skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I have to work on my UX design :)

The first step is to enter in your username. If the username exists, you'll be able to add interests to that username by clicking on the plus button next to the interest field. Once you do that, you will immediately become searchable and should see the search results updated. You can modify interests by simply editing the input fields and delete an interest by removing all of the text in that input field.

I'm taking the site down until I have time to add a proper authentication system though. I realize now that is probably an essential feature, even in an mvp. I will also make sure that the next iteration of this is a lot more clear.

I really appreciate your feedback!

EDIT: I want to apologize to users of the site. In my excitement to release something, I underestimated the likelihood of people trolling and importance of a proper authentication system. Not to mention, my lack of clarity probably led to well-intentioned users interacting with the site in ways I did not intend. I promise a better experience in the next iteration.

EDIT 2: I decided to leave the site up (so anyone that ends up reading this has context) but have disabled it until I can fix.
> Poor school districts spend enormous amounts of money on students.

By what measure? Throughout most of the US public schools are funded through local taxes. The poorer the district, the less resources are available to educate children, which means understaffing, buildings which are falling apart, lack of classroom materials.

And is your comparison on funding per student meant to be against upper class families, who most likely send their children to pricey private schools? I just don't see how your statement is justified.
Don't forget the "growing rapidly" part. Sure, if we decide not to use renewables, we won't use renewables. But if we do, we will. We're talking about future plans here (in your words, what will power cars in 10 years).
To be fair, 2.10 introduced quite a few new features (my favorite being string interpolation). To name some more: implicit classes, value classes, language imports, reflection & macros,...

2.11 set the tone for the remainder of the 2.x cycle: smaller, faster, stabler. 2.12 will focus on Java 8 support and making it (even) easier to learn and use Scala.

We're also working on making the compiler a better platform for others to innovate on -- originally via compiler plugins, now using reflection & macros. A lot of cool stuff is happening outside core Scala, such as scala.js, and we hope to spur on that trend.

(I'm the Scala Tech Lead at Typesafe.)
Erlich's "vision quest" was perfectly juxtaposed with Peter Gregory's subplot about Indonesian sesame seed futures.
Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"
Q: "Does Russia intercept, store or analyze in any way the communications of millions of individuals?”

A:
Putin denied Russian mass surveillance, saying “Thank God, our special services are strictly controlled by the state and society, and their activity is regulated by law.”

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"Putin denied..."?

He didn't deny anything.

He avoided answering the question by making generic statement about special services being controlled.
There's no single "Russians" entity that has a solid opinion on this matter.

Many Russians do generally care about communications privacy, many don't know a thing about how telcos work (so they're genuinely unaware on the whole matter), and many don't care about privacy as long as they're not confronted with privacy issues directly (i.e. their private conversations suddenly getting public).
I had the exact same experience. I was expecting it to be another 'Big Bang Theory.' But I genuinely enjoy it. It's not the dumb kids making fun of the smart kids. It's the smart kids making fun of themselves.
I'm pretty far from SV, both culturally and geographically, and I find the show so-so at best.
Why would they deprecate Java? Especially why would they replace it with a relatively immature language and implementation? I'm not knocking Go--it is simply a fact that the language is immature still, just like every language that is relatively new.
Compared to 2.10 the 2.11 release is nothing special: some optimizations, bunch of bug fixes and deprecations (that hopefully lead to slash and burn of little used language features in 2.12).

Curious to test out build times in 2.11, sounds like some minor gains have been made there, and more to come in the 2.11 release cycle as the new scalac optimiser is integrated (http://magarciaepfl.github.io/scala/)
Red Bull's marketing team is beyond top notch. They sell (basically) a single product and yet manage to portray their image everywhere (sports, music, movies, arenas, events, etc.). It truly is amazing. The brand awareness is everywhere, and is nearly as strong as Apple or Coke Cola yet far fewer people consume their product.
Ha, that'd be ironic though. Asking a company that forbids directly asking others for a link.. to give you a link to your site.

But the lesson here is never give anything for free to a for-profit corporation.
I bet there is so much inertia in the big banks that it's going to be left to startups like GoBank and Simple to build these things while there's less risk to them due to their size.
It's hard to call Apple a "hardware company" when they've been making software as long as they've been building computers.
Ugh. My 440s arrives today :/
The best commercial for Facebook.
Then let the community downvote weak content instead of blocking all Tesla articles. Its really a desperate move to block something like Tesla in a technology forum because of the occasional link-bait. 99% of reddit's success is based on users knowing what they like and upvoting good stuff and downvoting bad stuff.

One of reddit's larger issues is that weak stuff does sometimes get upvote, but the top comment in the thread is almost always a pretty fair criticism of why that article sucks. This is true of almost all subreddits and not something unique to /r/technology.

To be fair, a lot of the "allowed" content under these mod rules isn't much better. Cherry picking Tesla linkbait as justification for these heavy-handed rules really isn't fair.
A gamer giving back
If the law says they can do it, and that's what they do, then they still have the moral upper hand over USA where the law says they can't or at least is gray area yet they still do it.
Completely agree. Facebook's feed is its most valuable real estate and it's primarily used for photo-sharing. If you "carpet bomb" it with requests and gaming spam, it becomes irrelevant.

The discrete separation of Facebook apps may solve the problem that companies like Yahoo are facing (to some extent): The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

If you want an 11 minute read, I covered this at great length in a blog post two weeks ago on Medium: https://medium.com/p/b3c97b87a183 (4.4K views and counting).
Q1 2014 VC peak due to new pre-IPO rounds
Aereo is not just for watching live broadcasts. In fact, it's somewhat annoying for that because as soon as one program ends, it kicks you back to the Guide and you have to select the next program to watch it. It's really geared towards using it as a DVR in the cloud.

The DVR functionality is nice. Sure, assuming your antenna can pick up the OTA channels you want, you can build your own DVR but if you want it to be better than an old VHS recorder (simply setting channel start & stop days/times), you need a good source of TV schedule data which last I heard you have to pay for (not $8/month, but something). Aereo can be set to record only new episodes and has options to start a recording early and/or stop it late (especially helpful on Sundays when sports seem to regularly delay CBS programming).

I also pay $8/month for Hulu Plus and mostly watch that. I use Aereo (through a Roku3) to watch shows on channels that aren't on Hulu (CGS, PBS) plus Saturday Night Live (because sometimes Hulu's version is edited).

$8/month for Aereo a bit much for how I use it but it's still cheaper than Comcast's DVR set-top box. One could watch a lot more through Aereo, in the Boston area there ~25 channels available, but they're pretty crappy.
https://aereo.com/channels
Almost seems like a pr piece for Standard Treasury, http://standardtreasury.com/. White labeled customer (developer) facing api's, I believe. I'm not entirely certain how this scales for ST because even though they will provide a standard forward facing api, ST will have to custom fit that on the backend to each customer. (Possibly more disjointed than the industry I'm involved with, healthcare, because at least in healthcare there are a handful of major EMR vendors that all the major institutions use.) In Big Finance most everything is custom legacy, I would imagine. On top of all this, they have the taint of the startup about them. Large industry is loathe to get in bed with startups simply because they are not proven and can not be relied upon in the long term, further, startups are prone to get acquired. How would you like to be Citibank and have a competitor, say BoA, buy the company whose product you just deployed? See Simple.

Although I do see the need, I don't see the innovation from Big Finance. As with anything else trying to disrupt an entrenched industry, it will take early wins to get the ball rolling. In order for this to work Banks would have to become tech shops with all that entails, this has been discussed on HN previously. It is just not in their nature. Banks don't do board shorts and dogs in the office. Modern techies are loathe to work for banks. Where does the innovation come from?
So you are saying there are 24,000 people sleeping rough in Tower Hamlets each night? I doubt it. That's 10x the official statistic for the entire country (England).
Apparently, Fab is up to Series C ($105 million in July, 2012):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab.com#Funding
Dunno if the owner of the site will read this, but here's a tip. Don't show a full screen overlay telling me how my visit would be better with cookies enabled.

1) I have cookies enabled.
2) The Eurpoean law is daft, but since you feel you must comply do it in a more user friendly way.
> Is crime in urban areas more prevalent because it is a shorter distance to walk for a potential mugger to get to a rich person he can mug?

This is just a correlation, possibly meaningless, but an explanation for the decline in New York City crime over the last 30 years is that poor people can't afford to live there any more. It's just an opinion, true for most such views.

> ... but if you can back it up by numbers I'll gladly change my view.

Now that would be very difficult, even with the numbers. The number of poor people living in NYC is available, and the number of poor-on-rich crimes is available (both in sharp decline), but proving a connection between them is nigh impossible.
Now I'm confused what is meant by spurious correlation. You're talking about an event that is known to happen, and happens infrequently, and if you have enough samples it's guaranteed to happen at least once with high probability.

Spurious correlation seems to be related to the use of ratios of independent variables making correlation "out of thin air." The word "spurious" also seems to be used in relation to hidden causation.

Neither of these two uses are related to this example, nor does the problem (in the sense in the previous paragraph) "increase" with more data.
I'm unreasonably fond of Ant - there's plenty of scope for pointless clever-dickery, and there are days where that's all that keeps me going!

Nice to see it mentioned in a context other than "oh god what a mess"... even though, in fairness, many aspects of it are a complete dog's dinner.
I'm getting 500s on all documentation pages (from Germany).
This site had me going until I recognized that guy from Maron.
In addition to reminding me when the course starts, could you remind me of homework/quiz deadlines as well?
they made something someone wants!!
On the other hand, it is /fun/.
As an Android user and fan, I think it is a shame that the de facto flagship of Android has to be from a company that makes such a mediocre device.

I have a Moto X, an HTC One and a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. All three of these are better phones than the GS5 (and at least for my priorities, better than the iPhone 5S, which is why I voluntarily purchased them over the iPhone at the same price). All three of them combined will sell less than the GS5.
Adolescent power fantasies.
It genuinely took me 3 or 4 years to realise that Red Bull formula one had any connection to the drink.

I'm not sure if that's good or bad marketing.
"Makes" in the sense of loses/makes negative, yes. (I guess they have positive gross margins, so they could always kill all R&D and then sell the core business to a processor or someone)
How billionaire Sean Parker is taking a deeper dive into politics
I'm not talking about /new, I'm talking about articles which received a non-trivial number of upvotes (enough to land on the front page in the first place), which are pushed off the front page while an older story with an identical, or lower, number of upvotes remains on the front page.

Whatever the mechanism, good posts and discussions are being lost.
Nest Uses Its Data To Turn Electric Utilities Into Cash Cows
An MBA in less than 400 pages?
Nokia is dead, long live Nokia

-signed, a Nokia employee
Not disagreeing outright, but there are studies[1] that link high-poverty areas with higher lead concentrations. There was also an interactive map, some time ago, that showed lead soil levels by zip code and they definitely seemed to match up with more problematic neighborhoods. Clearly, the factors you call out have an influence, but lead seems to be a part of that equation.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22752852

Edit: switched low with high.
Extreme password protection...how hackers keep themselves safe
SamKnows study on Internet speeds – European Commission
FYI I'm getting an SSL error on that domain using Chrome 34.0.1847.116 on Mac OS X 10.9.2
Yea, it's (so far) perfectly straddled the line of parody and hitting almost uncomfortably close to home for me. I've really enjoyed it.
IBM's Watson now tackling health care
Yes, similar to why I flog my children for liking Toy Story : toys cannot move or talk, fools!

At one point these complaints stop being "this is too much to suspend my disbelief" and become "yes an opportunity to thinly veil my desire to seem smarter than everyone by pointing out every single insignificant mistake!".
Ugh -- "punch the monkey" animated GIFs for the 21st century. There's a reason most email clients block images by default. I'm glad I don't use gmail.
Man ascii
Really? I've never had a problem with a good DTV signal.
I would say Java 5 instead. Even as poorly as Generics were implemented, it was a lot better than having nothing.
What editor is on that screen with the code?
This would be awesome. We are trying to work out the best way to do this (ideally we'll partner with the MOOC providers) but it is certainly on our upcoming feature list!
Assuming the court doesn't punt the decision (the way it did with Bilsky), this has the potential to be the most important broadcasting case since Betamax.

I've been following and covering Aereo since its NYC launch in Feb 2012 and regardless of who wins, the implications for the future of broadcast are huge.
Haven't seen the show, but could they mean a private github repo?
> I'm surprised there's still not a Google for events.

Absolutely. What's going on in Berlin next weekend? To answer that question depending on my interests, I need to check half a dozen different sites, none of them very good or filterable in useful ways.

I want to do more fun and interesting stuff, you want to promote your event. It seems like an obvious opportunity for anyone who can at least improve upon the clunky Web 1.0 interface of existing sites.
The entire VC model is to give a companies money so they can grow faster than they could on their own income. Most fail, some succeed so big it makes up for all the rest. So you shouldn't consider the money wasted even when you see one of the many failures. Even very rich people starting their second startup still take VC money instead of using their own, because 1) why lose your own money and 2) the VCs will pull all their connections for you once they have skin in the game.
I almost wrote it off after the first episode but said I'd give it another chance - pilots are hard.

Then some of the technical rants from the 'staff' in ep 2 won me over. There is a striking balance/hover around real and humor/farce in the show I'm starting to really like.
Well, they're not a software company. They make software which is bundled with hardware, not software sold separately, with the odd exceptions.
Does Silicon Valley have a laugh track? I don't remember one from the first episode, but I watched that a couple of weeks ago.

Often (not always, though) shows with laugh tracks are an entirely different level of "not funny". It's bad when the show creators have to rely on cheap psychological gags to trick you into enjoying yourself. Silicon Valley operated at a higher level than that, although I still found a lot of its humor just referential and not too humorous or too easy. Honestly, just reading hacker news every day provides you with way more satire than the show does... I didn't watch anything past the first episode, so I can't speak to the story which you seem to like - I was just looking for a comedy show.

But tastes do differ. Especially when it comes to comedy. I'm glad you liked the show. I wouldn't compare it to Big Bang Theory, but I wasn't a fan.
Could be a private repo ;)
I like it. The idea to make "the product" something simple like MP3 compression works and all the lead characters are some of my favorites.
> Inferring API-call intention from the provided data

Correct me if I was wrong.

By 'Inferring', did you mean that a generalized broker/translator/proxy could be built in between of unlimited APIs, like the intermediate representation of a compiler?
Using sysdig to troubleshoot
Is there a nice JS lib to detect and put up an unobtrusive hover-over popup in the bottom corner or something? Would that satisfy Euro law?
That's really exciting to me. (So is slash and burn, though.) Give me another two years of compiler improvements, bug fixes, and IDE/tooling improvements!
Ah sorry about that - that's a bug. You should be able to add previous iterations of a course if you select the 'show past courses' checkbox. Will look into this and fix asap - UX for this does need some work too :)
Interesting. I had thought of "We may have to fight another war" but not that it would be too hard to dig a very big hole and bury them under a mile of concrete. (Do with them whatever we do with nuclear waste - granted we didn't have much nuclear waste in 1945)
No, i am jot saying there are 24,000 rough sleepers. I am saying that even though the rules to get on a local authority housing list are tight there are still 24,000 people on the list for tower hamlets.

Some of these people are homeless but not rough sleepers.

Note that it is possible to be sleeping rough and not meet the criteria for acceptance to the LA housing waiting list.
This is what the courses have been missing!
micro-projector to cast the image on your ceiling
> making statements like the guy in the article that 90% of crime can be attributed to one factor is nonsense.

And yet, the r^2s when you plug in your data for lead exposure are really high. Odd how that works.
Uplink Latency of WiFi and 4G Networks
Yes, it's been audited. The Super Bowl was an example of when the 1:1 was "proven" because they had to stop taking customer signups because they ran out of antennas. The same thing stopped them from briefly accepting more NYC customers.
The FDA must be drunk on it's own stale ale. This nonsense is what happens once you flush common sense & democracy down the toilet.
I think it is interesting that there are indeed people on both sides. Some bought Lumias because they were Nokias, some bought Lumias because they were Windows Phones.

Generally speaking (as a Nokia employee on the front lines) I've found that either side will deny the existence or usefulness of the the other.
I'm running it on the latest XPS dev edition, and it works great. I even use the touch screen occasionally.

The fonts were kinda small on 13.10, but in 14.04 there's a new setting to "scale for menu and title bars" which I bumped up a little, and it looks great now.
This reminds me very much of the study that correlated legalized abortion with a decline in crime -- I believe it also showed it wasn't just a general global trend with legalized abortion and dropping crime, but that places that legalized abortion first saw crime drop first etc.

I think the conclusion is obvious: Removing lead from petrol lead to legalized abortion. Or was it vice versa?

But seriously, I think we need statistical analysis showing the correlation between legalized abortion and unleaded gasoline. Perhaps it would actually show that places that legalized abortion first actually WERE correlated with places that unleaded gasoline first.

It would be silly to assume causation there, even if the correlation were just as strong. Which would be a useful reminder about correlation and causation. Just because you have a correlation where causation is _plausible_ still doesn't mean causation.
My anecdotal experience is that companies that have grown large based on the sale of hardware are attempting to integrate new technical features into their hardware to remain competitive, but they are completely unwilling to pay for people with primarily software-writing experience.

The auto manufacturers, in particular, seem to expect that I should be paid about 2/3 my current salary to physically relocate and then work 45-hour weeks for them, if they even have any software jobs in the US at all.

To them, writing the software is like adding an extra cup holder.
What exactly are we looking at here? Someone's personal guide on getting their systems setup for development? An intro by a company for its new employees? Some new general manifesto a group thinks should apply to everyone?

Some context would be nice.
I wish the same was done for tuples, but it wasn't and it's unclear whether that's even in plans.
Powdered Alcohol Is Officially A Thing In The United States
Good marketing and "growth hacks" aren't the same. Growth hacks can complement good marketing, though, by helping the marketing reach an audience. The problem is that "growth hacker" has become an annoyingly ambiguous term used by anyone who wants to try and bolt hacker onto their title without actually hacking anything. Growth hacks, however, are still pretty useful.
I've build a large custom dynamic table for a real-time datamining web app, didn't have any performance issues because i used 'track by'.

The 2000 sweet spot comment from SO was based on angular 1.0.1, which didn't have 'track by' & is approx 1/10 the speed of angular now.

Look @ the updated jsperf digest test, from the SO answer, for angular 1.0.1 vs 1.2.14 http://jsperf.com/angularjs-digest/37
FTA:

> Zachary Townsend Co-Founder of Standard Treasury (YC S13). Angel Investor. Statistician.
For years, John has made a compelling case that TiVo is pretty terrible at making software. In fact, the very first episode of his old 5by5 show was entirely about TiVo. Some of his criticism include slow interface, bad menu design, and still using SD for the UI, even on HD TiVo's

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/1
Testing Node.js Modules with Mockery
Very true (OPK was the one who really set Nokia up for failure) but at this point I think it is safe to say that Nokia could certainly have done better under Elop's tenure than it had
Why would you need Grunt just to compile LESS?
(you mean high poverty areas correlated with lead concentration, right?)

My first guess would not be that lead causes poverty (is that what you are suggesting?), but that lead-producing activities (highways, factories, waste dumps) tend to be undesirable, and tend to be placed in poorer neighborhoods because poor people have less political power.