skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I've described it, you get in a car to go some where and you're constrained in a funny position in a small space. You might ostensibly have some comforts. Music to listen to a fan to blow on you. But the 'climate control' of a car can not come anywhere near matching the feeling of a body being used in the way it is meant to be used. Regardless of any comforts, depending on the trip, for a lot of people most of it is going to be spent repeatedly glancing at the clock and staring at the car in front of you. You're separated from reality in a very real sort of way.

You get to where you're going and in my experience you just kind of have a blah feeling.

Where as if you get on a bike to go somewhere not only is the trip there enjoyable(provided the route is not overrun by hordes of car zombies~), but when you get there you're nearly guaranteed to be in a good mood. Like "Alright, yeah let's do this!"

~even then though, it's hard to not enjoy a bike ride.
Very impressive photos! Although I must say that other than the old cars it just looks like a fairly boring suburb to me (not american, maybe that's part of the reason).
But there seems to be a glut* of commercial tenants for the locations.* [emphasis added]

Did you, perhaps, mean the opposite of "glut," maybe "shortage" or "paucity?" The subsequent sentence seems to suggest that there aren't enough commercial tenants.
I love Java and I use GWT so I avoid context switching to Javascript and plus it came out of Google like Go, so it's pretty rad.
Previous discussion in HN at least here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7480843

Project page:
http://webscalesql.org/
>and whom I heard joke about “finishing up some chromatography” (chromatography is a purification technique that usually involves flushing a quantity of liquid through a long, narrow column) when we paused our consulting session for a bathroom break.

Is it offensive to make a chemistry joke about taking a piss?
Here's a hypothetical counterpoint to your proposition here:

A search company makes money from ads, which are unobtrusive text links which are clearly separated from search results.

The search company is forever trying to improve metrics, and in this quest, it pushes more intrusive monitoring of users, and the adverts become more and more like search results at the top of their results. According to their metrics, this is a winning move - more and more people are clicking ads, and advertisers love the stats on users.

The search company slowly starts to lose users, because they don't like the privacy issues and the intrusive ads in their search, even if more people click on them.

A few years later, the search company starts to lose its dominance of the field and hence all the money they made from more and more ads is now drying up, but every change they make to increase clicks on ads is actually having a worse effect on usage a few months down the line, even if it helps their metrics in the short term. No-one notices because the users have always been there, and this is not a primary metric or one that is easily correlated with changes.

Was this a good strategy? It was certainly a local maximum, and all the numbers went up, but was it in their long term interests?

I agree for someone like Google or FB the metric which is important is selling ads (that is their business after all), but both companies actually have two sets of users - one set are the users who read the ads, and one set are the advertisers - both are vitally important to their brand and continuing profit. Only one of those is represented in the advert CTR metric, and only one directly makes money, but both are vitally important to continuing profits.

Now you can change your metrics to try to measure user retention, but happiness and satisfaction are notoriously slippy concepts, and people often don't even know what they want before they see it and use it for a while (e.g. users of yahoo or one of the other portals would not have voted for changes to make it more like google), people hate any change, and haters are the most vocal. All those things completely skew any attempt to get numbers on customer satisfaction.
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Responsive Web Design...downvote me. RWD has come leaps and bounds. It's a news feed with pictures and comments.
Very well put :)

The surprising thing is people tend to get worse as they get richer.
I think it's easier to have such an exploitative regime in sciences that depend on "big lab" research: a higher body of graduate-student subordinates trying to get PhDs makes it easier to treat them as interchangeable components; the success of the lab depends on maximisation of (competent) labour hours put in; the lab equipment is seriously expensive and a high return on the costs must be shown to justify the next round of research applications; the graduate students are rather more dependent on the PI's goodwill to get the research done for their PhD.
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Alternatively, instead of reading all those words I just said, you can watch [1], which is a video explanation of Figure 4 from the paper. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMA23JJ1M1o
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That's the one thing you decide to make a comment about?
Are you from the bay area?

This place is so expensive you need to 40kpa(of your gross income) just to live in 620sqft apartment.

If you make 100k here, you might be able to save 12k a year tops.
That's great news, especially the answer to the second question. I would use this information to give give users a better to see what happened to their shared folders (who changed what etc.)

Do you have any plans on extending the /revisions call so that developers can determine whether the file was restored/added/edited/deleted?
This is quite difficult or impossible (edited or restored) at the moment.
This comment is a bit off topic, but one of the ways to keep underrepresented minorities and women engaged with computing at the undergraduate level is through constant encouragement. Research [0] from some computing professors suggests that:

"Without encouragement even high ability women and under-represented minorities were unlikely to persist in computing."

And this really sucks because one of the professors from this referenced research has said that CS access in High School is limited to affluent students (who are mostly white and asian) and the only place in the education pipeline where the playing field is even is in college, but without encouragement a lot of women and members of the minority community lean out.

The second issue is the fact that these fields are dominated by men and you can't control everyone's behaviour. Sure we can figure out clever ways to encourage and engage when this group is most at risk of leaning out, but once they are already in the field, I'm not sure what can be done on a larger scale?

[0] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2361276.2361304&coll=DL&dl...
What about Clojure and ClojureScript? There's also Opa. And Ur/Web, which reached a stable state, based on a growing user base of three use cases ;)

Then there are Seaside inspired frameworks, which generate client JS for the user. There is at least one framework like this for Python and I'm sure there are other for other languages.

JS remains the most well known and supported solution, though.
Layout is precisely about learning all the widths and heights. No rendering whatsoever happens in layout. And as you pointed out, rendering can be parallelized rather easily.
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Thanks, I had never heard of it!
It's getting harder and harder for me to rationalize staying in STEM.

I'm currently ABD, hoping to graduate next spring. My boyfriend of two years has an amazing job, and I have trouble finding it fair to force him to move around with me should I bounce from postdoc to postdoc for the next three to five years, especially when we currently live close to both of our families.

When I started my Ph.D., I was out to my peers because I figured anyone who was this high up in academia wouldn't care. I chose my adviser carefully, and we have a good working relationship, but I still haven't come out to him, or my coauthors. It just seems like too big of a risk when the rest of my career is on the line.

At the same time I have no idea what I'd do if I left. It's not like my programming knowledge is solid enough to pass a technical interview. Blerg.
I had a gap in my professional career where I didn't code nor worked with computers very much and I saw a decrease in addictive behavior.

Can we blame programming or isolation when coding, is this a professional disability?

Too bad that there is no real interest in studying this issues from a psychological/sociological point of view.
I agree, there are a lot of options in industry with a BS in ChE, but not so much in Chemistry. You're pretty much expected to get at least a Masters...
>Who's going to pay to keep the videos running smoothly?

...Me? Do I not pay for my internet service? Are ISP's not subsidized to build infrastructure by my tax dollars? Is my ISP running at a deficit? Yes, yes, and no, I don't believe so. I pay Netflix for the content, I pay my ISP to deliver it.
Young Women Far More Likely to Have College Degree Than Men
One of the most fabulous things I've seen for a long time. Really amazing!
After seeing the title I thought about something like Erlang's pattern matching on binaries, which is absolutely amazing. Turn's out it's just one way support for generating byte strings, but it's still good :)
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"Bent"? Analogy to bent money seems apt.
I have struggled with porn at times and have done a lot of research on addictions. I also have a couple friends who are alcoholics. IMO, Gabor Mate has been the best resource I have found on understanding addictions. His theory is that addictions start in childhood due to some kind of constant, ongoing stress. It could be something like abusive parents or severe bullying. When we find something that temporarily relieves the stress, our body latches on to it and doesn't want to let go. Personally, I've found that understanding addiction and the addictive cycle has helped me a lot. From meditation, I've also become much more aware of my body sensations and understanding the danger periods when I am getting stressed.

After I did a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat, I put together https://www.programmingspiritually.com to try to help other developers that face some of the same issues. Email me if you're interested and I'll sign you up for the course for free.
The app I want to build would be data driven. I want it to be as fast as possible (it will have to plot graphs) and I thought I made a good choice with my current stack. The big difficulty is understanding where each library/framework shines, how to couple it with the others and when two frameworks have some overlapping functionality, which one to keep.

The reason I didn't go with Meteor at first was that I didn't really understand how everything fits together. I needed to build a stack block by block. But that was three weeks ago, I will definitely read more about Meteor and maybe give it a try.

One thing's sure, I have to make up my mind sometime soon or else I'll never have a prototype!
Xilinx's ISE calls it "SmartGuide".

It's kind of a mixed bag. It's worked okay for me if changes are truly minor, but if there are large changes to the logic it doesn't seem to be very good about "forgetting" what it learned from the previous pass. Three or four times this week I've had a design fail to make timing with SmartGuide, but work when doing P&R from scratch.
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> Does anyone here have any insight as to why?

1. They are already there in commodity HW.

2. GPU vendors make money with their hardware; they need not extort developers for a development environment like FPGA vendors think they have to do. Therefore, development for GPUs has a lower barrier of entry.
> This is truly a nightmare scenario for any CEO: do you take the risk and proceed with the better user experience/product at the expense of short term numbers–with no promise that the better design will actually lead to long-term benefits–or do you scrap the new design and start over?

Doesn't this only apply to CEOs who run companies that give away their products to indirectly monetize it? If you had a product you sold to your customers wouldn't this improvement in usability/product quality be a no-brainer because better product = more sales = more revenue?
> I have seen too many cases where the number one comment is a simple casual dismissal of a new product or idea.

The comment must be agreeable to a large crowd and that is why it is number one. "Pending comments" wouldn't solve it at all.

What it may solve is the moderation of comments which are not voted number one, but still hog your attention span by being children of high ranking comment.

However, I don't think "pending comments" is the right solution. A simpler and more effective solution would be folding of low ranking comments (ala Slashdot).
I just use mint. Much easier to use then even the best freelance accounting software.
Margaret Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford and became a proper scientist working for a proper company before starting her political career. This was during a time when equal opportunities for women was a controversial idea rather than a right.

One of Thatcher's more notorious beliefs was that there is no such thing as society and everyone had to be out for themselves. After reading this article I can see that she might have got this belief from academia where the culture is competition rather than collaboration.
Personally, in my experience, I have found it to be because of the constant thinking and amount of concentration required. Our brains use a disproportionately large amount of our bodies resources and I believe this leads to large amounts of stress when done too much. I'm a big believer that programmers should not code more than 4 hours per day so that our minds have enough to rest and recover properly.
I don't think "Webscale" is the right word; they should have used "Worldscale". The web part is irrelevant here.
As it turns out that the real problem here is that the all of the data from the 8th is in a pretty useless spot given what we know now. So what is useful to find is wreckage not planes. After looking at the data I'm also unconvinced that speed has anything to do with it and that the more likely cause is altitude.
Presently there is also a huge debate (with political discussions and petitions) about net neutrality in Germany and other European countries (mainly EU).

In 2013 there was a petition [1] to try to bind the internet providers to net neutrality.

[1] https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2013/_04/_23/Pe... (German)
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I hate these sort of ratings. Different strokes for different folks. Personally, I would be really happy living in a desert if there were a lot of attractive women who happen to be attracted to me. But, hey, that's just me. I couldn't care less for things like transportation infrastructure, etc...
Mmm. This smells a bit like the League of Legends flagging and Tribunal system, which has worked very well for them. I wonder if HN has enough active readers to make a Tribunal work well.
I'll have to see how each one handles a big grid of rotating colored circles with numbers on them in order to make an informed decision.
Give people some sliders and a rest button in their preferences. I find the lack of visual configurability in web apps deplorable. I hate having no control over the look of things unless I install a restyling plugin.

I do find it a little ironic that JZ has taken to Medium to say this, since that platform shares a lot of the visual sensibility with the old FB feed - titles sitting inside the image frame, minimalist icon-driven design and so on.
The caption for this image seems to indicate that the reconstructed images shown here are averaged over all test subjects; i.e., no one test subject was able to reconstruct the faces as well. There were only six of them, I suppose, but still.
The problem here is that a framework built in one environment (settlement-free peering) has a lot of problems as the underlying environment has changed.

Let's say everyone in the United States had a second mailbox, and each mailbox is owned by FedEx, UPS, or DHL. To ship a package, you leave it in your box, it's picked up by your carrier, transferred to the recipient's carrier, who then delivers it to their box. Only the sender is billed, and this shipment fee includes whatever your carrier will have to pay to your recipient's carrier to complete delivery.

When these mailboxes are built, most people in the country are shipping as many boxes as they receive, and the number of packages sent by and received by customers of each carrier are roughly the same (let's say a total of 15,000 per day). So FedEx, UPS, and DHL, to avoid having to track every single package, just decide to "call it a wash" and deliver each other's boxes for free, under the assumption that nobody's really getting the upper hand.

Fast forward twenty years, and Jeff Bezos has built Amazon.com at his house. His house is a UPS house, so UPS picks up 15 million boxes from him every morning, and hands over 10 million of them to FedEx and DHL for delivery. FedEx and DHL are billing their customers for 15,000 boxes but also have to deliver Bezos' 10 million boxes.

You can imagine that they'd want to revisit their original agreement to "call it a wash" and start billing by the actual package.
The obvious question is why don't you use your software instead of selling it?
That might be true, but it doesn't automatically follow. Java often gets dinged for startup time that it might make up for on longer runs and browser vendors seem to be sniping that their rivals are focussing on long term benchmarks at the expense of realistic workloads.
It sounds like you might misunderstand which site cpercival is saying he upgraded, or maybe I misunderstood your response. From the paymentiframe.com site:

Who is the guy behind this?

Dr. Colin Percival — author of Tarsnap and FreeBSD Security Officer Emeritus.
> It's not like my programming knowledge is solid enough to pass a technical interview.

Don't convince yourself of that. A ton of companies are looking for smart people with good number and data skills who are able to expand their programming skills as needed. Being able to learn new skills IMO is a lot more valuable than being a 10 year expert in a particular language.
#1 design flaw on Facebook: It should be dead easy to search my newsfeed. I saw something yesterday, or last week -- there's no way to see it again. (If there is, you've hidden this feature so well that you should get an award for obfuscation)
Regardless of personal opinion, I hope people on HN understand that this is a talented person providing an honest opinion about their work. Which is rare, and should be commended, rather than being treated as evidence of a conspiracy.

Also, Dustin Curtis seems to forget (or not understand) that Facebook is the same company that made a decision to implement AJAX at the expense of pageviews, at a time when that decision was highly controversial (the era of the Empire of MySpace). You can ding the management at Facebook for a lot of things, but this really isn't one of them.

The bigger story, really, is that poor people use Facebook on a computer, and thus that is where web-based experience optimization is focused. If you don't have a smartphone, or your smartphone sucks, you're going to be on the web; otherwise, why aren't you using your iPhone or iPad? (And remember, that's where Facebook derives a majority of their revenue -- so if there's going to be a conspiracy, it's going to be a conspiracy to get you to stop using the website, and to buy a high-ad-revenue-generating iPhone). Welcome to the wacky user landscape of 2014, where the Web is for nerds and poor people.

I like that Julie used Medium for her thoughts, rather than a Facebook post. Experimentation with others' products and services is super cool.
Maybe I exaggerated a bit and I wouldn't have considered it "incredibly bad" before having the latest version to compare it to, I agree.

But the "photo/visual" vs "text/reading/verbal" switching it imposed on you was obvious in it at the beginning. I know, this is not something that pops up as a "big red flag" to most other UI/X people, but to me it really does. Take HN as an example: the text only interface keeps you in the zone and focused on actually reading peoples' comments and replying meaningfully to the. Take http://www.microsoft.com/ as another one: the pictures swallow your focus and they make it very hard for you to actually read the link texts and decide what to click on to get to what you wanted. Also http://www.bing.com/ - you use it to search for text, but it bombards you with pictures, so you may actually end up getting worse search results not (only) because the search engine is worse, but because you mind is not "words focused" anymore and you fail to come up with more appropriate search phrase. Also compare https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ and https://www.python.org/ on one side vs. http://www.scala-lang.org/ on the other side (the picture and design totally "unfocus" and disorient your mind so it takes you longer to find the relevant content, like "top language features" even if they are right there on the landing page and very well explained too).
> It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California.

Is that the only law they violate?
yup. at 12C you pass the avogadros number and beyond that theres no possibility any of the original substance is left. I wonder if Homeopaths believe water retains the memories that our shitting gave it
That reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut: "We’re only smart four hours a day."

http://www.forbes.com/2006/01/18/james-brady-on-media-cx_jb_...
But comments do not need many people to endorse them, they only need one.

That means all but the worst comments will be approved.
Brazil is my favorite movie of all time because it was so prescient. It seemed exaggerated and over the top in its day, but nowadays it seems to me that everything in the film has actually come to pass. Alas.
Based on the grandparent's logic (which I support), they would both be equally "you", assuming it was a perfect duplicate. From that point forward, the two people would have different experiences, and so would become different people, just as you have different life experience now than you did a week or a year ago, and so think and behave somewhat differently.

That said, I bet they would also have a pretty fascinating relationship: like a twins bond, except much more so. Given their shared brain structure and largely shared life experience (shared to a degree that no two separate people could), their thought patterns would obviously remain very similar. It would probably feel very much like they could read each other's minds.
> If you had a product you sold to your customers wouldn't this improvement in usability/product quality be a no-brainer because better product = more sales = more revenue?

Not really, because again, "better product" is only a proxy for the real goal of many companies, i.e. "more revenue". Even earning money directly on the product won't stop sales people from inserting various money extracting tricks that abuse people's cognitive biases and heuristics. Just look at Badoo. Or Zynga.