skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's particularly bad about Google is that they've clearly copied the look and feel of Bing, and I remember a story about how they even used shady opt-out in their browser to track user's searches and clicks in order to copy search results from Bing!

Oh wait, that was Microsoft who copied Google, stole search results from Google, and is now bashing Google.

Disclaimer: I have a soul.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans It's to the center right.
Ah! Finally a meaning for 'cloud computing' that substantially differentiates itself from 'over the internet' ;)
I think the point is more to tarnish Google's halo in general than to promote Bing. They want to level the playing field and have people to see Google the way they already see Microsoft, as a generic big evil corporation.
Different browsers (well, their rendering engine) will render html differently. The reason ie6 got so much slack years ago was because it didn't render 'correctly' at all. Web developers need to test in different browsers (/different versions) to check everyone is seeing the same thing.

overriding the UA just shows if the server serves different html to different clients
"recommended" doesn't mean - must buy. i use the $12 a month and it gets me what i need.
Ask HN: For those who dislike GoDaddy...
Like many other folks, I detest GoDaddy for numerous reasons. I'm not here to argue wether or not their actions merit such disdain. We are all entitled to our opinion and if you are a GoDaddy fan, by all means feel free to ignore this post. This is not intended to be a GoDaddy bashing thread.

On to my question. For those who, like me, have abandoned GoDaddy for greener pastures, do you feel a bit disgusted when you find a particular site uses them as their registrar and/or certificate authority? I realize this is spiteful and even perhaps a bit silly. However, I personally feel that GoDaddy and their track record is so utterly untenable that I can't help but to feel this way. Of course for some companies moving registrars and certificate authorities isn't so easy or even impossible. But for indie developers and startups I feel it's a bit of an embarrassment. It just comes off as tone deaf to what has happened on the web over the past few years. Do you feel the same distaste as I do?
This is a bad metaphor. Utility computing isn't quite up to the same level as electrical utilities. Heroku has suffered from more downtime in the past year than I have power outages. Also, most commercial operations that tap into public utilities have some sort of backup plan for when the power goes out. A dramatic example of that is the power staying on in the Goldman Sacs building during Hurricane Sandy (http://www.inquisitr.com/381743/hurricane-sandy-rages-but-th...)

More visibility would be greatly appreciated into what you're doing behind the scenes and increase your customers' confidence and expectations of using the Heroku pg cloud service. I hope you provide more depth to future answers as opposed to, "Just trust us". I've found that in practice, things never work out that way.
Sorry, I somehow missed the emails about them actually arranging for pirated material. The worst I had known about was copying videos off youtube. But the Dexter email is valid. If illegal files find a bug you still need to fix the bug unrelated to removing the files.

A few minutes later: Okay I just skimmed through the indictment again and I can't find what you're talking about. There's points 54 and 55 about how they didn't cancel the affiliate accounts of people that had uploaded infringing files, but I can't find anything about them actually arranging pirated material, or specifically encouraging its upload. Also point 69d says out that copyright-violating uploads were disqualified for rewards, though Megaupload rarely terminated the accounts.
25 reasons users STOP using your product
Former NASA execs form business, plan Moon landing by 2020 for $1.4bn
What you're seeing is actually pricing for our automated testing service. Sauce for Mac is either free (30 mins of testing/mo) or $12/mo (for unlimited minutes against all browsers). It also comes included with all the testing plans on that page.
I can't do it any better than Potholer54.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM
"Scroogled"? Wasn't that an FSF campaign or Cory Doctorow story or something? Pretty sneaky of MS to co-opt it. Perhaps we've been Microscrewed?
You can now install ALL iPhone apps with NO Jailbreak Required.
The page is strangely put together. It feels very ... Geocities? ...

I had not thought MS played the attack ad game until recently. It denotes that there's some kind of strategy shift going on.
Defer in Go means something very specific and completely different:

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Defer_statements

http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#defer
Real life invisibilty cloak could be in our near future
AMD cuts fab orders by 75%
Those may be reasons for the development of Bitcoin, but Bitcoin itself is simply a technology. Any number of use cases may emerge from it, even ones we can't foresee. It's entirely possible that Bitcoin transactions will largely occur between big "banks" and behind-the-scenes, and people will simply use their bank accounts.
It might be only one bit, but it's the most significant bit in the bunch. It's not just childish name calling.
I think you are overstating the case against the subsidy model. It is hard to compare plans because they differ in small ways (minutes. texts, etc..), but my current ATT plan is 2 lines, 700 min, 200 texts, 'unlimited' data, and two iphones for $125 a month. I'd need at least the T-Mobile $60 plan to get comparable data, so it would be $120 a month; roughly the same price. More voice and texts with T-Mobile, similar data. But I get the phones with AT&T, so it ends being a slightly better financial deal. If you don't need voice, the $30 T-Mobile plan is an amazing deal.
Unfortunately, his body double was arrested in Mexico on a fake North Korean passport. I'm not making this up.
Nope; just today I ran into a bug where a click was being handled differently in an iPhone than it was in Chrome.
Show HN: iOSUserFeedback (Review my landing page)
The point is simply that you can ignore someone telling you that your font kerning is giving babies cancer. It doesn't mean your font kerning is good, but, for most applications of font kerning, you don't have to worry about the cancer.
Thank you for your translation -- the project of personal translations of great words is one of my favourites, despite the risks of misrepresenting. It is not enough to be accurate, one should seek also to be a poet.
please explain how a truly fiat currency without a national bank defending it against wild speculation is better than the currently existing alternatives? i understand the desire of creator and all miners to be able to easily liquidate their bitcoins, but i don't understand why other people would want something like this. could somebody point out what i'm missing?
Media interviews and making them work for you
"What bothered me about the article was that nowhere does it explain how you can make a DC breaker that can actually disconnect at those voltages."

This is a long ago solved problem for AC and DC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride (Look at the "Applications")

It it more expensive but totally worth it for high voltage lines.
Google's Lost Social Network
The value plan math starts to make sense when you go to family plans and/or routinely need more minutes. We currently have 3 lines, two of which come with 2GB data, with 1000 shared minutes and unlimited messages. $80/month plus taxes.
Wellsaid dan!

look forward to catching up later this month! :)
Sauce has a great team of smart engineers. Very cool product! I'm waiting to come to your next meetup where you can talk about this.
It's been a while since I've been in the weeds, but this is what I remember:

It's a balancing act between max_connections and shared_buffers. Each instance type will have a sweet spot for your use case -- you'll have to find it through experimenting.

Read this: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serve...

And this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/kernel-resources.h...

Give as much RAM to Postgres as possible -- let it do the memory management. Sometimes going to an instance with double the RAM will give you more than double the performance.

No swap on the box. The moment you hit swap you're screwed.

Vacuum often, maybe continuously, if the database has a lot of updates or deletes. Do your capacity planning so you can vacuum all the time.

I'll update if I think of more.
"Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago."

I'm sure last time I heard a fact like that about Apple it was more like "products that didn't exist 3 years ago." Impressive that they seem to be speeding up on that measure of innovation.
Yeah, but all the tablets were crappy. They weren't what a tablet needed to be to succeed, which unfortunately really means "ditch a lot of Windows." At MS this is heresy and is not tolerated.

Xbox managed to ship a non-Windows-based product because they were nearly completely isolated during the product's inception. (Yes, the Xbox kernel is largely Win2000, but with a LOT of stuff ripped out).

I don't know how WinCE succeeded at all. Microsoft would have been better off if it hadn't, and something better had come along. Lordy, what a pile...

In summary: At MS, you are either (a) Windows, and shipping something probably inappropriate for your users, or (b) playing a political game where users come second, or (c) isolating yourself from the rest of the company, if you can swing it.

MS needs to fix it's "Windows everywhere" mindset.
I'm not sure we are going to miss them when they're gone. The point of Clay's article, as I read it, is that's their argument.

In reality, I agree with Clay (and you, I think), which is to say that it isn't newpapers we might miss, but solid journalism. The interesting question is whether these are indpendent variables. I.e. could we have newspapers without good journalism and good journalism without newspapers.

I think a good case can be made that journalism has been declining for years, irrespective of the effect of the internet.

I also think it's quite possible we may end up with good journalism and no newspapers. I don't think wikileaks is the answer, for example, but such an organisation couldn't exist twenty years ago. I think we'll see a lot more attempts to create a 21st century journalism model before one sticks.
Big Data startup shows where NHS is wasting £200m
Tomahawk cruise missiles are autonomous vehicles, as are stand-off anti-tank weapons that loiter on parachutes after deployment and choose their own target tanks.
Digital cash is pretty powerful. Drugs, illegal activity, probably money laundering.
So what is the core of your argument? That the memo was not politically wise? That is manifestly true. But it says nothing about whether or not it was right on the merits, or even whether or not it was "shockingly sensible." As far as I can tell, it was all three of those things. If you don't agree, I'd really like to know why.
The scoring calculation just needs to be tweaked a little. Presumably the goal is to prevent teams from building a fragile bridge that needs exceedingly delicate placement of weights. So perhaps something like:

(sum of weights supported) / exp(time taken to place weights)

Then, select units or add a constant such that you ensure contestants have a minute or two where the ramp-up of time penalty remains modest.
> Unless I'm missing a Google Siri beater, you're talking about Google's voice search in its iOS app. It's much faster than Siri, but it's also much less sophisticated. I asked this very question on Quora recently[1].

I believe he's talking about Google Now on Android, which has already surpassed Siri.
Google Continues to Shoot Itself in Both Feet with Android 4.1
applying massive fines with little hope of recourse or application of due process

Usually when companies settle it's because the evidence against them is overwhelming, and would hurt their brand far more than the cost of the fine. If you really want to know how these things work, you can generally study the text of settlements at the websites of the relevant government agencies, because they're public documents.
Try Database Supported Haskell (DSH)
Maeby.
Mmmmh, don't forget he is an old guy ... He wanted to have some good fun but ...
Hope you're right and that it's not gonna be:
"McAfee found dead in his hospital bed in Guatemala"
I'm not sure your analogy applies in this case. The team that won the DroneGames HAD the BEST strategy: crippling the other drones!

This reminds of a story I heard a long time ago about a fighter in the middle of some nasty civil war who complained to a TV reporter: "no one here respects the Law of The Jungle anymore!"
I'm shocked he didn't even try to contact Onity. He's trying ascribe motivations and possible behavior just based on his reading of the lock market - we have no idea whether Onity would have acted in this way. Perhaps they'd have scrambled to contact hotels? Or maybe they'd have disregarded it.

We have no way of knowing because he never attempted to do the right thing.
Richard O'Dwyer ordered to pay £20,000 by US court
That's already out there, I think HTC EVO has it, and it is amazingly boring.
Obviously repeating myself: that the reforms the memo advocated for managed simultaneously to be unrealistic and not particularly meaningful.
The SEC Is Going After Netflix For A Facebook Post Made by Reed Hastings
Looking at the photo of him in the ambulance (linked in the story to here: http://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/276778188116480002/p...), I'm somewhat skeptical either of the medical claim or of the ability of the EMTs who are treating him.

First, he's not on oxygen. Step 1 for a suspected heart attack patient.

Second, he's got a shirt, a sweater and a blanket on top of him. Step 2 for a potential MCI is to expose the chest and get him on a "monitor" (combination EKG/AED), which it appears is at his feet.

Third, unless he fell and injured his head, neck or back, there is no reason to have him in full spinal immobilization as they appear to have done.

This is not a question of not having training or equipment--from the look of the photo, they have both. I'm reading a lot into a single snapshot, but being transported via ambulance in the US would look nothing at all like this.
That's why I don't understand why people are so opposed to good ol' <frame>s. You could resize them AND they wouldn't torture you if you used page down/space key...
Former Windows Vista hacker now hardening OS X, iOS at Apple
You're making the assumption that we need to buy new phones every two years. Now that the smartphone spec race is starting to slow down, we're going to see less of a need for frequent smartphone purchases. You could easily use the same phone for 3 or 4 years, as long as it doesn't break. But when you're on the subsidy model, you have to pay extra for the subsidy even if you don't get a new phone.
the French courts were wrong several years ago when they allowed some newspapers to sue Google for simply posting a few sentences or a link to an article. But what if newspapers could charge a modest fee commensurate to the value an article link is to Google?

I don't understand the distinction you are making between these two situations.

Think about the larger precedent that you're setting here, however. Should I not be able to quote a few lines and link you to a news story without paying money to the source I'm linking to? (whether the license was compulsory or not). What is google news but a factual stating of "here's what a bunch of sources said about the news today"? If a major event happens in your home town, how much money will it cost you to put up a blog post saying, "here's a roundup of coverage on this event"?
My capacity for shock was run dry by the original engineering decisions made by Onity.
FTFY:

"McAfee Fails Hospital Escape After Dressing as Doctor"

Apparently "Sam" is under the care of two Israeli security guards, in Guatemala. The only thing McAfee will need her defended from is their pork swords.

About time he's locked up and off the MDPV.

Maybe he'll become less mexican soap opera wanna-be Mission Impossible type escape.

He fled because bribery can only go so far in a country, murder, let alone against a US citizen isn't one of them.
There are many roads to compassion. Someone who focuses on compassion can be a very twisted being, in the same way someone trying to quiet their mind can be very noisy.

But, overall, I agree. Facing oneself and seeing the world as opportunity for love, joy, and compassion makes for a rich life.
And next thing you know, you're at war with the Geth.
I think a blog post I wrote months ago is somewhat relevant: http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/square-should-have-its-own-c...
Ask YC: Building a music platform for public domain recordings.
Hi all.

I got this killer idea, I just can't code it, so if you can code, please do drop me an email.

The idea is simple - on Rdio and Spotify there's thousands of albums by all the blues, folk and country legends of 1930's, 1940's etc. The guys that invented rock and roll!

If you look for any old time blues great on these applications, for example John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson etc, you'll see literally hundreds of albums show up. The music is public domain, so I think anyone can profit from selling these; I don't think the families of these guys see a cent. And if they did, geting that cent would take a fair few Spotify plays anyhows ;)

There's over 400 John Lee hooker albums available, 146 Robert Johnson albums and 1007 Billie Holiday albums. Not even Frank Zappa has cut that many records.

My idea is to build a music streaming platform that serves up exclusively public domain music to fans of older music, like blues, folk, jazz, country etc. and it exists solely to pull in money from subscribers and divide it in a better way then rdio and others do. Most importantly, the money would go to surviving families of these artists and operate as a non profit entity.

I have an idea of how a payout model could work for this more effectively then current streaming models used on rdio etc.

Please do get in touch if you'd like to help put this together.
Top down, bottom up
Then I suppose I'm saying that I support you, but not your literary devices. :-)
Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults is no Napster
Space/resources was certainly a concern in this case. A disk-based solution with predictable latencies enables storage of far more data than something that requires holding the working set in RAM.
-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience.

-1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either log in or start without an account, but not create a new one? There's also no hint as to where I should go to make a new account. I clicked "forgot key" and worked it out from there.

-1 for not explaining the "open source" plan very well. What does "public" mean? Does that mean anybody can watch videos of whatever I'm working on?

-1 for making the credentials I actually need to use the app non-obvious. You should know that I'm coming from your app when I sign up for a new account, and when I'm done signing up, show me my account key in big, fat, auto-copyable text, instead of hiding it two screens later.

-1 for not automatically taking me to my localhost URL after Sauce Connect initializes. I had to say I wanted to go to a localhost URL, wait for Sauce Connect to initialize, and then try to connect to the URL again.

But once I got the thing working, it's really great! And I totally forgot that display:inline-block didn't work as recently as IE7 :(
Agenda has not been published yet. We are still accepting talk proposals.
Your own VMs have to be created, stored and maintained. For small shops, managing even a relatively small catalogs of images can be quite a time-consuming process, let alone building multiple automated test processes.
Can you run IP over Skilled Radio Operators?

That kind of drone network could be useful for transmitting video, or other important data that isn't that good to send by voice. Not to mention remotely controling the other drones, that would do things like searching for people in the rubble.
When someone sends bitcoins and is provided with a product or service they cannot ask for more of that product or service unless they have provided a product or service that some other member of the bitcoin community deems worthy of their bitcoins. This is not the case with fiat money where governments can print money and demand you take it in exchange for products and services.

In high inflation economies like Argentina for example where foreign currency is strictly controlled, people are starting to save in bitcoin to preserve their wealth. I've heard that one can get a very good exchange rate for bitcoins in Argentina.
YouTube redesign
Everyone messes up. Every exploit can be made into an easy to distribute tool. As an industry, the idea is to help the people who make these mistakes fix it as soon as possible so users don't get hurt.
What is your uptime over the last 12 months? As opposed to e.g. the power grid in non-Sandy hit areas?
Yeah, Mac Pro is ideal for this. It has low enough sales volumes that Apple could even make it in Cupertino.

I wonder if having a high end American made machine would win them specific contracts (vs other vendors, or vs a Chinese made iMac) -- either Buy American or security considerations.

I'd be happy paying 5-10% premium on the Mac Pro for US production from the motherboard up. I trust Intel. Knowing the provenance of the other chips would be nice too.
One thing I like about a default reply to all is that it is easier to take away names than add them, at least for me. I always look at the 'To:' field after hitting reply, but, I do realize many will not and make mistakes. Hard choice, IMO, convenience or user-proof.
Is this a good commit message?
Can't speak for Forax, but I just don't talk on the phone much. Everyone texts, even family. At $0.10/minute after the first 100 minutes, I'd have to talk for 10 more hours before my old plan would be the same cost.
Your pricing seems way off (too high). What exactly am I paying for that I couldn't do quite easily?
I think that was Cook's first (or one of first) big changes (apparent to us outsiders, at least) when he became CEO - a month before Jobs's death: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/08/apple-institutes-new-cha...
If you haven't seen his original paper regarding this it can be found here: http://demoseen.com/bhpaper.html

Also, slides for his talk at Blackhat: http://demoseen.com/bhtalk2.pdf
Pico.js: Simple interface for a real-time audio processing
Don't we have a good idea how they would have responded from how they've actually responded? It took four months and a huge public backlash before they acquiesced to demands for replacements.[1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/12/06/lock-fi...
Bootleg.css - all the goodness of bootstrap without the JS
I certainly don't. Whatever this guy is going through, it should only be between him, his doctors, and the police.
As he clearly explained, one can't simply equate contacting the guilty vendors with an offer of nondisclosure with "doing the right thing".

"The right thing" is carefully considering and balancing a variety of qualitative factors and guesswork (and to not expect much thanks in return).
The "duck technique": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law_of_triviality