skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if anyone will talk about Android issues covered here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456540
As a user and contributor to KDE, it is as ugly or as beautiful as you want to make it. I find the default skins in Suse / Manjaro KDE to be pretty good, of course there is still huge room for improvement and hopefully the design group makes kde5 look less 1990s beige office box.

It isn't any heavier than Windows. Hell, anything is lighter than Windows, and Vista has been running on almost every PC since 2005. So I'm not that worried about the "weight".

> Fedora seems to be the only decent distro for development right now

The only two breakages I've had in the last 6 months on Arch as my main development machine have been a kernel 3.13 bug that affects everyone (AMD cards are put in suspend mode even if they don't support it, which crashes the driver, and is fixed in 3.13.7) and an xorg configuration bug fixed in Xorg 1.16. Neither of which were game breaking, just inconveniences, but I did cherry pick my hardware to work with Linux (all open source drivers on everything, atheros nic, hd4600 + 7870 on Mesa, Intel ethernet and usb / etc).

Problem with Fedora is a severe lack of software availability. On Ubuntu you have PPAs, on Arch the AUR and pkgbuild.com, and on Suse you have the OBS, but on Fedora (and Mageia and friends) you have the rare independently hosted repo you have to add via config file. I've also had experiences with Fedora being just as unstable as Manjaro with their bleeding edgeness and lack of verbose testing on all devices before pushing near-vanilla kernels.

Even when Ubuntu switches to systemd, it is hard to recommend because rolling release just makes so much more sense in every use case except the unmaintained server or automation box, in which case I'd favor Debian anyway. I'm actually hopeful for Chakra, which is kind of floundering since they lost their web hosting and all kinds of nonsense, but the direction - consistent biannual update pushes to a rolling release, with thorough testing and a KDE base system that goes out of its way to avoid pulling it other frameworks for speed and footprint. It is a pretty pure fire and forget solution, albeit of course its just a community project.

ROSA is another one I'm hopeful for, since its business backed with support contracts and does some novel features on top of Mageia.
I think a combination between 2/ and 4/.
Specifically, building a successful business is really hard.

Looking at something that doesn't work, and pulling the plug, so that scarce resources can be better focused on other things that show more promise, is one of the hard things that management has to do.

It may be that a six-month investment in an API platform would unlock the possibility of OWNING THE CLOUD in the future. But if the company has to worry about payroll between here and there, a shorter-term project, like a two-week A/B split test on better ways of monetizing existing customers, might be more in everyone's actual interest. (It's been a while since I was in a company that close to the margin, but short-term decisions show up for many reasons that are just as compelling.)

I've found that, at good companies, the thinking and data that goes into these decisions is shared with the company. If there's not an all-hands that talks about this with some frequency, at least the managers that make these calls answer questions, and also actively seek and act upon feedback from anywhere in the company.

Some companies don't have that culture, and management is managing mainly through fiat and "it's my way!" I find it hard to be effective in such an environment, and these environments tend to self-select away in the long run, but there's no dearth of such environments alive today. Screening for this in the interviewing process is important, and also hard.
Amazon must've known the Google Cloud price reduction was coming.
FWIW: Linux V27 - working.
I respectfully disagree with your argument because that's not the one I'm making.

I think the general consensus from Klout detractors is that a single "score" cannot encompass someone's influence. Some people are more influential in certain circles than others.

Of course, there is a broad-based influence score you can apply to people, in the same manner that Super Bowl ads are expensive because they reach a broad-based group of US TV viewers. If Justin Bieber reaches that group better than President Obama, than his higher Klout score is accurate.

But under that assumption, his Klout score (and many other Klout scores) are meaningless because we don't think of ourselves in that context. This is why, for example, HackerNews karma points are not fungible to Reddit's /r/AdviceAnimals karma points.
Comparing the cost multiple for a private company's acquisition to a P/E ratio of a public stock is way different and not really a fair comparison.
Rather than mad, perhaps the investors are taking it as a signal that Facebook management, by buying other companies in mostly stock deals, believes that Facebook stock is overvalued.

That could be a rational rather than irrational explanation.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=laterbro
Hardly career ending. People get let go. It happens. You didn't see a "He'll never work in this town again!" This just seems to detract from the actual issue which is the policy itself.
You can back up your NAS to rsync.net.
It's that easy. You can use anything you want.
The author already made that joke in the article...
Ask HN: Do you have a Ph.D? Is it useful? Was it worth it?
As someone who dropped out of school very young and moved to three different countries in the years that followed, I've always wondered about those who would dedicate a huge part of their life for something like a PhD.

I believe the HN crowd is one of the rare occasions I'll get to ask this question and potentially receive several answers; so if you have a PhD (or similar), or if you gave up halfway through for whatever reason, I'd like to hear your story and where it has led you, how it has changed your life.

I cannot picture my life in a universe where I didn't drop out. I feel ten years older than I am, and more often than not I am treated as such professionally due to having more experience than most people in my age group. But having never experienced the other side of the fence, I could just be delusional. So please, share your story.
"And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition."

Actually, that is exactly what he did, and I'm somewhat surprised that folks didn't see this coming. If not FB, then it would have been one of the other large and evil (hi, Google!) tech companies.

The thing that makes me sad is that it wasn't one of the 'old media' companies, seeking to update their offerings for a new generation of customers.
While we're on the subject, we should probably be using control code 16 (Data Link Escape) instead of the backslash character to escape strings.

The problem is, of course, that we can't see it (no glyph) and we can't "touch" it (no key for it) so people won't use it. Ultimately, we're all still stick-wielding apes.
I think you can attribute at least some of the decline to this. Only $400mm came from cash with additional shares possibly being issued based on performance. While this alone may not be a good reason for a long investor to drop shares, if it signals something about Zuckerberg's acquisition strategy going forward, then some investors may be expecting future dilution from new acquisitions. Furthermore, structure of share classes within FB also makes Zuckerberg's whims about this sort of strategy more influential to FB's direction than it would in another company.
On the off chance you're just uneducated and not a nasty little bigot playing dumb, the marriage right carries a ton of stuff besides a ring and a ceremony and any moral satisfaction the couple may get.

The right to see your spouse in the hospital, even (and particularly) if their family doesn't accept that their child is homosexual and attempts to ban a partner. (And this isn't a hypothetical; if you google you'll find just heart wrenching stories.)

It eases medical decisions when a gay spouse is badly injured or dying.

If there are children, both parents can have the right to care for them and make decisions for them.

The right not to testify against your spouse in some legal proceedings.

The right to get joint medical insurance.

Retirement benefits, which are particularly important when a higher income spouse passes first.

And more. See eg http://www.freedomtomarry.org/

edit: and a very important benefit: being treated as a first class citizen, ie one with the right to have your relationship recognized just like straight people have their relationships recognized.
Works for me. Firefox 28.0.1, Android 4.3.1.
Surely only if you're dealing with fixed-width fields.
Ask HN: The 4 stages of human emotion when switching from free to paid website?
First off, not all Resented and not all Accepted but from user actions and feedback, the majority went through the following stages.

I informed users 14 months ago this day was coming and emailed then 2 weeks prior so it should have not been a shock to them.

Stage 1: Resentment - How dare you charge us for technology that allows us to do our job better.

Stage 2: Enlightenment – I’ll find another site that is free and offers what you do and be done with you.

Stage 3: Realization – Can’t find another site that does exactly what you do any cheaper.

Stage 4: Acceptance – Ok we’ll buy but you need to enhance a few things within 6 months.

Anyone else go from free to pay and what was your experience?
I guess we should consider your decisions as the "optimal and correct decisions"? Are you a billionaire too?
It's too bad they didn't sell to Facebook, they could have turned fraction of a billion dollars into whole numbers of billion dollars.
Apple was founded on April 1st, 1976
Ditto. Also appreciated is the upfront honesty about what their tech can and cannot do currently, and what they plan to do to address limitations / bugs.

I really love their ability to design sensible APIs paired with their honesty, gives me the confidence to begin using this software right now with belief that it will eventually get to a very stable point.

Would not use it for any multi-million$ business just yet but it's perfect for personal projects that require quick iteration which might in the future become big.
These are areas of grey; on one end you probably would say that a white supremacist campaigning for the reinstatement of slavery is kind of a jerk, and on the other you probably wouldn't bat an eye if a guy told you he prefers orange juice to apple. There is no magic in the word "opinion" that gives immunity to criticism. It is then up to us to define where that line lies.
Yes scores can't possibly be universal. But admit it. It just irks you to see a pop singer might be more popular than the president.
In Chrome on OS X I'm seeing a scroll bar always visible on the I/O page.
One morning, we woke up to see Google Analytics sending us data from an external site. When we opened that link, it turned out to be a clone of our website.

They had crawled the entire site (which was designed by our partners) and replaced the logos and text. The GA code was still there.
So you share this hilarious bit and leave out the juicy details!?

How large of a spike are we talking about here? Share your digits bro!
To the question below: No, it does not irk me.
The Miseducation of the Tiger Mom
I really appreciate that you put that in context -- i.e. the position of that result in regards to AI history.

“4-stone handicap” can seem odd or artificial to non-Go players, but it is a classic way of balancing a game between players with known different levels: because of the complexity of the game, mastery expands wide, and it is rare to find a player exactly at one’s level. The gameplay changes a bit when starting at an advantage, but not significantly. For PR reasons, AI advances are usually measured with matches against star players; that handicap tradition allows AI advances to be measured more finely -- and I guess have a count-down, more appealing that the ‘not beaten yet/OK, we are done’ dichotomy of Deep Blue vs. Kasparov.
This article and most folks are missing the point, Lithium hasn't raised nearly enough to pay a meaningful amount in cash, maybe enough for investors to get their money back. The $200m value was in funny-money private company stock which at inflated valuations is like buying hotels with monopoly money. Entrepreneurs deserve incredible respect for what they create but lets call things what they are, this wasn't a $200m exit.
With TFA if the email got changed it would not make a difference. The attacker would need the second factor to rest the password and to log in. So the worst they could do is to lock out the account owner. The support staff being socially engineered is a different story, but yes this is a security hole in SendGrid's system and an easily patched one at that.
How about covering this google: shame on developers for using the api that end users use:
https://twitter.com/duhroach/status/421678850049728512
We don't have choice, as you don't nuge updates.

Andorid is thew new IE!
> oh and it has 256 times the RAM and a two orders of magnitude more storage and costs less than a weeks wages and run for a full day off a single charge consuming less power than the Cray 1's circulation pump.

Yeah but mobile processing power is not increasing at the same pace now as it was 2 years ago. The pace is clearly slowing down, just like computational power on PCs too. You don't get 2x faster processors every year anymore. They are adding more cores, but that's not nearly the same thing as single thread performance.
Nice post! I had a great time reading.
What next? Would love to hear more details.
who hired the "cro"? presumably you know this.
I would argue the NSA threat is actually worse. The NSA has the kind of funding and clout to pull off what other hackers and nation-states can't. They are sowing the seeds for tyranny as we speak, and if you think their mission directive can't be changed on a dime to be much worse (similiar to how they were quietly switched from purely foreign signals intelligence to domestic mass surveillance without much ado), you have much to learn about how volatile politics can be.
I disagree strictly about the state of the Linux desktop. Of course, whether KDE is ugly depends on the user's view, but it is highly customizable, too: for instance, I prefer having borderless windows, and I like using KWin's tabs, which means I probably get something different from the stock experience: <http://i.imgur.com/TfWFmZl.png>.

GNOME, too, is going a long way forward. Windows still doesn't really have pixel scrolling for trackpads, which MacOS X has had for a very long time, but GNOME does.

I'd argue that the biggest Linux desktop issue is that package management systems are a bit of a mess, especially the dpkg / rpm kind. A system like this one should not have locks, nor require root access systematically. Thankfully, Nix fixes both, and ensures atomic upgrades and rollbacks. That project makes me hopeful for the future. Anyone can install and use it, no matter what distribution or package manager is used on their system. Their default repositories are rather large, although obviously not as large as others, but that's improving rather fast.

Beyond that, the fact that both KDE (Apper) and GNOME (Software) agree on using PackageKit by default, which grants them an app store that isn't tied to a specific package management system, is rather good news for the future.
what is a CAO anyway?
But then your service layer has potential SQLi issues. Moving the problem doesn't make it go away. Many of the clojure SQL libraries solve this by using prepared statements by default. This is not a hard problem.
Ahh sorry, my mistake. I missed the word "outbound".
Please do Flywheel next time too
There went most of the rabbits out of Bezo's hat for re:Invent 2015.
I wrote an example for graduate students in the US to create a webpage and directed them to look at my webpage for an example template. Now they all copy my analytics tracking code, and I have like tens of student websites that I'm tracking me. It annoys me. I think we should have some sort of two-way authentication or atleast a way to "mute" certain domains or only whitelist certain domains in the reporting side of GA. Perhaps it exists?
Your best bet is to start your own business. :)
I really must know what a CAO is.
I'm sorry: I take words by their direct meanings, as long as the resulting sentence makes sense.

I understand that various (probably arbitrary) interpretations can be attached to a sentence by assuming metaphorical, implied, contextually altered, ironic, humorous, etc meanings of words. I still prefer to assume as little as possible: pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitas.
It really was a massive and admirable goal. Klout as you described could quickly become one of the most important tools of the web.

Instead, people like myself saw humor in gaming the system a bit, so I quickly was in the top 3 "influencers" of ridiculous things, like Whitney Houston knowledge.

It is too bad, because when I first heard of the idea, it seemed like a huge step in social media. But I think your right, this first attempt might have spoiled the concept a bit.
Saving money on the cloud with Tio Patinhas
Yep, a jackass who'd rather lose money than face. It's a value decision that we may not agree with in this case, but it's a legitimate value decision for him.

I'd regard this as having three areas you'd "score" to decide: Financial impact on me, Personal impact on me (including reputation), impact on others. If "impact on others" is a non-issue for you and the personal financial impact isn't much compared to your personal wealth, you could easily make your decision on something like this based entirely on ego.

Not caring about the impact on others may be a bit sociopathic, but there's nothing criminal about that and in fact there are quite a few very successful CEOs and financiers who just don't give a rat's ass about the little people.
I wonder if a 'whitespace separated values' format would make sense, assuming a) the separator is 'any run of whitespace except for a single space (ascii 32)' b) all whitespace in values is folded to a single space (which covers 99.99% of CSV usage). This would make parsing trivial, visual formatting (e.g. alignment) possible, and escaping separators a non-issue.
I hope they will finally announce Chrome with built in Dart vm.
Yep, so text messages and phone verification could really be considered a "third factor". I guess anything information you have already provided to your service provider is considered an X-factor.
Anyone have a sense of how long this price war could feasibly go on? What's happening at the cost side for GOOG / AMZN? How much do you reckon its costs the on the margin for extra cores, memory etc?
Seriously Google, unless the domain == example.com , don't show it by default.
http://twofactorauth.org/
I could but for $1800/year I could also build at least 8 redundant NAS boxes with 2TB storage and stick them at my friend's houses. I could also just pay $180/year for S3. Your offering is VERY expensive though I am sure quality is top notch.
Is this similar to ProductHunt, in a way?
I was in the same position as u but I really started to like it.
I don't really know anything about Google Analytics, but this seems relevant:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/Cln...
At some point someone has direct DB access and can do this. Sure, normal support people don't but this just makes the social engineering aspect a bit more complex, not impossible.
However, the suggestion upthread wasn't

P(NSA abuses H's access) > P(someone abuses H's access),

which would be an example of the fallacy you cite, but

P(NSA abuses H's access) > P(H abuses H's access).
I once hired an offshore developer on ODesk who stole my code and resold it. I discovered he was doing this because he left my analytics code in. Same deal; I woke up one day to analytics showing traffic on a domain I didn't own, so I went to look and it was basically a mirror of my site.
Bingo. The Oculus and WhatsApp deals have added up to billions "spent" via mostly stock instead of cash. This is almost certainly due to insistence from the Facebook execs themselves, who clearly are expecting the price of their stock to fall in the long term and are attempting to extract some value from it while the price is still high.
Oh man, I remember those days when the Wordpress vs/ Drupal vs. Joomla war was still in its infancy. Drupal was always soo yucky in terms of UX even though it was waay more powerful than wordpress. WP seems to have essentially won that war. Wonder why? Something similar happening the .JS world? Not really my cup of tea.
I once head a radio personality say,"There's nothing more useless to a company than a Harvard MBA." At first, I thought it was too harsh, but as I put on a few years, I
knew what he was talking about. As a society, we are becoming more sophisticated; a lot of us know when we are
being manipulated. When ever I see a company advertise incessantly--I now wonder who pays for this exposure. I
then usually find a company with drastically lower prices,
and by golly, holy hootenanny; This company doesn't
advertise everywhere.
Well it's not THAT much of a spike, at least not so far. Although the number has increased significantly since the screen shot. Right now I'm just curious to see how long it will take them to notice.
I'm trying to escape academic neuroEconomcs right now. I was shocked by how much nepotism and how little merit there is in academic science.
I'm pursuing a research agenda about 'learning' on my own. I built an free API that uses neuroscientific learning models to help developers make apps sticky. I expect that the optimization algorithms I'm using will lead to new findings in how brains learn.
Building meaningful and valuable products
What if I steal your GA code for my app, which has such routes as:

/I-know-one-weird-trick-to-save-money-on-car-insurance

/buy-coke
Glad to hear it! So for my next brilliant idea, should I run it on GAE or Heroku?
From Breaking Bad to Lost: The Quality of 13 Famous TV Shows, Charted Over Time
Can't you?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang)
"Database connections are a real limitation"

I repeat

"Database connections are a real limitation"

this should be one point, and the others should be one point. No?
This is exactly how I feel. Frustrated that it's easy to ruin an entire project just by one mistaken click of the mouse.
Background: I've done a fair bit of hiring for analysts and have worked in most facets of analytics/DW including vendor evaluation/selection and implementation.

I think that the lack of a SQL interface is a big negative. It's really hard to find analyst (not programmers) with good technical skills or train them to proficiency in new technologies. I would have a very hard time selling a platform that existing analysts wouldn't be able to use right away and that few people on the market could work with.

Also, designing a new language makes integration with other applications that much harder.
I love the way that, in the frickin' formal spec, the presence of a header row is ambiguous, so every tool that ever deals with CSV has to ask a human whether or not a header row is present. Great design decision, that.
Depends on the developers. Marketing developers crave the analytics but IT/Engineering devs are more concerned with site speed.
Coincidentally, our site redesign was internally being worked on, and we updated the site in a day or two.

We decided it is not worth going through the hassle of chasing someone who claims their expertise to be cloning a website.

That's the product they were selling. Clone websites. And I daresay they proved their competence by cloning ours.
A 16 digit alphanumeric id? It's far more probable they just copied his code