason. However, your faux-argument is a convenient excuse to ignore my rebuttal to your points.

But to address your point directly, about how I only have rights to my body and property, your statement is meaningless without defining "property." Did you even know what you meant when you wrote that? Would you care to elaborate?

However, if we define a right as something legally-sanctioned, I actually have a lot of rights that aren't strictly body or property related. Further, any government that fails to enforce or violates these rights is in the wrong. Check this out: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights

If you mean in an absolutist, natural sense, nobody has any goddamned rights, because a right is a man-made concept. Which system are we arguing within?

Your attempt at forming a foundation for a creepy, fascist ideology is very illuminating, though.
I physically twitch reading these. It's worst than cringing. It really physically hurts having so much data that I can interpret. Some of this would be interesting info graphs but then I can't glean anything from any of it and that bothers me to no end.
...You are right, it's always better to be open. He does not speak a diplomatic political language, he states the knowledge he acquired through thousands of interviews and other experiences. That way, he would share how race, religion, gender are affecting success too. But I suspect that would result in an even bigger backlash.
There is one: http://www.milaolanguage.com/

“Milao is a unique virtual environment that offers language learners on-demand opportunities to interact in a target language through text-based conversations that closely mimic real life situations. [They] have created an Artificially Intelligent Native Speaker, that will allow learners to develop and improve their communicative skills in the language they are trying to learn anywhere and anytime.”

(I know one of the team members; this was copied off their LinkedIn profile.)
Is PageRank Finally Dead? It Seems To Be, At Least In The Google Toolbar
There's nothing all that bad about this keyboard. Being a regular at GeekHack, I've seen all the arguments for and against various keyboards.

Let's set the record straight here for a second:

If you want a keyboard with Cherry MX Clears, this is the best deal you can possibly get. Possibly ever. Most people take to building their own or "ghettomodding" another board to get Clears.

It's a solid board and has all of the features that you'd consider "standard" for a <$300 mechanical keyboard.

I'll still be keeping my Realforce 87U, but this is a kickass board at a kickass pricepoint. My only gripe is the ABS keys, but that's something you have to live with if you want backlighting.
http://www.duolingo.com/ is what you need.
What's wrong with 'The layered pie slices.'?
Some years back I was flying a small commuter who used small prop type airplanes (I call them pterodactyl air). Part way through the flight, I noticed one prop seemed like it was not working, so I leaned forward to alert the co-pilot (the plane was that small). He told me that they would turn off one engine and "feather the prop" to save fuel. I told him that I would be happy to take a up a collection back in the cabin from the other passengers to pay for the extra fuel to power both engines. He chuckled, but I was serious. I never flew with them again.

Maybe there is a way to suspend a process (feather the prop) rather than completely kill processes.
Seriously. There's no fixing those people. The only winning move is not to play.

Agreed. Going on record to defend yourself without provocation (he doesn't specifically refer to someone asking him for an official response) generally means there is something deeper at hand here. PG did respond originally to provocation and should have kept it to that.[0]

This is akin to when someone goes out of there way to explain why things "aren't their fault". If it wasn't your fault, you state the case and be done with it. People at fault generally go beyond their means to make sure people think they aren't at fault.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6279276
Airlines do offer legitimate value.

That doesn't stop them from adding dark patterns on top. Acting with business interests in mind, airlines are practically compelled to add dark patterns.
Other airlines have moved towards RyanAir's model, not away from it.

I find that frightening, as an ethical person who wants to run a business.
I'll second the QuickFire with the blue switches. I actually bought one to bring in to work. Luckily the people in the cubes around me didn't mind the noise.
Cool cool, good to know! :)
Well, recent events suggest that unfortunately there is a grain of truth to that assessment.

A lot of the noise in blogs and twitter has been along the lines of "PG is an evil monster who hates women and foreigners and people of color and doesn't ever want to invest in their companies". None of which he said or implied, but that doesn't seem to have stopped the attacks.

Hence, this recent article.
…TIL. http://maimonideanangst.com/2011/10/31/i-never-knew-steve-jo...
I can't really speak to traffic because I rarely drive, but I do agree there needs to be more investment in rapid transit. I rely on the red line/walking to get to and from my office. It is the only line I would consider living on.

But I did want to add that it isn't only the north end that was cut off. I doubt the resurgence of the Sea port area/"innovation district" would have happened if it hadn't been for the big dig.
I feel like this site is missing a lot of content from the news media: http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/01/a-history-of-dis... (this is specific to FOX but the same can be applied to most other major news sources, too.)

I really want to know the context of some of these, like the social media 'chart': http://wtfviz.net/image/59427832631
Does anyone know how this can be technically achieved? Large scale face recognition with 1 photo per person in the training set?
As a sibling comment says, I didn't actually make any privacy statements.

However, startpage's help pages claim not to pass on IP addresses, useragents, cookies, or other identifying information. This claimed-independent report says so too: https://www.european-privacy-seal.eu/awarded-seals/de-110022... — verifying such statements is hard; believe what you will.

I agree, it seems clicking on the Google ads (rather than search results) does put a request via google.com/aclk. Privacy conscious users could block ads to avoid such mistakes. Of course startpage must send some data to google: the search terms are needed to get the search results themselves (as well as for selecting the ads). That could be a privacy leak, for example if simultaneously searching for a name and a sensitive topic. It doesn't seem nearly as bad as tying the search terms to a unique identifier across searches however.
Yes, guy's either a troll or the worst reviewer ever.

And for people who care about RSI -- funny ergonomic keyboards are the wrong answer. Make some exercises. Buy a Powerball; do some push-ups; practice any of the infinite number of Yoga asanas that put weight on your wrists. A few minutes of daily hand/wrist exercise will completely protect you from RSI, no matter how much typing or mousing you do.
Well I'm glad you cleared that up. Perhaps you could go to Washington and clear this whole thing up for everyone.
A capacitive strip along the side of the phone could work similarly. It wouldn't be the same, obviously. But that, likewise, would be expensive.
Is there anything that lets you "reflow" PDFs, so as to make them more readable on Kindles?
A real hacker will make one himself!
I'm not German, but I know from experience how many will not call you back if you just have a foreign sounding name. I really thought banks would be different though, I guess there must be many Syrian people in Germany and they all need bank accounts. I would guess that there are some organization for immigrants or even some for Syrian immigrants in Germany, and they could probably help you out with some recommendations.
"Is there a URL on this?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/dea-raid-marijuana-...

"When you mean soldiers, do you mean the US Army?"

No, I mean these soldiers:

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ap_Dea_drug_trafficking...
That's a little bit paranoid. Sure, there are some people out there who just don't like you and will bend whatever you say against you. But sometimes, people may be rightfully calling you out on your assumptions. If you're not open to any criticism on what you say or how you say it, you will never get any better at expressing yourself.

When I respond to people who are being unreasonably critical of things I've written, I'm usually not just responding to them for their sake, I'm responding so that everyone else who's following the conversation can look at both sides and decide for themselves who's being reasonable. Over time, being earnest about responding to criticism, even unwarranted criticism, has gained me respect in my social circle. Of course, one has to decide how their time is best spent, but on the whole, I think it's a bit thick headed to always take the "yeah, I said it, so f' off" approach.
I was hoping for some statistics. Rather than trying to convince people, it would be a far more compelling rebuttal if there was some data to backup the comment. Without data, it's just opinion, and that reflects on the one with the opinion. With data, it's stops being personal, and in the domain of science.
Everybody has an accent! There is not a single person in the world that has "no accent"!

This may seam like nit picking but it is in fact very important. When someone in the US says they think someone speaks English "with an accent" it's actually the fact that they are not speaking English with an American accent. Who's to say that speaking English with an American accent is the correct way?

The English language is used in many parts of the world and has diverged immensely. Pronunciation has changed, spelling has changed, words have been added, etc.

So bear that in mind when you say someone speaks bad English or wonder why don't they make the effort to speak it "correctly".

Also remember communication is 2 way. If you can't understand someone due to their accent most likely they cannot understand you due to your accent.
I disagree that no good can come from "paying for access."

First, we must define what is "good". After participating in DreamIt Ventures in 2012, I can say that we extracted immense value by quickly invalidating a B2B software concept. It was taking me months to get one meeting with an enterprise client on my own. With the help of DreamIt's mentors, I secured dozens of meetings in less than six weeks. We learned that the software we were building was ill-fated through those meetings. This was undoubtedly "good" for us, and we paid a mere 6% for that kind of access. In retrospect, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

But your mileage may vary. The value we obtained was highly correlated to the fact that we were pursuing a B2B venture, a sector where DreamIt's mentors could best leverage their networks. In contrast, I saw some consumer-facing companies extract less value from the accelerator program.

In sum, you have to carefully (and honestly) weigh the value that "paid access" can yield. Feelings of frustration in connection to "paid access" likely stem from a miscalculation of the cost/benefits that the access could provide.
Looks intriguing!
On the plus side, if enough people cancel it costs them a non-trivial amount of money to process requests.
"Money is this magical barrier to all sorts of annoying daily minutiae--even a little bit is enough to let you shrug off the effects of suboptimal decisions. Being able to simply buy a lunch when you forgot to bring one can change your whole afternoon of productivity."

Exactly.
Don't know about the Code review, but there's a lot of other interesting stuff on this guy's blog. He's obviously passionate about keyboards and his enthusiasm is infectious.

I'm glad my wallet is in the other room right now...
Being poor is a full time job. I have fasted for weeks without problems and yet on the one occasion in the last 20 years where I was unable to buy food for three days the hunger was severe and overwhelming - the experiences had nothing in common.

The cognitive load I have seen on friends struggling with poverty is immense - they are permanently mentally exhausted of all the hard decisions and complicated math needed to make the income last longer. When I was with a friend out buying groceries figuring out the correct amount of baby formula diapers and detergent to buy took half an hour (yeah I offered to helped with the bill, was rejected) and the amount saved compared to just throwing stuff from the shelf in the cart was less that 10% of the total.

Edit: Here is an idea for a product - easy to use program that balances the budget as good as possible while taking into account the unique challenges that struggling people are faced with.
Given the ridiculously cheap cost of the computing necessary to host a node, even the increased difficulty of doubling the number of entry/exit nodes wouldn't drive the cost of this attack into the realm of the unachievable even for modestly wealthy individuals.
Sorry, I meant music under free licenses like creative commons. Free means at least free to share to me, not free to download for personal use.
Now that is interesting, thanks :)
Get better friends? Block people who's updates don't interest you?
I was trying to give a single example that fit within the framework of small decisions, but yes there are definitely bigger decisions too.

I would argue that the soda vs water is easily worth $100k at retirement. Two times a day a person might make that choice. That's $4 a day, 365 days a year or $1460. Or $43,800 after 30 years. Once you add in some kind of compounding interest (I know there is very little yield available these days, but that's not the norm) you can easily hit $100k.

I guess part of my thinking is that it's not even JUST the big decisions that a person makes, but ALL the decisions they make. You can come out ahead on any/all of them and the effects are cumulative.
Too big! I've got good eyes, so I prefer a small, high-res screen. I love the size of the regular Kindle models
No, it's not a review. It is an ill-informed complaint. This is akin to a reviewer writing a review of a book they had not read. You can no more review a product based on it's "features" than you can review a movie based on its trailer.
I agree with that, but what is different now is that crypto has gone from something that will impact a few investigations to a fact that law enforcement and intelligence agencies will have to live with, and there will be much money to be made trying to build NSA-proof services.

The previous battles are I think small skirmishes compared to what is coming.
How much your employer is willing to pay you for the work you do.
RyanAir is not the dark pattern. The tricked-into-insurance aspect is.

Your comment was regarding conversions and upselling (purporting it as a dichotomy to do those yet deride dark patterns), yet neither of those ever need dark patterns -- if you have a compelling pitch that makes the customer knowingly and intentionally choose the option, you have legitimate business gains.
No idea. Sounds like the kind of thing that gets started based on a misunderstanding like someone saying "we wrote that in C++" in reference to part of the chat system. Either way, my point was that facebook isn't a PHP shop. Erlang/C++ or just plain C++, neither is PHP.
Absolutely not. WASD Keyboards has reputation for impeccable build quality, reliability, and support. The combination of MX Clear switches (somewhat rare), backlighting, thick steel backplate, combined with the build quality put this in the "you get what you pay for" category as far as I can see. The comparisons that this poster linked to aren't really comparable when it comes to fit and finish...apart from maybe the Filco, which is the exact same price!

It may seem absurd to spend $100+ on a keyboard to many/most people, but there's definitely a subset of people who really enjoy a nice feeling, reliable mechanical keyboard.
Use my dummy account: asdf123@asdf.com / asdfasdf

You don't have to confirm it by email, so you can just put anything in.
There's also a counterintuitive "always choose row 3" option, where you make yourself more likely to be downgraded but also more likely to be offered a travel voucher under United's fairly generous distance-based compensation policy (internal documentation "GG OVS DOWNGRADE").
> You can be compelled by the courts to actively perpetuate a lie?

tl;dr Yes, these NSL have compelled people to directly lie.

And I don't see why the courts couldn't do that, as lying isn't even a crime. Maintaining the posting isn't even actively telling a lie, you're just not changing anything from the way it was before. So I could definitely see the same court that authorized these sweeping movements also supporting prosecution if you tip your hand on these matters; it's national security on the line, after all!

And even if the courts wouldn't force you to lie, the FBI could still attempt to prosecute you for not lying, and for taking action that directly reveals your receipt of the letter. Even if the court is opposed to it, it will be a lengthy process, and because of "national security!" you may not even get that far. From the government's perspective, you're enabling terrorists through secret and underhanded messaging, so you're already behind the ball both in the judicial court and in the court of public opinion.

Take, for example, the necessarily anonymous writings from 2007 from an NSL recipient:

> Living under the gag order has been stressful and surreal. Under the threat of criminal prosecution, I must hide all aspects of my involvement in the case -- including the mere fact that I received an NSL -- from my colleagues, my family and my friends. When I meet with my attorneys I cannot tell my girlfriend where I am going or where I have been. I hide any papers related to the case in a place where she will not look. When clients and friends ask me whether I am the one challenging the constitutionality of the NSL statute, I have no choice but to look them in the eye and lie.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03...

So yes, even the person who has done the most to stop NSL, has been compelled to lie directly to his friends and colleagues.
about the left alt key, the author is an emacs user - so alt position is really important (Alt-X is a very popular shortcut). You can see on the pictures that alt keys positions do differ, sometimes as much as 1/4 of it's (alt keys's) width - it IS a lot.
I also have charges against me on the grounds of free speech. Would that qualify me for asylum?
Unless this is a purely intellectual excercise, since there is no money at stake here - I wouldn't waste time on it. If you get slashdotted, use it as a badge of honor, and then build infra if it happens often. Just my 2 cents.
A/B testing empirically measures the value of any technique to improve the value being optimized; if you the value you are optimizing for (based on what it is you are measuring in the A/B test) is not "effectively communicates the value of your product", but, e.g., "increases conversions", then dark patterns which optimize the value sought (increasing conversions) by "confusing the user into spending money" will be favored by A/B testing.

There is nothing intrinsically favoring honest communication or opposing dark patterns about A/B testing.
I'm reminded of this quotation: "Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood" - Lionel Trilling

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/where_misunderstanding_serve...

What if this misunderstanding regarding accents is just a standard attempt at stirring up controversy?
The right way to have communicated would have been "Oh shit, I didn't mean it that way, sorry guys. I understand how that may have come across poorly." instead of "What me racist unpossible!"
Actually, that story was later proven to be false and hysterics drummed up by the woman who was searched.

Skip to the update:
http://watchdog.org/98870/feds-raid-home-after-couple-search...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/01/employer-...

Her employer tipped off the FBI after seeing suspicious searches show up in their logs. Not Google.

Please check your facts and leave the tinfoil hat hysterics at the door.

I'm worried about what the NSA is doing too, but making shit up doesn't help.
I'm with you here, 100%.

It should be obvious to anyone who has participated in a karma based discussion board like reddit or HN.

First, all the karma goes to the first explanation. Everyone understands it when the idea is explained. Replies to a naysayer usually get 1/10th of the original reward because new information isn't usually provided with the updates.

Next, there are many people who can only interact with ideas by contradicting them. Without putting a value judgement on that behavior, it isn't worth continuing a public discussion with them to enlighten them, unless they make you realize something you're missing.

Finally, controversy competes with truth, understanding, and imagination in the human brain. By replying to someone creating controversy, all the positive effects of your idea are diluted, and all people take away is the fact that there was a controversy surrounding what you said.

Anyway, these are my experiences. I'm open to the possibility that there is a way to reply to controversial disagreement, but unless it's a private message, I'm not aware of it right now.
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