skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely because the authentication codebase started with Starcraft, was integrated with Diablo 2, then was basically ported to WoW.

After that, WoW's system was basically integrated into the current Battle.net 2.0 system.
Keep in mind that the 'long term' is now ruthlessly reevaluated on a quarterly basis now that they are public. The street is notoriously callous to lofty goals such as long term innovation if it doesn't result in consistent quarterly beats.
It's because AdWords links don't pass along credit that helps with search rankings. Google actually doesn't ban for paid links. It bans (potentially) for selling or buying links with the intention of improving your search rankings. There are several ways to have links that are sold that prevent that credit from passing.
Because feature phones are like mechanical wrist watches. They just don't go away.

Personally I'm using only a dumb phone, I think it's going to be at least my daily phone forever.

Longer battery life. More durable screen. Mature technology. Cheaper. Lighter and smaller. Faster to call people. You can replace keys if they go broke. Doesn't look nasty if you have greasy fingers. And the bottom line: I don't need anything but sms and calling.
What's amazing is SpaceX beat companies like Boeing to the punch. That's pretty remarkable!
Python FAQ: Descriptors
I can confirm that the iplayer works here in France^1 without any kind of trickery, so it is likely available for extra-UK audiences.

1 = at least for the archive episode that I tried
The technique I would use is to tell him that someone else (partner, investor, bookeeper) notice "X" and you are passing it to him to clear up any confusion. Hopefully he will get the message. This also brings up another point I often recommend. Don't appear to be the sole decision maker, always have a "bad cop" that you can blame for things you need to do.
Learn Python 2 first, since it's vastly more supported right now, but know that it's very easy to jump between Python 2 and Python 3, and many people do. The decision of which to use on any particular project is basically:

1. Are you doing web development? If so, use Python 2.
2. If not, do you need or want to use PyPy? If so, use Python 2.
3. If not, are the libraries you want available for Python 3? If so, use Python 3.
4. Otherwise, use Python 2.
I only skimmed PEP 405, but did anybody get a sense for how this would work with regard to managing different versions of Python per virtualenv? It seems like a tool to do that necessarily has to be higher in the stack than the Python interpreter.
If cash is king, then 2x cash = 2x king.

Again: If you know the stock is about to double, you go get a loan against the shares. Sellers do not believe this.
btw, rereading my post, I see now that the tone is somewhat snarky and accusative, so I apologize for that.

> Takedown notices slow progress throughout our industry, whether legally justified or not. If you look at the comment threads below this one, many are asking questions like, "I want to start a website, should I worry about this?" to which the replies are, "yes, hire a lawyer". That's good advice in this legal climate, but it slows progress tremendously.

I agree that's a factor, but I think the case is somewhat overstated. If you look at the list of top targeted companies on the blog post, you'll see names like filestube.com, torrentz.eu, etc. As far as I can tell, copyright-infringing material is the bread-and-butter of these firms. If the legal costs go up for them, then that's actually the goal. But companies like Instagram, airbnb, ridejoy, etc... I don't think they would have serious issues with, or incur substantial costs because of, the DMCA. Basically, if your business isn't leveraging copyrighted material to gain popularity without paying rights holders for it, you'll be ok.

Also, Bastiat's dictum on "what you see, and what you don't see" applies: what you see is companies/units like YouTube getting embroiled in legal action and you think, "these laws aren't worth it". What you don't see are the companies that never make it (particularly in software) because of piracy, or the spectrum of business models that become unfeasible as a result of the fact that users have grown hooked to free content.

> As for removing spam from search results; that's actually a warming effect

I totally agree -- I just wish Google applied the same philosophy to copyright infringing links and material. IMHO the afore-mentioned sites/links are very much like spam in the copyrights arena -- they operate at the margins of respectable and honest practices. I think the internet would benefit, long-term, if rights holders were protected from infringement, as a result of the fact that the ad-based business model would be supplemented by a viable direct-payment model.
I suppose it all has to do with audience numbers. If covering the SpaceX launch would yield less of an audience than covering ESC or any other show, I think the logical choice for a media network is to choose the one that increases potential revenue.

Let's not forget that media companies are businesses. They need audiences to survive and so they cannot cater to a certain demographic if they want a lot of profit.

I don't think concluding that people don't care about the space launch because it wasn't covered is fair. It's obvious a lot of people do (see Reddit, HN, et al).
Google is replacing webkit on their Android software with their own Chrome mobile browser. It may already be done.
Heh, no worries. It just caught my eye (former WP dev). I'm actually really impressed with offerings like Octopress or, more Rails specific, Bloggy: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/introducing-bloggy-a-sim...

But, wow, that configuration deserves an HN traffic spike recap blog post!
the bbc recently changed to reflect this law (i assume). i don't know whether the law is tortuous or not, but the bbc's implementation was clear, easy to understand, and helpful. i used it to protect my privacy. seems like a good idea to me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/cookies/managing/cookie-setting...
ABAP sounds interesting ( if I'm not mistaken it's a programming language to customize SAP software ). What does MM mean?

Thanks for your answer by the way :-)
Pass a law that whoever parks their pasty butt on the surface of another planet owns x square meters of it, but they have to land in person and affix a notary.

there has got to be a way to monitize seeding a civilization on mars.
False. Those were corporation. Perhaps you didn't realize that Sierra Club, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, etc. are corporations?

Corporations are not just businesses. They are the way that people with a common interest can pool their resources to coordinate on a common goal.
Any discussion on early retirement is incomplete without a mention of John Greaney's safe withdrawal rate study:
http://www.retireearlyhomepage.com/safesum.html
I highly recommend his site.
I think you would notice if you built a dock confusing inches for millimeters.
Space Community Leaders on Space X
This is a nice intro. It shows the language features followed by some code examples, sweet, thanks for the link!
The enthusiasm shown for this accomplishment on Hacker News is borderline ridiculous. This comment seems particularly over the top to me. What does this even mean, how do you measure the attribute of "being accomplished" on a 1d scale across vastly different kinds of accomplishment? To me it seems obvious that some of the medical accomplishments of the past 100 years are easily and vastly more important than a private space launch, but I wouldn't normally compare those things in such a manner. I had to rewrite this paragraph multiple times because it feels so bizarre. I haven't even touched on the question whether and to what degree you can ascribe an accomplishment of a group of people to an individual, which makes the whole comparison even stranger and less meaningful.

I mean, I guess some people here subscribe to the notion that space travel is imperative for human survival. In that case, you might argue that each step towards it is more valuable than anything else that does not immediately push towards human space travel. Human space travel will save humanity, your piddly vaccine only saves a couple of hundred million people. But that seems a bizarre argument to make (and maybe that's why one really makes it).

Edit: -3 in one hour? Wow. For what it's worth, I made this comment in good faith.
>I know of no person or site that has gotten in legal trouble for not showing this "Cookie-warning" or an opt-in button. It's simply unenforceable.

Nor should it be. The day this becomes massively enforced (god forbid) is the day that an adblock-esque plugin will be created to bypass all of this idiotic government mandated nonsense. Those options exist in web browsers already.

And it is nonsense. It does nothing to protect users, for one. The average user has no idea what a cookie is, and will either blindly click accept or move on.

For two, its the government getting their hooks into mandating specific content on the web. Yes yes, slippery slope is a logical fallacy and all that, but when it comes to government expansion of power, it tends to ring true.

For three, it's a pain in the ass. I really do not care what kind of cookies random sites are sending me. If I did care, I'd be running a plugin to deal with it or changing my browser settings accordingly.

Fourth, it's more work for web developers for questionable benefit.

Maybe this is just me being a typical ignorant American, but this kind of nannyism is downright offensive to me.
My experience is actually that 3G service is a lot cheaper in poor countries than in rich countries. They can't overprice it, they wouldn't get any customers then.

For example - here in Cambodia I subscribe to a 2GB 3,5G package for just $5 a month. The reception and speed is great in urban areas.

However, if you're just talking about extremely poor countries without any 3G service, then you're absolutely correct. There's not too many of them left though, just some countries in Africa and the Middle East.

Mobile data is getting cheap incredibly fast and betting a company on providing data compression is stupid. It has worked out well for Opera so far (kudos to them, I'm Norwegian), but continuing to base their income on it is a losing battle. They have to pivot in order to still be relevant and being bought by Facebook is, in my opinion, a good way of doing it.
Only if you enable Opera Turbo (http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/), which came disabled by default on my installation.
PR can affect your ranking on searches overtime as mentioned in the article.
Attract and Keep A-Players with Nonfinancial Rewards
I wonder if this (to some extent) offsets the loss of security by converting to uppercase. I know that I have reduced the complexity of passwords I forget (often by limiting them to lowercase), so I suspect other users do the same when they reset.
It's not just tech bloggers, here's an article by the Washington Post about Facebook and traders betting against it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/could-facebook-fall-a...
I hope his classroom lectures don't have that same meter; it is very distracting. I'm probably going to hell for blaspheming against Knuth.

That said, thank you for posting the link - that site looks very interesting.
It does in some ways remind me of the first bubble and I'd like to think that we're all a lot smarter now. I don't really see a massive crash happening like before. But anytime there are huge businesses which are not actually making the revenue to merit their stock valuation - there is potential of trouble.
The price of the biggest new tech company of all, Facebook, has done nothing but go down since its IPO.

The public has said it's overvalued at $100 billion.

That indicates to me that we're not in a bubble.
> "because mobile will be the dominant entertainment consuming screen in the future."

I remember hearing that 12 years ago.

It won't.
(that doesn't work if the price goes back down though, so it can't be a good reason for Facebook to try it's hardest for a much, much higher IPO than bankers wanted.)
Diablo 3 isn't a single player game with an online component, it is an online game you can choose to play solo.

I agree with this choice, especially with games like Diablo. Yes there are that subset of players who will only play through the campaign alone and never touch it again but the majority are going to play on battlenet and there would be no reason to even play offline.
I disagree. It is still very, very easy to accidentally share something you don't want to be shared on Facebook. That is intentional.
I don't think there's a direct equivalent, but you can get the ability to reset to the previous state using bundles. hg help bundle, hg help unbundle. Whenever you do an amend or a rebase, it tells you where it saved the bundle
When it becomes normalized, it's not offensive anymore.. or at least that's how I've always seen it. Meanings of words do change over time.
Permission is what's required to keep from getting sued, except that the DMCA keeps you from getting sued when it's user-submitted content. Permission isn't necessary at all. Maddox is promoting originality because it's a component of having a quality site. I'm sure he's aware that most of the people running those sites don't care about quality and is making an issue out of it because he wants other people to dislike the sites.
You might want to consider using the virtualenvwrapper.project extension. You define a "projects" dir (which I had already) and then it binds virtualenvs to projects so `workon foo` automatically `cd`s you to the right place. You can also create a new project dir and virtualenv in one shot with `mkproject`.
Samsung Galaxy S III review
Consider this the initial release. The previous alpha versions were designed completely different, so release notes don't apply for this release. We will maintain a CHANGELOG from now on: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG....
webkit is the rendering engine used by chrome (and safari and konqueror and probably others). In what way are they replacing it with chrome?
Focus on your users, not on search engines. Whether you have a high PR or not has no effect on your users.
A spur-of-the-moment observation. "Banned from Google" is a trifle messed up. Consider: I see a news story like this one. I want to find out more (how do they pitch this stuff? etc). I go search for IAcquire in Goog...... awww.

I go search for IAcquire in Bing. Right. There they are. I mean, I could have guessed the domain name, but I could have guessed wrong. I guess I'm probably not the #1 use case here, but shouldn't a search for IAcquire return IAcquire even if you're penalizing them lots in other ways?

It violates the spirit of what I expect from Google in a small way. Mind you, a small one.

(Postscript. The site was approximately of the same quality as I had been expecting.)
On the other hand, the Facebook bubble could pop any day. Most of the world would barely notice, and LinkedIn would still get business from other growing industries. Disclosure: I own LNKD shares.

Of course he's a believer in LinkedIn and owns shares. His company was acquired by them. I'd like to know if he actually purchased more shares than what he was given with the acquisition.
Clever idea! I would always want to compensate (and have ip paperwork in place) for anything i'd use for financial gain.

I think it's a great way to get part of the addressable segment of developers. Probably don't want it to be 100% of one's recruiting efforts. Actually there could be a nice paper in this for a psychologist or sociologist, hehe.
Or Bing doesn't even fall on Microsoft Entertainment's radar. I would expect the fiefdoms to defend their own turf.
Webkit is open, and actively developed.

IE6 was closed, and laid stagnant for years.
I also feel annoyed by cuddled elses. My reason (rationalization?) is that because the else clause is visually further indented it seems to suggest that the clause is somehow less important, and it's also harder to see the structure of the code when the if and else don't align.
Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but I thought I’d mention it in case anyone’s curious...

The behaviour of CSS3 media queries is a little counter-intuitive (he said, politely) in this respect. The widths you match against in a media query explicitly include the width of any scroll bar[1], yet in general you have no way to control or even determine the width of such a scroll bar. That means if you write responsive CSS to match a mobile-friendly width of w pixels in a media query and then style your content to use the entire w pixel width you might expect to have, you can wind up with a horizontal scroll bar if your content is more than a screen long and your browser displays a vertical scroll bar that eats into the available width.

Mobile devices typically work around this by not displaying scroll bars full-time anyway, but if you resize a typical desktop browser window to the same size as the screen on a mobile device, you will sometimes get surprising results. The adjustment can be relevant if you’re designing wide layouts to take advantage of modern widescreen laptops as well, though at those resolutions you might be less concerned about leaving a few pixels spare in the width to allow for a vertical scroll bar that might appear.

[1] See http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#width
Why Introverts Make Such Effective Social Engineers
> "Yes, the technology used is basically able to do so, depending on the type and quality of the encryption."

From that, I'd _guess_ that they are just breaking weak keys or known buggy implementations. I'd be very surprised if they have totally broken PGP.
You can use your browser to protect your privacy - disable cookies.

Also the idea that disabling cookies somehow achieves something, is very naive. You'll still be tracked by any website that wants to track you. Your browser is uniquely identifiable.

Adding messages to every website that exists is unnecessary, and idiotic.
To what punch? Boeing built parts of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo missions 45 years ago.
Untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak (with iPad3 support) released -- Absinthe 2.0
'Atheist' is not a prerequisite for 'rational', as much as many atheists like to pretend this is the case.

I don't personally 'get' prayer, nor do I practice it despite my Catholic upbringing, but I can see how the practice might be psychologically comforting. It's basically an acknowledgement of not having complete control or knowledge.
He's actually wrong. Starcraft introduced usernames/passwords and unique names to Battle.net in early 1998. The support was then patched into Diablo 1.05. Diablo I's Battle.net functionality did not originally include usernames/passwords at all.

It was quite a strange little architecture, initially. Your displayed name was whatever you'd named your character, with the distinguishing feature being an "account number" that could be re-generated by deleting a file in your Diablo directory (the corollary being if you didn't back the file up, your account number would change upon a reformat or migration to a new computer).
And even more: a first-class, very innovative developer team. How many now common browser features originate from Opera?
Sony Announces ICS Update Plan For All Devices
Google has never tried to sell my data or show it to third-parties, though.
Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup, but you should use this opportunity for scenario planning on what would happen if Google really did cut you off from search traffic. Even if the return on investment/effort of other traffic sources appears worse than Google, diversification has its own merits.
And?

I fail to see your point.

Assertions check assumptions and tests test code.

And yea you can use a dictfile from Unix to test spelling quite easily (we do it for document construction)

Nothing is ever 100% certain.

Are you suggesting that I magically write perfect software?

I don't, but it works first time in 99% of cases with the right tests and assertions.

The 1% left goes to debugging.

Our bug rate is approx 1 per 2000 lines of code that hit production.
"We're public now, so could you please click an ad or two?"
"They change providers like they change clothes" - how to retain?
How Kickstarter Hides Its Failures from the Internet
You just added up to 15k for the very basics. Let's throw in another 12k for rent, 5k for transport, and 5k for "fun". So you're at 37k in expenses.

Assuming you have two adults here with an "income"* of 20k each, you've still got 3k spare. I'll bet after a few years of that you'll get better at it and can reduce your spending even more.

Keep in mind you've been conditioned into thinking you need to spend money to have a good time, i.e. Disneyland, movie theater etc. This is not true.

*NOTE: "income" could be anything you want it to be, it doesn't have to come from going to work.
Behold: The First Video Taken with Google Glasses
An old saw on the topic of scan conversion in computer graphics, but I'll reiterate. The computer industry needs to use conventions that render graphics using physical dimensions. A 12pt typeface should be the same physical size regardless of the size and dpi of the display.

I refuse to believe the horse is out of the barn on this one.
OK, but that's a digression. Clearly some people like feature phones, but most prefer platforms. The discussion was about Opera being able to preserve their market share in a market where people increasingly have access to Android and iOS.
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Just to add, additionally, you can still track users just fine without cookies.

You can uniquely identify pretty much everyone on the internet by their browser version/plugins/etc etc, then do a callback with the info, store that serverside.

So if a user clicks to disable cookies, you can just fall back to tracking them via other methods if you really want to.

Having any policy around 'cookies' is idiotic and shows just how non-technical the government/politicians are.
Not at all. It's classic innovator's dilemma where Boeing, Lockheed etc. simply can't face the implications of competing with someone coming in from outside.

SpaceX just won't have the same baggage that bigger outfits do.
MIT's needleless injections help you get drugs faster, doesn't even hurt
>So you want the Phone Companies to get involved in policing the content of the calls that are made?

I don't think it's beyond the pale to suggest that phone companies don't allow scammers on their network. Look what happens to ISPs who allow spambots. And there's no policing of content required, merely responding to valid third party reports.
Any thoughts on having a bookmarklet? Seems like a pain to have to go back to referly to grab a shortened link instead of clicking a button on the page I'm on.
Researchers Turn DNA Into Biological Flash Drive
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That's chump change compared to doing it in house, especially with the IPO in FB's pocket.

Also, I wasn't even aware that opera ran on phones, so it doesn't strike me as something they care about, unless they're looking at 3rd-world countries.
At some point when they were a few meters away, the NASA video mentioned the Dragon was now "free floating". So, I think they were continuously gently firing the thrusters to maintain orbit until they got extremely close.
Serendipity and Discovery
Switzerland does not have direct democracy; it is simply close to it. Switzerland is also a country with 7 million people, not 350. Yes, that changes things. We are more diverse, and more geographically and culturally separated, and that means we are more prone to distrust each other.