skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the user has enabled social features, you can just enter "spotify:user:x" in the search-field. But now that you mention it, I realized that user x has to connect to Facebook to enable the social features. That is unfortunate.

I was thinking more of users that one is not a "friend" with on Facebook, but that one still wanted to share music with/see playlists from. Like the spotify:users:spotify company user.

EDIT: After some help, I learned that if one cancels connecting with Facebook, then the social features will be activated without requiring a Facebook account.
I find that hard to believe. Surely there is some limit that would change your mind? Maybe if it would save 1000 lives per month? Or one million lives per month?

I suspect you don't have any hard data on the impact of torture. Not saying that torture is good, just saying that even in your example, science might change your mind.
It is still bash because bash is more universal than Python+Ruby+Lua.

The only place bash doesn't exist is on Windows and installing Cygwin is the least of your worries in that case.
Adobe showcases mobile optimized sites for Android
Ask HN: The Twitter "stop retweets" button has gone?
Or is it just me?
As indicated here http://blogs.bluegumtree.co.uk/vista/2010/03/06/127 there used to be a nice button that stopped retweets from specific people you follow, but it isn't there today.

It's very useful so I can't understand why they have stealth removed it I can't see any update information about it or anyone mentioning it apart from one post on Stackoverflow.

Does anyone know where or why it's gone?
Just a heads up for python people who are feeling jealous: ipython does this also :)
Thanks To @Jason I’m Going To @TCDisrupt
Upvoted for the "sensible" solution of freeform, but I'd like to hear from folks who need each piece broken out, and why.

I imagine zip codes are useful for auto-filling/formatting city information.

Shipping account software?
From google translate.

We got tired of Hollywood's cat and mouse game with the Pirate Bay and ordered us to offer the bandwidth side, says Rick Falk Vinge, leader of the Pirate Party. It is time to take the bull by the horns and stand up for what we believe is a legitimate activity.
> so the risk to you as a customer is quite low.

That's highly worrying. My understanding is that FDIC is a guarantee of last resort - i.e. a guarantee that ultimately a customer cannot lose his/her money.

i.e. there is no risk.

So are you saying there is no risk - or that there is some added risk to banking with yourself? I'm confused.
Sometimes The Less Efficient Way Is Better
I think this is my underlying problem with keyboards. I have very wide shoulders. I"ve had the most luck with the microsoft natural, but I find myself wanting to increase the split angle all the time.

Also having an ergo keyboard with low soft keys like the Mac would be awesome.
Wowzers! Thanks a lot bonsaitree. This is good information. I called them a few minutes back and was routed to the HR department. Spoke with them (they seemed nicer than the finance department) and asked them to follow up. Hopefully, I will hear something soon.

I have gathered emails of their CEO, CFO and COO. Next I am planning to email a letter that has a request for them to take a look into this matter, and the proof of their acceptance of reimbursing 750.
Obama wasn't ranting against technology. He was making a nuanced argument about our new information society, and being prescriptive about how we should interact with the Internet.

To roughly paraphrase what Obama said, quit dicking around on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. and look for good articles. You also might think about writing some, or even reading a good book. That's not in any way technophobic. He was just doing what any public figure should do at a commencement address, which is tell the graduates to use their education to lead meaningful and productive lives.
Clearly this is an automated process. No one at Google has done research to determine who you have dated. It is possible that your parent, or friend or neighbor has done searches about both of them.

For example, an old friend may be curious if you are married so they search for you and your old GF names to see if you have a wedding website. Then by talking to a mutual friend at a later date they get your new girlfriends name and do a search for your new girlfriend.

And that is all it takes to make the connection.
I've only seen one legitimate point from him: that search isn't the root cause of the privacy problem.

Unfortunately instead of then admitting that it does exacerbate the issue, he then pretends that there is no issue, asserts that all FB users fully understand FB's privacy model and insults anybody who doesn't agree.

Something to think about: can you imagine a Zappo's employee arguing with concerned customers the way kmavm has?
My hard-drive is littered with projects where I did tackle the cool bits first. It's how I work. Most of them aren't finished though because I lose interest when I hit the boring bits.

The only way I get through boring code it would seem, is by getting paid to slog through it.

This will likely lead to premature aging and an early grave for me...
I've never found slides useful without the actual talk given with them. Even the text would make this much more useful.
I agree. Filing a suit will take a lot of time and money away but if I try and be emotional for a while, I ing want to do it. The amount of stress they put me through their weird interview process where half of the managers/interviewers did not show up at my interview...but then I think if the situation I am in. :)
Yup, you lost my on the first word. "God" does not mean the unknown. "The unknown" means the unknown, "God" means a supernatural being that created/manipulates the universe. Redefining the meaning of words a long way from their common use does not aid any discussion of philosophy.

I for one didn't get any further in you exposition - this error was just too glaring to give me any desire to see what else you were talking about...
I agree with the fact that concept of deities were probably originated because of fear and ignorance of their proponents and evolved to a more abstract concept.

Science gives a solid (based on facts) answer to many events which were misteries back in the ancient world, but with every bit of knowledge we acquire through the means of science, we hold a deeper view of what we still don't know.

"Some people become atheists because they can't understand how a God would allow so much suffering in the world."

That is a very debatable subject, since I reckon many people (including myself) are atheist simply because there is not a solid reason not to be. The aforementioned sentence assumes a typical abrahamic deity (judeo-christian-islamic), that is, a omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving deity, which is in itself, with all three characteristics, a contradiction, but in history there have been and are many gods which are not all-loving. This sentence assumes that the natural state is being a theist (that is, a god-believer) and that some people become atheists. Well, I claim that the natural state is being an atheist, and family, society, education, makes theists.

Death is the end of life, and any further meaning anyone might add, is completely arbitrary.

Suffering exists in the world, and it is strongly correlated with chemical substances in our brain and organisms.
There's a pretty strong impulse to call somebody a "denier" in order to categorically denounce what he's saying, as well as everybody similarly skeptical. It's important, when doing this, to paint the person in the simplest "nutshell" terms. Those awful climate "denialists" for instance:

In a nutshell: Global warming either (1) isn't real (2) isn't caused by humans or (3) doesn't matter

Well, #2 is certainly within the bounds of possibility. Evidence: The entire history of the earth. And, as for #3, you could actually make the argument that global warming would be a net positive. (Contrast warming with a new ice age.) Not say that it's true, but it's a possibility, and shouldn't result in intellectual exile.

He, of course, misses #4:

(4) Global warming is real; but it is #1 mainly intended to achieve a long-standing but tactically-shifting goal of governments to control capital, and otherwise generate billions/trillions for the well-connected and #2 is hopeless because China and India aren't getting suckered into it, ever.

That is something they don't want to address, because, as far as I've seen, it is the correct assessment. "Follow the money" almost always is. And if you keep following the money, you will likely find that even the most committed climate changists are not expending their own resources to short Florida coastal real estate on the weight of their beliefs.
I've know about your Bingo Card Creator for about a year now, and for the first time I know what it is. Clearly an explanation is not necessary for your market (which I assume is the US); to expand internationally, evangelizing for the teaching method itself would reap great rewards, I believe. As a vague demonstration, Avatar has earnt 27.5% domestic, 72.5% international: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

[I'm in Australia, a close relative was a secondary school teacher, and I've never heard of it. But sounds like a great idea, and you have a great pitch for selling it]

very minor nit: nice to distinguish in some way the final month (May) in the chart as incomplete (or not show it).
It's not is lack of suit and MBA people are worried about, it's his lack of experience. I wouldn't trust an MBA with no banking experience either.
Anti-semites link Jews to speculation, therefore all criticism of speculation is anti-semitic?

Congratulations on the lamest troll I've ever seen on HN.
Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years
I absolutely concur, at least with respect to my own motivations and habits. Every successful project I've built started in the middle; whereas every abandoned project started with grandiose organizational plans.
Theres no doubt that it would be a profitable venture but Facebook is concerned about more than just profit and at the moment. I get the impression that revenue is not their primary concern or least they aren't focused on maximizing revenue at the moment. Instead they're tweaking their product and growing the userbase to try to position themselves to maximize revenues later and become a force in the business world to compete with the likes of Google, Apple, Microsoft etc.
Iiinteresting, my buddy's wife may have been pulling a fast one on me. Not typical of her and there were three other people saying the same thing but perhaps I was just being duped.
I love how everything has a fancy name now. We've been doing StartInTheMiddle / MinimumViableProduct / Prototyping / GetSomethingOut / StepwiseRefinement for years:

Customer: I must have anything I want from the database without asking you.

Me, 1 hour later: No problem, here's your screen.

Customer: This only does does Customers. I want to pick any table.

Me, 1 hour later: No problem, now you can pick your table.

Customer: This dumps every column. I want to pick my own.

Me, 1 hour later: No problem. Now you can pick your columns.

Customer: This doesn't sort. I want it to sort.

Me, 1 hour later: No problem. Now you can sort.

Customer: But I want multiple sorts, some ascending, some descending.

Me, 1 hour later: No problem. Sort any way you want.

Customer: It dumps the whole table. I want to filter.

Me, 1 hour later: No problem. Now you can filter.

Customer: It only give me local columns. I want columns from other tables, too.

Me, 5 mins later: Give me an example.

Customer: Here. Give me these linked columns and accumulators, too.

Me, 2 days later: OK. I figured out how to give you all this data too.

Customer: OK. This will work. Why didn't you do all this in the first place?

Stepwise Refinement Method: Time to beta: 1 hour. Time to production: 3 days.

Waterfall Method: Time to beta: not applicable. Time to production: who knows?
Amazing Illusion Paintings By Rob Gonsalves
These is really interesting photos.
If you want to learn more about Common Lisp reader macro's then I suggest getting a copy of Let Over Lambda( http://letoverlambda.com/ )

I found it to be a great resource on a topic that is often ignored by people coming to Common Lisp.
wonderwheelhuh emailed me the names and, just to confirm, I get the same results (so it doesn't appear to be a hold over from his Google settings/history).

One of the names (the ex's) is the same as a reasonably high profile writer (2K google hits) on the internet so there is a possibility that it is something she visited (perhaps Google reader?) has triggered the link.
Edit: it seems his ex is that writer. So the Google reader etc. idea is a red herring :)

The link is one way (it seems) from the current gf to the ex.

(I know that reiterate as lot of what he already said..)

But it does appear somehow Google has linked his ex's name to his gf by some algorithm/process.
The wonder wheel search is useless for my name... maybe it doesn't have a full index.

You might have overlooked that your ex could have posed information about you online. Google probably figured out that you were related to her in some way and it's why she shows up as a "personable" (and similar way you're linked to your current gf) link to you.
I'd concur strongly with this. I have a few teacher friends who I've mentioned this to who have been interested in the concept and have never heard of it previously.
Look up "Latent Semantic Indexing".

That should lead you to an explanation that'll ease your paranoia.
Even if you decide to post the actual names, do it slowly. Remember that once you post the names here, all search results that you are talking about will get destroyed by this information now being available on a single page.
Good suggestion!

Pick one for the specific domain if your current one can't handle it.
Actually, China seems to be pretty good at censoring right now. They block default Tor and some VPNs... There was a post about this a couple of days ago on HN -- about blocking many tools useful for IT companies based in China. They definitely annoy people who use foreign services -- which is what the blocking seems to be about right now, since they cut many websites not connected in any way to politics.

When you can get sentenced to jail just because you blog on the net, it also gives you a good reason not to try bypassing the firewall.
Why is this down-voted? If you get Anonymous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29) behind such a campaign, it could actually work.
Additionally, if you're looking for higher quality fonts, the same guy (Ethan) who runs the squirrel runs a boutique for @font-face fonts: http://fontspring.com
Is it possible that each of them has searched both for her own name and for yours?
I guess it's just because I have always known that everything I put on the web is potentially kept around forever, that I generally don't put anything on there I would be embarrassed about someone else reading. These posts aren't exactly damning or anything, and this is certainly not enough to make me want to stop using FB. I actually enjoy seeing it open by default - like you mentioned, these are hilarious. I couldn't care less if everyone can see my wall though admittedly I'm not a heavy user. This is pure value-add in my opinion, a downside for only a very few.
Odd that this appears twice with precisely the same URL. Is there a bug in the dup detector?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354731
10 Articles that Suggest Android Might Take Over
Here is a quick recap of news and opinion from last week that illustrate just how much progress Android is making in the bid to become the number one mobile OS, particularly in North America.
Ask HN: Leaving Uber Inc. for Startup
I've been working at Uber Inc. for about a year now and am considering leaving for being one of the first employees in a startup (that can pay a salary).
Good reasons not to? Scary things I should expect?
I think for a lot of people it's more about getting the best value for money than actually needing the better CPU. Yes there are people that actually need a mobile machine with that extra power but for most uses cases it's perfectly fine.

I just brought one of the new 13inch mbp's, for development I can't really say it's any less responsive than the i7 machines I use at uni.
Design Entry Pages Not Home Pages | Search Engine People | Toronto
Joseph Schumpeters "Decay of Capitalism"
The way HFTs use leverage is opaque to most margin systems. Intraday margins are allowed to go way outside of overnight margins, and only positions are margined, not orders.

That said, there's also traditional leverage used in many cases because you may have a fully hedged position across different exchanges that don't recognize each other's instruments in margin calculation. For instance, you can be long Jan 11 Brent Crude Oil on CME and be short just as much on ICE. The risk is practically zero, so firms borrow as much money as they can to put on as much position as they can. If you've got more margin than others in these sorts of trades, you win huge when everyone else is backed up to the wall.
What a great way to watch a lecture
No, that's not me. I appreciate the link though!
2001-2002. This wasn't a corporate owned store either-just a small franchise operation. I think they had 5 stores.
often the sum of all the boring bits is what distinguishes your product.
They said exactly the same thing after the printing press created the world's first generation with all the world's information at their fingertips. Somehow we'll manage to survive this onslaught of access to information as well.
How Steve Jobs Blew $10.3 Billion On "The Dumbest Trade Ever"
It's only a zero sum game if you don't consider all the fees and taxes. Doing so would be total folly. The fees and taxes make up a huge portion of the profits and losses on these strategies.
>To roughly paraphrase what Obama said, quit dicking around on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. and look for good articles.

But sometimes I want to dick around with enjoyable distractions.
Of course they can. They just choose not to in order to, obviously, ridicule the suits' attempts at trying to hinder their freedom. What a silly question.
If preserving formatting is such a useful feature why does Word mess up the formatting when you plug in a different printer?

Ask Leo: Why does my Word Document display differently on different computers?:

http://ask-leo.com/why_does_my_microsoft_word_document_displ...

I'd feel a lot happier sending someone a PDF from Google docs than assuming that a Word document will make it unscathed, even if created and viewed in the exact same version of Word.
Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons
The battery life sales point is an interesting differentiator. By my quick survey it looks like most laptops get about 4-5 hours of battery life now a days.

The non-user-replaceable battery seems to be a gamble that hasn't hurt them in the market.
Kongregate.com now has a mobile version
Yep. They've got great fonts - but a friendly note: they're not free. Well worth the money, though... and very sensibly priced.
I like Android's openness and the freedom to hack it.

I'm just concerned that Google may be too accepting of poor moves from hardware and network partners just to gain market share and penetration.

HTC's Sense UI is a mild example of this, but I've seen what Vodafone does to phones in the name of branding and it sucks.
Disabling half of the phone's hardware capabilities for arbitrary PHB reasons, polluting the phone unboxing experience with their crapware apps all over the place.

Apple didn't stand for that, and I'm glad they didn't. I hope Google will have the balls not to, either, because Android is starting to grow on me and may be on my next phone, even though I'm still in the Apple camp.
My problem isn't with Photoshop. It's with running a million apps at once.

Word + TextWrangler + Chrome + Fusion + Speed Download + Adium + Transmit + Better Zip + Preview + iTunes + Mail + Finder is more than it can handle, even with 4GB of quality RAM.

I'll be honest: I'm not looking for bang for buck. I'm willing to spend a bit extra for the quality experience and superior "whole package" experience. And a MacBook is a device I can throw in my BackPack and take it with me everywhere, every day and never worry about it simply "wearing out" (though they do break, they don't simply "wear out" and start experiencing odd hardware issues such as loose parts, bad circulation, etc.).

I want a quality machine that's 13". Not 10, not 14, and certainly not 17 or 19". And MacBook gave me that, 2 years ago. But now, even though they added "Pro" to the name of my Aluminum 13" beast, they haven't upped the specs (at least as far as I'm concerned).
Can't say that I've abandoned that many projects due to distraction of starting from scratch... I just haven't started that many, but I mostly agree with this line of thinking. I think programmers (myself included) tend to get distracted by optimizations and minutia which actually have no bearing on project/product success. That makes the boring, routine part much longer than it needs to be.
One has a trailing slash and the other doesn't (as can be seen when replacing "item" with "edit" in the URL).
Evangelizing is tough, which is why most technology evangelists work for companies with enough money to buy small European nations and have vague job descriptions that they can't possibly fail at. I, on the other hand, have a limited budget and a well-defined brief.

The audience of biology teachers is much, much wider than the audience of "people looking for biology bingo", and it being more diffuse makes it harder to address via scalable marketing methods like SEO and AdWords. They're also much harder to convert, because I have to sell them on a) biology bingo, b) Bingo Card Creator, and b) paying $30 for it, whereas if I just try for folks who typed [biology bingo cards] into Google I get (a) for free.

I want to be someone's first bingo game about as much as Apple wants to make someone's first cell phone.

P.S. The game many Australians think of when they think of bingo is not the game on my website. Yay, internationalization.
Make's it easier for your competition to position themselves to. In this case it's such a niche market that most people wouldn't mind releasing financials. Other things though, I think there is a big advantage to keeping the competition guessing.
"His real problem is that the media is no longer centrally controlled."

No longer centrally controlled? You know we are down to 5 distributors that control an overwhelming amount of the music and films that we listen to or watch. Add the fact that Comcast just bought NBC Universal and you can assume the media is more concentrated by a few more than ever. But as long as we have 1000 blogs carrying the exact same message than it doesn't appear that way.

Which is worse 10 independent newspapers or 1000 blogs, financed and controlled by 10 people.
GNU/Linux: Emergency Restart
This only relates to this one device, but I have a Nexus One on Vodafone and was pleasantly surprised to find Vodafone didn't mess with it in any way... it's virgin android. Lovely.

Of course, they may revert to their old tricks on future models. Just don't let it hold you up getting one now.
Without GUIDs, no machine is absolutely unique. The bits of entropy are relative measures.
Oh please. If anything, he's shown to be quite well equipped to debate a reasonable opponent, and therefore has no reason to complain about said opponent "getting a voice".
Is there a market for long time scale shorts on EFTs? I know long term oil futures go for 7-8 years generally.

I wouldn't place bets except on the time scale of 20-40 years and even then I'm not sure it is worth it in terms of likely pay off and time taken to research.