skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Or any appeal system at all.

The only way to get unbanned is to get noticed by a human at Google - through a non-Google channel, because Google channels are specifically designed never to bother humans.
I like the Hacker News karma system. Is there anything else like it?
So then why don't you build your own content delivery system and advertising network and create a marketplace with enough advertisers to bring you the same level of income?

If not for Google, you may not have a dime of that money you've earned. I mean, maybe not, right? If so, then you'd have to have gotten that money through someone else doing what Google is doing right? Why not just switch to them if Google does you dirty?

The underlying point here is that you are not Google's customer -- the advertiser is -- and it's in your, Google's, and the advertiser's best interest to treat the advertiser better than they treat you. Otherwise, the customer is going to go to another network that doesn't let fraudsters game them out of click fees.

How many articles have we seen about Facebook doing exactly that? That's much worse IMO. If I'm giving you money, you better be taking it legitimately. If I'm taking your money, the onus is on me to prove I have taken it honestly. If not, I'd totally expect Google to keep the money -- and they don't keep the money -- they give it back to the advertiser or never charge them to begin with.

If you or the other people around here were to keep the money an advertiser gave you and then complained about being fraudulent -- even if it wasn't -- then you'd soon be faced with tons of articles saying "They kept my money even though bots were clicking!!"

And you'd soon be out of business because no one would give you any money.

Google is making the right decisions here. Face it.
Yes - a good side effect.

I reckon my T61 wouldn't get nicked and can quite happily use it on a train out of London even at night without being fussed.

The same could not be said for a MacBook which just has "mug me" written on it.
Boards usually have a transparent coating, I doubt that it's only air separating the board from the chassis. For this very reason - laptops are thrown into the water as a test, they must not explode after that. I have never had a problem with a unibody Macbook. Please don't be ridiculous.
It is evidence for you, personally, yes. However, in aggregate, for all consumers, it is anecdata. There are people who swear by the opposite experience, of years of bad issues with non-Apple tech until they switched over. The ultimate problem with this discussion is that yours is only one data point, when a full survey would be required to determine which manufacturer is best. At the same time, sympathies for your bad experiences and best of luck with the new tech.
If it's getting scraped heavily and published elsewhere, Google will most likely not pass PageRank for any links other than the original once it's recognized as duplicate content on multiple pages.

In fact, in the MarketWire article, having a bunch of keyword-rich text all pointing at the same page will likely have little SEO value, as diminishing returns hits really quickly in a case like this.
Spoken like someone who's never dealt with Google's lack of customer service. And where did you get that magical number?
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It's not Google's search so much as adsense. The argument is that companies with ad budgets would no longer be spending them on google ads, so they'd direct a greater amount of money towards buying newspaper ads. So prices for ad space in newspapers would rise, and newspapers would have more money (and there would be more newspapers, as previously unprofitable niches became profitable) and spend that on reporters.
> I think your eyes must have crap in them

Stop acting like a child.
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I own a new W530, and I can confirm the trackpad still stinks.

After my Macbook Pro died, I switched to Lenovo because how much work and fraught with difficulty keeping Linux running on the MBP was. Installs have been easier, but now I've found I've made a whole host of different sacrifices, mainly the crappy feeling you mentioned. They are not as solid as my good old pre-unibody MBP.
They do provide a very minimal set of resources in that regard, but I doubt it is anything more than someone giving a cursory glance to your appeal and checking some boxes that amount to "should we even care?".
The "approved meter that others were required to use" was for taxis, not limo/towncars. Their GPS units are significantly less opaque than the status quo for limos (which really comes down to just naming an arbitrary price, or having to pay for a full hour regardless of use). In the Boston case, a lower level regulator with ties to the taxi industry issued the cease and desist, it was his supervisor who removed it, because there was in-fact a basis for using GPS to track time/distance.

Why should Uber ask for permission to run a legal business? The city of Boston agrees that their business is legal, and that GPS is OK. They're using commercially licensed drivers with commercial insurance, leveraging a system that existed well before Uber. They're simply making it more efficient for both sides (fill spare capacity with riders who need a car). Their drivers and cars meet all local regulations. Their outspoken opponents aren't doing so for the public good, they're doing it because they represent an entrenched power who is threatened. Legal businesses don't have to ask for permission, and shouldn't be asked to.
No assumptions on my part, I looked at the patent and saw nothing new or novel beyond obviscated wording.
Reddit suffers heavily from short attention spans, mostly in the popular subreddits (/r/pics, /r/funny etc). There are still some long comments that rise to the top, but most of the time it's a joke or reference. Much like the content.
Wondering what is stopping the traditional players like Dell/HP to enter this market? thinner margin?
Except that they don't really obey those rules you laid out.

Minesweeper and Solitaire are double-width tiles, for instance. Why? Because MS wanted them to be. I haven't found another reason.

So why would developers choose to have their tiles smaller than everyone else's? Even MS didn't choose that.
Oh wow. This is amazing. Is this what it has all come to? Your multi-billion dollar company is gonna sue some small time grocery store in Poland claiming to 'use their reputation?'

Yeah, will be discouraging anyone I know from buying their products (not that I liked them to begin with)
> The chassis for example uses air gap between the board and the base for insulation. Even condensation can bridge it, which is the theory why mine exploded.

What environment are you using your laptop in that's allowing condensation to form inside the device? Electronics are typically not rated for use in condensing environments at all.

Air gaps as insulators are pretty typical in electronics. That's how it works in every desktop machine I've ever used. And it looks like the air gap inside the MBP is plenty large, and even if it weren't, the attached components would be making contact with the case, not the board itself.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+M...

I think the "condensation inside the case" theory is incorrect. I don't know if that's your own theory or if someone working for Apple told you that, but I don't see that as feasible. You'd need a lot of liquid inside the case for a short to involve the case. And frankly, if you've got any liquid inside your laptop, the fact that the case is metal is irrelevant.

> Regarding appearance, and? Does that really matter?

Of course not. No one cares about the way their $1300 device looks any more. As a society, we moved past caring about appearances in 1992.
What pains me most - there is no RSS/Atom feed for this project. I won't subscribe via e-mail, since I already get lots of it.
You could have returned the phone, you were not forced to do anything.
"Really?" yes.

like another commenter said it's a discussion i've had before and haven't heard compelling arguments in favor of perl, so no i'm not interested in revisiting it.

that said it IS context dependent. i wont fire you for writing perl one-offs to maintain some systems or process some files. but i would argue against you for wanting to ship perl for the reasons i stated, with my main thesis being that your decision would jeopardize the project's future (assuming it had some future). i've heard the arguments before, like "you can write clean and maintainable perl" (which has analogues with "high performance java" and "long-term maintainable PHP"). the counterpoint is "sure, one can. but people rarely do. other tools promote those features more readily. pick one of them."
Thanks cyphersanctus, that was helpful.

Our startup is http://www.shoutt.me It is currently open to Stanford students only. We're going public early next year.
They are soundly engineered, but quality control leaves something to be desired. If you don't think the engineering is applied past appearance, open one up and see for yourself.
Yea, some people suggested that in the forums. It doesn't end up being the full 768 (which is not the end of the world) but you also lose the extra HDD and bandwidth so you're actually paying more at that point.
Interesting stuff. As an ops guy who's been doing this stuff for 15 years, I'm always faced with training junior sysadmins. I could see a tool like this being very helpful. If you want some more detailed feedback, I'd be happy to chat. Email me gabriel _at_ opdemand.com.

FYI, looks like your terminal emulator gets confused with the debconf curses prompt for the MySQL password. I had to issue a `reset` to fix it.
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The good news is that you can resize tiles to your heart's content:

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-resize-grou...
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Using TelAPI to create applications that interact with the telephone network is simple. Dead simple. Despite its simplicity, TelAPI is a powerful tool with a range of practical uses for startups. The best way for us to prove this, is by giving you sample code and example apps to backup our claim and get you on your way to setting up your first TelAPI application.
While I totally agree that Apple is handling this situation poorly, I'm even more worried about the lack of competition. Which of Apple's competitors offers better service? I can't think of one. Lenovo, HP, Dell? While I'd love Apple to be more generous, in a similar situation, in my experience, you're more likely to get left out to dry with any of their competitors.
If nothing else, it is the longest tax code [1]. It's possibly not the most complex, but one could argue that it no longer matters at this point.

1. http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/topic/tax/uk-now-has-longest-...
It's only a problem if you have this absurd, artificial, ahistoric notion of private property that seems to be popular lately.
If it's possible to get banned from using adsense just by few persons questionable actions, and if google is too big to answer properly but not that big enough to skip watching even the tiniest "fraudilent" actions, then be it and become big enough to get google's attention by reaching out others in the same position.

How would one find the others? Well... http://memegenerator.net/instance/31212117 might work for creating one's own community.

Sometimes, the best way to show a structure's flaws is to bring down the structure by abusing those flaws.
Gah! I wish people would stop quoting "x tax on y revenue". Tax is paid on profits, not revenue!

I've noticed this approach to reporting corporate tax in a lot of the Left wing press, particularly the Guardian here in the UK. I guess this is because the numbers sound worse.

The unfortunate thing is that it cheapens the argument; because the numbers are not connected the statement becomes irrelevant. This has a knock on effect. I personally stopped purchasing coffee at Starbucks because of the reporting of how much tax they paid, given their revenue AND their 'imaginative' expenses. I'm not going to do the same when the figures aren't comprehensively explained.
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> How are the actions of "invention" and "rediscovery" different?

Simply put, the use of "invention" for a rediscovery deprives the idea's originator of any credit.

> I don't see anything wrong with applauding Tukey either...

My objection was only for misidentifying him as the inventor of the idea. Surely you are aware that in current practice only the originator of an idea gets credit for "inventing".
Yup. Isn't this exactly Sal's point?

The Toyota Production System that Sal referred to evolved between the 40's and 70's for example.
Congratulations Venky
Roku and Vizio on the future of the remote control
The post has nothing to do with the fact that the screen was broken. Read it again.
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My guess is we get far less cases of minor security breaches "my computer has a virus and I lost some files" but occasionally suffer massive scale data breaches. For example "somebody got into my facebook, bank and dropbox and has stolen my identity".

The amount of software that is being automatically downloaded , installed and executed every day on millions of devices from a handful of "trusted" servers is really quite frightening.

You just know that someone out there is busy trying to work out how to forge Apple certificates.
I boycotted TechCrunch for two reasons:
1) Quality of journalism degraded
2) Michael Arrington sold TC
The dozens of HC comments to the opposite aside, here's a quote that sums it up from the original article:

> "It is not possible to directly contact Google," he said. "No one will speak with you, and there are no other avenues unless you are friends with someone who works there. Once your appeal is rejected, they will not reply to your emails or speak with you further on the issue (they actually tell you that in the rejection letter). It is essentially a LIFETIME ban for your account. Seems fair, right?"

His account was reinstated due to the press coverage, just as many HNers get their accounts back due to the many Googlers who frequent here.

That's not what I would define as customer service.
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This is also the most unreadable one: https://raw.github.com/archan937/templayed.js/master/src/tem...
True, and if the blogger doesn't have that disclaimer, he will be dismissed as an Apple hater making a big fuss about nothing. The funny thing is that even with that disclaimer, some are still accusing him of nitpicking on Apple for page hits.
By whom?

I suggest you read up on nearly neutral theory and think about the fate of nearly neutral mutations (the vast majority) in groups with small effective population size (like humans).
(wasnt me!)

Our opposite experiences just goes to show that UI qualities are subjective, and until someone releases scientific studies (none of this "many users" crap) that go against Microsoft's own user testing, I don't see why they should ditch their Metro experiment.
Seeing as you're picking my comments out, I'm rather passionate when it comes to this as I really don't want other people to go through the excruciating pain both mentally and financially that I have. Nor do I want people to be left totally in the mire by something which was marketed to me as a superior product.

Life is about sharing experiences and these are valid experiences, albeit bad ones.

To shy away from a warning and experience is illogical.
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It'd be nice if these discussions actually came with large scale customer surveys to determine how the public as a whole feels. Perhaps Consumer Reports has looked into this. Right now all of this is just a lot of heat and emotion in both directions, coupled with stirring but useless anecdata.
After reading through the entire page, this sounds like quite some feature-creep. It seems to support every way in which you can possibly organize communication :-).

Here are a few questions:

• Does it run in a web browser?

• Does it work on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, …?

• Is it a service or can I host it on my own server? After all, it targets the team chat "problem", and oftentimes the things discussed in team chats are confidential.

• Is it based on some other chat protocol, e.g. IRC or XMPP multi user channels? Or do I need to get everyone on the team to switch over to it?
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Nice looking landing page but I don't have facebook so the site is completely useless to me.
Looks likes a url encoding problem with a ' character. Correct link appear to be http://zacjszewczyk.com/Structure/It%27s%20Not%20Just%20Tech...
The exploit uses a "data-uri script tag" in the video embed field. In other words, it runs some sort of script through the section of the site that's supposed to only allow video embed codes from sites like YouTube and Vimeo. A pretty serious security hole.
anecdotally, my mom really likes Windows RT. Watching her use the traditional start menu, or attempting to navigate Windows Explorer to find something is an exercise in pain. She, honestly, really enjoys the full screen start menu -- easier to find the app she wants to start --, the WinRT full screen apps -- doesn't have to remember/think about window/application life cycle management. It pretty much works the way that she wanted Windows XP to work in the first place.

When I use Windows 8, on the other hand, I spend 99% of my time on the desktop, and the transition to a full screen start menu/screen is pretty jarring. But, honestly, as far as the new UI paradigms go, its not that much of a mess... Try watching a Windows user try to use a OSX for the first time. Or vice versa. Or a mac user trying to use KDE.

I think the real world analogy of the OP is a bit flawed. Babies don't instinctually know how to open a door, that is not something we are genetically programmed for. They learn by watching other people do it, and you learn by trying. There is a low penalty for trying to failing to open a door correctly -- sometimes you push instead of pull -- and that is the point of a good user interface. Does Windows 8 succeed at that? Perhaps, but its not a disaster.

A disaster would be a door that killed you if you tried to open it incorrectly.
Sorry for the late reply.
"Only if you're obsessed with watching something specific."
I take issue with the word "obsessed" but I agree with you point. I'll even, try to, do you one better; if I want to watch something it's easier for me to turn on the T.V.

"I think lots of people are too obsessive about their media consumption for their own good. The prevalence of torrents is symptomatic."

I'm not sure I'm following you. If I do understand you then I think you're wrong here. It's a bit like saying people are too picky about the music they listen to; the Billboard's top 50 should be enough for them etc.
Hey guys - OP here:

We thought we'd share some things we did at AngelHack London. Before attending, I scoured the nets for posts like that and thought the community might appreciate this.

It's also shameless plug for our hack Penny :)

Thanks!
> But either way wouldn't the importance for the field of computing in this case be more on the application of the algorithm and not who published first?

Separate issue. My objection was solely to correct the incorrect claim that Tukey invented the FFT. And this is in no way meant to disparage what Tukey did accomplish, only so that the history reads correctly.

> I don't think it's completely unfair to give some credit to one who later rediscovers and popularizes that algorithm.

Yes, but describing him as the inventor goes too far.
As am I. (We're both DBC grads.)
Probably because I made it up. Look, the post had what, 4 very one-sided arguments from people whose credibility is unknown claiming they are honest and Google is cheating them out of money and a couple more who weren't even smart enough to realize they in fact were the very kind of fraudsters Google's algorithms are designed to catch.

Even if it's 99% finding a person to employ who would make fewer mistakes would be a stellar employee -- good luck. Even if you could, at that scale there'd be a tiny fraction of people who actually made money.

How many of the cases of "OMG, Google is shutting me down!" have legitimate grievances? Maybe a tiny fraction? How many of those are "worth" investigating? Even smaller fraction. Heck, those complainers on that guy's blog could have been making $4 a month, who knows. All this has been a complete waste of time. Let's talk about something important.

I'm usually not one to defend Google, but in this case, they are behaving exactly perfectly.

Get back to work.
> What are some of the products you love and why? Pro tip: this will help you get a sense for they appreciate and even aspire to – design, product, tech, biz strategy, etc.

This question is one I wished I asked my former co-founder. I see this as one of those "tell me what happens technically when you visit a website through a browser" type tech questions where it is simple, but allows you to gain deep insight into someone's experience, preferences and overall knowledge. I am long time software developer, but my co-founder was more sales-oriented. Our differing views on how to create our product eventually became a huge issue.
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> I've never heard of a satisfied long term customer

Four MBPs, including a retina MBP. Couldn't be happier. Two iPads and two iPhones, switched to Android largely because of a new job and because I wanted a local environment for running vim.

See? Other people have anecdotes too. But I get that contrariness and the application of your own pet anecdotes over evidence is really fun, so continue, by all means.
Congrats Venky. Awesome progress since demo day!
Hope that helps :)
Articles don't just gain points by direct upvotes. They also gain a point when someone else submits it.

I suspect that there is significant overlap between his regular readers and HN participants. People read his blog and submit it.

Furthermore, articles about writing and karma acquisition are often topics of interest to HN's readership, as are articles about HN.

There's no conspiracy needed to explain it. Not to mention that his karma score from comments alone would put the author on the leader board.
Its pretty crazy that students can learn more practical skills in 2 months there than by majoring in CS for 4 years at many colleges.

I wonder though if there could be a more independent model for this kind of thing. Perhaps like the "N-reduce" of programming bootcamps.
>It's politically convenient to blame foreigners while the general population has had their personal wealth diminished through multiple runs of the money printing press.

Except that didn't actually happen [inflation], did it? And that inflation that did happen was mainly caused by energy prices and food inflation, not via the money supply.
Until there are other vendors on the same page as Apple, there's no way to put it otherwise.

If you want to buy power tools, a watch, a car, you have many choices of first-rate products. When it comes to computers it's such a broken marketplace. It'd be a world where there's BMW and a whole bunch of Hyundai-type companies.

I have my head in the gutter because I have standards? Expectations? That appearances do matter? Sorry if I don't come from the school of function trumping form, and that I care about attention to details.
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