skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because most registration form not only checks that the email address you entered is valid but also whether it exists. This is done by using nslookup to query for a domain's MX record and then checking the specific address.

Here's a post I found detailing how to use it: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-check-if-an-email-...
I agree. Money should not be required for an org to do the right thing, esp when it costs $0 (this probably saves them money!)
The People & Pages feature. On Google search. Is excluding twitter.com content.

Example: http://parislemon.com/post/15682237911/twitter-keeps-right-o...
How do they plan to work out if people are jerks or not? Or if they are looking for work, or if they work well in a team? The code itself is a major aspect to a coding job, but not the only thing.
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"It is really surprising how bad some of the software is in film"

I'd be interested in reading more about that if you want to go into more detail.
More and more being smart and being really interested and motivated seem fairly co-related.
I wish my gmail account only got the emails for 5 strangers. It's more like 50. It is indeed incredibly hard to get these errors fixed, even when they're fairly serious. Like the guy working at a US army base who managed to sign up for their internal newsletter using my address, or the married couple who gave various financial institutions my email address when buying their first home a few years ago. I'm still getting their financial information occasionally, despite trying to tell the senders that they have the wrong address.
Even if Bing isn't all that popular with programmers, I'm pretty sure it would come in higher than Yahoo did in that list. As far as I know, Bing has actually had moderate success in getting some marketshare from Google, though nothing outstanding, and while programmers are not representative of wider demographics, you will probably see at least some of them using Bing.
iPad has or had a monopoly in the tablet market, but where are/were the cries for an open bootloader? Where were the complaints to governments?

Motorola and HTC phones/tablets ship with locked bootloaders while leveraging the hard work of F/OSS developers for free. Not to mention the Nook tablet/Kindle Fire which ship with a locked bootloader who get a free pass.

Note that this will be the same set of people who will slag Microsoft for malware getting into the system and will recommend switching away from Windows because it is insecure.

How about forcing Apple to allow users to load alternate OSes like Windows 8 or Android on the iPad?
I'll sound like wierdo, but I always set uneven minutes to alarms, so there's less chance they overlap each others' snooze alerts. (yep, I have a problem with getting up and have to set up 3 alarms next to each other)
Good thing there was no concept of intellectual properties rights when fire was discovered or the wheel invented.

You are aware that the concept of intellectual property rights didn't even begin with the concept of a creator having monopoly rights over their creations. Instead the concept of government granted monopolies begun during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 with the East India Company came first. It wasn't until later that the concept of government granted monopolies was applied to intellectual goods. However, when the concept of government granted monopolies were applied to intellectual goods it was done so with the intention of maximizing the benefit of society by providing only enough incentive to encourage innovation not profits. Intellectual properties rights today have become completely divorced from their original intention of maximizing the commons due to the selfish pursuits of individuals and companies that have distorted the laws. Most of these distortions of the law weren't even introduced by those actually doing the inventing, but by heirs and assigns trying to establish and safeguard a constant source of revenue. That constant source of revenue has permitted many people to sit on their laurels instead of innovating.

Intellectual Property rights have been completely distorted from their original intent of encouraging innovation and maximizing benefit for society. Let me tell you who doesn't innovate: heirs and assigns. If anything, intellectual property rights have enabled a lot of people to make a living by not innovating.
Best of luck to these folks.

The idea doesn't suck. The current implementation might suck a little. They have their work cut out for them in any case, if for no other reason than the barrier to entry for competition seems pretty low.

They've got two huge things going for them:
- $500 is right around the noise floor for a hiring process
- Money co-located with mouth. If the client isn't happy, they don't get paid.
I don't see how your comment explains anything or makes it seem better. You sold the company to a company that wasn't committed, and your users are suffering for it.

I like that phrasing, "The decision was made." Like it was an unstoppable edict from God himself. I can't speak for anyone else but I never support the future endeavours of a dev that treats me like that.

I'm your customer, and if you sell me to another organization you better make damn sure that organization has my interests at heart, or you'll never see me as a customer again. YOU dropped the ball. Passing the buck only makes you feel temporarily better, it doesn't actually make anything better.
Hi JN, thanks for your inputs. I do have some GA data that I would like to share with you via email if you have sometime to leave me some more valuable feedback.
At my job the application we're currently working on is aimed for Android 2.1 and above so we can't the new TimePickerDialog.

I actually had testers come up to me and report bugs about the Android TimePickerDialog as bugs in our application saying that it didn't work as expected and it was against the UI specifications (which of course only have pictures for the iPhone version of the application).

I had to actually replace them with two dropdown sliders and a button so that the testers would be happy.
System.out?

Really?
I believe they have already allowed restricted donations for years, yet discourage it due to overhead. They can not retake restricted donations and give it to a worthy cause. They can only use it as specified or refund it.
I had this where I'd be getting a "statement notification" from some guy's bank every month - no financial information in the email, but you also couldn't unsubscribe without logging into the online banking thingie. In the end I googled the guy's name (it was in the email), found the one with a really similar email address to mine and let him know :)
This has probably been beaten to death but I wouldn't support a Google or Wikipedia blackout. What if someone were bitten by a snake, snapped a photo of the snake, and needed to look up the type of snake in order to administer the right anti-venom? I bet you anything doctors these days are using the web to do quick checks just as the rest of us do in our day jobs.

On the other hand, homepage placement for Google or something on every page of Wikipedia for a day would be nice.

FB is non-critical but I wouldn't expect them to go for it. They are off on their own island of hubris and not about to cooperate with any other organization, much less with Google who is encroaching on their social territory.

If twitter did it the entertainment industry + followers would be running around with their heads cut off
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Guys behind this app were speaking at a Tech Meetup in Edinburgh last night showing off their iOS game. Bit of a weird concept with cartoon dogs in costume making music. They have a nice video that has real dogs in costume - aaaaaawww!
As an attorney, I can tell you that local bar associations are great for this sort of thing. I would also suggest small businesses that do what you do. They probably have attorneys who might know an attorney that's looking to have clients on the side (a stay at home parent, for example) who might be in your price range. If you have tons of cash to burn, your State bar also probably lists the biggest firms in your state and from experience, most larger law firms engaged in business law are top notch, or they wouldn't be in business long. Of course, that might be out your price range.
I've been a Microsoft fanboy for a long time, and I've been speaking out about the Secure Boot brouhaha because there was effectively no evidence that they were actually attempting to lock anyone out, but this is simply inexcusable. Sad.
I think moores law is a given until 2020, according to a couple of articles I've read linked here.
That gives us 7nm chips, I guess about 16x the density of today.
So your dual core laptop will have 32 cores.
I think that might be enough for most people, until we figure out some uses for that kind of power for the everyday person.
Moores law is bound to be an S curve, and I think we'll start to get diminishing returns economically, as well as demand dropping off for more power sometime in the 20's.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly in the tablet or phone markets. Heck, it's barely a market participant. If Apple doesn't have to let people install Windows on an iPad, then the same should apply to Microsoft. This time, there's no "but there's a monopoly and the rules are different for monopolies" excuse.
Awesome to see something like this out there. A BMS can get very advanced, and it would be very interesting to see a complex open-source system down the road.

I'm not sure I understand the balancing code. It looks to me like the gate is turned on for any cell over 3.509 V (the conditionals all depend on constants). Doesn't this unnecessarily drain your cells?
If anything Google has gained some share since then. The biggest change has been that it continues to suck more and more traffic away with ads, YouTube listings, Google Places listings, shopping results, Google's in house affiliate ads, Google Books, and anything else that pays Google or keeps traffic on Google sites. It's gotten so bad that in many verticals it is impossible to find an organic result without scrolling. Like this for example:

http://www.seobook.com/images/ads-ads-ads.gif
Still doesn't feel like a Mac app...
I wonder if it actually productive to have a bunch of people who don't understand the bill or its risks and/or benefits showing up to just regurgitate what they read on the internet.

senators and congresspersons probably don't understand many of the bills they vote on, either.

do you really think most of those lawmakers suddenly decided that copyright infringement was a problem and banded together to create SOPA and PIPA on their own? organizations lobbied them to form an opinion. if nobody challenges those opinions, they just vote how the money tells them to.

if enough constituents tell them to change their opinion, they probably will. not because they really care personally, but because it will look favorable to the people that are in charge of reelecting them, and that will allow them to continue getting money from lobbyists over issues like SOPA and PIPA.

godaddy was in favor of SOPA for whatever reason, and only when they started losing money from it did they suddenly reverse their position and come out against it. lawmakers will do the same exact thing for the same exact reason if enough people call them about it.
These tabs are awkward in my browser. The way they overlap gives a physical sense that the tab over there was the one I was just in because it's sitting above the tab next to it.

... except it doesn't appear to be intentional, or in line with what I just visited. On the example page, click the last, then second, then third to last tabs. Even though you're in the second tab and were just on the third, the last tab appears to be resting on top.

It looks awkward to me. Sorry, that was a lot of criticism for a well written iterative CSS guide which I appreciate!
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I'm not sure what you've been reading that I haven't, but I've seen plenty anti-Apple and anti-Amazon and anti-X cries precisely because of their lock-in attempts. From what I've read, the fact that Microsoft keeps doing it just means they won't learn their lesson, and Apple et al. doing it just means they're more evil than Microsoft in this respect. It's also a warning flag that as much as MS tries to win over the OSS crowd they still have some issues to work out.

The law getting involved and being applied arbitrarily or just to MS though is very silly.
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I fixed all the issues except 1). Sent you an email.
They also use a tablet or two, maybe an ebook reader, maybe a TV running the same OS, etc etc.
I thought it was an Apple mistake. At least five of the people I follow on Twitter received this John Dillinger mail, and there's a person in the comments saying he/she received the same mail. (And all these persons have nothing to do with each other)
Do you have a source for this story about paying Borland's engineers to sit on their thumbs? I knew a few ex-Borland engineers that came to Microsoft and they were all doing awesome things on Microsoft's (many) compiler projects. Most of them moved because they wanted to work on awesome stuff.

Which is not to say that Microsoft didn't abuse their monopoly, but this particular story.... I've never heard it and it doesn't sound right.
A Battery Management System contains all the onboard controls necessary for a battery to manage its components. Depending on the complexity of the battery, this includes when to (dis)charge, temperature control, cell balancing, high voltage connections, safety monitoring, and more. A good BMS is crucial in using a battery efficiently and maintaining a long life.

An open-source BMS could play a huge role in the advancement of battery technology. If only automakers would do the same. :)
Ask HN: Why can't I comment on some stories?
I notice some stories I can comment on, and others are completely lacking a comment box and have no reply links next to others' comments. Is this on purpose? A bug? It seems to be random, or at least has a pattern I can't quite figure out yet. Is there a way to stop it?
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Keep in mind that the authors' first language isn't English.
The back button in browsers is often used as analogy, but how many tabs/windows do you have open in your browser? What if pressing the back button in the browser switched you to a word processor because that is what you were looking at before.
You know, this was local Santa Cruz lore I'd heard mentioned a couple times, and I couldn't remember the details, so perhaps they are embellished stories by the Borland employees that stayed. Here's an old CNET article about a related lawsuit:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-279561.html

"Yocam maintains that Microsoft is luring personnel away with huge signing bonuses, some in excess of $1 million."
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Stackless-like tasklets and channels:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561
Having academically experienced parents is different enough from the status quo to merit mention. People who could hold a discussion on "Archimedes, Galileo, da Vinci, Faraday, Newton, Maxwell, Tesla, Pasteur, and Darwin" are rare. It's cliche to say that a child's success starts with the parents, but that's quite a positive influence there.
Yep, you're right.

There are two aspects to the new G+ search features: indicating that a link was shared by one of your friends, and the sidebar that links relevant G+ profiles. The former is presumably limited by rel=nofollow, but the latter has no relation to rel=nofollow.

If you search for "WWE", Google doesn't show you the @wwe Twitter account in the sidebar. The fact that Google is told not to follow any outgoing links posted by the @wwe account isn't a valid explanation for that, especially when you consider that (a) Google definitely has twitter.com/wwe indexed, and (b) twitter.com/wwe almost certainly has a high PageRank due to incoming links.
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Not really, I've done it before from bedroom to acquisition. I never said it was easy.
> I've seen plenty anti-Apple and anti-Amazon and anti-X cries precisely because of their lock-in attempts.

As an X Window System developer, I often get confused when people use "X" as a placeholder. I thought, "but X doesn't lock people in...".
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There is no way that anybody who browses this site hasn't heard about SOPA.
> tl;dr battery life and multi-core prevent an ARM-based dockable desktop.

For now. I'm sure in the future it'll get more and more attractive.
I would much more prefer seeing one of the household names in the "old" media see speak out - some of the more expected opponents like Al Gore, Mc Hammer or Aston Kutcher would give the issue a better face and show that the opponents are not just some people from the internet who want to "to kill our beloved music and movie culture".
What will happen if these sites are taken down permanently and someone needs to look up the type of snake?
Those two are probably not uncorrelated either. For homeschooling to be good, you'd need parents who are sufficiently knowledgeable and well-rounded and have enough time to invest.

(Though I get the impression that there are plenty of kids who are also homeschooled because their parents are determined to "save" them from things like learning about evolution.)
> That has absolutely nothing to do with inflation, so I'm not sure why you're conflating the two points, it really weakens your position.

I did not mention the word "inflation" in my post, and I'm not sure why you did. There are many sources of inflation, one of which is currency debasing, which is the only one that I referred to.

> As for the government not being allowed to "tax you just to be there", what on earth makes you think that your money is yours? Money and wealth are social constructs. If you want them, you have to accept the social obligations that come with them.

I didn't say they are not allowed - but the post I was replying to stated that "only the mafia taxes you for being there, governments don't", which is false (and I gave examples for that).

I don't have a problem with being "taxed just to be there". I do have a problem that the way this tax is applied is essentially (a) hidden from view and (b) decided by 5-10 people in every country, who usually have the banking system's best interests in mind. Currency debasing is a taxation method that hurts the people who saved, and rewards the people who were living on credit (that is, beyond their means). I don't know about you, but I think it is a horrible policy.

> Get rid of government, and your money (gold or otherwise) is entirely worthless. The only thing of value without some form of government is either a sack of potatoes, or a sword to steal your neighbours' potatoes.

As WalterBright remarked, gold is a surprisingly good store of wealth over the last 2000 years or so, and has kept its buying power despite political and economical changes that have rendered fiat money worthless.

(No, I can't understand it, and it might not maintain that value in the future -- but disregarding thousands of years of history just because they make no sense is also not a good strategy)
Premature launch? Linear algebra: only Khan academy videos. Relativity: nothing. Various other topics in Physics: nothing. Seriously, you have a long way to go before you can even approach Google, not to mention some already existing portals.
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Heck, I'm not sure most people know what a search engine is. Wasn't "Google" one of the most-often heard answers to the question, "What is a browser?"
There are also details and examples at http://www.sqlite.org/vdbe.html

Things have changed a bit since then, but not much. SQLite's API is very different than regular databases because it is a library operating in the same process. In particular it does not calculate all result rows for a query up front (that wouldn't be very 'Lite') but instead calculates the next matching row as you ask for it.

Consequently the internals have to be able to record their state, return a row, and then resume from that state to get the next matching row. There is a also a fair amount of query optimisation that goes on, which again means the need for expressing queries in a variety of different building blocks. Combine the state machine with building blocks and you have a special purpose VM.
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the fact that she is part of Thiel's 20 under 20, just shows the high level of selection bias for his program
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His assertion is incorrect. Any public performance, whether "for profit" or not, requires a license.
Ask HN: How does an engineer learn design?
I'm thinking of following the common HN advice of not waiting for the magical designer cofounder to come and save the day, and instead try to do my best by myself for the time being, while hopefully learning from the experience. I'm 100% technical and can only draw stick figures, but I still feel I should try to do my best at designing a good looking modern web app.

I'm not too worried about the client-side coding as much as about actually creating appealing color schemes, icons, logos and have it all be part of a coherent theme. Also, it'd be amazing if I got decent at creating attractive mockups, slide decks and pitch videos with Photoshop (one could argue it's a step above using something like Balsamiq from a presentation standpoint) or other modern tools.

Has anybody else started from scratch and actually got decent at it? Is there a good place to start? Texts / tutorials? What's the most effective way of ramping-up to the point where what I'm producing isn't too embarrassing?

Thanks!
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