skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading through the comments, I come to the cynical conclusion that it is actually Google who is selling Microsoft products (if you consider IP a product). They are not selling it by taking money, but they are distributing Microsoft's products inside Android so that Microsoft can go along and collect the money from the ones who use Android to sell their phones. So what is the "commission" that Google takes for selling Microsoft's IP? Well, it allows them to sell their own products which is advertisement. And why are the phone manufacturers willing to pay to Microsoft? I guess because they figured out that it is cheaper to pay Microsoft if it allows them to sell more phones.

So it is a win-win situation for everybody except the end-costumers who buy the phone. As I said, this is just a cynical view, which might explain that nobody is not yet going to court.
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Having lived in London, I would agree with you. Almost every week I witnessed at least one bike accident, most of the people were hit by double decker buses. Though I should add that London is one of those places that really should have bike lanes but doesn't.
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After reporting how easily the Manhatten Project military safes could be opened, the higher ups sent round an urgent memo addressing the issue. It said "Don't leave Feynman alone in your offices".

:-/
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Exactly, and you did allow it to do that on nothing more than an image of a lollipop and endorsement from this community.
If you live in a non-english speaking country, you'll learn that Microsoft does us the favor of "translating" the shorcuts. So, in portuguese, CTRL + S means "save" in about every program you'll encounter, but for Microsoft products, it means "sublinhar" (underline).

CTRL + A is not "select all" but "abrir" (open).

Well, that's just messed up... thanks a lot Microsoft...
This weekend I narrowly avoided accidents on multiple occasions with drivers that were more than deeply occupied in their smartphones. One driver blocked a major intersection against the light while another destroyed several cones in a road construction zone. Maybe the problem was worse than normal due to the release of a new popular model?
Man, I so wish I had published or even just posted it on a newsgroup (usenet). I discovered/thought of SQL injection in 1996 (with ColdFusion code), but my boss refused to let me disclose it to anyone (I was young then and actually listened to him).

He was going to do some big conference or something on the subject and drum up new business, but nothing ever came of it.
This comment will probably never be read, but nevertheless ...

I am a Frenchman living in the Netherlands. And you are both correct and incorrect ...

The Dutch are probably among the most fluent non-native English speakers in Europe, BUT, they speak for most of them a "good enough" English, and not at all a perfect English.

This usually materializes even more when they are writing.
There is even several books (usually written by Dutch authors themselves) making fun of "dutchisms".

That said, I don't necessarily consider myself better ... Simply, I do other kind of mistakes, so their mistakes usually strike me more than my own mistakes of course, but mistakes of other French speakers as well
what makes you think the general population cares about this vs the hackers that this article is about? are there any statistics to show this is more than a 1% phenomenon? i don't think my mom cares.
Could it be that the outage failed to summon a certain non-trivial amount of people to venture out in their cars (for meetings, dinners, etc.), reducing the overall number of cars on the road to begin with?
Relative to other forms of transport, yes.

People coming from, say, the netherlands just don't realise how dangerous it is to ride bikes on roads in non-biking countries (uk, us, etc.). Car drivers just don't bother looking or just don't care. "King of the road" mentality.
Which part? seems commonsense that bike riding would be more dangerous than car driving...not everything needs a dataset when simple physics would suffice.

This part: the negatives are pollution/lung issues

This part: reasonably high likelihood of injury or death

And this part: compared to other forms of transport

From your latest comment, this part: seems commonsense that bike riding would be more dangerous than car driving

And this part: simple physics

And also in the context of: not everything needs a dataset when simple physics would suffice

That would cover it for now.
Yeah - when I saw that after watching the Take This Lollipop video, which is an extremely well-done fake, I immediately lumped this one into the "cool special effects, but not real" category.

So ... this is actually real? If so, that's pretty awesome :)
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The court documents as linked below[1] state that this is an injunction and that the main proceedings will continue which may take up to two years. In other words it's not over yet. This was a preliminary injunction which ZeniMax has failed to secure but that can be appealed and that doesn't prevent the main suit from continuing.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3124409
Funny, my hosts file seems to interrupt the flow of this prank slightly.

We'll see how my s.o. reacts to it, but on my machine it does absolutely nothing.

In case you're wondering what is in my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 facebook.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 badge.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 blog.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 en-gb.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 developers.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 touch.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 de-de.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 stories.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 it-it.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 hu-hu.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 peace.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 et-ee.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 az-az.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 0.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 apps.facebook.com

A nice side-effect of this seems to be that the web has become a lot more responsive. No more 'like' buttons popping up all over the place.

edit: regarding my s.o. it's been an interesting morning, this app seems to have opened her eyes to facebook in a different way. No more apps.
Right.

In the event that its 4 (I think it's 4) founders (I assume they're co-owners, Notch could be the only owner, I have no hard info on the subject) decide to sell it (it's a private company so it can't just be taken over, and a buyer would need pretty good reasons to get them to sell, considering the founders are probably essentially set for life already) and that trademark law is as screwed up as patent law (it's not) and that the brand new acquirer has a trademark-troll streak, then it could become a risk.

We are pretty far from ArcticCelt's qualification that Mojang

> started the Trademark offensive

are we not?
I'm not sure that makes any difference. I'm not sure how big this market is, but it could plausibly be big enough. It would probably leak into other markets too. Drug dealers comfortable with bitcoin might also buy shoes with bitcoin etc.
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I assume you are talking about Amazon EC2? Shouldn't it be obvious that the slowest part in the network is the weakest link, not necessarily the server. Look at it from the general public's point of view not just the tech world's.

I would be wary of running my app on something that out-performs what normal people see. It would give me a distorted view on the project, although I appreciate that during development you need speed.

But it's more than that. Even if you had the fastest latest SSD servers to offer, all your speed would be lost on a poor network connection.

Your users could be miles away from the nearest big node,or not have access to a big pipe and they'd see no real difference, in performance, and you as a developer with a nice shiny SSD, wonder what their problem is?

I agree you need to get fast responses to web apps, but there are so so many factors that contribute to bad performance issues, the hard drives are just a really small part of what could be going wrong.
> Hopefully zenimax will leave it at that

Pretty unlikely considering the course of action so far.
I very strongly disagree. They mean completely different things.
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Pretty damn good, but I'll still pick at it. ;)

Here's a general CV tip:

* Be concise. Cut down on noise; improve the signal. What will an engineer/recruiter need to see to (a) understand what your skills are, (b) trust you -- indirect: credentials, direct: validate promise via github, (c) take action on this and give you an awesome job.

On the web site design:

* Before scrolling down I know nothing about you. When hitting the site immediately you need something to engage with me. The first screen is mostly vacant of anything helpful.

* Github is mentioned in your introduction yet it is not in the mostly irrelevant list of services that you can be found on. Given that it's very important why not?

* 'Hire Miles' isn't obviously an email link. Perhaps you could put a small email symbol on it? The menu is also not obviously a menu. Read up on 'affordances' and you can improve the user experience with this knowledge. :)

* It would be a nice touch if you slide down (animation) to the anchor links as some other websites do.

* Dark red on tartan? Some of the typography is a bit off.

* Might be nice to link to the github for the website from the website or mention that it's written in node.js. Maybe only interesting for geeks but I get the feeling that this will be your market since other recruiters just expect normal resumes. :)
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Hello bad_user. Yup your comment is probably spot on for the £300 15.4 inch 'household laptop' that is very popular in the UK for consumer purchase.

I suspect as pad devices and mobile phones take over the real mobile use cases, laptops will get a bit more expensive as the market shrinks.

There is an opportunity to build them a bit better and to make them a bit more recyclable/upgradeable. Each product manufacturer has to make small decisions like this across all areas if we are to achieve sustainable consumption.

The tricky bit is encouraging manufacturers to make those decisions.
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> (ballistics for instance)

so people already wanna make a gun out of it, that's just sad

mankind will always pervert science for power?
> and also offered to Patrick - and him alone - that I'd take it down if he preferred. He didn't ask me to, so I didn't.

You can read that in many different ways. The way I read it does not make you look very good.

Of course he didn't ask you to. Try putting yourself in his position. He has to ask (beg?) you to remove something that should have never happened in the first place?

Does it make you good when people whose name and reputation you use to raise your own visibility then have to come crawling to you to please remove the stuff you write?

When you wrote that piece you were just being silly. After truly grokking why it was a stupid piece leaving it up is malicious, not accidental.

So, don't be a jerk, take it down. Leaving it up doesn't diminish Patrick in any way, but it sure diminishes you.
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Why would anyone authorize Facebook access for a random site like this? No privacy policy, no about page, no terms. You have no idea what they're actually doing with your data.
Had no idea about these kinds of events taking place, very interested but a three day heads up is too short notice for my current calendar. I will keep my eyes peeled for #9 since I'll be in Japan for the foreseeable future.
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Agreed, my mom wouldn't care either. But using multiple identities isn't for hackers only. My wife, for example, would use it to separate her work persona from her family one. She is a heavy facebook user and separating those two identities is a big concern for her.
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For those who can't actually open the page on the samsung site (like me - I get redirected to "Select your country" page) try the google cache version.

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For example "pollution/lung issues". After reading http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/2170/is-pollutio... I didn't think that it would be problematic.
Quantum physics professors do that in their first lecture, it's getting old.
I'm mostly a server side guy so maybe i don't see the problem. :-). However, the examples given do seem to make sense. I don't think everything should have to be turned into svg to apply the effects.
The problem is that data-mining for advertising purposes seems to be the only working business model to sustain a general-purpose social network at the moment. Until we come up with something better, we'll have to pony up our behavioural data if we want to enjoy this sort of activity.

Heise.de only "fixed" generalized tracking, not the single-sign-on/unique-ID problem, which is the real root of the issue: as soon as a website, or Disqus, let you log on with your FB/G+ identity, you're back to square one.
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Why twice the speed of satellite provided that it is a fault created by relative movement?
You may want to disable your skewing algo for the first 10K or so sales and/or if the difference between the two tests is within certain bounds.
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we all know somebody who posted the "wrong" thing on Facebook at least once...
Maybe that's the point of it - most people won't think twice about authorizing, but might realise what they've opted into once they see it.
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This is a silly advice. When you do this for lots of websites you most likely won't remember all of them correctly. I think the best solution is using a password manager (KeepassX, Lastpass, etc) which store the passwords in an encrypted file (only requiring one master password). Put that encrypted file into Dropbox and the passwords are available across all your devices as well as online.
You can achieve a similar thing with the ghostery extension.

http://www.ghostery.com/
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I imagine that is the video that gets overlayed with the info gathered with the FB api
The price level is more or less arbitrary, but the value of fiat money is not just a shared hallucination. It ultimately comes from taxes. MMTers say that Taxes Drive Money: http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/07/mmp-blog...

Some anthropologists say that this is how money got started in the first place around the palaces in ancient Egypt. In more modern history, there are stark examples of how "taxes drive money" really does work to monetize an economy; search for "Hut taxes".
I do research in high performance computing. I am well aware of the importance of performance critical, number crunching code that operates on large arrays. I wrote an entire dissertation based around better ways of expressing large computations on dense vectors and matrices for new multicores.

I am, however, self-aware enough to recognize that what I care about is a subset of what everyone in computing cares about. Scientific computing may be important in multiple places, but it is still a single domain. An important domain, sure. But Python is still used in many places were such concerns are not important. Arguments about the utility of number crunching on dense vectors and matrices are great. But the attitude I've seen in this thread is "the domain I care about is so important that my concerns should be elevated above the concerns of other domains." That is not going to fly when it comes to changing a general purpose language used in many domains.
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> If anything, the post quality is deceiving, not immediately apparent. I couldn't understand at first, but then it became obvious. 99% of the posts are striped from any real content, they are irrelevant single words, offenses, fked up puctures, funny pictures, etc. But then, in 1% of the comments lies the real value of 4chan.

I couldn't agree more. I've long since lost the ability to get offended by pretty much anything 4chan could throw at me, so I must be pretty biased at this point. My view, however, is that the trolling and gore are in essence just a filter for potential audiences. In the early days, not rarely would there be threads up posting gore with the explicit goal of getting rid of newbies. (The actual vocabulary associated with these subjects on 4chan is rather more crude and graphic, and I will not denigrate this discussion with voicing it aloud.)

By getting past the filter, ie. being able to scan boards and threads for relevant content and not getting too offended on the way, you will have proven to the collective consciousness your ability to partake in discussions of taboo matters and doing so with a certain degree of objectivity and an open mind. That's the point after which actual discussion can happen. Combined with anonymity and volatility of content, this quality makes /b/ not only a cesspool of humanity but a place where entirely new kinds of conversations can take place and new ideas be entertained.

To understand the essence of moot's argument of prismatic identity, I find a certain underlying understanding of the scene where he's coming from is also necessary. It's not often that I see this point discussed, but I think it's important. Thank you for bringing it up.
I think CSS is exactly where stuff like this belongs. The more of the page layout that is defined in mostly static ways, the easier creating tools to do the layout becomes. E.g. witness the multitude of websites with tools create CSS3 for various effects.
Good points and I agree that Groupon seems to get jumped on for unjustified reasons. I don't believe that they would have ever gotten so many customers if it was such a bad deal for businesses. 40% "failed experiment" rate in advertising is not bad. For them it's a one off cost. For the ones that do get value it's an ongoing advertising channel. Eventually most customers will be repeat customers.

What I don't see is how Groupon would hold on to a market like this. Where are the barriers? There's no reason n+1 Groupon sites couldn't exist. I also see no real need for Groupon to be big. If there is to be a leader in each market(city), why should Groupon be outcompeting local Tokyo, Paris or Tel Aviv Groupon clones? Groupon has its brand and experience and other little advantages, but nothing that outclasses whatever advantages the small competitors could plausibly bring to the table.

If someone told me this idea before Groupon, I'd think it was good, especially if they had demonstrated that businesses will bite, which Groupon has. It's a great idea for a business with value for businesses and customers. I really don't get the Groupon hate. I just don't see this as a winner take all market where a head start guarantees much. I don't think Warren Buffet would buy Groupon.
Most of the answers boil down to depends where you live. When I lived in Denver there were tons of bike only trails, the air was usually great, and lots of people biked. Biking there was a way of life for many people.

Where I live now, the air is great, but there are few if any bike lanes. Yet, I still see cyclists going down 2 lane roads with traffic going by them at 50MPH. An accident is bound to happen, and over the summer a cyclist was hit on one of the bridges. He flew off the bridge, and fell to his death. It is common sense that cycling on busy roads is more dangerous than driving a car on the same road.
Except I didn't. The confirmation page was enough for me to drive home the point.
I heard of a website called Hacker News that allows anonymous posting. I bet that's a cesspool too.
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How do you build a userbase from scratch before launching a new website?
Also, how do you keep the first dozen or so users interested and involved when they're the only ones?
I am guessing that you have never worked with Haskell?

Your hypothesis -- that difficult languages result in more bug-free code, due to selection bias -- is, to say the least, somewhat of a minority opinion.

But even if we accept this, Haskell is different. The difficulties of Haskell are not arbitrary. Nor are they related to the difficulty of understanding the machine at a low level. In fact, Haskell insulates you from all that; it's easily the highest level language in common use.

It's that Haskell insists on program correctness. You have to consider the entire range of values that any function could ever process. And due to its purity, Haskell applies a razor to your thought process, cutting out all unjustified or implicit assumptions.

Luckily it also gives you tools of unparalleled flexibility when it comes to creating abstractions. Creating a new abstraction (like the composition of two functions) isn't just as easy as function application, that's how you do function application in Haskell. Typically with less syntactical fuss than it takes Java to initialize a variable.
It seems to me that Dart came out of the Java->JVM tooling that Google had with GWT, but with all of the bits that weren't useful to that end taken out.

If you start with Java, strip out everything that can't be mapped reasonably well onto JS, and tidy up what's left, then you have something that can be used to build statically typed applications for the web in the manner which Google are used to.
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What brand is that? I can't say I've EVER seen a laptop that has a webcam without an indicator light. I almost had an idea they were regulated to have one for just this reason.

I'm not doubting you, I'm genuinely curious.
For an outsider, its hard to understand whats up w/ Cassandra versus HBase. Then you read companies X, Y and Z are moving to HBase, and it almost feels like the project is "just not any good anymore".

EDIT: I think the fallacy of my reasoning is thinking of Apache as a company which wouldn't spend resources on two similar things.