skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He explicitly stated that this is not a chart of the future, but a chart of a future, as in this could happen but is not a prediction. For example, the religious fanaticism one sort of matches but he was talking about the democracy in the US being replaced by theocracy. That is thankfully not close to happening (I know, I know, money, politics, religion, etc. but we are nt sending virgins to New Jerusalim).
What do you think it would cost to put an Ad on the google homepage?
Came here to say exactly this! Talk about overfitting! :D
Nice! Just submitted my application.
I find cart useful when ordering, sometimes I have a budget and the cart lets me throw in everything I want then I pare it down to my budget.
Aqua Data Studio (http://www.aquafold.com/) is pretty awesome, and does most of the above. It's far from cheap, unless you're comparing it to Toad. It connects to pretty much anything with a jdbc driver, and provides a relatively uniform interface - I use it regularly with postgres, mssql, oracle and teradata.

Tora is free, and open source, but a bit rough around the edges.
Thanks for sharing this post!

About this:
===If Lisp is so great, why did we stop using it? One of the biggest issues was the lack of widely used and tested libraries. Sure, there is a CL library for basically any task, but there is rarely more than one, and often the libraries are not widely used or well documented.===

If Clojure was available back then and if you had written it in Clojure instead of Lisp (and given that Clojure can leverage JVM based libraries) - would you still have continued using Clojure?

I know this is an extremely hypothetical question but I am trying to figure out if Lisp is finally getting ready for "mainstream" adoption because Clojure is bootstrapped of the libraries of Java.
That's fixed in 33: http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/faster-and-snappier-...
Two ways:

1. API limits are usually per user (OAuth token, API token), not per API consumer. 5000 per user is a lot. The exceptions are ancient APIs, actually want to constrain usage, or didn't think about how their API would be consumed.

2. Honor cache headers and, headers or not, know the data well enough to cache thoughtfully.

We consume 40+ APIs for https://tacoapp.com/ and even with a full day as #1 on ProductHunt, the only APIs we had to worry about were those tied to the consuming app instead of to the user (API token) or user+consuming app (OAuth token).

Basically, if you build an API, base limits on the number of users a consuming app is acting on behalf.
Yes, but they're about as bad for representing base 12 numbers, so it evens out.
I'm also confused. Flickr, another Yahoo product has 4/5. Perhaps it's due to it being a more recent acquisition and the wheels are still in motion, or perhaps since there is so much sharing of copyrighted information it would be near impossible to maintain the cost of keeping up with these standards.
For myself, it will be three years in March 2015 when I first began to code. I am in my 30s and a lawyer by trade, with a life science background. My own assessment is that I have picked it up quickly, with good knowledge of PHP and Python, Javascript, and HTML/CSS.

But I am only just now starting to really understand the big deal about MVC, OOP, autoloading classes, testing, package management, versioning, etc. I think these concepts are what separates a coder from a skilled well rounded developer. As I have gone through the learning process, it took certain experiences with coding web applications (most of which I never released) where I could better understand why MVC or OOP was a better way to do things. My comprehension of those higher level topics came along much more slowly then did the syntax; and I don't think a 12 week code school can truly allow a student to grasp those topics (there just isn't enough depth of knowledge after 12 weeks).
Keep in mind that almost everything in ZenHub is built directly on core GitHub features which are not going anywhere (Issues, Pull Requests, etc) - the files are hosted on S3.

That said, Trello sync is an interesting idea. Taking a look at Trello integration is somewhere on our list, mostly to set up a Trello-to-ZenHub importer but sync would be a nice side-effect. Thanks for the feedback!
You won't get much sense from them... Their main push for revenue seems to be engaging with the shrinking population of people who both watch TV shows live and care to post inane messages about them while watching!
I keep thinking it would be a great idea, then I go and look for the 'right lisp to run it on' and slink back out of the dark alley carefully before I run sprinting back to something much more standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations

Only Movitz ever looked interesting enough to get me started on pre-prototype. But it was shortly abandoned as the usefulness didn't translate to the more used lisp implementations.
Prompt 2
Taking advice
Don't forget that a large chunk of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/11/21/mozillas-reliance-g...
http://populardemocracy.org/blog/demanding-police-accountabi...

There isn't actually all that much organizing being done, but these people are at the center of a lot of grassroots organizations, and have a ton of institutional support from foundations etc. Depending on how serious you are, I'd get in touch with them.
$1 billion is Apple's ad budget as of two years ago and a non-trivial fraction of Coke's overall annual ad budget. I call bs.

(http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot...)
Yes, for me it freezes my Firefox browser for a time and in chrome the startup screen is better but the application has unusable performance: Scrolling in the list of filters at the left-side is very laggy and applying a filter freezes both browsers for a few seconds. I even closed other tabs and applications but no change in performance.
Surprised GitHub isn't on the list.
21 Days: Steven Hatfill Warns Against Ebola Complacency
TweetDeck falls into the "bought and released a totally redone but worse app under the same name" bucket.
http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/04/02/police.apple.pn...

http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-deluged-by-police-demands-to-...

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-apple-and-google-help-police-by...

http://boingboing.net/2013/05/12/apple-can-decrypt-iphones-f...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...

http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl...
The Knack [video]
The federal government is fast becoming the military arm of corporate America. It's reprehensible, but the only way to fight it is to make billions of dollars yourself, then dedicate that money to fighting against the very system that enabled you to make and keep your billions.

This, of course, is unlikely to happen, and is why this problem will only get worse over time.
Shodan is a decently-sized website and runs on Pyramid (https://www.shodan.io). I don't know how popular it is in the general Python community, but it's been amazing to work with as a framework.
I'm perplexed.

The result here doesn't make sense evolutionarily. Time discounting should be highest when you're hungry because your first priority should be making it to the next time point (the discount factor measures uncertainty.)

Related:
http://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/pmwiki/CAFE/Wang%20-%20Sweet...
Acting so nonchalantly about it certainly doesn't help that fact. OP is right to get pissed off about it, it's an unbelievable injustice that is surpassed only by the magnitude of the failure of those in power who don't do anything about it.

This is a symptom of the ends-justify-the-means attitude that police departments around the US are fostering (along-side the holier-than-thou attitude), and one of the ways of showing them that it's unacceptable is by getting pissed off enough to do something about it.
> It's not an accident that Google's webservices work best (sometimes only) in Chrome.

A web service that only works in Chrome? Maybe you mean web application (web service would be really odd to work in just one browser). Do you have a source for this regardless? I hadn't heard of this.
Well, I guess Chrome's implementation just sucks then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> They're protected, by law. As far as I'm aware, they can't also be sued

Which is why they should be publicly shamed.
YC got a brother right together #BlenEd proto - The Next Tutorspree? 
I have not had a full nights rest since October 14th... The YC application is real; not knowing my status* it prepares you before you get in and changes your thought process.

After passing up 3 rounds I got enough confidence to apply. Lets be real when you look at the pictures as a black dude you say to "self" --- next year; even though I attended #Columbia_biz lang...

The new? I got the proto going; it will make you do it even if your solo.. Just make sure its solving a problem as they say.. We got that!

Best wishes for dinner...

@andrelewis531

there is more to the proto behind lock and key -but take a look.. yep and pardon any typos-
on the a train typing...
No this is like buying Photoshop and Adobe saying you can't let your friend come over and use it without paying for a new license.

I paid for the data. There is no difference if I use the data request comes from my mobile device or if it comes from my laptop connected to my mobile device.

Price discrimination is not a god given right nor is it criminal (usually) to avoid. (I can't think of a case where avoiding price discrimination is criminal, but I'm sure there is)
@andrelewis531
I'll second the motion that there's something going on specifically with your setup. A reset as another poster suggests might be worth a go. Or even just creating a separate, fresh profile and trying that out for a day or two. [1]

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
Yeah, it's weird that the document doesn't "self-identify" its publication information anywhere. The only reason I found the metadata quickly is that I glanced at the URL and realized it was a tech report, so Googled for Umich CSE's tech report archive.
Alcoa runs a car on an aluminum=>alumina metal-air battery!
I would add an Aussie to that list - Greg Egan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel) - this book was as mind blowing to me as Anathem, and bears multiple readings. I've fallen out of scifi in the last few years, and Egan has sucked me back in.
There's so much conflicting information and misinformation, you almost have to just ignore it all. Is it direct contact with bodily fluids, or is it on your skin once you pop a fever, and spreading via doorknobs? A single virus particle can be lethal, or patients only become highly infectious at the end-stage? Unfortunately it's really complex, and some of these aren't even contradictions.

I think the only way to really analyze it is through the macro-level "R0" (basic reproduction rate) which seems quite low, but that also depends on accurate reporting. If the reporting is accurate within an order of magnitude then it truly is hard to catch / easy to avoid, and hopefully we see the numbers start to turn in the next few weeks.

My guess is that because there's a very limited amount of time a person can be both symptomatic and ambulatory, given a remotely functional health care system and a culture which minimizes contact with the deceased, the virus would be self-defeating.
I just had to respond because I am a somewhat new developer and after a while I could also tell you what a class was, an instance, static methods, public methods, private methods, etc. But i'd be darned if I could look at somebody else's class for doing something and be able to tell you why there was a static method over here, a private method over there, and a public method somewhere else. I guess my point is that somebody could abstractly tell you what those different definitions are, but that is much different than actually being able to write a class correctly. (at least in my experience.)
"There's no internet" is a rather damning accusation that can be made of practically every sci fi story written up until there was actually internet! And even then, they generally didn't anticipate just how much it would change our lives. Stories set hundreds of years in the future contain computer usage patterns that look primitive within five years of when they're written. Amazing!

I think that in itself is a commentary on just how big a deal the internet is, historically speaking.

I think the classic tropes of science fiction are a product of the era in which they are written:

Starships must have seemed inevitable in a culture that witnessed the aerospace industry progress from its first powered flight to landing on the moon in a few decades.

Androids as stock material and fodder for stories about race issues must surely have come from a culture that didn't see their programming as the hard or interesting part of the question. Now that we know how hard it is, stories set decades in the future are a lot more conservative about how relatable the AIs end up being, what they can do, how human they really are.

The cyberpunk tropes of lone hackers and underground teams outmaneuvering corporations and governments seem to me like a big reflection of the hobbyist PC revolution of the 80s and 90s. They seem quaint now, though.

I found Brin's Existence really refreshing on this front -- the predictions and tropes seem based on looking at technology of today and extrapolating from that. I really enjoyed it!
Should one also call in the SWAT team when investigating if barbers have a license? Officer safety and all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/19/f...

This line is important-

>So a level of force once reserved for hostage situations, bank robberies and active shooters is now being used on low-level drug offenders, people suspected of white-collar crimes, people who have unkempt property and to make sure the local bar is properly labeling its beer.

Now think about this - when the police go in a situation guns drawn when there isn't a reason to believe there would be a real threat to personal safety the THEY are being the aggressor and potentially escalating the situation. Which creates danger when there wouldnt otherwise be. Officers are supposed to protect the public, not threaten it. Eventually the police's relationship with the public degrades to a point that officer safety is now actually in much more jeopardy.

Respect is a two way street.
I don't find it to be unnecessarily rude. It was a legitimate critique of the poster's own assumptions. I guess that because I'm not an HN "insider" I'm not allowed to challenge someone's assumptions. Only once you hit the magical karma level are you able to do such things.
I wonder if it matters just how hungry you are. If you're hungry because it's winter and there's less food - but still enough to see you through to spring - then you'd better not prioritize the shortest term.
That is pretty incredible. I knew about ISP's DNS servers that hijacked NXDOMAIN but I've never before heard of MITMing of third party DNS servers! Wow! Have you contacted T-Mobile about it?
Facebook has problems. They are forcing page and group owners to advertise in order to reach their fans by manipulating organic reach and preventing direct communications with page fans. For the most part you can only expect single digit percent reach of page posts to page fans. Boosting posts --paying-- is the only way to reach them all. Page owners don't like this. Many page owners are slowly devising strategies to take their fan base outside of FB. This is particularly problematic when you spend money inside or outside FB to build an audience that, ultimately, FB does not allow you to own. And, again, they make you pay again and again to reach them.

Then there's the issue of fake likes or paid likes that fall outside your campaign specifications. You pay for likes from the US and get a barrage of likes from Bangladesh.

The next issue is engagement. People like pages because they like the pictures or something else in the ads. After that they have zero engagement with the page.

This, coupled with limited reach of posts on your page, means that your posts might reach a bunch of people who are utterly irrelevant to your mission (Bangladesh) or absolutely disengaged (love the pictures). We advertised for a page, reached hundreds of thousand of people and received a real education as to the minefield that FB can be. I am absolutely convinced that the same amount of cash would have produced vastly better results had we spent it on Google ads. We would end-up with a list we could communicate with, groom and grow rather than a page with people who's relevance, targeting and engagement are in question. And, to add insult to injury, we have to pay dearly to reach with each and every message.

Yes, to answer the question, we are transitioning our list away from FB as quickly as possible and will not advertise at all after that. Live and learn.

We've heard that Twitter can be far better than FB in many regards in terms of reaching and connecting with your audience. I'm sure we'll learn all about that in the next few months.
Ask HN: How do I look for a job without my current employer finding out?
The situation: I work at a small startup in a city that is not SF or NY. Though the company is small it is somewhat high profile in our city and our founder is well connected with devs, managers, and founders at many of the companies with open positions that I would consider applying for.

Some context: Our founder on two occasions has told me that he heard from people at other startups that an employee of his (a coworker of mine) had applied for a job there. In both cases the people making the call are well respected people in our community. Perhaps I was/am naive to think that that was inappropriate. Neither person got an offer from those companies and it made things very weird at work.

Why I'm thinking of leaving: I like my job a lot but frankly I'm pretty sure I can get a better offer somewhere else and I'd like to see if that's true. However, if I do apply to a few places and don't get offer I'd prefer to avoid any weirdness at work.

How do I go about dealing with this?
revenue != profit

they've been operating w/ a net loss since (probably) forever
An example of this is Google Drive's offline mode, which only runs on Chrome (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?hl=en)
A little more detail on the Timberline investigation
> Getting more people into the bucket of "people who installed a custom theme" doesn't actually help your bottom-line conversion rate until you can establish unequivocally that the people you've added to the bucket convert at the same rate as the bucket did before they were added to it.

This is incorrect. Let's say we have two buckets, A and B, where bucket A is people who haven't used a feature and bucket B is people who have. If some testing shows that people in bucket B convert far better than people in bucket A you make a change to get more people into bucket B. The change is successful if more people end up in bucket B and bucket B still outperforms bucket A and the total contribution coming from bucket B is higher. Bucket B doesn't need to perform equally well before and after the test.

Using the numbers from the link bucket B was performing at 10x the conversion of bucket A. Out of 10,000 users bucket B contributed 70 subscribers. After the changes bucket B received almost five times the users as previously and converted at four times the rate of bucket A. Out of 10,000 users bucket B contributed 884 subscribers. If the change had no impact we'd expect more users in bucket B but not more subscribers. These numbers aren't really accurate since I took them from the diagrams in the article and they change what they're looking at between the two. To be correct you need to compare the same thing before and after changing a feature.
"What [Dr Hatfill] does know, at a depth that can rival any scientist’s knowledge, is Ebola."
And who does the wrist slapping when countries violate international law?
From the article: "Hatfill: When the SARS epidemic happened, Singapore came very close to being wiped out. People don't realize this. And over there, if you chew gum or spit on the street, they cane you. Singapore had this under control overnight, and all their contact tracings were confined to their house, to the point where they would phone you every hour and you'd better answer the phone or the cops came by to arrest you. And they stopped it. You saw in the U.S. the journalist went out for pizza, this nurse went on a plane. Are you out of your mind?"
> You have to wonder, what is the fear of drugs which is driving this?

It's near term rewards: job promotions, accomplishments, seizures.
My DIY Standing/Sitting/Floor Desk
Yeah. Well, I think I should change my own perception about my self right now.

But if there was something that gave me chills was this claim made by Sara

>The Internet is the largest recording of human history ever built

(I mean I'm not that dumb, but I mean I never considered that in a such crucial time we are excluding basically a half of the population by default).

Fuck. Men had the leadership in the field on politics for centuries and in most countries women vote since a couple of decades.

And the computers and internet will certainly will lead our lives for the centuries from now this is quite worrisome because turn the table is pretty difficult.

I'm a man too.
Not to be the negative nancy, but the inline thumbnails are awfully pixelated =( Why not just reference the full-size images and set their width/height to 25% or whatever?
We (https://www.surveymonkey.com/) use it for all our services. I can't imagine using another framework! Pyramid is great for what we do.

I also know http://www.cars.com/ is heavily powered by Pyramid.
I can't entirely blame them for this one considering the alternative is either using something standard (localStorage) where they're only going to be able to store a really insignificant amount of information or creating something proprietary for multiple web browsers which is difficult to maintain.

If there was a web standard way of caching 5GB of files locally then I would be annoyed.
(he tried to originally, but(
Perhaps you did not detect the sarcasm?

As much as I would like to see more post coming from Indonesia (disclaimer: I am Indonesian), the article feels hollow.
Clojure is a beautiful language and its web ecosystem is improving rapidly, but breadth of, depth of, and support for libraries is still its main weakness next to the likes of rails and django. Clojure's a lot better for solving hard problems, but you'll also spend a lot more time getting tripped up by things that seem like they should be easy and reinventing wheels. Fortunately, it seems a near certainty that this will eventually no longer be true.
At Magnetic (http://www.magnetic.com) - we've implemented a policy of code review - maybe you could participate on some code reviews in one part of the code base - reading code isn't as fun as writing code, but at least you could still feel part of the codebase and have influence.
You have 200 tabs open? How do you find the tab you want? How often do you look at each of the 200 tabs? What happens when you're on another computer? What happens if you accidentally close Chrome, do you open all 200 tabs again?
Before I scrolled down and saw it I was pissed at the wrong people.
Thanks! Looking into it! :)