skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, I've just taken a look at the gmail signup process, and the birthdate field appears when I select location "US" but not when you select "UK"

I'm sure I remember seeing an google advert recently (in the UK) where a father sends emails to his child over several years for the child to receive when they're old enough to use email - and I'm sure the child's email was a gmail account (I may be mistaken, though).
When I saw the headline, I wondered how the machine determined that you were having sex, rather than just doing (for example) pressups, squat thrusts and crunches (possibly in close proximity to another user doing similar exercise). It would have to be an exceptionally subtle piece of accelerometer/resistance meter interpretation to distinguish the difference.

wastedbrains' reply told me exactly what I needed to know. Fitbit users are not "unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives", but deliberately marking their exercise sessions with their very personal trainer as games of hide-the-sausage; using a tool that is designed to publicly share information about ones exercise sessions.
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It's really difficult to follow, not the Maths, the graphics. Which part of the page is the most important thing to understand? Even, just what order are the sentences intended to be read in? Lucky it's not handwritten, he could just change the font...
Social network markets don't get split 50/50.

They get split 100/0, or 90/10 maybe.
If the world was serious about nuclear non-proliferation, we would have thorium reactors everywhere already. They said a few times in the video that thorium reactors can't be used for weapons, and so they are not built. Governments have decided that we need nukes, so thorium reactors do not get funding.

But if we are serious about non-proliferation, then switching to thorium reactors and controlling which new reactors get built is a much more effective strategy then the current weapon-counting efforts. Once a reactor is built and starts creating fissile material, then it is difficult to keep track of and control. But it is much harder to hide a reactor while you are building it - Iran tried and failed.

So it seems to me that thorium reactors, in addition to their efficiency, low cost and low amount of radioactive waste, could also be a useful tool in enforcing nuclear non-proliferation. We've got these reactors that cannot be used to make bombs - why don't we sign treaties saying that they are the only reactors that can be built?
keyboard layout

I'm in the market for a netbook right now and have the same concerns.

Currently I'm torn between the Asus X101 and the Lenovo S100 (both announced to launch this month). The Lenovo comes with an 98%-size keyboard that looks really promising on the photos: http://ces.cnet.com/2300-32488_1-10006040-2.html
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I live in Portugal and know many doctors. The fact that drug addicts are now able to use public health services without fear of arrest is huge.
Looks pretty legit to me.

WHOIS information for prizes.org :
[Querying whois.publicinterestregistry.net]

[whois.publicinterestregistry.net]

Domain ID:D104066777-LROR
Domain Name:PRIZES.ORG
Created On:07-Mar-2004 19:34:50 UTC
Last Updated On:18-May-2011 17:43:19 UTC
Expiration Date:07-Mar-2015 19:34:50 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:MarkMonitor Inc. (R37-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:mmr-87489
Registrant Name:DNS Admin
Registrant Organization:Google Inc.
Registrant Street1:1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Registrant City:Mountain View
Registrant State/Province:CA
Registrant Postal Code:94043
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.6502530000
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:+1.6502530001
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:dns-admin@google.com
The unemployment level in Germany is the lowest it has been since Germany was unified. That is definitely a sign of doing something well.
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I disagree with you. I do not believe government regulations in these areas work. 13 is an arbitrary age. Bully happens even after age of 13.

It should be up to the parents to monitor and regulate their kids' internet access. Parents not government has the responsibility of their children's welfare.

Some kids can be a bit more mature at a younger age, some don't.

Like many prohibition laws, this one won't work.
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Could you give some examples of what Google has changed to make Chrome a worse browser?
I'm surprised your webhost hasn't stopped you having a "receive a copy" tickbox - spammers use these to get your service to spam people (e.g. fill in a "Buy Viagra" spam message, put in the destination email, and presto using your good name to spam users).
It might be the time for people to move behind the idea of abolishing copyright. Better start early than too late. Maybe Ron Paul could go with it, if a lot of people suggest it to him?
Unix timestamps are indeed easy and good enough for most cases (isn't the mantra "keep it simple"?), except for calendars/recurring events, as some people have pointed out.
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I hate to be that guy that links to xkcd comics, but here it goes anyway: http://xkcd.com/743/

Google is under no obligation to allow 13-year-olds on their service anyway, and I'm sure the age limit comes from legal restrictions, not just ageism on Google's part.

Fortunately, e-mail is already an open protocol, and you can get a working e-mail address anywhere. I understand the attraction of Gmail (it's free, user-friendly and offers a lot of storage) but it comes with some conditions; that's part of the deal.
Waste disposal/processing isn't cheap and Thorium produces significantly less waste than Uranium.
This article gets angry and anti-Chinese pretty quickly from a fairly balanced start.
I agree in a way, but would it be possible to prove anything then?
Ask HN: What do you want from a 2d web MMO?
I've gone some way into writing a 2d MMO engine, as a hobby project.

It's web-based, realtime, rogue-inspired and built on a MySQL/NodeJS/Socket.IO/KockoutJS stack.

What features would you like to see in this new 2d web MMO?

Or does the world not need yet another MMO?

Thanks,

Chris.
Tweeting the the President of the United States has been shot isn't lighthearted mischievousness. I don't know if they thought this would make Fox News look bad or themselves look clever, but it doesn't do either. All it does is make the Script Kiddies look immature, which I guess makes their name tautological, but I do hope they grow up to be better people than this.
This also surely means that the Dear Sophie video shouldn't be possible, as the kid, having just been born is thus under 13.

Link for those who don't know what I'm on about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk
It figures, this documentation is just as obscure and obfuscated as the game, which we have tried several times, only to delete in frustration.
You don't, but the chain of responsibility is short. You gave a fake age, that is against the rules, your account is suspended for that plus being underage in the first place.

Managing and auditing a longer chain of responsibility, and setting up the rules for what happens if something in the chain becomes known to have been false, can be a royal pain both technically and legally (particularly when you consider that different countries have widely varying laws regarding who can be responsible for what, what rights there are to start with and what you can sign away, and so forth). The complications can multiply up very quickly once are considering more than one entity (the one that sets up the account and is claiming to be doing so truthfully), and once you allow chains like that you could have a chain of many people who each vouched for each other and each could be fake in some way.
There is no way to filter or browse by category, useless.
"Overrunning". WTF dude?

They kicked communists (usually agents of the Stasi, the secret police) out of government jobs, most of those had gotten the job because they were party members. That is hardly "nasty". The other way around would have been nasty.

Would you want Gaddhafi's son to keep his military pay after the regime has been overthrown?
> When storing time, store Unix time. It's a single number.

This is BS. ISO-8601 (MySQL time) is way better and is not prone to the 2038 bug. Unix time has 'scalability' issues.
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due to the secondary data connection port.

Yes, the secondary data connection port is a weakness/annoyance of the FTP protocol, I agree. The other points don't have anything to do with the protocol itself, just with how it is implemented in specific cases.
I will note that a lot of people aren't all that savvy/don't really think about the consequences. People have been fired for posting remarks on their Facebook account that their employer then read. People seem to routinely underestimate just how public stuff on the internet is and both users of a site and administrators commit big errors in that regard. In online forums, I have seen someone post a thread that from the get go was obvious to me was trouble and would likely attract negative attention from the folks it was trashing. Did any of the moderators step in up front and do something about it? Nope. They stepped in only after trouble had come to their door to crab at the person who started the thread. I think the person who started the thread genuinely did not expect the outcome that resulted -- they posted as if among friends/talking with a group of friends, apparently oblivious to the fact that anyone with an internet connection could find these public remarks, join the forum, and reply.

I'm aware of this issue and still sometimes run into friction over it. The internet allows us to belong to many more social groupings than in the past and it gets complicated trying to determine what info and how much to share where/with whom...etc.
President Obama is not dead, Fox News was hacked
You're probably right. I've only seen a couple of his recent comments in threads related to his projects or site (and that thread about the GitHub community). So I no doubt have a selection bias; I suppose it's worth noting his reputation proceeds him, deserved or otherwise.

Nonetheless it's disheartening to see self-proclaimed "professionals" (I use this term loosely for while a person may be employed professionally this is not a guarantee a given individual will behave professionally: they are distinct things) who are well known throughout the community, behave like trolls. And even more so when they decide it's appropriate to take a shit on this community.

Well I will always try my best to preserve what I value. It's in my nature I guess. So thank you. :)
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So, what's your alternative? I guess most shared webhosts don't support ssh either.
You have to be careful with your analysis. In particular when you're talking about large deficits, you should not confuse private actors and government.

In the run-up to the crisis, the economy was largely fuelled by private debt. Think excessive credit card debts and, more importantly, insanely lax mortgage requirements.

What we have been witnessing is a shift of this debt away from the private sector (which cannot sustain an unlimited amount of debt) to the government sector (which, at least in the case of a sovereign government like the US, can sustain an unlimited amount of debt because it's the entity running the system).

The distinction between private and government debt is crucial, because government debt equals private assets.
There has been several, but I've been back on the FF-wagon for a while now and it's hard to remember them all. Examples of things which did seriously annoy me:

URL protocol-obfuscating. Besides being an aesthetic nitpick (lack of consistency) it allows creating confusing and irregular behaviour with copy & paste. There was a massive backlash of power-users wanting this toggleable to no avail. Google's response was basically "we make defaults, not options".

Google's anti-Flash Jihad with added causalities. I never had any issues what so ever with Flash in Chrome. Not once did Flash crash my browser. Never. But immediately when Google decided Flash was a stability risk and intervened to isolate the browser from Flash, instantly the result was that having Flash installed or active would always crash Chrome no matter what. Basically Google forced me to uninstall or disable Flash entirely if I wanted to use Chrome. Just because they said so. They made the decision and didn't make their anti-Flash jihad an option for me to enable or disable. You would think Chrome suddenly crashing on its own for no reason would be considered a high-profile bug, but this was not fixed at all in any subsequent updates.

After 3 updates without any fix Google had lost me entirely. I'm not even using Google Chrome for development purposes or verification at this point. The product is so overly Google-driven and Google-decided that it's not of any interest to me what so ever as a end-user who wants more than defaults, be they set by MS or Google.
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I'm curious whether they will manage to have the computer boot up without an ugly DOS-style cursor blinking, and also in Macbook-quality suspend-to-ram.

I'm pretty sure that all the "normal person" Linux distros have a splash screen until X starts these days. Also, haven't noticed any problems with suspend to RAM on any machines these days: hardware vendors have largely gotten ACPI right at this point. (If you want true OS X style suspend, use s2both instead s2ram.)
Very clever story telling using HTML and Javascript...
Did you watch the video?

The reactors he presented appeared to be much simpler (so... they'd likely be cheaper).
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I created a Google Apps account for the family, and simply created sub accounts for my kids. No terms of use anywhere in sight when creating the accounts for the kids. So that basically does what you want.

(Google Apps doesn't work with Google+ yet, but that will surely be fixed)
Watch out for GPS time: it ignores leap seconds, and is currently, exactly fifteen seconds ahead of UTC.
call your congressman if you feel the law is unjust

He probably doesn't want to make the long-distance call to his congressman, given that he's in the Netherlands.
Really? What if it wraps around? ts1=MAX_INT-40, ts2=20, ts2-ts1 < 0. Or does that actually work out correctly with signed integers in C?
+1 for the Karate Kid metaphor.
He forgot to teach his kid important lesson.

On the internet you can and should lie, cheat and steal, just don't harm real people.
Nobody in France or Germany will be remotely interested in "taking over" Greece. Its like saying "hey, I got here a bucked of problems, want them?" Well, no, thanks!

The sovereignty of all European countries is "weakened", that's the whole idea of the euro. There is another level of supervision, and that is really good. Not only in Greece, also e.g. Germany constantly gets told from EU institutions or the EU supreme court to change laws and regulations or to watch the deficit, etc. That's a good thing. Of course the politicians don't like it, takes away some of their power.

Greece has vast opportunities, if they would get their stuff together. Solar power alone could be a great industry in Greece. There is a plan called "DeserTec", with several large EU corporation planing to install a hundred billion in solar cells in Northern Africa. If Greece was smart, they would jump on that train. But they are not, apparently. Its easier to borrow money and whine on payback time.
People always say this, and on my recent Thinkpad it works out of the box - but not every time. I can't completely rely on it. It's a world of difference to my friend's Macbook Air. To get these things right (polish), you have to spend some time working on this rather than rushing hardware out of the door. Non-Apple hardware vendors and particularly those who ship Linux aren't very good at this, nor at fixing things after releasing the notebook.
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it's not 3 weeks either, it's over 3 months. A success no less.
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I actually worked with a MeeGo netbook for some time. In reality you launch apps with Alt-F2 and first couple of chars of app name, or just use the search box. Fast and efficient.
Enough focus to say, "Hey, good idea". I think it would be better for all of us if Google got any of the potential patents as well. Even if it isn't their main business.
You are missing the elephant in the room. The US federal government spending accounts for around 20% of the GDP. A large portion of the automatic stabilisers including social systems (as limited as they are in the US) is shouldered by the federal government.

This is a huge stabilising momentum for the economy, because the government does not have to (and indeed it should not) reduce its spending due to financial pressures. There are no financial limitations to how much money the US federal government can spend.

(There are other considerations - in real terms, i.e. real capacity of the economy - that put a limit on how much spending would be wise, but since utilisation drops in an economic crisis, the room for additional non-inflationary government spending actually increases.)

None of this exists in the Eurozone. All spending within the Eurozone is done by actors that are financially constrained, and therefore there is much less momentum to carry on stability in case of a crisis.
Verifying the signature wouldn't have been that helpful. A different attacker might generate a similar key with the same name and sign the archive with that. How many of you check signature fingerprints (and how?) or have a chain of trust that leads to the maintainer?
Google Wave is dead. Time will tell if Apache resuscitates it.
The kid is ten...
I can't speak on how social media is supposed to be used (since I don't even have a facebook account), but wouldn't the kid mostly be in contact with people who know him or her outside of the computer (such as friends and family), making the "displayed age" (you can turn the display off, right?) useless? Faking a birthday seems pretty harmless and I don't see how it would hinder your experience on anything unless you enter the wrong age that gets you banned like this instance. When I was in my early teens I role played on a game and met a lot of people there I'm still in contact with, I interacted with 20+ year olds when I was 13 and there were a few younger people too.

Of course, I didn't fake my interests/gender/etc. but I've never been in the habit of storing age/location info with a private service; it's available publicly anyway, but you have to use inductive reasoning to link the data. If you want people to know your birthday, I don't see why you can't just tell them in person or email or whatever and leave the "official" fake birthday what it is.
Good point, but no issues so far. I use http://mollom.com/ though, so that probably kills a lot of the automated stuff.
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With 200+ million Gmail users and another 50 million or so on YouTube, it's not exactly bootstrapping.
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IANAL, but the TOS is probably moot in the country where he is from (the Netherlands), so he is not in the wrong. Dutch law has several requirements for a TOS to be valid and simply clicking "I agree" is not enough.
That they were able to force Microsoft's hand like that says a lot about the desirability of a Linux notepad at that end of the market.
A recent Der Spiegel article (http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,769329,00....) made a titular remark that I found noteworthily pithy:

"The Euro Is a Fair-Weather Construct"
The Lenovo keyboard layout looks kosher for touch-typists. If I was in the market for a netbook I'd jump in that direction.

(The right-shift-FAIL seems to be a bad habit of Asus and a few other Chinese/Taiwanese vendors; I suspect Lenovo still have some input from IBM.)
I like this. I think it derive's a bit from Khan's Academy in that it tries to make it look casual and fun.
My Thinkpad X220 works every time.
I agree with you. Jason is a professional link baiter as far as I can tell
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And the thought police come out.

Tell me again who has power here: the people writing the headlines for the New Yorker? Or the poor HN engineer being forced yet again to don the sackcloth and ashes for having a Y chromosome?

Women in general are statistically less interested in math, science, or computers. They are also less violent and tragically underrepresented in prisons, low-wage jobs, and the combat arms of the military.

When women agitate to sign up for Selective Service and the great and the good militate to push more women into garbage disposal, gravedigging, and septic tank repair, that's when you'll know they're serious about equality.
And thorium is bound to be even cheaper, as it's readily available in massive quantities.
Google needs a fucking customer support line already. Make it a 900 number if they need to and charge $20 per call, but for the love of cheese the number of times something goes horribly wrong and there is little to no recourse is silly. They refuse to let people pay for their services and thus establish a billing verification channel but they're asking users to put tons of important information into them with no recourse if something does happen.