skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point that the original poster was making is that corporations with lots of money behind them can keep trying to get similar laws passed, again and again, until they finally succeed.
Hopefully it's a bug. But I see it routinely. It's definitely not a "rare case" by any metric I can think of.
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Yes, but if its NOT a joke, am I a bad person for laughing?
>his sexuality didn't practically help when dealing with the alpha-male 1950s engineering types he was dealing with //

I imagine it may well have been because in commong with other genius mathematicians he was [borderline] autistic.

Anyone else want to share a stereotype?

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Not completely related reading: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7736196.stm
I loved this presentation. But just out of curiosity, why aren't these techniques (not closing tags or quoting attributes) used in HTML5 Boilerplate?
Microsoft as one of the "two best Phone Operating Systems" makers? Really? Why? Because people review it and say, basically, if iOS suddenly disappeared from the world the reviewer might live with WP7.

Here's a tip for you: people vote with their wallets. And so far they've decisively voted against WP7.

Google's strategy is clear: to make the Web cheaper, more ubiquitous and more accessible. It has by any measure been astoundingly successful in this.

> Facebook is increasingly becoming very distracting and kinda pointless.

On this I can agree. The problem with Facebook is that it's basically solved the photo-sharing and status update problem and it has games but virtually everything else it does just hasn't gotten (similar) traction. Games are a fickle business. People could play them anywhere and increasingly are on mobile devices.

My personal belief is that the only company Facebook fears (despite a brief scare with Twitter 1-2 years ago) is Google. If not then why can so many things Facebook does be interpreted as being aimed at Google (eg Open Compute)?

> Google's search results are in a marked decline.

What praytell is your basis for this claim?

> The OS business is core for Apple and Microsoft.

Incorrect. While true for Microsoft, Apple's core business is hardware and a vertically integrated complete solution. Where once OSX updates cost $129 they now charge a nominal fee ($29) because they realized that it was in their interests for everyone to be on the (near-)latest version (which they are) and that selling OSs is just a means to an end.

As for the Facebook phone itself, Facebook will have their "Stalingrad" moment just like everyone else has. Microsoft seemed invincible in the 90s until they DoJ sucked the wind from their sails. Google's stock peaked in 2007. It makes more money than ever but people realized that the exponential growth couldn't continue for ever. At some point FB will make a move that will dispel their aura of seeming invincibility and dominance. It may well be this phone.

If the current crop of companies has proven nothing else, it's that making good phones is hard. Arguably only Apple has had stellar success at it. RIM is all but dead. MS will probably hemorrhage money on WP7 for little gain just like they do with Bing. Google's core business is elsewhere (commoditize your complements).

The idea that the "Facebook generation" will flock to a deeply integrated Facebook phone is, I think, outdated thinking. What people feared was that Facebook would become, for all intents and purposes, THE internet. IMHO the idea of "social search" is completely overblown. I believe that concern has now passed. We shall see.
*.local is a great example of why not to use a domain that just 'sounds good' as an internal dns suffix, as it is used by bonjour/avahi[1]

I had to rename an entire corporate network once because the previous folks thought .local "looked good". It cause constant issues with clients that had bonjour or avahi running.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
The new Nexus Prime's conception began well before Google purchased Motorola Mobility.

They are going to be building phones and they're going to be running Android - you can call it a Motorola Phone but its all part of Google.
If they have to choose between a genetic engineering product and dying?
There was a study done on this a while ago: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8914028...

I agree with the premise that there are diminishing returns after the 2nd screen, but I personally always use my 13" Macbook screen alongside the cinema display when I'm at my desk.
And so the Internet gets a little more fragmented...
This article doesn't mention other work in the area. Other teams have done field work with autonomous self-powered vehicles powered by thermal differences.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-111
How To Make Your Own Sugru Substitute:

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Apparently Google bid $60million for Hunch - http://www.businessinsider.com/not-for-sale-hunch-has-turned...
Perhaps reading RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo"[1] might be helpful.

Personally, I was familiar with the acronym FUBAR first, so it comes as natural to me as most mainstream, American acronyms.

[1]http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html
I think I owe him an apology. It's much easier to do something like it when the machines are still being built.
Smart boards were multi touch well before 2007 and selling quite well.
I can see how mobile devices that don't want a mobile version of the site kind of necessitate this, but surely Apple could have gone about this better.
Even if you did design a system and implement it perfectly, it would have unintended consequences.

Sure, but what prevents you from then measuring these unintended consequences, plugging them back into your model and asking the question "how should my system change?". Is there any reason to believe we can never reach a stable fixed point?

We do things sort of like this in microprocessor design for instance - where we need to deal with "unintended consequences" like parasitic capacitances and resistances that we cannot fully model until the design is complete, but we need to account for while designing the system.
As a programmer who has seen bad C++ code this just seems scary, an already complicated language gaining more complexity. Although I am sure it can be used to come up with some cool syntax for various different kinds of operations, hopefully it's not too opaque in the end.
That sounds simple and easy but for today's teens there's no limit. I know people who have gotten expelled from private schools for posting stupid things on Facebook. It's a disturbingly common occurrence. It's not Facebook's fault obviously, but for kids, dangers about "oversharing" go in one ear and out the other.
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I don't follow. Obviously you can only toggle to full screen for something unambiguous (i.e. the whole browser page). I don't see how pressing ESC helps the user decide which of the videos to launch.

But once you're full screen, F11 does indeed get you back to the original state. So I still don't see why ESC is needed.
Can you give me an example? Sites get entered in there if they try to install malware on people's machines. I think it's straight-up ridiculous to say that FB's text there is an attempt to mislead users. It gives good advice that most people don't keep in mind at a funnel point that's known to be relevant to an enormous number of phishing and other attacks.

Do you actually believe the things you're saying? I'm struggling here.

(StopBadware actually doesn't flag sites at all.)
... you do know that germany was heavily militarising for years before WWII started on 1 Sep 1939, including heavy spending on military R&D?

Germany didn't just say "hey, first ever flight by a jet aircraft! let's celebrate by, I dunno, invading Poland in four days' time!"
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Can you please share why you avoid Epicurious?

The recipes they have from Gourmet seem to me to be the best large collection of online recipes: diverse, well-written, tested, proofread, and forthright in their descriptions of each dish. They often have helpful user reviews as well. Some recipes tend to be more time consuming or require rare ingredients or equipment. But generally I'm relieved if (assuming I've already exhausted my proper cookbooks) Google gives me an Epicurious/Gourmet recipe as opposed to another site. The Bon Appetit, Shape, and other recipes on Epicurious aren't as uniformly good.

What are other sites that you do prefer? I'd be happy to discover something better.
In the interest of being completely fair to Dyson, I'm not sure anyone could have fully predicted just how bad of a regime Putin's would be. That said it seems like a long shot just the same.
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First phone with a php, mysql, and memcache based operating system?
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Yes, you should block apps that you don't want to see. They are (per your reasonable definition) badly behaved, and you should exclude them from your stream. I think that's exactly the behaviour that FB would want, because it ties the utility/economics of those apps to the quality of their user-experience.

(Disclosure: I start at FB next week, though I don't have any inside info on this.)
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I haven't tried either, but from what I've read, InstaMorph (aka "Friendly Plastic") needs heat to melt it and make it moldable, and can be reused indefinitely simply by re-melting it.

Sugru, on the other hand, does not need to be heated. It is moldable immediately after opening the package, and it self-cures at room temperature 30 minutes after being opened. Once it cures, it can not be reused.

From what I've read about it, Sugru sounds very much like ordinary epoxy putty, except that it might be softer or more rubbery than regular epoxy putty once it's cured. Or maybe it could be called a silicone in an epoxy putty-like form. While "Friendly Plastic" is more like ordinary plastic that's moldable when very warm.
Some interesting examples / possible use cases / discussion about user-defined literals in C++11: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/237804/user-defined-liter...
These rankings assume that signing a law that creates a new entitlement that will entail large payoffs in future decades is "free". Being in office when those promises come due is profligate. In reality, we should be using accrual accounting, and book liabilities when they are incurred. This would more or less upend the rankings. (Mind you, this would be very difficult. The magnitude of the liabilities from PPACA are essentially incalculable at this point.)

And on a related note, the rankings also assumes that there is no lag in terms of fiscal policy. A president is responsible for everything done by the government from the moment he takes office to the moment he leaves. But of course, this is absurd. It may take a couple years to enact a new policy, and another couple of years for the effects to start showing up in government accounts. A big tax cut (or tax raise) might take a decade to work its way through the economy, once you include knock-on effects like changes in consumption or investment. More generally, it's trivially obvious that the deficit in any given year is not only (or even mainly) the result of policy enacted that year, or even during that administration (especially for the first year or two of an administration).

And as other commentators have noted, all of this is assuming that presidents even have control over the budget, taxation, and spending. They don't. At best they can sometimes convince Congress to give their ideas a respectful hearing, but rarely (if ever) will Congress simply enact a Presidential policy or budget. (And that's when the same party controls the White House and Congress. When they don't, they'll often enact the opposite policy just on general principle.)
This is where I start to have all kinds of issues about copyright. If someone is making money off my work, without permission and/or without some sort of recompense, then I start to get a little bit edgy about it.
Microsoft loses $1Bil a quarter on Bing. Failure is only when they stop marketing.
You should read up on what DemandProgress.org is (they are the group behind this site), before making such claims. http://blog.demandprogress.org/mission/
If advertising provides revenue for your startup, SOPA is your nightmare
Serious.ly?
Which is an extension of the broader problem with Congresspeople having often very-divided loyalties. On the one hand (usually the weak one) there are voters. On there other, there's the money. Backing this money up is the threat that favoring voters will mean someone else getting the money, which they will be expected to use attacking the person who had the temerity to refuse it.

It's an impossible situation - like depending on an employee whose salary and benefits are provided by your most direct competitors.

The logic of public election finance holds that all citizens, regardless of their political views, have a much greater interest in a legislative body responsive to voters alone than they do in possibly underwriting the campaign of a particular legislator who they oppose.

Put differently, would you rather (indirectly) fund the campaign of someone you don't want representing you, along with the campaign of someone you do, or would you rather have nobody you can trust to represent you on anything?
Without knowing what your app is, it isn't easy to say which revenue stream would be better suited for you. However, saying that WhatsApp operate in a sector which has several free rivals and is a paid app, and is successful so it doesn't really matter what type of app you have because, if it is a good app then people are prepared to pay for it.

Nevertheless, have you considered offering "2 versions" of your app?

As you could offer a "Lite" Version which has 1-2 features missing and Ads (including offering to upgrade to the "Paid" version) and a "Paid" Version which has the 1-2 missing without Ads. What is important however, is that the 1-2 features that you remove are essentially bonuses and not core to the operation of the app but rather a nice feature/addition to the app.

With regards to the user experience, just ensure the ads are incorporated into the design/experience of the app when you are creating it rather than making it feel as if they were just added at the end in order to make revenue from the application as this will reduce the affect upon the user experience from a users point of view - Although don't make the ads so integrated that they don't annoy users to pay to remove them (i.e. from your "paid" app) - they still need to be slightly annoying as you will get people paying for your app just so they no longer see the ads.
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Here's my hand up admitting I made that mistake back in the day. At least it was only our staging server cluster, and not an entire network...
Drumbi (http://www.drumbi.com) requires both parties to install the app and requires callers to use the app to dial...how would this ever catch on?

Even worse, the benefit would seem to be more to the callee than the caller. The callee is the one who gets to decide whether to take the call, redirect it, or give canned answers (if I'm getting the demo). Why would someone who makes calls want to install an app that makes it more likely that they won't get through by phone? Wouldn't it make more sense to send an email or text?
The article lines up with my experience helping screen / hire graduates on to the technical program of a large US based investment bank in London. Only graduates from a handful of Universities in England (and the Republic of Ireland) were considered. These were not limited to the elite engineering schools (Imperial, Cambridge, etc.) however. They did not ask for academic transcripts etc., but only on the final grade (or "class" in the UK).

The most interesting thing I found was that the technical interview did not really matter as much as other interviews and group exercises. I think this made sense since we were hiring candidates straight from University.
ah! Finally! Clear evidence of a meritocracy at work! </snark>

Actually, in all seriousness, doesn't this suggest there's a real imbalance or opportunity here to be exploited? Companies that hire like this surely must have some other systemic blind spots, no?
A robotics friend of mine went to SpaceX a couple years ago. I understand he's working in computer vision for autonomous docking.
Very interesting. Looks like Steve finally won his war.
Exactly... the political and economic institutions of Russia have not progressed and have likely regressed in the last 10 years. Who led Russia in 2002? Putin. Who is leading Russia in 2011/12? Still Putin and United Russia. The Litvinenko killing and Khodorkovsky imprisonment are chilling indictments of this regression. Also the run up of energy and commodity prices has only increased the allure and hold of the Dutch disease in Russia.
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Response to HN comments: The earlier mentioned 3 password hack amongst others.
Ironically, example.com/net/org were themselves taken over by IANA because they were the recipient of so much test email.

ETA: I am now starting to doubt my memory here, and Google's USENET archive search is broken. Sigh.
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My dad was a doctor on a small island, for a year. The islanders dived for sponges and pearls. They couldn't afford a decompression chamber, so if someone got DCS (after freediving too long) they dropped them off the side of the jetty with an old diving helmet, and a friend to keep them company, and pumped air down to them as they gradually re-ascended. Apparently it worked OK.
Everyone works like this, perceptions are virtually indistinguishable from reality. Lawyers, Investment Banks and Consultancies can be gamed by going to the right school. The startup ecosystem can be gamed by committing to the right open source projects. It's just as important that you wear a good suit to meet with MBA types as it is that you wear the appropriate t-shirt and jeans to meet with hacker types.

Merit, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
This is why Google Music's artist hub was by far the most interesting feature of the service to me. If Google is serious about this, it will do a lot to decentralize this whole system and help artists bypass the labels and go directly to the fans.
This page is a memorial to Foo at Bar.com

Back in the earliest of early days, I (The Foo at bar.com) got a few emails a week, mostly from sysadmin type people who were invoking The Foo in an effort to debug some kind of system or other.

Of course I, being a gregarious sort, answered the messages. Mostly along the lines of "hello? Foo here. What can I do for you?Ó or "who you? I Foo.Ó

I met a lot of really interesting people in 1994 and 1995 that way.

But soon I had to return to obscurity, as my email volume grew overwhelming.

Y'see people building web sites started putting little "give us your email address and we'll let you see the goodies" challenges in their web sites, and lots of folks entered foo@bar.com.

Soon, I was getting thousands, then tens of thousands of emails a day, mostly from people who didn't care whether I replied or not. Alas, I was overwhelmed and had to return to my solitary life.

For a while, I MX'd email addressed to me to 127.0.0.1 but that made some people cranky (although I still take some quiet pleasure at the thought of what that address did to spammers).

I MX'd the mail over to a friend's spam-detection server for about 4 hours one time, but the volume crashed his server and he asked for relief.

So now I'm content to tell you this small story.

Onward,

The Foo
Wow the video really portrays chrome os 2.0
Awesome job, great thanks to yourself and the many donations for pulling this off without a hitch.
It says “for the same period” because CEOs don’t get paid hourly wages (the figures for production workers are labeled “average hourly wages”), so this is presumably something like typical annual CEO compensation divided by typical number of hours a CEO works.
Interesting.

So,
1. the text files have long been publicly available, since before the acquisition and
2. it was not a commercial project prior to acquistion.

Who wrote the non-commercial license? Was that also written before the acquisition?
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in a few months you'll also come to regard hn as a complete time sink
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Honestly, if Google were to continue to update this app, replacing each of the web versions of these apps with native ones, it could easily end up with a fully iOS-native version of Google Chrome, running on the iPad.

Um, what? I think this guy is confused. iOS-native Google Apps would be great to have, but they wouldn't be Chrome. Chrome is a browser and app platform, which Apple will certainly not allow on the App Store, ever.
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Agreed. I was expecting a much more substantial argument from Anil, but instead the post offers a list of disparate concerns without any real attempt made to link them together or to justify such strong statements. There are all kinds of explanations for discontinuing RSS import support and for malware warnings that do not point to nefariousness on the part of Facebook.
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Of course Motorola will build Android phones. There is nothing shocking about that.
* "Without this third party package there is a high chance of getting a virus or getting hacked"

* "More expensive HDMI cables produce a better quality image"

* "Higher megapixel cameras produce higher quality pictures"

Etc. Those are the ones I came up with off the top of my head that I was personally enlightened with at one point or another.
It's likely to take a while. See Travis's post: http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-p...

There are two main problems he sees - numpy is a moving target (as it continues to evolve), and the C-API of numpy is one of its most useful features (as lots of numpy extensions like Scipy and matplotlib may require it).
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Isn't the process a bit different when it comes to hiring geeks? Being a good software developer for example is a quite measurable and comparable skill. I think the extracurriculars that indicate social skills such as organising charity events etc, would be more relevant if you're a manager or a consultant; but if you are a developer or a mathematician, would people mind a bookworm?
People tend to assume that in today's era, progress is inevitable. The is a dramatic illustration to the contrary. Progress depends on a stable, pro-business system of government. Which, in turn, depends on a certain kind of underlying culture. (This is why I find Occupy Wall Street threatening.)
yeah, but it looks like he set it up waaaaaaaaaaaay back (like before the eternal September) solely in order to get a rise out of emailing people back. Then the internet blew up and broke his email.
'Meme' is the correct term, not 'virus'
if you know how Amazon works internally you wouldn't be surprised of their action. They're just another business with no concern about 'doing the right thing' unfortunately.
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I hope that's true. I'm worried that it will be too easy to avoid reality by staying with comfortable, ideologically compatible sources -- which is a problem regardless of ideology.