skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to offer a way for me to turn off my account. I logged in just to try it, found out it's not what I thought it was and am not that interested, and now want my account deleted and your access to my LinkedIn revoked.

Showing some peoples' profiles anonymously is not very anonymous at all. If you're the owner of a one man company then not showing your name is meaningless. You need to anonymize the actual companies too.

Don't get me wrong the site looks nice and you have done good work. But I want out, and you should offer a way out on day one.
Salary is a weird number. For instance giving a startup founder who is an ex-Google engineer a prediction is awkward because she could maybe fetch a mid six figure salary if she wanted but she is probably is paying herself enough to get by or even nothing depending on the stage of a startup.

It's unclear whether I should be answering what salary does this person's skills merit? Or what salary do I think they are earning today?

I also wish I could refresh and/or edit my profile on salaryfairy.
I can't say it's essential to have it on the wrist every single day, but I found it nice to have. And yes, my anticipated use-case almost completely maps with reality.

Now, before I explain myself, a bit of disclaimer (apart from the obvious - I'm not a native English speaker ;) ). I like to wear a watch, taking out the phone from the pocket to check the time don't work for me. Also, for various reasons I usually can't ignore notifications from my phone (my employer is in different time zone than me, I have small kids, etc). So this is my use case, I have no doubt that other people have different expectations/needs.

The original Pebble looked too plasticky to me, Samsung watches are abominations, we all hear that Apple and Google is cooking something but v1 from Google is usually a disaster and v1 from Apple is usually pricey, shiny and pretty limited, so I ordered Pebble Steel in early January. My experience so far:

- I stopped checking the phone every now and then, especially during the conversations/meetings - if there is some notification, I'll see it on my wrist. No more "did the phone vibrated?" moments.

- Having notifications delivered to my wrist is super useful when I'm home, and the phone is not in my pocket.

- Even more useful having a smartwatch is when I'm driving - instead of pulling the phone from the pocket and trying to stay on track, I can just glance on the wrist and see is it something important or ignorable.

All of these use cases is something I anticipated, and so far I'm happy. But not everything is smooth:

- I have an iPhone, the Pebble app on iOS don't work always as expected. So I developed a habit to run the app in the morning, to prevent it to be kicked from the memory.

- Someone would expect to have basic watch functions on the watch. Pebble don't have a stopwatch, so I need to run third-party app to measure time. Which is nice, but Pebble OS don't support multitasking, so if I exit the app (accidentally or on purpose - maybe I want to check time), stopwatch stops. Same for timer applications. I would be nice if the OS have some basic hooks for such essential functionality

- Alarms are dumb. I can have working-days-only alarms on my old G-Shock, but I can't have it on smartwatch?

- Currently I can't buy a plastic/rubber/silicone wristband for my Pebble Steel (because of "smart" case design), so I can't swim with my watch.
I wanted to add that I use the backspace quite a lot, and have found the opposite situation which might shed light on why Google likes it. When I hit a google search in my history, hoogle quickly puts the text focus in their main box so my backspace now starts erasing what I wrote rather than going further in the history, and I consider doing another search
Good luck guys. Will be really interesting to see how this aligns with actually salaries in the marketplace. Might be worth allowing users to give you their actual salary in the interest of tuning your understanding/algorithms.

i.e. The crowd thinks you should earn X. We think you should earn Y based on similar people. You currently earn Z.
I expect Apple to run in the same issue that Blackberry had with BBM if they don't open it up to more platforms soon.
Maybe it makes sense to use MongoDB when you're just getting started, before you fully understand the data, so it's easy to add new attributes/columns etc.

But why even bother with MongoDB? You could just use a text editor to make bunch of JSON text files, with one record per file.

Then, once you better-understand the data, and you haven't made many "schema" changes for a while, you can set up a SQL database and import everything.
The Night Benjie Tan Hooked up the Philippines to the Internet
I would also like to know that this isn't going to share the results to my profile.
Ÿ͂ၔ͐щ̰҆͘੭ੂষ৚ᇊ̄┓̯

Fun times. I love the Scramble button, despite its tendency to produce unprintable characters.
Demystifying the Mobile Backend-as-a-Service
The sad thing is, more widespread, high profile (eg government) deployment will likely increase the amount of those news stories. Until now attacking desktop Linux with viruses was simply not worth it.
One thing needs to be pointed out Mayer was the first woman to be an engineer at Google. Often people rise through the ranks and get a top position because they were early hires. They may be good but not suited for a top role. Sometimes they rise in part because familiarity and trust. I don't know if this is the case with her. There certainly men who have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bwfcV2h9A
Guinea confirms Ebola virus as source of deadly epidemic
I wonder if they'll be smart enough to hop on the Google freight train and implement Android Wear...
Digital Ocean $15
Netflix $10
Spotify $10
Domain Names $5 (yearly/12)
--------------------
Total $40
Neovim: last day, U$ 1.000 to go for refactoring Vim into a library
One better: use a SQL database with a PK, and a text field containing your JSON data. If your DB is Postgres, it'll even let you parse & query the JSON on the DB side.
I take extensive amounts of notes to keep myself awake and focused. I rarely go back and refer to them.
Telescopic Text (Click to expand)
Or make it cost 10 karma to submit a story. But keep self-posts free so they could still be done anonymously.

(or implement Chaumian blind tokens to transfer karma between accounts...).
(Edit: for those unfamiliar with Ejecta: http://impactjs.com/Ejecta )

I do have a toy project that aims to be a cross-platform Ejecta eventually. It's written in C and divided in an OpenGL Canvas drawing library (so you essentially get the HTML5 Canvas API in native code) and a host application that provides the JavaScript binding.

Currently, there's only a host application for iOS. I don't know much about Android and have yet to figure out how to best couple the C lib with the Java code... or if I even need Java code to begin with.

I wanted to have a working Android host app first, before putting it on github and then building up the feature set on both platforms to where Ejecta is now.

I also thought about doing a kickstarter for this, but I'm not sure what exactly I could "sell", because the I want to have it open source anyway. If anybody wants to sponsor the development, get in touch :)

tl;dr: yes.
2008 called, it wants its imaginary problem back.

Short links are intended to be transient. They're used in environments meant to be transient (tweets, emails, phone text messages etc.).

No, we don't need to hoard every single tweet into eternity because someone said so. Let them go. Let them fade away. They want to fade away. We need that space for another fresh batch of trillion tweets with short links in them.

This entire drama around everyone having their own short link server because-what-if-bit.ly-goes-down is just an example of developers having too much free time on their hands.

If you want your link to have durability - don't shorten it. Simple, right?
right. the best long-term relationships have gone through stages of HALT, which is nothing more than exposing one's vulnerability.

that's where a person's character resides. and people who manage to be honest, and generous and courageous in those moments, are the ones to surround yourself with. experience character-building through HALT, in spite of it, and you're on your way to being a better man or woman, i suspect.
I did find some errors in the article, albeit many of them were in the quotes from government communications. My question was prompted by this as well as the experience I've had reading newspapers and magazines in India during visits I've made. The tone and language used in the Indian press is often quite striking when compared to other English language press.

Many of the errors were in the quotes, but there are some in the article itself. Some of the errors that stood out to me were simply the omission of the word "the", for example

"With the Microsoft Corporation deciding to stop technical assistance for Windows XP operating system next month, the Tamil Nadu government has advised all its departments to install free open source software BOSS Linux."

Just as the author uses "the" in "the Microsoft Corporation" I expect to see "the Windows XP operating system" and "the open source software BOSS Linux"

Here is another:

"many of them continued to Windows XP use as the primary operating system"

Sentences like this one stand out as well:

"The prompt for the present advisory is the Microsoft decision as a result of which security updates or technical support for Windows XP operating system would not be discontinued after April 8."
Read SICP, take MIT's 6.001 and learn Lisp -- it'll get you ready for any other language you'll pick up. Then take any number of free courses online on Coursera, Udacity, Codeschool...

This is what I did after I quit being a trader at an Investment Bank, and moved to the Chinese country-side for 8 months of re-education :)
Every country in the world has used its warrant powers to force companies to comply with spying directives because every country in the world has its equivalent of an FBI to execute wiretaps on people with a warrant. Every country in the world's spying agencies subvert security systems. The GCHQ seems to do that more than anybody else according to the leaks so far.

The only thing these companies weren't allowed to report was the number of NSLs and FISA requests they received, but now they can in broad ranges of 1000.
It'd be cool if you also showed the currency converted for where the person is located, maybe in brackets next to the dollar amount. I'm in the UK and I'm getting asked to predict in dollars the salary for someone else who is also in the UK.
Since a TED talk is not interactive, what does that even mean? My TI-99/4A with Speech Synthesizer could give a TED talk.
The word "endorse" mischaracterizes the aims of this program, and counter-productively provokes groupthink. Renaming the "endorse" link to "tolerable" (where it becomes a kind of flag) would go a long way to mitigating that risk.

Details in my comment on "Coming Soon...": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449597
I spent a year or two building out the app, growing the user base, and adding new features. After that, my focus redirected to improving server performance with the growing traffic, handling support for users, refactoring code, managing advertising campaigns, A/B testing affiliate offers, and trying to develop a long term plan to stay relevant.

In short, my time went from building an app, to building a business.
Many of us are using Tarsnap for actual businesses, where it is criminally underpriced. Among the many reasons to use it over backing up to S3 is that Tarsnap backups are encrypted and the service is written by a domain-expert in that field. Among many other possible scenarios, I use Tarsnap to back up the MySQL and Redis dumps for Appointment Reminder. These include some data which is covered by BAAs which bind me to restrictions on privacy and security under the HIPAA legislation. Just scp'ing them into S3 would be an automatic compliance failure, where I'd pay $600k or so of fines to save $2 a month on Tarsnap.
The first few customers covered the ongoing costs (hosting, payment processing, etc), and I picked up the first few customers the day I launched. That can be said of my last few products. I'm not a big risk taker, I've never launched something where I didn't expect it to pay for itself pretty much immediately. The only real sunk cost up-front is my time.
I generally don't try to make money from side-projects, letting them cost money and just accept that the things I learn and other advantages are worth the cost.
Her vs Lone Survivor – Should we support our troops less?
We will offer self account deletion shortly. Meanwhile, you can send us an email to request removal.

We will also introduce new ways to anonomize your company and education info. Thank you very much for your feedback.
Look this is the old Greek philosophical question of The Ship of Theseus, or a Soroites paradox.

One explanation for who we are is that experience is a binary relation. In order for identity or anything else to be experienced by someone, they have to be operating.

There is an episode in Star Trek where a transporter accident didn't destroy the original copy. Obviously a copy of someone isn't that someone because identity is a transitive relation, and the two copies aren't each other!

So by simple logic, a copy of someone isn't that someone because you can have multiple copies. Of course the real issue is the question of someone's identity in the first place.

Because identity is a TRANSITIVE relation (meaning if A is related to B and B to C then A is related to C). And two copies of the same thing aren't each other.

Actually identity is an example of what's called an EQUIVALENCE RELATION which means it is reflexive (A is related to A), SYMMETRIC (If A related to B then B related to A) and transitive. Those 3 properties are necessary and sufficien for a relation to be an equivalence relation. An equivalence relation partitions a set into subsets called "equivalence classes" where all members are equivalent.

So the big question is, what is the relation here that would form equivalence classes between copies of a person? Perhaps it is that two people are the same if, in some sense, they arose as a natural continuous change from some previous biological thing.

That way we can acknowledge the vast complexity of what it's like to be human and alive, and still make a meaningful definition.

It just so happens that this definition is along the lines of hinduism - I've been listening to some Alan Watts lecture recently.
I've fallen in love with rekonq recently, it always has really low memory footprints, loads instantly, and uses webkit so 99.9% of sites that work in Chromium work in it too. (I say that because it hasn't updated to blink yet).

It is supposed to get Chrome extension support this year too, and if I ever had the time I'd try to expand their sync options (currently Opera + Chrome) to sync tabs and such.
After reading the headline, I had to check if it was April 1st.
I heard a commercial for Lifelock the other day. The hook was something like "Big news in identity theft! There hasn't been a major breach in a couple weeks..."

Something needs to be done to prevent this. I wonder if it would be feasible for the Credit card companies to do all the storage of card data as a service for retailers. Retailers would just store a reference token.

Until then my credit is frozen[1]

1. http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-financ...
Turkey's Twitter Ban Collapse Fueled By VPNs and DNS Tricks
Archos is working on a $50 smartwatch it will release in the summer. Unless you're interested in premium products in general ,it might make sense to wait.
The Newest Organized Labor Group: Start-up Employees
Of course I'm aware of that.

It's exactly the point I'm trying to make. I've never heard of anything like this happening, anywhere, ever. Even in casual settings. Nor have I observed that a normal response to sexual arousal is to be feverish and flushed.

To draw the type of conclusions that she is claiming, her coworkers would have to (1) be incredibly observant (2) reject all of the most plausible explanations for a very unlikely explanation and (3) care.

This is Ockham's razor.

I have a friend that is abnormally paranoid. He thinks everybody is out to get him and sees devious plotting from the most innocuous of situations. "those two guys at the water cooler are plotting to make me look bad at the meeting today" - type stuff.

Chances are they are not.

All I'm saying is that it sounds like fear of taking a wrong social step at work seems to be affecting her performance, not to mention increasing her anxiety.

It could perhaps be healthy to reconsider whether her assumptions are reasonable or not.
That doesn't answer the question. Given that cows could not exist in their current numbers unless they were going to be eaten, why shouldn't they be grateful?
I agree. There is no significant value in Notes application alone but what I am trying to generate value in the Hmpgr platform (pronounced as homepager). I have another app called Blog which I am still developing.
I know adoption of these apps are difficult but I do not wish to make them even more difficult by using obscure thing like Textile.

But since you are patiently answering me, can I request you to please go through Hmpgr platform and tell me if you see any value in it.
Ooh, must be a new setting! How could I have missed that? Thanks!
It won't load, the bar just stops about a third of the way across.
I attempted to use the voice of Lieutenant Data from Startrek The Next Generation to interact with the Internet facing Cleverbot interface. I regret to inform, HN, that Cleverbot performed worse than anticipated.

I did, however, witness some potentially interesting if antiquated webdesign, not least a promotion for a potentially more human-like 'friend finder', located at the base of the page. It has 199k 'likes', 20.7k 'follows' and 22.2k 'shares', leading to a strong possibility Cleverbot is merely a pseudo-presence, and the true nature of this website will transpire only by clicking more deeply.
It would be nice to see a followup article to this one, which was published in 2012. I'm curious about whether Google has been seeing more success in combating this problem.
Yea, I really feel that these principles are also valuable when you join. Take Snapchat or Vine, the popular social aspects (invites) cause the product to be successful based on growth hacking.
A little over $1000 per month. I recently did a write up of everything we use here: http://projectidealism.com/posts/2013/12/30/saas-we-use-2013
As clever as a creative resume for ad agency.
Not only in India but even present day UK magazines (e.g. Linux Format) come with DVDs.
Startup Employee Equity Bill of Rights
This is a great socializing hack.

Extreme version: tall soda w/ lime. some bars won't even charge you because they will assume you're driving and want to encourage responsible behavior, and no one will bother you about "come on just one drink!" because it looks so much like a voda/gin and soda.
There is no active censoring; you can only "put the kibosh" on a comment by having several thousand people all independently decide not to click its "endorse" link. Nobody can individually kill a comment.
That happens sometimes. Not sure why. Reloading the page usually solves it.
It felt good to have a regular job after leaving a law firm when I did that myself a few years ago. I ended up working as a lowly CSR for something I considered my passion at the time. After a couple unexpected transitions, I've picked up coding and am doing that full time remotely at home now.

People here are right: Separation between time and work, Food - don't eat too much of it, and Humans - you need that contact.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
mine too, and they never reply to customer service enquiries when asking for updates. Now the google watch has been announced i might hang on.
Almost at a level where my software consulting will be replaced by the fabrication, design and sales of hardware. The transition is painfully slow compared to web.
Here's my verdict in MongoDB after using it for a few years in a very high traffic application:

I personally love most concepts behind Mongo. Schemaless, simple replication and sharing, JavaScript console, just to name a few. MongoDB is pretty much my dream database.

However, the ugly truth is that it doesn't work as advertised (this was 2-3 years ago). Replication would often crash or stall leaving us with only one option: DELETE OUR ENTIRE DATA SET and start fresh. Acknowledged by 10gen at the time. This happened 3 times.

Mongo was fast until we hit a wall. That was was at around 200GB for us, which is not that much when you put things in perspective. It was ridiculous. Running a given query took 1 ms and running it again right after could take up to 15 seconds. You'd think the second time would be faster.

The global write lock is just insane. This simply cannot work in a high traffic application. Our app was write heavy and this bit us in the ass quite a bit. We didn't feel this until much later, after we were fully invested in mongo.

Lastly, 10gen was literally the worst tech company I ever dealt with. They we're plain disrespectful to me, calling me cheap for not wanting to shell out 100k/year on a support contract. I was willing to pay them their hourly support rate (which is very high, but that's fine) to have them fix their replication bugs with our dataset.

For us, MongoDB was a terrible mistake that I'll never make again. I'm glad the truth has been coming out over the last couple of years.
Great description and first hand experiencing it myself currently.
The article was just poorly proofread, that's all. The Hindu should have better editorial standards than this. p.s. I'm Indian, and I don't think any claim that this article represents 'Indian English' -- I'm not even sure what that means -- makes sense.
A browser add-in that would check and warn/block loading when the OS and language versions aren't sufficiently patched might be useful security mechanism.
Excellent feedback! This is on our list now.
Yeah I think it's a huge problem that javascript/the DOM allow a page to have shortcuts and control over page navigation. This is so wrong IMO; the user agent should be in control. Because I am in control of my user agent.
I think this is a great idea, it's simple (one karma = one minute) and it addresses many of the problems I foresee with this new rules, in particular getting stuck in "pending limbo" indefinitely (given that you can't post if your previous comment is still pending).

It still makes it take extremely long for a new user to obtain 1000 karma, though. Much harder than previously, I imagine. Although maybe not, since there will be less posts visible, those that are will get relatively more karma points?
as bsder said above me, "I don't reread the thread, but I will pay attention to someone replying to my comments even after several days."

Also, (not unlike this comment) I'll find myself late to the party and add comments to posts because I believe my thoughts might be relevant.

I actually treat HN comments to be a ledger of sorts. Like other industry forums around the net, it is a collection of some very strong minds on tech-related subjects, and a decent resource to check for opinion or tangential information on all sorts of topics. If there is a discussion on something that I have unique insight to, I will post on long dead threads just to know it was posted.

I'm probably an outlier, and this use case is probably not all that prevalent, but pending comments being purged without endorsements would make this forum unarguably more temporal, for better or worse.
We made a cross-platform (Flash, HTML5, Android, iOS) video player for TF1 (first French TV channel, considered the most viewed TV channel in Europe)