skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not quite sure what to make of this advice:
http://thehipperelement.com/post/86991518680/daily-ux-crash-...

> If your marketing department wants to know anything about why the user is cancelling, put it in the form. Two pages of boring questions is a great way to reduce conversion.

> Break the form into many pages so it takes longer. Include links to FAQ pages. And avoid using defaults; it maximizes the number of conscious choices for the user.

> Ask them to explain their reasons for cancelling, and require at least 100 letters of text. Explaining is hard when your reasons are emotional.

Really? Obviously I don't want to make it too easy for users to cancel, but to make it too hard just seems petty to me. Asking them to fill out the reasons for cancellation is a great idea (and worked really well for us), but forcing them to write at least 100 letters is just horrible.

Also, there are some users that you really do want to cancel. You know, the ones that suck up twice as much support as anyone else and complain incessantly.

Surely its more important to be focusing on why users are cancelling, not luring them through a maze of "two pages of boring questions"? Does anyone reputable actually do this?

There is a sweet spot somewhere in between, but this seems to be irritating and would just make me want to write complete junk responses.
Here's a better video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsBak0oCgdY
In theory the schengen visa-free rule of 90 out of 180 days still applies if you're not in Germany. However, since nothing is getting stamped when you cross a border, it would not normally be possible for them to prove that you stayed in a non-german country for more than 90 days.
I think one 'problem' is that advertising's goal is to manipulate and condition the human mind to desire a product. Of course, there is a very blurred line (if any at all) between "informing" someone of a product and using subtle psychological tricks to make them desire the product. Idk, complex grey area for me which I find fascinating yet somehow conflicted about.
I realized after writing this that one force pushing prices down is that the marketplace has to serve a global audience; one thing lacking in the point of view of my question is that not every market in the world can afford to hire contractors at US rates and contractors on these sites don't just serve the US.

I wonder if this is also related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_competition
Same kind of thing can be done to satellite imagery:

http://www.wired.com/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/
App Gyver Composer
Here's a flight time test with onboard camera, at 17 degrees Fahrenheit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAKpmhMADI

TLDW: 20 minutes. Without a camera you'd be looking at around 25 minutes.

You're right that this info should be on the website - I'll make sure that happens. Thanks for the feedback.
but privacy is not a "thing". it's not real, they can't sell it in the same way they can't tell you it's secure.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)
Note: This was posted last month [1], and received a lot of up votes and some positive feedback [2]. So re-posting again for June 2014. Also note that I will not be submitting my resume this time due to making a successful connection [3] with an awesome startup as the result of last month's run.

If you're looking to be hired by a company, please use this thread to let other HN members know.

If you're looking for talent, by all means, check out the candidates below and if you see a good fit, connect! Please no recruiters, unless specifically indicated (opt-in).

If you're not hiring/looking to be hired, take a look over the candidates below and connect with them if you're aware of a potential fit for them.

Up/Down Voting: I would propose that up/down voting be reserved to help promote high quality submissions, and push down those clearly not putting in much effort or are off-topic. Use sparingly.

I am loosely proposing the following format (obviously you're welcome to use any format you'd like):

[Location], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]

Stack: [Comma delimited list of technologies]

Resume: [Link to resume]

Contact: [Email address or other means of contact]

[Brief overview, what you're looking for in a company, etc.]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7698119

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251
Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.
I wanted to send out a quick letter of appreciation to the HN community for helping me make a connection with an awesome company, who later made me an offer, which I happily accepted.

Last month, I posted my resume on the "Who wants to be hired?" thread [1], and was contacted by several companies, many of which were relevant to what I was looking for, both in a company and in a position.

After a few rounds of interviews, one of those companies, Kaggle [2], decided to make me an offer, and within a couple of days, I accepted. Not only do I get to work with an awesome team on a great product, but I get to do it all from home. And, I get to travel to the great San Francisco a few times a year and meet face-to-face with the folks I will be working with.

My last day with my previous company was Friday, and I will be joining Kaggle two weeks from today. I will be spending this time off building my dream setup in my new office upstairs.

The main reason I posted this was just as a thanks to those that allowed that thread, and those that helped keep the thread active.

The secondary reason was to hopefully hear some success stories others may have had from the thread.

The third reason was to let others know that the thread was successful, and that I see value in it as a recurring whoishiring thread, benefiting others in the HN community looking for a good fit.

The fourth reason was to encourage those of you looking to get hired to post in this month's thread [3], as it may very well help connect you with your next opportunity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

[2] https://www.kaggle.com

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833250
My braindump on Bayes Networks
Is GTK3 good enough? https://github.com/conformal/gotk3
congrats! :D
Video transcoding using Rails, Node.js and ffmpeg
Codem transcodes video from one format into another, using a Scheduler built in Ruby on Rails and one or more Transcoders, a nodejs wrapper around ffmpeg.
Apple WWDC 2014 – Watch the keynote live
Losing those people is probably a support win.
"They may, for example, be less likely to smoke, more likely to eat healthy foods or to exercise, and so on." I would chalk up the small correlation documented to this. Higher IQ people tend to be higher on the social scale and be healthier in a large variety of ways.
Wooosh! Time to re-read your "HTML for Dummies book"
Depends on the cubicles. They used to be 78" high, but low panel heights are much more popular now. 42" panels don't afford much privacy.
Future comment on the twitter stream "Shit HN Says"
https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
20 minutes with onboard camera (GoPro etc.) - longer without the camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAKpmhMADI

Shipping is due to begin late summer, but Kickstarter orders will be shipped first. I've been told there is going to be a price increase sometime this month, although I'm not privy to the exact date.
How The Economist makes election endorsements
Let's try to have a standard changelog format
Show HN: Fart Code scan food to discover it's fart power.
scroll down to find the underhandedness
Read a kids book
Unions and generics are indeed left out (see Go's FAQ). What do you mean by "lack of error handling"? Like Rob Pike says, errors are just values in Go, and you have the whole language to handle them. If you mean exceptions, there's panic and recover.
It is an interesting problem even in some areas that are not too remote. My parents are within 2 miles of the nearest cable or DSL connection, but it might as well be 100 miles. The spent a while considering a 50 foot tower for a line-of-sight radio link to a town a few miles away, but right now they still have HughesNet service with low caps and high latency.

I am really not sure how I feel about their situation. They have plenty of money to throw at the problem, so they could fix it if they really wanted to, but that isn't the case for everyone. For now it is just horrible when they want to show me a youtube video and then we all huddle around the laptop for a few minutes while it buffers.
There's a _ton_ of issues with account stealing for Blizzard (selling WoW gold is profitable business, and stealing it from players is easier than farming it), so their password recovery process can be a bit... cumbersome.
transpile it all into js and run in node!
(I know this may be limiting for some features/libraries, but only a matter of time.)

See https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... on taking this to an "extreme" --
linux, Gimp on X windows, even Chrome -- transpiled and running in a firefox tab.
I wonder how dependent all this is on culture and expectations.

I've spent my entire career in Japan, and have never not worked in an open office. To my knowledge, non-open offices basically don't exist in Japan.

So is every Japanese company just leaving productivity lying on the floor by insisting on open offices? I wonder if there have been studies on switching to closed floor plans in Japan.

(Of course traditionally the cultural emphasis has been on consensus, not productivity, so there hasn't been a lot of impetus to experiment. Things are changing, however.)
The problem with that analysis is that damn near all human communication uses "subtle psychological tricks" to achieve ends, good, bad and neutral. When advertising gets called out specifically in that context, it's a consequence of the ancient snobbery towards commerce, pioneered by the aristocracy and improbably adopted by the academia.

http://www.economist.com/node/21541857
Ask HN: Research for real understanding of gravitational force?
I am not a scientist, but as a layman I have the impression that there is no serious research in deeply understanding gravitational force.

I mean, at least how we understand electromagentic, in the sense that we can affect it and create it. Sure, astronomy and physics deeply study the effects and consequences of gravitational force, but I never see people creating new theories and trying to explain the cogs and gears of it.

There is any resources I can look at (other than wikipedia)? There are any labs looking exclusively at it? Did we reach a dead end point on this research?

Bottom line doubt i have: There is hope that we are going to be able to, someday, create artificial gravitational force and/or affect and control the natural ones?
Just curious...are most founders coders? or business type folks?
There are several things that aren't part of the privacy tab as I recall - the privacy settings for group membership and various other profile information are elsewehre thoo.
The way I understand it, it's not that cached data or page ranking are evil, but the way Google does it; it's completely opaque, prone to random changes (even though many people depend on it for their livelihood) and, the most important problem IMO, when there is an issue, Google is handling it really badly (e.g. nobody can be contacted about it) - not really something inherently evil, but something a big company could do something about (and Google chooses not to).
Insects have antennae. Radio devices have antennas.
Why is wikipedia messed up today?
Couchbase climbs up the DB-Engines Ranking, popularity increases 10% per month
Google Should Penalize Multi-Page Articles: Here’s Why
Yes, it is always difficult to provide support to people trying to use languages that you do not support.
Well... sure, I guess, but although I wasn't direct about it in my above comment, the whole discussion was about mouse control right?

If we want to discuss keyboard shortcuts, then Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab/Ctrl+W/Ctrl+T are quick tab management shortcuts that bypass mouse control as well, and that one pixel at the top that makes tab switching by mouse annoying for talles would be rather moot.
That is correct, which is why I never trust communication done by someone who has an incentive to draw a profit from it.
It's also trivial to implement in AutoHotkey [1], which also adds the resize behavior, plus minimize/maximize/close. Don't use Windows without it.

[1] http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/EasyWindowDrag_(KDE)....
He wasn't asking 1Password if it's a good idea, he was asking them why developers disable pasting. It's precisely because their livelihoods depend on being able to auto-enter passwords, that they're likely to know the answer.
Author here.

I agree. After a few minutes of after-thought I have updated the article to reflect this feedback.

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the input.
See Figure 2 in http://statweb.stanford.edu/~candes/papers/RobustPCA.pdf

There's lots of work on background estimation. This is just one approach using nuclear norm minimisation.
thank you. I can understand (not agree with but understand) some people insisting on writing name of companies with plural verbs like Google are and Microsoft have but a battery bell is a singular word no matter which way you slice and dice.
Graduating from GMOs, Can Regulators Keep Up With Syn Bio?
Just what my colleague needed for our small KB redesign. Thanks for discovering!
It is amazing, how a so old wisdom (I read it many years from now in a book called "Peopleware" from 1987! could be ignored so many decades (by people, who claim to be reasonable).

But it just seems that some ideas, because they are economical interesting, stick so much, that management people come up every 6 month with an other idea or excuse, why the dead horse must be ridden again (and not buried).
I think that there's a widespread sense (which I intuitively share) that Facebook/Google/etc only get information about us because we or someone we know freely give it to them. NSA surveillance is different in at least two ways: first, we don't voluntarily give them the information, which makes their use of that information inherently antagonistic towards us (hence the fourth amendment to the US Constitution); and second (for Americans), there's an understanding that the NSA was specifically instructed by Congress to not spy domestically (presumably due to that fourth amendment thing, again).
I'm guessing that disease spreads more quickly in an open office, so sick leave is more necessary.
no go?
If you're looking to get into this hobby I highly recommend a number of things instead of just putting those items in your shopping cart:

1. Instead of buying a cheap, easily-broken "flamewheel" frame (e.g. F330, F450, etc) get something that's much more difficult to break like a One-Piece Quad (OPQ) frame (http://witespyquad.gostorego.com/opq-one-piece-quad-frame.ht...) or learn how to make your own frame out of thin-walled PVC (which really is super quick and easy if you have a heat gun--takes a lot more time using the boiling water method; spend $20 and get a bog-standard heat gun). If you build your PVC frame with a "T fitting" field repairs usually take just two minutes to swap out a broken arm (flamewheel repairs take forever in comparison).

2. The Turnigy 9X Tx (aka "remote control" for the uninitiated =) is pretty good but the FrSky Taranis (~$200: http://www.alofthobbies.com/frsky-taranis-x8r-combo.html) is vastly superior. You will never "outgrow" a Taranis. It runs the open-source OpenTx firmware (infinitely hackable), supports 32 channels plus a new bi-directional communications system named, "Smart Port" (support for which was hacked into MulitWii by yours truly). Before the Taranis, to get a Tx that supported even 12 channels was a $1200-2000 investment. Not to mention one that does everything the Taranis can do (logging to SD card, audio feedback, jillions of switches/knobs/hats, etc). The Taranis has basically made every other Tx obsolete and every Tx over $200 is now a huge waste of money.

3. Get at least one LiPo "charge bag" (~$2). Lithium Polymer batteries, sitting by themselves on the shelf, hooked up to nothing, will occasionally EXPLODE INTO FLAMES THAT CANNOT BE PUT OUT. The chances are small, yes, but those chances go up every time you crash or if you let the charge of the battery get too low. They also go up every time you charge it. Stay safe: Charge your batteries in the bag and also keep them stored in the bag when not in use.

4. Always be aware of how much your quad weighs when flying. A 450mm frame outfitted with a GPS, 2200mAh battery, and a camera can weigh 5-6 pounds and yet can fly well above 400 feet (actually ~5x higher but don't do that!). It's enough to kill someone and/or do very expensive damage to a house, car, or whatever it happens to crash into. Always assume that at any point during a flight any ONE component could fail resulting in "death from the sky": A motor, a propeller, a speed controller, the battery, a connector, the flight controller, the receiver, the battery, the frame, etc. All it takes is just one of those components to fail and it's DOOM.
dig in hnsearch, there were many older threads with loads of videos of the same kind.
Thank you! Even after 37 years of English there is still room for improvement.
Article paraphrased:

"I'm so great, Heroku, I'm so cool, I advise startups and dabble around, I float around life, everyone likes me, Berlin, I'm part of the scene"
The French Government doubles down on the Internet of Things
So i can't still figure it out..

Smart guy --> better sperm or
Better sperm --> smart guy

maybe my sperm is telling me something with this question.
That's the point. You don't trust anything, commercial or not, by default, you use your critical faculties and evaluate the information available to you to reach a conclusion. As such, advertising isn't special, and isn't inherently evil anymore than any other type of communication.
Apple WWDC 2014 Keynote Live Blog
The camera has a very wide handle so you can actually move the visible window by simply adjusting the software cropping. So you can actually track the head movements without moving the drone on a roughly 180degree angle in every direction.

There's only one camera though, so you don't have any stereoscopic effect.
If anyone wants this behavior in Firefox then here is an extension for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extra-padding...
Henry Ford’s reign of terror: Greed and murder in Depression-era Detroit
Berlin is underfunded, top management has the "dominate everything" attitude in most start ups, no equity to employees, people are expected to be conforming to their bosses (German mentality), wage split into fixed (small) + variable part (which mostly doesn't materialize), low-ball offers are the name of the game in Berlin, selling a dream of a bright future with no equity.
Toronto or Remote, Full Time.
Stack: NodeJS, EmberJs, Rails, Flask, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, CouchDB, neo4j
Resume: Available upon request.
Contact: edude03@gmail.com

I'm looking for a company where I can continue to push my technical skills forward and build a product that people will enjoy using.
About modern web development
Good point - it's only on menu dividers that this occurs. It just so happens that some menus (e.g. the main "Chrome" one) have a divider for every other item, and the dividers are about 10 pixels tall. I much prefer the Windows approach, but I'm not sure even that makes as much sense as just selecting whichever item is closest.
"Designers, if you call yourself a “UX Designer”, you’d be the dev who called themselves a “Variable Declarer”."[0]

Anyone who thinks they are a UX Designer who wants to make the cancellation process as hard as possible obviously has a very shitty product if the only way to retain your users is to try and make them fill out forms with minimum values. Really, 100 characters? "aksfwejfjwefjwewefj" will be all you get, you evil shit.

[0] https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/448918439793815552
Interested to see an entry for the name "Boz" among the friends

Facebook employees don't have to follow the real names policy? https://www.facebook.com/help/292517374180078
What's a set of completely worthless generalized labels.

Should the government intervene in a market? Any market? What about security? That's a market too.

Should it intervene in natural monopolies and monopolist behavior?

Should it make commerce easier? That requires intervening on banks.

Should it act against information asymmetry? That's intervention too, and required for capitalism to work.

Should it provide social nets so people can take risks? Without those power slowly consolidates, and capitalism slowly goes away.
Show HN: LovelyDocs, offline API docs browser
Runnable is a great example of a product that really understands their core use case and does it very well. They use Docker as the recipe-structure on the runner image.

For your use case, we have been rewriting Codenvy for the past three years, both the IDE and the underlying infrastructure. The new system now also uses Docker as a tool for recipe construction of builder images and runner images. We then layer on an endpoint structure that we call Factories, which allows for automatic environment provisioning inclusive of code (from git or svn), the builder type (mvn, gcc, etc) and the runner environment which can be a pre-packaged solution (managed by Codenvy) or a custom environment as defined by a specialized docker recipe in your project space. The factories are just URL formats to make embedding or sharing entire environments (for cloning) easier.

If you'd like early access to the next gen system, people can write me tyler at codenvy, and we'll get you hooked up. We've been in alpha since early Jan and will go public beta in another month or so. We are just cleaning up some remaining items.
It is simply a myth, that the Japanese make everything right. This myth arose, because of the success of their industries and the quality engineering movement they coined. But they just don't do everything right. They do of course some things right. How is, that they have stagnating industry for decades now. How is, that they produced Fukushima and showed, how a country can fail in letting one totally incompetent corporation mess everything up. (Fukushima was not the first problem, this corporation produced -- but the bureaucrats did let them continue and problems where pushed under the carpet).
I hope you're not doing this in a browser like, for example, Chrome, where it sends everything you type into the address bar to Google.
1. connect 4T disk to F, "zpool replace pool A F"
2. connect 4T disk to E, "zpool add pool E"

Where A, E, and F are virtual devices (vdevs) provided by your OS. On my FreeBSD system they are da0, da1, etc.
No, people are mostly collecting data to demonstrate the existence of gravitational waves at this point. The hope is that with strong evidence for this, we can use gravitation as a sensor (like light and other radiation in telescopes).

Physics is in a bit of disarray at the moment- a lot of cool theories, a lot of cool experiments, but no clear direction on where to go when the experiments confirm the cool theories (or don't).

There is a lot of theoretical work on gravitation, but until we have better experiments to probe it, it's not clear what fundamental research is justified.
Los Angeles (or surrounding area), Full Time

Stack: Python / Flask & Django, Javascript / Node

Resume: please contact me for a resume, I'd like to keep my job search below my current employer's radar

Contact: tgwnb@appixie.com

I'm looking for an engineering position at an early stage startup. I've got work experience in file system forensic analysis and backend web dev, but I'd like to expand that to encompass the full stack.
What other views are there?

The Falkland Islands existed before the state of Argentina. The islanders voted for self-determination and wished to remain as part of the United Kingdom for defence matters.

There is no other view that is compatible with logic.