skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the solution then? Ads are going to be integral part of the Internet.

Ads need native integration that is clean and unobtrusive. Nobody complains about Google AdWords. There is whole new industry of SEO/SEM around it.

I'm hopeful about "sponsored stories" or "sponsored tweets". I hope they will do well because they won't distract user like banners or interstitial. User can completely ignore sponsored stories.

MySpace was train-wreck due to its UI and it was never popular in masses (only teens loved it). Digg failed due to major UX upgrade and users fled to Reddit.
When you work for a company that does this, you owe it to your integrity to resign.

The government is too incompetent to fix this mess, and market pressure isn't going to do it either. That leaves us, the actual engineers. It's our job to tell the companies we work for that litigating instead of competing isn't acceptable.
Barber Lab Quartet - The Longest Time
I had the same thought, but it’s not HN material.
A couple of reasons.

First, G+ has three values for Google. 1) It gives them rich information about their visitors demographics, interests, hobbies, friends, etc. 2) It's a platform for displaying ads. 3) It's a way of screwing with Facebook, who is a potential threat.

But as Facebook has learned, social networking websites are very poor places to display ads. When someone is searching for a "web host" or "how to stop mysql from crashing", a targeted ad for a new web host or a new database engine is (relatively) likely to be clicked on. When someone is checking to see if their friend Hazel has posted any pictures from the party last weekend, there is no targeted ad which is likely to be clicked on.

G+ is simply not a good platform for displaying ads. And trying to do so too forcefully will push people away, which will undermine reason 3. It will also - crucially, from Google's point of view, since it's (probably) the entire reason they developed G+ - it will undermine reason 1. Google's core business isn't throwing ads at people, it's throwing carefully targeted ads at people, and G+ is a major part of their strategy for getting the data they need to improve their targeting.
Forgive me for not being very literate with this type of development, but why would you use Bridge over something like ZeroMQ? (I don't work much in this area, so sorry for my naïveté.)
Higher-order programming in C
Because their enterprise business is growing and they could take a loss to undermine Facebook and eventually funnel eyeballs towards docs, etc.

But they probably still will.
This simply highlights how efficient they are. The franchise operators are subject to the same systems & processes irrespective of ownership.
Or if we just built our power grid underground like rational people.
What about "technical incompetence projection"? They seem to be scared they're not good enough, so they try to make other people feel like they're not good enough instead.

Just having privilege doesn't make people around you feel as bad as wielding that privilege offensively.
AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US
At the current exchange rate then any transaction below ~$0.06 might have a transaction fee of a fraction of a cent. Simple fix? Don't support incredibly small transactions, (or at least don't support large numbers of very small transactions).

[Assuming that point to point transactions that aren't doing complicated contract logic are always less than 10kB.]
You say this like they can just snap their fingers and provide regional services.
That's actually what we're doing right now.

Resource B doesn't always require an update though, and we'd like to be able to pass back to the client some better information on whether or not that needs to happen. Unfortunately, I haven't had a brilliant epiphany yet how to do that without adding some virtual attributes or something similar to the JSON representation of Resource A that gets passed back.

Thanks for the kind words on our choice of a bunch of technologies - it's most appreciated. :)
USTR Rejects Rep. Issa's Request To Observe TPP Negotiations
PHP Devs: Have You Started Playing with More Toys?
Or as the religious people call it, "The Act of God". No seriously, people actually write that shit in their terms. Hilarious.
I think the implication in Kate Hough's article that incubators encourage you to lie on stage is more than ridiculous; it's irresponsible. I knew a guy who lied once in college. It had nothing to do with his own weak backbone: the pressure of college forced him into it and the whole institution is on trial.

Look, an incubator may or may not be good for your startup. I don't know for your own situation. But I do know this: articles like this one are certainly not good for honest discussion, information, or the image of tech journalism.
Nearly 50,000 People Ask Why The Government Is Seizing Their Digital Files
No wonder my wife was just asking me why Netflix is down on Xbox live here in Seattle.
I don't expect that many apple engineers will take a look at the general, vague, and obvious wording of the patent in question and agree that it is general, vague, and obvious.

Take 2 otherwise identical people and give them a question where one of them has a personal stake in the answer, while the other one doesn't, and you will generally find that these seemingly rational individuals have come to different conclusions.

Such is human nature.
It's a hard thing to engineer, especially after the fact, and especially when you are trying to hide it behind an abstraction layer. (Which is to say: You can't expect your customers to engineer their apps with multiregion in mind, or to take it kindly when you raise rates to support additional redundant hardware and bandwidth.)

e.g. because region-to-region data transfer is not free, and trans-region latency is ugly, you can't just relaunch half your instance farm in another region and expect happiness. There are also routing issues: Internal IPs don't work across regions, elastic IPs don't transfer across regions...
A company you did not pay and do not help generate revenue (doesn't one of them actually reduce ad impressions?) arbitrarily disconnected you from using their server resources? Crazy talk...
IPhone set to struggle (2007)
> They just freaking copied Siri.

This article is about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which doesn't have any integrated voice assistant as far as I am aware.

> Eric Schmidt just stole every inch of the iPhone...

While it may be true that Android has "stolen" certain things from the iPhone, there are also plenty of things that the iPhone has also "stolen" from Android. Saying Android copies everything that Apple does while Apple continues to build everything from the ground up is completely unfair.
What is the best place you've worked at?
What is the best place you've worked at and what made it so awesome?

I want to hear some cool stories from people who've worked at tech giants like Microsoft and Google and from those who have primarily done startups.

It would be great to see what different people consider as an awesome place to work as well people's experiences at tech companies.
A strange branch in the evolution of paper.
Hopefully one day it will be feasible to host our computing architecture in space and avoid all these terrestrial obstructions.
Perhaps I'm lucky, but I've never had any of the experiences you've described. The worst that's happened to me is having a question closed on one of the Stack Exchange sites.

I also did forget to mention mailing lists; I knew I was missing something.
Copyright: An Easy Excuse For Making Something Disappear
iAnal so iCant help you...
The real point here is that you're not a PHP programmer. You're complaining about a language you don't use and trolled the web for this material without even testing much of it out yourself.

And sadly your uninformed opinion is now the go-to article when talking about PHP flaws. You've won the Internet.
Was watching a movie in a big 20-screen theater in Richmond, and they told everybody to just leave (incidentally, not through the emergency exits, instead they funneled 100s of people into the lobby all at once :/)
I'm fed up with this nanny state app store model. As a hacker I feel like I have an obligation to fight this trend. I'm committed to a couple of iOS projects right now but when they wrap I'm going to take a very hard look at getting back on the open web.
Confirmed at 9:00pm PST:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Netflix.com
Then you'd have to change the link too?
this is pretty bad, really bad ...
I'm completely ignorant here. But aren't these outages usually solved by having backup servers in different locations? As many datacenters do, and as I imagine something as huge as heroku would?
Come on not another power issue, what happened to the generators... and the back up generators that they fixed few weeks back.
Renault Duster VS Maruti Suzuki Ertiga – Tug of War (Expert Review)
With the launching date of Renault Duster nearing, the Indian car enthusiasts are gearing up to put their hands on this classic compact SUV
Yep! Very pleased that's happened. Seems like a lot of people missed the page.

Still wondering about the other page though... ModernSherlock page no longer shows up in search though.
9:20 PM PDT We are continuing to work to bring the instances and volumes back online. In addition, EC2 and EBS APIs are currently experiencing elevated error rates.
hey scott! i actually was gonna look you up and email the link to you tomorrow ... but it seems like someone else has already posted on HN
Shab-e-barat sms & text messages in english 2012-wishes - 27 Rajab Sms
You do realize that a patent is a deliberately created, temporary monopoly.
thanks ... wow i hope my Ph.D. didn't have the body count of a clancy thriller
Patents weren’t designed to stifle innovation and take a massive toll on holders
Your quote reminds me of Netflix too. Here we have public company built on someone else's "business" (as Hollywood calls it).
Hi Fred.

Thank you for posting this explanation -- I do have a question though, the current "Sherlock" page -- is that an official page?

How long will it take for these changes to appear in Facebook search?
Ask HN: What music instrument do you play?
I read somewhere that most of the great hackers play some kind of music instrument. What instrument do you play?

It would be interesting to question, that what is about music and ability to play some instrument that goes so well along side programming and hacking.
It's a legal term with a specific meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God
Definitely. Thank you Internet, and thank you to the people at Facebook who looked into this.
whoa i'm astonished people have the attention span to read this on a friday night :)

here's an HTML version too ...
http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
"... The fear of making the “wrong” choice actually makes the familiar, mastered FOO more attractive. ..."

An excuse for not learning something new.
Saw this post here on HN, pulled up www.chart.state.md.us to watch the live traffic cams in the area. Clicked through a couple, some of which showed heavy rain, wind & lightning. Then the stream froze and now the site is completely unresponsive.
This feature wasn't exactly around when the page was made.
Working remotely. It beats every single office I've ever worked at.
Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more
If you are correct, then Apple obtained this patent before any of these things you mentioned existed. I'd mention On Location as prior art though -- On Location was truly awesome.
Painful truth time: We haven't. :(

It's still ugly in there, and while we've been making pretty decent strides (heyo!), it's not where I'd like it yet.
To answer some of your specific questions/comments though:

- We're fetching data in the views. We don't really use the Backbone router/controller concept that heavily.

- For data, we're exposing everything through a REST-like API exposed from our Rails app. It's not versioned yet, but we'll be versioning it in the future. Every Backbone model is responsible for just its own data - collections are responsible for any extra data that might not belong on a specific model. Things like client-calculated values, etc.

- On reload, since we're shoving it out from our Rails app, we're pre-seeding with some data, but then it fires off a bunch more requests. I don't feel super strongly that this is the right way, we'll probably experiment with other options soon.

- We've got views/ and models/, and the structure's pretty flat inside. It runs through the Rails pipeline to minify and make a single file, which as of now isn't CDN'ed.

- We're not incredibly worried about secrecy for things that aren't enabled and that users can't see, since our main value prop is still server-side and under our control. We've got a global User object that we're populating with flags for what they can & can't see, and their user limitations.

Hope this helped, or if not, at least gave you some stuff to think about. If you want to chat Backbone sometime, drop me a line!
ZeroMQ is one layer down the stack. It is higher-level than TCP but it's basically a transport.

Bridge comes with RPC and automatic routing. It allows you to expose services simply by instantiating native objects and making method calls. (Like an easier version of Apache Thrift: http://thrift.apache.org/)

It also takes care of the socket management and routing for you, so there is no host/port configuration to talk to any endpoint in the system. You can simply address things by a human-readable name like "photo-processor" or "search-server".
I can assure you that scheme or haskell isn't a leveler :-), there'll still be folks who taught themselves scheme and haskell and a dash of pl theory / general cs during high school self directed. That is all :-)

(personally know a number of such folks, and they're some of the most amazingly nice & open folks I know)
oh thanks for reminding me ... i should forward this to your advisor!
with storms getting worse each year, i'll likely be choosing either central or westcoast datacenters ... from now on.
And the inverse, where Apple inflicts similar, irreparable harm to their competitors that are using "bogus" patents? Consider Apple is already a market leader, the implications are more damning in the opposite direction.
I hate to say it, but I'm afraid that about the only help available for Bassel from outside Syria is for a Russian colleague with friends in high places to start lobbying for his release.

Russian hackers? Have any friends in the government?

His imprisonment is a shame, since Bassel could be any one of us if we had had been born in an oppressive country -- and one that is now at war (and I'm sure some of you reading were born in such countries).
Or, they're trying to prevent Windows 95 all over again.
Extending Patents For Antibiotics Makes Incentives To Make Them Useless
Make that $0.04 -- I can't stand the use of the word "privilege" in that context, since it invariably causes discussions to turn into accusatory bile-fests. This can be cleverly avoided by replacing the word with its definition.
Until earthquakes.
Why YouTube isn’t the future of TV
PBS: Seeing Beyond the Human Eye
In which case this model allows them to substitute money for an understanding of sin and cos.
Google reportedly being investigated by the FTC for suspected FRAND abuse
Pardon my rant, but I am frustrated. It seems there is always an excuse with Amazon cloud. Is Google similarly disabled?
Daily Show's reaction to CNN and FoxNews blowing the Obamacare ruling
That isn't necessarily the fault of BTC banks though. Let us be honest here - if we (the viewing public of HN) collectively wanted to put in every effort to supplant flat currencies for BTC so nobody can print it anymore, all of us combined would not have the financial assets required to sway the supermassive giants of the world like Walmart, Amazon, Google, Apple, the big 3 car manufacturers, realtors, and more importantly than anything else, the stock markets to start trading in BTC would take the financial efforts of pretty much the entirety of the top 400 wealthiest Americans.

The markets are more resistant to currency shift than enterprises are to getting off XP and IE6. BTC will always fail because everyone is to lazy to get rid of the dollar as the reserve currency.
The OP did not address this argument, but merely asserted that no irreparable harm would be done because you could simply pay damages. The court has said that calculating damages is impossible.

It doesn't seem to me that incalculable implies irreparable but it's certainly a defensible position.
The top Google result for "How do I use the Hartree-Fock approximation on toluene" is this comment thread. Smashing!
Heroku's uptime for June is going to be.. not so hot.
AFAIK you would voice assistant in Android 4.1 which is damn similar what Apple introduced with Siri. I really can't understand how some people can just ignore the fact that there happens a big stolen product here. How on earth will you argue that Google has now a similar voice assistant like Siri without copying Siri. You don't want to say it is coincendence, do you?

People always claim Apple had stolen from Android too but they never can give any evidence. What did Apple copy from Android which become a major selling factor? Copy paste? No. Multi touch? No. Multitasking? No. App Store? Hello no!

Please just tell me how entrepreneurs all seem to hate Apple because Apple just fighting for there right. The right to say: Hey if you want to make a product, but don't just copy our product!

Apple didn't sued Microsoft over WP7 cause they didn't just copy The iPhone. They found something new. Something different. But Android And Google just trying to copy the hell of iOS as much as possible.

EDIT: This has nothing to do with being a die-hard Apple guy. Everyone should have the right to fight copy cats. Or would like it that your product is getting copied and you as a the creator earn just nothing from it at all. Not even the respect that it was your idea and your product.
> For Git, I just followed some examples I found online. I don't remember the exact procedure, but it didn't work. After around an hour of trying I just gave up. In fact, I found it just as difficult as trying to install Git on the OpenSolaris servers, which is saying quite a bit.

I installed git on a coworker's computer in a couple minutes today, so I don't know what to say.

> As for Java, I couldn't update despite using the Software Update menu. It worked on Windows, but OS X just hadn't gotten around to adding it. And, as is usually the case with Apple, there was no good way around it: since Apple hadn't update Java, I couldn't just install it myself. (Or, at least, there was no obvious way of doing this.)

It wasn't that Apple hadn't "added" it, there simply wasn't a port of that version of Java to Mac OS X, because they needed to port it. If someone external to Apple had produced a port (like, say, Sun), you could have installed it, exactly in the same way that we install Oracle Java today.

Someone did eventually produce a partial non-GUI port, and it later became the base of Oracle's officially supported Mac OS X Java: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/

This has little to do with Mac OS X being somehow broken, and a lot to do with the fact that Sun only provided Java binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows.

For Java 7 on, Oracle will be supporting Java for Mac OS X directly.

> I don't know exactly what my friend tried to install AucTeX and the rest of the LaTeX ecosystem, but he certainly did not find it easy. And this is somebody studying CS at a fairly good university: certainly not unintelligent or unfamiliar with tech.

I'm not sure what intelligence has to do with it. It sounds like he just didn't know what he was doing, and ignorance has little to do with intelligence.

If he'd approached Linux and had never read up on "yum" or "apt", I imagine he'd be equally stymied.

> Over all, your descriptions make OS X seem worse than Linux in the very areas it supposedly excels in!

I don't see how, but I imagine we're talking at cross-purposes at this point.
I think the buzzword "entitlement" is just being misused here. The post makes more sense if you mentally replace entitlement with a nonsense word like flurblement, and then infer its meaning from context.
Down in Roku too
Presumably in this case - Thor ?
Even if they can't do it right away, they should communicate a plan for how they are going to tackle this recurring issue. That's the whole point behind status.heroku.com / trust.salesforce.com. They are part of a publicly traded corporation with a lot of resources.

Extremely nerve wracking for new startups like ours.
what a winner! And they charge!! FUX.
Short answer - no.

There's a lot of people over-reacting to this situation.
If you read Twitter's blog post its clear that they're following up on enforcing the API "Rules of the Road" they've had for over a year. https://dev.twitter.com/blog/delivering-consistent-twitter-e...

Section !.5. clearly lays out the rules clients must follow "Your Service may be an application or client that provides major components of a Twitter-like end user experience (a "Client"). An example of a Client is a downloadable application that displays user timelines and allows users to create and search for tweets. If so, certain additional terms apply, including:"

These rules are actually pretty generous and plainly lay out their expectations for third party applications. It's unclear what led to Tweets being removed from LinkedIn, my guess would be that Twitter attempted to enforce their branding rules, LinkedIn declined and instead said they would remove the Tweets from being displayed entirely. It doesn't sound like Twitter just cut off access to LinkedIn or came up with new restrictions they haven't already been publishing (and compelling 3rd parties to comply with) for a long time.

Any business must deal with existential threats, be it from competitors, regulation or bad investments. Building a business on top of an API is just another potential risk, you need to decide if they company in question is a safe enough bet to play on, just like you have to decide the same thing for all other risks.
If there is anything I have learned in life, I am pants on head retarded, but so is pretty much everyone else, except for like 1 in 10 million people who must cry at night knowing everyone else is a dumb monkey, who got the combined benefits of born into upper middle class living for security + untroubled childhood + high iq + passion for learning taught early on + ambition + connections.
Infringing on patents pooled to create standards is different (viz Motorola). your patent goes into the standard in exchange for your agreeing to make it available for a reasonable price. This is obviously a Good Thing or standards would not be created or adopted.

Similarly, the price of simpy ditching patents would be the proliferation of trade secrets and obfuscated mechanisms.
If you ever want to do this in the real world, look at libffi: http://sourceware.org/libffi/
Tornadoes in the midwest and earthquakes in the west. You're doomed.

Seriously though, as horrible as downtime is, I think most internet users aren't terribly surprised when they can't go to a specific website for a short period of time.