skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if adding an "authoritativeness/trust" rank to each user you follow would help with this. Whenever you'd add someone on a social network, you'd be asked to choose a number between 1-5 or something that tells the SN's recommendation system how much weight they should be given when choosing stories to show you or whatever.
An employee willing to sue when the employer steps out of line, seems like exactly the sort of thing that should be protected. Employers should not be allowed to do wrong things. Employers should especially not be allowed to penalize, nor work together to be aware of or penalize, employees that "tend to sue".
RIP your inbox...haha jk. Seriously though, this thing sucks...
Not if they are paid. app.net is a good example of that.
Most people's morals and ethics, however "religious" and staunch they sound, is up for sale. It's just a matter of finding the right price (as long as what you want from them is not illegal).

I am yet to meet someone whose morals are not for sale. I only know figures like Gandhi but I never got a chance to meet them (and some books told me they were flexible when it came to themselves - re: his wife's medical treatment).
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For what it's worth, the microbrewery scene doesn't have to be what it is today. At it's best it would just be a huge range of subtly different beers to give people more things to explore and find a favorite. As is, there's this undying devotion to IPAs and ever-hoppier tastes. There's nothing wrong with non-microbrew, but I'd be happiest of all to see microbreweries open up to exploring more of the possibilities for beer.
A paywall and a surveywall are not "exactly the same thing". The surveys take about 5 seconds to complete. It's more like how many videos on YouTube and elsewhere show an ad before playing, except those video ads are typically much longer and more annoying.
You're more likely to get an Internship easily, than get into YC. Just saying.
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Thank you for the reconsideration. I've never actually been in a fight in my entire life (probably why I got bullied so much) and it took every last ounce of my self control to walk up to someone who had already had a history of violence. It's just bad all the way the 'roud.
And everyone in my network as well.
While I strongly support any business model that tries to escape from the typical ads monetisation strategy, we can see (two years after this post was published) that not relying on ads has not been the best long-term strategy for WhatsApp for two reasons:
1. They didn't manage to stay independent and had to sell to Facebook. I always thought that they had a very good chance to expand their product and built a platform that could truly challenge Facebook, Twitter, etc.
2. Now that they have been acquired by Facebook, we know that it is only a matter of time before an ad product is introduced into the service.
Man, I would put whatever the fuck people wanted on my site if it meant my family and the generations after could live comfortably. That's why I try not to make statements like that.
All of the banks I deal with use FTPS (which is called "secure" ftp). I have yet to deal with one that uses SFTP (ssh-ftp).

http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/differe...
Amazon estimated that each 1 ms of additional latency costs them a few million dollars a year as well as decreases rate of returning users. For low latency there is still nothing better than eventual consistency, so they may be driven by the bottom line.
Also, from my experience of being a merchant on Amazon with hundreds of thousands of items in inventory that need to be updated almost realtime as prices/stock changes all the time, leading to a few millions updates a day (in bulk), I can't envision how Amazon would be able to achieve fast import from a horde of merchants like me on any SQL system.
I am not sure at all it's a joke, too much effort for that... The address they put in their ToS is the same as a co-working space in SF.
yes, when video game developers talk about 'games' they generally mean video game. It's a convenient shorthand in their community. Much how when a computer programmer refers to a 'file' they typically mean a 'computer file' rather than a physical one, when an electronic engineer says 'circuit' they mean an electrical circuit rather than a racing circuit.
I'd want to see it as a `foreman`-like description: identify the Dockerfiles, map to an instance type, and say how many of each container you want.
Not a doctor so im just speculating, but wouldn't the ADH still be rendered useless when it goes through the stomach on the way to the small intestine? Perhaps this means it would work going the other direction, lol.
I believe those products you mention are commercially available in the US as Pepcid AC and Zantac. I've personally seen the lessened effect of flush through the use of Pepcid, but there were other side effects. I'll give Zantac a try. Thanks for the info.
HSTS is a good concept, and all browsers implement it, but there's no way to inspect which domains are flagged with it in your browser. So if you pick one up by mistake when you're testing the feature out in development, it just sticks, and the only way to get rid of it is to clear your entire browser cache or reset it, which is extremely annoying.

Browser makers: Please, please, please implement a way for me to inspect and remove individual HSTS "flags" so testing it doesn't become so painful.
Wow and they expect you to pay them for this shit?

I seem to remember HP wanting customers to pay for firmware updates.

Would you pay to get your hardware bricked?
Based on their number of acquisitions, I'd guess Yahoo and Microsoft.
I take it this is the first Jeff Atwood blog post you've read.
Grasping at social status in this way is insecurity: you admit you're so weak that you have to demean others to be viewed better.

I'm splitting hairs here, but it's not a different reason at all.
I can find lot of names but I am lazy and one is enough to prove you wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
:-)

We'll be around for a while. Launches are hard, but well-crafted technology is a long play. I'm glad you've been experimenting and seeing past the good/bad hype.

We'll always be striving to make our platform better, I hope all of our users feel comfortable expressing their opinions and directly contributing to the project via GitHub. Famo.us is more yours than it is ours now.
The point isn't even to win, it's to send a message.

Of course, if their parents are lawyers, or well-versed in law, this may not work. :)
Wow, that is so awesome to hear! I hope you enjoy using the app.
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Conferences are completely different. At a conference there is a 50% chance I will wear a suit, but back at work on a regular day I am in jeans and a T-shirt which makes me very slightly underdressed compared to my peers.

A conference is more similar to a job interview which is the one time that even scientists get dressed up.
You do realize that you could start a corporation if you wanted to?
I spent 5 minutes searching for the ".go" code before back-tracking to the project site[1] to verify that it was a Java/JRuby project.

Even if they started the project first, it can't take that long to add 1 line to the readme for clarity.

[1] http://www.go.cd/contribute/
Make no mistake, this is one of those "one weird tip" articles.

It doesn't surprise me that the tip doesn't appear to work (based on the links others have posted), because the article is really a (hopefully viral) marketing vehicle for Sam Adams - in a couple of short paragraphs, they touch on their glass, their new IPA, their social programs, their new Belgian quadruple, and some of their existing line.

It finishes up with some "secret", broadly dismisses established science (by stating that companies didn't pick up Prequel just because they didn't want some liability that they wouldn't have been liable for anyways), offers no real

What makes it interesting is that this article seems to resound with the more technical people that I know. It's like linkbait for smart people...
On their website it says: "Go™ is officially Open Source" [1]. So maybe they trademarked it?

[1] http://www.thoughtworks.com/
This needs more votes, simply for reminding people that bullying isn't some generic situation. The least bad case of bullying is when you have a single bully, who can be made to start treating you as a human being without going as far as a fight. The worst case is a group, who chronically hate you for whatever reason. Not every situation in life has a solution, if you have enough enemies.
This itched me -- I've never gotten the impression that Christopher Poole was particularly stupid, and I couldn't imagine him reacting to a genuine offer of $1.2 billion for 4chan in any other fashion than by demanding cash on the nail and then taking it -- so I scratched it.

The only thing I could find was a year-old thread from 4chan itself [1], in which the supposed VC never identifies himself, and in which (someone who is probably) Poole had the following to say:

>>this thread

>>my sides

>>the stratosphere

>

>If this is actually your profession, you should probably find a new job.

The advice never to believe everything you read is good advice in general; with regard to anything you read on, from, or about 4chan, it's indispensable.

[1] http://4chandata.org/q/VC-estimates-4chan-worth-1-2-billion-...
Even if statements like that help getting your family and generations after to live comfortably?
Ridiculous patents...
I guess it's fairly obvious but it never really occurred to me that lobbyists and politicians go on retreats together. Is this beneficial? Is it ethical?

Does ProPublica track these types of gatherings?
Can you comment on why this was a 4th amendment violation? It seems like the police were legitimately called to the scene of a crime-in-progress and found evidence of said crime. If they had found cocaine instead of a video of a violent attack, would that also have been inadmissible in a court of law?
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For me it's always been the benefits (medical insurance, bonding, etc) that makes freelancing hard, though maybe that's all changed now with Obamacare.

Do what makes you happy. There's only one go around.
I sometimes think that it would be nice to know the theme in advance to know if you want to spend two days on this.

The idea behind the theme revelation is to prevent cheating, but then again there is no cheating protection beyond a code of honor anyway. I've seen tons of games in LD that only barely fulfilled the theme.
I know what you mean, it sounds like you want to search or explore by categories. So, when you want to see landmarks, you only see those, but if you wanted to see food, you could filter by that as well. Thanks for the feedback.

Also, these results will be different at different times of day.
I agree that social norms need to become better (i.e., people need to be better and more decent), but you have to consider why publicizing this info (not in this particular case, but for any given person and any given content) is not considered illegal in the United States, currently: such a law would almost certainly be used to squash freedom of expression.

This has been the case long before Instagram and the Internet becoming mainstream, including the denial of requests for public government records and the photography of police actions on the purported concern for privacy.

I know you're only talking about social norms...but such things influence and are influenced by law and regulations...I'm just pointing out that it doesn't exist in a vacuum.
If they HAD to sell the price would not have been 19B (okay 15 of them are monopoly money but still)
Interesting. I read the whole thing thinking it was a Douglas Coupland extract.
At the time, the server was probably about 30 feet away, so network latency wasn't a big issue :)

The article gets the timeline wrong though. This anecdote happened very early in the development of gmail -- it was rewritten several times between then and launch.
> But not most people. Not yet.

Out of curiosity, what do you think needs to change for them to make sense for most people?

I personally feel the Model S has made an enormous step towards "makes sense" for a lot of people, and I have to think the X will "make sense for most"
Facebook is pretty thorough with its explanations of Daily Active Users (DAU) measurements in its SEC filings:

"Daily Active Users (DAUs). We define a daily active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party website or app that is integrated with Facebook, on a given day. We view DAUs, and DAUs as a percentage of MAUs, as measures of user engagement."

Going back to the first SEC Filing from July 2012. There is ONE KEY DIFFERENCE in definition of a DAU.

Jul 2012 DAU: "...or took an action to share content or activity... ...via a third-party website that is integrated with Facebook." Ref: http://investor.fb.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-325...

Nov 2013 DAU: "...or took action to share content or activity... ...via a third-party website or app that is integrated with Facebook." Ref: http://investor.fb.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1326801-13-31&...
Sure there is, but I'm replying specifically to their comment that-

"Cheap beer is about getting a buzz or getting drunk."

Cheap and expensive beer are made with close to identical processes, with the same controls and outcomes. Often beers are "cheap" purely as a function of the scale of the operation, but they still use the same quality ingredients and processes.

People often buy cheap beer because they actually prefer it (just as many, many people prefer lighter beer, which is something that many of my Canadian countrymen can't understand), or because the taste differences are so small that they can't justify the extra expense.

When you find yourself in the position of differentiating yourself from those other people -- that your own drinking is more cultured and justified -- it's time to take a step back and seriously contemplate things, because it's almost always a cover.
Of course not. I would prefer it to be around 2 weeks to 1 month.

But really, it depends on the job market. As an employee, let us say, a specialized laborer, I would prefer the notice period to be as long as possible because there aren't going to be any other jobs for me out there.
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If I had an iPhone I'd take a gander.

I like http://geophoto.grabeh.net/ for looking at photos around the world, but that may have something do with the fact I built it.
Remember the internet back when ads were just something you ran across on cheesy low-quality (or porn) sites?

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/09/16/the-web-in-1996-1997/

http://allthingsd.com/20090720/yahoo-home-pages-over-the-las...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/time-10-big-websites-looked-15-...
If people want my business they'll optimize for DuckDuckGo, whatever that may entail. That's my primary search engine. I've been using it heavily since the Snowden release and it's been satisfactory for about 80-90% of my searches. In fact, it gives a wider variety of stuff sometimes, which feeds the part of my brain that seeks breadth.
The best way to convince people to write tests is to remind them that they are already writing tests, but they're throwing them away. If you're writing a method, you are almost certainly testing it with a bit of code to verify the output. You're probably writing one of these little tests every 5 minutes. Save them in a folder called "unit tests". Are you writing code to make sure one part of the API works with another? Save it in a folder called "integration tests". Opening up a browser to make sure the right stuff is appearing on the right part of the page? Save it in a folder called "functional tests". Put in a code coverage tool to make sure you're calling all the code you've written in a test - personally this usually happens when I "got rid" of code without actually getting rid of it (rot).

I mainly work in Ruby and Rails these days, and I'll concede that it all gets a little blurred (and I did plenty of handwaving in that previous paragraph, but you couldn't see it because I was typing). But as long as you're doing something like that, I really do think you'll end up with a well tested app with full coverage.

TDD? Well, sure, I've done it, but I'm not going to insist on it, for myself or anyone else. You could write that integration test first, or you could write it iteratively. You could write a functional test that makes sure a bit of text is present on a web page, and then write the the code that generates that bit of text, or the other way around. I don't see it making a big difference - other than that forcing people to write the test first can be a mental intrusion that badly disrupts their thinking process on certain types of tasks.

In spite of all that, I (like a lot of people on HN, regardless of where they stand on TDD) would welcome a compelling rebuttal of DHH's recent blog post.
They didn't have to sell to FB they chose to. They had a history of flipping to paid versions of the app to cover costs and reduce growth. Their actual competitors were carriers who charge exorbitant SMS fees internationally. At ~500M users their plan to simply charge $1/yr would have covered their costs.
That's a silly caricature of how the place works, and not something I've experienced in the 8 years I've had an account there.
Wow, this is the best insight into the struggles of writing a book I have read. I started a book and quit on the first real hurdle. This post really stirred up something in me - about finishing something for the first time in my life. Thanks for sharing.
Chrome lets you see some of the HSTS internals:

chrome://net-internals/#hsts

There's no list of HSTS hosts because the host names are hashed on disk.
Anybody remember these ridiculous predictions from yesteryear: http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/05/07/the-windows-phone-pred...
"A continuous escalation of violence is something you need to avoid at all costs."

Absolutely, and my continuum didn't have all that many points.

E.g. while I never faced a multiple bully situation as you described above (the one in college wasn't of that nature), if the first exchange went as you posit, if and when I recovered from the ambush, I'd have "gone nuclear". In my case, methodically shot them dead from distance until inevitably stopped (if I didn't have those skills and weapons availability, command detonated IEDs).

Each level must be met 10 fold at bare minimum, e.g. the 50th time a stocking cap is stolen, push the bully into busy moving traffic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646592

Or just "get the hell out of town" one way or another; for more than a few respondents in this discussion that would have been the best option. E.g. if a credible threat of death is not something that fazes them, it's not much of a threat....
I don't know what autoadmit is all about, but it seems like a juvenile, abusive, bullying community. Why do you care enough to have these links on hand?
Not to say this isn't attractive, but for about $130 more, one can buy a motorized base and piece of plywood or pine as a desk surface and have actual sit-stand desk.
My conclusion is that you've made a claim and done nothing to support that claim.
Author here. I'm looking for some code to that will take a point cloud and make a mesh. I've seen that sort of thing in apps like MeshLab but nothing standalone yet.

Converting to a mesh is required to generate collisions and allow you to walk about in your favorite part of the planet.
I have worked in several countries. It was based on my experience. Also, I have seen that notice period has gradually gone up in service based companies.

I know that HN core audience hasn't really seen that side of outsourcing, so the experiences might be different.
Not really. It just requires you to look the other way, or not be as effective as needed in your anti-spam campaigns.

Wasn't there a story just days ago that reported that a very significant population of Twitter users have never Tweeted? Last year NPR had significant coverage of companies that wrangled and sold armies of fake twitter followers. (That sort of info is much more transparent with Twitter than Facebook)

Why is it impossible to believe that any of the thousands of possible entities aren't farming phony Facebook accounts?
> Jobs was petulant, mean and destructive to people he disagreed with – for his whole life. He never dropped this trait.

I assume you know this from first hand interactions with him.
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Bus coefficient?

Multiplication could plausibly be involved if the cost to the project compounds with the number of lost team members.
Do you have retrograde amnesia, or were you homeschooled?
That's basically what do too. One change is my night job is in nightlife. So I've set up a group that I dump all those people. So I can unfollow them and they only see what I want them to see on my wall.
To be callous, that's the question I feel about the entirety of the story. The bullying is horrible, but the solution seems to be a tiny bit of anonymity.

- start texting you and calling you (at all [distracting] times) making your primary number useless?

Get a new number. In 2004, not everybody had cell phones (or especially texting plans) If a cell phone loses its utility of being a tool, then ditch it.

- Messaging on Hotmail

This is [the known attacker version of] why many parents concern their kids with not being searchable or using their real name. Don't have your real age or name on hotmail. Further, don't accept unauthenticated im friendships and give out private information.

- Blog comments

How did they know her URL, if not just for her class? Is the easy solution to just not allow comments, or at least require authorization to post comments?
By that logic you would never go to any school since you can learn almost anything online.
But the MBA's value includes branding and networking, which is why you made a point of mentioning the "top ten" school.
What is your alternative? Is it a rare opportunity?
If you got into HBS, GSB or Wharton, I would almost certainly go to B-school.
I'd recommend starting out with a small max-age value so that any mistaken records will expire quickly. (Disclosure: I'm a co-editor of the HSTS RFC.)
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I am not going to speak for everyone. Porn isn't inherently bad, although the porn industry has a tendency to be incredibly manipulative and harmful to women.

This, however, is technical training. This says that programmers are people who want to look at models who are dressed like some board-driven abstract costume aimed to give straight 14 year olds get an erection. It says that programmers are male, and "men like babes", so therefore, men might want this.

This is harmful to our culture. This is harmful to women programmers, who now have further proof that they don't 'belong' here, that programming is 'for' them. This devalues what people think of me, and what I consider to be my craft.

This is C- misogynist garbage aimed at my community, and I don't fucking appreciate it.
Well then they'll have to do better than handing me a cup of boiled water with a teabag stuck in it. They spend 5 minutes crafting a cup of coffee - they can figure out how to make a correct cup of tea.
It's not the arguments he uses, it's his tone. He's basically temperamental and irrespectful.

I agree with his points, but I would also have banned him.