skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question for those looking at the TOS is: What is it you do not want Google to do? Unless you know the answer to that, reading TOS is a mindless exercise. You need to supply some facts, a real scenario. Then we can assess whether the TOS are reasonable.

Google can say "what's yours stays yours". They could say also that to website content owners with respect to their web crawls. But the simple fact is they have a copy of someone else's data, they know what the contents are and they will use that knowledge of the contents (aggregated and de-personalised if necessary) to their own benefit, by using it to lure more web users and thereby advertisers. It works. That's how they make money. Of course given the chance they will require an explicit license from you to do so. Here, that's the TOS. With the web crawls, I guess it's robots.txt. There's an implicit license.

What I'd like to see discussed is what happens if you encrypt some multi-GB binary blob of random bytes, give it an attention-grabbing filename and then move it to cloud storage. Does a team of cryptographers start trying to crack it? Now that's a fun legal question.

I really do not understand the whole cloud storage thing. I imagine the real issue is people do not know how to move large amounts of data to each other, quickly and securely. They've never heard of netcat. And "storage" with a "link to download" is their solution. File sharing. Same old story.

Everything gets funnelled through a webserver.

Quite silly if you can directly connect to the recipient.
way easier and quite cheap: just use a hotplate and solder paste ($30 hotplate, $5 solder paste)
We had a similar idea that we executed on during Mega Startup Weekend recently that was a lot of fun. It is similar to crowd screening in a sense, but really is more of a crowd sourced business idea validation engine. Imagine if there was a community / website where you could pitch your idea, have people vote on it and refine it. You could release your idea to as small or large a group or circle that you felt comfortable with. The goal would be to build a "tribe" around your idea that helps you refine it and validate it. We wanted to bake in the whole lean startup methodology into it. For example we had a step in the process called "assumption junction" where the tribe would list all the assumptions in the business idea and rank them by risk/importance. The community would then be tapped for building/refining surveys as well as for distributing the surveys or taking them themselves. Imagine if ideas where refined and validated by hundreds if not thousands of people before a single line of code was written. We called the idea "The Darwin Project", where only the strongest ideas survive.

This really jibed with coders we surveyed as they would love to be approached with ideas that are validated before they wrote any code. This could be a tool that finally empowers the non-technical business guys to vet their idea, get a critical mass behind it, and finally build enough value in the idea itself to build a team around. If anybody is interested in pursuing this I can put you in touch with the team that is running with this concept.
This is a great series so far, but I think some people are taking it too seriously. This is roughly the equivalent of giving you a good tutorial about how a short map-reduce implementation works and then asking you to agree that Hadoop is awesome. It may or may not be, but the toy example isn't sufficient to make the determination. It's just background information for the uninitiated.

Some relevant questions that are completely glossed over:

1. What compels an HFT to actually trade? Is there anything forcing them to keep supplying liquidity even if the market's moving against them? How is an HFT different than an actual market maker?

2. How does an HFT decide that it has a better-than-even shot at turning a profit on a trade? Most of the objections to HFTs revolve around the answers to this question (i.e. pseudo-front-running by trying to detect large buys/sells that get split over lots of orders) and their implications (i.e. 'real' investors leaving the exchanges).

3. The "market-maker strategy" HFTs you describe are indisputably compensated for providing liquidity and taking on risk, but is the return on HFTs actually equivalent to the return on other investments with equivalent risk? If not, and they earn a premium, why isn't that evidence that something's broken?
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And the resulting code much slower too. It all depends on what you want to accomplish. Really, THIS particular topic has substantial bandwidth allocated to it already...
Our National Budget is Defense Industry centric. Anyone who thinks that our policy stance is not Defense Industry leaning as a result is not being objective.

Look at it this way; While the majority of humans are pushing to decrease wars and traditional defense spending, the military industrial complex is looking for a way to transition from conventional ordinance revenue streams to digital ordinance revenue streams.

This will be either a long hard transition, or an immediate windfall transition which lets the traditional ordinance stream die over time with a very fast ramp up of digital streams.

This is why we see an uptick in things like Stuxnet, all sorts of hacker claims, wikileaks, Anonymous, etc.

Some are legit, but I withhold judgement on which.

The fact is that there is NO existential physical threat - and that control model is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the illusion.

Thus they need to transition the fear factory to the vector where 30% of the globe is connected.

They have been laying the foundation though for some time with respect to the financial infrastructure. They needed to ensure they had a great number of financial control tools in place prior to 100% online lockdown.

Welcome to the oligarchy's police state.
When talking to PG and the other YC partners, be substantive, and get straight to the point.

DO NOT BEAT AROUND THE BUSH. Do not hem and haw. "Uhm"s and "uh"s don't lend an aura of intelligence.

Use precise and concise language. You aren't pitching a VC that will ask you what your "secret sauce" is.

He talks quickly, and so do the other YC partners. Try to match their tempo (as you should when talking to anyone).
"Thus they (supposedly) cannot claim copyright infrigement when only a small part of it might have been copied by google. (I am not quite certain here)."

My understanding is that Oracle cannot sue Google over the small portions without either having registered copyrights for the individual APIs, or proving that those APIs originate with Oracle and were not contributed under license. Oracle apparently didn't do the former, and has not yet done the latter.
Sure, they say that. Do they get that? No.
many of these issues can changed to be more old-gmail-like
http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-...

1) remove important markers 2) add labels to actions/buttons
Yes, although that was a few years ago.
My grandfather always used to tell me, "You can be rich in two ways - the amount of your possessions or the fewness of your wants".

This article alludes to that point at the end.
I wanted a website monitoring tool that just works, but every tool I could find sucked. So I created one myself. :)
> That idea didn't make it to the Macintosh, though I wish it had. But they had something even cooler, Quickdraw. Those were the days.

If by "that idea", you mean a memory-mapped display, then it certainly did make it to the original Macintosh -- as well as a number of subsequent models. The original Mac display was a little 9-inch CRT, 512 x 342 black-and-white-only pixels. One bit per pixel, so each scan line was 64 bytes. 342 lines made for a bit over 21K of display memory, out of 128K total. And that had to hold the OS & applications, too. (Those were the days....)

OTOH, I believe these Macs had only a single memory-mapped display buffer, not the multiple buffers that the Apple II line had. And of course no Mac ever had a text display buffer. And, true, you weren't supposed to write to the display buffer yourself. If you were a Good Person, then you used QuickDraw and the Window Manager. But you could write to it; no memory protection back then.

Another funky bit of info you didn't mention: the Apple II display buffers were not exactly 2-D arrays. The screen lines were not stored in order. I seem to remember that Woz mixed them up because it allowed for easier computation of the memory location of a character (?). (If this sounds implausible, remember that, back then, multiplication was hard.) And there were "holes" in the buffer that were not used for display. 1024 bytes for the text display buffer only had to hold 40 x 24 = 960 characters, leaving 64 bytes of free space scattered throughout the buffer. These extra locations were allowed to be used as scratch space by I/O devices: 8 bytes for each slot.
Clever lobbyists.

Even they can see that prosecuting a 92 year old veteran for supporting troops would hasten the end of a dying industry.

Pure politics.
On an unrelated note:

I noticed people always complained about GMail having bad service (like me, when I couldn't open particular pieces of mail for a few days at a time).

How do these problems change when we become paying customers of Google? When I get a Google drive, do I get help in fixing problems? Or is that a lie I want to believe in?
I always have though GMail is subpar at best when it comes to interface. I feel no desire to justify this opinion, just my personal feelings.
Sure, you could change it back to the old way, but should you have to? I think this is a good question to ask whenever some bothersome thing happens such as a poor redesign.

You /could/ fix it, but should you have to?
I had the pleasure of employing Dan as an intern last summer. He's absolutely top notch and I wish there was some way I could have kept him.
reading the article mentioned
Skydrive: (GRANT ALL)..."posted on the service solely to the extent necessary to provide the service"

GDrive: (GRANT ALL)..."the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

Services vs. Service,
Promoting vs providing

will showing book drafts being created by me on Google Books is promoting/improving there service, yep.
Google may not do so ever, but you have to trust them instead of being on TOS.
You don't prove the null hypothesis. But you might not have enough evidence to rule it out.

I don't honestly know how to apply this kind of t-test logic to the question of whether gods exist, but I think we have fairly adequate evidence that dodo birds do not exist any more, and we haven't even tried that hard. If you try very very hard and in good ways to find something which by all rights should be there, and don't find it, it's just basic honesty to say you 'failed to reject the null hypothesis' than to make plausible excuses about how it really must exist despite the dearth of evidence.

If you have an idea about how to really find it, then it's up to you to make a better methodology and then use it to find the thing. And you can keep coming up with better and better methodologies around all the excuses for as long as you want to. Everyone can.

But the more sustained and general the failure to see expected evidence, the less likely the basis of the expectation. So rational people will give up on Eldorado and Shangri-la after many attempts fail to find any evidence for them. Shangri-la might be hiding behind a cloud, sure, but that doesn't mean that every claim is equally credible. A million excuses for lack of evidence are more likely a product of human frailties than of the claim actually being true after all that failure to support it.
You can register after infringement but before suing. It is sort of like saying murder is illegal, but a suspect has to be arrested before he can be tried.
You make a very good point about unix tools. However, as a Javascript/JSON guy myself, I really like the way JSON works. And for a small site like mine, JSON would work much better out of the box than some sort of tab structure.

I work with node.js which means I can console.log and then pipe into a log file. Any object sent into console.log are automatically converted to JSON.
I can also do stack traces with JSON if I ever end up with some sort of nasty bugs.

When you log Gb a day, absolutely, tabs are the way to go. But when you have a tiny little thing like mine, saving the effort for something more value adding is probably the better choice.
There's something deeper going on here:

The: Gmail, Unity, Gnome, etc.. redesigns that we've been seeing recently all seem to have a pattern. A lot of these designs are benefiting and emphisizing the designers desperate attempt at garnering attention and acclaim rather than helping the users. You can tell by the constant tweaking of things that were never broken (the Start button), critical and heavily used elements being hidden or tucked away behind several clicks for the sake of "minimalism", incorrectly correlating a sterile white page with "simplicity". And they won't stop until the whole page is white and empty with one button and a line of text.

These designers are doing whatever makes them look off the wall bat-shit-creative (of the Lady Gaga variety). Many of these designers have stopped caring about a/b tests and the users and are focusing their designs solely on how it makes them look to the community. They want to be the next Steve Jobs, now that he has passed. And they are going to mimic his arrogance, take his risks, and think it will get them to his level. It will not, it's just pissing us off.

On a shallow level, and to the untrained eye, these redesigns are pretty and minimalistic but on a deeper level they are deeply flawed. Explaining to the average person why the new gmail UI is abnoxious is like explaining to the average person what's wrong with Michael Bay's films.
Not true. Personal papers that are, for example, stored in a hotel room enjoy fourth amendment protection (there are sometimes exceptions for people that do not pay, etc., but the main point stands). Why shouldn't you be able to establish a contractual trust relationship with a services provider that protects your privacy, so that you can enjoy third party services and cloud services while also enjoying fourth amendment protections?

The law with regard to privacy in cloud services is not very well established, but if we allow laws like CISPA to pass, this will slowly but surely make it impossible for any service provider to ensure privacy, even if they wanted to. This will mean that we have to give up all the benefits of cloud services if we want privacy.
Wait, so A10 is a Cortex A8 plus other hardware? And the A13 is a stripped-down A10? Who names these things?
I agree with #3. I have a lot of problems deciphering the icons, in the browser client and the ipad client.
Why There’s No Stopping iTunes
yeah no problem it's very hard to find but very informational and inspiring
Or as Alfred Whitehead said: "Seek simplicity and distrust it"
The author gave you the benefit of the doubt by not spelling out the essential relation between liquidity and volume over time. Just what exactly do you think liquidity is, if it has nothing to do with volume over time?
As someone pointed out in the comments these processors require DDR3 memory, which is only available (currently) in BGA packages. This means you can't quite use a soldering iron to build your own small computer, yet.

The real advantage here is not the savings in the soldering soldering but the savings in PCB complexity and cost. A small BGA with a few hundred pins will need at least 6 or more layers to be able to "break-out" all the pins from underneath the chip. With the TQFP package, all the pins are already at the edge of the chip, so it's possible to use a 4 layer PCB.

It's an exciting time when more people can have access build thing using this level of hardware. Now the next thing we need is decent documentation to go with these chips.
But the creativity in the API is inseparable from compatibility, and compatibility is fair use. When you take out the portion that is required for legally protected compatibility, what's left is documentation and implementation, neither of which Google copied.
This one is driving me INSANE for past 2 days: Google Chat Title Bar Colors

They completely REVERSED it!!

Previously:

Blue - No new message

Orange - New chat message

Now:

Blue - New chat message

Black - No new message

Orange worked perfect -- it grabbed your attention. Blue doesn't really cut it, even worse that it is opposite to what it meant previously. BAD DESIGN. Period.
Sound similar to the "designing for the industry, not people" syndrome seen in the world of architecture discussed here: http://www.shareable.net/blog/architectural-myopia-designing...
Hyperbole. The 4th amendment never applied online (except in 1 Circuit with respect to e-mail).
They added a setting to change the icons to text: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/03/customize-gmails-bu...
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Thanks for posting the link! I'll check that out...
Craigslist blocking Airbnb.com
http://i.imgur.com/ILEyc.jpg

While updating our ads today, this is what appeared on the screen. We can't submit an ad that contains airbnb.com. No explanation why.
I will try to do that if I have time. My view in a nutshell...it's not all that YET, but it is FINALLY about to take off in a big way. (Yes, for real this time.)
Image as link: http://i.imgur.com/ILEyc.jpg
I'm happy with JSON and it is the native format of MongoDB, CouchDB and similar databases. And grep/sed/awk. The biggest problem with JSON is that it has no standard way of representing dates, times or binary data.
How will this new law fix the problem though? I don't see it.
Excellent Analysis and Comparison of Postgre's Hstore and Mongo DB
That sort of seems to dissolve the parallel between interviews-by-committee and actual gang bangs, though.
He founded Pixar, and without him for many it proved to be one of the best animation studios in the world.
Record the person's response!

Would be great if you could replay each of your responses at the end to see if you sounded horrible (or good).
As someone who taught himself Brazilian Portuguese without apps or classes, I have to agree with you. It's all about the variety of approaches and the consistency with which you teach yourself.

As for the parent, if people aren't already learning via other existing media and/or methods, I highly doubt they will all of a sudden start, given the advent of apps. Mobile learning is the future because it's ubiquitous, not because it's game-changing.
TypeError: PainInTheAss object is not JSON serializable
I totally agree with you. Another specific change that is hard to defend is the new "..." three dots to expand hidden parts of the conversation from previous messages. It used to be text that was clear and large enough to click on. Apparently the Gmail team hasn't learned about Fitts' Law, and the new target is pretty hard to hit with a mouse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
>> Our National Budget is Defense Industry centric.

Freedom is still in vogue, ask the world.
Isn't it a bit soon to make this kind of prediction?
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Top 10% - gets the coding job done, timely, high quality code. Knows his craft well, but is still essentially a craftsman.

Top 1% - Designs systems that will get the job done for the business/larger org goals, or even designing systems that generate business props. Also, the systems designed are capable of being implemented/maintained by lesser skilled developers. Of course, knows his craft, but is something of the artist, can see the Buddha in the gearbox.

The 1% guy should easily, as in no conceptual difficulties, be able to write a compiler/interpreter, that clearly demonstrates whether one is simpatico with the machine, capable of thinking like one. Actually should love doing this sort of thing, probably, and might have to resist the the tendency to incorporate custom command processing components/metadata/languages in every project.
Show HN: Say everything you want with TerseTag
The story/problem:
While hunting for a decent used car using the usual methods: craigslist, ebay, etc. I was on the freeway when a car drove by me with a For Sale sign in the window. The make and model were what I was looking for, but how would I ever be able to find out more (mileage, condition, etc) and contact this person? We’d both have to be parked to safely get all that info from the For Sale sign. Or try some good old fashioned tail-gaiting.. but didn’t want to risk denting my future car! A similar situation happened when I was apartment hunting and seeing For Rent signs in home windows as I drove around. What if the world ran on short-tags, what if I could spot a huge printed #2N, know to go to a website, and look it up for more info?

The solution:
We came up with TerseTag as the solution, allowing people to say everything they want with a QR code and short tag.

Is it just another QR code creator? Sure, you could say that. Is it just another URL shortener? Sure, you could say that too.

We love how QR codes provide a way to get from the real world to digital content, but studies show using QR codes is a mixed bag. Some people never bother learning how to scan them, possibly because it can be technologically intimidating and unfamiliar. To address this,That is why TerseTag offers short, memorable tags that people can quickly write down and lookup later, tapping into a simple and familiar act that we all have done by writing down someone’s phone number or email address.

Please check it out and let us know what you think, thanks!
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On the topic of bad colors, I like facebook's old colors of "offline" and "online": A green circle for online. a Gray-green circle for offline. On a screen with bad gamma, they looked almost exactly the same.
While the article makes mention of new product design and other issues where Apple could become like Sony, perhaps the two biggest near-term future risks for Apple are disruption to its China-focused supply chain and a significant narrowing of the margin it earns on its current products. The China supply chain risk is often overlooked, but even if the disruption is short term, it could have significant impact on current and new product introductions. The margins Apple current has on iPhones, iPads, iTunes and apps are likely to face significant pressures in the coming 12-24 months from competitors, perhaps excluding iTunes & apps, unless the iOS market share also shrinks.

The uniqueness has been a significant factor in driving past high net earnings and could be quickly lost. I wonder how long it will be before Apple loses its "cool" factor, if it already hasn't begun with established key support bases, because of the near-ubiquitous of its products and the increasing lack of user uniqueness.
I think I'm the only user who has found the "important" filtering to be remarkably helpful. I don't have a few dozen filters set up, and don't empty my inbox, so the flagging serves as a useful lossy compression of my email stream.