skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They couldn't force a Google to index German news sites. Or rather, they could, but Google could just leave Germany and the risk of Google pulling out completely from Germany would be pretty high.

Plus, it's not clear how this would work from an EU point of view... could Germany dictate what an Irish company had to do, and then charge a tax on that operation?

Or course, Google could also index the German news sites, but then penalize them so heavily in scoring query results that they'd never appear. Problem solved! In the index? Yep! Appearing in a search result? Nope!

The idea of forcing a search engine to index particular sites just starts to get into the realm of silly. Then again, your should never put it past a government to do something silly.
As mentioned in the post, I would have thought that Germany would have learned from the Belgian experience when Belgian newspapers tried something similar and ended up getting de-indexed.
One concern is the ordering of buttons. Windows users will be used to OK/Cancel whereas on OS X, etc Cancel/OK is the norm. I wonder if this is something this library should handle?
Why? They're not that large, just click the original title instead. I would understand if you asked for a Google Cache replacement, though (I use a bookmarklet for that).
I have no problem shelling out the money for the (student) license. I've worked at Wolfram and I could probably swing a free license anyway. There are already a variety of clones out there that can do some of what Mathematica already does. d3 and javascript can replicate some of the manipulate work. I mean, look at session: https://github.com/kovasb/session

Mathematica being open source would mean that I could look at the source though and see what the hell is going on inside. I'd love to see how they are doing call outs to R and trace through all the interactions between the kernel, the user interface, and W|A. If it were open source, I could see the implementations of all the Mathematical algorithms and look at all the neat optimizations and new results they have found during their work. I care about the "math in Mathematica and am interested in seeing how it all works.
Can I make a somewhat contrarian prediction. Feel free to trash it. I'd like to hear where I went haywire with my assumptions.

1- The real glut is an abundance of capital. With interest rates depressed & a stock market fairly valued, & that's not counting the immense wealth generated in other parts of the world by the commodity bubble. There are very few remaining outlets for productive capital. Say what you want about the valley now, it's still a great investment destination/asset class.

2- If the returns on the seed side start to dip. What would stop stop seed investors to graduate & become (smaller) VCs. After all, Investing is their trade, they're not going anywhere.Slowly, by capillarity, Seed investors will become series A, Series A will rise to being series B...& so forth. With the 500 investor limit being lifted. Maybe IPOs are going to be pushed even further down the cycle..until profitability is established & business models flushed out.

3- Crowd-funding is only getting started. It'lll get worse (kickstarter awareness growing, slowly but surely displacing game publishers for example.) & with the imminent enacting of the JOBS act, even more money will flood the Valley, just look at what AngelList, FundersClub, CircleUp are doing even before the law takes effect. All of this results in capital that's being displaced & that's going to look for new outlets.

4-Startup capital needs are collapsing. ( Exhibit A :Amazon announcement today.) Bootstrapping wil soon become a viable option (Just how much would you need to recreate Instagram today.)

What if we're witnessing a strategic & irreversible shift in favor of entrepreneurs & an expansion of innovation centers beyond northern California . Money after all is a commodity, it's a miracle that a particular geography & an investor class were able to quasi-monopolize the world's innovation for the last 15 years.
That's fair. I hope my comment didn't come across as too critical. It's precisely because I see the potential and the power of Mathematica that I often get so frustrated with it. I look forward to see what you guys come up with next at any rate.
Seafile file synchronization tool
Don't let yourself make the same mistake again. I'm thinking of buying some more soon.
Certainly, but if they pick a flight profile similar to modern rocket powered launch vehicles the advantages of the engine almost entirely evaporate. In order for the engine to be worthwhile the vehicle needs to spend a lot more time in the troposphere and lower stratosphere than any other launch vehicle, and that gives rise to all the problems I described.
Know this. I will be somewhere in the world doing cool shit when the DNC shits in SVP's EC2 bucket. I won't know exactly when his heart dies, but I'll feel it. Like thousands of voices screaming out and being silenced. I might be in the bathroom taking a piss, looking in the mirror as the camera slowly pans in on my face and I will breath in slowly, and out like darth vader, but I'll know.
1. First I heard about GLSL custom CSS filters. Is this on track to being standardized? I suspect Microsoft would never support it, for example.

2. Chrome Apps? What does that have to do with the web? It's a Chrome thing, not a web thing (those apps don't run anywhere else). I guess the author is a Chrome fan based on the end of the article though so that figures.

3. No WebRTC, and no WebGL? Perhaps ironic I mention it given my point #1, but these two are going to make huge strides in 2013, and their effects are much larger than nicer CSS filters.
I thought arduino was open so others could copy it and even build new versions of it?
It's arrogant and condescending to assume one knows more than, and offer unsolicited advice to, someone who just helped build the platform that raised over a quarter billion dollars in 6 months, when one has achieved nothing of the sort.
I hope the gap keeps growing. Stone aged ideas attract stone aged talent.
All the people I wouldn't want to have access to my medical history (governments, insurance companies, and doctors) already do. Ditto for shopping data. The legal/security front for that sort of data is entirely pointless, as the bad guys are authorized parties, so you may as well save some money by putting it in the cloud.

There were always only two defensible privacy fronts: keeping the data off electronic records or filling the records with shit.
Yeah, I make noise about this all the time. Hopefully there is not too much legacy burden in switching to Cocoa.
Apple’s new iTunes 11 expected tomorrow following delay
Agreed. It's frightening to see people embrace web components while completely ignoring the usability issues, and adopting the attitude of "develop first, think about API design later."
Obligatory for Danish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkvqJJvR9U

More here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=danish+pronuncia...

Danes tolerance for Danish pronunciation is way tighter than Americans for English, so if a sound is just slightly off, we don't understand a word of what you're saying.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics is worth subscribing to also. One of the better sub-Reddits.
Because it renders acceptably in common browsers, and that's what actual users care about. If a website does not validate, only an extremely tiny subset of users who test websites in validators is going to care about it.

Google's home page is now huge with the javascript and Google+ additions - but it used to send invalid HTML missing end tags on purpose. Browsers still render unclosed tags when reaching the end of the response, and therefore they could send a smaller, faster HTML page by leaving off closing tags.
does it have a free option?
You don't draw the line; you just arrange those in order of independence, first the ones where there are no dependencies but bootstrap itself, then the helpers to use it in major frameworks (Meteor, Django, Drupal, WordPress, etc) and then minor frameworks and miscellaneous dependencies.
"Kashi" is pronounced like "flashy."
Building a Princess Saving App
As always, we're facing a nonlinear system and it's unpredictable whether this will be good or bad.

Less money for bullshit is good if it means more money for substance, but it could also mean a decrease in engineer salaries, which means a future decline in power for those who are more fit to have it.
Reminder: HNKansai Meetup Tomorrow
Texas Instruments Keystone II : HPC perspective
> Eg. each one of my Cairnsmore1 FPGA boards makes about $43/month, after the halving. ... I paid $640 for each one.

11 boards... do you have $6500 laying around? And you'll invest it to make a (possible, read: Your Milage WILL Vary) return of ~$450/mo? Shoot for the moon, I guess...
Why your free-to-play users aren't coming back
I think partly the reason is that the document model of notebooks is quite complicated. Each notebook is a hierarchy of Mathematica expressions (technically, the box versions of the original Mathematica expressions) and an associated set of cascading style sheets that tell the frontend how to format things. There are some nice advantages that stem from this meta-homoiconicity, but also some disadvantages.

One of these disadvantages is that editing the notebook does quite weird things to this hierarchy, like embedding new cells inside existing ones, merging cells, and changing mutable state in the frontend in various ways. Figuring out how to intelligently support multiple levels of undo without leading to rapid garbage generation and/or corruption is I imagine a Hard Problem.

For the record, another disadvantage is that source versioning and diffing is nigh on impossible (unless it takes place at a higher level, which is an interesting idea I think the company should pursue).
I read that answer on quora too a couple of days back :)
It's super, super silly that Facebook users feel so wed to the service that they demand a say in it's governance. Sorry, that's just not even close to how it works.

Your options are restricted to playing by Facebook's rules or leaving. It's okay to leave, it doesn't hurt at all, except for the occasional impulsive typing of 'faceb' into your URL bar before you remember what life was like before Facebook, and in fact, what it is like after it.
note: this is from 2010
This misses a key point, which is that the Obama campaign relied heavily on small donations from _individuals_ in contrast with the heavily superpac funded Romney campaign which pulled from a small set of extremely wealthy donors (admittedly conjecture based on being an avid political news junkie). So, we're talking about crowd-sourcing a president; this is an encouraging direction, even if one finds the overall amount spent to be distressing.
The Windows 8 rollout exemplifies everything that's wrong with the PC sphere: a bunch of compromised products, each with at least one glaring flaw. Hell, Lenovo has four different Windows 8 convertibles and tablets, and each of them are severely deficient in one way or another.

Most of the devices have only 1366x768 resolution. That's just not acceptable for $600+ products when the iPad is at 2048x1536 and the Nexus 10 is at 2560x1600 at $100 and $200 less, respectively.

Several of the convertible devices (Sony's Duo, Dell's XPS 12) have severely compromised battery life (4-5 hours). That's not acceptable when the iPad and Nexus 10 are at 8-10 hours at half the price.

In a bizarre product segmentation choice, the 1080p screens seem to be tied to the Ivy Bridge processors. Which means you can have iPad/Nexus-like readability or iPad/Nexus-like battery life, but not both in the same device.

I'm really looking hard at Windows 8 because I want to consolidate to a convertible-like device, and the iPad's lack of a mouse for Citrix remote log-in is a problem. But the Windows 8 offerings available right now are just really lacking to what exists in the iOS and Android realms.
And it only reverses premature ageing.
Now that I've calmed down, I have to say I'm so sorry for my rude rant. I don't know what triggered it but honestly my heart rate literally increased when I saw you didn't have a single name, a single email address, no contact info at all on GetHelium. I've never been that passionately angry before over a website. Maybe I'm overly-obsessed and need a break from design. Maybe I lost my life-savings to a con artist in a former life, I don't know.

I signed up and was about to connect my Stripe account when I realized it. I felt like I was being played. Who were these guys? Are they for real? Can I trust them? I automatically assumed I could because their site's on HN and got upvoted. And a flood of hormones and emotions came in, I felt weak, powerless to judge, unable to trust, unable to ask, confused, angry. All such negative emotions caused by a website without contact info.

Contact info is my #1 pet peeve in all of designdom.

You don't even need a seperate about page, just a picture of you guys at the bottom in the footer, with your names and email addresses.

Credibility and trust is more important than Usability, Pricing, Design, and everything else. NOTHING is more important. That's why so many sites have pictures of the owner, its workers, testimonials, links to Tech Crunch and the New York Times articles about them. Anything to build trust and say, "We're not going to run off with your money."

- Bad design is forgivable, you might not have had the time or budget. Lots of sites with terrible design still get money and customers.

- Bad UI is also forgivable, you might have bad taste. Lots of websites with terrible and confusing UI still sell, solve problems, and make money.

- Hiding contact info while asking for money has no excuse. It's deceptive. It's something thieves do. So credibility is the #1 most important thing.
Something like this, I suspect: http://www.sharklet.com/technology/
Actually the first syntax was introduced in IE 5.5. The second is very similar to the IE4 syntax, so why not make it compatible?
>you're not paying for the service. You are the product being sold.

This line bothers me because the relationship is more complex than that. You are receiving services from Facebook and in return you are giving them your information. Facebook does not sell your information to anyone - instead they sell the ability to advertise to different groups of users (who you are one of). To say that you are the product implies that companies are getting "you," but they are only getting ads displayed on Facebook. They do not have any idea about you or your specific information.

If you don't give Facebook information, it directly hurts Facebook. If you don't browse Facebook, it directly hurts Facebook. Their revenue absolutely depends on users enjoying their service.

Broadcast television uses a similar model, but no one accuses them of "selling" their users.
It was never mean to be modular; just to be extended and modified in a per-project basis, just an starting point for fast design development. You are suppose to be able to just use some part of bootstrap but many of this extensions assume that you are using it fully; and also there is no way of handling conflicts between extensions because this are just a bunch of files with no console or control panel to do a proper administration.
Telomerase – Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with single treatment (May 2012)
exactly - which makes the prepaid plans A LOT more interesting: all you have to do to cancel is stop paying, and the plans are cheaper than the long-term ones. I'm not sure you can "finance" the phone directly with your credit card, though, but if you can, then it makes even less sense.

I'm saying this because prepaid plans, in every other country I lived in, were absurdly expensive, if compared to the post-paid ones...
My comments at the time, back at the end of 2010:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/11/telomerase-and-ag...

"The social media communities and mainstream media have been abuzz over a recently released study on telomerase and aging in mice. For my part, I think that this is nothing more than a good example of the random and at times self-defeating way in which research is publicized and then catches the public eye."
And IE10 got rid of them:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/04/legacy-dx-filt...
Interesting comment on the problem of MBA programs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470694
I'm surprised no one has said it. Experienced programmers should manage programmers, experienced professors should manage university affairs. Not a freakin MBA!
Let's have people learn how to do useful work. Then, the people who have the experience will be able to lead the others. We need more engineers, more computer scientists, more scientists. Not MBAs.

http://thedailywtf.com/
bullshit. I don't care how many primaries Romney won, 11 is a lot. And the fact that the one logical candidate in the race (as much as I dislike him), who was the least bit moderate, even evoked that "anyone but Romney" feeling only proves my point. The fact that people thought that crazy was better than Romney only proves my point.

And the fact that Romney had to tack so far to the right to even win the nomination proves my point yet again.

Look at polls: way too many Republicans believe stupid things like Obama is Muslim, he wasn't born in this country etc..

It's funny, I was going to bring up Mark Clayton as an example of a real outlier: the party completely ignored him (not this Akin stuff, Huckabee supported him, then the SuperPacs poured money in at the last minute when it had cooled down), it was in a state that Democrats have low turnout in since they have no chance of winning anyway, so an idiot managed to make himself the nominee. Every once in a while these things happen, yes, but over the past few years you guys have elected as your candidates Christine O'Donnell ('I'm not a witch'), the legion of legitimate rape morons, and a bunch of other memorable idiots like Bachmann who accused a Clinton staffer of being a highly placed Muslim Brotherhood operative.

You purge your party of anyone who says anything remotely conciliatory or logical/moderate.

If you were talking about one state rep, or even one senator, you would have a point. But the numerous crazies and the fact that you considered people like Bachmann and Santorum legitimate contenders for the presidency does not give you the right to call the crazies the "outliers" in your party: the inmates are now running the asylum.
Isn't WebGL still a disaster that bears an uncanny resemblance to a C .h file mechanically transformed into a browser API?
You want to know a way to "monetize personal data"? Let users pay $20/year to not have their data harvested by the highest bidder.
Nokia Lumia 920 dropped from space - survives
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841585

This was posted 17 hours ago about the same job posting. There's a decent amount of discussion in that thread.
So what would you say the odds are of fundamental grammatical words and particles changing (leaving the bulk vocabulary alone) versus several large syntactic changes on this order? My armchair understanding is that the later is a lot more likely.
My arts degree has been very practically applicable for doing work in the real world! I'm an employed artist!
This isn't 2005 anymore, IE is becoming rapidly less relevant as time goes on. Other desktop browsers have been gaining marketshare and the most popular mobile devices do not use IE. Currently, IE marketshare is on a half-life of about 3.5 years, in another few years IE may even become inconsequential. In the meantime I think IE has lost its ability to prevent advancement of web technology merely by lagging on adoption. Indeed, I think the opposite trend may become true, where IE's lack of features which all the "cool kids" are using on cutting edge sites will drive IE usage even farther down.
There's a lot of good stuff in your comment here. There are many legitimate forms of "market making". And all profitable trades are buy-low sell high, etc. But strategies that aspire (even if asyptotically) to mimic front-running should still be called out for what they are. Even if they are in jest/oversimplified (in the case of this article) etc. The reasons are manifold, but least-not is the fact that this is aimed at new entrants to the biz. I have problem with using synthetic front-running as the aspirational/idealized/de-facto model of quant finance...in the minds of anyone (regulators, new market participants, etc). Granted, my initial comment was a roundabout way of saying this.
So? Accusing Apple having a monopoly on iOS contents regulation is like complaining Honda having a monopoly on Civic's engine parts (Yes, there are after-market parts, and yes, those WILL void any factory warranty). They make their own devices and they can decide however they want to regular its hardware/software/ecosystem, but they don't have a monopoly on mobile electronics so you are free to choose any alternatives.
Calling a company having a monopoly over their own product is simply silly.
I use around 100GB of it, but at $15/m I don't consider that a wasted 400GB, instead it's just available for tunneling.
My personal experience with local politics was that when the chips are down in a local race people don't see the value of technology to organize. When you're working on a local level you have to think like a local businessman/woman. Politics at the local level has traditionally leveraged free work. Volunteer work. Above all. Get the sap. When the sap proves useful, use connections to get them a position up the food chain instead of paying for it. Save money. Save money. Don't spend. You're going to be a one term shill. You won't make it even if you make it. You'll be more in debt than you can imagine anyway. Sell out to those with money. Don't pay for anything. Don't pay for anything. Don't pay for anything. Use promises. Lie Lie Lie. Don't pay. Get it free. They live next door to lexis nexus and they don't "get it". Its wasted. That's what's down the pipe in 2014 and that's when your shit is gonna go down. That's when you'll need someone to fix it. You know who's gonna be on the phone? A volunteer programmer who's taking 1 class this semester because he failed his fuck... no fuck that. You know who's gonna be on the phone? Liz lemon. With no staff. There IS no fucking saturday night live. Liz has been pretending there is this fucking awesome comedy show and there isn't. There IS. NO. FUCKING. TECHNOLOGY. at the local level. Its not worth doing because if the president pays fuck all then we're not going to bust our budget getting, "data" pfff. Throw more bodies at it!
I completely agree but isn't this really a failing of our current world/society? Many of our best and brightest spend huge amounts of money and two years of their life just so they can have an excuse/opportunity to apply themselves in a different field. Seems like there's something wrong here, no?
Very cool! This is something I was always looking for when I was studying Chinese--recommended texts to read, based on my ability, and with mouseover translations by word/sentence. Now that I'm about to get into German, I'll keep this on my radar.

Are you planning to integrate with dictionaries for placeholders, and let users modify/improve what's most critical?
balance.
Ironically Appscale just released version 1.6.4 just a few days ago, although that doesn't necessarily void your argument.
Generate custom icon webfonts from the comfort of the command line
Thanks for sharing the link (*edit: and writing it, I just realized). Another interesting comment from it:

When it comes to what is shouted from the loudspeakers on a given day, it's all a matter of accident and marketing rather than facts and understanding. For example, you might recall that telomerase and p53 were used to extend normal mouse life span by 50% a few years ago[1] - far more important and interesting than this present study, yet it received next to no attention.

[1] http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/01/50-maximum-life-e...