skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It kind of reminds me of the story I read somewhere where app developers were showing their own dialog asking you to rate their app. Only if you chose a high rating would they actually forward you to the respective app store to actually leave a review/rating. If you gave a poor rating, they would simply "eat" the response without sending you to the store.

A notable recent occurrence of this was Dungeon Keeper:

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/07/dungeon-keeper-android-mak...

I'm fortunate enough to understand (I think!) what apps are doing; I've played a few games that ask for ratings in return for in-game bonuses, and I usually click the button that takes me to the app store, don't rate anything and jump back into the game.
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People do boycott companies due to abortion and lots of other things. That would be free speech.
also gmail gave you 5 or more invites so you could invite your friends. Wave should have done the same. It would have allowed small social networks of people to play with it together.
I'm tired of these silly reversals. It's disingenuous, this attitude like there is some sort of gay mafia overpowering commonfolk. "Tolerance" only comes up as a topic when it's about tolerating some shitty retrograde attitude. Please.

Mozilla backed Eich the whole way as far as I remember. They initially shrugged off rarebit's reaction with the standard "we should all respect personal opinions" (except for the personal opinions of people affected by Eich's actions, of course).
Are you genuinely asking someone to make a list of the reasons how a VC term sheet differs from a resting limit order?
Automating Threes [video]
Poll: Technical Architect or Technical Manager?
So, I got a promotion at my current job a few days ago and was asked which role I would like to have.

I had, for long, been averse to management and had decided at the start of my career to go the architect way. Moreover, I am an introvert who can (/has) gone days without meeting people.

No way had I imagined I would end up choosing to be a technical manager. Mostly, because of my recent experiences, seeing how non-technical managers made lives hell for the developers and how they always had the last say. Also, the project I'll be on is an entire new one, for which I'll be building my team, managing and delivering the project while working on technical things myself. Where as, being a technical architect, in my humble opinion, one's work would end as soon as one has envisioned and designed the product architecture, or keep giving intermittent advice (generalizing a bit here).

So HN, should I have chosen otherwise? What's your preference, as the next step to a developer role?
Technical Architect
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> "Sir, I disagree with you whole-heartedly, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it."

Yes, but this applies to censorship. No one was censoring Eich or asking for him to be censored and, even more importantly, no one was asking for the government to step in.

I support his right to be a bigot. I do not, however, want a bigot running an organization that is important to me, and I (and many others whose opinions matter far more than mine) said so (our right).
Some assorted nitpicks:

Why is the box with "Annual Savings" and "Average Monthly Price" at the lower left where it's obscuring the content instead of at the lower right where there's a bunch of empty space?

The text for individual items feels small, low-contrast, and "fuzzy" to me - my eyes glaze right over it. I'd personally increase the size by 2pt, change it to black (or a Bootstrappian near-black), and include the product's brand underneath the name in the current grey color (not important to me, but some people will care).

The emphasis on "annual savings" and the big "refer and get $10" are too big and emphasized and make me feel like the site is assuming I'm a cheapskate. It detracts somewhat from the convenience reason for the service when the site is shouting at me about the money saved instead (and if I was looking for absolute savings I already have money put in to Amazon Prime shipping). The Average Monthly Price number, on the other hand, is extremely useful, since trying to figure out that kind of thing is the biggest cognitive load for me for these sorts of services.

The thing at the lower left, the More Products button, the plus and minus buttons on products, and the buttons at the top are all way too emphasized and distracting as compared to the actual important stuff on the page at a first glance (the products queued up, the total pricing, and the ship date for each batch). The mouseover color change per month is also distracting, but I think it could maybe be a nice touch if it was tuned way down.

What's with the Fisher-Price green and blue that don't actually map to any particular sorts of actions? Green is to increment/decrement but also for the Help and date buttons, and blue is used for two buttons, a menu (but for some reason the email address, which I presume is an account name, isn't a menu), and an infobox that's not clickable at all, none of which have anything to do with each other.

I have no idea how any of the products in the list correspond with each other - are they recurring? I don't know. It looks like when first added it adds a matching one to each second month in the future, but there doesn't seem to be any other data linkage, so if I want to adjust numbers I have to manually go down the list and change it for each instance? There's also no way to add anything for future months except by adding a product to the current month and then dragging it forward, and then manually clearing out or moving around all the ones automatically added to future months.

All-in-all, it feels more hassleworthy than Amazon, because this UI is relatively complicated and means a lot more brainwork to process and monitor than having "send me this item every X weeks/months". I think for this to win out, it would need to be at least that convenient, and handle anything unusual by having a list of exceptions (e.g. "send me one extra item Q in July") instead of having a full shopping list for every shipment to babysit.
I have to say that this is not unrelated to the post earlier this week about startup culture in Oakland. This post and the author of it reflects, to me, the vibe of the east bay.
I'm glad you appreciate the value of a healthy, balanced lifestyle. But reading this, it's easy to see why people post "Die Techie Scum" stickers around SF. You've taken a job that someone else could actually use to help pay rent and have turned it into a hobby. If I did this job for a living I would be furious at the arrogance of someone treating as an exercise in "Feeling Good". Get some perspective.
Working on my startup, a social photo/video aggregator that organizes by event, and has B2C and B2B aspects: http://wesawit.com

Any feedback is appreciated.
You cannot simultaneously publish something and stop people from knowing what it contains. Expecting that you can is absolutely insane--literally insane--as in believing that P and not P can simultaneously have the same logical value.

This makes me furious. It isn't because the intent is malicious. That only makes me just a tiny bit angry. I am furious because the malice was implemented in the stupidest, most useless, laziest manner possible.

It's like keeping the neighborhood kids off your lawn by burying a pressure plate switch out there for the armed nuclear bomb in your garage. And then not telling anyone about it. And then inviting all the neighbors over for a croquet tournament.
No, I asking why bad faith in purchasing private equity would be any different than public.
This isn't about boycotting, it's about hiring and retention. If Mozilla can't hire people, they're fucked. If their CEO is perceived BY THE PEOPLE THEY WANT TO HIRE as a bit of an asshat, that's not good.
It's more like taking a peek at the other players' cards, when only you have the ability to do that.

We have a bunch of laws that establish the pretense that everybody in the market is equal. I suspect we should get rid of most of the laws and drop the pretense. Folks should participate with the understanding that there are unfairly advantaged operators at all levels. But until that happens it's hard to morally square aspects of HFT.
The problem wasn't that mozilla doesn't allow dissent; the problem is that the world wouldn't allow Eich to be CEO, and he realized that whatever good he could do as CEO was overwhelmed by the harm he would do to it as staying CEO. Mozilla didn't bounce Eich; the internet did.
Very interesting!

>Laboratory rodents placed on a CR diet tend to exhibit increased activity levels (particularly when provided with exercise equipment) at feeding time. Monkeys undergoing CR also appear more restless immediately before and after meals.[62] Despite this brief daily period of increased activity overall activity is no higher in CR than AL animals in youth after an initial period of adaptation to the diet.[63] On the other hand, CR has been found to retard the decline in activity that occurs during normal aging: in one study, animals on a conventional diet "showed little activity" by early middle age, while those on CR "were observed to run around the cage and climb onto and hang from the wire cage tops throughout their life spans. In fact, the longest surviving [CR] mouse was observed hanging from the top of his cage only 3 days before he became moribund."
Other ways are?
Even if you are an expert, consider whether the next person to maintain your code will be an expert. Assume they aren't and that they know where you live.
Does Eich have grounds to file suit against Mozilla employees for making a hostile work environment?
A/B Testing Significance Calculator
My mom has a newspaper delivery route that she doesn't need. She uses it for exercise and spends the money she earns on her YMCA membership, which she also uses for exercise...

She was selected as Carrier of the Month one time and was asked to answer the following questions so that she could be profiled in the paper:

What do you want to be when you get older?

What to you use the money for that you earn delivering the newspaper?

What are your favourite hobbies?

What is your favourite subject at school?

I only remember her answer to the first question, "wiser."
Google's Trying to Trademark the Word 'Glass'–and It's in Good Company
Agreed that the collaborative editing from Docs is great, but I believe Docs already had that functionality before Wave.

The kinds of things I was thinking of is that there aren't any "subsections" in docs (comparable to Wave's replies); and Docs still isn't a "container" in the way that Wave was -- you can't embed a poll, for example.
It pays for the cost of researching this drug (and all the other drugs which failed before making it to market) and it creates an incentive to produce more drugs like this in the future.

You don't want drugs to cost so much? Encourage the government(s) to fund or subsidize research. Maybe even lower barriers to entry to getting drugs approved. But no one is forcing you to buy the drug and the patent will eventually expire.
This is the second time you've used the word "scalp", as if all liquidity on the public markets for the last century weren't funded by "scalping".

In the absence of "scalping", trading in stocks works like trading in houses. There are lots of buyers. There are lots of sellers. In the majority of cases, they disagree materially on the correct price. Therefore, it (a) takes forever to enter or exit a position, and (b) often forces people to accept terribly unfavorable pricing.

The "scalp" market makers take is the market price for always having a counterparty willing to trade with you at a price near the true market value of the trading instrument.

If you want the markets to work more like the real estate market, you can do that: place limit orders. The fact that market orders carry a premium price isn't a subtle detail of the market; it's trading 101.

All things being equal, you want the "scalp" to be as thin as possible. The wider the spread, the closer the scalping blade comes to the skull. Liquidity has a price, and investors want that price to be as low as possible.

So now, an exercise for you: at the height of HFT profit-taking, was the price of liquidity (a) lower or (b) higher than it was during the 1990s?
This is a very tricky subject where language fails us a bit - what exactly is a 'suicidal thought,' or 'suicidal ideation' as clinicians put it?

You can be depressed and think that you want to die, or that everyone else would be better off if you were dead, or that being dead would be preferable to stewing misery...but feel too apathetic to do anything about it. With or without drugs, you can be in a more active mode where you feel like doing something about your problems, but still feel miserable or be acutely conscious of the pit of misery that you just left, eg if you're bipolar and having a manic episode. So the drug or mood swing might correlate with the impetus to commit suicide, eg getting up and going somewhere to do so or making use of tools to that end. But is the 'suicidal thought' the desire to stop living, or the practical action upon that desire? As someone with some first-hand experience in this area, focusing on the latter seems like blaming the period for the ending of a sentence, while avoiding engagement with the semantic content thereof.

I'm not saying that drugs or other factors can't induce the idea by any means, but most discussions of this issue seem to involve a heft does of post hoc ergo propter hoc, ie the correlation = causation fallacy.
US agency that created “Cuban Twitter” faces political firestorm
Yes, FB added the ability to target job titles in February this year: http://adage.com/article/btob/facebook-takes-shot-linkedin-j...
Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm
If everything in the world turns into a political boycott, you effectively don't have free speech either. There is always some cause people feel strongly for or against, and consider it a violation of their fundamental rights. It's completely valid to not go nuclear on every single political issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526663
"I keep hearing people saying that gay marriage is more than just a political view, but so is every other political view.
Don't support welfare? You're against poor people. Support welfare? You're against the working man. You're pro-choice? You're against babies. You're pro-life? You're against women."

You know what's different? Because this particular issue has a clearly decisive split in this country.

If you want to play the ostracism game, don't ostracize a majority of a society (a majority of Californians back then).

Ultimately it's all about fitting in to your tribe - if you had donated to Planned Parenthood as the CEO of a Southern family restaurant chain, people would say it's the exact same thing. Abortion is not a "political view", it's murder of unborn children, and you deserve to lose your CEO-ship because of it. If you disagree, you are "completely wrong" and unworthy of time.

The lofty rhetoric about unacceptable and "political views," bigotry, offensiveness is the same as tribalism - the Silicon Valley tribe agrees that you must accept gay marriage, the United States tribe in 2014 agrees that you must accept gay marriage. At a different culture in a different country in a different time, the standards may be completely different.

It's actually perfectly understandable to feel loyalty to your tribe. Just understand that some principles are in fact not universal.

In the end it might be about lines in the sand and certain things crossing from the realm of acceptability or unacceptability, depending on tribe. The winning group CAN ostracize Eich for it, in 2014, so they are. The winning group couldn't do a thing like that in 1999 when Eich was busy founding Mozilla.

Anyone can play the game and Paul Graham's essay deals with precisely this form of thought limitation: http://paulgraham.com/say.html
Note that this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524315 is a better place to start than the linked post.
More specifically: a particularly noisy part of the Internet did.
1. Yup you sell someone's car
2. Probably, I need to sell my car within the next year and it's a hassle to put the pictures online, etc.
3. You guys handle the test drive.
4. Seems good to me.
I think the fact that you chose Technical Manager, and the reasons therein, says a lot about who you are. When your motivation is for other people that's a very good motive, in my opinion. Good technical managers are a rare treat and highly indispensable (both to their employer and employees), mostly because people who are talented on the technical side tend to shun management.

I say, "Congratulations!" and, "Thank you!" For all of us out there who wish that more dedicated talented people went into management. I'm sure you'll do well.
New "nearly unbreakable" encryption scheme is inspired by human biology
The problem wasn't that "some CEO of some company has an anti-gay view" the problem is that the ideological head (the CEO) of an organization whose stated mission is one of greater good (rather than profit) not only harbours anti-gay thoughts, but actively acted to deny people of their human rights, and it wasn't a mistake (he's never said anything to suggest he's changed his mind or regrets it at all)
Then I suggest you go read some opinion polls. Here's a relatively recent one: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163730/back-law-legalize-gay-marr...

Yes, a majority of Americans apparently now support gay marriage! Yay! But 43% remain against it. Of course, reasonable people could disagree about exactly what constitutes a "fringe view." But I doubt many would say that the term covers views held by 43% of the population.

So, yeah, maybe the ballot was confusing, and maybe that was six whole years ago. But I'd say it is, nonetheless, a generally pretty accurate indicator of people's views on the subject.
On the other hand, starting behind just means you have even more catching up to do. This happened in my personal VM project with ruby. I targeted ruby 1.8.7 when all these things held true for it, but by the time I got to it running most of the rubyspec language specs, 1.8.7 was basically obsolete.
> "What advantages does Python have over R for basic statistics work?"

The advantage of Python is that it's a nice, well designed general purpose programming language. But in basic statistics work you don't need to develop large, well organized programs, so in practice I'd say there is no advantage.

R provides a larger collection of all kind of statistical routines out of the box.
Why would some one want to invest in something where they only get their money back in 10-15 years? sequoia capital turned 58M(8M in 2011 and 50M in 2013) into >$2 billion in whatsapp and 1.5B was made with the 8M.
* Because it is incredibly expensive to obtain a term sheet.

* Because the term sheet usually has conditions that the entrepreneur is obliged to honor.

* Because the term sheet is provided after the VC is given access to all the details of the entrepreneur's financials.

* Because the ruthless withdrawal of a term sheet puts the entrepreneur in a distress situation that harms their ability to obtain other term sheets.

There are other reasons, but the analogy is, to me, obviously inapplicable.
You are not seeing the full picture. There is no "gay mafia". I have gay friends who are wonderful people, and I support their right to marry. Some of my biggest idols in tech are gay. What scares me, however, is that the same confrontational tactics that are used to police tech sector against you-name-it people who had made a silly or insensitive joke about women or donated a couple of bucks to some non-PC campaign -- those same confrontational, entryist tactics were used in the early 20th century by Lenin and his supporters, and we all know where that led.

It's not the message, it's how it is delivered.
That frustrated me so much. Like I thought if I dragged through the point from one side to the other I could do a negative dilation and maybe the color would change to indicate that or something, but it just didn't work.
There is https://dotbit.me/ , but who knows how reputable that site is? Just as Bitcoin needed something like Coinbase, the Namecoin ecosystem needs a web wallet with reputable backing.
read a great article on this the other night

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michae...
No one can see the other players cards in trading unless the player shows them. Brokers sending IOIs to dark pools releases info to the market. Hitting venue A and then venue B in a serial fashion will release info the market, letting some traders cancel before you get to B.

There is no mechanism on the lit markets for anyone to see an order BEFORE it interacts by either posting to the book or being crossed with another order and generating a trade. Anyone who says otherwise is unfortunately misinformed.
If I lived alone I'd definitely sign up for a service like this, but for the time being my roommates and I just rotate taking turns picking up these kind of items. Likely a niche specific to people with roommates, but it'd be interesting to implement either household accounts where the bill gets charged multiple ways or you can allow accounts to be linked into a group where you can see whose turn it is to pay for each item next.

UX Sidenote - Why can't I close the modal after clicking "Get Started"? From a potential customer perspective it's frustrating if I click that and realize I want to find out more information before giving my email or Facebook account info.
Those hysterical screaming queens?
> No one was censoring Eich or asking for him to be censored and, even more importantly, no one was asking for the government to step in.

Many were not even asking for him to leave his post, just for him to disown his previous acts (acts, not beliefs) and maybe a comp (e.g. equivalent donation to anti-bullying orgs were floated around) as a show of good will.
>In 2008, Barack Obama and Brendan Eich both were against gay marriage...Barack Obama inexplicably remains, as of this writing, president of the United States of America, but Mr. Eich has just been forced out as CEO of Mozilla because of his political views.

Nonsense.

A two-party political horse race is not analogous. If you don't like one or more views your closest candidate has, the ONLY other alternative is often MUCH worse on the whole, not only for your issue of choice, but a range of them.

Compare that to selecting a leader of an organization that is not structured to return profit to shareholders, but instead carry out a social and ethical objective and it is easy to see why a leader that is NOT ethical (in the view of significant numbers of people inside the org and "customers/users" outside the org) would be deemed not qualified to hold the job. Couple that with plethora of other viable candidates (as opposed to the two-person horse race of a presidential run), and the analogy doesn't just fall flat, it refuses to exist.
German officials confirm 18 million emails and passwords stolen
Ask HN: Is the `demo' for indie games the MVP?
I just caught the movie ``Indie Game'', a documentary about the independent game-dev world. I was stunned to see the old pre-lean-startup way of shipping software. I wanted to know, is the indy game-dev community so vastly different from product-based ones? What strategies do the indie game devs employ to minimize waste (ergo the title).
Does buying groceries online in the UK is cheaper than buying them offline?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere is their answer. Cable is to big of a cash cow to give up.
Does that just stop you from moving onto your back while you sleep or is there some other goal?