skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree. I'm not a fan of the name and branding either, but DDG's value proposition - zero personal info collection - trumps all that by a mile. So much so that I've been using DDG as my default search for almost a year. Judging from the other comments I'm far from the only one.

I suspect DDG has enough "top hackers" for whom the aesthetics are a secondary issue using it already that making inroads with a more mainstream audience like middle-aged women has much more business value.

Having said that, it would be nice to have named it something that can be used as a verb. Note to self, something to consider when naming my next projects.
The OP can probably clarify, but I would imagine in the case of Dish network they were allowed to call you because they had a business relationship with you as a prior customer. The same with Dell as once you purchased the laptop they had an existing relationship.

I'm not sure what the precedence is for internal DNC lists v. national DNC registry v. existing business relationships though, so they may still be at some legal fault.
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This has turned into a discussion on religion, or lack there of, but I think the more important concept is how far we/technology has come.

If the best physicists/engineers were dropped on another planet with only the materials to live, how long would you bet it'd take them to produce a computer with an operating system on it equal in functionality and aesthetics to what we have today?
It's pretty obvious - he needed to feed & cloth himself. For some, (perhaps you?) there must be some catastrophic event to create day to day money problems. For many people, especially the often young students or mothers who work these jobs, day to day money problems are just a fact of life. Should people plan better so they don't have to compromise and do things they disagree with? Of course, but that isn't everyone's reality.

edit: Or maybe he just wanted money for Spring Break...
I just tried my American Express account and you can add that to the list of financial institutions discarding case-sensitivity.
Being from Britain, the term "Internet Defence League" just conjures up images of the "English Defense League" :/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League
Just to echo the other people on this thread who say that they see PageRank, I checked and it looks like you have plenty of PageRank internally as well. I didn't see any manual webspam actions that we'd taken on the site either. Have you actually checked in the Google Toolbar? That's the only official place to see our toolbar PageRank--lots of other sites and plugins can be broken in various ways.

In general, PageRank tends to drop for one of two reasons. The first is url canonicalization issues (e.g. messing up http vs. https, www vs. non-www, rel=canonical pointing to weird places like 404 pages). The second reason is selling links that pass PageRank, which violates our guidelines.
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It's also exciting because it is potentially of cosmic significance. There may come a time when the entire universe is affected and altered by people, and this is an important step in the journey to attaining that level of science and technology. There are certainly medical steps along that journey and those will generate great excitement as well; for example, when a "cure" for aging is developed, I'm sure it will generate a great deal of enthusiasm on HN, if HN is still a going concern when that happens.
Hi Shane, thank you very much for you feedback, i really appreciate it. I totally agree with you.

p.s. what version of Chrome are you using?
That could also just be because people who agree with the post don't have anything to add and don't comment.
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The current caller ID system is incredibly broken- I'm getting 3 calls a day to my personal cell phone from the same scammers and have not been able to get their real contact info. After watching all these TV shows with the 'hang up within 10secs or you'll be traced!' I expected AT&T to be able to help me out. No dice.

Unfortunately the phone #'s are always random and AT&T just wants to sell me a service that allows me to block up to 30 phone numbers. But they're calling from more than 30.
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> Yeah, but you seem to be poo poo-ing this effort because it won't directly get us from point A to point Z.

No way. I am all excited about this kind of things and I have already stated that anybody who wants to work on this topic is more than welcome to mail me to discuss things together.

I am just telling you that these efforts, although necessary and interesting, are not novel ("new" yes, "novel" no) neither a solution to the real current problem. But let's all work together to overcome this.

> Rather than being apologists for the current system(s) of law making and governing, why don't we think big and figure out a way to really re-invent them?

We need to be both: realists and optimists. The reality is that any future system will have to deal with the current system without regarding them as "legacy systems": in UK there are still valid acts and cases from the late medieval times. Another harsh reality is that you can only change a legislative system from the inside. You can pressure it from the outside but, in the end, only people making the law can change how the law is made.

The optimism comes from the fact that there has been a huge movement in the legal offices all around the world in the last 15 years towards better legislative drafting rules (what we would call "coding standards"). If you want an example of a new guideline made in collaboration with computer scientists, have a look at http://www.apkn.org/lrp/guidelines/guidelines (there are being adopted by the youngest democracies in Africa, but also in some EU countries).

These guidelines contains things like "you should always state which acts you repel, never use 'all the acts contrary to this are repelled'". Do you see how much more _machineable_ is the former versus the latter?

Many legislative offices are pushing pressure towards MP in order to make these the use of such guidelines mandatory. It would be a huge step forward. Another way to do this is via a "the code is the law" approach: there is a tool made by the EU parliament that the MP can use to propose changes to debated bills. Such tool has all these guidelines hardcoded and there is no way to get around them (you can submit a written request but takes much longer to be debated). This tool is really increasing the quality of generated acts.
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I am not a big gambler. But I wonder if these sort of calculations could be better in forecasting than prediction markets like intrade.com.

Very interesting work on the Eurovision at least! There are so many potential variables. Age, gender, BPM of the song, changes in the performance, political stuff. For example I don't expect any points for Azerbaijan from Germany, because the media reported very critically on the undemocratic regime. But don't know how this will play out in the rest of Europe. Are you American? This song contest and its history must be pretty strange for outsiders.
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> They're not a bank.

Definitely not. My bank forces me to use only numbers, and only six of them. Strooonng security. The only way out of key loggers I suppose (they make me click on numbered boxes).
That's a really cool idea!

I wonder for how long the authors can be bothered to keep the machine running, and whether any customers will complain if/when it stops working.
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And you are most welcome, also, your top links "blog" anchor seems to be miss-placed.
I think if you are comparing 'accomplishments' based on 'lives saved', then your comment has a lot of validity.

But to me, the reason the SpaceX success is so noteworthy is that that achievement isn't just new, but ground breaking on so many levels.

* first time a private firm has created, launched and docked a space craft

* done it on a budget several magnitudes less than ever done before

* done it with a fraction of the staff than conventionally used

* opened a new era in space development

Whilst I'm being grossly unfair to medical researchers, at a simplistic level I see most new vaccines like the release of a new model of car - beneficial, but incremental development . Whereas I see the SpaceX achievement as something that broke all the conventional wisdom on how things could be done.

And that's what makes it so special and worth celebrating a bit more than other accomplishments.
It's not necessarily about current profits, but future ones for sure. They will have people internally capable of doing it, but their structure will prevent them being cost-competitive, so they resist entering the whole area at all.
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A common misconception of the EU directive is that it applies to cookies only leading to many technical people to laugh about it. Any method of storing information in the user's browser is covered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electr...

Article 5:

3. Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.
If you took your time to go through scribd's ('the fruity game' authors) blog and info you would see that they are a company that looks for people exactly opposite from you. They race go carts inside the offices, challenge other people in simple AI programming and do a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with coding, deploying or 'helping to solve real problems'. They do it in free time because it's fun, and they want similar people around the office. And this is probably the case for most of the companies that have similar ways of attracting employees
… but they'd also leave off the "inline" and use "int" instead of bool.

Why use int, when there's bool in C99 that clearly communicates the intent?
I was unclear. I am not alarmed by the data being available. In fact, I also mentioned that it's already mostly available. I am concerned with the idea that we need to pay close attention to the process.

> The idea that one must hire a lawyer just to be made aware of what the law is or is going to be ... is so warped and disgusting, I just don't know what to say.

Having the text of the law available will not help that. As others have pointed out, the meaning of the law is very different from its text, and that's what you pay lawyers to explain to you. It's a pleasant fantasy that the world is simple, but it's a fantasy nonetheless, and it will always be one in a large nation.

The only comfort we have is that, by and large, while we only know a tiny fraction of the laws we live under, it is only a little smaller than the fraction that affects our actions.

> This is exactly the kind of tool that will allow me to quickly determine where to place my vote.

No, it isn't, unless you're a lawyer or a legislator yourself. Understanding law is an expertise, not a casual hobby. I cannot emphasize this enough. If you disagree with this, there is little more to say. And if you think it should be different, again, I think it isn't possible, and I believe that a few days talking with any lawyer about whatever your favorite topic is will show you otherwise.

And so, if you instead rely on reading the US Code directly and making judgement based on your understanding of it, you'll be making gross mistakes, because you won't take into account Supreme Court rulings that will affect the interpretation, other, non-obvious parts of the US Code that directly bear on how certain passages must be read, and an endless number of arcana that make a real difference.

But you'll still think yourself qualified, and you'll vote based on that. Except you won't have read all the changes made every year, because how could you, so you'll really vote based on the subset a few people told you to focus on.

This is the irony: a seemingly useful thing, the availability of ALL THE INFORMATION, becomes a tool for shaping whatever narrative the people we trust want to shape (and I don't mean "want" in a malicious way). But because they will have the information at their fingertips, we'll assume that they have properly analyzed it, and pass judgements based on theirs, thinking we are basing them on facts..

> Who am I supposed to vote for? The guy with the nice hair?

I inverted these two because this answer is the critical one. You are supposed to try and meet your representative. You are supposed to talk to her, and listen to her, not as a politician, but as a person you are entrusting with an important job. That means pretty much ignoring the stump speech, and instead talking to her or her staff, seeing where they are coming from, and approaching to learn, not to judge. It's hard work. It's way harder than grep-ing for keywords in the repository, or look at the commit history of a particular passage we dislike. But that's where responsibility starts. Not with being hypercritical of every little thing, as we developers are so good at being.
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I'm not entirely sure why you're being so hostile since you're clearly not familiar with the content being discussed.
How are you doing system wide security updates with virtualenv?
Read the original piece of investigative journalism that started it all here:

http://llsocial.com/2012/05/search-secrets-prominent-seo-com...
I always carry at least one towel in my backpack. It has indeed proven to be massively useful over the years.
None of that is justification for theft.
On one hand, I believe that violence is bad.

On another, OMG SPACE GUNS YAY!
Facebook wouldn’t buy Opera to continue making money on licensing.

Opera makes quite some money on advertising, by channeling traffic into Google.
I expect HN to show the same level of enthusiasm when science finds a reliable cure for melanoma. This is the first artificial event in space so significant since the moon landings.
"Drawing on that insight, we advised the center’s manager to revise the employees’ coffee break schedule so that everyone on a team took a break at the same time. That would allow people more time to socialize with their teammates, away from their workstations. Though the suggestion flew in the face of standard efficiency practices, the manager was baffled and desperate, so he tried it. And it worked: AHT fell by more than 20% among lower-performing teams and decreased by 8% overall at the call center. Now the manager is changing the break schedule at all 10 of the bank’s call centers (which employ a total of 25,000 people) and is forecasting $15 million a year in productivity increases."
It could be that venture capital is in a bubble, but that the general market is not.
Webkit by itself can't fuel the development of new standards. You need several competing parties for that.
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We actually have a (very handy) bookmarklet but I de-emphasized it so much in this design (buried on the right in tiny type as the second tip) that it makes it look like we don't have one.

I can see a v2 of this page reversing that and being almost all about the bookmarklet, with little or no mention of the form-based link shortener.
TEX's implementation is great, considering it's essentially unchanged for the last 30 years. It's hard to name one software that currently exists in its original form that long.
In the middle of the talk, they mention specifically recent changes to disruptor to avoid degrading massively if you have more producers than physical cores.

Anything to get you to watch the talk all the way through ;)
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I am quite excited about this project. When I was looking at Erlang the syntax totally turned me off, but the rest of it is awesome.
> Still: do consider a rebranding of your product. The best niche to start from ... it's a sign something is wrong.

Considering a rebranding is fine, agreed... but jumping to rebranding based on what a single niche (i.e., "top hackers") thinks is not.

To me, it sounds like the problem is NOT the branding; a lot of sites started out with ugly UIs (e.g., Amazon, Google, Facebook), and I happen to think the little duck is kinda charming. Unless you're 1-800-GOT-JUNK, it's highly unlikely that your name or logo will make or break your success.

It sounds like part of the problem is that GW hasn't targeted the right niche yet for DDG.

I don't think top hackers are the right people to target.

To say top hackers are the "knowledgeable power users" of search engines is to say top hackers are the KPUs of all web-based services: just because you can program it doesn't mean you're the market for it. Search power users could be SEO and PPC gurus, researchers, even admin assistants --- people who spend boatloads of time every day using search engines and getting frustrated, not thinking about how they're built or algorithms.
Please make your company's logo link to your company's home page, rather than the blog. Alternatively, please provide an (obvious) link to the home page elsewhere on the blog.
Yea, I remember Kas Thomas talking about that. What is interesting is that he works at Adobe as a Technology Evangelist.
Ask HN: Could someone fix "call for price?"
One particular pain point that I run into when costing out a new project is the persistent habit of various vendors to withhold their pricing until you contact them.

This tends to be prevalent when shopping for things that are B2B; I don't know if there's something weird about government contract pricing that keeps them from disclosing their prices.

In some isolated instances, large businesses will actually require you to apply for credit in order to even get a price. Imagine trying to buy something on amazon or eBay that required you to wait 2 weeks to complete the transaction, with no guarantee of success.

I don't know if some sort of "wall of shame" or other shaming system, or external price quote posting system (the XKQ-200B cost $9949.00 on 3/23/11) would help discourage the practice.
It's not whether they should be plain or colorful...it's whether the splashes jibe with the products (and their positioning) so the two look cohesive together. Adriana (Victoria's Secret) would make a lovely model, but I don't think she'd the first choice for Morgan Stanley.

If you see the new CS6 UIs (and the new tools like SpeedGrade), you'll see "plain and boring" grays, but the look is natural for the pro market. The splashes are completely antithetical to that look, and seeing a colorful Nickelodeon splash leading you to the somber grays in the UI is kind of bizarre.
If you want to crunch numbers, you should keep an eye on the Julia Language (http://julialang.org/). It's "a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing". Seems to math friendly with a nice syntax.
Well, people aren't inherently bad, but when you get lots of people living in the same space, bad things often happen because it's hard to coordinate.

The same thing goes for people in the same "political space."
no formal study of the analysis and design of algorithms?
Exactly my thoughts.

"With great power comes great responsibility," etc.
There's no need for the aggression. We're two grown-ups here, having a discussion about a subject we both find fascinating.

That aside, here's some elaboration.

Trillions of meteorites have landed on the Moon's surface since its formation. Some of these may be remnants from violent collisions between other planetary bodies. A few of these events may have happened at a time where life was starting on Earth. An tiny portion of these pieces of rock may actually contain fossil evidence of early life, in the form of bacteria or complex biochemistry. Similar evidence that once existed on Earth is likely to have been destroyed by our active geology, or by more recent biological processes.

The likelihood of life being preserved in this manner is so vanishingly small that, out of the trillions of meteorites on the Moon's surface (an area around 20% larger than that of Africa), only a minute number of them are likely to contain anything like it.

It would be a shame if the key to understanding abiogenesis was lost in an industrial rock-grinder.
Many things would have to happen to make it possible:

- SpaceX would have to want to sell the ad space.

- If NASA is paying for the mission, they may want to have a word (most likely "no").

- The owners of the Pan-Am brand would probably appreciate the gift, but I'd like to make sure they won't get mad before any such stunt.

- The Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick estates would also have something to say, after all, this is more or less a reference to 2001.
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Of course by doing this, you remove some of the error correction. Your mutated QR code is less likely to be scanned by a camera which is lo-res, at an angle, in dim light or affected by some other imperfection. People who test customised QR codes almost certainly only test them under close-to-perfect conditions.
It's not just cookies though. I believe they say it applies to all tracking technology, now or in the future.
Well done Forbes! No original content, but high clickbait value!
If you don't mind throwing more of your data to Google, you can port your number to google voice and block as many numbers as you like. It even has spam filtering for calls.
Ahh, I see it now. Definitely the route I would go.

This is a cool idea, my only concern is feeling icky about recommending things. Even if I really like a pair of shoes, will my friends believe me if they see I've got a refer.ly link attached to it? Or will they just think I'm trying to make a quick buck and I've been reincarnated as a spambot?