skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted the 'inaccessible' comment to mean that it was difficult to follow for someone 'non-technical'. (We forget sometimes that stuff that is completely obvious to us flies miles over some peoples heads.)
You are an outlier and will always be an outlier. I've had email since I got my first modem in 1985. I've had hundreds of email addresses between BBSes, online services and the Internet. I've happily deleted all the mail and given up the addresses for all but a handful.

What might change at some point is A&E launching a Digital Hoarder reality show wherein people with such a storage proclivity can get the help they need.
Things US did for Brazil:

Sent aircraft carriers, ships and soldiers to help depose a democratically elected president, just because he wanted closer ties with China and wanted to do agrarian reform.

Disappeared lots of people (I don't know any personally, because I am too young, but I DO know personally lots of people that still want disappeared people back)

Spied on us (erm, that part still applies, no?).

Sabotaged our agriculture (ie: some plagues started after US agrarian engineers visited us to "help" with our agricultural technology).

Supported and funded very repressive crazy dictators that killed boatloads of people.

What the USSR did for us during the cold war: Gave us some really cool technical books in spanish (yes, our language is portuguese, but spanish is good enough), I still have a bunch of them, they are really good, somewhere around my house there is calculus books, structural engineering, and lots of other cool stuff, russian books but written in spanish, targeted at Latin America.

USSR borrowed us some scientists (Russia and Ucraine still do, by the way).

Helped our exiles, not only left wing ones, but right wing ones too.

Sold us some very interesting stuff, even if shitty sometimes (example: during the cold war Lada cars were very popular here).

Computers! (for example when some companies here tried to develop a computer compatible with the Macintosh, US government helped Apple in forcing them to stop, while Russians borrowed us some engineers and books)

Now, who were our real enemies in cold war again?
Great, I'll try your service instead of desktop sharing the next time I'll have to show the service to some user. Thx
Yes, it's huge. C programs on linux normally defaults to a 8 or 10 MB stack per thread, and that is considered huge by many.
I love this comment, thanks for writing it. There is a DEFINITELY a theory and a method to design. I would never say otherwise, and you're absolutely right.

The second part of your comment was precisely what I was getting at: people who hijack "UX" or the "design perspective" as a way of justifying their preferences without any further discussion.

I literally saw this happen the day I wrote this post. They offered no other explanation than "The design perspective says..."

If you're working with a grid, you can certainly discuss how something fits or doesn't fit, or works within that grid. Colours have meaning, hierarchy is crucial in aesthetics and usability, and typography is a whole discipline of its own. I wholeheartedly agree.

If someone knew all of that and used it to justify their choices, they wouldn't need to co-opt the "design perspective" as their argument of choice.

It's when someone says that "Blue is the best colour for links" or "the 960 grid is the most usable" or "sans serif is the most readable" — from a design perspective — that we have a problem.

Thanks again.
Kellogg experimented with a 30-hour work week starting in 1930. The experiment lasted until 1985, though the company started phasing it out in 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg_Company

Thye found (in the 1930s) that the reduced work week paid for itself in reduced workplace accidents. However, after WW2 companies moved to employer-paid accident insurance instead of paying out-of-pocket workman's comp, and as a result, the cost savings would be socialized anyway. This tilted the equation back toward an 8-hour day, at least from management's perspective, though employees remained staunchly opposed to the longer day for a generation.

What ultimately killed it was a status thing: by the 70s and 80s, employees on the 30-hour work week felt like they were "slackers", and didn't have the same social status as those who worked harder.
We need Title IX for funding women's startups
Great article but terrible (misleading) title. :)

Unfortunately, the info is mostly helpful in hindsight. One must have had an experience with a so-called "UX expert" to really appreciate this article, but I'm not sure it would have helped me in occasions I had the clash with some self-appointed UX "guru"... But it was a fun read nevertheless and very very very true! Thanks!
I'm suggesting you could rebut his argument here instead of just insulting his integrity.
Typechecking JavaScript is feasible. But will be really hard in practice.

We have worked for years on the Opa technology, cf. http://opalang.org. Opa is a typechecked language with a JS syntax that compiles to JavaScript. Unlike JS though, the semantics of the language borrows to functional programming languages, to ensure the type system is sound and type checking feasible with almost full type inference.

Opa does more than type-checking to JS, but even if you just want to typecheck JS, basically you should look to design and implement a new programming language, with a syntax as close as possible to JS but with proper semantics and then that compiles to JS after type-checking. You could add a set of tools to help port actual JS code to this new language.
Shifu: Smart ToDo and Task Management app for Android
MtGox does not have the money, that is no secret, but it is NOT because they are a scam.

It is because US government poached their money.
UK Startup makes GEW Top 50 2013 
Paul Branson Startup Founder of http://www.infogurushop.com [Infogurushop.com] has made the GEW Top 50 list 2013 for his innovative and high-growth potential Business Video Directory with video advertising and mobile global initiative.

See the GEW Top 50 list here: http://startupopen.com/gew50/profiles-from-2013/

The winner & finalists will be announced on 18-24 of November 2013.

Twitter: @infogurushop
> Basically, I think Google's decision to do not encrypt the traffic is a gross negligence and I would love to see how someone would sue Google for it.

Wow. Just wow.
Intimidating is often the point. I'd imagine it's a reflection of the culture, in this case that timidity may be eaten for brunch at the daily stand up.
150ms latency should be fine for almost anything that's not an FPS game.

Systems like onLive are capable of bringing high-end graphics to low powered devices like tablets, netbooks, and notebooks, phones even.

And keep in mind that 150ms will reduce as our technology gets better and more servers get deployed.
I love when people list some fallacies online. It's a good reminder of the practices you need to avoid. This article does that in a funny way but the problem i see is the lack of solutions that the author offers in it. There's little to learn in there, in my humble opinion, for any person interested in UX.

This article would be awesome if every point is related in the sense of situations. For example, you're in situation A where you probably will need to use the infamous X argument, don't use it, try to argue Y better. That explains both problem and best exit and, also denotes the process you need to do for making a seriously good UX.
To be honest, both "User Experience Designer" and "Information Architect," especially the latter, have a ring of bullshit, but they are at least in common enough use that I know approximately what the job actually entails (again less so with information architect).

So when you make the change to "Experience Architect," dropping the "User" prefix, it becomes vague to the point where I literally had no idea what you did for living, although I guessed from the article's content that you worked in UX somehow, presumably designing user interfaces or consulting about them. But as someone who (rightly) rails against vagueness in marketing and against bullshit that masquerades as expertise, I would think you'd be averse to a title which trades clarity for puffery.
Thanks for summing up my thoughts.
Impact of Classroom Technology
I don't believe that transparency reports are filed with the SEC. Wikipedia has a list of filing codes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_filing
IE11 and WebGL - broken?
Now Open: Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store
>But why couldn't it?

It would likely violate the First Amendment. See, e.g., Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977), holding that a state cannot compel an individual to display the state motto on his vehicle's license plate.
But it doesn't fix §702 fully, does nothing to end BULLRUN (undermining encryption)

Nor should it. Undermining the encryption used by legitimate surveillance targets and intercepting their communications is what the NSA is for. The point of legislative solutions isn't to stop having a signals intelligence agency. It's to limit that agency to spying on people it legitimately believes to be terrorists, agents of hostile foreign powers and the like.
I think its due for another crash and I'll wait until that happens. Plus with this Senate hearing who knows what could happen to the price after that.
'Privacy' currently is just a facade, most people have just not realised that. Here is an interesting fact, that joe public do not realise.

If you have a mobile phone, you can be tracked, even if there is no GPS on the device. Besides this if the NSA chooses, they can track practically ANYONE in the world, all they need is a mobile number. I would not be surprised if this is actually one of the tools they have.

How?

Due to the nature of how GSM and mobile operators integrate when roaming. When a mobile operator signs an international roaming agreement, they setup signalling links between their switches and VLR's (Visitor Location Register).

The mobile operator in the visited country needs to authenticate you against your home network, this happens via SS7.

Once this link is established, it is assumed to be trusted, and most operators DO NOT apply any filtering on these commands. So with a carefully crafted SS7 command, you could request the location of a mobile subscriber, even if they have not even attempted to join your network.

Now here is where it gets interesting, get access to send ss7 commands from an operator with many international roaming agreements, and you can get details on practically any subscriber. Get access to 2-4 (i.e AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodaphone) of these massive tier1 operators, and you can get the location of practically everyone with a mobile handset.
I've always meant to get read Slack. I read The Deadline and Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies, both were excellent.
Side effects on HashMap implementation change
The naming is way to close to snafu.
Finding the right CDN for our startup
Interesting app.
Also, the website's source code seems to contain a secret code. When you type it in, it unlocks teh funnies :-)
That's admirable. It's unfortunate that a majority of the money discussion folks in HR will end the conversation if a candidate doesn't give a current salary.
Even for something so old and outdated? Because I have done consultancy work for some banks and have seen things (mostly incorrect data to be fair) changed in under half an hour once pointed out.
"IRQ 5, DMA 1" anyone?
Assume each report is created from scratch, not adding the canary language is different from removing them.
This has been my experience. I 8x'd by downloads by using this site. They've got excellent analytic tools for determining which keywords are important in your market.

EDIT: Responding to grandparent, I only get a review every few days, and I have less than 200 reviews. Nevertheless, this report did provide some interesting insight. Too soon to tell if I'll be able to translate it into a valuable decision. But I like that sensortower has been innovating on ways to analyze your data.
Too bad. It was 'refreshing' to step back in time to an old pc game!
I always feel super lazy when I read these articles criticizing excessively long work weeks. Honestly, I think 40 hours is way too long, especially when the bulk of it is boring.

That being said, when you're working on something you enjoy and you get into that "flow" state, time becomes irrelevant. If something is fun and energizes you, you can do it without watching the clock, which the author does with his side projects.

If you work at a regular job and say you get into that flow state for 2 hour or so, when you're done, you realize, "shit, i have to be here for another 6 hours." Then you spend a lot of time dicking around on the internet/answering e-mails/doing non mentally taxing stuff. However, those 6 hours are actually pretty draining/depressing because you have to maintain the illusion that you're working + deal with the guilt that you're not being productive.

I dunno, maybe I'm just especially lazy and would like to spend as little time as possible working on things I don't enjoy.
Strange.

$ whois internet.org
Domain Name:INTERNET.ORG
Created On:19-Oct-1993 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:13-Aug-2013 16:48:00 UTC
Expiration Date:18-Oct-2022 04:00:00 UTC

Facebook did not exist yet in 1993 (Facebook.com itself was registered in 1997)
Perhaps even more infuriating than this is the notion that by virtue of being a user of a system, the user knows how the UX should be.

It's often repeated that "developers don't know UX", but some has taken that to mean that UX/UI decisions should be taken by anyone other programmers.
What's with the obsession about (static) typing?

I have written code in untyped languages all my life and it has never been a problem for me.

The only problem I see with bigger JavaScript apps is the callback-hell.

Funny thing is, most to-JavaScript languages focus on the type aspect.

If I could write linear asynchronous code everything would be much more readable after coming back to some code a few months later.
> hit win, type "term" hit return, hit win-uparrow, expect a fullscreen terminal

Unity version:
hit win, type "term" hit return, hit F11, expect a fullscreen terminal
The issue is that Kubuntu's default has a lot to desired compared to OpenSUSE's KDE polish or Arch Linux's vanilla KDE. I always found Kubuntu more work and less "useful."
Open Well-Tempered Clavier - Open source Bach
I dislike "Architect" being used in this way. Programmers particularly like the word.

As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't designing buildings in the real world, you aren't an architect, and have just co-opted that title in an attempt to appear more that you really are.
Since this is a yearly transparency report, they don't have to remove anything from previous/existing report and can argue each report is created from scratch.

The issue then becomes: can the government compel you to add lies to a document you're crafting?
In the next LTS release of Ubuntu, you will get Unity and not GNOME3 by default. Unless of course you remove Unity and go with GNOME3.
Even though I agree with your overall sentiment, one of Meteor's selling points seems to be that it brings more convention to the wild west world of Node. In that regard it shares at least one of Rails values.
Five press releases in one day? mCASH have been busy.
Today, anyone who ever bought bitcoins can sell their coins at a profit. When an airplane or car crashes, the losses are irretrievable. But when an asset is at an all time high, I don't really think the word "crash" for earlier fluctuations makes much sense.
> So any lurkers out there, I encourage you to stop lurking and join the community.

Yes! If anybody is reading this without an account, make one! It took me far too long to start commenting.
What is your experience? :) What CDN are you using for your startup today? /Robin
There are several cool demos on this site:

http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/NaturalLanguageForm/

http://tympanus.net/Development/MorphingDevices/#

http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/ResponsiveRetinaReadyMenu/

http://tympanus.net/Development/PageTransitions/
Somewhere a forgotten IIS 3.0 server has caught fire, burned to a crisp, and is now in Windows NT heaven.

These two are still available in all their glory, at least:

http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/

http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/
I'm surprised there is no mention of database engines within this article. Presumably, only InnoDB is being discussed here since MyISAM does not support transactions at all.
Caloric surplus is meaningless. You are not a 4 phase combustion engine.

A lot of foodstuff a person ingests get used for other things - building, repairing tissue, making proteins and all other stuff that people need to be alive except oxidation for fuel.
I bounced off of HN a bunch of times before settling in. But once I understood what I had found, my life has thoroughly improved. This is because, despite HN's flaws, and some aspects of this community, the comments that I read here give me the one thing I've always been looking for in a general news site, and that's clarity.

Reading comments on HN is like having wallhacks turned on. Spend enough time with this community and you start to see the world in a whole new light.

Reddit is just one-liner/image/jokes one-upmanship. Speciality forums are too focused to serve as a daily news site. Main stream tech news is always late to the party, and often has insights that are either pointless or incorrect. LessWrong is just irritating and full of long winded blow hards.

HN is the right mix of diversity, intelligence and news volume.

I love this site.
That would be one massively boring show :)

Maybe you are right. I don't think so though; people are lazy and if the default status is that you can keep everything you have anyway (considering the allotted yearly storage growth and the plummeting prices of storage in general) you won't bother deleting anything.

You seem to come from the same time as I do ; I had my first modem around '85 and was very active on BBSes. I ran my BBSes, for most of the 80s, of 720 kb disks, so I do know what storage limitation was. It's just not there anymore. Gmail now easily handles all of this and so should some other solutions imho, especially the ones wanting to compete with gmail. Google said; 'never delete another mail' and i'm sure people got used to that by now for all cloud services.

The mail address and email hoarding came when I started making serious companies. And it's not like they bother me or whatever. Maybe I will throw everything away some time, but for now; I dodged an almost million euro gov fine a few years ago by having a complete mail conversations + attachments with my employees between 2002 and 2004. I would be in a whole load of crap if I wouldn't have those anymore.
It works now! Had to boot my phone for some reason. Looking good :)
Why on Earth are you comparing a suppressive regime to the a western democracy?

Of course the Chinese gov is able to do so without any repercussions. The difference should be that in a democracy you can't abuse your power without repercussions.
When the economy improves, the poor live better and there are less of them living in the worst conditions. Otherwise, the economy wouldn't be improving. Call that uplifting, or social mobility or any other hip buzz word if you like. Doesn't change the fact that by helping the economy and creating jobs, the internet helps the poor by default. I witnessed it myself when living for years in the third world but it's a well known fact too that the internet helps the economy and creates jobs (and therefor helps the poor). Maybe you need to live in the third world for a while to see the direct positive impact the internet has on the poor and get out of your bubble.
> Never assume that the data you’re dealing with is UTF-8 — ASCII appears identical unless you view the hex to see if each character is taking one byte (ASCII) or three (UTF-8).

Um, what? This is just wrong. ascii-equivalent characters only take one byte in UTF-8. Other characters may take two, or three, bytes.

If the author actually viewed text in ascii that, when in UTF-8, had three-bytes per character.... I don't know what they were looking at, but it wasn't UTF-8.
You might want to take a look at https://github.com/philbooth/check-types.js
You're lucky you only have to read PDF or DOC files (or as somebody said: "the winners").

These last two months, I've manually parsed old databases[0], some dating back 2001. Locked formats with unknown specs, schemas embedded in applications (good luck digging that out with IDA), data storing that makes no sense, losing your hair out,...

[0] Drop me a mail if you want to reverse-engineer an HyperfileSQL DB from around Y2K, I can help on that if you pay me with Red Bull.
Your thoughts are not uncommon, unfortunately, but they come from a lack of, or confusing, information... not a high level of bullshit.

And oddly enough, I wrote an article about that too. :) Maybe this will help:

http://thehipperelement.com/post/47950319899/do-you-have-the...
Whatever Happened To Pingbacks?
Tax evasion in EU/US by Google/Apple is beyond imagination.
Everything gives cancer according to scientists. Also everything protects from one according to other bunch. We die from cancer mostly because there isn't much left to die from - the medicine is keeping all the other stuff in check pretty well lately.
>I made once a Arcade game (cabinet, code, everything). And took it to Campus Party Brazil.

Sounds like an interesting project, and unusual for a DIY arcade cabinet for having custom code. Do you have a write-up about it or a public repository? I'd like to read more about it.

As for

>"Some dude brought this illegal counter-strike server disguised as arcade game."

that's a pretty absurd claim. Did your machine run any arcade games that vaguely similar to Counter-Strike (like VirtuaCop 2)? That's the only way I can think of a person who knows nothing about video games could come up with that idea without simply lying.

Edit: Are anti-gamer hit pieces common in Brazilian media?
It definitely won't get fixed if all people do is bitch about how it's totally impossible to fix on internet forums.
Apparently the busy web developer has no time for database engines (certainly not MyISAM anyway :)
As a student or a freelancer it working at night looks good to evade distractions but always pay attention and do not mess up your sleep schedule too much so you can avoid having problems with your health or your social life. These are very important even if you neglect these questions (I did it when i was a few years younger).

Since I have a full time job I prefer to wake up earlier if I need to work on something apart from my main job. I was a night owl for many years but I discovered mornings are pretty good also - you can find some beauty in it: nice, fresh weather, a good coffee and the less noise are your best friends for sure. Also by being fresh you can make sure that you are at your most productive state. If you do something in the morning and/or in the afternoon then it is convenient to rest and sleep at night.

I think that this depends on the type you are and not just on your biorythm but the social situation you are in.
Agreed. Dynamic typing is fine once you get used to it, but the only thing I've found to solve the callback hell is a publish / subscribe architecture, which brings its own problems.
If someone else held the copyright to the code and it was licensed under the AGPL, then it would be illegal to not open source such contributions. Of course, the government could work around this by providing their own mail server software or by just disregarding it.
26x the number of pixels, but you have over 200 times the ram available and that's assuming your app only gets 100mb (and that AmigaOS takes up zero resources). The default Amiga had an 8 MHz, 16 bit processor which again is less than 100 times what's available now on an average device. I just can't see modern devices being construed to be nearly as resource restrained as personal computers from the 80s.
oh my god, facebook is the new AOL.