skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify, are we talking about what the theory is, or whether the theory is correct? Because I'm trying to explain the former, while you seem to be going at the latter.

The theory exists. That it's flawed isn't something I dispute. I pretty much think that the theory of democratic peace, as well as the idea that democracies are magically economic engines of amazingness, are complete wishful thinking and hindsight justification for people who can't grasp why we'd do democracy for its own sake.
Choking in Indian Cities - waiting for Godot?
It's estimated that 200 million people who live in Indian cities would lose an average of 3.3 years of life because of the high particulate matter concentrations - six times the WHO's recommended safe level!
> This is a clever way to get someone to leave the company: create in-company tension in a way that drives the person to leave.

Excuse my french, but companies that need "clever ways to get people to leave", are fucked. SUPER fucked.
bandwidth is free in the same region, but not across regions.

*edit and I believe not if you end up using the public IP address instead of the internal ip address.
Magnetic Project - World Without Wires
Nice, the tool is minimalistic
> this bill is no where near what I'd imagine would warrant a HN post.

Can only guess at why folks like any post, but it's not necessarily how large the bill is. Maybe it's how low it is for a service that's widely relied on, or maybe it's the level of transparency, which turned out to include evanphx above showing up to answer questions about the project.
Music lyrics player.. lyricalpro
I thought I'd share this.. it's a cool music player app with lyrics and does a auto repeating thing to help you remember lyrics so much easier. pretty smart!
In its early days, Facebook used email verification at a certain domain to verify membership to a uni. Perhaps you could do the same?
I thought it worked ok? http://clippingmagic.com/images/4953782/public/86ede827aa2fa...

You need a couple of extra markings, but that's life on images with background colors close to the foreground colors.

(I'm one of the creators of clippingmagic.com)
It's also good to mention that what you think is relevant and irrelevant as a college student may not match up which what actually turns out to be relevant as a working professional or researcher. I learned this the hard way.
Does any HNer have any idea on what this might be?
analog hole [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
The repetitive theme in this excellent post seems to be hard coded KPIs/Metrics.

For those of us who work at large organizations & who have to deal with metrics/KPIs, We need to understand that every time we track a metric/KPI, something else dies.

As Marc Andreessen, said this about metrics:
http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com/post/73631082205/m...

"The problem with arbitrary metrics in complex situations — they tend to backfire. Give emergency services drivers rigid response time metrics, and they’ll tend to stay close in to urban centers. Surprise! Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should another “paired” metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric. Many companies and especially governments violate this
principle continuously, and are startled by the result — every time."

----

Also Clayton Christensen identified KPIs & Metrics that did not change as underlying customer behavior/industry changes as a key factor.

Here is an example:

http://harryjan.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/innovators-dilemma/

"At a certain point however the very metrics that the market leaders used to rate and sell their products reached a point where it was
‘good enough’ for the majority of customers. When the average Hard Drive’s rate of failure reaches <1% over a three year purchase period,
there is little incentive for the customer to pay a big premium to purchase a drive with <0.8% rate of failure for example."
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Our designer would consider it, if the visible license options were not so restricting. Rather than make it "Limited to 1 commercial project", they should add a reasonable license solution that allows a team to use it for many projects.
Virtualization allows us to spin up new instances and migrate traffic to them. This means we can work entirely from chef and keep things clean. This is important for our volunteers to have a complete picture of an instance and to be able to make new ones.
Sure, but it's not really plausible that the junior ones did the opposite and are still really upset to hear what the senior person's making.

Also, I think very few companies have lots of latitude with equity. I've seen plenty of double offers (higher-salary/lower-equity and then visa-versa, take your pick) but very few of them have a super big swing. Most shops (rightfully) have a particular bent in terms of the type of risk they want their folks to be taking.

Anyways, yeah. I'll stick with my bet that the company, the senior person, and the HR person are all entities that you should stay far away from.
Could be pretty popular for folks in finance if you don't want to leave an IM trail.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/libor-instant-messages-from-i...

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/prosecutors-weigh-ins...
Good! The less that people see Google and Facebook accounts as "Global Internet Identity Accounts", the better.
The two scenarios you outlined seem contradictory:

* I don't think you can minimize the boost android got by having eric on apple's board during a very critical formative point

* Google completely abandoned their earlier prototypes once they saw (in the apple keynote) what apple had brewing.

If being on the board was so helpful, then why would Google need to abandon their previous approach?
Similar forgetful sharing sites:

https://onetimesecret.com/ – also sends messages. Does not support images or view limits greater than 1, but does support requiring a password to view.

http://volafile.io/ – for sharing files. Create a private or public chatroom where you can upload files and they are deleted after 24 hours. See, for example, the Hacker News room: http://volafile.io/r/BCcsa6.
That'd be interesting, given this article I saw a while back:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1347835/security-fear...

Professor Yang Aiping, an expert in digital imaging with the School of Electronic Information Engineering of Tianjin University and leader of the civilian team, said she was facing tremendous pressure because of the enormous technological challenges.

"Most studies in other countries are to do with fog. In China, most people think that fog and smog can be dealt by the same method. Our preliminary research shows that the smog particles are quite different from the small water droplets of fog in terms of optical properties," she said.

"We need to heavily revise, if not completely rewrite, algorithms in some mathematical models. We also need to do lots of computer simulation and extensive field tests."
Oh, yeah :) I see
I like that line of reasoning. I think the anonymity and peace of mind a company has NO way of tracking who visited the site would be degraded with work emails. Most US companies can and do read employee emails...Thanks for the feedback!
Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3].

Seems like they're giving people a reason to use their products, and then making a play to have an OAuth-level relationship with the users. Maybe they want visibility into how a user authorizes third-party apps (FB gets an awful lot of insight from FB connect!) or maybe they just want to solidify their user lock-in.

Either way, I can't imagine they justified the engineering work for massive redesign on seemingly not-profitable properties like Weather/Flickr without having a solid long-term plan for how to capitalize on that.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/15/yahoo-weather-android-red...
[2] http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/05/20/a-better-brighter-flick...
[3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/03/yahoo-sports-gets-ios-7-red...
The right questions to ask mobile-first deniers
you can find on http://www.fiverr.com/.
one developer i like on this is http://www.fiverr.com/bug_resolver
seems like he made himself pretty untraceable because google and other people search sites can't find almost anything on him
You should do server-side validation.

{
"success": true,
"seconds": 300000000,
"code": "20r5M5y3ec"
}
isn't bluebox where travis is hosted?
I eventually want to make a GUI equivalent as I learn to program, and had some other ideas that you have inspired as I try to get back to programming.

THANK YOU! I love your tool and it is one of my favorite tools. I check your git for other cool stuff as I stumbled upon your stuff many times.

Question: would you want to add a parameter to escape non-aplhanumeric characters? It took me a while of playing to figure out how to get mutt to handle my very complex IMAP passwords.

For anyone who cares, I do it with sed.

set my_pass=`pass email/this@email.org | sed 's/[[:punct:]]/\\&/g'`

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If students elect to take classes far beyond their level then they can simply have no idea what is going on and fail. That should be enough of a natural consequence to discourage a flood of under-performing students to high level classes.
Summary: Most space charts leave out the most significant part – all the space!
if a title like "whatsapp" which seems to have nothing to do with an sms service is sold for $19 bn, i'm sure domain names have nothing to do with company valuation.

choose "whatsx.com" instead :-)
I think this is unnecessarily pessimistic. You know what validity checks the code performs. To catch this bug it would only have been necessary to make each of them fail and make sure the failure led to rejection.

It's true, that doesn't prove the implementation is perfect, which seems to be what you're holding up as the goal. But it would have caught this bug.
I'm using Streamline on my current project ( http://www.streamlineicons.com/ ), and I'd recommend it over Iconic if you're looking for a commercial-grade icon solution - it's more expensive, but well worth it. 2 sizes, separate resources for filled vs outlined which are well thought out and involve more than just "filling in" the outline version. No SVG, but various vector formats which can easily be exported to SVG via batch tools. And they seem to really be into supporting and extending their product, every update has been free and I've been notified in a non-spammy way.

...and no, I'm not affiliated, I've just had a very pleasant experience working with their stuff, IMO for a commercial product it's well worth the investment.
Obligatory link to Errant Signal's discussion of photorealism in games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTsl1jCqq8
Richemont V Mr Shirts (IP infringement response)
Same, not a big fan of the design. I think it's because the level of detail and weight between icons varies so much.

http://i.imgur.com/HkgLgbZ.jpg

Look at the level of detail in the Bitcoin QR code in comparison to the bell or battery. They look like two or three different icon sets shuffled around.

Also, look at the responsive design for the microphone on the right. I scale it slightly larger, and the right icon appears. I hope you can disable the auto scaling, but I like the left icon more than the right, and for consistency, I'd like the icon and style to remain the same if I use it in multiple places, but different sizes.

I do enjoy the ability to set multiple colors per icon. That's one thing I'd like from my existing icon fonts, but I don't plan to make the switch when I feel the design is lacking.

Price isn't a concern, I spent $200 buying some beautiful icons for my existing project, then ended up switching to a free icon font at the last minute.
Character literal is not a character in C
Yeah. While they're at it, why not change every function to return "int". Then just cast to proper type at usage. /s (And no, bool is not the proper way to go either.)

But seriously, I'm amazed that code this critical uses sloppy typing. I mean, they might as well use Python ffs. Maybe it's historical burden?
I appreciate the fact that this isn't some biased "vim is God" type post. It has good points too about how editors do tend to follow the Emacs style where "command x does y". To me, that works fine because most of the commands you run will turn into muscle memory and never ends up being a problem. However, there is definitely a lot of use cases with VIM's way by being able to build up commands. It definitely cuts down the learning curve. Honestly, I'm not terribly psyched about Atom. It doesn't appear to offer anything knew other than instead of being extensible through VIM script, Emacs Lisp, or Python, it's extensible via Coffeescript.
This is the main reason why I have my Yahoo ID. I've been involved in many fantasy leagues on many platforms and Yahoo's has consistently been the best one year-in, year-out.
It's on some steep slopes, and cutting the trees down will destabilize the slope, besides making people mad.

They do trim the branches now and then.

I just don't see why it's so impractical to break out the Ditch Witch and cut a trench, and lay the durned cable in it. It was done for my neighborhood, and the developer wasn't known for spending excess money :-)
This was reported on Feb 27th.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singa...

Sad story, however.
I made it about halfway past Saturn before I gave up scrolling. Nice work.

One comment: If you're using km for the distance units, you might as well stick with it (metric) for all the other examples like 75 mi/hr and 475 ft to be more consistent. Better yet, an option to switch the units between imperial and metric would be pretty cool.
Yeah that's exactly how your jargon sounds to me :) I fiddled with Unity everyone was saying it's "simple"/"easy" ... Sure it is :)))

You know, it's funny how people out of our industry perceive us (at least in my experience) - I mean you say you're a programmer and it's immediately presumed that you just know computers and coding, but we have so many branches, languages, platforms at times it's absolutely overwhelming.

Outside of the basics of programming (you know algorithms, runtime analysis, basic code structure) we have almost nothing in common. It now starts to make sense why the big companies interview in these areas.
I disagree. The more people use Social login and the less people use their one shared password on all sites which tends to be "password1", the better.
Sad story.

Reading the headline, I thought (like probably many others) that it would be about Mark Karpeles, who is also 28. Hopefully it doesn't end that way for him.
Could really do with a [Not mtgox] in there to avoid linkbait
So all my wish posted on twitter will get Sync to my Wishberg account as well? If yes, Pretty cool!!!
> "Do not disclose anybody's salary" is as close to a Prime Directive as it gets in the HR world.

This has been my understanding as a non-HR person, which contributes toward my personal discomfort over "let's all know everyone's salary by name and number as a matter of course" lines of thinking. Not to say I don't understand where these lines of thinking come from.
> My wife has a chronic health problem.

To be fair, this can make it difficult to move anywhere. Countries like Canada and Australia can refuse you an immigrant visa if you have pre-existing health conditions (much like insurance companies will refuse to take you on):

https://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/health-requirements/overvie...
http://www.canadavisa.com/immigration-medical-inadmissibilit...
Dunning-Kruger explains why that can't be relied on to discourage the flood -- the people that ought to be discouraged may well agree that unprepared students shouldn't register for the high-level classes, but won't realize that they are unprepared.
C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program
This. Knockout's tutorials made me far more seriously look at it than Ember for a side project I was playing around with recently, coming from the position of not knowing either of them.
It has always seemed strange to me that putty which is still probably the most used ssh client for windows is available through such strange distribution methods. I wholeheartedly appreciate the time the author took to rant-ishly dissect this to a most myopic level. Even though it may reveal a most tortured and disturbed psyche.

Step 18 is probably the inevitable step that follows thinking about something too much.
Non-Fiat Currency
It's a mixed bag of emotions, funny, sad, amazed, that the USA is still flying the U2. Which is from the 60's, while the SR-71, the plane meant to replace it has already been decommissioned for over a decade now.
Awesome Course! Thanks for posting.
Google Capital Pours $50M Into Auction.com At A $1.2B Valuation
Yes, it will if your account is connected. If not, then it will create a second account - but once twitter is linked to main account, all wishes get merged in to one.

Kind of dropbox for wishes. It syncs up wishes in to one.
How about a real response. FUCK YOU
Change your attitude about the job you're going into. I guarantee you can learn plenty working at Bloomberg. Based on what they sell I'd guess they put a huge emphasis on reliability. They probably also maintain a lot of legacy code. This stuff may not be sexy but you can build important skills working on it. There will be good programmers at your new workplace. Work hard and learn from them.
Could you not add a feature so it scrambles on screen text as its typed? So that screen shots would be useless?
Want to make free calls? Dial this number
"you you're a dentist? good, that means you know how to do a surgery. both are medical field, right." :)
I seldom see rubbish so vile as in that comment section. What kind of news site is newsswatch.us?
Um, I've had Theo in my house. I've known him for a long time, we've had technical conversations about the kernel that 99% of the people here couldn't understand (maybe it is me but I am so sick of "look at me I've figured this out" and it is stuff you should have learned as an undergrad. Go code more and talk less.)

My opinion is until you have done as much as Theo has done you should maybe not talk so much.
Yahoo has an excellent Financial Portfolio / Stock Tracking Site. I go there pretty much every day to track how things are doing.
terrible, of course. but I got my UIPercentDrivenAnimatedTransitions working at last and was able to tidy them up later. I think I spent the whole time just reading apple API docs. christ, what a waste of good acid.
From the linked map, a sizable chunk of Seattle is zoned Lowrise (LR1/LR2/LR3), which is multifamily zoning. Is it the fault of the people who already live there that they haven't torn down their houses and built three townhomes on that lot?

> it seems unlikely that most residents of such housing would want to pay the true cost of the rollout.

Great, I'd love to talk to a company that provides gigabit service in Seattle who will provide a gigabit link to my residence and charge me no more than $2,000 for the install. (Why $2,000? I dunno, out of thin air, I suppose.) "But that's not the true cost of the rollout?" Awesome, and the subscribers to CondoInternet didn't pay the massive up-front cost for their links, either.

Here's my main complaint: People hold up CondoInternet and say "look, look, Seattle has gigabit Internet, why are you still complaining?" That's not anywhere close to answering the underlying discussion. Even if everyone who wanted gigabit could afford to live in those places, they wouldn't physically hold all of the people. It's like the FCC saying that one person in a ZIP code has DSL so the entire area "has broadband."

The debate over SFH versus multifamily is a good one, and I'd love it to tilt in favor of multifamily. But ignoring 95% of a city's residents is not the way to go about getting better access. Hell, even Comcast manages to cover the majority of Seattle with 50Mbps speeds.
> Of course hyperinflation would be a concern at the $100 trillion level.

If it wasn't harmful to hand out "free money" to everyone, then they could actually do it at the $100 trillion level. The difference is in the degree/expediency of harm caused. Hyperinflation would be a concern at the $3000 level too.

The point is that there is no "free money". Money being "free" equates to money being worthless, and that's exactly where the suggested operation would lead.

> Rather, the idea is to switch channels from open-market operations to money giveaways.

I see you've adopted the Fed's jargon. The massive difference between what the Fed is doing now (handing out $85B/month to banksters) and handing out money to the masses is that in the latter case, all of that money could potentially enter the real-world economy right away, thus potentially causing all the inflation it could possibly cause.

That's way different from the same amount of "nominal wealth" sitting in some bank's balance sheet, having replaced some worthless-in-reality asset's nominal valuation with the equivalent amount of money. In this case, the money is not going anywhere, and thus, not causing the inflation it could.

But the original article is thoroughly full of shit. No wonder, because the article was meant to mislead the public.
I'm not a UX designer, but do you really want your icons to change detail based on display size, rather than have a uniformity in display across devices? Wouldn't that increase the burden on the user to memorize more icons that they have to potentially interact with?

I know the detail scales on the icons are subtle, but intuitively I'd think it might make a difference.

Can a UX designer can give their thoughts on that?
I wonder what sort of magic GitHUb integration http://atom.io has in store for us?
I love knockout but I'm not sure whether to risk using it in mobile apps. Can anybody report on performance in a mobile SPA with a few views?
Study reveals that 1 in 10 Americans think that HTML is an STD
Most of the times I need it I have maybe 10 minutes before my train leaves London, it's evening or late at night, so my options are to find the change or hold it until a train comes (and hope that it actually has toilets on... which not all trains on my route do). Going to St. Pancras would be fine but would mean getting the next train up to an hour later.
- The study involved 2,392 men and women 18 years of age or older. The participants were not told that the study was specifically looking into their knowledge of tech terms.

- The study was conducted by Vouchercloud.net, a coupons website, as a way to determine how knowledgeable users are when it comes to tech terms.
It's one of those Conservative conspiracy theory websites, if I remember correctly.
השוקולד של תמר- שוקולד טבעוני, אורגני וטעים | צ'אנדרה יוגה
"You make an example out of a couple of people, and the rest fall in line pretty quickly" . . . .

I wonder what Daniel Elsberg[1] or Woodward and Bernstein would face today, if they tried to do today what they did then?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
Looks cute, but we already use Telegram.
A Write Up of the SQL Injection Vulnerability in Rails — Ruby Weekly
Humble Bundle Post Mortem
I have my doubts that idTech5 will ever be GPL'd
No, the minimum wage prices unskilled workers out of jobs, and thus, reduces competition from those whose compensation - which is based on their productivity - already exceeds the minimum wage.

There are reasons why people aren't paid $100 for flipping burgers. If a higher min. wage caused no harm, then we could just set it to $3000 per hour and then.. POOF, no one would be poor! Of course, if that were to happen, the economy would collapse immediately.

People are paid according to the value they produce to their employers, and the minimum wage simply does not affect those calculations.
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This whole thing is insane. How can people even accept something like this?
APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap