skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun & Wacky (fake) Startup Tees
Cesarean Delivery May Cause Epigenetic Changes In Babies DNA
I gave up after about 15 because the images were loading a little slowly (a few hundred milliseconds is too much) and driving me crazy. It would be nice if it prefetched the next few images.
I would have to agree. To me "Subtle-isms" could lead to a culture of fear.

When a mistake is vague and hard to understand, there becomes a certain amount of probability involved in making a mistake. Therefore those who are the most active could end up with the most mistakes. In this case, those who engage most with those around them, will likely break the most "Subtle-isms".

This policy may simply reward the quiet students and discourage active verbal and written communication and do little to discourage borderline behavior.
Is this data normalized by the size of each group somehow?
Without normalization this chart shows nothing about the VC's 'absolute' preference. At best it shows how the VC's are compared between themselves, and even that is by assuming all the VC's see the same amount of startups at each age group - which I presume is also far from true.
IF Fails Then... what?
Use runit
Well atleast they're extremely well paid. Try working at an IT services company in india :)
It was in the title here on HN. Or at least I think I saw it there. Can someone confirm whether it was there or I'm just seeing things?
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- an unusually philanthropic company mission and philosophy

- a small team (< 50) of fun-loving, smart, interesting, idealistic people

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"For those about to rock, we salute you!"
Technically a paper, not an ebook - but "Out of the Tarpit".

http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf
"You can't even rely on a business' website anymore, though. You have to actually call them on the phone and talk to a real person there, at the business."

Anymore? That is the traditional way of finding that kind of information. Sure, there was a brief period of time when only technically sophisticate businesses were online, but as you say, that is no longer the case.
But the relationship with future performance and these subjective "reading between the lines" opinions is unclear. You need standardization to reduce bias in hiring decisions and make them as objective as possible.
3DTouch: A novel wearable 3D input device for 3D applications
>>>> The Bay Area is going to eat itself soon. There's just no way this housing situation is sustainable? What is the end game? Is this going to turn into Elysium? How will normal people survive here without affordable housing?

It seems to me this is a cyclical issue. I'm guessing something major has to happen like the market crashes again, or the tech bubble bursts. This would make a lot of these high rent places either have to lower their rent, or go out of business.

Once they lower their rent, I'm sure more middle income people will move back into the city. This of course does not solve the affordable housing issue. As is the case in most gentrification situations, it just pushes lower income people out into the outer burbs, and this is already happening. I don't see any solution for more affordable housing. It seems this war has already been lost.
What if the owner has no idea that his business even has an online presence? I can see that being very common amongst older business owners, especially if they have never even used Google before.
And it's very easy to bully someone by hiring an army of a 'black' crowd spread geographically.
Sorry Wired, but you don't build up hype for a language like that.
spoiler: the language is D. http://dlang.org/
Securedrop dev here. We tried to balance the memorizability of codenames (aka Diceware passphrases) with their length. The current minimum length is 8 words from a list of 6969 words, so you get math.log(69698, 2) = 102 bits of entropy, which is quite good. Additionally, the codenames are stretched with scrypt with affords an extra (approx.) 14 bits of entropy (that's our current work factor).

We are continuing to discuss and debate this trade-off. Other ideas welcome!
Sorry, for the poor response of the blog. We still had a connection monitoring tool running that got swamped by the hacker news link.

The link should work fine now.
> There's no excuse for technological illiteracy or ignorance

I know the internet is much more popular since the last 10 years, but I don't think everyone is really up to it. There are still big opportunities to scam people who don't have the minimum of tech savyness: viruses, etc.

The internet is still a jungle with not enough laws.
The only reason I look at a headline anymore for is to see what the topic is. They're not useless for that.
Oh you don't like my "well-actually?" How bout you go sod off XD
I'm sorry, but I'm starting to get a bit sick of Hacker Schools constant whining about rules.

If you want to encourage a specific culture you do this by starting with a small set of people who have this culture in their bones, then growing slowly and assimilating more people into that culture, addressing deviations swiftly and letting people get back to their work afterwards, without skipping a beat.

Not by writing manuals, and then stressing everyone with looooong, reaaaaally long and exhausting "we need to talk" style posts, where we hold hands, talk about how it's so difficult to open your mouth and say something that's not offensive, and how we're far from perfect, and in fact, we're all sinners.

It's not that the intent is wrong. But this way of going about it is so extremely taxing on everybody, creating an atmosphere where everything people say is judged on the "-isms" scale.

It means when you talk, you're terrified of what you're saying.

When you listen, you listen for someone to say something so you can point your finger at them.
Out of curiosity, have you tried OpenStreetMap? You get the same enjoyment of editing without the "random/poisonous moderation process", plus the data you contribute is open, rather than private property.
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I've heard so many horror stories of businesses trying to remove fake reviews from competitors. Even a tech savvy can't do much if your nemesis are bent upon destroying your online reputation. A company like Google doesn't offer an easy way to alleviate that. Your best bet is that you hope to stay lucky.
Celebrating Four Years of HN Newsletter with Vim Fundraiser
I was in the Summer 2013 batch.

There is no hard-and-fast rule for figuring out what is and is not a well-actually, but the biggest factors (at least for me) are (1) did it derail the conversation, (2) did my correcting someone make it less acceptable to not know something, and (3) was my motivation to do something like show off?

I've been guilty of all 3. Anecdotally, I found that the effect of this lightweight rule was that at HS it was very much ok to not know something, and let me tell you, adjusting to the real world, where that is subtly untrue, is a trial.

As for the "parachuting in" problem, that's essentially the gist of a different lightweight social rule, "no backseat driving". :)
I think everyone here is sympathetic to the idea that a 74 year-old shouldn't have to keep up with every new technology, but you seem to be forgetting the fact that he's running a business. Not knowing what Maps is is fine for a random consumer, but excusing a restaurant owner for not knowing about online map services is basically saying that he's no longer competent to run the restaurant.
not sure if D is a stranger in these parts.
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Really, there has to be a rule about not debating what an "-ism" is?? This seems a little much for a coding seminar. How about "Don't be a Jerk" or nothing at all.
Scientists Discover Gliese 832c, a New Planet Similar to Earth
Maybe the choice of methane is because it's renewable? They might be betting on that to keep the costs low in the long-term.
Hi HN! We built these visualizations with d3 library. I'd love to hear your feedback, especially on the visualization of predictions between cities. Thanks!
On my Ubuntu Desktop I am running Google Chrome and just opened vSphere Web Client. My versions are as follows.

Ubuntu 14.04,
Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153,
vSphere Web Client Version 5.5.0 Build 1750595 and
Flash Player LNX 14,0,0,125

I included Flash Player because it comes up in my about VMware vSphere page but I can tell you I could not install a newest enough Flash plugin on Linux because Adobe has stopped releasing them, which you probably already know.
She's Still Dying on Facebook
Is google really favoring https sites? This could have unintended consequences like SEO guys suddenly demanding a public IP for their customer sites (many of which have no need for encryption I imagine) and causing a heavier IPv4 drain than expected. IPv6 just isn't here yet. Must be nice to be an SSL seller right now.

I find that if there is a https site, google will just send me there, which is nice, but if they're changing their search algorithm for https that kinda sucks. I want my search terms to match up with the best content, not used as a reward system for implementing SSL everywhere.

The article is pretty short on facts. I don't think its favoring anything. It just uses SSL if you have it. On the downside, I have noticed that connecting to sites has been slower than usual lately. The SSL handshake is still slow. Whatever happened to making all of this run faster?

Anyone else enjoy the irony of HN linking to the plain-text version of the httpwatch site?
Isn't the topic in this case supposedly "How Google Maps can Destroy a Business at Will"? A topic that isn't supported by the article content (as discussed upthread)? That seems pretty "useless" to me.
This is a throwaway account. I feel we are being invaded. The culture we used to have didn't cared about isms or whatever you want to call them. It developed through text were it hardly matter who was on the other side of the connection, only skills and thoughts mattered. Those were the good old days, when we were free.

Now we are being invaded. We, like every other culture in the world, are ask to not use certain language and not have certain thoughts. If we do not comply, we are heretics. Only they don't use that term, they rather use some ism.

The wheel of history is repeating. The control freaks still want to control, they just changed one set of sins for another.
Turbo Trainers and Rollers
But can it compile to Javascript?
The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities

http://www.amazon.com/The-Software-Security-Assessment-Vulne...
I thought ISIS is the state now? The Taliban certainly were, and they did similar things.

Not to mention 15th C Spain.
D? It's been around for a fairly long time, and it doesn't really have much momentum. I'm not sure why it's "the next big programming language".
Ask HN: What is your news source?
For me mostly its HN, Twitter & blogs I follow.
When Google Reader existed it was the #1 news source

What's yours?
Methane pressurization is easy, it's the same method used as with LOX. Getting rid of Helium simplifies the process enormously and is also the same route that SpaceX is going down, though at much larger scales.

Also, a lot of people called out Scaled Composites on their choice of engine for Space Ship 1/2 as being a risk. Hybrids seem easy on paper and at small scale, but they have a lot of special difficulties once you scale up. The engines they're building out to be fairly simple, and lots of companies have built engines that size and actually with greater complexity without having prior experience.
Autopolyfiller — Precise polyfills.
At a certain point don't you have to trust people to be adults?

If someone's being a "subtle" racist, they're just being racist, and you can deal accordingly (likewise for the rest of the "subtlisms"). Beyond that, if you want people to act with maturity, you have to treat them like adults, which these rules certainly don't do.
MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
Chat Sports is hiring for a lead iOS engineer: http://www.chatsports.com/jobs/#!/lead-iOS-engineer

The groundbreaking Chat Sports app is the most comprehensive sports news app to date. Sports news from all your favorite sources on the web is now perfectly formatted for reading on your iPhone. Follow your teams like never before with local, national and blog news all in one place.

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Toronto has a large wealthy immigrant population that is parking foreign money in real estate that drives up the prices. Salaries in Toronto area do not justify $950k homes. I have also noticed people in those $950K live poorly : by that I mean they don't eat out in decent restaurants, or got to movies as often. Best Buy and Target stores are doing poorly in GTA.
Micro Experts
Oklahoma breaks record with hundreds of earthquakes after fracking intensifies
Excerpt:

In the months after her death, I was comforted by her profile, and by the people sharing stories there—I refrained from posting not because I thought the forum was cheap, but because I didn’t know what to say. My grief felt private, personal, like something only Lea would understand. A few times in the last couple of years I’ve come close to posting. The impulse is always followed by anger—anger at Lea’s Facebook for posing as her living self, for tricking me, momentarily, into believing that if I post I will somehow reach her.
Not with facebook last time I tried.

Had the same problem, someone used my email to create a facebook account and now I can't get it back without going through various loops that I honestly don't care about. I just put anything that is related to facebook to be automatically deleted and my friends know I hate FB and I'm not there, so if someone 'friends' them thinking it's me, I think only 2-3 people I know wouldn't suspect it.
Design Follies – ‘Can I’ vs ‘Should I’
If you're from, say, Kansas or Ohio you are less likely to attend one of them than if you're from California or Massachusetts.

While that might be true, there's also a population density issue. CA, NY, and MA have large urban populations, so more students are likely to attend those elite colleges.

That said, I know for a fact that admissions officers and student volunteers from these schools literally spend months driving around the country to recruit prospective students from traditionally underrepresented states. They are well aware of this perception of elitism and want to combat it. One of my good friends from MIT was from Montana. (Yeah, anecdotes != data, but this issue you mentioned is very legitimate and something that Top 10 universities are actively trying to address.)
Matt Cutts Is Disappearing For A While
It just seems like in order to get the most out of Hacker School one has to act with positive intent but otherwise entirely ignore the rules.

It looks immensely easy to fall into a trap of caring too much about the rules and not caring enough about the code, and I can imagine a large group of people trying to play along rather than try to become better "hackers". "Ohh, I'm sorry, you did actually just save us from three hours of bashing our head into a wall by recommending a specific algorithm, but you also broke the rules. For shame!"
Has anyone at wired these days actually seen a computer?

If they have they should really show it to their journalists.
Is this because Facebook uses it? D has been round for longer than they seem to be making out.
It banned the export of cryptography.
Somehow the pixelart/animation style reminds me very, very much of the old Gobliiins games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobliiins) - the artists seem to be different (Emannuele Spinasse and Pierre Gilhodes) but the detail and movements seem to be very close in feeling.
I use Pocket for a different use-case (basically, saving long-form stuff for perusal later). For taming the too-many-tabs problem I use Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
Not necessarily. There's already many billions of dollars a year being spent on space, both by governments and by private entities. Lowering the cost of access to space would greatly increase what can be done with those funds, even assuming they wouldn't grow.
Making "never break the build" scale
The plug-in hybrids are a great alternative. Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, Ford Fusion, and more. All have some electric range (38/11/19 miles respectively) and then have gas engines that extend the range to "normal" ICE car ranges.

We just bought a volt and it's a great car. We've driven 168 miles since we got it and have driven 0 gas miles. And with the $7500 federal tax credit and $1500 california rebate the cost is only $25,000.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html As a child, I wondered why my sister could make friends and keep them so easily, while I could not. It would take me years to discover this. And now, as a public service I am sharing with you, my fellow geek friends, what I learned. Whoever pulls a "well, actually" almost always shifts the conversation to himself.
(Securedrop dev here) We often suggest ideas like this to deployment operators, and others as well. For example, we encourage deployments to mirror the Tor Browser Bundle so sources don't have to go to Tor's (monitored) website to get it. We encourage them to use SSL everywhere so the "trail to the landing page" is harder to spot. We encourage the exact "hidden iframes" idea you propose here. And we encourage them to deploy on a path, not on a subdomain (because hostnames are visible even with TLS). At least WaPo is doing the last one right!

Generally, it is very difficult to convince the operators of sites like the Washington Post to do things like this, but we're working on it!
Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve
Right! momentum is the most technically relevant quality of merit. Lets have a wholesome and fulfilling discussion of that aspect in particular. If that fails, lets discuss semicolons, and braces and make this HN story very meaningful and informative. After all that is the kind of discussion I come here for. If an article is crappy lets make the discussion around it crappier still. Shudder at the thought that a discussion could be stimulating even if based on an article less than stellar. Low and middle brow, here we come.

Ha! you are fun, searching through my comment history and downvoting old comments still downvotable. Whatever floats your boat.
Note: IIRC, the pony express was a transport mechanism for the US mail service, which has the same API today. And if you do send a letter to someone C/O the Harlem Public House, said establishment still exists and is willing to hold mail, and you do check it periodically, you will very likely get the letter.
Why would they need a dedicated ip? Wouldn't they just need SNI?
Is your male dominant workplace communication driving women out?
Why would I be kidding?

You are just backing up my point that recruiters will use it to grab your data and filter you like a product.

There is absolutely no benefit to you as an engineer. Quality / noise ratio is the issue here.
http://www.templeos.org/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf
> I thought ISIS is the state now?

ISIS was a non-state actor that had the goal of creating a new state on the territory administered by some existing states, and has to some extent managed to do so as those existing states failed. The failure of a state in maintaining its "monopoly on violence" is almost inevitably followed by another state-like actor displacing it in that role -- there is no shortage of actors wishing to impose their will and no shortage of actors willing to use violence to do so in the absence of an actor with the resources and will to prevent them from doing so.
I also would like to see some kind of normalization about the rounds they invest in.
A "well actually" occurs when a person is splitting hairs. This can be desirable, for example when you're trying to obtain a complete understanding of something. But in normal conversation, such pedanticism is often annoying. The "well actually" policy, as I understand it, is an attempt to make such hair splitting "opt-in" rather than "opt-out".
The propellants are such a small part of launch costs that they can practically be ignored.

Helium probably costs more than all the other stuff combined, and they might be able to forgo that here though, or at least significantly limit usage if they only use it for pressurizing the oxygen tank.
I think Hacker School's own words about why they no longer give feedback is a great example of what happens when one hyper analyzes the context and connotation of everything a person says and does.

https://www.hackerschool.com/feedback

Eventually, everyone stops communicating and just says nothing to avoid the possibility of saying the wrong thing.
WinXP marketshare is still around 25%. And the default browser on XP doesn't support SNI.
Thanks for the feedback. If you had to pick one other social login, which one would it be for you?
Which sites are using websockets right now?
There are ways to do it, but I'm pretty sure that it was dropped even for Android a year or so ago.

Regardless, it's a pain to navigate flash restaurant menus. Just give me a plain list!
Andrei is looking pretty fit these days. Being a research scientist at Facebook is good for your health it looks like.
Web development will still be a thing, but perhaps it will be different than what it looks like today. There's always going to be lots of money in the work of connecting people to one another (either in the fulfillment of social ends or business ends). There will just be that many more ways for people to do so in the future than today, not fewer.
It's probably the same reason why we just get bigger hard-drives instead of cleaning stuff we store in our current storage capacity.
Good point. We've been looking for examples of apps that do this particularly well, e.g. via a tutorial or as part of the on-boarding process. Do any outstanding examples come to mind for you?
Indeed, Gilad Bracha isn't a fan of static type systems.