skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of those are directly illegal. You don't, as a business, need to explicitly state that your service can't be used for illegal purposes.

This AUP amounts to "If we (or someone else with power to be sufficiently annoying to us) don't like it, it's going offline. kthxbye". Of course they can't state it in that many words, because people prefer to do business with providers that at least pretend to be on their side.
It's pretty awesome! One thing I noticed is that it breaks the browser back button. I see you have some sort of coordinates in the URL, however changing these doesn't seem to do anything?
If these kind of sites stop clogging up my search results then I'm all for it, good job Google!
> Only if your libc implements calloc as malloc+memset would this be a problem. Does glibc do that?

OK, it's not guaranteed that it will be, but the source shows several code paths where memset can be called during calloc():-

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=malloc...

My quick experiement with 32-bit libc-2.13 showed that using calloc() is significantly slower than using malloc().

[EDIT] Should have read pedrocr's response fully.
Ask HN: What application performance & monitoring tools does your startup use?
Hi HN,

Recently launched a new startup and we were looking at tools for monitoring and keeping up to date with our app's performance.

Some googling led me to newrelic.com which has been a really awesome - and I am considering making the switch to a paid account. I just wanted to get a feel for what other startups are using before i hit the purchase button.

Thanks!
Jesus, a 2-year commitment to a shitty voice plan just to get a 3G data sim?

I'm visiting New Zealand now. The first thing I did when I got off the plane was purchase a 3G prepaid (2GB) USB dongle for $70, and I can top it up if I need to and move the sim card to a phone if I want to. I didn't have to sign or agree to purchase anything extra.

I can do this in Australia, too. What the hell, USA?
They do if you refresh the page, but doing something like this is a nightmare because it floods your browsing history with useless junk.

This should be changed immediately.
Supporting Low Cost Android Phones
Very interesting; do you have some kind of summary/ survey of the literature on that?

Predatory pricing seems "intuitive", it'd be interesting to read about the conditions that make it not work.
Google freely admits to putting their own links first. Here's what Marissa Mayer said in 2007:

We didn't actually have Google Finance until about a year ago. Up until then we were ordering the links based on various published metrics... We had the five top finance sites in their order of their popularity listed there. So we rolled out Google Finance, we put the Google link first.

(You can watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT1UFZSbcxE - that quote starts at 44:50.)

Your observation regarding Bing is quite interesting. Your theory may very well be right, but there's a hilarious alternative:

It's known that Microsoft uses Google's rankings (see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-... ). This would then propagate onto Yahoo, which uses Bing's engine, which means that Yahoo is told their own site is less popular. But Yahoo puts their site first, which may mean they're artificially boosting its ranking, under the guidance of you know who!

So 2012 Marissa Mayer may be artificially boosting Yahoo's rank to defeat 2007's Marissa Mayer's artificial boost of Google's rank. Ha!
On the other hand, even with those ASICs, the government could buy more of them than anyone else. And then make us pay for them. I don't think the threat is worth discounting.
I love Linode too, but where is review? It's more looks like comment.
Brilliant. You actually had me spitting mad until I got to the last paragraph.

The real question I would like to see answered, either here, or in the Fast Company - is what will the _next_ major advance be, that everyone is (presumably) hard at work on right now?

I'm very, very impressed with Google Voice on my iPhone. Much more so than Siri (in terms of speed. Integration with the phone is obviously better with Siri).

I would like to suggest that high-resolution stylus input, equal to or better than what you can do with a pen-to-paper in terms of resolution and responsiveness, will launch the next round of advances.
The most regrettable bit is really the euphemism. It's not like there's a huge and diverse population of viewers that, if offended, will engage in retaliation.

Of course, as a private company Rackspace is free to deny service to those that may bring harm to their employees. Though, it's still sad that refusing to take a stand for that most simple and basic freedom (speech) is so uncontroversial.
I still had friends checking in on foursquare, albeit from places like "Sandy Hurricane Refuge and Charging Center"...
No, a searcher is not a customer, a searcher is the PRODUCT. Google is the marketplace, their customers (advertisers) are buying the product (traffic) via ad spend.

The entire reason Google improves the search engine is to keep you coming back so they can learn more about you to make their advertising even better. You, as a user of Google, are their product. They are selling YOU to advertisers.

Google is a company, not a utility, not a public service. They are in the business of profit.
10 in ternary (which I think was his part of the joke)
I used VirtuaWin for about five years in Windows, it works excellently. Not as perfect as the ones in Linux, but close.
http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styledmaps/...

Turn the saturation down. This was found with 10 seconds worth of searching by the way.
If it was so easy to regulate extremely high voltages and current during extreme shorting, expensive line transformers wouldn't explode either during hurricanes.
James claims not to be burned out, but I think I can see the telltale signs. If you're interested in programming, you won't arbitrarily declare that big parts of programming are "below the threshold of what matters." That's a pretty bold claim to make-- even most non-technical managers wouldn't go that far.

I understand getting fed up with reading endless (often poorly argued) debates online, but that's a different issue.
I think folder is the official Windows term, and most people are non-technical people who use Windows, so if you have to pick a term, it seems the more accessible one. If you think that is bad, I think on my smartphone there is no file browser by default, so the closest thing you have is media specific stuff, like albums, lol. So you can't even use the term folder if you are on the phone or emailing with a smartphone user of your apps...
It's amazing.
He should work on the coordinates but they worked for me on refresh( onPageLoad ), but i think it should be GET request rather than Hash request
Dotcom is actually working hard to keep the servers for the Mega project in NZ. Apparently even working on a new sea cable to the US.
Aside from the technical argument about whether predatory pricing really exists there is another aspect of "race to the bottom" that is at least worth a thought.

Ironically, Torvald's post and the Engadget article both have an assumption that whatever provides better quality(innovation) and product choice at lower prices to consumers is an unequivocal good. While seems likely to me that this is true, I don't quite get the conflation in popular culture between "consumers" and the public good.

I recently picked up a Nexus 7 and I was a bit stunned at the level of technology I could get for $200. If the margin is getting squeezed, that means entities on the other side of the transaction are too, including labor.

At what cost to humans (and the environment) is this rock bottom technology being created? Is there a connection between ultra competition and increasing income inequality in the US, if not the world. It seems at least intuitively plausible.
It should be GET request and Completely AJAX instead of HASH.
Near unreadable on iPad FYI.
Service enginerr
If the intent is for it to be readily visible, then it may be contempt; they could have set the text colour to be #FFFFFF and it would still be the right words on the front page....
> Search "headphones" on Google and you'll see the massive ad spot taken up by Google Shopping

What's wrong with that? If I'm searching for headphones, why would I want to be taken to another search engine that indexes headphones? I want to be see the best prices and be taken directly to the websites that actually sell headphones.

There's nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly. If you think Google is a monopoly, it's only because they provide the best results. Switching to a different search engine is so unbelievably easy, I don't see how you could ever claim Google's monopoly is harmful to consumers.
Folder is a pretty widely accepted synonym, hell even the icon for a directory in every OS I can think of is that of a folder.
I don't know what search terms you used, but I got lost in a thicket of docs on generating and uploading entirely custom tilesets, which I was hoping not to have to do.

Thanks for the link, less so for the snark!
The name looks like it's from the 'Bridge of Death' scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail[1] ("Answer me these questions three, then the other side ye see"). I think it's a great name, but most people probably won't get the joke.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS8Mg-JWSg
Yeah, it essentially is storing a massive number of history items (seems to update the URL too much) and therefore you can never really go back to the previous page if you've scrolled around a lot...
You need to show ID in France, and a lot of stores will not have iPhone 4 sims. And they are a pain in the ass, because or the awful bureaucracy in France, it can take a while to get served.

In Australia you also need to show ID, but it is very quick. Although expensive.

UK was the best, and for £15 all you can eat data.
I don't really understand his point, it's obviously quite different to passive surveillance cameras which: don't follow you around (are avoidable); don't generally record sound with enough fidelity to discern conversations; and are operated by more reputable entities than some random creep. It wouldn't surprise me if his behaviour in the videos wasn't already illegal.
Starting Up in Uganda
Wow. That will be a HUGE boost to NZ net if ISPs can piggyback off it.
> learned how to drive in Europe, where this would definitely not be legal.

I'm not sure about that. In Poland there is definitely no law against turning right into the left lane. On the other hand most intersections where this would be possible have either road markings that prohibit this or traffic lights set up so that left turners and right turners never enter the lane at the same time. This is also the reason why it is forbidden to U-turn when the lights show the green left arrow - you could collide with a right turner.

I'm also about 75% certain there is no such law in Germany but my German is too rusty to dig through their traffic laws :)
Dell didn't invent the iPad because they were comfortable with sitting on their asses while other companies did the heavy lifting for them (MS, Intel). From the article, Dell's SVP says,

"The reason we didn't come up with [the iPad] is because there wasn't an OS provider that could work with a tablet."

That didn't stop Google.

Not to mention, Dell still makes enough cash that they could venture out and do something on their own instead of relying on other companies to innovate for them. What do they chose to do? Blame MS for their lack of innovation and whine that they will now be competing against MS in the hardware arena.
I would suggest to enter in contact with companies that build and sell these gate locks. These are your clients.
Check HN posts on how to cold call sell something the most efficient way to succeed. Don't expect to get rich from it. But this will be of high value for people reading your cv and might take your virginity off in making business. ;)

Note: rule n° 1 of marketing: identify your market (clients)
Drew’s Mom Reviews “Startups: Silicon Valley”
The avoidable/not following around/no sound aspect comes in question with the increasing Drone popularity. And after all most of those "reputable entities" are most likely using some form of human being with various levels of "random creep"ness as the operator.
I think this is an interesting project, but by recording sound, isn't he breaking the law? If I'm recalling correctly, the security cameras he's talking about are legal because they don't record sound, only picture.

Or does the fact that it's in public (or at least the ones that are video taped in public) make it legal?
My search term was "greyscale google maps" and I'm sorry for the snark!
There's nothing wrong with it, other than that fact that you have no choice in that case but to take Google's word for it on the lowest price. Maybe there are other sites out there that do a better job finding low price headphones but you'll never see them in the search because Google prefers its own sub-standard offering instead.
But that doesn't explain phone and home electronics manufacturers like Nokia, Palm, Motorola, RIM, Samsung, Sony and Creative who weren't as invested in the MS stack as the PC OEMs.

I suspect a major reason was the reaction to the Palm Foleo, a lightweight instant-on Linux-powered ARM subnotebook designed for web and email. Palm were widely mocked and berated in the press for developing a non-Windows non-x86 computer and ultimately canceled the device. Is it any wonder other companies were reluctant to follow in their footsteps?
The segment was a casualty of the fact that very different elements of design were forced to co-exist in a space where nothing worked in a reasonable, enjoyable or productive manner.

Desktop UI on a tiny device? They were always impossible to use and had vastly more tradeoffs than bonuses in actual use.

A functional web browser was the last item on a very long list of shortcomings these devices had.
I'd probably react same way if this guy had no camera and just stood and looked at me and listened to what I say.
You wouldn't want to actually issue a new request each time the view is updated. A good solution would probably be to use `pushState` on browsers that support it and fall back to the current behavior for older browsers.
It seems like NexTag, and maybe other sites, are complaining that they are getting less free traffic from google. Why do they think they are entitled to have as much free traffic as ever?

Towards the end, they say they are on their way to stop living in "Google's world" and the revised plan gives them "a shot at being a very healthy company," less dependent on Google. Well, great! So if they are able to do that, why involve regulators? They should have done that before!
The economics of this all are quite interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided_market

However, cheap polemics (like being very adamant about who gets to be the customer) help nobody. Two-sided markets can push prices for one side of the market below zero, that’s just an inherent property of those markets. That does not mean the one side is the product.

Google has to provide value to you, otherwise they couldn’t make money. If they screw you they screw themselves.

Now, this doesn’t mean that Google can do no evil, but it does mean that you can’t just assume by default that the relationship between users and Google is an exploitative one.

(And two-sided markets are nothing new. Google has essentially the same business model as the free magazine that informs me about cultural events in my hometown. Because of their very well targeted ads – local restaurants, businesses, etc., often pointing to current events – they can offer that magazine for free. That doesn’t mean I’m the product.)
People whining about how they're hurt by losing search position inevitably turn out to be spammers or other lowlife that have been trying to use "SEO" or some other shady practice to artificially inflate their search position.

I have a slang dictionary site that's currently being penalized by Google for showing citations of slang use gathered (by hand) from media.

With the penalty, Google sends 1/3 less search traffic. And I whine about it. But I'm not a con man.
What is a non-lexical phrase extractor?

I googled it but it leads back to this page.
Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool'
Once Google gets competitors like Bing, the product ceases to be the user and the product becomes the paid ads. If the business isn't getting their money's worth from the ads + the free stuff from google, they stop buying the product. Google apps, analytics, etc. are also products.
He is clearly not very concerned about the legality, esp by running around and recording on private property. But I guess his whole point is the there-is-a-surveillance-camera,so-how-do-you-like-being-recorded-now illustration.
Google isn't selling people, it's selling ads on a platform that people use. There's a serious difference.
My first usable program in python was an implementation of 'wget' and seriously, implementation of such unix based commands do teach you an awesome lot.
Why are you bringing iOS into this? He never mentioned anything about it.
Yes, clearly the only reason someone would want to continue accessing files they uploaded to a cloud service is to re-affirm their "property rights" to the data. Nobody would possibly use this service to collaborate with other people, or make legally allowed backups of music or movies they already have the physical media for. No sir-ee.
Civility on HN. Faith in humanity, restored!
I think it's reasonable to imagine a not so distant future where surveillance equipment can cover all those things: 1) are ubiquitous, 2) can record excellent audio quality (and perhaps be transcribed and automatically analyzed), and 3) is cheap enough for any venue (or random person) to own.
His point is, there is little difference in stationary cameras. Yet people don't think anything about it. His point is to get people thinking.
I'm working on that problem: http://github.com/jawngee/modelkit (iOS/Cocoa)
I'm not sure a small business line is the best comparison for an apartment building, and I think most landlords are familiar with the existence of cellphones by now. But it's true that many buzzers like that have been in place for a long time - but I do think that that's the landlord's problem, like any other non-working fixture.
Why do you value the Condorcet criterion so much, especially since a Condorcet candidate might not even exist?
Thanks for the ending. I honestly wasn't sure. The colors bit was the biggest hint.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/7904696/Dotcom-trumpets-fr...

There you go :)
>but by recording sound, isn't he breaking the law

Depends on if it is a one or two party state, and whether or not he constitutes a party. In Oklahoma, for example, if you and I are on the phone I can record the conversation without notifying you. In some states (New Hampshire, I think, off the top of my head) all parties to the conversation must be informed.

If he is partaking in the conversation or within earshot, he might be considered a party, and might be okay.

I am not a lawyer.
It is not that different though — Is your point that it is slightly easier to hide from surveillance cameras? Even the hidden ones?

"operated by more reputable entities than some random creep", you know you're talking about companies in a capitalist society, right? Not exactly famous for being particularly reputable to say the least.
Okay so how does a small business get their site listed in Google in 2012?
Answer: Its almost impossible without at least a $10,000 investment. Some areas much more. Small business is locked out.
This 'users are the product, advertisers are the customer' insight can be useful, but can also be overdone.

It's also useful to recognize that for some of Google's lines of business, the payment offered is not money, but attention (or perhaps habit). Then, searchers are again customers, after a fashion.

This better recognizes the searchers' customer-like power, in some dimensions. Otherwise, as just the 'product', were they mined from the ground? Grown like crops? Manufactured? No, their attention was acquired in a voluntary, market-like but non-monetary exchange of value for value.
Unfortunately, I believe all voting systems are subject to tactical voting, because of Condorcet's paradox. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

edit: I forgot to mention that all voting systems are subject to tactical voting, except for ones which are dictatorial or non-deterministic (and those are generally considered nonviable systems).
It is legal in a public area because if it wasn't they would not be able to do the surveillance.

It just seems more creepy here because it is 'in your face' but actually, if you think about it, it is more creepy to be followed and recorded by a dark room full of hidden creeps when you don't even know you are being recorded or who they are.
I find it interesting that he records everyone else and puts them up on youtube but doesn't reveal his own identity.

More of his approach is about antagonizing people and seeing how they react rather than highlighting the ubiquity of surveillance equipment.

I wonder how he would react if he was the one being antagonized.
In a year or two there will be a lot of people with Google Glass that will be able to record audio and video very conspicuously in these types of settings.
I would never use a website that broke the back button this badly unless it offered some tremendously essential feature for my daily life.

The way it shows blackness at the bottom of the image but not the top is pretty weird also (tried it with the really wide, but not very tall test image). I think every margin should be the same color.

Scrolling and zooming feel pretty smooth, but it glitches and refreshes the entire screen when you cross over a horizontal boundary (when the image is wrapped).
Yes. My coding trick for this is to clean everything up, except that I write the next test that I want to pass. Then when I come in the next day, everything is shipshape (which, as the article explains, makes it easy to start). Except that one red test, which drags me right into the red-green-refactor loop.
Yeah, to me it looks like you are viewing the aftermath of a dust storm in the American Southwest, or maybe Afghanistan.

It's so earth-like it's hard to believe that if you magically found yourself standing next to the rover in that picture, you would be dead in a couple of minutes.
Exactly, the article even mentions Google Glass. Think about the future, what if everyone is recording you, your casual interactions in public. Gets as creepy as those videos pretty fast.
Google had irrefutable evidence that it was possible (aka, the iPad)
If you like the ZenCoding package then you should check out Emmet: http://emmet.io it's what ZC became.
The camera is not what bugs these people, it is him. If it were a cute little kid or a super model - or just somebody with a much better attitude - there would have been a much different response.
Bimetallism was fundamentally unworkable because it presupposed a fixed ratio between gold and silver that didn't account for changes in their respective market values. In any case, both metals were pegged to the U.S. Dollar, which was the currency. There were no competing currencies, but rather the fiction of bimetallism.

If you are seriously proposing bimetallism as a workable system in the year 2012, you are a total and complete kook and have no business discussing the matter because you clearly have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
There is a plugin which converts the active view into a PDF which you can then print. I think it's called PrintPDF or something the only one I can find quickly is this build system. https://github.com/mkecol/Sublime-Text-2-HTML-to-PDF-Build-S...
I get angry when people say that I'm the IT guy because I'm good at using a computer. In reality I do my job on the computer (webdev) like they do theirs (sales). I'm not the IT department!