skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect you're right but damn; didn't SOMEONE on his board pull him aside and say, "uh, yeah... you don't want to do that."??
Ask HN: How do you handle maternity leave for a critical member on a tiny team?
If you have a small team, less than 10 people, and you have a critical member who needs to leave for over a month, how do you handle this? The laws protecting maternity leave seem to only apply to companies of greater than 50 people, but it seems morally wrong to deny someone this ability on a smaller team too.
I have to admit that I don't see the point in it. Maybe this will be one of those instances where I am just blind to its appeal.
I always win at hackathons, coming away with at least a dozen different f̶r̶e̶e̶b̶i̶e̶s̶ prizes
> This is a terrible, inaccurate article to link. Google Talk is going away, so is irrelevant.

It's a valid article to link. Google Talk (federated based on open standards) is not going away - it's already gone (at least federation part). Hangouts is a closed non interoperable service, not based on open standards. Clear degradation for Google. However this article isn't saying anything new. Google degraded to that a while ago and I doubt there is any point in trying to convince them otherwise. They chose their degrading direction with a lame excuse from Eric Schmidt which sounded like "everyone else does it".

> Google Talk is irrelevant to anyone now.

That's bunk. I had many contacts (more than a half actually) who are Google users and with whom I could communicate before. When server to server encryption became mandatory on most XMPP servers, those contacts were simply cut off. Gone. And don't say it's irrelevant - it would be a royal pain asking all those people to register on another XMPP server, and I'm not interested in using Google one. So I simply had to stop communicating with them over IM. Do I need to say what I think about Google regarding it?
Standards go a long way toward facilitating usability. Web developers should know this as well as anyone.
The game only used the wiimote in the sideways controller-like configuration.
Seriously? That's just the kind of guy who will be summarily ignored, too. What a waste of twenty bucks.
OK Cupid has been price discriminating for at least a year. Does anybody know if they do it in the UK?

http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/1nkdfx/

http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/28oeo6/

Some states in the the US also ban price discriminating based on sex or gender. For example, California, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin.
Does anybody know if OK Cupid price discriminates in the UK?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%27_night
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Basic Tinder was crippled (swipe limit) in order to convince people to buy the premium version.
Safe implies idempotent.

"Same effect from 0 or more actions" implies "Same effect from 1 or more actions".
Well, they don't use #!
That makes sense. But "succumbing to the ethical and moralistic brainwashing" makes it sound like you think it's ethically and morally justified to walk away from a loan.
Human evolution is almost meaningless on those time scales.
Unreal Engine 4 is capable of producing VERY realistic environments. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6PQ19BEE24&t=15s
Google Voice is US only.
> Did I mention that they refuse to let me purchase my own mode digressing from the fact that they keep raising the modem rental fees?

I see this mentioned online, but are you sure this is an actual policy somewhere you've signed, or just what you've heard?

I've setup Comcast in 3 locations where I've lived on opposite sides of the country in the last 8 years or so and not once have I ever gotten any flack about using my own modem.

Once the tech comes to wire up my house and verify my signal is correct etc, I just call the 1-800-comcast number and connect to their internet reps and tell them I have a new connection and a modem I'd like to associate, give them my MAC address and I am on my way.
It's kind of a stretch to call Tinder a tech company. It's a hook up site, basically, and they want to charge less attractive people more money for the same reason fat people can't find stylish clothes - too many unattractive people will hurt your brand.
Samsung Pay could overtake Apple Pay in mobile payments
Apple may have lost its lead in contactless payments yesterday when Samsung introduced its universally accepted Samsung Pay at Mobile World Congress. This may be somewhat surprising considering just last September Apple convinced the mobile industry that it had revolutionized credit and debit card payments with Apple Pay.
totally hypnotic together with some music!
No, it's not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683630
Your headline of "...this is poor API Design" is clearly not written as here's a "REST-ful alternative to using POST for large queries".

There's a strong case for taking advantage of every technology at your disposable to deliver the most compelling value and end-user experience possible, as-is the trait/focus of successful companies (ala DropBox).

And how exactly is REPORT better for linkability? Why is being able to link a 8kb QueryString more important and worth sacrificing over all other end-user features/qualities for? and what are other examples of "breaking the web"?
It's difficult to convey how big a deal Tesco's issues have been in the UK–it's had very extensive media coverage, a parliamentary inquiry looks likely, and there are investigations ongoing by the Serious Fraud Office and several regulatory bodies. This has created a distinct lack of goodwill in the general public.

Regardless of the accounting issues, they've had other issues too. There's the perception they're losing their customer base: they're ceding the low end of the market to certain supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, Asda) and the higher end to others (Waitrose, Sainsbury's, M&S), leaving nothing in the middle. So that's a problem for them, and one they'd need effective management to handle.

All of this is potentially salvageable, but it is very uncertain, so I'm not surprised people might not want to invest.
> I'm a Signal/TextSecure contributor.

That's a bit of an understatement.

Anyway, thank you for your work, and congratulations for the release !
Oh wow, glad I saw the HN bots tweeeting that this was on the front page. (co-founder here).

I'm sure people will be frustrated that there's a login gate. We don't like it either, but we had some members of ISIS come in and try to wreak havoc, and it was hard to follow their IPs, so we started requiring accounts so we could hellban them. Hopefully that's a temporary measure.

We're learning there's lots we still need to fix and improve, but I'd love to hear your comments.
Again. Multiple baskets will always be smarter than a single basket with everything in it.
Age is not a good discriminator of looks, particularly starting at 28.
Hey look, sure enough the "How dare you criticize Google?" downvoters are in full force. :)
I wonder if it matters that Tinder is a service not a product. In MS Office it is possible for two people to have the same user experience. But on Tinder the people that you interact with are the product. Legally this distinction is probably irrelevant.
> Hardening applications, like any development, is a matter of focus, and I would argue that hiding version numbers should be pretty far down the list of priorities.

Actually, for as simple of a task as it is, I'd consider it to be low hanging fruit.

For Nginx:

server_tokens off;
fcgi_hide_header via;
fcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By;

etc.
End of life according to who? That's not how it works, one company doesn't just declare something EOL and everyone else stops using it out of obligation.

VGA will stop being used when it stops fitting most use cases out there, and not before. The connector standard is capable of 2048x1536 at 85hz, which, making an educated guess here, is probably a higher resolution than the monitor you're using right now. Most monitors and TV's sold nowadays are 1920x1080.

4K will probably be what finally kills it off (3840 x 2160), but I'd give that another 2-5 years before the hardware reaches enough market penetration for manufacturers to stop including the plug out of necessity.
Hmm, as far as hangovers she says

"Does drinking impact your sleep?
I don’t get hangovers. If I overdo it and I get a headache, that’s saying a lot. Most people in their 40s are sick for a day and a half. If I drink too much, then I may go to bed at two and get up at six — maybe I get an extra hour’s sleep!"

Severe alcoholics often don't get a full night of sleep because they wake up when the depressant effect of the alcohol wears off, the same reason people shake in the mornings - in the absence of alcohol, the chemicals the body releases to compensate for constant alcohol cause overstimulation.

My experience with drinking a fair bit last year is I would get 4-6 hours of sleep a night, and wake up wide awake with no hangover, too. On nights when I hadn't drank, I'd sleep 7-9 hours which is normal for me.

I'd say it's all a matter of neutransmitter balance, which varies even in normal people. Bipolar folks often only need 2-4 hours of sleep in manic phases, and feel great, but may sleep for 8-12 hours in depressive states. Someone who is hypomanic could be expected to sleep just 4 hours a night and have difficulty sleeping longer.
Movie theaters very clearly show the different prices for different groups (students, seniors, etc.) and no one seems to mind. Same with zoos, museums, etc.
I liked this idea, but noticed the gap between up/down votes was actually quite large, meaning the questions weren't actually that controversial. I went ahead and made a change that filtered out results where ABS(up - down) is less than half of MAX(up, down). (its quite a bit messier than that, though, as there's no MAX function in sql that selects the greater of two operands).

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/282007/mos...
Where did that first quote come from? Horses sleep (though they can standing up). So do fish, though it's not clear if they use the unihemisphere sleep trick that marine mammals use (so they can keep swimming).

Given the great benefits of being conscious (alertness from predation, etc), there's clearly some biological reason that animals and humans sleep.
Does that actually work in practice? Will the body make it through various opinionated routers, WAFs, etc? (I have no idea, but if not, it doesn't matter.)
Why would breach-of-contract have anything to do with the DMCA?
This is so, so cool. I wish this is what all textbooks were like.
I immediately thought of the Turing Police in Neuromancer when I read this post.
Genomes document ancient mass migration to Europe
If you criticize Google here, you will get downvoted into oblivion as soon as the fanboys find your comment.
OKCupid is smart about that too, based on how attractive you are you'll see -- and be visible to -- people in a similar "league" to you. You're not going to be seeing beautiful women who could model if you're an unattractive male. This is pretty good for people who are unattractive, because they can focus on people they're more likely to have success with.

https://www.quora.com/Is-being-one-of-the-most-attractive-pe...
No one should use Pale moon, its just a fork of an older Firefox build.
Um... Google apps ARE bloat. And the number of them they require on devices just keeps increasing.
Looks like that's the one.

> which of all the things about WordPress you could choose to hyperventilate over seems like a strange one to go with.

Straw, camel, back, etc. Anything that makes it harder to secure against access against arbitrary code execution makes for an aggravating day.
okcupid is now very similar to tinder in that users can rate each other on a 0-1 scale. (It used to be 1-5).

The rating algorithm is probably a lot like pagerank. Ratings by users that are rated highly matter more.

The potential signals are:

* swipes yes or no

* messages received

* length of conversations

* number of unmatches/blocks received
I was just about to comment on the login wall. You should consider at least including a tour, so people can see what this site actually is before signing up.
Show HN: Download all of 2015's SXSW artists using `pup`
Data Mining Reveals a Global Link Between Corruption and Wealth
Signal is open-source while WhatsApp is proprietary.

WhatsApp also uses the 2-part ratcheting developed in Aoxotle my understanding is, but they are not mutually compatable on-the-wire transport.
> Google was in a position to change all that when they adopted XMPP for Google Talk.

I'd add to that that if they considered XMPP inferior for whatever reason, they were in position to change it by opening up Hangouts like XMPP-next or whatever. They simply betrayed the whole effort.
The article doesn't address security. The point of Apple Pay was the merchant, who've proven themselves untrustworthy, doesn't have any of your credit card info. If Samsung Pay provides similar functionality then they may have something. I don't see how they could though without the merchant having to change their backend processing, thus destroying the ubiquity.
Ya, it's at the top of the to-do list. Honestly didn't think this was going to take off so much, so didn't really care. But now it's become a priority.
That seems pretty gameable (and who would be better at gaming systems than games devs?). "Oh, yeah, we made $2999 on Gem Clan Quest, then $2999 on Gem Clan Quest Super Deluxe Edition, and $2999 on the Gem Clan Quest Candy Kingdom DLC, which is more of a sequel really, so it's a totally different product..."
How should the facts of this article (at least a significant portion of inventions have multiple simultaneous creations) inform us with respect to "Intellectual Property"? If, as trends seem to be leading, "Intellectual Property" is less a short term monopoly to incentivize innovations, and more of perpetual ownership of an idea, shouldn't we be granting part-ownership for the other people that more-or-less simultaneously create something? That way we're not dis-incentivizing innovation, there's a chance for part ownership in the next lightbulb or telegraph or whatever big time monopoly turns up as "Intellectual Property".
Build More Secure Mid-Tier Apps with Azure SQL Database using Row-Level Security
To be fair, CORS is not a part of HTTP. If you're talking to your microservice with a browser, you've misunderstood the point of microservices.
How do you know they are local? Based on statistics? What do you define as local? If they have been here for 5 years is it local?
I've built ok looking things in free Unity. One of the most irritating limitations was the ugly light gray theme instead of the darker gray theme.

Pro is $75 per month or $1500, then $75 per month for iPhone. And you can't just stop paying, it's a 12 month contract! If you pay up front then try to upgrade it's $700.

If they had an option to pay royalties and less up front it would be a much better proposition for upcoming indie devs. But they had some pricing thread where they asked the community after Unreal's $20+5% offering and decided it was best to keep current pricing. Perhaps the community felt that if you can't pony up a few K, don't crowd the market with your games?
Part 2: Running Your Own DNS Resolver with MirageOS
Please don't be offended, but your vision is very limited. Like early sci-fi limited. If everything goes well you might end up being a distributed mind having multiple avatars across different planets. Your kids could be not just randomly generated gene sequences, but something better. If that fish crawled out of the water, we can overcome life-extension consequences.
Sorry to hear that people have been trying to mess with your site, but why do you require an account just to view the page?
When you're overtired, it can actually be harder to sleep. I found this out when we had a baby -- longer, better quality naps during the day lead to better, longer sleep at night.

The root problem could be delayed sleep-phase syndrome. [1]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
> feeling constant pain

Do you currently live with pain?
Right, I think I understand why we're shouting loudly over each other's shoulders.

If you scroll back, you'll see I was responding to a particular point that I quoted: the idea that, pointing out the over representation of Asian men would be considered racist and lead to (I assume) proponents of equality and social justice (or the "Pretty People" as you wrote) stopping intellectual discussion.

My goal was to provide evidence for my disagreement with that point. So I wanted to show that, embedded in this idea of 'merit' are a whole bunch of factors that absolutely are talked about by those Pretty People (or, perhaps not them, but the intellectuals from whom their derive their outlook), albeit in different terms. And, modulo that change in terminology, not only do they not stop intellectual discussion, they are absolutely central to that discussion.

So, given that was the point I responded to, and what I was trying to say (and, again, sorry if I was unclear). Can you see why being badgered about whether my definition of 'privilege' is overly broad seemed obtuse? Can you see why I felt that the definition of 'privilege', whether tautological, specific or not, was irrelevant?

I suspect, in contrast, you tried to read my comment arguing against the entire point you were making, and therefore, trying to support hackeruser's argument in some sense. And therefore you missed what I was attempting to get at. Fair enough. Again, I could have been clearer. And I should have thought more carefully about why you seemed to be missing my point. It seemed I'd hit some nerve just using the word 'privilege'.
Eventually we'll build out multiple states; we didn't have time to do that, so we just threw a gate on the whole damn thing. It's a temporary measure, fixing 10 things at once right now. Had 2,500 unexpected signups today, so things are a little hectic.
We may have sufficient regulations that the market can push it over the top. After all if you can create a facility that converts ewaste into resalable raw materials you can both sell the service to municipalities who are required by law to dispose of their ewaste safely, and the raw materials to manufacturers as a recycled product. That combination might get you into an internal rate of return to make it worth while.
Reminds me of this talk by Gary Bernhardt: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
While the orbital mechanics are interesting, calling this asteroid Earth's moon is stretching the definition of a moon quite a lot. The Cruithne orbits the sun, not Earth. As Wikipedia puts it:

The key difference between a satellite and a quasi-satellite is that the orbit of a satellite of Earth fundamentally depends on the gravity of the Earth–Moon system, whereas the orbit of a quasi-satellite would negligibly change if Earth and the Moon were suddenly removed because a quasi-satellite is orbiting the Sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_moons_of_Earth#Quasi-sat...
Remember when the U.S. tried to limit the sale of PS3s to the government of Iran? That was a decade ago. In light of current negotiations with the Islamic Republic I see a lot of parallels between nuclear non-proliferation and the regulation of "weaponized" AI. To wit, even if the entire International System is in agreement about a set of regulations that will do little to stop bad actors. And do I really want inspectors coming to my office to poke around my jump point search code ;)

Rather, let's take a cue from Nassim Nicholas Taleb and in concert with the progression of AI, develop counter systems that make us less fragile. It shouldn't be unreasonable to extrapolate where AI is headed in 1, 5 or even 20 years based upon publicly available research.

Which brings up the most crucial point. The subset of humanity that constitutes world-class AI researchers is very finite indeed. Which brings up the significant possibility of a Bane / Dr. Pavel scenario playing out. Not unlike certain coerced atomic scientists in Persia today.
When you say okcupid's tinder clone are you talking about locals?
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Insomnia/Pages/Treatment.aspx
You can find the previous discussion about this (from last month) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983158
Here's a good post that highlights some of the takeaways from the annual report: http://25iq.com/2015/02/28/a-dozen-things-taught-by-warren-b...
My personal opinion is that Flynn effect is a combination of factors that aid developing of brain:

1. Better nutrition and medical care.
2. Teaching abstract concepts such as predicate logic early on.
3. Increasing complexity of the world in terms of information streams.
4. Urbanization of population.
4. Mandatory schooling and various programs aimed at increasing graduation rate, which is proxy for total amount of time an average child is schooled [0].

I was writing out long and detailed argument based on clustering of scholars and their presence in ancient civilizations, but after realizing amount of details such argument would need to stand I gave up. My argument was along the lines of: presence of clusters of extraordinary scholars in ancient civilizations show that prospering economy[1], knowledge communication, and education play crucial role in preparing those scholars.

[0] Now thinking about it - I think there should be strong correlation between average time children are schooled and standardized test scores. Probably also has additional wide variety of rippling effects including better economic growth.

[1] An economy that is capable of bearing load of academia.
> That is potentially a deliberate attempt to skew the demographics of their user base towards younger users

Or maybe those over 28 are willing to pay more, and this is a move to maximize revenue.
Been using 64 bit Nightly builds (from Mozilla) for years. Not sure why this is news.
I swear I had an account on the old site. Or did I log in with Twitter? I forget. Anyway I'm glad I didn't have sit in a hype-building waiting list--unlike everything else these days--which I was afraid of each time I checked back to see if the site was back in action.

Glad it's back though! Looking great I must say.
Haha yes his love of a good bargain overcame his self-professed technophobia in that case!

I'd guess he's just being modest with his frequent professions of technophobia though. I'd guess he knows a lot about technology businesses, but just figures that it's impossible to see their futures clearly enough for them to meet his standards.

He did forewarn disappointment with the 1999 tech boom, so he can at least spot extreme misvaluation in trendy businesses: http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive... (if anyone wants to ctrl+f to the start of the relevant section, it begins with 'I thought it would be instructive')
Personally I don't have any problems with sleep, but I worked on an iPhone and Android app that would solve that problem for some of the people who used it. The app teaches an observation exercise similar to meditation. You can listen (without having to download anything) here: http://antidoteforall.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954327