skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, even the most compassionate person on the planet has limits to what debate it wants to entertain. I think we should stick to people that truly want to learn the truth and ignore the ones that simply want to muckrake. Unfortunately a lot of people "learn" from pictures with quotes on them posted on a social network, and it just wastes everyone's time. It's up to us to either address it or ignore it. I'd rather ignore it and reach those that can be reached. Because unfortunately I've found that digging into a topic with people that parrot statements without much basis in fact that they lose all interest. How can you convince someone that philosophically believes that the world is out to get them, that they should stop talking and listen? This is the great challenge of science, as always.
I believe tnuc's smiley face denoted sarcasm.
Gawker has a writeup of the event at http://gawker.com/horse_ebooks-has-been-a-buzzfeed-employee-...

The exhibit is three people sitting at a table answering phones (specifically not interacting with the gallery) along with formalistic artistic ambiance.

Sidenote: You've got to give them credit. This has been their endgame for years.
The whole article kept reminding me of Tim Minchen's Poem "Storm". I think almost every point was covered, and it made me giggle :)
There was a fascinating article on HN a few months ago (don't have the link handy at the moment) about how most major airlines make less than 25 cents profit on each ticket sold. It's pretty mind blowing when you consider the entire industry operates on such margins.
Idealism tends to blind those that follow it.
It gets a little easier when a company does not follow some legal requirements. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrmyWsflTM
Go has been an absolute blast to use. It's incredibly fun to write, and manages to still be fast after that.
601 Nikles Drive, Suite 12

https://locate.apple.com/service/?pt=4&lat=45.6834599&lon=-1...
"[Update - 9/23/2013] – Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any."
Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking
I liked this article thank you. My theory on dying startups is that if its not working its better to go out with a bang (eg a crazy pivot or a high risk high reward gamble) rather than a bleed out.

FedEx was a good example of this, if I recall correctly the CEO took all the cash they had and went to Vegas with it. Usually wouldn't turn out well, but that time it did. If you need money, and have exhausted all your options you have to take a course of action that gives you a chance, no matter how slim, over the slow bleeding death which would be a long painful and hopeless experience.

Not compromising ethics like you mention is so important in life. Ethical decisions are harder in difficult circumstances (teetering over the cliff of failure) but those moments in life are when your ethics count for the most and mean the most, and as you mention they can also pay off in the long run (but this shouldn't really be a consideration from a purist ethical standpoint). The captain shouldn't go down with that ship.
Killing is killing. Drone strikes hit incorrect and innocent targets ~90% (needs citation) of the time. Are you saying that's any better?
Why can't you ship a basic driver with the kernel that is guaranteed to work with all modern video cards, and then have a website download board specific driver when it comes out? (i.e. the current situation on windows anyway)
"Avoid risks that might kill your startup." I think partnerships are one of the big, overlooked killers of startups.
Indeed my point was that Github itself is not open source but uses open source technologies (git and various bots) and methodologies (distributed team, lazy coordination, it ships when it is ready). Have a look at http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-g... for more information.

I think this open-source-like way of operating makes their great coders happy to work on a closed source project.
This (among other examples) is why I'm sticking with iOS 6 for the foreseeable future. I haven't wanted any new substantive feature of iOS for several iterations - and while the design was tempting for me, if it comes with this much punishment I'm out.
Actually, that's backwards... You know that something is well designed precisely by pretending to be an idiot, and asking yourself if you still know what to do...
If by "interesting", you mean "accurate"
A bank doesn't necessarily need a billion dollars to lend a billion dollars...
Yes, but most of these projects have been abandoned. GitHub for Mac used a similar project but they've also changed direction. There is just too much "stuff" to reimplement. It is really a job only Apple can do
The Fed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System#Monetary...
Ah go for it, it's still fun
> ...it's not an option unless I'm totally and absolutely convinced that you run the perfect company for me...Which you probably do not.

If you're employed and seeking employment elsewhere, for whatever reason, why would you even waste your time interviewing with a company that you didn't think had the potential to be a very good fit?
Robots May Revolutionize China’s Electronics Manufacturing
>> That's quite a selective "Back in Steve's day" memory.

Is there any other kind?
Google Chrome	30.0.1599.47 (Official Build 223717) beta
OS	Mac OS X

All I get are angular javascript exceptions, no results, blank white page.
Is it just me or is all that gray stuff kinda ugly? And I thought WE started the gray trend way back when... (see http://qbix.com) :)

I think iOS 7 is Apple's Vista :-(

Except instead of functionality gaffes, it's the UI changes that no one really wants.
After 5 years of J2EE in the ERP space I was making EUR 52k. But that was 6 years ago.
Ask HN: Which Framework? Why?
My friend and I were chatting yesterday about how many people start projects on Ruby on Rails just because it's familiar. Also, Ruby on Rails is popular enough that it's easier to find engineers to work/collaborate on your project.

Although generic and I understand that each application has its own requirements and therefore technologies will vary, please help me answer the following questions:

- If you're building a new web app today, which frameworks, platforms, technologies, etc. would you use? why?

- Would you choose a familiar framework that allows you to develop faster (because you're comfortable with it) even though it's not necessarily 100% 'right' for the job?

- Would you push your own limit and think outside the box to find a better solution even though introducing new technology to the team could be costly (and possibly unpopular)?
On the other hand, I see a developer's tools as an extension of his or her mind. Enforcing that everyone uses the same tools seems like a great way to encourage hive mind thinking.

Especially proprietary tools that can not be automated or extended is something you should be wary of pushing onto for example a bash and vim wielding programmer, unless your business has no need for major productivity gains to grow or to sustain itself.
No worries, I meant the comments on writing style constructively and not as an attack. I'm happy you took it in that spirit.

Interesting thoughts. I would look a lot more into the changes in the 1960s, though. Personally I see a lot in common.
Exactly right. I've never seen so many articles that completely miss the point of the experience. Instead of "where do I tap?", the point is that everything should be a valid tap target - that's the beauty of a touch-first environment. Everything is tappable. If my 3 year old had no issues when we moved from iOS 6 to 7, then adults have no excuse. These are (so far) all straw-man arguments.
How has the call quality been?
Logarithm-inspired calendar for iPhone
I was working on a similar idea, but didn't have much luck. How much are you charging for the service?
Just one anecdote -- I went through 5 of these before giving up and going down to the 24" model. Horrible image burn-in -- literally 5 minutes of screen appearance would leave a residual image sharp enough to read text off of for 30+ minutes.

(These were bought through 3 different Amazon sellers [well, Amazon and 2 different marketplace sellers], so the likelihood of a bad batch was reduced.)
Wikipedia faces revolt over VisualEditor
I was reading a book on dashboard design by Stephen Phew. I don't have it in front of me so I can't remember the name exactly. One of the chapters was dedicated to Gestalt principles. Basically, it was about how your brain interprets data. An excellent read. The main feature iOS 7 does is it clears the visual clutter, making the content do the talking. That is a huge improvement. According to what I read in the book and from what I observed in iOS 7, it looks to me like they hit the nail on the head with cleaning up clutter. Having used iOS 7 for some time now, it's quite clearly less taxing on my eyes and brain to use.

Pointing out inconsistencies can be fun, but I believe that it distracts from the overall feel you get from using an improved OS.

The arguments of keeping a 90 year old grandmother up to date with the UI seems a bit ridiculous to me. They can always stay on old versions if they need to. You can keep their PCs on Windows XP as well. Progress should not wait for the lowest denominator of users.
Unchecked assumption: the developers most likely to engage with "incendiary" posts about "ditching Responsive Design", or developers that show up at developer conferences, are most likely to be the "top engineers". Why do we think that? How do we validate whether that's true?
Interesting thought, could a newcomer have operated the LCY-JFK service with the same level of success? Or does it need BA's brand behind it to even get off the ground.

P.S. Happy to see fellow aviation geeks here on HN
The missing statistic is what % of users are active.

If 97% of users are inactive, and this affected 1.5% of users, then 50% of active users were affected.
I would assume these margins get even thinner and customer service even worse in the future as most people really do just go to a referral site, grab the cheapest flight and call it a day (I mean honestly, where I'm currently at in life, I don't need comfort on a flight, I just need to get from point a to point b as cheaply as possible and I assume this applies to 80% of people flying).

I was just on a Frontier flight a few months ago where nothing but water was free and they were being EXTREMELY strict about carry on size, which produced probably a dozen or so more $25 bag checking fees from people boarding. I have to expect these fees will only continue to grow in order to make up for lost profits on the original sale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter was another case like that (apparently; I haven't followed horse_ebooks but I was gulled by Racter at the time: I found it hard to believe but I wasn't cynical enough to disbelieve it).
Sounds like you were authorized; if that happened and you read the book what crime would you be charged with? Seriously. Taking advantage of a worker with intent to learn secrets? Totally immoral, not illegal.
Companies don't have feelings.
Zuck Interviewed - With Beer In Hand - In '04
> […] I know there is no way it would be successful.

Here’s an interesting article on a new airline that seems to be doing pretty well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23959197.

Granted, it’s a very different kind of airline that Flohr is creating.
Too bad they aren't using OpenCL. On the other hand, that GPU in my home server might finally have something to do.
I'm pretty sure I still can see what people searched for when ending up on my site in Google Analytics. Or did I misunderstand something?
I wasn't really trying to suggest Rank Voting is the best system. Just that First Past the Post is the worst.
I think one of the major points of iOS7 is that grandma is getting kicked to the curb. iOS devices are designed for people who already know how to use them, or for young people, who will figure them out.
Show HN: Now delete just an attachment and the whole conversation from Gmail
Jeremy Lin now posting on Quora
The reminders app is an abomination and has been since iOS 6. I only use it through Siri ("Remind me to ..."). How did they ever let this app see the light of day?
Yeah I remember trying to emulate ios style scrollbars before they were added to OSX. Yeah not so fun. Now if I had to make a Mac App I'd look into using https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
Interesting to note that the Google IPv6 usage spikes on the weekend (and Friday to a lesser extent).

This suggests work systems are less likely to be IPv6. My guess is that it isn't home which is IPv6 but 4G mobile, which has been deployed entirely within the IPv6 era.
What happened to RailsCasts after 400+ episodes?
That's a very rudimentary view of UX. If I'm writing an app that helps radiological engineers calculate radiation dose, should I pretend to be an idiot? Likewise, in a world where kids have grown up with these devices, should we still think that way about UX? I think we can give users some benefit of the doubt. Each app should have a design that reflects the purpose of the app. Consistency is not always the top priority in UX.
Yes it is an ethical issue, for the doctors and the patients. I just feel like you're giving a free pass to patients that lack expertise demanding particular treatments from experts. I think they are more culpable than the doctors.
Naval Ravikant’s advice for getting your startup featured on AngelList
It works the same in Mac OS and Windows since time immortal as well.
Being a citizen of a third world country (India), this sounds all too surprising to me. Looks like banking in the US is pretty shitty for the poor.

Out here, banking works like a charm. At least, most of the nationalized banks. Nobody pays the banks anything, and they get a little interest on savings/deposits accounts. OD is not outrageously charged. Internet banking and ATMs are very friendly and totally inexpensive. Almost everyone has easy access to banks; with co-op banks and urban banks offering accounts with minimum limits of 500 INR (~9 USD), everyone can make use of banking institutions. Only those people with lots of black money would want to keep much of their stash away from banks to avoid tax authorities.

I am happy that at least our folks got basic stuff like banking right.
No you can't! It says "(not provided)" in GA
Wasn't Nokia already well along a slide into irrelevance at the time Elop took the helm?
How I hacked SIM cards with a single text - and the networks DON'T CARE
You're missing the forest for a stump.

The overall experience is considerably smoother and more cohesive with less cognitive clutter. There is a definite transition period; stick with it and you'll be happier on the other side.
There's a fairly large body of law that hinges on the intent of the individual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)
A gallery installation where you can watch the artists read tweets to callers on the phone seems like an odd and unimaginative way to end it, but maybe I just don't get it.
Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins
U.S. banks have $9.3 trillion in deposits. Since FDIC insurance only goes up to $250,000, and rich people generally have most of their wealth in stocks, bonds, etc, that represents a very broad-based pool of wealth.
I like your analogy. Exactly what crime would you be charged with after calling with SSNs? He committed thoughtcrime, sure, but let's wait until he attempts to follow through with it before charging him.
Is this the next generation of NSA backdoors?
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/what-is-vpro-technology-video.html

Can you sleep well with this kind of technology?
Scala - great language with an expressive type system (many evenings and nights spent reading blogs/books/code trying to adopt its power), I also enjoyed learning functional programming with it.

Akka - Scala/Java actor framework for better concurrency.

Angular.js - very powerful js framework with dependency injection, 2-way bindings. I am more a backend guy so I haven't dived deeply into its Tao yet.
There are 4K resolution wallpapers in OS X Mavericks, and Apple is pitching the 4K display capability pretty hard in the previews of the new Mac Pro. The display alone might cost 3500-4000 dollars though, which is completely ridiculous for an iMac. I look at the iMac as the MacBook Air and the new Mac Pro as the retina MacBook Pro. There can be differentiation.
Elop’s contract gave him a big incentive to tank Nokia’s stock, sell company
Using The Friend Paradox to Maximize Effectiveness at Startup Networking Events
pretty annoying reading articles in safari scrolling down and accidently pulling up the control center
The US government's assertion that it has the right to do this.

What are you referring to, exactly? I thought the scandal was the dubious distinctions being made to specifically avoid "monitoring an entire population", and the lack of oversight to prove it.
How we tripled our revenue by adding one button
Except this doesn't seem to be borne out in reality. I have installed it for people in their 60's, 70's and 80s who find a Mac barely usable, who have had no trouble at all with moving to iOS7 after using iOS6.
Presumably you haven't tried it and are just relying on blog posts for your opinion.
I don't know about the parent comment you are asking- for me, ADD diagnosis all my life helped me understand my quirks. Why I'm impulsive, why I have trouble concentrating (especially in XYZ environment). Knowing what to google or ask councilor for help with. It helped my parents raise me since they were able to work with my quirks.
My sister has autism and was diagnosed in her early twenties. Same with my husband. They are under that high functional Aspergers spectrum that the article author is describing - intelligent, introverted, few behavior/social quirks. From what both of them have told me, having that 'name' they can attribute their quirkiness helps them deal and manage rather than a vague 'being weird/different/wrong' feeling otherwise.
Struggling, San Jose tests a way to cut benefits
Appleism. They use the words "Get Info" where Windows says "properties" in OS X too, including cases where the properties/info are editable. One of those cases where Apple is stuck with a bad decision they made a long time ago.
A laptop how cute I would expect a decent mac pro if I was going to be using that as my main dev machine and have a couple of pool laptops for when you need to be mobile

And if your not developing a mac application - why would you develop on macs?

You should normaly (ie 99% of the time) develop on identical hardware to that on which production is going to be running - rules out all the risks of differences between dev and live
It’s not the code changes or downtime you have to worry about — it’s convincing all of your customers to enter their billing details again (if you can’t get the vaulted cards transferred).
That's an actual CFAA crime because you have literal unauthorized access to the laptop. No further explanation necessary.
What Has 100 Blog Posts Done for My Business?
No, it's killed so no-one can upvote or reply. Not sure why though but maybe you were flagged as a spammer.
According to Gawker, the current owners purchased the account from a Russian spammer in 2011. Before that it presumably was indeed an algorithm for promoting crappy ebooks and not an art project.
So let's speculate about what the article almost-but-doesn't-quite propose:

The NSA, or related parties, was responsible for the breach. There was an investigation and postmortem, but because of an NSL or other gag-type order, they couldn't accurately publish what they discovered. So they figured that not releasing a report was better than releasing a report that either intentionally misled or pretended not to have figured out what happened.

I know, this is a pretty big leap. But regardless -- what does it mean? What are the ramifications if this is what happened?
For those interested in learning more about geology, I highly recommend John McPhee's Annals of a Former World [1]. It won a Pulitzer in 1999. Through a series of 5 books written between 1978 and 1998, McPhee weaves together the geological development of North America with highly detailed and beautifully written portraits of the geologists that study various sections of the continent. It touches on both basics of geology and highly detailed accounts of geological events in North America as they were understood at the time.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee/dp/037...
Horse_ebooks, meet Pet Rock. Pet Rock, Horse_ebooks.
plastic breaks
Am I alone in being slightly disappointed to discover that Horse_ebooks is not a robot?

I've had to conduct a mini-self analysis on this news, as I find myself disappointed. Why?

All I can come up with is that I found joy in the befuddlement caused by my brain trying to make sense of the non-sensicle almost-marketing speak. The fact that it was (supposedly) accidental somehow added to the joy. But I can't think of a good reason why. Was it that I thought some spammer was wasting clock-cycles making me laugh rather than selling me viagra?

It reminded me of Steven Frank's "Spamusement!" (which I also found very funny back in the days of email.)

http://spamusement.com

And Panic's love of Horse_ebooks is where I first learned of it.

EDIT: I've just been back to spamusement.com and, yes, it is still really funny. DO NOT start looking unless you have half an hour to waste!
Often times, its the smallest changes that generate the most success.
The Legend of Touch ID: Security and skepticism
The Layout is also a very tricky part. On iOS the app is always in full screen. On OS X, there are infinite number of display sizes and the user can dynamically change the size and ratio of the window of your app.
Well put and a nice addition to the article. Please post more :)
Both of your scenarios are inapplicable because physically entering a property is totally unlike communicating with a public machine in the way it was intended to be communicated with.
Interesting to get someone else's perspective on what cut backs they made and how they evaluated the decision. And always good to hear that it worked out pretty well.
Most distributions use two binaries: ipython (for python 2.x) and ipython3 specifically for python 3, unfortunately.
They will. Apple always do that when they release new hardware within ~2 months of a new major MAC OS X
What I'm still wondering... was Horse_ebooks was linking to completely unaffiliated spammy content, or did they build an entire constellation of shitty websites?

And, most importantly, who actually wrote this visitor-triggered cron job script[1][2]?

[1] http://quotestatusjoke.com/twitter/tw.php

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171355

EDIT: A ha! It appears they purchased Horse_ebooks from an actual Russian web developer in 2011 (who ostensibly actually built quotestatusjoke.com), and linked to legitimate crappy third party self-help ebook websites.
LifeHacksSingapore
Wouldn't that make it Apple's Windows 8?
Microsoft Surface preorders are open with more info
It's not as accurate, but you can still get an idea about keywords traffic from Google using webmaster tools (Search Traffic -> Search Queries)
It's likely only the "best selling desktop computer ever" because of the abundance of choice for non-mac users. Not sure how that's relevant to the parent's point though...
Twitter Picks NYSE for $1.5B IPO
What are some shortcuts that others have made that have caused bigger problems? What are some risky shortcuts that others have made that turned out surprisingly well?
Less than a third of new iphone traffic comes from 5C.
This might be a sign that sales of 5C are not as encouraging as Apple and analysts were trying make us believe. Other possibility is that mixpanel does not track traffic in emerging markets iphone 5C was targeting.