skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a situation where a client signed up for my companies's saas service, then cancelled 2 days later without generating any of the artifacts they needed. When they cancelled, I didn't get any complaints or messages from the client.

I followed up with a phone call, and learned that they had to use lab analysis and couldn't use our service. I credited them the one month subscription they subscribed to since they didn't use it. They appreciated the gesture, and hopefully they can generate some leads for their friends.
Just being pedantic here - grand parent post mentions £650 a day, which is around $1000 per day depending on the prevailing exchange rate.
Very cool. This would have saved me tons of time in college.

One minor usability issue, clicking the different style after generating the citation doesn't have any result until you generate a new citation. That is a little unintuitive. I would either switch to the different style immediately or put some separation in the UI between the returned citation and the components that are used to generate a new citation.
This was back in 2008, we were banned from adsense and lost $120k (1.5 months of revenue).
You mean doesn't track views but only tracks clicks/conversions?

The only problem I would see with that is that if a user already converted by clicking the ad, he would continue to see the same ad when he is on your site again. You're no longer able to extract more $ from that user.
Terrified that multi-cursor would be for the case of "one user/keyboard/mouse." I'd love to see a Vim that actually does multi-seat.
I work in FX, so I'm unfamiliar with the exact workflow. Say I submit a buy order for 1k shares of AAPL to BATS. What exactly happens?
Honestly, the concrete how-to video description at the end is the most useful take away I got from the article. Good for him.
It's a classic form of metrics dementia. They see that putting the popup increases their signups. 'Objectively,' this was the correct decision, and may have been arrived at by testing.

What they may not see is that it turns off many people who may have signed up later after getting more value out of the content. It's easy to measure e-mail signups and harder to measure sentiment.
Christ. It pains me to respond to this. But, here it goes.

Personally, I 100% agree that you can have your own "playground". It's America. But you're no News outlet. And you're definitely censoring. I mean, if Google News did what you're doing, heads would roll.

"PG has specifically said it's an experiment to see if it's possible to have an on-line forum that remains civil."

definition - civil: a) of or relating to citizens b) of, relating to, or based on civil law c) of, relating to, or involving the general public, their activities, needs, or ways, or civic affairs as distinguished from special (as military or religious) affairs

definition - censor: a) a person who examines books, movies, letters, etc., and removes things that are considered to be offensive, immoral, harmful to society, etc b) an official who examines materials (as publications or films) for objectionable matter

Oh, snap! Democracy isn't even a prerequisite!

If I can invalidate your argument by double checking definitions, I'm not going to even bother examining your logic. I could go on, but my boss is gonna kill me for spending all afternoon on this.
Minimal Viable Return for a startup
I don't have to spend 1 second figuring out how to convert layouts and templates and blah blah blah. I just want to write content.
You might like the unload tab addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/
It's in GBP, so £650/day is actually $285,356.50. I wouldn't call that modest in the least.
In both cases we are talking about taking what you want distributing it to others because you can irrespective of the views of the content creator(s) and other interested parties.

In both cases someone is saying "how dare you do what I don't want you to do?" because they believe they have the right to control such activities and the other party either disagrees with that belief or simply doesn't care.
As an amateur juggler, Anthony Gatto is exactly who I expected this to be about. The article perfectly nails the tension of juggling: it's theoretically a performance art, but one in which there is almost no audience who can appreciate it.

I think it's akin to free jazz, or car shows, or other weird passions where eventually the experts can only be understood by other experts.

I did find it weird that they made no mention of Vova's sister Olga. Did she leave juggling?
Interesting, the ?share appendage to NYT links usually works for me. There must be some other parameter ?share uses to bypass the paywall (perhaps geolocation).
I'm not only talking about MapReduce; I'm saying there are ideas from functional programming that have more affinity for the underlying hardware than state machines. This is only going to get more important in the future. Right now we're straddling the two worlds kind of awkwardly.

State is useful; however exactly as in "traditional" functional programming, it should be used sparingly in distributed systems. State requires very special handling and thought. Statelessness or purity is the default. Clusters have a tiny bit of state and lots of stateless workers, just like a Haskell program has a tiny bit of state and lots of pure functions.

To be clear, I don't think Haskell makes sense at the single machine level. (I personally don't want to program in it.) I'm saying that the ideas are more appropriate at the level of architecture and not code.
I suppose it depends on how you define "that long ago" and "mainline implementations". From my point of view it's coming along to about half a decade, but I guess 1.8's remained popular in many places as recently as 2-3 years ago.
Fun fact - small recruitment agencies use this tactic to stalk candidates... it's even got a name: x-ray searches

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/How-Google-XRay-Search-Linke...

(I realise the irony of posting a linkedin link)
I agree with this. I honestly think this is the only reason why Linkedin/Facebook/et al. are still around, because there's such a social stigma about not having one. Just like you said:

> Everybody I've ever spoken to (outside of small JS type devs) has got a linkedin profile and expected me to have one.

With Facebook the stigma is lessened, but still there.
Founder, here

Thanks for your comment. Like you, we'd be disappointed and surprised if our users viewed CleverPet as a substitute for real interaction. Our concern is for the times during the day when a dog would like to have something to do, but doesn't. When we've spoken with other dog owners, it's not that they don't want to engage with their pet, it's that they can't. Very few people with dogs can afford to spend eight hours a day directly engaging with their pet, and until now, that has just meant lots of bored dogs. Arriving home to a dog who's happier and less anxious means a stronger bond and fewer behavioral issues.
A childhood friend added me on LinkedIn, I haven't interacted with her since I was maybe 10 years old. But I guess she knows I rock at SQL!

A previous boss endorsed me for PHP, at that job I used PHP exactly 0 times. Needless to say, he wasn't a very good boss either.
"The only method I know of that can come close is automated screen capture comparison. But that wouldn't work perfectly and still requires human intervention to check out false positives."

It would require human intervention in the case of a failure, to be sure, but those cases where it can guarantee I don't need to bother looking because my change didn't change anything visible in those screenshots is potentially a significant boon.
You're basically asking to show ads that are even more irrelevant and useless to your users?

The best ads for publishers and users are ones that are relevant. If you want to display something that is irrelevant to the user and ineffective for the advertiser, you might as well not display ads at all and avoid annoying your users.
The ductility of metal has been a tremendous boon to fabrication of large machines. If parts don't quite fit, they deform to fit. This caused problems when carbon fiber started to be used to build large airplanes. Those parts don't bend and retained the internal stresses caused by mismatches. I read this happened to Boeing.

Glass and ceramics are harder than steel. The reason that glass is fragile, is that one can use its own strength against itself. The material itself acts as a lever to concentrate enormous stresses at the tips of fractures. This doesn't work nearly as well when materials are ductile.

Disclaimer: not a materials guy.
It begins in a minute or so.
Ceph is through and through Sage's work, it wouldn't exist without him.
Please let's keep to the intellectually substantive topic, not the shortest path from there to a flamewar.

The substantive topic is the historical material, and history is welcome on Hacker News. In fact, it's a protected species—we don't have nearly enough of it.
I upvoted you, but still disagree. (I'm happy everytime someone forces me to clarify what I'm thinking) Here's the general idea... Most everyone else is using it, and you can get better access and knowledge if you use it too.

Before every meeting I have, I look the person up. If I use it, and most of my friends do, I can figure out who we know in common. If I need something from another company and I don't know who to contact, I look at 2nd degree connections for hints.

LinkedIn is in the toolkit of every tech-savvy business person. It can also be a people for engineers who want a good permanent place that non-technical people can find them. Non-technical folks won't look in Github.

Your last point is relevant. Yes, there is a correlation between LinkedIn proponents and Github profiles, but why wall yourself in to a Github only universe?
I still think it is crazy that Airbnb has an evaluation of $10 Billion, when in its most active markets it is against the law.

If the penalties come to pass, which they probably won't, I wonder how it will actually affect usage.
spoiler: never use linkedin when logged in.
> the indicator is written in python

Ah. Good point, my bad.
Thanks Todd. Out of curiosity, how big do you have to be for Rubicon Project and PubMatic, in terms of pageviews/mo?
That is a very popular and heavily promoted belief for cultural reasons. And of course people like that DO exist. None the less, the "big news release" late last week / early this week was 1 in 5 American households have no one living in the household who is currently employed. At all. And labor force participation rates as a percentage of population, and adult labor force population, continue to crash from a peak a long time ago. Of the households where at least someone in them is employed, not all have multiple full time jobs etc. And at the higher end I can afford the leisure time / I enjoy cooking to my specifications and tastes. So figure an absolute minimum of 1/2 the population could participate in slow cheap cooking, which is a large target market.

There are people in a hurry. There is also a statistically provable much larger group who given the choice of starvation or homemade bread from scratch clearly have the time and motivation, although maybe not skills, to make homemade bread from scratch. They'd be better off eating a salad anyway, but you get the idea.

It is highly likely that the two groups need two cookbooks.

Someone poor and in a hurry needs to buy a $10 slow cooker, that is something I can say from experience.
Normally there's some build up in the press to these events but I wouldn't even have known it was happening if I hadn't seen it on HN. They've announced some pretty big changes at F8 in the past so it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Aerial Photo Shows Outline of Apple's Spaceship Campus Taking Shape
Started doing tech support at 30. Discovered that there was data at point a in format b, that I needed at point c in format d. Taught myself assembler (didn't have a compiler or interpreter). Went back to school at 34, got a master's, paid for by my employer, most of the classes taken one per term.

Government contractors often can pay for classes you take that "maintain or improve current job skills", and the IRS will not inquire just what (say) computability has to do with system administration or tech support. The only hitch with my employer was that I would have had to repay any classes taken within a year of my leaving the company. I didn't leave for about two years, so I was OK.
What are the best alternatives to Google? I hope they're not using the same kind of tactics as Google.

At least I'm never ever going to use AdSense again.
Privacy is a line that will always move, and it's different for every person. One of the biggest challenges that we face is finding a line that works well for everyone, while allowing them to control where that line sits.

As to your second point, sure, we'd love to have people use FullContact. But the post points to many more options than just our own:

"If that’s iCloud, Google Contacts, Outlook.com or heck, even FullContact, great."

As I said in the post, we just want people to use a safe system that makes sense to them. It's our job to make sure that FullContact is the logical choice.
What if they show ads based on the focus of the site instead of information about the user?
Honestly, this kind of automated banning with no appeals process is a huge problem. I don't usually opt for the government to step in - but giving Google the power to essentially take away hard-earned money with no recourse is reprehensible.

Banning an individual from a service without clear proof that they committed or colluded to do fraud or otherwise malicious behavior -should- be illegal. And when you ban that individual, you should be responsible to tell them why and be willing to defend yourself in court.

This would, I suspect, rather than cause a large amount of litigation, cause Google to reform from a banning mentality to a permissive one. There will be individuals who try to abuse it, the same way SEO does for Google Search, but Google could easily route around this issue if given a reason to do so.

I could say similar things about other services that employ automated banning/freezing that's way too aggressive with no recourse: Paypal is a good example. It's wrong, and needs to be fixed.
An Operational Transform API has always been my "maybe when I have more time and knowledge" idea. I'm glad to see someone else doing it and I hope I have a chance to use it. OT is the magic behind Google Docs, and it's one of those really elegant protocols that most CS people instantly appreciate when it's explained to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
Thanks for the feedback. Originally, clicking the style pill button refreshed the citation (in the selected style), which I think is the behavior you're describing. It sounds like I should go back to that behavior.
That's a really interesting point, I'd never thought of that. Worse still, you could do some trickery with app cache manifests to prevent cache cleans/page refreshes from fixing it, maybe even forever.

I spent a bit of time messing around with that approach, and came up with this: https://github.com/sgentle/hackcache
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So, here is my use case. (I'm about to start a blog.)

I think I have interesting information, but it's infrequent. I would like to connect with people who also find what I'm writing about interesting, but I don't expect them to continually look.

While I know that some have RSS readers, not everyone does.

How would you like me to let you know that I'd like to continue this interaction in an asynchronous way?

My goal is to have good information that people read without being dependent on the whims of the aggrigators, because the first five people to vote may just not be my target audience.

The answers seem to be email and linkbait, and linkbait doesn't connect me to the people I want.
If you think deductive logic is enough to reason about a system as profoundly complex, chaotic and difficult to model as the food industry + business and government interests then I suggest you step away from your naive mental model and look at how those entities are actually studied in real life and realize that data and evidence are substantially more important.

And the data and evidence point to the fact that governments with strong and healthy regulatory bodies do a far better job at public safety than any commercial enterprise by itself. Even the very reason why commercial verification and safety inspections by companies like UL and reinsurers work is because there's a strong legal process behind that and government institutions that are willing to put the foot down given enough public pressure.

Also, please, do me a favor and find me a social scientist who thinks that our "first principles" are anything but a crude and profoundly erroneous way to think about institutions and that those principles will do anything even remotely decent to approximate social reality.

I stick to the facts of food safety, and from my empirical experience of what few places me and my loved ones have been to in the world, I'd rather eat food certified as safe by an EU state any day over, say, a commercial institution in Namibia, massive warts and all.
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JavaScript style: always use semicolons
I suspect the vote yo-yoing may be to do with dismissing the possible value of declaring functions inside functions - on a website run by a company called Y Combinator.

I think the difference here is that you see

function Foo() {
...
}

as a 'normal' function declaration. I see it as a syntax which hides the truth - that that is actually putting

var Foo = function Foo() {
..
};

at the top of its scope. It's a special syntax for the special case of "I want this function to have this name and be bound to a variable with the same name for the whole of its enclosing scope". But JavaScript permits me to do lots of OTHER things with functions, and pretending it can't doesn't help me write better JavaScript code.

functions are the ONLY way in JavaScript to restrict the scope of a name. How can you talk about the risks of moving things if you aren't even taking advantage of JavaScript's only mechanism to create safely encapsulated name scopes?
Movies of the future will be paid for 'by the inch,' says DreamWorks boss
Apart from donation you can just buy the book :)
I had a website that had around 50,000 hits/month and made about $150/month with no input from me. We used the ad network called Project Wonderful. It's simple to use and manage.
Study on Marvel iPhone App landing page
Great work Pharo team.
Do you want 3D support in Twitter?
Speaking from experience, my advice is to use your job title to land a better paying job at a different company and don't look back. It sounds like your predecessor figured it out. Now it's time for you to do so too. Don't negotiate a new deal at your current company. Take the new offer and focus your efforts there. It can be scary to leave a role you are comfortable in, but it's the step you need to take to grow your career. A $50k/year salary increase is a lot of money. Even after taxes, that alone would cover the mortgage payments on a nice house in many parts of the country.

Saying the company is on the verge of growth is common tactic that people like your boss use. It plays into the same psychological effects that cause people to overvalue things that they own. The pain of missing out on something seems greater than the upside of selling, even if you logically know it's not true. The truth is that if your boss is cheap and entitled, he will be that way even more so when the company is more successful. Don't be surprised if he starts doing things like giving himself a generous salary increase or investing in capital equipment before profits are computed. Also 1% of profits is likely worthless if he cashes out and sells the company (notice he didn't offer you true equity). Don't let that mirage fool you into getting the paid what you are worth in the market.
It's a strange setup. Historically, the railroad lines existed 100 years before the Mass Pike was planned and built in the 1950s and early 1960s. When the state officials/national highway officials decided to expand the route to 6-lanes plus the RR, they basically leveled a bunch of neighborhoods in Boston and Newton (I assume via eminent domain). The turnpike authority developed a scheme (pushed by a large insurance company/developer in Boston) to lease "air rights" above the pike. That's why the Prudential Center in Boston and Star Market were built above the pike in 1963, and a few years later, the hotel in Newton Corner and some buildings attached to the Hancock tower in Boston.

The story is here:

http://www.edrgroup.com/pdf/mta-economic-v2.pdf
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I saw a comment on Secret saying Zuck is growing a mega-beard for the event. That alone makes it worth watching. :-)
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You can make quality food cheap (assuming that you mean something along the lines of "not processed crap"). I learned to cook as a student as a big bag of potatoes was more value for money than a frozen pizza.
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Ha, thanks! I actually got the grepping magic from Deis as well, but this is a much more elegant solution. By the way, Deis is looking really good now that it's CoreOS based :-).
I had success in asking LinkedIn to blacklist my email address [1].

My reasoning behind the decision was simply that I found their continual attempts to socially manipulate me insulting, and that I'd prefer not to be walked all over by any company, let alone one as trashy as LinkedIn.

[1]: https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/426/
You can still get the non-digital kind from Tiger, others.
Well, there is xpra, https://www.xpra.org/ which allows disconnection and reconnection of X apps. It's pretty good when you get it to work.
UK interactive wireless spectrum map
Yes. That is what prompted this discussion.
I only counted 8. I even checked to see if they started at 0. :-)
Another fun example of scientists retrofitting physics to a setting where it doesn't apply is

http://titaniumphysicists.brachiolopemedia.com/wp-content/up...
LinkedIn really blew it. They were the one of the big social players (Facebook, Twitter, G+, Foursquare, Tumblr, LinkedIn) that had people who were happy to pay for premium features. Put another way, they were the only social player with a non-ad revenue play. The problem was that the people paying were recruiters, so they did a lot to make the recruiters happy. They forgot about those who the recruiters were targeting, however, and now people like us send LinkedIn straight to spam.

LinkedIn had a real opportunity to be the social network that added real value, but now (as evidenced by the comments below) people see them as a spammy, shady mess.
Github doesn't really work great for me. Most of the best code I've written is not open source and AFAIK I can't reorder the repositories to even highlight the good stuff on my user page. I also get more recruiters scraping my Github email address.
Compare and contrast with many of the new UX concepts being explored in the web/mobile space...
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It's not really a CLI. In traditional parlance it's a CUI, though it frequently hosts a CLI...
I'm cooking for myself all next next week, not for the usual collection of hungry people, so I shall be making a large pot of vegetable stew. Might try pot of peanut soup as well! Oatmeal/porridge for breakfast as I have that a lot anyway.

I think the idea of providing storage times in the fridge is a good one.
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Are there any great open-source implementations of OT? Last time I looked there were some, but the quality and popularity of them was questionable.