skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that "My firstname dot my lastname at gmail" works great over the phone. I don't even have to say dot com everyone understands "gmail."

It's a good email address, custom domains for email addresses are somewhat rare and often end up being more confusing than helpful. Unless it is support at domain dot com or info at domain dot com.

Not for personal addresses facing the general public though, I wouldn't think. Even something as simple as "My firstname at domain dot com" you'll end up spelling out the domain one time out of two whether you've been talking about it - or not.
Just so that no one else makes the same mistake I did, you also need an iPhone4S or newer for this to work.

It would be nice if on the site there was a mention about phone compatibility along with computer compatibility, since if you just check the site and then download the iPhone app from the search results page in the App Store without clicking through to the app description, you don't see the compatibility warning.

It's my own dumb fault, but it wouldn't hurt if it was a little more obvious.
This tool follows slightly different philosophy. We could have bundled all Websecurify security testing frameworks inside this app and make it more penetration testing friendly. Instead we thought that a different approach would be to create just a good proxy and add enough integration capabilities to be used side-by-side with other tools including the security tools we distribute elsewhere. In effect, it is a bit like the unix design which also closely matches the iOS application philosophy.

That being said, dumping more tools inside is not an issue. We already have the frameworks to support it but we are not sure if this will be a good thing to do from usability point of view.
Yeah, I am constantly surprised at the apparent lack of mathematical thinking about returns on effort in start-ups.

The risks of the startup going down without IPO or buyout are extremely high, long hours, equity will be diluted, founders will lose control of the decision making, short term objectives will be prioritized.

Returns on efforts in bootstrapping seem to be much much better.

Start-ups are really good for VCs, though.
I did that in 2012 for a pet project with a friend https://github.com/SnippyHolloW/HN_stats

Here is the trained topic model (Nov. 30, 2012) with only 40 topics (for file-size mainly) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14035465/hn40_lemmatized...

You can load it with Python:

from gensim.models import ldamodel
lda = ldamodel.LdaModel.load("hn40_lemmatized.ldamodel")
lda.alpha = [lda.alpha for _ in range(40)] # because there was a change since 2012
lda.show_topics()

Now if you can figure out what is this file:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14035465/pg40.params I'll pay you a beer next time you're in Paris or I'm in the Valley. ;-)
but when I had my own startup, I gave up reading the news

And my question would be: did you miss something important, that could be life-changing if only you had seen it on the news?

Being off the news myself (except tech news) for more than a year now, I'm yet to experience such an "event".

But of course some non-technical news "sip through" - get posted on HN, you hear from family etc. So there is no way to really miss something important, and no way to completely stay away from news.
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Perhaps I'm missing something but this post doesn't seem to answer any of the questions it poses. As such it feels like blog spam.

I'm pretty dubious of the value of superfluous time tracking (in certain industries and situations it is obviously a requirement but outside of that it can be both wasteful and can undermine autonomy). I was expecting this might address this with some insight in the real values of detailed time tracking.

Am I missing something here? You outline 10 problems with not one single detail about the solutions? What exactly is the point of that?
Actually there's such a thing as inorganic carbon, eg in carbon dioxide.
Ah, that's too bad. I was hoping for Iris graphics. (CS:GO at 60 might still be doable, though.)
"if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour."

This part makes no sense to me. Why can I produce 3x as much work in an hour at a startup because I "focus"? I think that's a bit of a stretch.
How a small country jumped from 49th to 28th in online service delivery
Massive congrats and thanks to all the CocoaPods team for this. Such an important project in the Cocoa community. New way of publishing pods looks much smoother.
It's a long post but the auth server (trunk) is important for the community, it has taken about a year to make and should make it super easy for library authors to update their own libraries without our intervention.

We're really glad to remove the human aspect, some of us can finally get some sleep again.
In that case I just use National Rail, the website is well optimised for mobile.
Baidu is older than Google.
Deploying Ember-cli and Rails to Heroku
Looking at the hn demo, I'm impressed. There are definitely relevant tags being generated. Unfortunately there also some noisy tags which clutter the results. Taking one example, the post "DevOps? Join us in the fight against the Big Telcos" given the tags "phone tools sendhub we're news experience customers comfortable", I would say that "we're" is unarguably noise. Another example, "Questions for Donald Knuth" with tags "computer programming don i've knuth taocp algorithms i'm" I would call out "i've" and "i'm".

There are other words in both examples that I personally would not use as tags, but I can't really say they would be universally not-useful. I think a vast improvement could be made just by having a dictionary blacklist filled with things like these - from this tiny sampling contractions seem to be a big loser.
I go to work for my family, and I go home for my family.
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They've posted it to their corporate site:

http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-u...
Nice to meet you, but please don't speak for me.

This is what I said:

> and then let them take it and run with it...the marketing campaign can be crowdsourced

Marketing will get done regardless of whether there is someone at the top or not. I didn't rant on in my post about decentralization of power just to put myself or someone else at the top. I'm talking about taking a methodology of raising interest and making it a global effort.

Whether that can be done or not is TBD, but I'm going to give it a whirl and see what happens.
This is a serious win for the iOS community. A huge step forward in terms of the maturity of the ecosystem. Congrats!
America's most dangerous cities for pedestrians [pdf]
China already sees the US as a place with less respect for human rights than they do, so in some ways, the US is worse than a communist country.
That seems like it could be a little messy... are you sure?

Also, if you think about what the world might be like 50 years from now, ".com" and ".org" might be remnants of the past we remember fondly. They will likely become less important on their own.
Make sure your Mac supports Bluetooth 4.0 before you drop $4 on the iOS app!
If ebay is spinning this, burying the lede, minimizing the real severity, eventually the truth will be known.

So I'm trying an arbitrage trade. Just sold short ebay at 51.62 and hedged by buying amzn at 305.44.

If this is more serious than the press release indicates, ebay should deteriorate relative to amzn.
Agreed. Actually we could turn up the number of times it runs inside LDA algorithm and those would fix up but it affects performance. This was just a quick and dirty example (with an expectation of high traffic).

You can also seed LDA with a whitelist of words which we didn't do either - again all in the name of a quick and dirty solution to show.

Glad you liked it!
I am in the same position.. got recently promoted to manage a ~20 person team (analytics not programming). It sucks not being able to do actual analysis/project work anymore and the politics are infuriating.

That said, the experience is very valuable. I am planning to take off to start a company soon so managerial experience is definitely handy (not to mention the extra pay!)

My advice is to work on a technical side project to keep your soul from getting crushed (either at work or personal) and learn from the job till you figure out what you want to do next.
pure JavaScript has too many ways to introduce subtle bugs into large projects, which also become a nightmare to maintain.
From a hacker perspective, node.js and js are great. js is a beautiful and extremely powerful lang.
From a "business" perspective -even more if your business data better fits a RDB-, IMHO, javascript, node.js+ a LARGE business project are a recipe for disaster. (If you add ORM to the mix, you're doomed). http://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-th...

I believe a compiler-to-js like Typescript makes using JavaScript+node in a large business project more manageable (disclaimer: I've not tried Typescript, but I've coded my own compile-to-js lang out to frustration with medium-to-large js projects: https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript )

TL;DR: My two cents: Not a good business case for a business IF a classic RDB fits your business data.
It can still be very inconvenient.
Also interesting to see Java apps by type according to the survey:

Web applications: 71%

Libs and frameworks: 15%

Desktops: 11%

Mobile: 3%

I'm surprised mobile is so low given that Java is what's used to write Android apps.
You'll try a partial rewrite of the history. Common Lisp was developed over the Internet. The participating groups were all nicely networked and had lots of distributed systems. XEROX PARC and MIT pioneered the GUI. Lisp Machines were the first workstations with GUIs commercially available in 1981. Common Lisp came with its own native binding of X11 - CLX from day one.

> Moreover, the last standardization was grounded in the previous effort and that was before GNU and when dedicated hardware looked like the future.

Hmm, Common Lisp was developed to run efficiently on stock hardware from day one. Motorola 68k, Intel 86, then SPARC, POWER, MIPS, ...

> Clojure and Common Lisp express the same attitude toward programming and programmers.

They don't.

Common Lisp was developed as a standard Lisp language for application development (in domains like expert systems, cad systems, etc.) which favors giving the programmer maximum freedom and makes little assumption on what it is running.

Example: Common Lisp comes with minimal expression syntax and an extension mechanism.

Clojure was originally developed to bring a Lisp to the JVM, which integrates with Java, reuses parts of Java and favors things like functional or concurrent programming.

Example: Clojure comes with more complex expression syntax and no extension mechanism.
FCC chair: An Internet fast lane would be ‘commercially unreasonable’
Crisis marketing is just regular marketing with intent. I agree that it will be difficult to build a distributed marketing campaign, but that's why the ad people need to be on it.
The whole press release is hilariously downplayed. This is very much a "hair on fire" moment for them, but the way they wrote this is so very casual.

They focus on relatively unimportant aspects of what happened and leave the big stuff as an afterthought. It's like an airline captain announcing, "Due to mechanical problems, we will be late getting into New York. For those of you on connecting flights, we will re-book you on later flights at no charge, ensure that your luggage travels with you. I apologize for the inconvenience. Also, all the engines are on fire and we're probably all going to die."

It seems that they think their best way forward is if most of their users don't grasp the significance of what happened.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/closing-account.html
You have to remember that PG is a startup investor, and has a vested interest in making you feel as though you need to code for 14 hours a day when he's given you a seed-round investment.

The overwhelming odds state that your startup will fail, no matter whether you spent six hours or fourteen hours every day working at it.
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> Looks like Scala is widening its adoption lead over Clojure

I agree that this is a very important and interesting topic, but how did you draw that conclusion from the survey? The question wasn't "Do you use Scala?" or "Do you use Clojure"? The way they phrased it was a bit confusing, actually. I don't think you can draw any conclusions about adoption rates of Clojure or Scala from this data.
it is a common error. when the constitution means citizens they say "citizens" and when it means people it says "people".

http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

says

"foreign nationals are generally entitled to the equal protection of the laws, to political freedoms of speech and association, and to due process requirements of fair procedure where their lives, liberty, or property are at stake"
Burp Suite is one-size-fits-all type of solution. Indeed, it comes with a lot of other tools which are primarily used for penetration testing.

On the other hand, Proxy.app is just a good proxy and already comes with many of useful features. It is faster, feels native and available at the fraction of the cost of Burp. It is more general purpose proxy tool than a general purpose security testing framework. The tool can be nicely complemented by some of the other tools from Websecurify.
Since PayPal == eBay, I just went to change my PayPal password as well.

PayPal went full retard. The security confirmation question?

Please supply your full credit card number ending in ####.

Um, that's the information I'm trying to protect in the first place.

edit: sorry about the "full retard" - trying to quote from Tropic Thunder/RDJ. did not mean to offend
There is an advantage to using firstname@lastname.com and that is if google decides to block your gmail account you aren't completely screwed. You can simply change the MX record for your domain, point it at a different service provider and continue getting the email sent to you.
MySQL is the default sane choice for anything not 'big data' that was started before the year 2010 or so, and hasn't exactly disappeared since then.
I think there are signs of change. I read somewhere that they are practically giving away the Windows mobile operating system.
Being that important auxiliary details were compromised (name, phone, etc...). Beginning to think that encrypting that information should be more standard. Obviously this leads to trouble if searching by that information is required....
I own my own business, and work with my wife who also shares the same feelings about work/life balance. I work for other business owners and while many boast/brag about the hours they work, the wise ones who have kids tend to agree with me (even if they don't practice it themselves).

I rarely have a client demand my time in the evening/night or weekend. If I do I usually try to accommodate (the life of client work!) but don't make it a habit.

I do think you are projecting, although if you co-workers have issues with you clocking out "early" it's completely on their end. If you spend the day chit-chatting and clock out early, you may not be leaving the right impression. But if you clock in, kick ass and go home at a reasonable time I can't see anyone having issues. It's also good to explain to people why you have to leave at 5 or earlier, so they know you're not just looking to skip out, but rather you value your home life enough that you don't want it compromised by your work.
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Isn't there a law in California that requires data breach disclosure? Is there a time frame in that law? Three months is way to long and I am sure criminals will use what they get as soon as possible.
But that's besides the point I tried to make, which is that pretty much ALL Lisps include more syntax than just pure s-exps. You may like one version better than other, but saying that Clojure is the only Lisp with "revised syntax" or "syntax designed for readability" is silly.

Clojure is a member of Lisp family and it's a formidable and worthy member at that. But it's not as ground-breaking or unique as some people would like to think - the family is vast and multi-generational and many things were already tried in some form or the other.

I still like Clojure's particular view on Lispiness, though.
You look like the rest of us Terry :D

Welcome :)
You haven't enlightened me at all. I know that the surface can do a lot of things.

The question is - does it do any of those things better than the competition.

When in "classical desktop mode" it needs to be better than the MacBook Air, otherwise for most work it will be a worse experience regardless of whether it could at any time transform into a tablet.
I'm not expecting it to be available for purchase/pre-order (although that's nice). But if you announce it, the information you announce should be on your website.

That just seems like common sense.

What if Amazon announced they were going to start selling houses and then decided not to put any information about it up on their site for a few hours? Plenty of people would go to Amazon.com to learn about it and they're only frustrating those people who have already shown themselves interested in the product.
Doesn't seem to handle pdfs properly. For the mtgox link it comes up with

> stream rotate type/page font structparents endobj obj endstream
Doesn't that make it the perfect question? For someone to answer the question correctly, they have to demonstrate that they don't even need to do so, because they already know the thing you wanted to protect?
The results for that question are very interesting too (although perhaps not that surprising). There was virtually no interesting in Xtend.
I think I got the Yak shaving part covered with the first sentence of the post :)

I'm well aware of the ups and downs of exposing myself to choice like this but I really want to get myself exposed to some real world practice with some of the top contenders here to make a more objective choice and I also feel that 'what you're comfortable with' is getting too close to unsupported that I should widen my view.

Fortunately this is not a commercial undertaking, nor am I on a tight deadline so I can afford the luxury of thinking this over. If it were for a customer and it would be required tomorrow morning then the story would be wholly different.
Intense, and newly sharpened, focus on earnings is a common trait of new fathers. Its a beneficial trait, but one that has to be appropriately governed.

A nice bit of prose about that struggle and the ways we coddle ourselves as we get too far out of line.
Airbnb Agrees To Provide Anonymized User Data To New York Attorney General
I really appreciate this poem. I have a two year old and a six month old, and I had no conception of how I committed I would feel to my children until I had them.

I actually took some risks and worked super hard in my mid-20s to mid-30s, prior to having kids. I am so glad I did it then.

Another way to read this post, if you are young, is as a warning - you may think it is scary or hard to take risks now, but go for it. When you have children, it will be much, much harder. Every minute you are working, you will feel torn that you aren't with your kids, and every minute you are with your kids, you will feel torn that you aren't working (to provide for them). If you can use your twenties to gain some financial freedom and control of your time, it is really worth it.

I went through a period of thinking that I had 'wasted' my 20s on hard work, while everyone else was partying/backpacking/skiing/whatever. I now realize that my 20s (and early 30s) were an investment for a vastly better reward - the time and financial freedom to be with my family in my late 30s/early 40s when my children are young. I couldn't be happier with the outcome of those choices, and I didn't really see it coming, because I did not understand the depth of feeling I would have for my children.

But for the young people out there in their 20s - your opportunity cost will never be lower. Go for it. Invest in yourself. Working until 10pm on something you care about won't always be without painful tradeoffs. Forgoing income to try to start something won't always be so easy.
Not practical when you want to pull money out, but I only have paypal hooked up to my CC. This very reason is why I never hooked it up to my bank account. When I do get people who paypal me money, which is not often, I just use the money to load my sbux card or something.

Obviously this is harder to do if you are a merchant who takes large amounts of money through paypal. In those cases though the merchant should have already segmented the paypal hooked bank account from the primary business account. If you are a merchant and have not done this, now is a good time.
I think it probably has more to do with static typing than anything.
> So let this be a lesson about the dangers of trusting a third party with your money, unless that third party is insured by a government in the event of disaster.

This is a great point. I never did understand why so many bitcoiners were on the one hand extolling the virtues of this decentralised currency while at the same time storing staggeringly large amounts of it in a third party system that they didn't control.

The whole point of bitcoin was/is to eliminate the third party, Satoshi's original paper makes that abundantly clear.

None of this could possibly have happened if people had used bitcoin as intended.
Fix tab clutter in Google Chrome
Apple confirms WWDC 2014 keynote June 2nd new hardware likely
my thoughts exactly - this is a terribly spun statement by eBay. My personal data has now been leaked to unknown parties and they make light of it by droning on about "best practice" and passwords.
Is that because so many domains have become obscure due to the huge .com demand? If there is now a plethora of easily-communicated TLDs around, that ought to result in more memorable URLs.

To illustrate that point, would you ask someone to send you the link if they had mentioned "shop.com"? What if it were "book.shop" or "teddybear.store"?
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My rule is that I spend enough time with the kids if I rather go working than be with them. That said I never work more than 45 hours a week and sometimes only 30.
Might not work if you do 60 or 80
the demo version if we cant scrape the text from the HTML we cant really run the topic analysis against it. pdfs, images, etc wont work.
It really shouldn't be. I had a card compromised in the Target breach and they sent me a new one without my intervention. I've had fraudulent charges made before, and it's been trivial to get it fixed.

I've never had a checking account compromise, but I'm pretty sure it would be a massive pain in the ass by comparison.
And neither eBay nor PayPal allow me to paste a secure password from KeePassX. sigh

Edit: I can now paste on eBay (not sure what went wrong the first time) but PayPal is still actively preventing pasting a new password.
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Thanks for sharing. I don't think you need a wife and kids to have this outlook on work. If you have a family (mom, dad, uncles, aunts etc.), or friends or even a hobby, balancing those with work is key, and unlike your job/startup those "people" in your life will be around a lot longer and will enrich your life more.