skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that the !bang list is extensive. I know that most of the time using the full name of the site will work. Thus, I can reasonably guess how to directly search a site that I may not have even been to in years... or ever been to. If I want to know how much Wal-Mart is selling Bounty paper towels for, I can type "bounty paper towels !walmart" and I know it will work even though I may never have searched Wal-Mart's site before.

That's just one reason. Some more:

A single search interface. The Firefox search box lets you pick multiple search engines, but then a different one is selected each time. For me, DDG is always selected.

I can change my search target without retyping my query. I type my searches into Firefox's search box and I always type the !bang part at the end of the search. If I don't like the results at Amazon, I can go change "!amazon" to "!newegg" and quickly re-search another site. I also frequently use this to redirect failed mathematical queries to Google or Wolfram Alpha just by going and appending a "!g" or "!wa" on the search.

As someone else mentioned, portability. I don't need to ever configure another search engine list as long as I live. My list on my work computer install of Firefox is always up-to-date with my mobile and with my home Chrome install. If I get a new computer or switch to a new browser, it's already ready to go.

It updates itself. If a new site comes along (or I discover a site new to me), I'll have the search ready to go long before I ever thought to search it (or configure it) myself.
This would be a weird place to stop for someone trying to minimize their time executing searches and clicking.

Having to navigate to the browser to launch a search for MDN Arrays from Vim is suboptimal. Alfred (OSX) is the best solution I can come up with. "lucky <query>" pulls the browser up with its Google Feeling Lucky result. I've shortened it to just "l <query>". You can add custom searches with a syntax like "example.com/whatever/{query}".
An example of software-industry practices by Oracle: After Oracle bought ATG (e-commerce software vendor), they assigned an engineer to remove the code that detected and limited the number of concurrent users. ATG software is licensed by the number of concurrent users, and had for a long-time a mechanism to limit usage to the actual number of licenses for that specific customer. Oracle removed the limit code so that some customers would unwittingly exceed their licensed number. The intent was that these customers could be targeted by Oracle's license police, who'd extract high financial penalties.

A hard-nosed business decision. Potentially lucrative, profitable. Not illegal. But demonstrating utter contempt and manipulation of their customers. If this is how Oracle treats its own customers, how do you think they treat competitors like CentOS and the OSS community?
Dude. Socialcam was no one's baby.
Coming at it from the other direction: why should I have to spend my time configuring each search engine I want to use when I can just add DuckDuckGo and be done with it? The only material advantages to configuring the shortcuts in-browser are (a) you may want to use different shortcuts and (b) you may not want the ! prefix.
Frankly, given how well they've managed every other FOSS element in their charge, I have no doubt that this is not only NOT a "better" alternative to CentOS (disclosure: I have no particular love for CentOS, but you do know what you are getting with them up front...your releases will be slow, a little far from bleeding edge, but deliberate and solid) and likely has some kind of business booby-trap attached.
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The OStatus protocol exists, and has existing implementations. This just looks like RSS/Atom feeds in JSON.
> It's just as stupid as the people in American that
> want to shutdown immigration to 'dirty foreigners'
> (forgetting that their ancestors were 'dirty foreigners').

That is a gross mis-characterization of the American attitude on immigration. Americans don't want to "shut down" immigration. We Americans take pride in our diversity of heritage and our openess to those who want to come to our country and be an American. Our objection is to people who come here illegaly. We object to those who come here and thumb their nose at the law, draw benefits from our government (and therefore depriving legal citizens of those benefits) and overwhelm our system.
Look, with all due respect we're not blind to it. I'm sure Oracle Linux is a fine piece of software, I bet it's just as good as RHEL and I'll even spot you that your support team is equally good as Red Hat's. We do not have technical objections to the work you've done.

We simply don't trust your employer to behave with anything even approaching good faith in any interaction. What happened to Solaris alone is a huge warning flag, those of us who have interacted with Oracle in a professional capacity have...more reasons to believe this.
Pretty much like ExciteBike. Really well done HTML5 game.
they had to demonstrate, that they "gave up" in-house dev

http://accumulo.apache.org/
One of the women in that photo is using her mobile phone while she cycles along right next to a bunch of other people. That is so dangerous. It's behaviour like this (and the inability to cycle in a straight-ish line) that makes me hate biking in groups of commuters, like those riding down Market St in SF.
> It does point out a blurry line between substance and structure.

On the Aerographite wikipage it's called a "structural material".
I have no idea. Clearly neither of us know enough about security to work at the bank in question.
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I almost never FTP stuff except when I have to get a single, unimportant file somewhere or if we're sharing stuff between friends' houses.

Springloops has a useful deploy-by-ftp feature. When you commit a change using their Subversion host it automatically pushes it out to the development or production server.

It's easy for designers to use since they can update a jpg or two for a client, commit a change, then hit refresh on the live site and it shows up.

I know it's not perfect, but for small web shops and non-technical people, it works great.
Exactly right. I know of several mid- and large-scale companies that replaced (or are replacing) all of their Sun Solaris infrastructure as soon as they heard Oracle acquired them, because of their bad experiences with Oracle.

And from a technical perspective, if the OS is managed anything like the database or client tools, I wouldn't touch it with a 1000ft pole.
If US pulls out of Iraq and Afganistan (not even leaving bases), then we are just back to pre-9/11 status. Only if US furthermore pulls fully out of the middle east, including cutting support to Israel, then OBL have achieved a goal. This is very unlikely to happen.

Sure, NSA is expensive, but come on, it is not going to bankrupt the US to the extend they have to give up strategic influence in the middle east!

Again, OBL does not care about US healthcare spending. That something is bad for ordinary americans does not mean that it further the terrorists agenda.
Please test it with proxy settings enabled.
And people just change the names and the whole circus starts all over again.

I'm 100% against copyright infringement but this is energy in the wrong direction.
As a Brit, this really grinded some of our gears. http://goo.gl/6aqeb

(Redirect to Wiki, since apostrophes in URLs don't work).
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The financial incentives seem to be working entirely against you...

From a user standpoint: One has no reason to join. Adoption occurs when the benefits of joining are greater than cost of joining. You inflated the cost of signups from 30 seconds to $50. For people considered wealthy, that's still over 100x the cost. Having no ads is hardly 100x the return, especially when you still have a massive chicken/egg problem to solve. It's like trying to make Google+ overtake Facebook. It's hard to begin with - it's impossible if it didn't have the resources of Google and wasn't free.

From a developer standpoint: The service is useless without far more users than your asking for. The data won't be compelling with 10k, especially considering the personality that App.net currently appeals to is so monotonous. As much as I like to hear NoSQL vs SQL arguments, it's pretty fucking banal when you compare that to someone on the other side of the world tweeting about war or a natural disaster. Twitter is as much an outlet for media as it is an inlet and the friction of your monetization strategy greatly hinders who can tell their stories.

Sustainability doesn't mean viability. You'll make money no doubt but that has really no correlation to the quality of the service, which, unless it's free, pretty much fucks everyone but you.

Twitter will be real time in due time. In the meantime, I urge you to stop striving to be Twitter and instead more like maybe Meteor. Making a good real-time framework seems to stick to the idea's roots while filling a need that is actually needed. However the project develops, I truly wish you the best :)
As you will have to charge VAT to EU based users (assuming you intend to make more than the UK VAT annual floor) you will need to present different prices to different markets in any case.

Given that you thus can't present a single price and allow the card processor to manage the currency conversion then you might just as well quote prices in at least 2 currencies (but Euros might be worth adding to make 3)
Does anyone else think they've started to just google whatever they're looking for - then submit a takedown for every url in the results? How else do you submit a takedown for a wikipedia page with a straight face?
A counterpoint to my argument is that this is the government

I think this is a much bigger deal than you do. Any government is always a threat to you, because governments weild force, and the actors within government can change rapidly.

A company that has your data is not a physical threat to you. (Unless the government isn't doing its job - in which case disfunctional government is the more fundamental problem.)

So, in summary, it is utterly unjustifiable for the NSA to spy on every average American, whlie it is utterly justifiable for companies to collect what data on you they manage to get their hands on.

By the way, it's not that nobody was spying on me 5 years ago because I was a teenager. Nobody was spying on me then because the government was not as evil. If I was a teenager now, or even a child, the government would be spying on me today.
I remember going to a demo against the fiches. I had a sign with a fish on it. The fish was crossed out. I was five.

But, seriously: the impulse to keep files on "internal enemies" is strong in any state, but it's come to the fore in a scary way in the last decade.
I don't think corporations are evil. In fact, I bet most people on HN don't think that.

We do want big companies behind the Linux ecosystem. There are already many out there (Red Hat, Canonical, among them) doing just that.

So if I have a budget for paying for a Linux distro, where do I want my money to go? Red Hat, Oracle, or Canonical? In my mind I'm ranking them

1. Canonical
2. Red Hat
3. everyone else in the world
4. Oracle

You need to fix that perception before Oracle Linux will go anywhere. Freatures won't do it. You could offer free support for a year and I wouldn't do it.

At the end of the day, most of us know that the value out of a 'support' contract isn't really the support. It's knowing that the product will continue forward. So who do I want my budget to fund?
Finally someone is going help me stop receiving terrible, mistargeted e-mails from Old Navy!
This is a great idea. Sometimes when something is not working the last thing I want to do is poor through the curl man page before I can even get started figuring it out.
I know that 'hackers news' folks (Google employees?) don't like Oracle, the enterprise IT world does trust Oracle. They trust Oracle much more than they trusts Google (not hard).

From outside, neutral point of view, all these corporations Oracle, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. are equally "evil" - especially from point of view of Open Source community. Am I wrong here?
...in France.
>No one at an ordinary McDonald's would even notice such a device. Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras. Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras? Possibly because it was a mafia front. If you wanted to launder money, a fast food restaurant in a popular location would be a good place to do it.

Wait, what? An international fast food franchise as a mafia front? And for laundering money? So that the mafia also has to check in with the multinational's franchise title owners?

And all that in Paris?

How about some stupid security guy noticed the device and thought (correctly) that it contained some covert camera, and that the guy that has it is possible trouble (journalist investigating the place, a pervert, etc)?

The premise that "no one at an ordinary McDonald's would even notice such a device" is also deeply flawed, what with the paranoia about a) terrorism and b) pedophile photographers these days.

They don't even have to "look for cameras" actively, all it takes is some customer to point it to them "hey, there's a guy with some strange device over there, something fishy is going on".
In the iPhone announcement keynote Steve says they toyed with Linux at one point before deciding to fork Mac OS X into iPhone OS.

I wouldn't be surprised if they just ran a skinned full Mac OS X on this one, because it was already there, and it would mean the UI guys could get to work right away on cool stuff (like rubber band scrolling as mentioned). The fact that it's so fat tells me it probably just had a G3 or G4 inside, basically a MacBook with a touchscreen and no hinge.
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It's far easier, after you know what happened, to go back to the data and "connect the dots" to claim it should have been foreseen and acted upon. But beforehand, the dots could have been connected in any number of permutations and paths, so it becomes impossible to act on every possibility that can be forecast in advance.
Ask HN: Should I be worried at my job?
Hey guys, I work as a developer and lately my team at our job got restructured to be under another team, we use agile and our sprint should have been over 2 weeks ago. Anyways I did mostly all of my work in our sprint and since we have switched teams we have quit doing SCRUM and I basically have been sitting here idle waiting for a new sprint. We start a new SCRUM in a couple days but my manager has still not done anything about planning of a new sprint or what not. I do not think they care or know what direction to give. Sometimes I am fine sitting idle for a couple days because then I can learn whats new but after a few days I am bored out of my mind. I am not really being challenged or anything and there are a lot of tech jobs here where I am. This was a great company but I am waiting for direction and I cannot stand being managed without any direction. What would you do in my situation? Should I be worried the company is gonna lay off more or is going down hills? What are the signs from those of you that are experienced in this?

Background: Company laid off a large portion of its workers a while ago and said we are supposedly the best of the best, however that is because the people who were kept can wear many hats. But usually great people need good direction.
I used to bike to work in my suit in Copenhagen. Kids are driven to nursery and kindergarten on bikes like this:
http://www.christianiabikes.com/

In NYC I always thought they could benefit from real, separate bike paths and not just the bike lanes created by stripes painted on the avenues.

But honestly, I am not sure the idea of biking is going to pick up in America. Biking is popular in Denmark and the Netherlands where temperatures rarely fall below 20-25 degrees in the winter and where summer temperatures above 77 degrees is something experienced 5-10 days a year. Most American cities have much warmer summers and much harder winters - even if they had bike lanes it wouldn't be comfortable to use a bike as means of transportation.
the team at viget labs came up with the concept and then did the design and dev
I like 2-factor auth, but I'm not sure I see what it has to do with XSS and SQLI.
Read one sentence further, please:

>> perhaps even limit consumption to controlled clinics

But even without that, the difference would be to give addicts a simple path straight out of the criminal environment - helping recovery (the proximity of your dealer and various loan sharks whose revenues depend on your habit aren't very helpful) and destroying the market.
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Interesting question. It seems you can buy them with cash from local places like Dollar Stores and such, and use for in person purchases with no id. But on line verification uses your provided name, billing address and phone number as validation it is a legit purchase and not a stolen card. So you have to register the card before online use with this information. You are not required though to provide true information here, it just needs to be information that matches what you give when you make the purchase. I could find no reference that SSNs are required, but perhaps some issuers require it. That would be important to know which one since most states allow false names as long as not used for fraud, but there's now a federal law that makes using an incorrect SSN a crime.
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As much as I love to support biking it's important to keep in mind how geography dependent it can be. Denmark and The Netherlands are extremely flat, which makes them unusually suitable locations for biking. If you add in any significant amount of elevation change then you immediately raise the bar in terms of the fitness requirements necessary to get to typical destinations.
I wonder if I had a business that sold legal torrents, would I be able to sue because they are being anti-competitive towards my business?
> And why bother with filtering Megaupload? It is dead.

The case has been argued in the lower courts, so it was probably included then as it was before the Megaupload takedown.
Wow, you explained my sentiments exactly. These books introduced me to mysteries, careful observation... I would not be as interested in reading if it were not for these books.
I can't think of something they can justifiably compete over, except security, in which case it's only jusitifable when the other party is initiating threats.
>Clearly, he means "different as compared with the United States," where it's legal to photograph anything in a public space.

Despite this being the law, it can still get you in trouble with the police (in the US).
When something is "censored" from Instant, it just says "Press enter to search" rather than loading it automatically. Nobody who bothered to put "torrent" in the search box is going to be dissuaded by having to press one extra key to see the results.
I covered that in the tmux book briefly - you want the join-pane and break-pane commands. By default, prefix ! will break a pane into a new window, and join-pane will let you move a pane to a different window - you have to specify the window number and the pane.

Does that help?
Ah yes, the magical power of technology to solve all of the world's problems. I forgot technology had that power.

Well, let's all get to it guys!

/s
> Once you start thinking like this, your day becomes full of these tradeoffs. Today I had to buy computer for a new employee [5]. I went to Amazon, my go-to online store, and immediately found what I was looking for listed at $700. Based on previous experience, I know that Amazon isn’t usually the cheapest option for laptops; I estimated that if I spent another fifteen minutes diligently searching the web, the expected value of the best price I’d find would be $660. At that moment I was estimated my rate of value creation at over $160/hr, so I bought the Amazon computer and moved on to the next item on my to-do list.

I wonder if Amazon does this when they price items like computers?
HN Poll: For or Against WikiLeaks and Why?
I think the Hacker Community's opposition or support for WikiLeaks may decide whether it survives.

Please post as concisely as possible why you are for or against WikiLeaks. If you are ambivilent, please explain.

To make it easier to read the arguments of each side, please post your argument as a reply under one of these three top level comments: "I oppose WikiLeaks", "I support WikiLeaks", "It's complicated".

If someone has already captured your reasoning more or less, vote it up and add any clarification under it.

[EDIT] People are voting but not providing their reasoning. Are people that afraid to go on the record one way or another?
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I very much doubt that the Swedish school system can be seriously described as despicable or horrendous, even if it has fallen from its former glory. Would you care to elaborate?
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I oppose WikiLeaks.
They have the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), as well as a RHEL-compatible kernel. I'm not sure which is the default in new installs.

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/oracle_unbreakable_ente...
I support WikiLeaks.
The press release has a very us-vs-them mentality that I have seen about 0% other distributions do.
Interesting, up to the end of your comment I was sure you were saying how you were driving a car in Israel and biking in Germany :)

I'm an Israeli currently living in Vienna, I don't bike myself but it's very common here & there are many bike paths. Also - everybody I know in Israel owns a car, and almost nobody I know in Vienna does.
So why are pro-copyright judges never expected to keep their bias a secret?

Are in fact allowed to not just voice an opinion, but to actually be activists and or paid lobbyist for the copyright industry, and still preside over copyright related cases.

This is a one way street, and the judge has accurately formulated why many think this is the case. We have met the enemy of our freedom and our judicial system.
It's Complicated.
There's a ton to talk about in the "Why Oracle Linux and not RHEL" department, but I'm not trying to sell you anything, so I want to set that aside for now. (I have to say, though, even the "big price tag" is significantly smaller than RHEL's).

Instead, I want to look at the following case: you're a sysadmin running CentOS. You don't pay anyone for support, and you have no intention of ever doing so.

There, I think the benefits are, in brief, the things you're able to achieve when you have large-scale resources: timely releases and better QA, while maintaining 100% RHEL compatibility. Basically "what you love about CentOS", minus "what you hate about CentOS".

But yes, it comes from Oracle :)
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Interesting, so since the FBI seized the megaupload domain at the start of the year. Now apparently it is to be blocked by google thru a court order. Can the FBI be trusted to look after your domain you do have to wonder.

Will make for some interesting stories and legal angles down the line.
Not to put too fine a point on it: in the olden days, you could change resolutions without either editing your Xconfig file or clicking anywhere, just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-(KP+/KP-). Most distributions disable that nowadays, because it tends to confuse people if they have a viewport larger than their screen.
This is fantastic! Thank you!