skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of your examples--using spaces to center text and using a dozen newlines to position text--are based on the reasonable assumption of "what I see in my text is what I got when I formatted it": removing carriage returns entirely and pasting lines together to form larger lines violates that assumption. If the user expects that they can go to the second page by adding a dozen newlines, how could they possibly understand that newlines now don't mean anything at all? I will repeat: for decades, the enter key has meant a very specific behavior, and Markdown is the only setup I can come up with that either myself or my mother (or my grandmother) would have ever come across where the enter key doesn't cause at least a single line break.
> Also if anything I think scientists/thinkers have had more than their fair share of slots in banknotes. Perhaps the turn of former PMs...

From an American perspective I assumed you were being facetious until I actually looked up who's on UK banknotes. I'll be damned--you guys actually seem like a civilized country. Since "Series D", you've only had two politicians on banknotes--and one of them was better known as a military commander.

For contrast, recent US banknotes picture an assortment of former Presidents, as well as Alexander Hamilton (first US Treasury Secretary), Benjamin Franklin, and Civil War era US Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. We don't have a single non-politician, but we do have three slaveholders and the guy responsible for ethnic cleansing of American Indians. It would be nice to give some other notable historic Americans a chance.
"And they definitely need to make a clear statement about what rights the site gets and what rights the uploader retains."

Hi there, where would you like to read about this information? Perhaps a "About Licensing" page in the foot? Or simply bigger license badge on the sidebar of each project?
I think the issue is how damienkatz's comment implied that Turing only had the Turing Test to his credit. If anything the Turing Test is a game, or thought experiment, and only the tip of Turing's accomplishments.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is doing this to hurt Google and hurting Google's ability to deliver a better ad experience. As well, it gets to paint itself as fighting for privacy, etc, so it's a double-win for them.
The question is less "Can a company like Apple function without a Woz" and more "Can a company like Apple form without a Woz".

To 'test' this theory it would be better to find an Apple-like company that formed without an obviously Woz-like figure. I think there are several examples of varying quality.
> In our view, this degrades the experience for the majority of users and makes it hard to deliver on our value proposition to them.

I know Yahoo! has to maintain their business which depends on things like ads and content delivery; but to say it with such sterile marketing jargon just makes me nauseous.

How about you guys do what everyone else has had to do since the beginning; create something awesome and let people use it with a minimal barrier to entry. Right now, Yahoo! is like a giant skyscraper tenented only by iPhone case kiosks.
Growth, or lack thereof, affects stock value which also can affect future talent employment and current employees. While the iPad may have future growth ahead, many will not pay the unsubsidized price for the iPhone, which is where most of Apple's current valuation lies.

Rumor has it that Apple is only getting ~25% margin on the iPad mini which is unprecedented.
How is a cookie 'just short of transmitting the user's SSN'? Microsoft itself, for example, doesn't support DNT for all browsers in its advertising network Atlas.
I also did a double-take on that first sentence you quoted. I'm pretty sure I read earlier that they will be prompting first-time users on what their preference will be, and that the "default" basically just means which position that switch will be in when the choice is presented. However, I did some quick fact-checking and I couldn't find anything to back that up; if you don't mind, where did you find that IE10 presents that option?
I think they make items "dark" for, say, 70 years, so it's inaccessible to the public. The thought of actual deletions is kind of alien to their goals.
I agree, additionally it's not even really "off" by default. The default in the spec right now is a null value which indicates "we don't know" which is actually accurate until the user makes a choice.
Totally.

The short answer is that the data doesn't support generalizing the motives of American immigrants over 300 years from very diverse social, political, and economic conditions. There is no suitable generalization. The same goes for attempting to describe America's current cultural values as a single group.

Longer answer requires the gradiated initial cultural values held by every significant immigrant group (puritans, slaves, Irish, Chinese... significant defined by impact, population, whathaveyou), determining how resilient those values were when thrown into America's melting pots (assimilated? insular?), and to what extent they influenced the groups around them over time. That's a career question, though - not a HN comment that I'm underequipped to answer.
You have to explicitly set it on, that means the user had to take a specific action, and that means there was an intent to do it.
They should give you a medal. That's how you create upward revenue stream dynamics!
There are three values that the header can contain.

null - no value set

0 - opted in to tracking

1 - opted out of tracking

A 0 or 1 imply intent and null would imply the user has taken no action.
Rereading what I said, I am not certain of the confusion, but I will expand: you can't evalulate the price of your product using the gross value it provides in isolation, you have to evalulate the price of your product using the net value it provides in comparison to competitors.

If I ended up in the situation where I was paying you hundreds, certainly if I was paying you thousands, of dollars a month, I find it impossibly difficult to believe that I couldn't get more "bang for the buck" by spending the time to reimplement the features I am getting from you.

(As an entirely unrelated argument, the optimal margin might not even be 1%: to charge a percentage of revenue for something that doesn't have any scaling terms in proportion to the dollars being moved is, to put it lightly, "bold"; my business, for example, probably couldn't afford 1%, yet I routinely move tens of millions of dollars... and I certainly, at the price of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, would have no trouble reimplementing your setup, and in fact have done similar things as side projects on various occasions.)
Somehow you replaced "lawyers" with "software developers," right?
How To Upgrade To Windows 8.
What comes up to your mind when I say security?
How would people know if anything had happened to you and that they should begin to recover data - is there a dead man switch or notification procedure in place?

p.s. Please avoid golf courses this weekend!
Agreed, that is why I downvoted him. It is one of Turings greatest known ideas (commonly known of to some degree among the general population) likely because it involves provocative claims and conclusions (particularly so for its time).

But to claim that Turing isn't great because you have an issue with the Turing Test is like claiming Einstein wasn't great because you think his anti-nuclear activism was misplaced. Rather missing the point of why we consider the man important.
In Chrome, right click -> Show Controls.
I have a slight crush on the lady behind you :p. Also, saw this Rubiks cube collection the other day - maybe you'd enjoy! http://imgur.com/a/mbKKS
D) it has an unlockable bootloader and already runs the Kernel to some degree.
Get rid of organized sports.
I don't know any developers that believe that however I've met many managers and attorneys that believe it. Common industry practices should be laid at the feet of those responsible.

Beyond licensing agreements though, people won't read instructions, disclaimers, warnings, etc. It's not just one thing, and when designing things at work one of our common points to try and make things more clear includes "people don't read" so how can we improve this.
As a warning, there seems to be no mouse-navigation of these slides. You have to use a keyboard. (or touch, probably)
Actually they have about 4 sets.

I went through the loops and there about 80 of them.
Before Go, wasn't all user-facing stuff in Google written in C++ for performance?
Interesting, I wonder how this compares to what Ezra's working on.

He mentioned a git-based community site for 3D models that incorporated visual diffs at RailsConf 2012: http://confreaks.com/videos/911-railsconf2012-what-a-long-st...
Video Interview with Rap Genius
> How is a cookie 'just short of transmitting the user's SSN'?

In that it's fairly straightforward to track a user across multiple sites and sessions with a cookie, almost as easy as if the browser was already sending a user-specific identification number along on its own.

I didn't want to present Microsoft as the good guys here either, they're playing their own game and I have no illusion that they really care about their users' privacy.
I do this all the time. It is the strength of dropbox that I can lean on it to do a fresh install of the OS and simply get my files back via DB.
I mean, I know there are idiots on the Internet, but at some point your assumption that someone is an idiot is idiotic. I know where this file came from and I haven't touched it. Dropbox hammered it.
It's probably personally dependent to shore up your own weaknesses.

Mine would probably more practice with recursion, dynamic programming, graph theory.
No, it's only for UNIX like OSs and is command line only, making it impractical or putting it out of reach of many users, even those on HN. Putting it as the drop in replacement for Dropbox for backup is simply inaccurate. The services I listed are more applicable. And Percival's stature is irrelevant here.
I was wondering what system created the slides as well. Anyone know?
If i can't make copies of my DVD's then that means whenever I scratch my DVD and it is unrecoverable, the entity that shipped me a DVD must ship me a new one.

These cats want to be the gatekeepers of all data everywhere, I guess we can't stop them, the only thing we can do is stick a thorn in their foot so they have to limp along doing so.

Makes me sick how a central authority thinks they get to make law on what my device can and can't do with data I own on it.

The future of what you are looking at: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Good Old Games recently started selling a lot of (old) games for OS X.
They support the NAI which enables you to turn off various tracking bits. Let's not go around shitting on a whole type of business wholesale because of a few bad actors, hm?
I had the same reaction. I found [1], which seems consistent with what I remembered.

[1]: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
> I think rather than squabbling about DNT, browser vendors should be taking much more aggressive, technical steps to make tracking users harder

Exactly. Do Not Track is unenforceable. We need Cannot Track.
Just click on the right or left edge of a slide to navigate forward or back.
I don't think the Apple AppStore is much better. I recently submitted an app and got back a very generic message saying what was wrong with my app. No help at all in trying to figure out what the problem really is.
Not to be a smart-ass but:

http://talks.golang.org/static/slides.js

From that:

// Copyright 2012 The Go Authors.

So, I'm going to go with, "we wrote this ourselves and reused some code from other places in a couple spots".

Btw, holy-hell 2413 lines, they have to be using a generator for this.
RadioBlocks - Postscapes
I'm fairly sure any app that declares the Internet capability will be flagged as requiring a privacy policy.
About today's App Engine outage
Who is it? - peeepl.com, online people information database
Didn't Gruber co-design Markdown with Aaron Swartz[1][2]? Is there any reason why everyone refers to Gruber as Markdown's sole inventor/BDFL? What's Swartz opinion on all this?

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
Ah you are right. Incredibly narrow area for my browser/screensize
It's a tool called Present written by Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand from the Go team:

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/present?repo=talk...

They gave a presentation about it a couple of weeks ago at the Sydney golang meetup. It has an interesting feature where it runs a built-in websocket server that can be used to embed code in the presentation, and have it compile and execute output directly back into the presentation itself. I believe it's similar to the tech running behind the play.golang.org site.
OK, the Google Play store.
The only reason Microsoft is making DNT the default is because it will directly impact Google's bottom line (and Microsoft loses money in its online division, so they won't hurt as much). Since when did Microsoft really start caring about the users?
yep, node has always used a threadpool for filesystem calls, even before libuv.
Well put. I'd like to add that, while hashing time is proportional to the key length, in practice it's very, very fast for all non-enormous keys, at least on modern processors. Compare with the cost of pointer-chasing in a tree, and hashing time starts to look pretty constant-ish.

(Yes I'm handwaving around the details. So is everyone who talks about big-O notation in connection with real software.)
He never said or implied that Turing isn't great, but he did say "Turing IS Amazing." He just happens to think the Turing Test is overrated.
What annoys me a little bit about Go (and other projects similarly adherent to "worse is better") is the implied dichotomy between "research" and making "programming lives better". Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier? That's what most of the research into the language is exactly about! This isn't just about Haskell either: most other PL research is also about making programming lives easier. And Go ignores essentially all of it.

Now, there is even nothing strictly wrong about ignoring research like that. It's just annoying how they revel in ignoring all recent progress in the field.
Ubuntu runs on the HP TouchPad.
Given that this is a thread about US copyright law, I thought we were talking about the US market. I guess it's turned into generic copyright griping thread #4,702.
On the financial system's technological timeline, those protocols won't happen for another 20-30 years yet.
Curious, what's your beef with user-agent?
HOWEVER, any service capable of syncing files is equally capable of destroying them.

That's simply not true (I've built sync systems that are incapable of destroying files).

IMO, syncing designs that do have unrevokable overwrites are inherently brittle. (I don't know if Dropbox is built that way, but AFIAK, iCloud (and MobileMe before it) is -- and it sucks.)
Cascading failures seem to be a recurring theme amongst hosting providers..
This takes me back to the FLIX disruption of '97. A lonely router (I seem to recall a Cisco 2500 series, but I could be wrong) at the Florida Internet eXchange was misconfigured. The result was the router advertising itself to the world as the default route for a large chunk of the Internet. I think it was also on a T-1, which was a good link at the time.

I was the senior UNIX systems manager at a business unit HQ of a Fortune 5 company then, and still remember all the people stopping me in the halls that day to ask what was wrong with the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident
The entire history of the GPU business is one of companies leapfrogging each other. And unless you have more specifics of how 'they depend on AMD's situation so much', then it sounds like you're just making stuff up.
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/2012-26308_PI.pdf

Starts on page 58 if you want to read it yourselves.
The "choo choo choo" people make my skin crawl. Not sure why. It could be subconscious because everyone I've met in life who did that was not good for my career to associate with them.
If you really care about photos, you will print them out, and put them in a photo album, and print them again, and put them in a safe deposit box or mail them to some relatives.
GNUs trick-or-treat at Windows 8 launch
I'd like to ask a question to google interviewers: when someone does not manage to get the best possible solution to a few questions, do you people chat together saying things like "he's not like us"?
The transformer tablets also suit this, and also suits your responders desire for an unlocked bootloader.

The reason for the Nexus 7 focus is simple. It is, by far, the most popular while being very powerful tablet with market penetration.

I still think Canonical has this misguided idea that average Joe will go through the process of unlocking their Nexus 7 to install Ubuntu, but it has a reasoning behind it.

I would much rather see Ubuntu on my Transformer Infinity, since it has hdmi out and a keyboard dock. I could easily plug it into a monitor and have a desktop like experience that way.
Hmm, I didn't know Feirstein (usell.com, money4gold) was affiliated with this... red flags galore.

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Fort-Lauderdale/doug-...
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271075/0001116502090...
If the Nexus 10 is sticking with Tegra apus, the Wayne series won't be out until next year, so if they target an xmas release on the Nexus 10 then they are still stuck on the same Tegra 3 (probably overclocked).
ok, one question: certainly you guys are great coders to be in working in these companies, but is every single person there for sure going to give the best possible answer to these questions every single time if asked?

Thanks
While it is reasonable to assume a user's intent, it is also reasonable to assume a content publisher's intent to monetize their content. An advertising-funded web is the reality of today, unless Microsoft is proposing a radical change in this model.

The concept of Do Not Track, despite the emotional appeal of the name, essentially seems to be a compromise between privacy and advertising, keeping the advertising-based model intact while also allowing the extremely privacy focused (minority set of) individuals to have things their way.

Turning DNT on by default is a hardline approach and violates the spirit of this compromise. Instead, there needs to be more effort to constructively work with content providers, privacy advocates and advertisers to come up with a more explicit protocol that satisfies everyone's interests.
Did We Overvalue Music?
It's distributed for you, but with an oligopoly of cloud providers it's considerably less distributed overall.
I think I'd like to see a Terms of Service link. GitHub's does a pretty good job of clearly explaining the situation.

Also, I don't think using or encouraging the use of a CC-Noncommercial license is a good idea, since it would prevent you or anyone else from offering 3d printing as a paid service to those who can't afford their own 3d printer.
Not really. As far as British footballers go, he's never been the equal of Scholes, Giggs, Gerrard, Lampard, or Rooney.
Agreed on not being sure that it's Dropbox's fault. But even if the user killed the file, you've got the same problem.

A person running Time Machine (or similar incremental backup system) is a lot safer from this sort of problem than a free tier Dropbox user. Free Dropbox is better than nothing, but people can't keep assuming their files are safe because "they're in the cloud" and get synced to a few places.
> "I own"

That's the crux of it isn't it. Who says that just because you paid for something that you "own" it with the associated rights. We are migrating from ownership to licensee-ship.

I used to be sick of all this "license" business, but then I realized that ownership is a dual-edge sword. Consider this, I don't buy dvds anymore. Instead, I'll wilfully pay $1.99 on either iTunes or Amazon. It all depends on how you look at it. One of my favorite movies is $14; that means that I would have to watch it eight times for ownership to be a rational decision. This is, of course, assuming that the total cost of ownership is $14.

Consider:
- Shipping ~ $2
- Moving Expenses ~ ($5 per 100)
- Related Items ~ ($80 per 200) [bookshelf]
- Storage Opportunity Cost ~ What could I have instead of this thing

w.r.t to "Right to Read"; I believe that there will always be libraries and champions for education and "important things" to negate the bad side-effects of over-intrusive gate-keepers. The "trivial things" like music/movies will always have gate-keepers since those gate-keepers need to get a return of investment (which is their right).
Why plow a field with 1024 chickens, when you can plow it with 1M worms?

The GA144's F18 core has ~20 thousand transistors, and is asynchronous, and if you make the die size the size of an Opteron, and if you wait until you can pack 20B transistors on a die, you get---one million---cores.
you are a googler, right?
i think we've seen your posts.
By flushing your toilet you're participating in a system that requires someone to literally deal with your crap for probably far less money than they deserve to do it. This is more OK because you don't have to look that person in the eyes?
The Windows Store is open
Conformity: schemas/data/whatever for Datomic
You aren't the first person I've seen that mention that goes ignores a lot of programming research. Would you mind expanding on that for someone who doesn't know much about PL research / theory? Are they missing things you think a modern language should have? What are they doing wrong according to research?
As a 30 year-old American with a mild interest in WWII history, I had never heard of Alan Turing until I became interested in computer science. While I hadn't heard of him, I did learn about the Enigma machine in high school.

Also, I have only run into one or two people who recognized his name that weren't into computers.

Sadly, there are lots of great men and women who don't get the recognition they deserve. For example, Thomas Paine, a man who played a significant part in America's decision to declare independence. When he published "The Age of Reason" after the war, America responded by pretending he never existed for a couple hundred years.
You're assuming that all movement must be in one of three directions, but in general, you can go in six directions -- forward or backward along the x, y, and z axes. Your cubic-time DP algorithm doesn't solve the self-avoiding walk problem, which I think is what jsolson vagely recalls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-avoiding_walk
Joel test is far more revealing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Get your Google back
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Why was this reply hell banned?
Most of those lines are just linebreaks, and it's a fairly long slidedeck, so it's not impossible.

But you're right, it's generated from a simple, markdown-like format:
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/present/parse.go?...
It is genuinely difficult to find C code of any real complexity that hasn't had some kind of security flaw that would have been unlikely in a higher-level language. Even qmail managed to cough up an LP64 integer overflow. It took a long time for it to turn up. Generally, C code without at least one documented flaw makes me more worried than code with a known, fixed flaw.
Amazon lockers though are free to use I think. This added cost of the service has to be factored in to people's mental price-comparison. How much is it likely to cost?