skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I think a lot of people forget is that Facebook is incredibly customizable after you give it a few signals.

After college I made a list of "who would I avoid (or maybe not even recognize) if I saw them out in public" and removed them from my friend list.

After that came the "baby photo" stage - if someone posted too many images that didn't interest me, I told Facebook that I wasn't interested in seeing updates from those people anymore.

Similar to the Facebook gaming spam a few years back, I simply just removed updates from any site or app that contained content I wasn't interested in seeing anything from (BuzzFeed, Upworthy, Zynga games, etc).

My newsfeed is now a finely tuned machine, where I get updates from my close circles and occasionally from news sites I enjoy.

Point being, you can virtually customize Facebook as much as you want so I'm not sure what the disconnect is here. I wouldn't expect Gmail to be perfectly tailored to my preferences the first time I created an account. I figure the same thing applies with Facebook.
I own a similar content network, but we have since broke it up into multiple niche properties to avoid having one massive neck to choke like Upworthy.

In the past fb has issued domain wide bans on properties I've owned if we were getting a little too savvy in exploiting their edge rank algo.

This "pass thru" traffic is amongst the least valuable on the internet, believe me, we have tried everything under the sun to monetize visitors, adsense, every ad network, affiliate, etc.

Believe it or not the best thing we've figured out is to use the authority of a massively viral website to help us rank terms in google on the backend. All comes full circle, lol.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034528
I heard it attributed to Steve Jobs. Another urban legend forming?
Personally I feel microwaves are getting less usable. They used to have a numpad and a "Go" button. Now they have dials, programs, modes, and of course cryptic iconography.

The reason that microwaves and washing machines are like this is that the two use cases "Buying an appliance" and "Using an appliance" are wildly divergent, as patio11 hinted. When using an appliance, your thought is, "Just let me push one stupid button to accomplish this task and get on with my life." But when shopping for an appliance, you are weighing cost, features, aesthetics, brand name, perceived value, and so on.

We can tease that this is due to gender roles, but the fact is that I know all the above, and yet I just spent 25 minutes in a Target trying to decide which toaster to buy.
Dell can't agree with this without having to do a hardware recall or refund people. It is much easier to blame your software (and cheaper by a hundred million of dollars in bad press/computer returns/hardware thrown away/call centers dedicated to this issue/etc etc).

Sad to see behavior like this
Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round
Jolla open sources Sailfish browser
New header title: "The Day We Flappy Back" !
I was expecting some general trends that are not improving, and that indicate things that the industry should work on. There definitely are some (sigh).

Instead I see:

- Android phones have bad USB ports

- Android phones have bad batteries

- iOS phones have a bad browser

- Some ramblings about WiMax (huh?)

- A conclusion that wonders if we will feel like idiots when these problems are fixed (huh?)

Which of these problems are not being fixed? Android battery life seems to be improving, at least in the devices that I tend to look at (Moto X, Moto G, LG G2, Note 2/3). The only Android device that I have had USB issues with was a SGSII (funny that his was the same :) ), but in general improvements to battery life improve that problem as well, as they reduce the number of cycles on the connector.

I know nothing about iOS and its browser, but there is a good chance alternatives will form there as well.

Should we really be focusing on some sort of idea that because things aren't perfect and tradeoffs have to be made, "technology still sucks"? It feels a bit like saying that all cars suck because my GT86 can't haul my boat.

(Note: Don't take the above as bashing. The story is just a guy ranting on his blog, and not every blog rant has to purport to be something profound to serve its purpose. There is nothing wrong with that.)
Author here, in case anyone has any questions!
Finding Insight Through Humor: Negative Keywords
Reddit users have been begging reddit to make this change for years -- recognizing that meme/pic upvotes are each less value than other (larger) content upvotes, since pics are easier to skim without leaving the stream.

Facebook is overtaking reddit in the Quality algorithm department.
Creator cites addictiveness, discomfort in pulling down Flappy Bird
You do realize that a lot of the HN crowd is actually much more interested in purchasing ads from ad agencies than they are in purchasing products, right? An ad for an ad agency that is fresh and innovative is very much relevant.
Don't Amazon and Netflix both stream from the AWS cloud?
I'd love that to be able to shower while listening to music or podcasts, and without disturbing other people in the house.
As he said: Support _in_ Denmark. Stripe "only" supports these countries: https://stripe.com/global
UX Started In...Ancient Greece
That's also how reddit works, and in 6 years it's gone from technology, programming and world news to memes and cat pictures.

When anyone can create an account and start voting, both moderation and reminders from existing users about appropriate content are needed to prevent or slow the move from specialized articles to general interest timewasters.

It happened to digg and reddit, I'm perfectly happy with people voicing concerns where appropriate to prevent HN from just becoming another reddit/digg/fark/somethingawful/thechive
The Robots Still Don't Have Taste
Number of young U.S. technology companies falls
Really cool idea, although a friend pointed out that a very similar idea has already been done for watches: http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2013/6/13/festina-watches-div...
I notice it a lot more since I don't have Flash installed.
This particular slide does not support keys ... use the arrow keys.
The fact that an insider-heavy oversight panel said this stuff is ineffective and intrusive and should be stopped seems like a strong point, even if you value nothing more than the billions of taxpayer dollars.
All of the ones that aren't on the list!
"The separation of the U of Delaware from Wilmington by 15 or so miles is certainly unfortunate and may help explain why Boston (innumerable universities) and Seattle (University of Washington, Seattle University) succeeded while Wilmington did not."

One of the reasons (in addition to what you have mentioned) is that the areas that were closest to the south and had good welfare and benefits attracted many poor people looking to escape poverty tended to go to the places that were closer to the south. Boston is farther than NYC, Philly, Delaware etc.
How much traffic can your infrastructure handle?

Would it be too much to ask for an easy to clone repo (github?) that would allow one to serve the content directly rather than by including some 3rd party javascript widget?
Rubygems plugin to quickly open doc/github/website of gems from command line
To a certain extent, doesn't this weaken the case for Bitcoin?

One of Bitcoin's big selling points is "seamless international commerce". If a company (ie, Stripe) makes it painless to let customers pay in whatever currency they have, doesn't that advantage for Bitcoin go away?
Agreed! In the same vein, I recently wrote about both debugging vs logging [1] and about session-based logging [2].

[1] http://henrikwarne.com/2014/01/01/finding-bugs-debugger-vers...

[2] http://henrikwarne.com/2014/01/21/session-based-logging/
How do users or front-end developers know how to display 1 "usd" as 0.01 USD but 1 "inr" as 1 INR? I haven't seen an API for getting the display factors.
>There is a propaganda soundbite
going around that Soviet famine of
1932-33 was created artificially to
target Ukrainians (Holodomor). Let's
not repeat it here.

That's an awfully cavalier way to dismiss what appears to be the general historical consensus on a genocide.
Would love support for Denmark!
Maybe Technology Is Not Perfect, but it doesn't suck.

>>"These devices are on an upgrade cycle that is ridiculous and its the height of first-world whining to complain about your ”old phone” when, for goodness sake, it gives you the internet in your pocket with what not-so-long-ago would have been subject to export controls as a supercomputer."

You complain about first world whining, and then whine about iOS not reflowing text? I don't understand the objective of this article.
I expected something broader than smart phones. A less misleading title, such as "Smart Phones Still Suck" would have helped.

I expected some analysis on why technology sucks, or or how to address it. Instead I just get an experience report in the form of a stream of conciousness.

While this is a fine post to have on one's blog, it doesn't meet my standard for the HN Front Page.
Square Tapped By Whole Foods In Its Second Big In-Store Payments Deal
How many would the Nazis have killed if they conquered the Soviet Union and won WW2? That's the estimate you'd have to compare against.
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Pharms_Butorphano...

Interesting. It's not available from the front page of erowid, so it must be somewhat new. It doesn't appear to have an interesting street name from this handful of reports. At least its prescription, so it's not some god-awful thing, but it is an opiate, so somewhat dangerous.
Why Human-Computer Teams Hold the Most Promise for the Future
For a BRL charge the transaction will still be to a US merchant, rather than a local merchant. You're right that in some countries like Brazil, this can be a bit hit-or-miss.
Fiverr now accepting Bitcoins
This is probably the best answer here. The time to learn Java or Objective C (the language) is miniscule compared to the time it takes to learn the frameworks and the Way To Do Things.

Learning to write Android apps is going to teach you very little about writing J2EE apps, so don't let that weigh your decision.
Maybe if the author were using something less powerful than a processor that "not-so-long-ago would have been subject to export controls as a supercomputer", the battery would last longer ;-)

But then again it wouldn't run Flash or a browser (reflowing or not). The phone he wants today will be available in 5-10 years.
The Irish people rejected the EU Constitution(Lisbon Treaty) in a referendum as well[1]. The Irish government laughed at the people, deployed a bunch of scare-mongering tactics in the media, and held another vote to get the "right" result. Democracy in action. I get the feeling that a lot of EU treaties would be rejected by many countries if put to popular referendums.

After seeing the way in which Germany bullied Ireland into keeping the insane bank bailout which has crippled Ireland's sovereign balance sheet, I've become doubtful about some elements of EU membership.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_Treaty_of_L...
Hi all
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Would love to see one dedicated to OS install processes one day, my highlights are the OS X intro videos and "helpful hints" provided during an install of Windows XP.
Foxconn Working With Google on Robotics
Checkout http://grasshopper.com/ - I used their 888 number to forward to my phone and then my cofounders phone if I don't pickup. Worst case - they save the message and I can call them back. Highly recommended
I don't think he really feared for his life, what seems much more likely, especially given his statements about the media, is that he thought that people were being complete dicks, so he took his ball and left.
See the amazing CSS sprite of Google Play Music
Inspired by the title rather than the content:
Technology will suck until the day we have systems that have at least one of these properties:

1. They are resilient to programmer error and can mend themselves from most errors according to some idea of what was supposed to be accomplished.

2. Type safe programs that have with little effort been proven to work before deployment.

3. Self updating systems with close to flawless backwards compatibility support (for as long as there are non self updating ones) built into the framework.
It's important to vote if only to make a statement that you care about the issue. Your silence is a vote of approval for the politicians to do whatever they want (of course they pretty much do already, but one should never implicitly vote for that).
It'd be hard to do worse in compilation speed than C++.
How to Turn Down Feature Requests Without Offending Your Customers
I do the same thing but the problem is 99% of users don't :/
Celery uses `billiard`, which is a fork of multiprocessing.

That doesn't help with communicating with a distributed worker pool, though.
FYI, with charts like this it's kind of important to do some quantitative work, not just take a look. Check out this taxonomy of charts:

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/05/15/an-r-squar...
Just called my representative of district 7 and told her to support the USA Freedom Act. Hope more people call.
Squishy Bird
They have been thinking about for a very very very long time now, i wonder how much longer since there are 2 release in a year and a lot is yet to be done.
Pin Payments is owned by the big four Australian banks. They have a vested interest to make sure it is harder for competitors to enter the market, not easier.
Got it.. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xm761/we_are_the_day_...
Yeah, patterns like this are much easier to find than you'd think and don't have any predictive value.

Yes, the market could take a dive (or shoot upwards) any time, but not because of the pattern in this chart.
Google Cloud SQL Hits General Availability
It does require broader similarities than green pipes. And Nintendo is on record that Flappy Bird does not violate their IP.[1]

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/10/no-complaints-about-f...
Show HN: fixing crummy screen size charts
The only person you are trying to benefit when you are trying to convince the dying of atheism is yourself. We should let people live their final days believing whatever they want. Even as an atheist, its clear to me that the right thing to do is allow the dying to be happy and comfortable, however they want that. Furthermore, there are many, many threats to longterm survival, not just mysticism.
Folks smarter than me: is it prudent to move my assets into cash for a couple of months? Is there really anything to this?
I didn't know about that one, thanks :)
An Intro to Regular Expressions
In a single comment you've managed to deploy all the dismissive language anti-government folks use to derail meaningful discussion.

Complaining:

Pointing out problems isn't complaining.

Subsidize:

Investing and subsidizing aren't the same thing. When the arena was built in Newark I am sure some state help was involved, the end result has been an attraction that brings hockey fans to Newark who otherwise would have no reason to be there and patronize businesses.

I am not sure where SF and Toronto factor into what goes on in NJ.

Blaming:

You mean as opposed to the poor citizens taking responsibility and rebuilding the city?
I could understand laying in a warm bathtub, but now long do your showers last? I'm normally in-and-out in less time than a typical radio song plays.
Yeah I liked a link that Upworthy posted once and so I fell for the "SUBSCRIBE!!!1" trap.

Eventually I realized that it was turning my e-mail inbox into the internet version of cable news. Full of meaningless stories with bait-y titles.
unfortunetly some EU countrys "no names no pack drill" take the farm subsidy but when it comes to establishing basic common rights basically stick two fingers up to the EU.
The video was embedded right below it in the article as well
Ah, the juxtaposition of this could be delicious. They wonder why there are no connections at that public hotspot. When they come out to check it and nothing's wrong (just remove the foil before hand - it's not like they could access the building without your knowledge) . They leave, you wrap it back up and they come out again with the same results but this time they replace the equipment... and so on.

The only thing that could be better is if you gave them a window of time in which you will randomly show up at the facility to unlock the office or whatever and give them access. Say, between 8am and 11am. "No I'm not sure when I'll be there exactly. I have several appointments that morning. Is that an issue?"
Just for reference: Encyclopædia Britannica estimates that 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in the Soviet Union during this period, of whom 4 to 5 million were Ukrainians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93...
I looked at getting one of these for the holidays, but it seems they're not held firmly into your ears during swimming sessions, according to reviews. Nice marketing though.
A few years ago I pulled my ST out of the closet, hooked it up to a hard drive and turned it on.

Blammo. Within about a second I was looking at the desktop.

This was so much fun to see that I hit reset about 30 times in the next minute or so. Reset. Desktop. Reset. Desktop. Wheeee!

Most BIOS-based computers won't get to a single desktop in that amount of time. I don't know what they're doing, but most of it is not useful to me.
Toward Go 1.3
The particular editor isn't all that important. You could just use nano or vi. I don't think any of the instructions contain anything really Emacs specific.

I happen to use Emacs and the source for the site is an org-mode document, which makes editing it very easy. Exporting it as HTML is a few key presses.
I was impressed that the mouse changed then I read your comment and spent way ...
It seems to be the focus is a lot on the NSA ..
The NSA just happens to be the best at what they do. The Brits and Germans are pretty good too. As a Dutchman I know a lot of the HUMANINT stuff here relies on hijacking SQL databases and metasploit, and what is provided from other sources. But everyone is trying to catch up and make friends with ..

We basically need a publicly audited restructuring of our entire communication infrastructure. The problem has grown to such proportions that we now know that we can not trust governing institutions like NIST, or chip manufacturers like Intel for example. What makes matters much worse is that the U.S. government will just keep playing the same card of supposed reforms, while operations will not cease, but instead will do a illusive dance to more black on black policies.

At the same time, public interest in the matter has already massively dwindled due to over saturation in media coverage. While the cointelpro is working hard to dismiss everything as essentials to provide us with a (sense of) security for the global fight of terrorism and crime, apathy will prevail.

Also I'm referring to U.S. policies a lot, since they are the ring leaders and are influencing international policy and operations at the highest level.

But obviously this is a problem across many if not all governments. The nature of intelligence agencies is to gather intelligence by any means. This will never change, never disappear unless we get full transparency on government. Which will never happen due to concerns for national security. And we know where that road will lead to.. ask how Bradly Manning is doing.

So no, I'm a bit too informed, and have become way too cynical to be counting on a revolution any time soon :(
Esri To Enable Thousands Of Government Agencies To Open GIS Data To The Public
Why build open source software? Because climate change is urgent
But its basically illegal under EU law - you cant restrict trade on the basis of which EU country you come from.
How to Build a Sustainable Coaching Business
Hey, yep! Stripe Connect works in all our live and beta countries: https://stripe.com/connect.

Our direct payouts product (https://stripe.com/blog/send-payouts-with-stripe) is currently US-only, but we're working on expanding it.
The comments also threaten to derail the project. Conspiracy theorists abound and not really any filtering system to bring good comments above the fray. I'm not really sure why these articles even need user comments. They make the site feel like Infowars.
> I'm a little concerned that his domain name firstlook.org is hosted through GoDaddy. Anything particularly damning could have authorities asking GoDaddy to take his domain from him (...)

Part of me hopes he did this on purpose, so that whe GoDaddy makes a move, it will unleash unseen amounts of Internet rage that maybe, finally, will take GoDaddy down for good.
...when you have to make new peering agreements, build new pipes or create special infrastructure just for one content provider that doesn't pay you a cent...

An ISP can upgrade their equipment for free to receive YouTube traffic via peering or they can upgrade their equipment and pay for transit to receive the same traffic. Given that the traffic is going to be received anyway, peering is by far the cheapest way to accept it.

And if we imagine a world where there were 100 niche video sites instead of YouTube, the total bandwidth would probably be the same but ISPs would be paying for transit to receive it. Google and Netflix's economies of scale benefit ISPs as well.
it's so sad to watch my submissions slide right on by... ;+)

-bowerbird
Reading stuff like this makes me like him even more. Sorry. Probably a holdover from how much I liked Beavis & Butthead as a kid, people thought that was idiotic too.
That won't last once they're monetizing. They'll have to staff up a great deal.
I think that's exactly the point of the article. In some sense, every content publisher that relies heavily on viral traffic is in fact building on the viral mediums' turf, at least from the point of view of the mediums.
Sure - but then I think that falls squarely on Faebook, not on third parties

Yes, I found those Upworthy posts incredibly obnoxious but obviously millions of people disagree as otherwise the posts wouldn't receive the engagement they do.
They have a list of approved modems for the both the residential and business services, with the business one being a small subset of the residential one. But I was able to get a modem approved only for the residential service on my business account by calling around. What worked for me after only a few tries was calling into the residential tech support and having them add it. It's apparently all the same infrastructure on the back end.
Introducing The HAT Stack
The basic strategy that I've always seen outlined: put a bit each month into an index fund. If the market tanks, that means you are buying low!
Lessons from Bear Grylls on Big and Little Data