skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question. I think making sure to add a personal note would help explain why you recommend something, like "here's a great helmet for going river rafting with, I used it last weekend" or etc.

I get annoyed by stuff that doesn't have context, like those Spotify alerts in Facebook that just lists the track, as opposed to something like "our whole team is jamming to the Budos Band while we jam out the next release".
Because it's easy to verify that that isn't the case. If you don't trust the Chrome binaries, feel free to use Chromium (which is of course completely open source). Further, I'm not sure what the actual implication is here (Google is reading your HTTP traffic?), but it would be easily (dis)proven with Wireshark and would be an enormous scandal.
I'm planning something like this, the only issue is the version formats hell, some packages uses some unusual version format sometimes, something like this will be implemented but always with confirmation, which isn't very elegant when you have lots of packages to upgrade.
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Why would that be intentional? What possible motivation does Facebook have for wanting you to accidentally reshare something?

Further, I don't even understand the accusation. You have to click "Share" on a post to share it, and even then, there's an additional, quite explicit confirmation required.
I like the credit card idea.
shower and interacting with real human beings hah
Bing tracks everyone who clicks the links
Hm, this argument sounds morally equivalent to pacifism, and I don't mean that in a good way. While in an ideal world there would be no lobbying, in the real world, if the bad guys have lobbyists, the good guys should too, if just to defend themselves from the lobbyists of the bad guys.
Yeah, I've noticed this on a couple of sites too, particularly the default Octopress theme which (like this site) sets the text size on the body to a bit over 1em, and I don't understand why anyone would do this; what platforms are they developing for, where the default font size is too small? Obviously, better to have the fonts too large than too small, though.
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For those not familiar: tabbed browsing (complete with closed page history and undo), whole page zoom, a search engine search bar (and then address bar searching), a download manager, middle click to open in new tab, speed dial/"top sites" for quick navigation in new tabs, and restoring open pages/tabs after the browser has closed or crashed are some of the features "Opera had first."
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Mechanical wrist watches still exist in appreciable numbers because they've become fashion items. Feature phones aren't fashion items.

I'm sorry, but in a few years you won't be able to buy a feature phone. Smartphones will get better battery life, screens etc as costs come down (and the third world gets richer) and technology marches on.
TBH, I'm kind of surprised Apple is totally cool with this since one of the AppStore guidelines is to not create apps that replicate core iOS features. Now I know that Facebook's Camera app does more than take photos, but they are a direct replacement for the Camera and Photos apps that are native to iOS. Making the name and icon so very similar is close enough to be construed as an obvious intent to confuse/mislead.
"At scale in production, adding a new node took days to complete all the handoffs..."

That's a bit of a headscratcher. What is happening during those 'days' and what is the primary limiting factor?

I keep meaning to get into Riak, but then stuff like this where the system has crazy moments that are impossible to coherently reason about keep popping up.
Are headlines that ask and answer questions dumb? Yes.
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It would be a more credible initiative without the insular, indignant reddit circle jerk attached to it.
yaddyadda-Defense League? Bat-signal-in-the-shape-of-an-internet-cat? Really, take this seriously? No.
I think departing from OOP is good, but I would like to have CLU-style ADT (Abstract Data Types) which is a good fit for Erlang's FP side.
By 'penalizing' sites for bad links, Google is opening a lot of scary doors. Historically, they've instead devalued bad links which makes a lot more sense to me.

Penalizing a site for websites that link to them simply isn't fair. There is no way for a website owner to control that.
Except I asked the question in response to someone offering up plan 9 as though it were an alternative to modern unix-like systems. Taking the question out of context will inevitably make your response pointless. If someone said "windows crashes too much when I am playing games" and someone else said "linux never crashes" in response, then it would be perfectly reasonable to expect the linux guy to explain how to play games on linux.

Since plan 9 largely replaces your unixy needs, could you share with me what those needs are, so I can try to get a better idea of what I might be able to use it for. I am not looking for an alternative to unix, I am looking for any practical way I can put plan 9 to use, rather than just tinkering with it on an old spare machine for fun.
Nice. How do I install that on my camera?
How does FB buying Opera change the number of rendering engines on the market? As a user, I wouldn't touch FB Opera with a 10-foot pole, but I do at least consider using Opera as the product of an independent company.
Do you answer twice a day?

(I would think even scammers stop wasting time on people that are not likely customers)
The thing is that ~ is special shell magic. $home is an environment variable, and is consistently expanded as such.

Although, to my eyes, the most plan9-y way of implementing a home directory would be to have '/home' as your home directory no matter what, and have it default to a bind from /usr/$username.
...because there's no better place for a group of self-sufficient Randian heroes to live in complete isolation from the rest of the world than a barren rock in space that would have to import nearly everything from the earth?
I took dexen's original post to be suggesting it as a practical alternative. Reading it over again, it still looks like he is suggesting it as a practical alternative. Perhaps he was being sarcastic and I missed the point.
Your comment is unnecessarily negative and doesn't add much here.

Are you really trying to gauge whether Musk is an accomplished person? Paypal, Tesla, and SpaceX are each the most successful companies to date in their respective markets.

Everyone on this thread would think a vaccine that saves hundreds of millions of people is a good thing. Be reasonable
Yeah, that's what we were thinking too, but it wouldn't be out of the box then, right?
Was this the start of the current rumour?!

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/facebook-could-be-looking...
thanks :) Will investigate on it right now. This is how it looks for me btw: http://bit.ly/JiazUb
Yes, of course. Why did you think Americans were terrified by Sputnik?
FYI: This story is a year late to the party: http://www.geekosystem.com/limewire-sued-75-trillion/

http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650&...
Yipes:'Facebook Is Officially the Worst-Performing IPO of the Decade'
Ask HN: Has anyone set up operations in East Asia (particularly China)?
Does anyone here have experience setting up operations for their startup in East Asia (particularly China)?

My startup has just landed a huge opportunity in China, where we will be presenting at a major conference, then tour and meet potential investors, potential customers, and the regulators that govern them.

Our sponsor has a lot of experience dealing with Chinese companies and has already been a great resource. I'm worried, though, that his information/advice is a little more slanted to growing his fund than growing our business. Which is perfectly natural.

Which takes us back to my question: does anyone here have experience setting up operations, signing customers, and/or negotiating investment in China?

I'm particularly interested in the cultural differences you noticed when pitching, what books/articles you read to prepare, and what sensitive political issues you had to dance around.

Thank you!

Posted from an "anonymous" account because the opportunity has not yet been announced
If you really get along with him and like his work, ask him if he'd rather get payed by the project or task rather than jumping through hoops of filling out timecards.

Also, please pay him ASAP.
My dad used to work at a corp in the 80s that got most of their equipment from HP. As a budding nerd I once got hold of one of their catalogues - an inch thick and page after page of high-tech development kit: scopes, analysers, workstations, picosecond pulse generators, ... you name it. It used to be synonymous with quality. I cringed when I read the first jokes about printers with webOS around the web some time ago. Still have that catalogue.
Looking at the colour wheel in the article it seems that they choose a set that has high contrast (colours close to each other lack contrast) while haveing a similar degree of luminosity. If they choose erratically then some products would have colours to similar.
I agree with you there.

I would think Google penalizes the sellers, and only if they can nearly 100% confirm that the site linked to initiated the link, then the link buyer.

In the past Google would just take away PR from link sellers, but not de-index them.
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The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

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Is there any way to access the official PageRank reading on a Mac? As far as I know Google Toolbar is not available for that platform.
Why think about it when http://TechBubbleForEveryoneOrJustMe.com/ has you covered? ;-)
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> One more- Google saves file revisions, so this is +1 to them, since Dropbox doesn’t do this.

Dropbox saves earlier versions of your files for 30 days, or indefinitely for Pro accounts.

Not the same as the easy revision history in Google Docs, but Dropbox's version history has actually saved me a couple times.
It works in a virtualenv, but it does not seem to work at a global level across multiple virtualenvs. Unless I'm missing an undocumented feature, it only shows the packages for the currently activated virtualenv and doesn't allow you to specify a different (or multiple) envs. As the original commenter said, it'd be nice to have a view of all virtualenvs on the system broken up per env.
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What I do not understand, is why Facebook is called a "technology company". It's no more of a technology company than News Corp or any other media company. The technology there is rather simple, compared to biotech or SpaceX. I would classify it as media/entertainment (which harkens back to Zukerberg Productions) as it used to say at the bottom of FB a few years ago.
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Descriptors are among the blackest of Python's black magic, but they serve a very useful purpose. Thanks for helping to make them easier to understand.
The reason is because lowering the entropy of the password makes the blizzard version easier to crack. If blizzard is compromised, the passwords won't be disclosed - just the hashes will be, so re-use isn't immediately an issue. It becomes an issue when the hash is cracked and the attacker can now see which password is being reused, and then reuse it. Of course if the reused password is something like "hunter2", the cracked version will look like "HUNTER2", but the original case can be guessed in a few tries once the case-insensitive version is discovered.

Very roughly, case sensitivity provides about a half bit of entropy. For reference, one bit of entropy takes twice as long to crack.

And say what you want about password reuse, but 99% of users re-use passwords at least somewhat, so site owners have an obligation to protect user passwords.
This would have nothing to do with virtualenv, unless I'm misunderstanding you.
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Truly inspiring. Elon Musk has and certainly will continue to inspire me as an entrepreneur and technologist. I hope I can get the chance to meet him one day.

In his interviews, he seems like a very nice guy...I wonder what it is like to work for him.
Your analogies are highly broken.

That's because computing is a new thing in human history. There isn't anything quite like it. But there is matter, and matter is sold with lots of disparate bits built into one product all the time. Things which could be reconfigured by a skilled person, but it's widely accepted that people don't/can't/shouldn't do that.

Your arguments are similarly broken. You can mix your iOS device with any pair of glasses, 3.5mm audio device, wifi AP, or cover, or choose to use only part of it. You can't have a TV dinner without the gravy browning and you can't get an iOS device without the Apple firmware.

The problem is that Apple locks down the platform using digital signatures so that the only way to use anything but an Apple OS or bootloader is to find and exploit a bug in Apple's lockdown code.

And one of the reasons they do that is so they can provide a curated, malware free, beginner-unbreakable, trustable-updating, partly-sandboxed-app experience for their paying customers.

You have complained about my analogies, but you haven't said why "they should" do that, just that "you want them to".
> One more- Google saves file revisions, so this is +1 to them, since Dropbox doesn’t do this.

Now this isn't true at all. I've used Dropbox to restore an old revision many times.
When is a website not a website?
This is the same argument everyone else is trying to make, and it's conflating unnecessarily. Eric broke a rule that didn't matter. Nobody was harmed from this.
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Evolution does not work that way. Evolution does not refine beyond what is good enough, it does not refactor. Genomes do not adapt, genes which encode phenotypes that are best at getting its owners to maximize reproduction with respect to an environment are selected for.

Most importantly, if we could cure aging and necessarily cancer, then you can bet we would have the sophisticated understanding of genes, proteins and cells required to fully control our genome.
Agreed on both of those reasons. We absolutely are interested in partnering with developers who want to make demos or examples based on this template. If you (or anyone else reading this) is interested, I'd love to hear from you either via email at dmose@mozilla.org or on irc.mozilla.org in #games (I go by dmose there).
Yeah, you're right, I misunderstood the previous question. It would be a nice feature indeed, I'll take a look on that, thanks for the feedback.
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Root cause is still a unit mis-match though.
Being a graphic novel fan, I thought of The Avengers for the Internet
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Well I spent the last two summers as an intern at SpaceX working on several things, but one was that mechanism that the Canadian arm attaches to. I can't talk much about the specifics, but one of things I did was program the micro-controllers that interface with the motors that open the hatch door (and some other stuff) that contains the hook for the robotic arm to grab. I wish I could write more and even make a blog post, but I'm simply not allowed to do so.
Thanks. Yeah, I've actually given him some money already via a mutual friend. Still working out a long-term approach.
I see a different and more likely possibility. Microsoft has an interest in tracking usage patterns among those inclined toward pirating their software. If the pirates use Google, then they don't have access to that data, whereas they do with Bing. It's not as if Google is likely to share their information.
This seems ironic. In protest of internet censorship legislation (some of which intends to create an "internet kill-switch"), website owners can opt-into a system where their website can be temporarily blacked out (albeit, with a protest message).
http://i48.tinypic.com/17eh3p.png

That is the view on my screen, a quick analysis of your page source shows that the container has a fixed width of 700px, but that the computed style is returning a total of 702px for all the contents of the spans.

This may be because your font size is forcing the containers to expand ever so slightly, try a 0.9em size compared to your general font size to see if this fixes the issue.
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Do you think my Python/Django/HTTP/... notes/docs could be useful?
I have these notes/docs of mine (think of it as of "condensed experience"), I use them myself but I'm not sure if there's anyone else interested in something like that.

If there's any hope, what should I do to make it (more) useful to you ?
I don't think it'll be over until Twitter IPOs and fails to pop like FB.

I think we need at least these two major brands going thru the same fate for the social networking bubble to be affected.
yes, I lived there 6.5 years and set-up multiple companies, and you are very right to be careful... feel free to reach-out.

I am very open with experience I have had good and bad, it;s good to share and help !

I will say one thing though, be very very wary of any kind of JV (Joint Venture) deals.

I actually was a CTO/GM of a very large company based in many cities of China, as well as running a startup based and funded there till it become part of a larger ODM.

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Thank you for your suggested phrasing. I appreciate it; it helped me think about what tone to adopt.
They may have severely screwed up the implementation but there's very real and very murky tracking going on through ad networks using cookies and any other way they can think of. This is what the legislation was aimed at, but it went totally OTT.

99% of the time, there is no good reason for anyone to know what different sites I visit. Nor does anyone have any reasonable expectation that it is happening to them.

Also why an adblock-esque plugin? That really makes no sense to me. This is about a server not being able to set a cookie without explicit consent, I can't see how a plugin would help.
My girlfriend dropped out of school and ended up at a call center cold calling Chamber of Commerce-listed companies/sole-proprietors selling energy (after being told she'd be calling people about hotel vouchers). She quit after three weeks. The script they were supposed to keep to had bogus lines about tax writeoffs you could get (which would be illegal) and most people weren't at all interested.
Along with Instant, in an ideal world simply by not existing.

When searching online I find it vaguely insulting that my presumed default state is one of not already knowing what I'm looking for, and furthermore the question I'm asking is the same question everybody else is asking.

In the case of both features I'm treated with a flury of distracting, schizophrenic flashes where previously the UI would behave patiently and consistently while I entered my query.

Instant, suggestions, Sets, and the site preview function are begging to be hidden behind a button where you explicitly tell the engine you're confused, and need help figuring out what the vague thing you have in mind really looks like (complete with revolutionary highly visual UI that doesn't resemble a regular search). At least for a user like me.
Here are the primary reasons why IPvFoo is better:

- It doesn't send every domain you visit to a third-party server.

- It shows whether you're actually using IPv6, not just whether a AAAA record exists.

- It shows you all the page elements, not just the top level.

- It's Free Software.
Is it? Knowing people who have worked at Boeing and hearing their stories, and following how much Boeing has struggled in recent years, it's not surprising at all. If there was ever a hidebound company rapidly outliving its usefulness, it was Boeing. And the company is struggling. In airliners, they keep getting beat by Airbus, and time after time comes up second, third, fourth best in defense bids. Once, when they lost a defense bid to Airbus for a tanker, they lobbied to have the military run the selection over again.

The entire aerospace industry has been bureaucratic and hidebound for decades. The story of Lockheed's Skunk Works almost belies the point--they were certainly innovative, but even in the 1960's, the only way they could accomplish it was to get all the best engineers and hide from the bureaucrats long enough to just build shit. Up until the first stealth fighter or so (the F-117) it worked, but it doesn't seem to anymore, considering all the problems, delays, crashes, and other mishaps the F-22 has had.

(Though, to be fair, the F-22 is a much more difficult undertaking. The F-117 had exactly one thing different from any other airplane from the 70's: it was shaped funny. It also had fly-by-wire because it was aerodynamically poor, but the engineering was far more conservative. The F-22 has lots of innovations at once--stealth, supercruise, improved avionics, the whole works--which entails far much more risk. Also, the 117 was a black project, which means there were a couple smart people in the Pentagon approving it and working as their clients, as opposed to the 22 where there were hundreds of Congressmen and thousands of federal bureaucrats to worry about as clients.)
Ask HN: Why don't people register personal domains? (eg YourName.com)
I own jarema.com (my last name), mikejarema.com (my full name), and a few other variations and TLDs. I take pride in my slick email address (m*@jarema.com) and my blog ranking highly in Google for name queries. Based on HN submissions coming from personal domains, I expect that there are others here like me in this respect.

When I encourage others to grab a personal domain, especially when their last name .com or even first name .com is unregistered, I find myself all but pleading the case, most times unsuccessfully.

I mean for ~$10 annually, and a bit of upfront effort, you can:

- move your email from gmail, ymail, hotmail, whatevermail over to your own domain

- redirect visitors to your favorite social media profile (FB, twitter, github, dribbble) or in minutes have an about.me page going aggregating it all

- alternatively spend some effort building out a blog or portfolio site

- avoid worrying about being "cyber-squatted" or pranked by a buddy with some initiative

- just sit on the domain (defensive registration)

The truth of the matter is that a good number of personal domains are available in the .com namespace, and many last name .coms are also up for the taking.

However, if & when your name is taken, you're basically SOL.

So... I'm curious, why DON'T people register their personal domains?
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Gasp! I'm sure your first program is meant to read:

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main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}

;)
Dropbox does "version" files for 30 days. It's not as "transparent" as Google's since DB doesn't "understand" the contents of the files, but it still keeps versions. And you can upgrade to the PackRat which keeps versions forever. https://www.dropbox.com/help/11
I think that's a great idea. You should make it anonymous like a wiki leaks for prices. Otherwise people would be hesitant to share since it's probably in the contracts that they can't disclose the price.