skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
little mod that makes the game look like it plays itself

http://jsfiddle.net/icodeforlove/Fq8F4/310/

it always gets stuck for me though :(
Doesn't matter. After Mike departure, TC became boring, and the number of comments under articles dropped of significantly.
Congrats man, well done!

This list of cognitive distortions and how to fix them might be relevant:
http://www.apsu.edu/sites/apsu.edu/files/counseling/COGNITIV...

This was created by Dr. David Burns and is supported by research in cognitive therapy. The full information is available in his book "Feeling Good". The interactive medium could afford some interesting possibilities.

Another thing that I remember reading is that tracking your happiness level and sharing that information with others seems to improve mood. Somebody was experimenting with this on the web. Seems like a perfect fit for a social app.

I second the opinion that you should make sure that you pay attention to research. Some common sense approaches might be counter-productive. For example, the cliché: "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem" can make suicide sound even better to the seriously depressed. Be suspicious of common sense here.
News Corps's COO threatened to take Fox off the air because of Aereo.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-08/news-corp-says-it-w...

A lot of broadcast TV business models are about to get (ugh, I'm so sorry; I hate to say this) disrupted.

EDIT: Edited to correct "Fox News" to "Fox" in general.
It's just too thin. There's a reason thin fonts on mobile OSes are used only for big text like date and time. Thin fonts are difficult to read, Open Sans particularly so.
Side thought: nice domain.
Registered since 2007, but you were keeping it in case you had a nice idea to use with?
What Amagumori said -- I can block/delete harassing comments (and do, on a regular basis), but I am far more concerned with murder/rape threats from people who know where I live.

I'm a big girl, I can deal with crude come-ons appropriately (which is to say, snort/fume depending on the content, then report, block, and delete.)

What concerns me is the unwanted linking of trackable personal information, through a service that had been repeatedly declined by the user in question.

I'm thankful that I am not in compliance with Google's "real-name" policy, or else I'd potentially have harassers showing up at my door -- and that's a shitty, uncomfortable, violated feeling to be experiencing, because Google broke my trust after I told them that I didn't want to share that information, and they shared it anyway, without giving me a chance to opt out.

In this case, no actual harm was done. However, it illustrates the potential for harm very clearly -- when you require "real names" (and, in some cases, enforce that with requests for drivers-license scans, etc., as has happened a number of times since the G+ nymwars started), you must respect your users' privacy choices about how they want those names to be shared with the public.

All it takes is one stalker, one violent ex, one deranged family member, and their real-name policy, combined with the collapse of walls that users set up for self-protection, is a recipe for preventable tragedy.
This is great, but why does everything have to be a video these days? Whatever happened to just text + screenshots (if appropriate)

It's so much faster than a video.
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I am annoyed by this, too. There is no reason to recommend a nonfree operating system for developing free software.
So essentially there what you'd be doing is writing your own additional tools in Javascript? Nice.

Do you guys have any libraries to help with visualisation etc if you're writing this sort of tool, or is it the kind of thing you can plug into Clara.io directly?
> Statin drugs have fewer side-effects than OTC painkillers. (Heard this on NPR the other day).

This is actually true for a lot of drug classes. Tylenol (acetaminophen) has such a low injurious dose that it'd probably have difficulty getting approved today.
I don't think that's an acceptable solution. Sexism in tech is real. Sexism on Hacker News is real. It's a problem that matters and really affects people's lives. Banning discussion is tantamount to saying the status quo is acceptable.

I can see how that comment would have been considered in violation of the guidelines for tone reasons. I'd like to point out that in context, the last line was a substantive response to the comment I was replying to, but I can understand why the first part could reasonably have been disallowed. I wouldn't have made this thread if I thought I had been banned for that comment. But comments after that comment are still visible, and I don't see anything wrong with the comments immediately before or after my banning. That's what concerns me.
Seriously, anyone who thinks deflation is good is either short sighted or stupid. Fundamentally, if my money is worth more tomorrow, I won't spend it today, and you halt the entire economic system like that.

I like peercoin, which is a bitcoin that can maintain wallets without the full block chain, do less expensive proof of work problems when the network is computationally competitive enough, and has a fixed inflation rate of 1%.

The only improvement I'd like to see is a currency that uses a coin generation algorithm based off recent monetary velocity, so that if exchange slows the inflation rate increases to stimulate more exchange, and if a lot of money is changing hands the inflation rate is slowed, with a targeted turnover ratio of the entire economy that is whatever is most economically healthy, it would require research.
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Not to the best of my knowledge. However, I might start keeping such things myself - check back in a couple of years when I've had time to build up a data backlog :)
If you want deeper insights on this specific issue, read the actual paper on the survey details [1].

A few excerpts from the paper:

"While two in three office workers believe there is a clear line between when their professional life stops and their personal life begins, the data from Microsoft's Get It Done survey suggests quite the opposite – that in 2013, the barrier between personal and professional is not only blurry, but in fact may no longer exist at all. In reality, more than three-quarters of office workers say they work at least occasionally at unconventional times, either on weekends or outside of normal business hours and more than 1 in 2 office workers say they are now expected to be available no matter what time it is."

"As mentioned, more than 1 in 2 office workers say it is now an expectation and a necessity to be able to get work done whenever and wherever they are."

"In fact, 44% have multi-tasked by working while watching television; 36% while eating a meal at home; 19% while going to the bathroom; 9% while taking a shower or bath; and 4% while having sex!"

"In thinking back over your career, we would like to know how technology, that allows you to work outside the traditional office, has changed your work life: 74% responded with, 'I work more hours.'"

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/office/docs/mi...

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It seems that this is the employer driving the culture, rather than the employees. I mean, if the expectation is there, then of course the culture is going to shift toward "always available" accommodations. Also, speaking as a developer here, I cannot imagine being productive in many of the described scenarios. I need quiet, large (4 to 8 hour) blocks of time to solve the type of problems that I am working; that's not going to happen at a recital, at a soccer match,
while watching a program, etc.

Moreover, if I was at one of those events, then, wait for it... I'm there to enjoy that event.

I also recognize that this is part of our culture (speaking as an American here). But, personally, I don't work on vacation. I've never understood it. Vacation is that sacrosanct time when you get to breathe that rarefied air of truly unplugging and dropping out.

In the view of management, remote is becoming synonymous with always available.
Helpful tip to for author/analysis might be to add some components of velocity or acceleration. Submissions seems akin to a 'mass' but what one is trying to understand is 'energy', and this feels too one-dimensional IMHO.
Totally agree with this. If you're shipping something not remotely close to the product that actually solves the user's problem, then you're not shipping something that's viable.

The danger is shipping a non-viable product, get feedback that it's not needed because in it's MVP state doesn't solve a need, and pivot based on bad data, because you didn't deliver the thing that you believe people want.
Another keyword match tool is HitTail, but its effectiveness is diminishing as Google locks down search keywords:

http://www.hittail.com/
Then judging by this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6755471

The US government by its own definition is now at war with its own people.
I don't care to engage with HN about my politics. I'm just annoyed that people can't keep the concepts straight. Parallel construction is the process of using surveillance data to escalate unrelated probable cause.
the funny thing is that Google itself played a huge role into making all of us raise the bar of what can be expected as a good behavior for a company. To get some open standards, get some open source stuff, get some free APIs, get some free services, get some interesting tools without costly subscriptions etc

All the things we didn't get from microsoft. If you were a student from a poor country you were cut off all the good things because you didn't have msdn subscription (and then blame pirating...).

I remember when I though "microsoft has to be stupid, they are walling off potential developers for their platform, if they only made stuff more developer friendly they would benefit greatly". I didn't mind that they were making money, I was concerned that they they got in the way, the didn't let you.

Google is certainly repeating some of these mistakes, but generally feels more friendly to users and developers for its platforms.

Other issues with Google about privacy etc, you cannot really compare it with a company that didn't recognize the value of "the internet" until too late. These are novel issues, and mixing profit with such sensible topics will certainly cause problems, whatever your business model is.

The interesting things is that we demand that from Google, because we know it's possible to do better, and the irony is that Google itself (among others) made us raise the bar of that acceptance.
> ... what? Why would they only support Windows? Why would they even suggest Windows?

The vast majority of users run Windows, so making Firefox work better on Windows has an outsized impact. Of course, all help on any platform is very much appreciated :)
If you've killed Nazi's, you surely can stomp all over a Hippies' rights to express utter disdain of the Warrior class, amiright?
The way it works is that vague laws can be selectively enforced as desired.
Agree to this. Most of the enterprise applications I have worked on in the last 7 years have been web based.

The default question is now, why not Web? A justification needs to be made as to why its not web based.

With ASP.NET MVC I feel there is better control of large datasets so that the whole set isn't loaded at once which WebForms made so easy to do.
I generally agree with all of this. Backend is not as scary as you might assume, and it's not hard to ship something that works.
Regarding weinre: Is that any better than attaching desktop Safari to an ios simulator (not sure if it works for a physical device) or desktop Chrome dev tools to a real android device via adb?

In any case, note that that's also a lovely option.
Depends on your product I guess.
If it's something truly different and novel then maybe it doesn't matter if the UI is kinda sucky because I have nothing to compare it to.

If it's a twist on something more common like say an email client then I probably won't even bother trying it if it's ugly , slow, clunky or crash prone even if you have added features that might be useful.
I love /b/ but it does kill my productivity like no other.
Great idea. love this.
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Such poetic diction. I agree completely.
Tough to get valid validation when the product your shipping doesn't solve the need for the end user due to its MVP-ness. If you deliver crap, it's hard to separate the feedback of "this is crap because it's missing xyz feature or looks ugly" vs. "this is crap because it doesn't solve a need."

I've found that people have a hard time separating the two in interviews.
A front end developer is someone that builds the interface. Designers are becoming programmers more and more nowadays, but it used to be that the designer drew out an interface and the developer built it.

Here's a good article about it, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_and_back_ends
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This year there was another legal option, not well publicized: $99 for NFL Sunday Ticket. That's every Sunday game live streamed over the internet.

The only problem with Sunday Ticket is the restrictions that are there to protect the broadcast industry: local game blackouts, no Monday Night Football, etc. I say, good riddance to the broadcasters! Go all in on internet broadcasts and get rid of the restrictions. It's not like the major networks are going to actually drop NFL games. Call their bluff.
Is “The Writing on the Wall” when we publish content to platforms we don’t own?
See no evil, hear no evil. Except for the NSA - they see and hear everything ...
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I still like Google.
it's cyclical, in 5 years flat will be passe
Have you looked at number of comments instead of number of submissions? That would seem to be a better estimator of user growth.

Honestly, I don't think that estimating number of submissions is a very good metric for the growth of Reddit (or Hackernews). If you want some proxy for its influence, you care about readership more than anything else. This thread [1] on Reddit (and the references therein) shows that 50% of Reddit activity comes from users that aren't even logged in. So even if you were just able to measure logged in users (which would still be a far greater number than submissions), you would still only estimate half the influence.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1khp85/logge...
Mercurial ships with 30+ standard extensions and you simply enable them as needed. More experienced users can download and then install third-party extensions as they like.

This of them as major modes for Emacs, if you're familiar with that. Emacs comes with syntax highlighting support for a lot of languages and the mode is turned on automatically. Sometimes you need to install a new major mode yourself, but the bundled modes get you a long way.
Here's the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775440

The part I was responding to:

>If you need to worry about junk like accented characters or moon runes (Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters), it means you're big enough to afford to hire someone specifically to address the problem.

My response, which is only visible to me:

> > moon runes (Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters)

> Really? You can make your economic point without making fun of several of the world's most commonly spoken languages and the people who speak them
The Washington Post isn't allowed to report on other countries without mentioning the U.S.?

Besides, as one of the major publishes of the NSA leaks, it can hardly be said that the Post never criticizes the government.
Right now, probably so. Though, to AWS' credit, they've been "diversifying" in developing some of these other complementary services (RDS, Route53, ElastiCache, Search, DynamoDB, Elastic Transcoder). It's getting to the point where EC2 is a good fit for those who want less infrastructure responsibility (and are willing to pay for it).

If RDS/ElastiCache were cheaper, I think it'd be a lot easier to make the case for EC2 for startups and smaller companies that don't need the auto-scaling features. Even as a smaller business, it's a lot better for us to spend a little more on infrastructure in order to avoid hiring additional people to keep us running.
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You are working on something important, and I was glad to read (and upvote) a lot of the other comments you received, and especially the offers for pro-bono help. One comment below suggested that you read the literature (I presume that means the literature about suicide prevention) and I would second that advice. To expand that advice a bit, I'll note that Martin E. P. Seligman and some other psychologists who have studied depression and suicide think that the "self esteem" movement that took over United States schools after I graduated from high school may have actually INCREASED risk of suicide in the United States--certainly the rates of both attempted and completed suicide, and the rate of diagnosed youth depression, went up over the years when those school programs were put in place. In other words, don't just rely on intuition about what would be helpful, but look into actual research. Seligman's books Learned Optimism[1] and The Optimistic Child[2] are both helpful, although there should be some even newer research out by now. Reading those books may help you deal with the challenges of working on this interesting project while keeping up with your school work. Best wishes.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Optimistic-Child-Depression-Resili...
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Without explanation seems to be how most things are declined. Notwithstanding the headline news, is this somehow unique (to this case)?

The justices gave no reason for rejecting the group’s petition, but the unusual procedure of bypassing the lower courts probably played a role. Other, more conventional challenges to government surveillance programs are pending.
> undemocratic to be forced to choose option A, "democracy".

oh?
Why China wants to dominate Bitcoin
> When is it ever fair to cause someone personal damage?

A lot of the time. For example, it's fair to rat out a cop who acts inappropriately or give a negative review to an eBay seller who scams you.
> AWS has turned infrastructure into an api and software which is just simply fantastic, but you pay for that sort of flexibility.

There's nothing wrong with paying for the flexibility, though. We gladly do it because it's a great fit for our traffic patterns and our staffing level.
The purpose of the National Security Agency is to gather intelligence to protect National Security. Terrorism is but a small piece of it, though it's the one easiest to sell to the public. But even serious terrorism doesn't accomplish much without state support (you might consider the Taliban a "state" for this purpose) and it's well within the purview of intelligence to spy on other states.

But ultimately, the real reason of intelligence? Look at it this way: the US is sitting at a poker table with Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, and so on. Some of the other players might be our friends--Britain and the US have a deal that we'll share each other's winnings and cover each other's losses. But nonetheless, everyone at the table is playing to win. And everyone at the table is trying to sneak a peek at everyone else's cards. This is why the distinction between spying on Americans and spying on foreigners is such a big deal--if you spy on a Japanese industrialist, you get to see some of Japan's cards, and that helps in the game. But there's no reason to spy on your own country because you already can see your own cards. If you're spying on your own people, maybe your intentions are not what you purport them to be.
I don't think this is constructive, and I feel others would agree with me. Regardless of your sentiment, the OP worked to create this. Please provide helpful criticism instead of decrying supposed pitfalls in HN. We already have enough snark; besides, every community has its own issues.

Take no offense. I'd just like to imagine that HN will remain constructive and helpful to our community.
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Watch the MAVEN launch live - 80 mins (or so) and counting ...
eventually you'll piss off enough younger fans where you'll end up like the NHL.

What does this imply? Aside from the lockouts, the NHL has secured long-term broadcasting deals in Canada and the US to fulfill the growth that it sees in the North American market. Clearly the NHL isn't anything close to the NFL from a financial standpoint, but implying the NHL is some bottom-feeder, profitless sports league isn't right.
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Mabye there are not enough customers to automate it? A MVP is about customer validation, just like the kickstarter principle. No money, no product. Never build something nobody wants. Doing it manually is perfectly fine for a MVP.
I didn't think my eldest was an eater until a BNC sheath went AWOL off the table when she was 5...
You should use http://ionicframework.com when it is ready, for storage use ngStorage https://github.com/gsklee/ngStorage, and a guide for starting with angular and phonegap/cordova is here http://devgirl.org/2013/06/10/quick-start-guide-phonegap-and...
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Well right, if the features that you need to validate aren't working, you won't be able to validate them.

But I have lost count over the number of times I or people I know have hesitated with releasing something out of perfectionism. This is fear--fear that you will look bad in the eyes of others because you made something that is of low quality. And if I was having a discussion with cofounders over whether to get something out and one person made the argument that we shouldn't because it's a MVPOS, that would be a huge indicator that said person was stalling out of perfectionism, not a rationale about whether we will be able to validate our hypothesis or not.
>I call this coping strategy the John Stewart method.

Amen. And I love Daily Show and Colbert Report. But laughter is no substitute for action.
IIRC, the extra Chinese footage in Iron Man 3 was done entirely by the Chinese distributor. Hollywood had nothing to do with it, and even Chinese audiences thought it was an embarrassment.

But the rest of your point is accurate, yes.
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I'd like to hear how you got this domain as well.

I tried to bid for 'bt.io' due to my name sharing the initialism; that thing wound up going for quite a bit. You're probably sitting on a goldmine here, OP.
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https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace is where it's at for vim/clojure tools.
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I'm curious what the optimal PPV price is for the NFL. I'd easily pay $10-15 PPV, any game. For now, they seem to actively make their product impossible to consume for fans of non-local teams.
I wonder if Google has trouble with college hires for this reason- people near the end of college are often interviewing with multiple companies at once and timing is critical. Many people I graduated with would have taken a job offer from Google over the one they accepted, but were unwilling to turn down offers from Apple, Microsoft, ect in order to wait for Google to make a decision. Only a couple of people continued the job-hunt process long enough to get a hire/no hire decision from Google.