skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always really important to understand what you're analyzing when dealing with crime data. In this case this is when crimes are reported or when arrests are made. That's not the same thing as when the crime occurs. So the spikes for burglary in the morning and at lunch hour are more likely because that's when people notice the crime has occurred and call the cops, not when someone is actually breaking in. And the prostitution trends are probably when the cops are choosing to be out and about arresting, which might not at all be correlated with when the most illegal activity is actually happening.

It's interesting that the author thinks the spikes on the first of the month are bad data, but that the huge spike in sexual assault on Jan 1 of each year is valid data. I wouldn't doubt that there are slightly more sexual assaults on new year's eve, but on the order of 10x more than any other day of the year? That doesn't seem right. I'd guess there are more nuances about how sexual assaults are reported or logged that are at play here.
I don't have an opinion strong enough to do something, but the problem for me is that if it's too easy it'll just get used by default. It's a feature I don't want.

I was traveling for work to another country. I went to launch Steam to play a local game and either because the network was misconfigured, Steam didn't like me being in another country, or something else I don't care about, I couldn't launch it to play my downloaded, single-player game. I live in a major US city with Internet from a major cable company. Hulu tells me I'm using a proxy and won't let let use the website anymore. When emailing support they offered no help. Back when iTunes had DRM I was at a wedding at a location without Internet. The bride/groom planned their own music but hadn't authenticated the computer with the playlist for the wedding. These are all companies with more "user-friendly" DRM than most.

I like downloading lectures and conference talks. I'm concerned if major video host, like YouTube, were to adopt this I won't be able to download these things and watch while commuting or traveling. It could just as easily happen if Netflix becomes the only host for public domain content or opens to user-submitted video.
This is a subject of great interest to librarians and archivists--how to store various types of data so that both it and its associated indexes remain fully accessible and searchable, with a minimum of maintenance, across decades or centuries, even as formats, maintainers, and institutions rise and fall.

Anyone know if these guys are working with existing archival groups and standards? It would be a shame if they're reinventing the wheel.
information architecture does tell us that people have to be much more engaged to navigate with more choices, and that 7 is about the top-end of what people will really process. 3 is your lowest engagement upper limit, people already need to be moderately engaged to process 5 choices, and they need to be really focused for 7. These principles apply to people focused on using a computer with a large screen in front of their face, and surely degrade on smaller devices with distractions around.

if you have a shit-ton of navigation items, get rid of some, because having fourteen is _not_ increasing engagement.
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that I could monetize LV's website much better than its currently monetized today (FWIW I doubt that is the goal of their website) with techniques not too dissimilar from something like this.
Wow, that is cool. Learning Swift is going to be fun.

Direct link to the playground file: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
Agreed, your vision is ahead of where the current implementation is but you'll get there. Very interesting.
"I'm personally excited about: YC as a university"

YC isn't a university (today) and I don't see a particular reason it should try to model itself in that fashion so as to draw comparisons. It's a different entity in itself and should try to foster that new category rather than try to compete in an existing category for attention and/or respect.
Undergrads: Free week at the beach, and, uh, optimization.
Great questions.

1. tumblr-like format: feeds are the most common UI and are standard for billions of people on the internet. Traditional academic publishing format are known to significantly less than 1 million people. Onarbor would rather satisfy the former.

2. "What do you think would be the 'tipping point' for publication in a new format". Onarbor devised the tipping point to be similar to what Stackoverflow (SO) is doing with Reputation for computer programmers (REF below). The reputation you earn on SO is replacing the C.V. in hiring decisions across silicon valley. Onarbor more or less replicates SO's Reputation system with the analogous intent to replace existing academia advancement mechanisms.

"It's a nice site, but I can't help a feeling of 'academics reinvent tumblr, hail it as the future of publishing.'"

Onarbor is publishing and funding in one site. So the real goal is to do away with Nature and the NIH at the same time. Try funding a work. Your experience will quickly diverge from that you've had on Tumblr.

ref: http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation
I checked the data myself and I believe it's a coding error on his end. I'm not seeing a spike in December or January for Criminal Sexual Assaults. (it's worth noting that using a month function on a null date usually results in a 1 being returned (January))

Here's what I'm seeing with the data: https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAJdMdQ8oUn9yYC-REmBpZlzD...
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So you're saying that non-Americans should not comment on HN?
SHA and Length Extension
What about search and indexing?

Will GMail be able to find those encrypted e-mails when I search for them?
Hard to imagine that PG doesn't have sway over what the board decides if he should so desire. Obviously. But he can defer to the board in day to day and use it to his advantage. (Remember Godfather 1 "Michael's in charge now".) So playing the card will be a rare occurrence but possible.
The article actually says not to use Windex, it strips the surface. I'm wondering if Expo whiteboard cleaner has the same effect. We use Windex so I'm guessing that for us at least, it probably has something to do with the ghosting getting progressively worse.

I really like what you've done with your setup, that black moulding looks really sharp.
Thanks!

In terms of convincing your team, we need to build importers to import popular tools (e.g. Trello, Pivotal, Slack, Asana). What do you use?

In terms of security and IP: the security model is at the cube level. Anyone you add to a cube can see the tasks and conversation inside it. Private conversations are between you and the other person, and are not attached to cubes.

In terms of hosting, we're on AWS. Eventually we may offer a hosted option for companies that this is a deal-breaker for, but that would be priced at Enterprise levels. If you're interested, please let me know...
How many people actually wrote Cocoa apps in Java?

The only Java apps of the era that I remember used non-native UIs, and were painful.

Whereas I'd be shocked if Swift wasn't adopted wholesale by iOS developers.
I've been living in America (East Coast, Bay Area) for the last 54 years, and I don't recognize the America described in about half of the HN comments I've seen recently (including this comment).
"Lifelong control of your networked personal data" is ironically offline for me. Here is the Google Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P_L5IWO...
i only posted it here because JK Rowling still blocks my emails.
> You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

is the answer. That message appears when you're hogging the new page with your submissions, which means you're pushing other submissions out.
Something not mentioned: To get read/write Twitter app permissions you need to provide a mobile phone number. If you've already used that number for another account then you cannot use the same number.
We've been debating whether to differentiate between "online" and "mobile". The obvious answer is to do so, but it might be that with phones being better etc some people prefer to just use the mobile app for much of the day, especially if they only have one monitor...
A project like this takes an awful lot more thought than I see here. Have you looked at efforts like Freebase and Wikibase, where people have been thinking about these problems for many years?
Down vote me if you will, but I don't like this article.

Sure, as developers it would be swell to easily be able to write an app that ran on iOS, Android, and Windows phone.

The thing is, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all have their own walled gardens, and it is so much not in their interest to support app portability.

I personally enjoy multiple vendors and software options (Android phone, iPad, MBA, and lots of Linux boxes). However, for most people, they should probably either choose a walled garden they like, or, go Linux and open devices.

In any case, I have spent several hours today with XCode 6 beta and Swift and I like what I see. It was worth shelling out $100 this morning for a 1 year iOS developer account to play with the language and IDE improvement like playgrounds.

Off topic, but it amazes me that Apple was able to build a new language and keep it quiet.
Good read, and I totally relate. Especially not working in stealth mode advice. Wise words.

I got a laugh from the name Stack Fu, but I'm laughing with the OP, because I've picked less than optimal names myself.
The trend against whimsy in modern web design
Even though I agree, this is a combination of baseless speculation and pontification which I find to be obnoxious.
The point here seems to essentially be "we have no standardisation" and therefore there's no point doing HATEOAS.

Surely it's just a catch 22? We need more HATEOAS (because almost no one is doing it right now) before we will get the standardisation, and we need the standardisation before anyone will see the advantages clearly enough to invest time in HATEOAS.

I think the best approach is to build up the tooling for HATEOAS, get all those 'RESTful web frameworks' providing support for it, and using it within individual services to enable more fluid APIs. By this I mean APIs that can be changed to some degree to iterate, add features, or react to heavy loads on particular endpoints, while clients don't need to change each time, and can instead adapt automatically to different data being returned.

Google already do this with their private APIs for mobile applications, and that's where I think we will see growth of features that make sense to implement now.
Objective-C interop.
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Just showed my Desi girlfriend your site and she says pictures with models are very important. Some women prefer to see those dresses actually worn by someone so they can understand it better.

I personally think there's a lot going on with the website. Almost like you're selling too many different clothes. If you can cutback somehow or focus on an area, that could be effective.

Also, you really need to highlight the FREE SHIPPING. That's a major seller for many people, even if others are offering it.
I had a similar setup at a small company a few years ago. We first "primed" the surface by intense scrubbing with that Expo cleaning. This made it easier to wipe later on.

We also used Tabasco sauce for tough marker residue.

It's worth experimenting with different brands of markers and different colors to see what ends up easier to clean if left around for any length of time. If you really want something lasting, take a picture.

(I have a laptop-sized whiteboard I use like that: sketch out stuff, if it looks good, snap a picture to save it.)
IdeaPaint does not compare. It more reminiscent of a white truck bed liner than a writing slate, even when installed by their contractors. It gets the job done for silly after-hours doodles but its simply not as precise as a real glossy whiteboard when it comes to legibility and ease to clean.

All of our old traditional whiteboards mysteriously appeared after a few weeks.
It's an iPhone 5(s) but they zoomed the screen to take up the full height of the projector.
Your comment is definitely interesting, and I will remember it for more than 10 minutes. But the real question isn't "is what people do in their free time a good thing?", it is "is what they could do in their free time better for society than what they are doing at work now?" What are the hidden personal (not using your time optimally, lower happiness, etc) and societal (more stress, higher medical bills, etc) costs of people constantly doing things they hate? Not saying I have an answer, but it would be nice to find out.
Perhaps it was a self-fulfilling prophecy? Chris read the blog post and decided to start working on a new language... and the rest has been history.
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Yes, this is a very complex problem. I wanna see how far a single big database dump can go in terms of project/definition management.
Startups selling a business product need to focus on a salesforce, direct marketing methods that are profitable, and getting in front of real paying customers.

But startups producing social media products, or consumer applications that are freemium or passively monetized will not benefit with sales. They need marketing via PR, social media, or viral mechanisms baked in early on into the app.

Let's not overgeneralize.
Unicode will come, there are plenty of nice-enough implementations for Lua that could be adapted.
From Elephant's Github readme:

>> Suddenly, your data becomes as durable as S3

Seems slightly less ambitious.
"If you think about it in that light" explicitly tells you that it is an intentionally selective reading of history. Of course there's lots of other sides to the USSR, but this particular one is interesting in this discussion.
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Health tech at an inflection point
Maybe the mistake could lie in starting with Objective C without first learning C? I'm thinking that a reasonably solid C foundation helps a lot in understanding why and how Obj-C works.
> The huge problem with email encryption right now is that you can't reasonably make it mandatory

Sure you can, see pgp.

Really, its nice to see they are encrypting coms between each other but I don't really see how this affects me. If I want something secure I will use pgp. Email encryption, has and, always will be a client side problem. There is nothing the middle men and women can do for you that you can reasonably trust.

If google really wants to solve this problem they will make pgp features native to gmail. I'm guessing they're heading that way with the chrome extension being discussed here at the minute[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842696
I don't know if you're aware, but the site you linked to (The Guardian newspaper) has nothing to do with the BBC.
Sometimes after getting new glasses, I would see the world this way until my eyes adjusted.
Genuine question: what does Go provide in terms of concurrency that Swift + GCD doesn't?
The Metal Framework Gives iOS A Lead In Gaming For The Foreseeable Future
Congratulations! More infrastructure coverage!
My guess is dem pesky 99.9% sla's and routing around the downtime in some way.
A version-controlled object database with real-time collaborative editing
Nothing is that straight forward. It does happen: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.cgi?S=3&C=6&OldSort=RA...

Even anxiolytics can cause anxiety/panic attacks if they have a paradoxical reaction.
Sorry, but I don't want anybody telling me what chemicals I can ingest. That should be my choice, thank you very much.

Enforcement of purity, taxation on sale, restrictions on advertising and access to children sounds ok.
You can just use FreeNAS - it uses ZFS underneath and provides a nice web admin interface. Of course you can also ssh in and run commands on the shell if you want.
I don't get it. Are you just trying to get money from people who aren't qualified to critique your work? Publish in PLOS One if you really want to get something out.
Thanks! I've tried finding a solution multiple times but I guess my Google-fu wasn't up to the task.
In general, the only time I will link accounts is my Github to a programming-related page.
A question about hype since I know almost nothing about biology;

Is this possible? - http://microfabricator.com/articles/view/id/538989659aad9d53...
Hello,

maybe a stupid question, but any reason why not use OpenPGP.js?

Is it even worse for your case than SJCL?
The No Procrastination Challenge
The author seems to be raging based on the premise that HATEOAS means "self-documenting". But HATEOAS doesn't mean that, and has never meant that; it means that the API should be documented primarily (ideally fully) by documenting the resource types and relation types, rather than the resource locations and meanings of verbs with regard to specific locations [1] (which, in a system using HATEOAS, are communicated in resources themselves, so that if you have access to the location of a "root resource" that provides an entry point, you don't need any documentation of other locations.)

This seems to be entirely misdirected rage based on a fundamental misunderstanding of HATEOAS.

[1] Per: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive
effort in defining the media type(s) used for
representing resources and driving application state, or
in defining extended relation names and/or hypertext-
enabled mark-up for existing standard media types.
This sounds like another cop out. If you really have a good product, get a list of customers who'd benefit from it, then start calling. You'll learn a lot about how good your product actually is.
Can't wait for the new runtime dlls
They are paid better because the French government limits wages (since health dream is not private in France)
Encryption. Google. Okay.

No thanks.
I've used Windex for over a year now. For me, there is no difference between the center of the board (lots of windex) and the very edge of the board (no windex).
It depends on where and how far back you want to look. A lot of Americans worked in morally repellent conditions in factories for little pay in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Earlier, though, I suspect being a wainwright or blacksmith or bookbinder - crafting a final good and seeing directly how it benefited your customer - was more satisfying than working as a corporate lawyer or a university administrator.

The Industrial Revolution allowed us to solve more and more desires. All of our basic ones are satisfied (in the West, for 99% of people). But the treadmill of desire continues, so jobs were created to satisfy those, too. And they feel fake because those jobs are increasingly divorced from central, "real" human desires.
If you're doing a startup and have the money lying around to file one, it often makes sense to do so just because patents can become significant negotiating leverage in acquisition talks. In the U.S. you have to file before making the invention public, which means that if you want to patent-protect your product at all you often have to do so early on.
Ah, the mythical 2014 Macbook Pro...
the quest to learn how to brew a perfect cup, and still drop $1.75 at Starbucks

It is mystifying to me how people think Starbucks is anything like a 'perfect' cup of coffee. It's fast-food coffee. I would have expected this line to be "I abandoned my quest for the perfect cup, because Starbucks was good enough to fill the role and easy".

a few minutes of scheduled skilled labor are often preferable to finding decent beans, grinding them, heating water, buying & fitting a filter, pouring, timing, cleaning and stowing what's needed

When you have more time in your day, then having to grab a coffee doesn't have to be done in a couple of minutes during the rush to work. It can be a more languorous affair, and the ritual itself can become enjoyable.
The Work Required To Have An Opinion (2013)
Tabasco for cleaning? Sounds like someone accidentally got their hot wing fingers on the board and discovered it cleaned it nicely.

I completely agree with the markers. Finding the "good" ones made a big difference for me.
That's a cool experiment. Feels like something from Getting Things Done, which is a great book. Also kind of feels like Ben Franklin-ish, who made very specific and conscious attempts to improve himself.

Are you doing this, or did you just think it was cool and wanted to share?
I am annoyed by this. Vs 2013 is riddled with bugs but they are busy doing the next version?
Well, Canonical could always make their own laptops with perfect driver support and charge a premium for that. I don't know why they're not. As of right now the only laptops that consistently work well with Linux/Ubuntu are Thinkpads and Thinkpads suck for e.g. gaming. No one except Microsoft can make money selling an OS - and they can only do it because they have a massive advantage in user training and software ecosystem. They tried to sue their way to victory with Phone, but have eventually settled for the fact that they'll have to sell hardware as well.
I think it's simpler than some of explanations here. You're not rendering onto the curved eye, you're rendering onto a flat monitor. If you imagine the game view as a window, a straight line outside always projects toward your eye onto a straight line on the window.
It is quite possible that e was referring to people who he believed had taught him interesting aspects about the spirit of documentation or the philosophical way to view compiler optimisation. In which case the word would be apt.
Yes, I mean a moral hazard in the sense of a divergence of best interests between YC and an overseer.

of all the leadership structures YC has experimented with, the board of overseers seems least proportional in terms of the power of the body and its investment in YC. consider the prior era of YC where all rewards and losses in both finance and reputation fell upon PG and Jessica. once sama became president, he put skin in the game in by staking his professional reputation on YC's success.

i pose the concern of moral hazard because one piece of information has yet to be made public: how board members are impacted by YC's success or failure.
Isn't nearly all science funded by getting money from people unqualified to critique the work?
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