skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's generally a good idea to write readable code. There's a reason why explicitness and redundancy are common in natural language.
Interesting model for the beta:

What we're doing works a bit like a Kickstarter. We're asking supporters to back
us for AU$60.

Why charge for 1,000 places?

The maths on 1,000 × 60 means two co-founders working full-time for six months.
This is just enough time for us to get stuck in without worrying about the future
It's also a handy, low number that means we don't have to worry about scaling a
whole lot of data analysis just yet.

Although, I think that should be on the front page. But I like it better than someone setting up a quickie Selfstarter install and waiting for money to roll in.
XHECK OUT MY VIDEOS ^^
> Are they actually talking to me? Unbelievable. I can’t talk, Dan; can’t you see? I’m hanging to this idea by a thread as it is

My problem with this story is that it makes it sounds like it's Dan's fault for walking up to the author at a party/social event. We've all been there -- an all-consuming problem or an unexpected moment of clarity. Or maybe you realize something that puts you into a sour mood. We can't expect those around us to be mind readers.
> Sentinel is just a Redis-aware consensus driven failover service

But its consensus algorithm is broken to the point where it will lose half of your recent data any time an election happens (much like MongoDB).

> Redis Cluster has very specific use cases.

What are those? It's neither CP nor AP apparently. What guarantees does it make?
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/image/serverpage/imag...
Is Daala anywhere close enough to being finished for this to even be feasible?
I totally get this. As one who works in a coworking space I have to fend off people all day. I love to talk, but not when I'm trying to write code. Some people don't realize that headphones are the universal sign of "I'm busy".
Actually RT is a pretty good source for news that don't relate to Russia. They covered a lot of interesting stories that CNN and Fox stay away from. Not just related to America but other parts of the world.

Related to Russia they are completely useless. They rival Fox News there pretty much.

Al Jazeera America is the same way. News not related to Middle East, especially Qatar are quite good. Otherwise, don't listen to them.
Interesting that this happens soon after Google restricted extensions to developer mode, isn't it? Back then I said the "security reason" is definitely BS, because they already took a "strong enough" measure to only allow extensions to be installed with drag and drop into the Extensions page.

Plus, when you have the company that lives by data, not show you the data that made them make this move, you know something is up. I asked then, and I actually asked when they moved to drag and drop, too: show me the data that proves this is so necessary!

Even before any of this, Chrome was far better than IE and even Firefox at staving off bad extensions. So to me both of those moves seemed unnecessary, and most likely with another "agenda" behind. Now we begin to see that that agenda could be.

I've also connected stuff like this with MPAA taking board membership at W3C. Expect stuff that's much worse than this, and the MPAA-influenced W3C to start keeping features away from browsers that MPAA freaks out about, while Google will increasingly start to ban various extensions from the store for various "ToS reasons".

And people still think W3C's DRM extension won't be used to close down the Internet? It took Netflix weeks to take advantage of Google's recent move. Watch what happens when DRM can be enabled in the browser by anyone, just as easily, Then we'll see if the "convenience" of not playing Netflix through a plugin was worth it.
You don't need the breakpoint. Just run Object.defineProperty(window, "console", {configurable: false}); before loading netflix and you are good to go ;)
My computer was compromised once, and I consider myself tech-savvy. I don't use Windows as well. Two of my collegueges lost BTC due to computer compromise as well. Now imagine what happens to people that know close to nothing about security.
Just saying there's an option - and we've made ACH way better (I should have disclosed up front in the original post that I'm a founder) and increase conversions above and beyond CC's. It's also safer - nobody ever gets your info, it stays with your bank where it belongs. It's something to consider.

I think Knox with a fallback to Amazon Payments is a great stack for Micro if you want my opinion.
I don't think the goal of this is to hide legitimate uses of the dev tools. As many have mentioned, it's really easy to circumvent. It's to shut down an attack vector.
To me, it looks like a corporate culture where CIO was just another position and happened to be the one that was open when it was her turn to be promoted. It's the sort of decision of which the board and senior management would all be aware.
You can also just type "javascript: delete console" into the omnibar if you want to avoid all those steps.
As the frontend dev, any insight as to why you didn't go responsive with this? It's a nice looking site and you did a great job, but I'm surprised - since this is a publishing platform that obviously caters to multiple devices - to not see a device-agnostic approach to the site.
For what it is worth, I have anecdotal evidence that thinking in a foreign language in fact does somewhat inhibit emotional and experiential (common sense) subsystems. So beware.
The other day at work, my co-worker noticed that FB was hijacking the console object. When you trying to invoke console.log it would output in big red letters telling you that it was dangerous to paste js into webpages. And offered a url to a page you could turn off the warning.

I just tried it now on my FB account and it looks like they didn't touch my console. My guess is that I've been developing apps on FB since 2007 and maybe i already disabled that via something long ago.
Why do journalists get IPOs so wrong?
Could a lawyer express an informed opinion about that?
I am working on a small VM called Carp. It's pretty darn limited but as of now looks kind of like MSP430 (from TI). Take a look:

http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp
I know a developer who once walked over to a business analyst to ask about an interesting ID in our database. She chatted with him for a bit, drew her question, then they bantered some.

At the end of it, he recalled the interesting ID that she originally queried about, as they conversed, told her, then as she passed on to her next endeavor, her closing comment was, "Now let me try to remember that number all the way back to my desk."

Now granted, this is just an ID — not a bug, an "idea" or something embedded in some complicated (dis)array of logic — but she engaged the person whom she asked, and through human interaction and grace, the two pulled out an answer together. Then she took it in strides that memory is up to her.

I remember when I used to be more like her — and less like this antihuman, perpetually brooding, code-distressed, oh-can-you-leave-me-to-my-precious-mind sob-story archetype that you rage-hackers (again perpetually) perpetuate.

Why do we romanticize this? It's becoming obnoxious — the glorification of obnoxiousness. Your mind is your garden, and no one owes you peace of mind. And if people wish to browse your garden, you should be absolutely fucking thrilled.

Why are you propping up and romanticizing this "do no enter" sign at the entrance of your gardens?

You know — there's a Java dev here that often times will start off an interruption with, "How can I provide you with outstanding customer service today?"

How about this? Forget your "engineer" metaphor. Forget your "prodigious self-torment". If you want to fold to the Machines — that's YOUR M.O. Stop sharing with piss about it. Stop whining. Our job has one distinct role, and that's to protect EACH OTHER from this massively complicated world of machines. Do your goddamn fellow human a favor, and pay more attention to HUMANS than you do machines.

Maybe your life will be filled with more spontaneity, warmth, and gifts — because all a fucking computer is going to give you is rules. One key subcomponent of our job as developers, programmers, etc. is Customer Service and that's because humans first.

Why else is "human-readable" a thing?
The most benign explanation I can think of is to prevent an attacker from using social engineering where they give the victim a command to run in the JavaScript console.

Sites with a large number of inexperienced users (including children) have to think about these things.
"self-XSS" (the thing this malfeature is purportedly protecting people from) is a made-up concept. It's basically "don't run your own scripts to interfere with our site, and we'll use scary-sounding security words in an attempt to discourage you from doing it." I don't believe for a second this is about helping the user - more likely is that FB and Netflix want to prevent users running scripts that add features or do functions they find inconvenient, like exporting your address book or movie rating info.

I get to run code just as much as you do - it's MY computer, MY browser, and MY bandwidth. Making up a scare word (that just means "users running code I don't like") in an attempt to legitimize disabling access to development and exploration tools is beyond the pale. There is absolutely no reason to permit this kind of behavior, and I'm frankly a little appalled a community of startup founders and hackers would ever defend this kind of behavior, as some of the comments here have done. If you want to protect users from themselves and limit and restrict what they can do, write a mobile app. Don't try and put your shit on the web if you want it to be a walled garden.
Just a heads-up that I tried this on Tumblr, which has a native embed, and … the implementation is partly broken. Basically, if they were doing this right, the embeds would show up inside the dashboard. They don't—they just show up in a black box. Which is hugely disappointing as it takes away much of its viral-ness on that platform.

Getty is big enough that they should be able to get Karp on the horn and do this properly.
Interesting idea but I can't get it to work. The chrome extension at least.
Yeah. Party guy isn't busy, he's disorganized.
> Plus, it's high visibility when you succeed.

Actually, no. That is one of the biggest problems with properly functioning IT systems, they become invisible - nobody notices until something screws up...
Hrm. Couple things that come to mind, if you want to keep poking:

* how did the distribution of SAT scores among applicants change during that period?

* how did tuitions change over that period?

* what's the GPA distribution versus the SAT distribution? At some point we went from a 0-4 GPA scale to a 0-5 GPA scale, and IIRC, the SAT's numbers have moved around as well. Can the preference for modifying the SAT bar be related to finer granularity being available? You sort of allude to this in your original comment. GPA may not have gone up simply because it's a worse metric than even the SAT.

* did the rise coincide with all standardized tests, or just the SAT I? SAT II? AP exams? IB?

* was the applicant pool affected by accepting transfer students or affirmative action type of deals?

* what does "top X%" actually mean in this case? Is it a stated admissions policy? Or is it it just that students below a certain SAT score virtually never qualify on some other criteria?

Sorry if some of these would be answered by your links. I'm less interested finding the answer and more just giving you a sounding board.
Christopher Soghoian (EFF) on Government Surveillance [8:19]
I read the proposal as intending to take advantage of similarities among photographs in a particular domain. Lacking such similarity, you're back to the general photo-compression problem.
Connect literally five other services for a broader view

This copy seems quite strange. Using literally in this context would traditionally precede an impressive number. "We have literally thousands of service intergrations"... or something.
Technology has created a flat earth where we can participate as equals
Fantastic read. I'm not a fan of the labels introvert and extrovert as they apply to people. However, I think as they apply to behaviors they are useful, and I found the fact that you didn't advocate for yourself to get out of there (possibly even at the expense of being rude) to be a bit introverted. Same with the idea that you usually "blow it" during conversation. (Alternatively, perhaps I am asocial.)
> No, Fox News doesn't have the same problems. For one, Fox News is not state sponsored and has no obligation to be a media arm of the US government.

It has an obligation to be a media arm of one of the two parties in government. I'm not sure that's actually better than state-sponsored news, which is a designation that includes some some reasonably decent options like the BBC.
It's really hard with anti-depressants to know if the reason you're feeling better is because you think the drug is going to make you feel better or because the drug is actually doing things. Then you feel worse and don't want to cut out the depressant because you think it's propping you up. It screws with your mind.

I can say with certainty, however, that if you ever want to make your johnson have half the sensation, they absolutely do have an effect there.
He about efficacy? How about they just don't work? How about the worst kind of data/study manipulation in the history of allopathical medicine?

Yes--I trusted drug companies to provide MD's with honest
forthright studies. Instead, they "cherry picked" studies,
and did horrid research. I don't let doctors off the hook
either; what about .5% better than control was impressive(
I made that number up, but I don't think I'm that far off.

I took tri, heterocyclic drugs over the years and nothing
even remotely worked for my condition.(A panic attack that
morphed into general anxiety--which after years of failed
treatments turned into Depression.

At this point--I am just livid over the deception. These
drugs were expensive, and so were the doctors visits. I
am now on drugs that control anxiety, but are extremely
addictive. I am embarrassed to mention what I'm addicted
too.

My point, beyond venting if you are clinicall depressed,
these drugs might work. I have never really been that
depressed--or I was told.

I do know one thing though that most MD's won't tell you.
If you have a breakdown(very common in the twenties). Time
will help your condition. Oh yea, if you think you are
Superman(physically and mentally) you probally have a breaking point. I thought I could handle anything better
than my peers; I was wrong. Of yea, try to take it easy
on the alcohol--it works, but you will become addicted.

And honestly, I'm not sure I would step foot in a Psychiatrists office if I could go back in time; at least
a for profit Doctor. They will drag you back in order to
get you prescription filled(It should be illegial).

Remember though--The adage "Time cures all ill's" worked, at
least for me. Aging is a strong medicine. I didn't accomplish what I set out for, but my interests changed as
I got older. If you feel bad, like someone literally yanked
the rug from your feet--I understand completely. Your friends will have just a vague notion of what you are going through, but there are people out there who know just how
difficult you life has become. Again--If you are reading
this, you will get better with time. I have no reason to
lie.
This again?

Wasn't a similarly missleading article posted and removed from HN last night?
Also, why go to a party if you're too busy to enjoy it?

(Sincerely agreed.)
Not Dell, but the retail store where you got it. Most (Wal-Mart, OfficeMax/Depot, Best Buy) have their "Service plans" which is pretty much paying to get rid of misc software. Retailers gotta love that extra profit while the employees get a nice SPIF.
Can you try to at least leave Zite running before you finishing integrate zite algorithm into flipboard? What am I going to do in the meantime without Zite, sigh.

Flipboard is useless at its current state. Please explain this to your new boss. Really appreciate it.
That's not how I read it. I read that as Dan being the target of his frustration, not that he literally blamed Dan.
This is a big use case I'm interested in. Unfortunately, browsers can't read selected text of PDFs at the moment.

I'd suggest "printing" to HTML and then Spritzing that, but it's suboptimal.
How are you supplying power to the digispark?
It's less of a problem when the effect is well known to hold in a variety of phrasings. It doesn't matter if it's people or dollars; it doesn't matter if it's 4 out of 10 or 8 out of 10.

Further, they account for stuff like that by using large sample sizes. Different people are choosing both options. It's just that the proportions hold despite this.

They've spent a good 30 years confirming this. If you really want to criticize it, it'd be worth putting together a list of studies investigating this and analyzing their methodologies for problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)#Frami...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)
I'll take your failure to respond with a coherent argument (as opposed to an ad hominem one) as agreement with my initial statement.
Study of depressed people indicates depressed people give negative answers. Someone stop the presses.

A single survey of depressed people taking pills doesn't prove anything. Note they did not do before/after. This is pseudo-science.
I will say, though, that I enjoyed the style of writing, even if I disagree with the point.
In general, yes, but after a company has gotten fucked as much as Target, it's pretty easy to turn this into a high-profile "we must bring the US payment card industry into the 1980s!" position.
This is a really bright idea, in that almost all companies do an absolutely bloody abysmal job of implementing their checkout flow. The median testing budget for it is generally zero, unless you scope the population to "large, savvy ecommerce providers." I love the idea of being able to basically take advantage of the herd effect for optimization, and clearly there are non-linear advantages to the Stripe ecosystem, because getting credential/CC pairs into the system most probably increases systemwide spend on them and that is how both merchants and Stripe make their money.

I'm probably going to try this in Bingo Card Creator in an A/B test against my existing purchase flow at some point. I'll be honest: the likelihood of the average English teacher knowing Stripe does give me a bit of pause with regards to the UX and the prospects of my VA having to answer a lot of "Who is Stripe and why are you telling them my credit card number? Did your Googles get a virus?" emails. Still, seems like it is worth testing. Worse comes to worse, all you do is go back to the pre-existing checkout flow, like whatever Stripe.js integration you're using right now, and then you have full control over the experience.

I have seen and supervised successful redesigns of purchase experiences before. They print money. BCC got a 60% or so lift in purchases using a Stripe-powered checkout back in the day, after some hillclimbing, discovery of synergistic effects, and burning the kinks out of my integration. I think there's likely motivational numbers hiding in a lot of your businesses. You should absolutely be testing them on a regular basis yourselves, but this seems to be a decent stab at a way of doing testing without requiring focus/bandwidth or major traffic [+], which are two major reasons people give me for not testing.

[+] I have noticed many people suggesting "You could do per-account multivariate testing on e.g. whether the Remember Me button is a win or not", and feel obligated to point out "That will probably only work for accounts which are doing, minimally, thousands of transactions a month." The great thing about this is that if you've got only 2k visits a month and 40 purchases if we assume that systemwide performance is a good proxy for your performance (and n.b. that's an assumption which is tractable to measurement) then we can still get solid test results by using the other millions of visitors and hundreds of thousands of transactions flowing through the system every $PERIOD.
I grew up playing with He-man and it never gave me second thoughts about eating all the delicious food, and drinking all the beer that has since turned me into the fat, slovenly piece of shit I am proud to be today. Nothing could have prevented that. NOTHING.

And I mean, have you LOOKED at He-man? Was that supposed to insipre me? Would anyone believe that it intimidated me, and eroded my self confidence? Really? Bah!
I just want to say, love the writing style!
So, this guy went to a social event that he didn't want to go to because his mind was on work things and had been for a long, long time.

[edit] I'm taking the stance that there was a good reason for his going. Otherwise the question is just "why did he go?"[/edit]

Why wasn't he in the moment at the party? I suppose there's several reasons. I'm going to assume he was having a great time, someone that he was talking to left and then he wandered back into thought rather than going off to talk to someone else. That's fine, whatever. So, now I wonder where I'm supposed to go from here with this piece. The thing is this can't be about are getting flustered at people for interrupting your thought. It doesn't look like it. Therefore, I'm going to assume it's something like I'm doing right now: stream of consciousness. If that's the case, then, neat! I've been there! Very cool. Sorry it got awkward for you there. The other guy is a CEO, he understands being in thought all the time. "Just one sec, I gotta write this down" and then scribbling a bunch of notes wouldn't be too offensive to a man in charge of a whole company. He's done it plenty of times, and those ideas come at any random moment. I wouldn't be offended by a brief scribble before some proper salutations. After all, that CEO has now been given your undivided attention after about 5 seconds of scribbling (presuming you can write something short down that can be used to jog your memory). People like undivided attention. Makes them feel important, be they your boss, co-worker, friend, spouse or child.

Now, what is this story being used for. "I am not an introvert. I am just busy." No, you're not busy. Or, at least, your busy-ness shouldn't be with work things right now. You're at a party and should be in party mode with your friends. It's kinda like a father going home and saying he's going to spend time with his children, only to completely space out when he's playing catch. His mind should have been on his children. Your time is with your friends, there. Not giving them your attention is rude to them. "I am not socially awkward / going through the motions. I had a sudden thought I need to write down 'real quick" but that wouldn't be as catchy of a title.

There's those little notebooks that fit in front pockets that people buy and carry around. Maybe this is what those are for; or, as someone else in this thread pointed out, that's what the 'notes' app on your phone is for. I'd honestly not considered that is a reason, or if I have, I just re-realized that's what they can be for. Anyway,

We can take this to some other situations where it wouldn't be acceptable to be sucked into this train of thought: a meeting about a different feature at the job you're working at. They want you present on their tasks, too.

Live in the moment, be that completely absorbed in your current work task, or hanging out with your friends, laughing about stupid things, or hearing a friend talk about his story.
I don’t understand: one comment (politely) regrets their closing their service; half are encouraging and short; therefore, why is the other half of the comments about how people are so negative about the whole thing?