skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The global voting web application
Many times we want to share our opinions and that's what we do by sharing something on Facebook or sharing tweet on twitter. But many times it becomes impossible to get the final result because we cannot read all comments and re-tweets. That's where svaisa can shine. Users can create and share new polls on svaisa with custom options. Other users can vote or even comment on it. It's incredible. Giving people an opportunity to vote every day, will change the world. It will help the community to ask something really important, to change the world, to help people to come together. I will recommend you to visit svaisa(www.svaisa.com), and let's start enjoying the power of voting.
@GabrielSecure is their (inactive, what a surprise) Twitter account, FYI.
Many thanks for commenting, Andrew, and for the direction.

The underlying feeling remains – I feel DO ought to offer the terms of the YC deal to startups attached to other qualified incubators.

Whether that is practical or possible is a non-trivial discussion.

Nevertheless, I believe that outcome would feel fair, and it would right what feels wrong here.

(Incidentally, we are not at this time attached to any incubators.)
Raw loops vs. STL algorithms
Right - I'm charitably assuming that their study supported causality with p=0.02. In reality it doesn't.
http://www.petershallard.com/why-telling-people-your-goals-i...
When it comes to weird results in human epidemiology and public health, my bet is always on hidden/unknown 3rd factors. You're right that the signal might be real, but it might have nothing at all to do with cell phones. Rather, cell phones might be independently correlated with whatever the real causes of the sperm problems are.

Put in plain English: a group of men with similar cell phone habits probably have many other things in common.
Not sure it's a bad thing. Yahoo worked when the internet was smaller. For fields with reasonable amount of information the model is better than just searching for stuff.
It requires talking to people who have these problems ;) Most programmers only end up talking amongst themselves, or attack business problems they themselves experience (hence the large market saturation for developer tools).
All other things aside, the cost of buying a home in densely populated region with situational amenities such as subsidized schools, hospitals, fire stations, zoned shopping districts, reliable power, water, sewer and communication network access is also largely about the real estate market in the area.
I have not found any information about those invalidations.
For better or worse I suspect the UN panel ruling would be the same if, instead of being a noted whistleblowing journalist hiding from equivalent allegations in the Ecuadorean embassy it was, say, a former senior diplomat for Gadaffi's Libya, or a prominent US cult leader, or another non-"hero" type that could claim the same fears of extradition and arbitrary detention with the same degree of plausibility.

On the other hand, I suspect that if he had that sort of background there wouldn't be many people here willing to advance the argument that the original prosecution must be politically motivated, or it wasn't a real crime...

Justice is supposed to be blind.
Assange isn't breaking any Swedish rules or laws by not showing up in Sweden (he did however violate his UK bail).

I'm not sure what makes you think that he deserves the special treatment that he's currently receiving, it is common practice for Swedish authorities to interview people abroad (44 times in the UK!).

>But he doesn't have a right to dictate terms on how that should happen

Of course he does, he has an irrevocable right to defend himself against the allegations against him. His behaviour does not take that right away from him, nor can the Swedish prosecutor dictate the terms of that. Especially after the Swedish supreme court sided with Assange here.

It's also worth noting that the prosecutors duty isn't to Assange, but to the legal system. The goal of the legal system is to find whether or not Assange is guilty, not to punish him. By refusing to interview Assange in the embassy the prosecutor has betrayed the court system and breached her duty.
Europe [1]. I was very interested when I first saw some Fairphone 2 buzz online a couple months ago, but I'm a little apprehensive about water resistance and the price (525 EUR). Also, most people probably wouldn't have this problem, but I'd have to switch to a different cell provider to use an FP2.

[1] https://www.fairphone.com/phone/
Here's a google SERP for "insurance": http://imgur.com/VUqwyPq

Are you saying the bright "ad" lozenge next to the paid results isn't explicit enough?

And anyways, users don't go out of their way to avoid clicking on ads unless the ads are utter crap. Google's whole business is to make the ads relevant to the search and the user, so who's to say the ad isn't actually a relevant result?
I wish I had that many friends; this is nuts.
And another case with software patents and a patent troll, how much damages they have done
Curious to get feedback from game developers, what their experience has been working with multiple devices, software version and now Android TV. What's the best way to get up to speed with shipping games on Google Play?
Two things:

1. It's true that the Debian didn't initiate the schism. Mike Connor (Mozilla) told the Debian folks to stop distributing branded builds that weren't QAd by Mozilla.

2. When doing a build, it has always been trivial to create an unbranded version. Unbranded versions are what you'd get by default. At this point, I haven't run a build in years, but it would be surprising if this weren't still the case.
It also happens when one department is perceived as an "expense" like IT or R&D, and starts pushing against "revenue-generating" departments like sales.

Of course, all components of a properly-functioning organization are revenue-generating. An idealized business in some respects would be people giving you money with no money being spent. Everyone knows that's not how the world works, but it's awfully hard to justify on a quarterly statement.

At Google, many departments aren't directly revenue-generating. Sure, Chrome and Android help people browse the Internet, where they view ads, but that's quite removed from actually selling the product, and those are very large projects. Search, maps, and gmail can show ads internally to generate revenue, but that's still a layer removed. Perhaps Google Apps and Drive are loss leaders, and maybe Fiber will make money eventually, but Glass? Calico? Driverless cars? Loon? Seriously, where does the money for these projects come from? I suppose you can answer "AdSense and AdWords", but why do those businesses give them money? And the harder question is how do they generate political and cultural capital to maintain these expenses?

At most of the companies I have been involved with, these projects would have been cut, outsourced, or consumed by the AdWords and AdSense teams. But there's little question that the world is better and the Internet is used more because of projects like Search, Gmail, Android, and Chrome.

How does Google generate this culture? How can other companies replicate this process?
Canonical's new Ubuntu tablet can also be your PC
One can choose from the older models, then, or use a monitor. I don't want the crappy smarts in my devices.
Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth on Turing Pharmaceuticals
But isn't the fact that they obsess over catching him when he leaves the embassy, over of a claim of sexual molestation that even the "victim" doesn't really support, to the tune of 12 million pounds, a hint that maybe it's not really about this case alone?
I think online properties are generally worth less because they take less time to cultivate and build. Also while their earning potential might be solid over the short term, over the long term it's not so easy to gauge.

His Bible app is obviously different than most such properties, which is why he was able to bump up the offer. But still, if the app landscape changes, that can make their purchase worthless overnight. So you have to price that into the offer.
A Scorecard for Making Better Hiring Decisions
Why would the CIA want Assange? It's unlikely that he has any information they want -- certainly he has no information about ongoing terrorist operations -- and at this point it's unlikely that he has any information they don't want exposed.

(The Justice Department might want to prosecute him though, but now even that has very limited upside.)
How to take the boringness out of time tracking
This is true even without perpetually increasing house prices, so long as you're paying off the principal of the loan and not just the interest.
Learning How Garbage Collectors Work – Part 1
Ask HN: What's your #1 pain point when asking for a raise?
I'm creating a "stress-free" guide to salary negotiation for software engineers, and I'd love to know what those in this community feel has been the biggest pain in the butt or burning question when it comes to getting a raise.

I'll reply with advice to your questions here as well (I've helped hundreds of SEs already, but want to do more research), thanks for taking the time to help me out!
I don't think there is any argument against the prosecutions behaviour being politically motivated, the Swedish courts have confirmed that the prosecutor acted in breach of her duty by not agreeing to interview Assange in the embassy.
The point was made elsewhere, but I think you stated it most eloquently. Here's my question though: does it not benefit the user to enforce some minimum of deterrence through automated policing on the ad acceptance side?

Yes, it's whack-a-mole, but so is SEO, and Google's continually tweaking that instead of giving up. Based on the current rudimentary techniques used by the advertisers (e.g. "DOWNLOAD!" buttons), even eliminating only such blatant examples would go a long way towards cleaning up deceptive ad's.

And as you've noted... it's not like Google doesn't have access to advanced CV techniques and the computational infrastructure to run them...
Chromium syncs with your Google account, but in my experience is a bit buggier, at least on Linux.
If this is the kind of impetus needed to set off patent reform, all the better. I would argue against the "Troll" label, it is a legal firm doing its job very well. The Troll bashers I assume would prefer the companies to just leave this $ to the infringes? Why? Is it somehow immoral to use the legal system for financial gain? No, it is not, not at all. I'd say good on them for finding the loop holes and driving their $600M lorrie straight through it to the bank. Don't say fuck the trolls, fuck the patent system in the US which Apple has used to the detriment of many young companies too, they are all playing the game.
I have a modest proposal to get rid of these patent trolls and these ridiculous settlements that typically are decided by a jury of West Texas farmers.

Patents ought to be designated a non-transferrable property. Inventors may create a trust that receives patent revenues, and direct those revenues to any entity they please (their own company, their heirs, another company, a charity, etc.) but would not be able to actually sell the patents to any other company or individual.

Then, patent holding companies would evaporate, and the revenue for ideas would go to those who created the ideas. If a company created many patents, say, Kodak, then goes out of business, it would leave behind a trust that would continue to receive revenue on those patents until they expired. If you choose not to, you can forfeit the patent and then it becomes public domain.
They're the biggest trolls, like OP said.

Patents are a fucking joke in the age of technology. Fucking 20 year monopoly for a button, laughable.
Maybe set up a landing page to gauge interest? It really depends on how niche your target audience is. You could also pick one particular person/company in your niche and introduce yourself. This is hard, but it sounds like you will have to do that every step of the way and if you can't see yourself doing it then this is the deal breaker.
If you don't allow it access to your network, it's a dumb TV again.
Nope, it won't, it's too small for that, it will always need more energy input to keep the reaction going than the reaction itself produces.
I think at this point that the Firefox brand has been tarnished, unfortunately.

For many average users, the term "Firefox" reminds them of the slow browser they used to use before switching to Chrome.

For more advanced users, the term "Firefox" reminds them of the browser that includes ads (even if these are being removed), has unnecessary functionality built in (Pocket, Hello), and has undergone questionable UI changes (Australis).

For web developers, the term "Firefox" reminds them of the extra effort they still need to expend to test their creations in a browser that fewer and fewer people are using.

For others, the term "Firefox" will now remind them of this failed mobile OS project.

"Firefox" as a brand had a great reputation 5 years ago. But that reputation has eroded away since then.
Where does your conclusion stem from? I haven't been aware of the German government discriminating against these groups, nor of the CDU proposing laws to do so.

One issue I can think of is same-sex marriage, but there's laws enabling same-sex couples to get into a "Lebenspartnerschaft", which is functionally equivalent to a marriage. There is some areas where things differ, like certain clauses in the explosive ordinance regulations, criminal rehabilitation law and census regulations. Granted, it doesn't say marriage, but it's close.

Regarding the legal treatment of Muslims in Germany, there seems to be two issues. One being head-scarves, the other circumcision. On the former, the German constitutional court ruled in January 2015 that a general ban in schools is unconstitutional. The latter, the state court in Cologne ruled as grievous harm, but this was later overturned by a law passed by the Bundestag.

Really, the spirit of the formulation the CDU used does not specify which God. Even taking it in bad faith, one has to remember that Islam and Christianity are both abrahamic religions, so they share the same god, which makes it doubly moot.

There are legitimate issues to be talked about in this context, from integration of immigrants to a growing anti-islamic sentiment in Germany and the rest of Europe.
It's Cherrypy that sucks up memory like there's no tomorrow. Not sure why. Thing is, you can run the JVM on a lot less than the default settings. JVM isn't nearly as memory hungry as people think. It's just all the enterprise crap you get with frameworks such as jboss makes it bloated. But the same thing is true for Python. Try running OpenERP on anything less than 10gb.
Given the post on encabulators the other day, I at first thought it was a riff on that.
This is why Twitter fails as a discussion platform, in comparison to something like HN or Reddit: A sub-thread is in effect a social contract that somewhat limits scope to the shared understanding created by the parent comment(s). This constrains the speech a bit, but also offers the speaker a different persona to speak from... more of a small group persona than the public persona who issues each tweet.

Virality on Twitter relies upon a tweets lingering in the space where the social contract of a constrained discussion is highly unstable.

Coda is pointing out the phenomenon by which that unstable contract results in a laser of scrutiny from a horde of people who lack any kind of thoughtful context but who are now able to comment on equal footing with those who have context.

The simple phenomenon of ranking comments vertically by vote count (used by HN, Reddit) solves this problem when the goal is focused discussion.

But when the goal is to create a fray in which self-promoters can flourish in that space of deliberate misunderstanding, the normal dynamic of respect and meritorious vote-ranked commenting goes away, and the next self-promoter has an incentive to misunderstand and offer an embellished take that furthers his/her agenda (self-promotion).

So while Twitter fails as a discussion medium, it succeeds brilliantly as a broadcast medium, and Twitter's product team has created something quite clever with the semantics of mentions, stars, retweets, etc. The "what's been going on on Twitter" feature is a pure algorithmic feed which is likely a nod to the effectiveness of Facebook's algorithmic feed approach for user engagement and targeted ad placement.

I can't wait to see how all this evolves in terms of Twitter's product decisions.
I do front end web development for a place that uses java on the back end. The time between when I hit deploy to the time I can refresh and see new code in my browser is too long. Usually by the time it is ready I have gotten distracted and ended up on HN.

When I work on side projects that frustration is something I don't want to repeat. Java doesn't make the list of tools I consider. Maybe the other JVM languages have a better story in that regard. I just figured they reused Java's infrastructure and were equally handicapped.
Swift-ly Secure
The Argument for Cubicles
On top of that, instead of getting rid of the people who issued bad debt ten and twenty years ago, and let new people into the banking system, we instead kept the same inept cleptocratic money managers in charge, but gave them more firepower.
Great initiative mate, looking forward to this :).
Glad you're helping the guy out, but do you think it's a great idea to give everyone his first name like that?
My ideas directory is so full of trash that it's pointless to list it... I don't think putting stuff there is a drag to me.

Anyway, I've had plenty of cases where I take notice of my original idea, and weeks later with a more worked-out solution in my head, I look at the notes and realize that my original idea was indeed much better than what I had on my head.
Building an API for Palantir? They sit on a pile of not encrypted data...
Building the Internet of Things with OSGi
1 hour of work per month, $100k per year, each hour of his time was worth nearly $10k. Cool story but I never would have sold. This is the ultimate side business.
Thanks. Love the experts.

How they range from helpful, extracting the key data, to.... just plain b!tchy and cynical :)
I don't get this. Is there some paid off official there? Different standards? Why is it such a great place to win patent troll suits - which seem to get overturned in higher courts? Is the idea that a win there will stop the defendant from trying to appeal?
Tap / Free WordPress SSL
Not to mention the precedent it sets with the corresponding expectations of future similar actions should they be needed, and the erosion of confidence in your money's ability to maintain inflationary value.
Makes Google's UK tax bill of 130 mill seem small.
Hey, great to meet a follower RBC-er on HN! I'm actually in head office (ES) in Toronto, I posted this particular job for a colleague in the UK who is actively hiring.
Love Is Like Cocaine
In my experience most free online streaming and torrent downloading websites have very small hard-to-find download buttons with a lot of fake "Download Now!" ads. So this would actually make torrenting easier.
It's like on any Linux or BSD machine. You can build and install the kernel normally, and it just works.

Only some of the older images still use the old method of selecting the kernel from the Control Panel. The rest that Andrew mentioned use the bootloader and kernel from the droplet's image itself.
There's something to be said about "idea space".

most ideas hold little variance, and other people will have them. But some ideas can hold so much variance that no, nobody else in the world will even think about it.
You could... update it yourself?

I totally get that it's in a pretty shitty state if it can't update itself in 15 months, but for those of us that are technically able, it seems like an easy fix?
So the patent trolls will simply sue on behalf of the owner and collect a 90% 'fee'.
GPU Computing for Data Science [video]
How do you deploy that to a server, let's say Digital Ocean? What kind of http server, proxies? Who/what starts and supervises the processes?
Now this Patent Troll has even more ammunition to shakedown companies in future whilst encouraging creation of even more low-life leeching NPE's.

Clearly Patent Trolls adds negative value, harms progress and increases cost of business - how long will this legal racketeering be allowed to continue?
Wow, there's so many flaws in your argument I'm not sure where to begin.

It seems you want minorities to listen to any and all bigoted opinions without protest and you want to treat such opinions as morally equal. When you're part of a minority that gets assaulted, murdered, and discriminated in general you don't have to listen to any and all people's opinions. If you think that I as a transwoman must listen to TERFs, social conservatives, and hand wringers then you're greatly mistaken. Their opinions are morally invalid for many reasons chief among them is their desire to control others. Being ostracized/protested by a minority is nowhere near being harmed by said minority.

And if a private party like a university feels its reputation is contingent on reaching out to those minorities then that's their authority to do so. It doesn't matter what you or I think either way. If you don't like that university then don't attend it. Or call your representative and see if they can cut its public funding. Either way, you, the comedy society, and the comedian are not entitled to any platform. Free speech is not about fairness, it's about whether or not the state or collusive corporations are intentionally impeding your ability to speak. The comedian isn't out of work because of one gig. The comedy society isn't defunct because it has to find another venue to present comedians. If said university went out of its way to tell every other venue holder to not let that society or comedian act in their interests then that would be true harm.

Also, the fact people throw the word censorship around seems troubling to me for a couple reasons. First, it's turning into the modern bogey man of our day. If Twitter bans someone I swear every other day I see someone claiming its censorship whether the account was by a political conservative or liberal. It's ridiculous. Stop using a word as a bludgeon to get your way. Deal with the fact private parties can and will protect their reputations. Second, calling anything censorship at will has the same effect as censorship especially when the opposing side has pointed out rightly the bigotry of a specific opinion (ex. people who refuse to desist from using racial slurs). And that's exactly how I've seen it used both on Twitter and on here. If you don't like being called a bigot then ask the accuser why they called you one. You'd be surprised how easily such an accusation is disarmed by one question (Wil Wheaton did that easily despite the slow uptake by certain people on Twitter yesterday).

Simply put, learn to interact with people, especially minorities. And stop blaming them when they're in the right.
Are you saying that companies can't bought other companies and take ownership of their patents?
Yep, if the "trolls" are trolls so is Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Google, all of them, are we saying the US is made up of all trolls?
And where do you get those in sizes of 50"+ with proper remotes, color reproduction (HDMI color range!) and other functionality expected from a TV?
Completely agree, please someone change the title.

Something like "Mozilla stops FirefoxOS development to focus on IoT"
Don't know about the Packers, but the league definitely intervened with the Giants. One of the Maras sold out to the Tisches, the other one is is still there.
A university is a business even if it takes public funds. I think you ought to study case law on this matter.