skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like an awesome idea. Honestly one of the better executions I've seen in quite a few senses.

There are quite a few things I'd say make this difficult to a first time user.

1. The tools being on two separate sides of the site seems strange to me; the left side seems to be drawing (or otherwise "putting") tools, the right side seems to be "editing" tools. Except that the pen is on the right. And so is the text box.

2. There is no "active" state for the selected tool, so I may very easily get confused about what is going to be done when i click.

3. The modality of any of the tools could be changed in some ways; for instance, having a delete "tool" rather than a delete "button" is more like erase, as pranavpiyush mentioned.

4. Using prompt for entering your name isn't great; using prompt to enter text onto the canvas is really very frustrating.

5. The trash icon is confusing. I'd rather have a "clear this board" icon, or go full-fledged whiteboard with it and show me a whiteboard eraser. I don't throw my whiteboard markings in a trash can - I erase them. If you're going to take advantage of skeuomorphs, make sure they are the right ones.

6. If sharing the URL is a core functionality, make that url easily copyable inside your interface. Most of the time, I am not going to share this on Twitter or Facebook. Most of the time, I'm going to send that url to a coworker or friend.

7. I have no clue where to "save". With something like this, I don't think we've yet reached the implicit "auto-save" feeling. I need to feel secure about my board and accessing it at another time.

8. Uploading an image is a great idea, but don't make me drag unless you're going to keep my dragged area visible; when I drag, the marker goes away and the modal replaces it - that makes me feel like I made a mistake.

9. When I drag a shape over another shape, a new bound shows that implies that the two shapes may be merged, but that doesn't happen when I drop the shape.

10. Many move tools also "select" an element for further manipulations (like moving with a mouse) - a simple version of this might be a good addition, along with basic scaling operations.

11. I like colors - I like picking my own, too. Any regular old color picker will do, or at least a hex input, so I can use my brand colors (or whatever).

12. Not sure if it exists, but I don't see a way to add a new board. This is a space where this could be hugely beneficial - multiple boards, with titles. Then this easily becomes a teaching tool that maintains its own history; export to PDF? Sure. Export to PPT? Sure. Autoupload to slideshare? (Up to you. :) )

I'd be super interested to follow this project and contribute to some of these design tweaks if it were somehow open (or if contributions are a possibility).
I think it boils down to what you consider an "analogy", is a markov model really an analogy between computer science and biology? I would consider that simply a mathematical concept that finds applications in both Computer Science and Biology, and it isn't even that related to computations or computers, it's just an useful mathematical tool. I don't deny concepts from CS or Mathematics can be applied to biology.

On the other hand, I think there are lots of CS people who apply blindly oversimplistic models to complex biological situations without understanding the biology, and that's what I was trying to protest against.
At least with Amazon and several other low-wage employers, the issue isn't wages per se but how workers are treated otherwise. See: http://www.thenation.com/article/177377/holiday-crush?page=0....

If the equilibrium wage is $9/hour, so be it, but that doesn't justify not treating people like human beings. Telling them to show up early but not paying them for that time, micromanagement of bathroom breaks, unsafe or uncomfortable work conditions, not paying for being on call, etc. These aren't justified by labor market dynamics--it's indecent treatment of workers just because they have no other options.

From the linked article: "Though out of work, Rodriguez is surprisingly upbeat. 'The warehouses aren’t bad,' he tells me. 'If they treat people better and pay us what we’re owed, the work could be very good. It is honest work.'"
"But where did it lead?"
The forty hour work week? OSHA? FMLA?
> How is entering into a voluntary contract with someone taking advantage of them?

Why does the existence of a contract automatically rule out the possibility of taking advantage?
A lot of it has to do with time and place along with execution. Crowdfunding is much more a household term with the likes of Kickstarter and other popular sites. Not to mention the ease of payments and spread of mobile apps has helped these sites too.
Two paragraphs isn't rambling. I appreciate your thoughts.

I would certainly like to work 30 hours a week too. :-) And I share a concern that the middle class is getting squeezed, so that it's not a bottom 25% that struggle, it's a bottom 50-75%.

That said, I still believe the solution is creating more opportunities for potential job providers, and encouraging them to compete for talent. I think this helps everyone. When there's collusion on the part of labor or capital, everyone suffers.

To personalize the situation, as individuals in technology, we have the most job opportunities when there are many firms competing for our talent. (Like 1998, or now) The best thing we can do is encourage this for ourselves. Similarly, a pro-job-creator agenda on a country-wide basis will help pull up everyone.
Even the use of the phrase "phone things" could be an attempt at being unspecific-enough to avoid lying. What are "phone things"? They're nothing ... or they're whatever we later describe them to be when confronted with conflicting information. On one of the most critical areas of disclosure - and the statement on it is meaningless.
All of your points except for the first one about privacy seem pedantic. Even that one is a complaint about social networks that are voluntary systems. If you don't like the lack of privacy on social networks don't use them. People freely choose to use them despite the privacy concerns.

Religion hasn't been hijacked by the megacorporations. Christianity, and most other Western religions, are filled with histories of violence and oppression. The mentally ill have been punished and treated poorly throughout history - as were almost all people throughout history. In fact religion is one of the only parts of society where the mentally ill are venerated, which is a sad fact.

Your focus on corporations being the reason for corruption is unwarranted. The main problems arise when our justice system favors one thing over another - be it groups over individuals, whites over blacks or rich over poor. Dispersing power, focusing on equality before the law and in opportunity, and reducing coercive forces on individuals is the solution. This involves self forming economic entities like corporations but also entails strong and separate political systems that aren't influenced by them.
> How do you know that "Thousands of developers are already building applications backed by RethinkDB;"?

We know in two ways. First, people have told us via GitHub/IRC/e-mail/etc. and Shirts For Stories page (http://www.rethinkdb.com/community/shirts-for-stories/).

Second, the administration UI checks for version updates, which gives us some information about how many developers are using RethinkDB and how long they stuck around.

There is no perfect way to know because there are many sources of imprecise information, but we're quite confident about the overall conclusions of the data.

> I hope we'll see soon more official drivers...

We've been trying to keep the surface area of the project low for now. Which specific drivers are you interested in? (we probably won't be able to do anything about it for the next ~6 months or so, but having the info helps enormously)
Awesome. I was looking for something like this to use in my next side project. Any more info on when the Android release is coming?
Awesome, glad I'm not going about this the wrong way.

I'm doing a lot of work at the moment; overtime and freelancing. Juggling time is always hard.
We think that focusing on startup (and smaller company) jobs should tend to avoid this type of requirement as they are generally much more flexible and open-minded when it comes to job application format requirements and generally want to see more depth on prospective employees - especially on areas like personality traits and interests, which are hard to express in a traditional resume or cover letter.
> He would have envied the opportunities even the bottom 5% of Americans and Germans today have

And most of the top 5% Americans and Germans back than lived in fear of militant strikes, riots and revolutionary workers in general. They would have envied the social peace of modern western societies.

And I don't know when your Great grandfather migrated but one hand you can't draw conclusions from a single persons experiences and on the other hand stories like this have a lot to do with the specific economic situation in his new homeland at that time
GHCI has a debugger. You can step into an expression and watch as Haskell evaluates it, in full lazy order.

Even if you understand lazy evaluation in theory, I recommend taking some non-trivial (but not too large) expression and :step'ing through the whole evaluation sometime, just to train your intuition.
> You're talking about moral humans, here.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but there are immoral individuals in the US army, especially in the high ranks (where sociopath usually meet), like everywhere else.
The minimum wages in Germany, if I understand it correctly, are set by the union and employers, not the government. So there's no legal requirement to pay a minimum wage. Or is that not how it works?
[PHOTOS] The Paris Startup Scene: A photo essay
I did. No longer.

Some of our team are still struggling by with it and we're still paying for it for some reason.
FoulPlay: A Playstation Network app for Windows Phone 8
Propaganda tricks work, though. It follows that in order to be an effective leaker, one must be more or less impervious to muck-raking. Which is neither fair nor sane, but strikes me as plausible.
The difference is getting smaller every day. That's what this is about.
Holding only a degree in English from a small liberal arts college, I taught myself programming, and eventually spent about 10 years as a full-time programmer in "corporate America." So yes, it's possible.
Plus, since letters take quite some time to arrive at their destination, and double that for you to receive an answer, they tend to be much longer (I think that is why they tend to be; not 100% sure). I've never received an email that was longer than three pages. Whereas with letters, I've both sent and received some very, very long letters, and almost all were a joy to read and to write.
Civilians are blown up in every war, drones did not create this problem, and eliminating UAVs will not end it. If you want people to be "doing your bit to end drone strikes", you should consider that the probable counter-factual is not an end to non-combatant (civilian) deaths; civilian mortality may increase, decrease, or stay the same, depending on what tactics are chosen to replace drones.
"if Helium is used instead, assuming the Mars does have plenty of water."

I think you mean hydrogen? Assuming we can make a rover that can collect non-trivial amounts of water (say by baking it out of the dirt), we could make a hydrogen filled balloon with electrolysis.
Heh... but I was referring to the example seliopou gave, which appears to be in JavaScript, and strings is [String] rather than [Char]. I think the analogy might cause more confusion than clarification.
Just by being alive you're subjecting yourself to the possibility of any number of medical conditions, some of which might be caused by issues in your very own DNA! If you're truly interested in minimizing your risk, it'd probably be best for you to invent a time machine and convince your mother to abort you before you were born.
Currently doing GBP450/day full stack (node and frontend JS) for A Well Known Tech Company on a short term contract for a major project.

I previously worked for the other Well Known Tech Company, and from what I can tell all these places, even if they're filled with Genius Programmers, use contract agencies to make marketing apps.
Which is crazier? A year or two of super-long hours to free yourself from the dayjob, or just working 40 hours a week for someone else until you're too old to do it anymore?

I'm in the same boat, doing a spare-time startup while holding a day job. And I"m not young - my kids are grown. But I'm paying for their college, so I can't just quit and do the startup full-time, not until I've got it generating at least a little cashflow.

The trick is to overwork but try to get on the shortest (leanest) path to revenue.

But keep in mind that not everyone is doing a startup to get rich. Getting rich is a nice side effect, but the heart of it for me, and for a lot of others, is personal freedom.
They didn't choose to strike civilian targets. They played Xbox, high-fived then went home to their nice lives. That is why drone warfare is so terrifying. It makes evil into something banal.
Awesome - never seen HipCV before, but that's definitely down the direction I'm thinking. Certainly not an all-things solution, which is what I like about it.

Thanks for the info!
I imagine the NSA also looks quite extensively at worst case scenarios. Without knowledge of what he has, assuming he has some fairly damaging material he has not seem disposed towards revealing (ignoring the even possibility he has even more damning material he is willing to release), they still have to worry about future changes in his reasoning on what's acceptable to release, and third parties without such compunctions (or evenmies) getting access to the data in some manner.

With that in mind, the best manner to recover the data completely and securely may be to get him back on their side.
I generally agree with your implied point: that government subsidization of education leads to price inflation in that sector, but these are private schools, where government subsidies do not (to my knowledge) apply.
I do agree with your argument, but helmets helps with more than just car vs bike accidents. People have an uncanny tendency to fall and injure themselves without the help of a car.

Groningen and the Nederland dont have any hills to speak off, but when you get to high speeds on a bike its good to be protected when you fall.

This law protects the biker against any trauma to the head while biking.
Its is very easy to wear a helmet and a great way to be a role model for younger people.
This is @Borogravia, who seems to have been hellbanned.

1) You've been hellbanned.

2) I wasn't referring to the grass-roots effort, but specifically, the anti-smoking lobby, specifically Michael Bloomberg, who has spent $600 million of his own money in anti-smoking campaigns, and who seems immune to facts.

He has done a world of good, and I'm glad that the world smokes less, and I applaud his anti-smoking efforts...

so hopefully that will diffuse the ad hominem that he is also an ignorant boor who seems utterly and completely immune to facts.
GitHub Pages Refresh
> I think they're doing fine without your unhelpful concerns.

Oh, they're fine? Is that why they're fucking striking? I assure you I did not force them to strike, my learnëd friend. This might be shocking to you, but even poor people can think for themselves.

> why blame them either even if they were exploiting the workers.

............because they're fucking exploiting them? Did you think "exploit" means "pat on the back" or something?
It's also costly and time consuming for them to do so. Sure, let's just go redo EVERY road marking and whilst we're at it, let's add in some new traffic laws. Perhaps over the next couple of decades, maybe longer. But definitely not in a week.

This way, the job lies with the citizens. They can easily go pick up a helmet for cheap. It's up to them to pick the correct equipment now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Snowden has not published anything really critical about NSA surveillance on China, Russia, Iran, etc.

His risk/reward calculation seems to be on line with mine. Of course his leaks do some damage to U.S. foreign policy, but that's acceptable collateral damage. His leaks help to shape the power balance between government and citizens in liberal democracies.
Should I use past or present tense in git commit messages?
I had at first put the 12kg max from the first figure, but on re-read I saw the water vapor pressure could have a balloon go as heavy as 35kg. It would makes sense that helium (or more preferably hydrogen) would work better. I suppose I should RTFA better next time.
Studies have repeatedly shown that running is NOT hard on the knees. Instead, the risk of osteoarthritis (knee problelms) is more associated with aging.

http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/8478853/reload=0;jsessioni...
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=403118
http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/18/4/379.short

And a less scientific article on the topic: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/why-runners-dont-ge...

Plus, I don't think that's a particularly cogent argument to make. You can say that about anything, pretty much. If you increase gas prices, then a percentage of those drivers will start biking/walking/running. Better not increase gas prices... Or you can replace "gas prices" with anything that affects mode of travel: taxes, congestion, surplus of bike frames, health fads, etc.
That is interesting, though I'd guess that most of the investor interest is in "Crowdtilt Extended", which are their branded campaign pages and API. That is, being a Twillio of the crowd funding industry may be what's attracting the money.
CBS is really pumping up the PR for the NSA.

Recent episodes of NCIS have a NSA agent on loan to the NCIS staff. She's cute, smart, and quirky and does a great job protecting us all from the scary people.

Also, Hawaii 5.0, had a hack attack on an episode lately and they were all "Thank god we have the NSA to protect us". Ok, I forget the details on that one, but I remember rolling my eyes.

Now with 60 minutes jumping on board, it's plain to see there's a coordinated effort to spin the NSA in a good light. Not just a whitewash, the message is "The NSA spying on Americans is a good thing".
Especially tricky before my first cup of coffee in the morning. Just ask my wife! :-)
I was generalizing, but I think it's safe to assume that average HN poster has higher than average income/education.
Congrats guys!

Looks like pg needs to update his tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/411213292330164224
Monolithic Node.js
>but I think the more important one is when will we expand life on Mars?

Because we've done so well with Earth it's time to take our success to another planet?
Even if he was doing sabotage. It would be morally acceptable in his case. Systematic surveillance in this scale changes power balance between government and citizens very fundamental way.
Darpa Wants Sensors To Find Low-Orbiting Debris
> Those that have experienced injury, pain and ultimately pushing through it are far better prepared for the surprises of the real world than those protected since birth.

Would you advise people against wearing protective gear when motorcycling, then?

I met a guy who had a blowout on the front tire of his motorcycle, which caused a high-side. No amount of skill could have saved him, but his riding gear (with armor plates) and helmet did.

Safety gear is helpful irrespective of skill. Some of the most skilled athletes in the world use safety gear.
The state governments do not directly fund the private institutions, but they still get a lot of government subsidies indirectly. The students can only afford to pay tuition thanks to federal loans and grants, and the professors can only afford their research thanks to government research grants.
Yes, great point. I wear my helmet not because of fear of getting hit by a car (because, let's face it, if a car hits me, there's likely a lot more to worry about), but mainly because of all the times I've fallen on my own (from losing my balance, swerving to dodge something, getting a tire stuck in the trolley tracks, etc), my head has almost always made contact with pavement. My helmet has saved me from -- at the very least -- a painful bump on the head, and more likely from concussions.
This would actually make for a pretty neat ansible module.
I don't follow. How does selling a product to a willing niche count as "cheating"?

$6000/$15 = 400 customers. That's not a gigantic amount.
He's 8.

Either space is going to become economically viable within his lifetime and there will be private actors that can take him on, or we're going to shut down NASA as a waste of time, because that is what it will be. The part that takes astronauts, anyhow; a desultory automated probe launching system may be left in place so politicians can pretend to people like us that it hasn't been shut down (and keep the pork network in place), but it will be shut down. (Indeed... by this metric... observe that we are about halfway there today! This is less forward-looking projection than an extrapolation of existing trends... for all the sound and fury about NASA's reduced capacity since the space shuttles were retired, very little has been done about it. And you can't launch astronauts on words.)

Merely having the government writing checks does not mean you get to forget about cost/benefit analysis [1]. If space can not provide benefits proportional to the costs incurred, it's not right or effective regardless of who writes the checks. It will be crowded out by other programs that do provide benefits proportional to costs. (Probably social security or similar wealth transfers.)

(My judgment is firmly on the side that it can indeed provide such benefits. It all comes down to atoms and energy in the end, and space can provide us with plenty of atoms that are rare on Earth (platinum, etc) and is simply awash with energy.)

[1]: It's probably impossible to overstate how much better off we'd be as a civilization and culture right now if more people realized this. You can not escape from cost/benefit analysis; attempting to do so merely virtually guarantees that you'll make bad choices. And lo....
Most of developers work in 4-6 people rooms so it's not an open space environment.
Add simple iOS notifications to your web application
If you can't put the veracity of the revelations of Snowden on trial I guess you attack his character and/or means.

The NSA is in a lose, lose situation. They are painting Snowden to be an idiot...an idiot they were dumb enough to hire and allow to revamp major system. Oh but he cheated on their test to get hired! If the NSA cannot secure a test what can they secure? Oh but a comp sci guy was quirky and eccentric! Ya well maybe tell ole' Keith not to recruit at DefCon what kind of people are you trying to hire?

The idea that there is mass data store somewhere and it will not be utilized for say insider trading or blackmail is naive to say the least. If Snowden had access so do many, many others and I am sure they tell themselves they are good people but human nature is what it is... What weapon, and mass info is indeed a weapon, has ever been created and never used especially a stealthy tool which can always be denied being used hidden behind secrecy and patriotism?
It would probably be better to stay on-topic here and discuss RethinkDB. In regards to your question: there are a multitude of HN threads discussing the shortcomings of Mongo. If you search for them you will find plenty of examples.
Isle of Tune: Awesome Graphical Music Sequencer
RethinkDB Database Abstraction Layer wrapper for django
CloudBees adds WildFly support as Java EE 7 is rolled out in WildFly 8
I agree with your point, but I'm not sure the hostility is really necessary.
Yes and mostly still on XP. At least CIA was when they came to my university (2 years ago).