skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The front page of reddit can be a cruel mistress

My wife and I had one of our wedding pictures take the number one spot on /r/all one day -- There was some rather embarrassing text super-imposed on it that said "Oh you think married women still give BJs" (google Condescending Wife to find it).

Despite some of the comments in the thread being pretty mean, my wife and I took it in stride, we're both internet people, we get it; we thought it was pretty funny all things considered --

The awkward part of all of this though, was this picture was EVERYWHERE for about a day. All over Facebook, Tumblr, etc. So countless friends and family inevitably saw it. I got a call from my concerned father, asking me if everything was ok and if I had seen what the internet had been saying about me and my wife. I explained to him that we didn't really mind and we left it there as explaining reddit to him would have been near impossible. But it was just a really surreal experience. We got dozens of texts and emails that day all asking if we had seen the picture.

The best part of the the internet's short term memory is how quickly this image found it's way into obscurity; to be completely forgotten. No ill harm to my wife's nor my reputation.
Every indicator in mobile is trending the wrong way for Apple right now. The Play store is gaining in every metric and their market share overall keeps slipping. You think they can afford to ignore this forever?

Maturing markets are fundamentally different from emerging markets. Historically Apple's been very good at inventing new product categories and terrible at competing in mature markets. The strategy they're pursuing now looks an awful lot like the one that eventually lost them the desktop market.

The iPhone 5C actually increases Apple's profit margin over the 5. They could instead shave $100 off the price and bring a lot of new users into the iOS fold and still maintain a healthy profit margin.
Drop me a line at the email in my profile... I'm really interested in how you go about this. I've thought about exactly this product, but stuck on the "If you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" effect, which is why businesses use horrid Excel for this duty in the first place. How do you get them to buy in? Your multi-platform approach might be the answer.

ps: Have you used any of 37signals' products? Look to them for UI simplicity. I think there's a real danger in adding too much functionality here.
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A very powerful command line tool for Machine Learning: http://bigmler.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Create a predictive model is as simple as:
bigmler --train < data.csv

or create a predictive model for Bitcoin volume taking online data from Quandl and parsing it with jq in just one line.

curl --silent "http://www.quandl.com/api/v1/datasets/BITCOIN/BTCDEEUR.json" | jq -c ".data" | bigmler --train --field-attributes <(count=0; for i in `curl --silent "http://www.quandl.com/api/v1/datasets/BITCOIN/BTCDEEUR.json" | jq -c ".column_names[]"`; do echo "$count, $i"; count=$[$count+1]; done) --name bitcoin

More info here: http://blog.bigml.com/2013/01/31/fly-your-ml-cloud-like-a-ki...
Freeing Quickoffice for everyone
Steve Jobs would have. And then unconsciously everyone that ever bought or buy Apple products for that perfectionism that has been inbreed in their spirit.

Jobs is definitely gone. Had he be around, you would've seen tons of cartoon boxes and pink slips delivered to One Infinite Loop. If he would've ever let update like that released into cyberspace (he wouldn't've).

IOS7 clearly shows that John Ive is lost without Jobs.
California becomes first state in nation to regulate ride-sharing
"Nobody says Mozart's first few works were brilliant. It wasn't until he practiced for years that he became a virtuoso."

Are you trying to be ironic? Mozart's first work was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andante_in_C_for_Keyboard_%28Mo..., written when he was 5 years old.

Mozart's the canonical example of somebody who didn't have to practice for years. Obviously he did spend thousands of hours practising as he grew up, but that's a nuanced argument. You'd be much better choosing pretty much anybody else for your example.
The Future of Statistics Unconference
You don't have to GPL your software to use LGPL.
Ask HN: Trying to find Pain Points for business
Basically I am looking for pain points and crappy processes. If you have a job and do something or if you are a business owner and have something that sucks, what is it?

If I could wave a magical wand and build it, what would it be and how would it solve the problem. Thanks!
some big companies like cisco and sun micro doesnt even give out references except for information that you did work for them between this and that time.
I've posted a response here: http://mattvanhorn.com/2013/09/19/a-case-for-cucumber/
Just as "fast food" in not unhealthy because of the "fast" part (there's actually a ton of healthy "fast food" if you actually look for it), but because moving fast is hard and cool, so people cut corners instead of accepting that "slow is how they go" (like re-re-...-re-frying in the same oil as a way for "faster profit" for the fast food industry, or writing code with no/bad tests/documentation).

People should try and find their "natural speed" when coding, and figure out other personal special abilities they have instead of "speed", stead of trying to keep up with the fastest guy in the room and being afraid to give estimates that are x times longer than his, and managers should accept that people work and think at different speeds and "slow" != "stupid", as most Americans tend to use "slow" in everyday lingo.
This is what I have been waiting for...
The idea that code be "self-documenting" is naive at best. Action does not necessarily infer intention, and without explanation can lead to assumption. To reach the code we end up committing a process of thought should have occurred by those who wrote it. For some things such as "boilerplate" code this may not be seen as significant. For others of increased complexity like explaining interactions between two pieces of logic, performing a complex set of logic or the expected usage of an externally provided interface comments are in my opinion essential.

In contrast to what you've said I completely disagree with the notion that the "best code transcends the need for comments". I'd argue the best type of code has the most effective comments in line with code to ensure the next person can gain with the least amount of effort clear understanding of both the rationale and of the functionality that lead to what they see before them.
Oh no, not at all. I realize this has been around for a long, long time (in fact the quote is attributed to Jobs).

I personally think it's as important today as it was back then, and people need to be reminded of it.
A Case For Cucumber
Hey, great idea! I immediately became a backer. My 2yo daughter is already a solid "Memory" card game player and is sure to love this!

My Question: It seems to me there's a big gap between your game and MIT Scratch... In particular, Scratch, though quite good, still has a steeper learning curve than necessary, I think... (i.e. "Robot Turtles" works for 3yo, but then "Scratch" may not be viable for someone under 7yo, I would think.)

Do you agree with this assessment? Do you know of a good next step for a kid that has mastered "Robot Turtles"? Unless I find other alternatives I'm thinking after my kid learns "Robot Turtles" (and is still having fun with this sort of thing) I might need to develop some custom software that can act as a bridge to Scratch.
Sonic the Hedgehog for the Atari 2600
And even though you may not think so at the time that you are giving notice, you may actually want to return to that company at some point. Not giving notice may be seen as burning at least 1 bridge and may land you on the "do not rehire" list.

And it allows time for any "knowledge transfer" that may need to occur.
Very interesting. As with anything like this it would take time for adoption of the new hardware. Also for smaller local businesses to implement it they would need their own app, and their customers would have to care enough about their specific store to install the app. Larger chains would benefit more from this possibly. However most of the people shopping at the larger chains would most likely be running Android, and probably a version prior to 4.3.

There are quite a few barriers to this becoming a big deal, but I am curious where it will go, and if it can be used for things besides welcome messages when you enter a store.
If You Still Think Pot Should Be Illegal, You Are an Asshole
Have they solved the issue of non-deterministic commands e.g. apt-get update, which could mean a Docker container behaving differently.
"Of course, what's done in practice tends to differ, unfortunately."

Exactly... I've never really seen this happen beyond what I would consider "experimental hacking". Maybe it happens somewhere.
good to know that there are these kind of places.
Is the opposite of a 'far more' likely possibility, 'bullshit'? A bit harsh unless you can offer a critique of their methods.
Masses of comments from people one has never met, and likely never will meet, aren't much to be concerned about especially when the comments are based on a single picture with no context. We all quickly build stories based on a single glance or vastly incomplete information. "He looks like a douchebag marketing guy." "The way she walks, she's probably one of those types that...", etc. The really insecure among us go out of our way to post it online. That the Reddit folk built a huge narrative out of a single picture doesn't surprise me.

My personal favorites are the anonymous internet tough guys: "if I ever met him in person, I'd punch him". No, you wouldn't. You'd walk on by in silence, thinking your snarky little thoughts and tell your friends about it later. Because you, sir, have likely never been the first to throw a punch in your entire life.

I'm not saying one is wrong in feeling a little sting in such comments. Maybe it's too many years on Usenet, maybe it's spending way too much time on Xbox Live (that will grow you a thick skin), but I just pay them no heed anymore and let them wallow in their insecurity.

That's not to say that when my mother is referenced on Xbox Live that I don't point out that the 68 year old woman would probably love some time with a young, studly Call of Duty master like yourself.
Will the F-35 Ever Actually Fly?
Reveal-JS Construction Kit
eat24, if I recall correctly.
Google’s fight against aging: The company who cried ‘moonshot’
This looks really great. I just think the claims of "console quality" or "AAA quality" (which I heard associated with Day[9]'s announcement) are a bit disingenuous.

I'm excited that you guys are pushing browser gaming, and what you've done so far looks great. Just please don't fall into the trap of over hyping and then disappointing customers.
AlchemyAPI says it’s delivering Google-level deep learning as a service
I am working on a front-end system for non-profits that will use there Twilio account information, runcampaigns.com. A discounted cost to support 501c(3) organizations will be very good.
Companies like TrueVault can pretty much forget about expanding outside the US after the NSA scandal.

Their target market is already writing the policies and protocols to ensure that in the for the next few decades no bit of data ends up anywhere near US jurisdiction.
I don't think you can expect this type of reaction from a performance. One of the larger issues is that people don't get that it was a performance. Roughly equivalent to taking a picture of a clown and making fun of him for his make up as if he walks around like that in every situation.
Android HDMI-stick mini-PC includes Ethernet port
> What you describe about the development process, ... , is important but doesn't really belong in the source code.

Except that in really big/successful projects, the proper places are outdated specs that end up buried in obscure unindexed archives. This can happen for a lot of reasons, technical debt, intellectual property acquisition, erosion of institutional knowledge due to personnel attrition, etc.

On the other hand, source code is forever. It is the thing that you cannot unknowingly get rid off without getting rid of (your ability to update) the product itself.

> Da Vinci didn't write on the back side of the Mona Lisa the production process for his paints.

If you were a curator of the Louvre Museum, your job would have been easier if he did.
It's based on Brian Tracy's book "Eat that Frog!" which is a great book on stopping procrastination.

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-That-Frog-Great-Procrastinating/dp...
An idea (that might already exist): SMS reminders to take prescriptions. I know, for example, that my great-aunt struggles with this at 79: she's not debilitated or anything, but she's old and doesn't have the greatest memory, and remembering that she has one prescription to take twice every six hours, one to take every four hours, and one every 12 hours makes for a difficult life. (Hell, that's hard for me to remember.)
Don't think that's it. OverlayFS was accepted and also requires patching VFS.
Why Most People Fail at Making Online Products
Does QML have Mac/iOS style constraints?
According to: http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/HIPAA-Administra...

As long as you don't accept payments you should be fine... But talk to your laywer? (Yeah I know...)
I keep on meaning to try out evernote. It seems like it would work well for me from what I have read about it.
Iterative development. It's so easy to press up, add another component to the pipeline, press enter and see the results. Lather, rinse, repeat. LightTable seems interesting development in that regards, it has the possibility to bring similar iterative process to "real" programming languages.
Congrats! Xamarin looks ace.

Has anyone published a decent app on their FREE/Indie plan? I keep wanting to buy our small team the Business edition but it would cost tons.
Oh come on, what a lot of crap.

So our understanding of how tiny particles move in the upper atmosphere is so perfect that it's more likely we would find alien bugs than be wrong about how particles move up there?

I mean, we have a pretty good understanding of the millions of miles of vacuum separating us from any other world. It might be just a little harder for bug parts to escape the gravity well of another planet, travel through space, and then float around in our upper atmosphere than it would be for us to be slightly less than perfect in our understanding of how high the wind can blow little flakes of dust. In fact, assuming these aren't bugs that live in the vacuum of space, wouldn't they have had to pass through the upper atmosphere of wherever they came from before they could have then jumped to be floating around in space, so they could get here?

I will now mock this in the form of a Holmes mystery:

"So how did the Murder happen, Sherlock?"

"Clearly the butler could not have used the car, as we know it did not have enough gas to make it to where the body was found. We also know that no other person was near enough to the crime to have committed the foul act."

"But what could have happened my dear Holmes?"

"Aliens from Neptune murdered this man."

"You can imply the existence of aliens from a murder, fantastic... But Holmes, how could the aliens have moved the body?"

"Elementary my dear Watson, they stole the key from the butler and used the car."

"Astounding Holmes!"

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
This might be asking for trouble, but what are people's views on comments in normal cases? I once worked on a codebase where there were no comments, and people actively worked to remove them. It was a large Java Enterprise codebase and the idea was that anywhere I wanted to insert a comment, I should refactor and rename until the code explained itself.

At first this was horrifying, especially when I was thrown into this comment-free codebase with thousands of files. However it did make me write better code, knowing that I couldn't rely on comments to explain what I was doing. I wrote short functions that were easy to understand, and paid attention to all variable names. It definitely made me a better Java programmer, but outside of that project I still think comments have huge value. I comment my code a ton, and I think it makes it better. Anyone else ever worked in a no-comment zone?
I think http://journalofcosmology.com/ itself is better at telling you how ridiculous the Journal of Cosmology is.
Conduit is extremely intrusive and difficult to completely remove. There is no excuse for its behavior. They very clearly know it's malware and they try everything to keep it installed.

Yes, malware. Not just crap. Crap implies merely bad, this hides from you and tries to influence you and prevent you from removing it. Nothing merely crappy does that.

The last-remaining spot that kept coming back for me was that it wrote itself into Firefox's XUL - no plugin to remove, no toolbar, no hint that it had done something like that. I only found it because I decided to grep every file in every FF directory on my system.

If it gets installed on your system, or on someone else's, and you have Firefox installed, remove all the plugins and crap and reinstall Firefox.
That's why ipython is so nice :)
> wouldn't have any semi-capable static analysis tool caught this?

Using tools to find "errors" can be problematic. see, for example, the Debian random number bug. (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...)

> These lines were removed because they caused the Valgrind and Purify tools to produce warnings about the use of uninitialized data in any code that was linked to OpenSSL.
Take a look at this article: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/covereden...

The definition of who needs to comply with HIPAA has more to do with who has contact with protected health information and less about who the company is (e.g., a hospital or not).
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Ride-Sharing Is Legal in California, Regulators Vote Unanimously
just wondering, why people are so afraid of "burning the bridge". It feels like there is a mentality that the world (or the valley) at the least is small and there will be good chances you meet the people you work with or your boss in future that will interview you?

i have been working in the valley since 96 as programmer and i never gotten interview or at the least needed help from people i work before.
The amazing thing is that Wikipedia says it was founded in 2009. Yet their website looks like it's straight out of ... 1996?
That was my point :)
Why? He's an admin on a YC-backed company...
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A major iteration of the Kunstmaan Bundles CMS for Symfony2
> Anime tshirts? I wouldn't say so.

Depending on where you're at culturally, anime could be relatively obscure.

Hipster is a blanket term that really means something along the lines of "they're doing something unique to others in order to stand out and be 'cool.'" A "geek" may wear a Github or a Mario T-shirt because it's "cool" within their circle, but relatively obscure to the general public.
Correct me if I'm wrong but /dev/random gathers entropy from a number of sources including CPU RNG. If your CPU was owned it wouldn't matter. I run entropy gathering daemons especially for virtualized systems. VMs don't have enough hardware entropy and software like vpn clients will get stuck waiting for data from /dev/random.

There are a number of ways to add entropy. I've used egd and haveged. Use them. It can't hurt.

I suppose you could not load microcode on boot. I've never tried.
I've been suspicious of the value of Data Loss Prevention systems in other contexts, but do you think "endpoint" DLP could help reduce the Dr. Goofböl issue you describe? The surgeon has likely been made aware of the dangers of sensitive data in email. For whatever reason, this user is unable to comply with proper procedure. Can such a user really complain when placed in a DLP jail?
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Jeff, we use twilio for short codes and sell primarily to non-profits. This is awesome for those that want their own short codes, but I'd really like to pass a discounted rate to non-profits through!
I don't think he meant about the particular details. To give a minimalist example, you could say that people who enjoy using old cameras (even though they're not as good as modern ones) share something in common with people who enjoy hooking up their NES and playing Mario 3 (even though some might argue that it's not as engaging as their favorite AAA game).

The two objects of interest are not the same, they're not in the same category, but they're both tied by the same kind of enjoyment for retro things.

So it's not really about which shirts are worn by geeks and hipsters at the same time ...
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Why is it awesome to work at Mozilla?
http://flailingmonkey.com/why-it-is-awesome-to-work-for-mozilla
It's a fascinating example of what happens when very bored people get together online and start swarming about as if they were one person though. Mob rule, hivemind, internet hate groups, react first, research / put into context later.

Also pretty ugly to watch.

I don't bother commenting on Reddit anymore, and rarely on here. There is absolutely no point.
I was in NOLA in February and thought this street poet was quite entertaining: http://www.tout.com/m/hitche and his typewriter is older & cooler :)

I don't care how more street authors and poets "steal" this idea. Please copy, adapt, iterate, mutate, spread.... that's what culture is all about. Improvisational public writing is awesome on so many levels.
It's ok, there's an exception for static linking to create a Go binary.

https://github.com/niemeyer/qml/blob/master/LICENSE

> "As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
("LGPL3"), the copyright holders of this Library give you permission to
convey to a third party a Combined Work that links statically or dynamically
to this Library without providing any Minimal Corresponding Source or
Minimal Application Code"

I'm not sure if there are any other issues with using LGPLv3?
https://github.com/daniel-levin/json2csv

Obligatory here-I-did-it
Definitely. It's amazing to watch a technology accelerate this quickly.
What is the obsession with t-shirts?
"Hate" is a proper subset of "negative reactions".
This document states:

"HIPAA defines a covered entity as 1) a health care provider that conducts certain standard administrative and financial transactions in electronic form; 2) a health care clearinghouse; or 3) a health plan"

which is explained by the flowchart in the document I linked in my other comment. So as long hippaway app doesn't take payments for health services (which you can't do unless you are a certified health provider), I guess she is fine. Yes?
Thank you for your feedback (Firebase Community Manager here). We've heard from many people that AngularFire still isn't quite usable in complex Angular apps and we're working now on making some API tweaks and improving the documentation. Email me (sara@firebase.com) with specific feedback.
In my own experience, programmers vary more than languages do.

I worked with someone who produced very elaborate designs for the most trivial tasks. Unfortunately, his code was more clever than he was, so it often didn't actually work. Whenever I re-wrote something he'd written in the same language, I managed to do it in 1/10th to 1/15th the number of lines, while adding the "actually works" feature.
This is a cool idea. If I was walking down the street with the lady I would totally pay this guy to write us a story. This post however is way too long for me to read. I get the idea though and it's great. I like it.