skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do remember the late 90s where every document had to be in .doc format

How did this happen? Was Bill Gates president and make that the law? There's no way you could use WordPerfect? That was illegal? Oh, WordPerfect start sucking in the 90s didn't it, so you stopped using it like I did? But that didn't have anything to do with it, did it?

Try transfering your ad campaign from Google to Bing? It is incredibly poor fidelity. Support for the .doc format in 1997 was better than the support you get porting your ad campaign.

I'd like to have other search providers use my gmail email data. How do I do that? Oh, it's not supported? I thought it was my email? As an advertiser can I decent placement support or clickfraud data? No. OK, I'll just go to another search ad provider -- oh wait, you're the only game in town. I'll play by your rules.
Furthermore, Google actually actively fights user lock in with the "Data Liberation Front". Decide that Google has gone evil and you no longer want to use their services? Grab your data and get out. It's the exact opposite of the kind of crap Microsoft pulled.
Are We Heading for Another Tech Bubble (debate)?
Same here.

Screenshot, pretty please?
I completely agree with you.

But all you are saying is.

If you have an idea you have to try it out.

Yes obviously but try what out? What does it mean to execute.

And this is where it kind of falls apart from my point of view.

Saying "execution is everything" is as helpful as saying success is necessary to be successful. It becomes a tautology.

It's true but it's not really helpful unless you really think that just getting the idea is enough. But who here believes that?

What's great execution in one context is bad execution in another. Meaning that you have to execute to figure out whether you executed well.

You have to run the program so to speak.
https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe

Highly recommend you check this out. We're pretty interested in this idea and definitely want to see it take off.
However, using Hassan's affiliation with UoP as a means of questioning his qualifications is a bit of a stretch. Given the rate at which bricks and mortar universities churn out graduates with advanced degrees for which there is little employment opportunity on physical campuses, online schools like UoP wind up as the best available option for new MS's and PHD's with an interest in teaching such as Hassan particularly those with one foot in the commercial world.
Despite the passing years, programs or some of their parts written in C remain as large as life. The code of these programs is much more subject to 64-bit errors because of less strict rules of type checking in the C language.

Yeah, because a language with 4 different typecast operators is type safe.
There are the right reasons to agonize over a name, and then there are the wrong reasons. Your name needs to be easily and intuitively pronouncable in the user's head. Furthermore, and similarly, it needs to be easily spellable.

IMO, too much fuss is made over the need for a "memorable" name. Names usually don't become memorable until they become known. We all think Google is the ultimate example of a "memorable" name, inasmuch as it became a verb through its ubiquity. But it's memorable in hindsight. It became a verb only because the product became ubiquitous. I can guarantee you that, had Google been named something different -- let's say Gorkle -- we'd all be talking about "gorkling" things right now.

Memorability is the product of good marketing; it is not the antecedent to it. Focus on getting to memorable.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov
I can only hope you are serious - it's still way more Open than Apple, however you can't have it all - no fragmentation, no carrier "crapware" and full openness. So they seem to be doing the next best - if you are Google partner you will get to ship Google Apps, but you would have to agree to reasonable terms that help control fragmentation or UI variances etc. If you are not - then take the open code (it might be released later than you like but still) and do whatever you want with it, just don't say "Google" anywhere.

And as a user - you can still buy handsets that allow you to use Amazon appstore or side load apps. So yeah in the spirit of everything being relative - it is still far more open - just enough to be not a detriment.
Rebranding is expensive. Just a redesign is expensive, rethinking the concept, etc. Hopefully it will give us some extra publicity and people will have another good laugh :)
I'm sorry but I don't see a double standard here. Developers get mad at Apple for exerting control over the App Store. Users get mad at Apple for capriciously restricting their use of great applications (like Google Voice, until recently). It's entirely App Store control that everyone declares draconian.

Almost everyone I know is very happy with Apple exclusively controlling iOS as an operating system. They are also very happy that Apple exerts lots of control over carriers in the sense of not letting them make additions or modifications to the operating system, pre-install apps, add carrier branding to the hardware, etc. This is the kind of control Google is now seeking.

To me it appears that you have a double standard. You want to criticize Google for attempting to exert the same control that Apple is rightfully lauded for.
This works much better when
when there's a line break
between the "the"s.
Report: Cloud performance from the end user perspective (Nine providers tested)
Unfortunately, by the time those huge images load, the window is already closed.
Though it is easy to say now, looking back, Mr. Hassan's investigation was far less in depth that it should have been for such a serious accusation.
What Is Google +1?
S3 explicitly does no deduplication at all, last I heard. This is somewhat corroborated by the pricing for cloud player - it would be a lot lower per GB if they did.
This is proof, if any was needed, that judges and the law is often quite reasonable.
How a Wisconsin Trucker Reverse Engineering an Atomic Bomb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8607628/hn.PNG
Actually, the paper you should be reading is this:

"Power-law distributions in empirical data", Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, M. E. J. Newman
http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
1) actually they did force you to use IE, it was called directly by the OS, and some of their online interactions required it.

So you were required to use Windows? I used an Amiga until it was on its deathbed, so I find it hard to believe that you had to use Windows.
For reference:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Pioneer_anomaly
I fully agree that the basis for becoming memorable is by providing value.

Picture a meeting with a customer or VC that understands German (and there are many!). It took us valuable distraction time to get away from the name of the service to its value. In some cases a good conversation was just not possible anymore. Too much distraction from the story we felt was important :-(
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/young%20turk
Does Your Business Have Curb Appeal?
I wonder when people are gonna write "choose your own adventure" books w/ github. Could call it "fork your own adventure"
Well, they have ads (http://i.imgur.com/JD69B.png) so I don't know if that "panic button" actually works ...
Also blocked at work.
Like a good programmer, you're worrying about edge cases :) Let's just do it. We can fix potential problems later.
The Autistic Kid Who’s More Intelligent Than Einstein
The anger is explained in the introduction to that article. Google presented Android as an open gift to the world in a fight against strictly controlled platforms, yet Google is now withholding source code and requiring final approval over modifications to the operating system.

That they're allegedly holding up Android phones which utilize a rival search engine, Bing, is especially troubling. Is Android supposed to be an open platform or a Google platform?
This is cool but I'm not sure if it's really publishing nor is it something new.

I help manage a large publishers proprietary platform for online textbooks. We use svn to hold all of our books. We then serve them to their site in an online reading app.

If we were to remove the front end and point users to our svn repo I doubt one could call that publishing. Sure we would be providing informtion, but until we add the wrapper that makes it useful, it is not published. Could you call an unbound book published?

Providing that platform for reading creates more value for the user. It also makes it easier for the author to pass their value through their publisher to the reader.
honestly we need a mobile app for hn. somebody?
I know that we (IT Folks) are all used to the concept of system images which can be used to deploy fresh builds/images to machines that are based on standards. Further we are used to the idea of VMs that run in clusters/clouds etc. and we are used to virtual desktop environments that run as a terminal interface to a VDI backend, finally we are also familiar checking out files for source control etc.

I believe that we are close to being able to 'check-out' a system image that would be downloaded as a VM to a machine (physical machine) where it runs locally as a fully installed OS - but then can be 'checked in' and released once done. A new physical machine comes along and we check out our image.

We can further abstract the user profile data and have it follow the user (there is a company that was recently bought that does this piece... I cant recall the name).

The idea is high-layer virtualization. Where we had virtualized machine, OS, APP and recently infrastructure such as storage - we have virtualized profiles as well. Soon we will have virtual installs.

There is a hybrid model I wrote about some years ago, posted recently to HN as well - which is similar to the Atrix concept. You have all your user profile data on the mobile device and you effectively check-in to a KVM for better screen and input.

I am not sure about the dock of the Atrix, if it has a CPU and GPU for bigger/faster/better -- but this is what I am referring to.

The data profile is tied to the person. Everything else floats - when the use-case calls for better CPU/GPU you check-out the physical device...
What formal education did L Ron Hubbard have?
No, the scenario you describe could not occur -- it would involve a consistency violation within entity group A. Once you see the effects of write W to entity group A, all operations on entity group A (across all servers) are guaranteed to see W.

The reduced consistency guarantees in HRD involve indexes, because indexes span entity groups. An example: suppose that you set name=foo in record A1, which is part of entity group A. If you then retrieve record A1, that's an operation on entity group A, so you're guaranteed to see name=foo. But if you perform a global query for all records with name == foo, that's an operation on an index, which is outside the entity group and so is not mediated by the entity group's Paxos log. Therefore, your query might not return A1. The index is "eventually" consistent -- it's guaranteed that, eventually, all indexes will be updated. But AFAIK there's no guaranteed upper bound on "eventually". In practice, it should usually be very quick, but only usually.
Ask HN: eVoting machines - proven?
My home country is studying the introduction of eVoting for expats. I know the technology hasn't really taken off and was wondering if anyone has explanation (either for or against).
If you want to invest in this bubble, commodities is where it is at, more direct and they are the only other item left that had not been hyper inflated, the trick as with all bubbles is to time your exit. Find a commodity, any commodity that has not already hyper inflated and get it, it will inflate, the commodities pop is going to be worse than any of the bubbles before them.
heres another great one. works quite well. http://www.dealcompactor.com/
Would You Let RFID Set You Up?
One of the big contentions over the Colo[u]r debate wasn't necessarily the name but the domain name. I'm pretty used to seeing colourapp.com or mycolour.com, etc. at this point. The start-up name IS definitely important, but the domain name is less so imo.
That's not the same thing. With Word and Excel you could always save to RTF, TXT, or CSV. Plus supporting exporting to a huge host of 3rd party proprietary formats as well.

But people wanted the full fidelity of the MS file formats on different systems. Like I want the full power of GMail with a different ad provider.

Getting the data out is easy. You could do that with any version of Word/Excel. In fact, you could have built automation tools to do this, drop it into an ETL, and have it anywhere you like.

The data is rarely the full issue. It's the fidelity of service that people want.
I'm worried about the first of the month falling on a Friday such as tomorrow, April 1st. Will the weekend squash the popularity of a Friday 'Who's Hiring' thread?
I was attempting to describe, not compare.

And, of course, I have described both sides as caricatures of complex truths. Both groups have plenty of intelligent, well-meaning, members.
+1, Thanks for making that distinction.
At work? Try working!
This seems wrong and overengineered for so many reasons. PHP, really? A simple one-line script will suffice to copy keys with ssh-copy-id or similar. (It gets even simpler if you use something like dsh or Capistrano.)
Is this a boost across the board or are there certain hours/day where you're seeing the boost?

Also what was the reason behind JS instead of doing this server-side with php/ruby?

Note -- as a former CV client I can attest that these guys know their stuff.
Can't we just start a startup to eliminate record labels entirely? Perhaps a YC for musicians?
I would seriously consider making this page more accessible and thus, more usable.
Couldn't the jobs section be used for that?
I would say: hurting everyone to save potential harm for a very few is worthy of the best thinkers at the typical western airport security department.
You really see it as double standard? Let me try to explain the reaction you are not understanding, on a scale of closed=0 and 100=totally open people perceive that Apple is around 20 and Google is around 60. (numbers may vary but the point is ios is much less open than android)

When Apple exerts more control going to 15 people scream "OMG draconian too closed"! When Google goes from 60 to 55 people say "less open but hopefully this will solve the fragmentation problems we have".

Eventually if Andoird becomes totally closed source and no other manufacturers than Google are allowed to use it on their hardware and no user would be able to install applications outside the Android market... I bet almost everyone will be saying the same thing as they do for Apple!

This is a step in Apple's direction but the Gap between the two is still perceived as very wide.
You're right, just saw that (sorry). But I mean, 3 cities isn't exactly grabbing the Canadian market.
"Also what was the reason behind JS instead of doing this server-side with php/ruby?"

I would assume it's so they can calculate based on the user's local time settings.

Edit: And here's the JavaScript, for anyone who's curious about the full list of possibilities (you'll need to hunt for the images in the stylesheet). http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/time-home.js
They are loosing this battle and I doubt they will be around for much longer.

Now if only it was possible to hasten their demise (legally, there is no gloating in prison).
What is going on with Samsung? This should have (a) raised all PR alarms as soon as it got traction on the internet, and (b) should NOT have taken >24h for someone to track down what they're installing in C:\windows\SL

At least it reminds us why the underdog sometimes has the upper hand, I suppose.
I don't know whether proof is needed, but this isn't proof that any judges are reasonable. This is just one ruling from one judge. It could be his first reasonable ruling.
I've heard about him on the radio but I'm not sure as to what his full capability/capacity is. Everyone talking about how much he knows, and how he is attempting to expand Einstein's Theory of relativity, but I'd like to know what exactly he is trying to expand. We'll have to see if he is more intelligent than Einstein, he hasn't proven anything yet. Although, it is amazing what he has taught himself, even just in this video which most people learn only in college, if that.
do you think that one reason why people say bad things about HFT is because they see them being unfairly compensated for taking on what they perceive is a small amount of risk?

I think that's definitely part of it. The issue is that people don't know how much high frequency traders actually make per contract. The amount is pretty small (on average). Typically, each trade takes on "bite-sized" risk and expects "bite-sized" returns. Do that thousands of times a day, and your bite-sized returns grow to something reasonable, but not ridiculous. Certainly, it's not on the order of how much other forms of proprietary trading make.

I think the other issue is that people don't understand that all traders, HFT or not, take on risk when they enter a trade. A lot of people use terms like "skimming off the top" or "making money for nothing". This indicates to me that they don't realize why market makers should even make money (on average). It's simply risk transfer, and that has a price (on average).

You're right though, identifying bona fide trends are pretty difficult. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it and arbing those trends away.
Do you have a citation? I checked wikibook's Terms of Use and it didn't say anything about giving up ownership.
But yet they said yes... I wonder if I call them up and ask, "hey, Samsung CS, did you guys install a flurb-yulb-gumbler on my new laptop?", will they say, "yes, we use those to violate your privacy."
I didn't know that! I guess I wasn't a child, then. I thought it was more like 1995. ;)
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"Our most popular style of socks. This pack contains 3 socks that don’t match, but perfectly coordinate ! "
My point entirely!
Thought the same thing. At work I'm encouraged to be active online in places like HN and to read relevant articles and so on.
No, I don't think they did that to you. First, the standard disclaimer... I am no lawyer.... yadda, yadda, yadda.

We need to put this in context. The 1st amendment exist with the purpose of protecting citizens who express opinions that contradict the official line of the government. It is, above all, a political device.

I am not familiar with the burning flag case you mention, but I'd bet pennies to dollars that the incident happened within the context of someone protesting against some form of American policy (maybe foreign policies I'd guess). It is not the random act that the first amendment protect, but the significance behind that act, within the context of some citizen expressing disagreement with the actions taken by elected government officials.

Your case is not so. It can be a number of things, but it is not a violation to your political right to express dissent.

On the other hand, you need to learn the difference between "what you think the law says" and "what interpretation of the law will held in court"; and then compare it with "what the cost (in money, time and personal distress) will be to defend such and such particular interpretation in court". The school official was right. Maybe you are theoretically entitled to publish those photos, but eventually you would walk into someone that would get pissed off. Is it really worth it to pick a fight with such person?

And, maybe for you it would be... if you where somehow monetizing the page. But the school has nothing to win and everything to loose in that situation, so it is natural for them to align with that hypothetical pissed-off parent.
I believe PG reserves the jobs section for companies that were funded by YC.
I have - I've managed to blocked that part of my memory for the last 12 years!
"To me it appears that you have a double standard. You want to criticize Google for attempting to exert the same control that Apple is rightfully lauded for."

Since when is Apple lauded for that around here? Apple is usually bashed for its strict control and closed platform. Yet when Google begins exerting that same kind of quality control, the comments section is full of defensiveness and justification. It's a double-standard.

Google fans in general have become some of the most obnoxious people on the planet, mocking Apple fans for blindly supporting a closed platform while unwittingly doing the same thing themselves, even as they preach about how open Android is.

Google is an advertising company. Android and other free products only exist to get people onto their proprietary content-indexing platform. That's why Verizon Android phones modified to use the Bing search engine are being obstructed by Google. The whole point of Android is for it to be a Google platform, not some benevolent revolution in openness and freedom.
The most straight forward way to find out what the Samsung created SL directory does is to ask Samsung. Which apparently he did.

I would suggest that wading through a corporate customer service call center's escalation process is reasonable evidence of due diligence. And I find it somewhat more likely that a call center employee affirmed the SL directory was for keylogging to clear the case than that Mr. Hassan fabricated a story about the call and Samsung's confirmation.

Hassan's allegation has all the marks of a mistake due to inexperience rather than fabrication because it is just too easy to disprove.
I've loved my Verizon Droid Incredible. I highly recommend it if you don't want one of the massive 4.3 inch phones like the Droid X or EVO.

However, Verizon just recently discontinued it in preparation for the release of the Droid Incredible 2.

http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/htc-droid-incredible-2-sp...

Stay tuned...
After I transferred my domains, they are listed in whois as:

Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
I completely agree, but you should fill out the account information - something like 'This is a bot to post the monthly "who's hiring" thread. If there are any issues, please contact <foo>@<bar>.' - that'd also let us know who's behind this account.
Jobs section is used for YC companies only. It's a fair reward for accepted companies to get prominent status on HN.
I would imagine that a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community probably works for themselves or as freelance contractors. The main problem is not that of hiding your browsing from an employer, but having the self control to work rather than browsing.
That was http://codereddit.com/
Talking with Jun Loayza about RewardMe and entrepreneurship
Is it better to:

-create a name using a combination of existing words? (e.g. MySpace, RadioShack, etc.)

-create a name that doesn't really mean anything to a majority of users (but possibly memorable)? (e.g. Twitter, Tumblr, etc.)

-create a name from existing word(s) but change the spelling for funkiness? (e.g. Digg, Reddit, etc.)

-create a name derived from another language? (e.g. Roku, uh...)

-do something else?

Also, randomly found this too:
clickable: http://www.thenameinspector.com/10-name-types/