skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed the point. You can of course choose the Search Engine but not the browser. Chrome calls home frequently. As Matt Cutts outlined in one of his posts(http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/)

"If you are typing a search or url in the address bar, Google Chrome will talk to the current search service to try to offer useful query/url suggestions."

And since its "only cloud" device, most of the applications you will end-up using are Google products. Mostly because other players aren't yet convinced that all applications should exist in the cloud.

As far as trusting Apple and Microsoft is concerned, I think it is about the business model. Apple and Microsoft make money by selling Products and Software. Google on the other hand makes money by collecting your data. I do not understand why people fail to understand the difference.
All the data has been removed and only exists in sha1 hash form but you can see if you were affected at https://shouldichangemypassword.com/
> How does anyone possibly allow a data dump to come anywhere near somewhere Google could index it?

Let me just put this sql dump in the web root for a couple hours to copy over to the test server.
You made the first move - good job.

Now, it's time to consider the extremely likely possibiliy that you could charge 5x the amount and without decreasing conversion by 5x. Which means you could probably be earning 5x than you are now (or more) without any extra work.
I'd rather be me than you.

Sincerely,
threepoint-"a rather fucked up mind"-one.
I believe you'll find that's also incorrect. The trouble there is that you can put only so much radio transmission power in a given "cell" on the network. In order to provide proper service to high density urban areas, you have to build more towers (more overlapping "cells") than in rural and suburban areas.

Now, you may end up having no higher a ratio of towers to subscribers than in the suburbs. But what you do have, is a lot higher costs to rent an easement for the tower. Renting antenna space from a building is a lot more expensive than an easement in some back yard.
These kind of tools cause more harm than good.
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Rude? Excuse me? How is it my job as a Dutch person to teach you my language?

edit: oh Skrebbel, I see now it's you and I know you're Dutch. Point still stands though :)
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Would the "Limitations on Liability" section on their TOS help them in this case?

FREE ACCOUNT HOLDERS: YOU AGREE THAT THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF DROPBOX TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE SITE, CONTENT, FILES AND/OR SERVICES IS LIMITED TO TWENTY ($20) U.S. DOLLARS. THE LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN DROPBOX AND YOU.

PREMIUM ACCOUNT HOLDERS: YOU AGREE THAT THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF DROPBOX TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE SITE, CONTENT, FILES AND/OR SERVICES IS LIMITED TO LOWER OF THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID TO DROPBOX DURING THE THREE MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO SUCH CLAIM, FOR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, CONTENT, FILES OR SERVICES, OR ONE-HUNDRED ($100) DOLLARS. THE LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN DROPBOX AND YOU.
Ask HN: What are your security tips for a person who has done the basics? 
I am looking for advice targeted at an audience such as Hacker News.
Thanks!
I understand your position, and perhaps I should have better clarified my own. I did not mean to imply that photography was not a technical or creative field, rather by "mechanical process", I meant the physical act of creation.

I put a brush to canvas, or a pencil to paper.
My gestures are effected by micro muscle movements,
the interplay between the grain of the canvas and the camelhair in my brush, the way I personally perceive my subject. No two lines drawn by my hand, no two drops of ink flecked from my pen will ever be the same. My emotional state at the time will felt in my brush strokes.

All your points I agree with, but ultimately photography (by its process) has less potential for a physically variable and personal experience (for example the connectedness that a sculptor feels with the work physically formed by their hands) specifically in the dimension that I am talking about.

Also, your points on composition (perspective, framing,focus,exposure) are present in other visual mediums (although focus and exposure aren't generally terms that I hear a lot of painters use, it's still there), and arguably more under your creative control.

Finally, with photography you are limited to that which exists already in this world (once you start getting heavily into post-processing, it's hard to call keep calling it "photography").
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Yes, thanks for the extensive info.
Enforcing object immutability in Smalltalk
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The mathematical world is as full of lonely pi's, as it is of 2*pi's. Now we need to move to tau/2 and tau, only to get a pi-manifesto in a couple of decades.

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1468341

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322666
>braindead users don't get the concept of 'hot coffee' and it's your fault

The coffee was served hotter than it should have been, and wastely hotter than it would have been if it had been taken from the machine at home, it was served in a cup that was so difficult to open that the customer had to put it between her legs, and when the coffee was spilled she suffered 3th degree burns to her crotch.

And she only asked that they payed her medical expenses. It was the jury who gave her all those millions.
"But it is true that the suburbs are unsustainable, barring the invention of Mr. Fusion or similar."

Nuclear should be pretty cheap once we are forced to stop building reactors as unique works of art, and stop powering them with one-time-use fuel elements.
"Almost anything you can do in maths with pi you can do with tau anyway,"

WTF is this? I'm eagerly awaiting an explanation of what you can do with X that you can't do with 2X.

It's a moot anal point. X or 2Y, using one over the other doesn't solve anything.
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Similarly, being unhealthy at 20 is a waste of time. You can eat cheetos at any age.
"3 out of 5 stars for being nicer than anything else in the price range?"

No he said it was better at two things then the ipad. And traditional netbooks do not comprise "everything else in the price range".

I thought overall this was one of the more balanced and positive chromebook reviews I've seen. Even if it is only a first reaction there were a number of good comments about the nuances of the hardware design.

Whether positive or negative it seems Chromebook reviews often circle back to the following question: why not just run Chrome on a $500 laptop?
"We'll do a rewrite later on ...", nope!
I'd love to hear a professional chime in here. Does adding this to your Terms of Service actually have an impact?

If the answer is yes, why are the woman and her lawyer suing Dropbox anyway?

And if no, why do most Terms of Service include similar wording?
How does this actually happen though? Is this simply a case of people leaving the standard "apache index page" turned on or do this many people actually publish links to their SQL files someone crawlable?
It is also much faster to send bits between colonies than to send people.
I wrote a similar essay a while back:
http://www.virtualritz.com/archive/on-plagiarism-creativity-...
seems like david carradine was in the closed beta.
I tried a vulgar word for a certain part of the female body that I legitimately love. The results were... humorous.
i just created a google alert for my email + "filetype:sql". http://www.google.com/alerts - might as well make this work for me...
That's exactly my point. If you want to host a blog today on an FTP server or Amazon S3, you need to design yourself a template and build a bunch of HTML pages, either in a text editor or with some random desktop tool or something you rolled yourself. Then you need to transfer the files to the server, either by hand or via a script of some sort.

If you wanted to do that 5 years ago, you'd sign up for Blogger and use their awesome free software to do it for you.
Who created this ? Some google internship ?
Sorry Google, not this time
You want to see the real world of Ruby programming? The one they don't show you in magazines or the E Channel?
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This is how you can customize the speed dial using extensions and whatnot - http://imgur.com/UaAfE
Cancer treatment has made huge progress in the last decade. The survival rates are way up from what they have been and many types of cancer are basically curable as long as you notice it before it ate through every organ in your body. We haven't "cured cancer", because cancer is not a single disease. It is not even caused by a common set of factors.
It's a beautiful ad as well. The music is perfect, the editing is perfect in relation to the music, the climactic moment with the cymbal was perfectly timed in relation to the video as a whole, bravo.

They definitely hired the right people.

EDIT: would've been nice if the video itself had been submitted rather than this noxious blogspam.
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Only 1300 dedicated Android tablet apps?
No. If you're a little rusty on this whole Facebook API thing, don't talk about it in bold words.

This is how every Facebook application works, there's nothing special about distributing the API keys. That's what Facebook tells you to do. Yes you could pretend to be that application - you can do this with every application - and it's not a big deal. Still you can't upload to someone else's account or access their galleries under any circumstances with just the API keys.
Do you mean to be offensive with that post?
I wrote "fucked up" as in "crazy, spontaneous, creative as hell", not as in any offensive way, homie.
First two seem over populated.

Third seems like a solid idea if your research shows there is potential there

Fourth also seems solid, but gotta look at your competition (and why wouldn't a big player do that?)

Fifth seems like a for sure if it meets a need you have found to be unaddressed...
I like the compromise of using Tau and its fractions when it makes sense and using a single Pi when it's not so intuitively-connected with a circle. e.g. \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{−x^2} dx = \sqrt{\pi}.

Plus Tau Day's a fun excuse to eat two pies.
Man Google, you really nailed it: http://i.imgur.com/TNSKN.png
Try "Goatse"
Sasta means cheap ... the so is English ;)
I wish more sites would have a flattr (flattr.com) account. I'd easily "subscribe" to quirksmode, but I really don't want to manually send money to every single site I like.
I use an API that you pass a callback into and get an fd in response. You then monitor the fd and invoke a process function when there's something to read which results in your callback being fired with results. I haven't checked js-ctypes for some time so I could be wrong about this type of thing not being possible with it.

I figure if I'm going to do a rewrite I might as well go down the NPAPI path (via http://www.firebreath.org/) as then I can pick up Chrome.
I've always wondered if these really work. We all use these EULAs and TOS that essentially say "you can't sue us for anything no matter what!" but I have a feeling that kind of thing doesn't actually hold up in court.
Description about how it works:

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Wave_Disk_Engine

Seems to be a new take on the Wankel rotary engine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine

The rotary engine was found to be less efficient than piston engines. I think it's because the streamlined approach of intake an exhaust needs to be babysat, with a chamber and an object to (Make exhaust go away 100%) and (Make fresh air-fuel mixture come in) then a timed predictable ignite.

Is the wave disk engine just a modification of the Turbine engine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbine
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The first 4 seem a little unoriginal (perhaps that doesn't mean non profitable!)

The last option seems generally different and you may have found a small little niche which is going to be you goal. I would just work on that for one month then reassess.
Ask HN: What should a startup not do when posting a job ad?
I distinctively remembered a post about half a day ago about a user ranting about how amateurish a YC job posting was but I can't seem to find both that post and the YC job posting.

While the tone of the post may have been a bit snarky, I for one found it (and along with the comments) pretty informative in terms of what a start-up should do (or rather not do) when posting a job ad. I'm perplexed at why the post was removed as I don't think it violated any guidelines though I must say I am relatively new to HN.

So my question is, what should a startup avoid doing when posting a job ad? I am contemplating hiring someone for my venture and I would like to know how to attract good talent without coming across too amateurish.
I will once again (scroll down for me having to paste this three more times) quote the Facebook documentation:

"The app secret is available from the Developer App and should not be shared with anyone or embedded in any code that you will distribute (you should use the client-side flow for these scenarios)."

You fundamentally should not be able "to do this with every application", and you certainly can't with any of the applications that I've deployed (whether for myself, my company, or companies that I've done consulting building these apps for).

(...and yes, I say I'm "rusty" as I'm "out of the game" as it were, but that is mostly because I'm anal about being accurate with my concessions: I have an app right now that has "144,513 monthly active users".)
There is probably at least one person in the world that not only looks like Miles Davis, but wears the same type of clothes, plays the same kind of instrument and can be photographed in the same posture. People in real life tend to duplicate each other: you don't even need to try to recreate the situation: it already exists multiple times.
Everyone hits lows, take a couple of days and then come back fresh. Perhaps your product isn't going to make a million this year but thats not the end of the world, there is always time.
Ask HN: How often you have the occasion to see bad written code.
How often you have the occasion to see bad written code that make you laugh or that make you ask WTF?
Impressive but are there any practical usages for this?
I am neither a judge nor a lawyer, yet, can assume, most of us simply lie when we click on "Yes, I have read, understand and agree to the terms!" buttons.

None of us read them (most of us TBMA), but we "sign this contract"
The beer bike is probably more popular:

http://www.beerbike.co.uk/
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Okay, okay. I don't claim to be an expert on that case.

But: If you buy coffee, it's hot enough to hurt you (or it's crap. There's a range of temperatures that are decent, and personal factors determine what is deemed too hot as well).

I don't buy the 'had to put between the legs to open the cup' thing. In that case don't do it near your private parts, open it properly. Not between your legs, probably sitting in a car. Why is there no applied concept of common sense?

Leaving the whole cause of the accident aside, the next part was really emphasized my point:

The jury gives you millions for 'damage'. Let's not discuss if the problem was the person sueing, but what you have to think about is this:

What message are you sending out, if someone suing a company for (arguably only) slightly irritating service (a couple degrees ~too~ hot, usability issues with a coffee cup, both probably annoying but didn't completely destroy the tiny rest of that company's customers..) could get you the FU money this community is often obsessed about? If you asked for the money on day one of the trial or made the jury feel so sorry for you that they drown you in money at the end is not relevant.

Which leads to my first post again: A culture of fear for being sued, with damages completely out of proportion [1].

1: In a large area of the world. I understand that it can seem completely normal if you limit your view to the area where this is happening.
Look at the tie. This was handmade.
I've gladly donated a small amount (as much as I can afford), I can't count how many times PKK saved me from some stupid bugs in some stupid browser.
Rather than embedding videos from all over the web wouldn't it be cleaner to link to them? perhaps with a search facility.

p.s. node tuts has some great vids
Really? Because of you?
Unlimited Facebook time for Excel people. Nice way to kill time for PMs at corporations.
What are the disadvantages? (none are listed on that page)
And this explains isUserAMonkey()

Bill Atkinson came up with the idea of defining a system flag called "MonkeyLives" (pronounced with a short "i" but often mispronounced with a long one), that indicated when the Monkey was running. The flag allowed MacPaint and other applications to test for the presence of the Monkey and disable the quit command while it was running, as well as other areas they wanted the Monkey to avoid. This allowed the Monkey to run all night, or even longer, driving the application through every possible situation.
In the history of medicine, we have seen the following development:

1) We first learned how to deal with purely physical trauma types of problem - bandaging, splinting etc.

2) we then learned how to do pain relief (opium, aspirine)

3) we then learned how to deal with external microbes (antibiotics)

4) we are just starting to learn how to deal with viruses, which requires understanding their DNA. I would not be surprised to see viruses under control in the next 10 years or so, as gene sequencing / analysis gets better.

Now the thing about 3 and 4 is that they're relatively independant of the genotype/phenotype of the person being treated. You can take the same medication and apply it to anyone suffering those types of disease, and it will work.

What's remaining is the admittedly large class of diseases that are mostly caused by a person's own genotype/phenotype. Here we're talking about heart disease, immune system diseases, cancer. It is not likely that we will be able to find a one-size-fits-all solution to these diseases, which means that we won't be able to knock them over until we gain the capacity to manufacture a medication for an individual.

Still, with the ever-increasing CPU capability that we have at the moment, it doesn't seem inconceivable that these types of drugs will be available in 40 years or so, at which point it starts to become interesting to try and figure out just how we are going to die. At that point we will presumably have the necessary control over cell reproduction to allow the regeneration of tissue etc. For example, at the moment we think aging is linked to the loss of telomeres. Imagine taking a single heart muscle cell, and replacing all of the lost telomeres through genetic manipulation, and then re-inserting the heart cell into a patient. If aging theory is correct, this one cell will eventually (on the timeframe of decades) come to to dominate the number of cells in the heart, as non-modified cell lines will die out due to the loss of telomeres during reproduction. No more heart attacks.

Now, I've just plucked that 40 year figure out of the air, it might be 100 years, or 200 years, which of course would probably be too late for most of us. But the thing is that it is useless to compare the rate of medical advances of the past with what we're expecting to see in the future. Future development is going to be based on a very fine-grained understanding of life processes, whereas that has just not been possible up until very recently.
Funny and simple cartoon caption contest on Facebook 
Just check the proposals, submit your own, and win an iPad 2 or one of the Amazon Gift Vouchers.
IANAL but an advantage of this lawsuit is that Dropbox will be forced to disclose in greater detail what happened, and we will be able to determine if the "1% of accounts possibly compromised" really was that low (it probably was, but given the seriousness of the bug, and their tendency to downplay this, confirmation would be good). As it stands currently, users are forced to rely on scant information released by Dropbox.
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Here is a wonderful catalog of documentaries, grouped by subject.

http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Category:Subject
I vote for 3. You already have a product that you need to promote. However, boosting your page rank? Page rank is 4 and you're already number 1 in google for "grafting tool". Are you sure you have a pageview and pagerank problem?

Maybe you want to rank for gardening tools as well? Create some content on the website to increase your ranking for long tail keywords, and participate in gardening forums and communities would be a start (building backlinks at the same time).
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /2011/06/18/genius-diesel-launches-excelbook/ on this server.
I would imagine you couldn't use one of these engines in Maine in the winter when you wake up and it is 30 below zero.
Do you manage your own server or use a PasS?
See also the discussion from when this was submitted 3 months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337237

Also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2422867

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2424987
Google also has to know that the file is there, before indexing it, either from a link available to Google, or from the website's sitemap, or by activating directory listing in Apache, or some other shit like that.
In my experience it's zero.
That is not true, you just happened to choose lucky starting numbers. For example consider this one: choose a number between 1 and 10000. Generate the sequence between 9000000 and 9000000+(your number). Everything starts with 9.

Benfords law applies only to exponential growth over a long timescale.
And at the same time a culture, where you can sue if someone hurt you, and even set a precedent if it's a first-time thing.
http://vimeo.com/25268732
it nice how a screenshot from a groupon post made it into a new thread on HN

see the on at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704359