skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simon's spot-on here as to why Google/Facebook/etc. would be a bad move. The first impulse of most projects is to pull in social, so being mindful of how a user is asked to approach your app is a great place to start.

Cole Stryker has written a couple neat books on the (often constructive) power of anonymous social networks — http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590209745 — although the chasm between Anonymous and a teen support network may be too far to bridge.
So, I called Cavirtex, and they put you on hold saying there are 6 people in line then you just get a fixed voice mail anyway. Apparently there aren't any real phone reps at cavirtex. Disappointing.
I was going to suggest that the headline needed editing since the article doesn't seem to support that conclusion. But then saw that HBR actually used that mis-leading headline.

The research seems to only deal with employee preference and not much with performance.

I'm surprised there is still so much disagreement on what works best and even more surprised how popular open plans are. Open plans only work for the very few people who either never need to talk to anyone and/or are comfortable with do-not-disturb headphones on.
From what I understand, it's hard to known when brute-forced decryption is "done" (i.e., the decryption yielded plain text data that is the original data). As far as I know, machines look for patterns in the potentially decrypted data that look like common formats (or for data that correspond to real letters/words in a certain language). Does visual cryptography make decryption "done-ness" harder to detect?
I recently undertook a serious effort to learn Angular.js for a work-related project. After some time, I reached the point where I think I finally "got it", and I was feeling pretty good about Angular.

Then I did a bit of work with ClojureScript and core.async. WOW! The difference is night-and-day. Even with ECMAScript 6 generators, vanilla JS will have a hard time competing with the CLJS/core.async combo.

Of course, CLJS is very young (somewhere between pre-alpha and beta), and core.async even more so. For that reason, I don't think it's that unexpected that there aren't many people using CLJS exclusively...but I would not be surprised at all if this changes in the coming years.
Luckily, there are more things in Heaven and Earth than "Federal Reserve vs Ron Paul".
I would recommend Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) over CBT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy As I understand it DBT is better at validation of emotions than CBT.
Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body
Its low voltage. Seems unlikely.
When you see people smiling at you in the USA or Germany, it doesn't mean anything other than an overall neutral attitude toward you. A smile is a “level zero” in communication

I don't know about Germany, but in the US if someone is smiling at you, their overall attitude is friendly, not neutral. And yes, that includes store keepers and waiters of which there are plenty that keep a neutral expression just like much of Europe.

There are certainly people in the US who fake smiles. They are not nearly as common as you might think. Heck, research over the last 40 years has shown that faking smiles can genuinely cause happiness.
Whenever I hear about young people asking for advice, it invariably turns into a conversation about regret, etc... And, in hindsight, yes, I wish there were LOTS of things I knew when I was 25. However, I wouldn't have learned any of those things unless I went through the process. At nearly 40 y.o. and back in school, I shoulda, coulda, woulda many times over. But, I also have, done, and did lots of things that I also regretted or turned out to be disappointments. I followed my childhood dreams, in fact, and that turned out to be a nightmare. I also saw this happen to a few friends who pined to work in the video game industry since their youth only to be so severely burnt out several years later to vow off programming forever.

So, all I can at this point it, you won't know what you want to know until you go through those experiences. And, stop listening to everyone else. We're all different and have different values and beliefs. What works for me probably won't work for you. I can say follow your passion, and that may just completely backfire like it did me. I can say save all of your money and be frugal, look at what's happening to most Americans! But, you could end up with cancer and die in your 30's without having truly lived. I guess what I'm saying is, 15 years from now, when you look back at your life, and you think, "Man, I shoulda, coulda, woulda..." Realize, your decisions are half chanced. Just like everybody else's...
I hope they preserve the addon-bar.
Machine Learning as a Metaphor
Funny that growth of this speed can ever be considered 'slowly'
Do you go beyond public sources for you data?

The only thing we really use outside of "public" data is Hoovers.com.

Commission research?

We have not to date, but I think you certainly could / would at a certain point. Think of it as an iterative process, where you're constantly trying to hone in and develop a progressively narrow, sharper, more accurate market hypothesis. IF you reach a point where you need to commission custom research from a research firm, then by all means, do it. Just note that that kind of thing can be very expensive, so you'd probably want to wait until it's truly called for.

There are also a lot of "stock" research reports out there that you can get your hands on... a lot of times you can get them for free by accessing them through a local library, where they might cost hundreds or thousands of dollars if you bought them outright.
loyalty to a corporation or even an smaller LP doesn't count for anything. always ruthlessly cultivate your career, growth & salary potential. And always be looking for a better environment. The "organization" will take everything from you it can to your personal & health detriment.
This is great for those that invested just before the hearings. All the attention given to it will get more people in the US involved. I wonder how much longer can this growth last.
IIRC I saw it on This Week in Startups.
Im confused. Is this a 'support our project' kind of site? Or a 'buy it now' site?

Because it makes no sense to talk of getting ripped off if your intent is to support the idea and help out an inventor.

Kickstarter tries to make this clearer. I see from this project that they couch everything as 'buying' not as 'supporting'.
Was/is it really not possible to "deep-link" into an app? That seems very surprising because it pretty obvious and completely trivial to support.
Firefox: Evolution
"My wife, Marina, was cooking dinner for me and our eight children"

I stopped reading there...
"bad discoverability for the long list of core functions."

IMO it's this and discoverability of libraries for non-core functionality. The books for learning Clojure are all very good, but reading a book is a lot different than working down a tutorial.
Stick some steel wool across a 9v battery and you'll get what I mean.

It's the current, not the voltage.

Video for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWuJokR_mI8
I agree. Zero risk is excellent.

I just think that you should be willing to lose it all to get to a situation where you can zero your risk (whilst keeping a reasonable amount in).
A properly decrypted message should have sharply less entropy than any improperly decrypted one.
But reading "pro euthanasia" information is going to be very very different from reading "pro suicide" information.

> All of this said, and saying this as someone who has contemplated suicide at least once in my life, I don't know much much any kind of app is really going to help.

I gently agree. I hope it gets some research and oversight. And, if it works I hope it takes off.

> Same deal with "Suicide prevention hotlines". My feeling is that many people who contemplate suicide don't want to be talked out of it, and won't call the hotline

The Samaritans tend to say that they're not a "suicide prevention" hotline for that reason. They even say that they'll stay on the phone with you as you die if that's what you want. They say they just listen. This is for exactly the reason you mention - people don't want preachy "don't do it" advice, but they might want to just talk to someone.

> When you're suicidal, you're in a totally different mental state where the normal rules just don't apply.

Yes. And sometimes all that's needed is a small diversion, a bit of distraction, to allow the person to make it through the night without the attempted suicide, and to thus get help from doctors in the morning.

> Which leads back to my saying that you can't really understand suicide, and why I think the GP post was valuable.

I don't understand my own suicide attempts. I certainly don't understand the completed suicides of friends and acquaintances. I'd be foolish if I pretended to understand the completed or attempted of people in other nations (with different cultural expectations and so on). But GPs post (while it may have had a germ of useful information) is just weird and misleading.

Most people contemplating suicide are not in a position where euthanasia would be considered - they're suffering from some mental health problem. "Wanting to kill yourself" is not a rational reaction to life events. At least, not for most of the people who complete suicide. Some relatively minor interventions (a low interest loan of $4,000; some good debt advice; better lawyers and a decent legal system; housing advice; etc) would prevent many suicides. To suggest that suicide is a rational choice when the person is not capable of making a rational choice about life is cruel.
Awesome! I will definitely be considering this
I think the current device was designed only for a small area but Leap's tech easily supports much bigger areas.
Anyone who has read Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language"[1] can easily extrapolate his ideas to cubicles. Alexander pointed out that if you drop any human in an open field with a tree, within a few minutes they'll be sitting with their back to the tree, facing the sun.

We are animals. We get physically and psychologically uncomfortable when our vision is restricted and our backs are exposed. It means we are vulnerable to predators. As such, cubicles are pretty much a nightmare.

[1] Christopher Alexander wrote about architecture, but his terminology was adopted by the design patterns movement in computer science, so it's familiar to most programmers. It's one of two building architecture books I recommend to programmers - the other is Stewart Brand's "How Buildings Learn".
Excellent! I'm glad to hear it.

Yeah— is there a better way I should be doing it?

(Also, as an aside, I've been a huge fan of your work with Firefox for years, so, uh, thanks for everything you've done on it).
Cool editor, thanks for the link.

I wrote a library similar to what you describe for matlab in java: http://www.dishevelled.org/color-scheme/
As a non-american MLB.tv was great this season! No blackouts, every game, hi-def, choice of home or away commentary. I would gladly pay for that every season, and for the NFL. I would even rather they show commercials instead of a blank screen.
I was fired from a restaurant job (many years ago, in Alaska) becuase I "did not smile enough". At the time, it seemed ironic because I was actually quite efficient and smiling had not seemed to be a requirement for actually getting things done.
No, my complaint is that there's a difference between "supporter" and "strong supporter", and that if the latter is to have any meaning at all, the ACLU doesn't meet it.

How do you differentiate a "supporter" from a "strong supporter"? If I firmly believed that the First Amendment only protects pro-government speech, and filed the occasional legal brief in defense of those prosecuted under this interpretation, would that make me a "strong supporter" of the First Amendment? Would you talk about how crazy wicked cool it is that a nutty right-winger like me paradoxically has a thing for protecting the first amendment?

Or, to avoid the issue of weak interpretations of amendments, how about if I had the "normal" 1st amendment views, and had a "pro-Bill of Rights" group that spent only a token amount of effort protecting infringements on speech (or the other 1A stuff), and never to represent any such client? Still a "strong" supporter? Or just a "supporter"?
All very good points. #3 is a very important point. Market research is important, but if you're doing something really innovative, where people may not intuitively recognize the need for the new "thing" you might have to work a bit harder to validate your market.
How can it be more convenient? If you Google "suicide" that information is front and center...
Chances Are: Your Attrition Rates Are Affected by Lack of Agent Visibility
Sharing Economy parte 2 - L'House Sharing
I think OP was talking about Chrome’s tabs specifically. Their appearance and the way they function. Firefox had tabs well before Chrome (and IIRC Opera had tabs well before Firefox).
You should definitely look at vert.x and possibly Spring Boot.

vert.x - http://vertx.io

Spring Boot - http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/
Apple releases iOS 7.1 beta
Ask HN: How do you explain bad design? 
This summer, I started working for a startup based in the auto industry, primarily auto dealerships. One service we offer is web design/development. There are two main problems.

The first problem is that the CEO and other executives have no experience in dealing with handling clients in web development scenario. They are extremely knowledgable in the auto industry but not the web design industry.

The next problem is that car dealerships seem to stuck in 2000 when it comes to web design. For example, see this site (http://johneaglehonda.com/ or http://www.gillmanhondahouston.com/index.htm). In the few months I have been working in my current job position, we have presented a few designs to different clients. What usually happens is the client always goes back to something similar to the example sites I previously mentioned. They almost always prefer horrible gradients, flashy graphics that "pop" and an unnatural use of bevel/emboss.

My question is, how can I explain that the client requests are bad design practices when all the other car dealer websites are similar?
I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money, spend gobs of money on huge office campuses, then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers.

A firm is a hierarchy, and this is a form of social control.
Is the game at home? Then they won.

Go Hawks.
Healthcare has made Obama less popular on Facebook
As someone who rents a VPS in the UK, tell me more about this "move to Europe" thing...
Goals aren't results. A movement with the stated goal of "increasing self esteem" is not guaranteed to actually increase self-esteem, nor is there any guarantee that the only effect of the movement will be on self-esteem. Further, the stated reasons the movement had for increasing self-esteem are themselves goals of the movement, which are also not results; nothing guarantees that increased self-esteem will actually have the results those who were in the movement believe, nor that those would be the only results.

(This is one of those things that when I say it, it sounds trivial, but I observe that there is a very pervasive cognitive bias to assume that stated goals === results, in a wide variety of contexts.)
I have been in Russia when the Kursk submarine sank. This event was on the news for days and whenever an official spoke about it on TV I had the impression that they were admitting guilt. This was not the case I've been told.
The difference in body language is considerable.
Empirically, most suicides have more to do with corrupted thinking processes than a negative total life value expectation. Often the corrupted thinking process can be directly observed without knowledge of the suicide attempt. Often, people who are prevented from suicide are later grateful in ways that are unlikely to be faked.

I don't see much that an anti-suicide app could do in the cases where it is a rational decision, whereas it probably could provide relevant information and perspective to people who need it. So that sounds like an overall good thing (so long as it doesn't invoke forced hospitalization or drug changes or other backfiring interventions).

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-tre...
Yes, because it is such an unproven area there is a lot of room for changes. For example something Litecoin is working on is verifying Litecoin nodes with as little as 200-300MB of disk storage. Now that's just an example, but I could see stuff like that making a currency in the future based on BTC more popular than BTC itself is all. The arena is too new I think for me or anyone else to say BTC is going to be it.
Plus you can check books out of the library, to read when the library is closed.
Having written some analytics services myself, I'm curious what sort of performance you're seeing on the ingest side with tornado/python. What kind of throughput per server (or systemwide) are you seeing?
This seems like a story with interesting points which are worth thought and discussion, both of which will apparently not appear on Hacker News.
I am just getting a gray page here @ opera.
He didn't hide his homelessness, they knew that's why the mom and two kids moved to Germany (for the better social services). It doesn't say why he didn't live with his children, but it does say the mom and two youngest lived with two older kids for awhile and the high school aged kids bounced around with his friends so they could continue to attend their high school.
"Who do you think are getting those jobs? People who are stupid and lazy?"

People who are young and cheap. It says so right in the article.
MLB with declining viewership is without a doubt bluffing.
Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)
Exactly. Amazing how even the article gets it wrong. Sheesh. Never in my life have I heard "Garamond" called a single typeface.

They are all different Garamond typefaces.

While the bold, italic, display, caption, etc. versions of each are the different fonts.
Remember that what we're asking folks is to self-report on what they like or not.

This may sound either pedantic or highly-controversial, but what people like and what might be best for the work they are doing are two different things. We do a great disservice to both to confuse the two.

I would like to have a great big office. Better still, I'd like a cabana at the beach, a laptop, and a hammock. What's best for my team or the project I'm on? Different things entirely.

What disturbs me is this idea we see repeated over and over again that if I like it, it must be good. No, that's not true at all. Going to medical school and having a brutal internship are not things you like, but they are things that take you somewhere you want to go. Life is full of things that are unpleasant yet work out for some greater good. We cannot blithely assume that we can follow our instincts on what feels good with every project we engage in. It doesn't work that way.

This may turn out to be one of those things. Or maybe we get our cake and eat it too: what feels good is what's best. But that determination has not been made, and this study doesn't advance the conversation along these lines at all.
Da Vinci's cello with a keyboard
so.. you think much less liquidity and turnover in a currency will help solidify its value (and keep the bid/ask spread tight)?
>Is that reason enough to dismiss the idea?

Usually, no. But we're not dealing with "will my photo sharing startup succeed?"

>unless suicide is an area where you have more potential to cause harm than to do good

It's extremely difficult to give good advice to a suicidal person. Almost everything can be interpreted as negative. Your dealing with someone who is in a dangerous mind set. Even telling someone "it'll get better" can make it worse. This is why I stressed the importance of experience.

Some information: http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1cep2h/psa_wha...
The article discusses why this alone may not be enough. (n.b. I've no experience of Lua's internals, so I can't say whether or not Lua is/isn't vulnerable)

Basically, if the attacker can view enough of an 'ordered' list of hashtable entries, they can calculate the seed and then generate appropriate keys to hit the worst case.
Ask HN: How can I run an effective code review?
I'm currently working on implementing a substantial feature to an existing website. This work covers development across all layers of the stack and several programming/scripting languages (JS, HTML, CSS, SQL, .NET). Are there any best practices - or suggestions - for running an effective code review with a team? What are some of the more effective methods for reviewing code?

I'm planning on doing my own research into what makes for a productive code review (my initial research has turned up 'Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide'), but also wanted to ask the community.

(For clarification:
- this is not an 'architectural review, per-se; rather, a more narrow scope into code after the architecture has been defined, vetted and approved
- this is also in addition to the user of profilers and automated code checking tools).

Thank you in advance to those who take time to respond!
"knows he's not going to stick around for a long time."

Why? I worked my way thru school in retail and then a short stint in retail management (long enough to learn I'm not doing that for a living if there's any way to avoid it...)

So our annual turnover rate ranged from 100% to 200% and this was not considered noteworthy in the biz. Retail is not like working for Ma Bell for 40 years and retiring in place. This dude was unemployed and/or homeless for what, like 5 years, at what point do you think a retail manager will think, hmm, he's been unemployed 10 times longer than the average employee lasts here, maybe, just maybe, he's going to stick around?

The other pure bogosity is I actually worked retail management and my three favorite employees were a carpenter and two accountants. God knows he wouldn't be the first dude trying to work a second job part time nights to make ends meet, and managers love to hire a guy (or woman) who the boyz will look up to as something of a parental figure or at least older bro figure (basically they were team leads working under me). High school kids were a dime a dozen but the store really rose or fell based on the adults...

You never, ever hire some high school or college student slacker if you can get a real dude with a real work ethic. Strange claims from people who haven't been there, while I have been there, strike a discordant tone.

Gotta be some "other" issues. Such as maybe 100 other applicants in the same situation who did get hired. Perhaps this "Rosanne" show writer didn't get hired because they hired a dude from the "Cosby show" or 100 other guys in the same situation.

I guarantee he didn't get hired because the kids would obey him like a parent, or because he had too intense of a work ethic, or too much life experience, or too focused on the prize aka paycheck.
I feel for the guy, but it sounds like he was spending beyond his means from the start, and then quit his job on top of that. According to cnn the average cost of raising a child is 240K, not including college. Multiply that by 8 and spread it over 18 years, and that is 107K per year, for 18 years. And that is just for the kids.

It was a different time and all, but quitting your job completely when you have a large mortgage and 8 kids seems irresponsible. His eventual recovery is inspiring, but what would have happened to those 8 kids if his wife couldn't fall back on the German citizenship and its social safety net? This could have easily ended much worse for them.
Project Solum (Openstack + docker)
I use Groovy quite a bit and like it a lot. I wish there was an easy way to use it with Android, I'd really like the groovy JSON or XML parsing libraries even if it meant I had to run my program on a device with Android 4.3 and at least a gig of ram.