skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, the closer to real identity internet forums get, the less they seem to decay.

Define decay. People voicing strong opinions or even being assholes to a certain degree doesn't count. It's a normal part of every community. Usenet was full of legendary flame wars, yet the level of discourse was still very high, and most people used real names to identify themselves.

Otherwise, all you get is a hugbox echo chamber where people with personality disorders and brittle egos thrive in a mutual self-affirmation, eradicating all discourse.
lol no

Compared to Visual Studio Eclipse CDT is cute at best.
Kayak Explore is pretty good for that. Select your city in the US, then check non-stop and Europe. It's on a map and I would prefer a list, but it does the job. Belfast and Copenhagen are the cheapest transatlantic in March, for instance.

http://www.kayak.com/explore/
> We were having a problem getting front-end people so they had managers put 15 front-end engineers on the task full time for a month

I have never heard of a hiring war-room or lockdown of that type. Are you redesigning/improving the current process, or just interviewing people until you meet the quota?
Please, at the very least, try to understand the comment before knee-jerk commenting.
Organic farmer sues GM farmer for 'contaminating crop' in landmark case
She was right and wrong. The hardware was definitely better (and they beat the Kindle to market with major features, like touch screens and LED front-lighting, and they even kept hardware page-turning buttons when Amazon abandoned them).

I think Amazon's software is better, though. More responsive. Better rendering of the actual book text (margins, line-height, font size adjustments, etc). Not to mention how easy they make it to buy books right on the device. And the books are usually a little cheaper on the Kindle store. Plus Amazon has tons of Kindle-exclusive content, plus they have extra hooks for Prime members, like the Kindle Owner's Lending Library.
I always appreciated the nook tablets, not as readers, but as low-cost and fully featured android tablets.
Boromir Death Simulator
Did Apple Overcharge You For Sales Tax? Here's the Fix
Mt. Gox is indeed full of shit. As I understand the issue, due to their bitcoin implementation, there is a possibility that someone would send bitcoins from their Mt. Gox. account to a wallet, than alter the signature of the transaction, and than claim that the transaction did not go through and contact support to request the funds to be resent.

Here are 2 easy solutions to this problem which do not require anything to be done by the bitcoin community, and could be exacted by Mt. Gox today:

1. Allow all transactions to go through as before, but state clearly that if your transaction does not go through after being submitted, it will take a long time to clear the transaction, because it will have to be checked by hand. Assuming that 90% of people are not planning to scam Mt. Gox, 90% of people would be able to get their money. The remaining 10% would have to wait a bit longer while Mt. Gox checks transactions by hand.

2. Alternatively, write a system were a user can request to withdraw bitcoins. The Mt. Gox server first generates a new wallet, than transfers the BTC to that wallet, than send the user the public and private keys for that wallet. Assuming that the user (for good reason) does not trust Mt. Gox, they than can simply transfer the BTC from a temporary wallet to a permanent one.
It's all good. I just wish that more of the READMEs out there would answer a few questions like "what is this", "why did you make it", and "who is it for".

There are no wrong answers to these questions. "my pet project", "i was bored", and "just for myself" are just as valid as "the greatest piece of software ever", "because everything else sucks and I can do it better", and "COBOL experts only". It just always helps to be clear.
Funny enough, I just installed a vim plugin that gives a mapping for converting variables between camelCase, snake_case, MixedCase, and UPPER_CASE. The plugin is vim-abolish by Tim Pope.

(This isn't really relevant to your post, just funny)
Yahoo Mail is down, claims it's "over capacity"
> rapid-prototyping works best for me

> provide environment where clients would feel their input is steering project

> others working on a project would like clear direction

What tools would you/do you use?
Then disagree with me and be done with it and stop f'ing arguing when it's clear what I believe and why.

And I still disagree, plenty of the site could have been re-used because if the new code uses the same core frameworks, a home-brew persistence framework for example, it could have the same core issues; issues that may not have mattered on a trading card site but matter greatly when money is involved, rounding problems, lack of transactions, stupid architectural choices like MongoDb, who knows.

If you don't agree, I don't care. I've been doing this for 15 years, I trust my own expertise far more than some disagreeable person on the internet.
Is it correct to write off a major currency exchange because they are meeting CoinDesk's own requirements? Especially when it's the 3rd largest exchange?

As an outsider it seems like a bias to prevent the perception of BitCoin's value being impacted by a bad large exchange. CoinDesk is basically acting as regulator and transparency provider, which may be exactly what is needed in the realm of crypto-currencies as the community is supposed to be self regulating.
It's not moot. A high fixed latency from involving humans makes it far less useful to reduce the control latency by a quarter of a second.
Google Brings Its Apps Admin App To iOS
Interesting, I didn't realize Chrome Mobile did that now. IIRC that was one of the features of Opera Mobile that was somewhat unusual at the time.
It's just amusing that two companies that we're all aware of had (attempted to) take a big pivot into high-tech from the playing/trading card industry, of all places. No doubt you're correct, and the extent to which Mt Gox having figured that "hey, we're kind of running an exchange already" actually helped them is about the same as for Nintendo thinking 40 years ago "hey, we already know about the game market".
and they all like stuffed animals
Outbounders.com announces the official launch of its outbound 
Niche marketplace site Outbounders.com, officially launched today, welcoming companies and entrepreneurs who wish to reach out to new customers and increase sales with, outbound telemarketing.
I never navigate by searching for a filename.

If it's C/C++ code I use ctags and cscope and just ":tag <function-name>" to go to the function definition (VIM will autocomplete the function name).

If it's a Rails project, there's a Vim Rails plugin and then ":Econtroller <controller-name>" opens the relevant file, etc.

It's also possible to keep a file listing all of your project files (Or just edit your Makefile if you use one). Then just switch to that buffer, search ("/<blabla>") for the file and "gf" (goto-file - opens the file whose name is under the cursor).
This is completely and utterly wrong, and only furthers my belief that nobody in Silicon Valley actually "gets" anonymity.

I'll try to write a real response tonight on my blog (http://chrishateswriting.com)
Exactly. We Common Lispers created Clojure as a firewall when we realized The Great Unwashed were headed our way. Seems to be working.
I have one I use five times per year. Today, I cannot login.
High availability and configuration management, RFC
A number of NIH grants fund clinical trials. I direct you to the R34 mechanism, which is for Phase III trials as an example.

And when you're evaluating science, the paper itself, in the literature, is the only real way to evaluate it's quality.
How Object Oriented Programming Simplifies Data-Parallel Analytics
Is there a location in the docs that lists and describes the built-in macros in Rust? They don't appear to be findable using the stdlib search, and the Macros tutorial doesn't seem to talk about built-ins.

Also, this post forced me to read the docs a bit more thoroughly and realize that I haven't been distinguishing between Option and Result. Thanks
Your information is badly out of date. Studies have been consistently showing biology beating culture for the last 20 years.
This is great practice for texting and driving !
Adblock is my favorite thing right now, I don't know why I didn't install it sooner. And I couldn't agree more on finding new ways to generate money for the online economy. Advertisement is so boring and old-school.
Percolate Launches Three Open Source Features
Mechanical Turk: It's a hell of a drug.
Apple Copyright Complaints Get Android App Pulled From Google Play
I can see Secret becoming popular. I've obsessed with the topic of anonymity online. I created dmtri.com in order to foster anonymity online. I believe that people long to be honest with themselves, but the avenues of doing so is extremely limited and difficult. I hope that Secret will be one of few outlets for people like that.

The problem I have with Secret is that, in order to be marketable to marketers and VCs, Secret weakened the purpose of anonymity online. Straight honesty. Without the ability to be honest with yourself and others, anonymity online is only half good. The community rules they have are destructive to people who want to be honest with themselves.
you're right, i'm looking at it from the wrong perspective.
>rolling hash

FAIL. You just wrote outdated software. Under this dumbass idea of journaling, which by defition is there to allow editing.., the best thing you can do is built a rolling function, which basically means coping the data, which basically means increasing your attack surface.
well call me ignorant.

They act like it's still a unlaid nerd game.
alternate post: http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-android-phone-tipped-without-...

Possible WSJ link that works: http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304...
GoPro Cam falls from sky into pig pen. MUST SEE END
We found a GoPro camera on our property yesterday, plugged it in and found this video. A sky diver's cam fell off his helmet and into our pig pen. 1 minute, so funny. Much watch end!
I think this is a total hit piece.

"They’re preying on people who are desperate for a vaccine,"

As a contributor (and a scientist) - I don't feel like I've been preyed upon, at all.
New Google Admin App for iOS
This definitely. I've also noticed that Netflix streaming from AWS uses my IPv6 tunnel at home, which would explain the huge increase in traffic.
the verge has a write up of the paywalled report... it seems to be the same shell/hardware as the current windows phones.

which is a huge let down. it will be yet another candy bar phone.

if you had hopes of a n900 successor as well, it may be the time to give up already :(
My solution was to delete my Facebook account. Now, I engage with the people I care about via mechanisms that are far more meaningful: emails, phone calls, a coffee, a lunch.
Please write an article about how you run these "profitable" campaigns. Seriously. It seems like you are the only person I've ever heard make this claim and I'm sure people here are dying to know the secret.
When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2006, I had just lived through the events that were eventually twisted into the movie The Social Network. My conclusion having witnessed Mark's behavior firsthand was that he was the least trustworthy individual I had ever met and that he was likely to harm others.

At the risk of sounding like Chicken Little ("the sky is falling!") I wrote a great deal voicing my point of view, including my very first post on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24742), in which I called Mark a fraud. For expressing my grave and sincere concern, I was met with what could only be described as considerable hostility.

Aware that very few wanted to hear what I had to say, I did everything I could to move onto more interesting and useful work. I don't spend my time worrying about Facebook, so I haven't looked into their ad technology in any depth. Nonetheless, everything in the above video strikes me as spot on, which would also mean that I was exactly right. Facebook's entire valuation appears to be based on little more than false advertising and click farming. As the CEO of a publicly-traded corporation with a supposed market capitalization of $162.61 billion, Mark would still appear to be, as I described here (http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=80), the greatest con of all time.

I hope that based on these findings Facebook finds itself the target of civil actions filed by multiple Attorneys-General and the DOJ, but I doubt very much that our justice system would render a fair outcome even then.
Translation: Silicon Valley big shots don't like people criticizing them at will, ergo this will fail.
Things which are a LOT easier:

1. Interactive editing
2. Interactive compilation (these two are probably the biggest reason programmers now are more productive)
3. Having enough storage for most problems
4. Having enough computation to solve most problems interactively
5. Handling numbers larger than one machine word
6. Handling floating point numbers
7. Handling precise decimal numbers (except for the lucky few using mainframes / COBOL)
8. Handling text using characters which wouldn't have worked in a telegram
9. Exchanging text with other systems (you couldn't even assume ASCII with other encodings (e.g. EBCDIC) being common)
10. Tracking changes to source code
11. Distributing shared code and tracking new releases
12. Communicating with other systems

We've gotten a lot better on various technical details. The parts which remain difficult are generally different aspects of human limitations reasoning about complex systems.
Probably because there's not much of a story in 'Hey, I did a transaction and it went through without problems!'.

Selection bias anyone?
It seems like almost all professions have a body of knowledge. Software Engineering doesn't.

Imagine getting open heart surgery, your chest is open, and doctors start arguing over the best methodology to do it.
To disrupt banking, do you need to own the bank?
If 4chan.org has taught the world anything, the first thing that people will do with total anonymity is decay into the behaviours that they WANT to express, but society deems unacceptable. That forbidden fruit of being able to shit-talk without consequence will never stop tasting sweet, but I think that it speaks more to the character of the shit-talker than medium.

Thus, I think that the "solution" to these sorts of nasty gossip apps is what Mr. Altman has done: simply refusing to be party to the gossip. You may miss out on juicy deets of who's done what with whom, but some things are more important than two minutes of entertainment. It's really up to potential users to decide if they want to get sucked into this sort of negative attention funnel.

edit: I see moot is going to be writing a response to this; I look forward to what he has to say. He is, in my opinion, the foremost expert on internet anonymity (or at least he's on 4chan a lot) so I think that his perspective should be considered highly.
Given the rise of Nadella, I'm sure the new lockdown/home platform of Microsoft is going to be their cloud services.

Following the Google/Apple model of having cloud profiles maintain/inform/manage (depending on home/gaming/work platforms) all the Microsoft devices seems the best approach.

It's also what people want - they want unified logins (note: plural, Google!) so that they can get on with their work/personal/gaming needs and ensure that new devices that are platform compliant "just work" with minimal/no config.
That was expected, once MS bribed them to stop the failure with their patent lawsuit.
Its coinbase's index, hence it is up to them who to include or exclude. If you dont like it, you are welcome to use a different index.
google display network advertising is equally useless/fraudulent

It is very good at giving me pictures of the more expensive things that I have recently bought, should I suddenly need two.
"Search engine" is not jargon. An English speaker from a century ago would understand what it meant - although they wouldn't know from what you were building the engine, or what it was meant to search.

Search engine?
http://www.etoday.ru/assets_c/2009/11/sobaka2-thumb-600x462-...
Exactly. I censor myself all the time in any online setting that isn't anonymous. I'll have my contribution to the conversation typed out, edited, and then I think on whether someone somewhere could possible take it the wrong way, or if it could come back to bite me. It's usually not worth posting (to me) if it's a controversial topic - there's very little to be gained, but a lot to lose.
I think you misunderstand me. I said that I would end up as a "corporate programming drone" - clearly a programming drone is part of the industry. What I'm saying is that, while I could probably get into the industry (if I could stay there for my whole professional life I'm a little uncertain about - see my OP), it seems that I would forever be an inferior programmer because I don't have the necessary passion to become a great programmer (or "great hacker" - and I realize that they are not necessarily the exact same thing), as implied by the OP of this post and some/many others. But I want to devote my professional life to something that I'm sufficiently passionate about and where I can make a positive impact, not just be another worker bee that is kind of doing an okay job but is vastly inferior to a lot of the truly passionate programmers, who occasionally look down the nose at me for not being devoted or skilled enough. Is this so ambitious? I don't think so - I think many people deep down want to make an impact. I don't have ambitions of being the best, or require it. I don't even require that I have to be more than average. But I want to make a tangible impact, I want to feel a purpose. I don't want to wake up in 10 years and realize that my passion was simply not sufficient, that most or many of my peers are far surpassing me in my craft, and I simply have to accept a lifetime of inferiority, or to maybe have to change my career entirely.

I'm not out of university yet, and I think that I've found something that I can devote my career to. But then I read about these people that make me question my passion, because really, it can be hard to gauge how passionate you are compared to most other people. And if it turns out that they're insinuations are correct - that I really don't have the sufficient drive and passion to make a satisfying career out of this - maybe I'll need to get out now...

It's a kind of existential question: who am I and where do I belong? But if you want to dismiss this as just being overly sensitive, that's fine.
It's quite clear from his context that he meant "decay" as in "become mean and nasty", not "become unpopular."

In that sense, yes, 4chan is absolutely a perfect example.
> Maximum # of open file descriptors

Augh. I ran one of my servers hard into that wall, and now it's something I watch. At least I learned from that mistake.
Your definition of faith is so large to allow you to believe anything and you will end up deluded as a result.
True. I should have generalized less. It didn't work for us. Reasons include the product in question (hotel rooms) which in New York are plenty in supply, the price of the product (median stay ~$800), a client with a relatively limited advertising budget (branding exercise unlikely), a defined purchase cycle (typically 2-4 weeks in advance of a trip), and last but not least, something people actually search for (not a "cash register" or "impulse" purchase). In short: I think FB ads may work for companies and products that sell "small stuff" or big brands that go for the eyeballs/brand recognition/awareness.
Don't Use Code Beyond Its Expiration Date
Linus Torvalds once said: "If Microsoft ever starts developing apps for Linux, it means I won."

Is this close enough?
God yes! I am tired of writing scrapers and crawlers myself when most of the time, I'd like to just do some prototyping with a regex in a search box against the internets. This could seriously accelerate the prototyping loop. Traditional search finds the the most most popular / trusted / authoritative. When I am crawling, usually this is not what I want. I want to get constrained information (usually text) from everywhere including the long tail.

This reminds me of SPARQL. SPARQL can do this kind of thing theoretically but go try using a SPARQL endpoint...go on, I dare you. What a terrible experience. This contrast then reminds me of how I'd rather use JSON instead of XML to serialize in about 99% of cases. Or Python instead of Java to prototype with. Basically, <Hacker-Scruffy-Thing> instead of <Mega-Structured-Thing>.

Yes, please bring us the internet regexes.
This probably says a lot more about the author's need for anonymity than anything else. Yeah, persecuted Iranian journalists only need anonymity to "be mean". Derp. Yeah, Chinese dissidents only need it when they want to say something naughty. Living in a bubble is all comfy but let's not imagine that everyone in the world operates from the same luxurious position when deciding who needs anonymity and why...especially when your premise is based on scanning 4chan or Reddit.
Really looking forward to your point of view on this moot.
Interesting contribution to psychology, since unknown faces are usually considered most attractive when they are average but...

My understanding it's that the average of various traits that tend to be found attractive, not "average faces." Faces that are average in every measured trait are in fact very rare.
Perfect[ish] cover story?
Just online, or in general? Has it been broken for years, decades or centuries?
I meant it in the sense of "loads of impressions", very few clicks, lots of clicks from countries listed in the video, unless specifically excluded.
I think in this situation it's pretty clear that it means "will no longer employ" without the with/without cause distinction.
The Psychology of successful bootstrappers
What was wrong with ZeroMQ that a port to Java fixes?
A polyfill combinator. It get only polyfills required by UA.
> And the word "heuristics" is as meaningless to real knowldge as "pincarpion", by the way.

And there you have it. pfortuny has declared"heuristics" in quotes and meaningless. Let's all black out that word with a felt tip marker in our dictionary. If you didn't have enough reasons to already not find pfortuny as credible, well now you have another.
You're correct, but the new target isn't touch. It's the cloud.

Take a look at who the CEO is now. The hub is the cloud. Apple and Google got it right, and Microsoft realizes this (I hope). If they have indeed learned this lesson, they will be competitive in the coming years, and perhaps come to dominate. Ignoring this lesson means Windows is going to be torn apart by Android, iOS and Steam.

Touch, Desktop, Search and Console should all be spokes on the hub - different ways to consume the same services.

It will be a challenge meeting this vision, but Microsoft can and will meet it. Question is, will it be in time to fight off Google/Apple?
Which is what people call it now that it lost credibility. Rewind a few months, and the story is different.
Yeah, I'm not knocking the actual products they got made, just that there's no way B&N had the resources to compete with the likes of Google, Amazon and every other Android tablet manufacturer and make a decent margin. In picking their battles that wasn't a wise one to walk into.
I should clarify what I meant by "decay"--services can continue to grow, but if the quality (defined loosely) goes below a certain point, I think it's hard to make them into really valuable businesses.
The today's AMA is "tabled": http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/1xjhm7/table_iama_he...