skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, think, you're, still, missing, his, point;

Hint: It had nothing to do with Metro and everything to do with this character ','

And if you can't tell the difference between sarcasm and irony without thinking, never mind over-thinking, then you likely understand neither.

Edit: The initial reply to you was neither ironic, nor sarcastic.
Eric Schmidt: 'extremely curious' that Apple lawsuits don't target Google
I agree that this can be frustrating. One of the great benefits of programming languages is that, even though I don't know VisualBasic, for example, I can probably look at the code and know what values the variables represent.

It's very difficult to jump into a new mathematical structure, because very often you have to learn the lexicon from scratch.
Research is not the same as science. This article is about research. The title is wrong.
Looks good. What's your plans with the site, are you going to start charging?
if google can't give you your desired results
within the first 10 results, they've failed.

Yes, because there are no more than 10 useful sources of information in the world that relate to queries such as "health economics", "particle physics", etc.
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By 2020 I'd kind of hope we're sending mostly-autonomous humanoid robots. Wouldn't that really inspire people's imagination? And they could start building the infrastructure for a colony.
Can someone explain what the Affiliate Program is/was? 37 Signals has been doing a lot of pruning and shuffling lately. I wonder why.
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They clearly didn't. There's a ton of references to "Bootstrap" still in the docs. Clearly it was a half-assed copy/paste job.
It's definitely the native feel. I think for a lot of non-technical people, engaging on a tablet makes them feel like they finally are on top of technology - a sense of control. Perhaps it could be equated to the feeling of mastery when you know a video game quite well.

And also - 'cutting edge' for the average upper class Joes, not cutting edge with technology. A well designed, sleek/sexy - even if simple from a functionality standpoint - app can really get people excited.

I feel a little bit bad about my post, because it is so far from being data-driven, but it's what I have observed from watching 40-60 something SVPs, CXOs, and partners. "Can I do that from my iPad?" is a common question.
OK. This is about commas. I'm not native english speaker.
Seems a bit elitist, no? So you only want the lucky few who stumbled across this little oasis in the vast nightmare of the internet to benefit from the knowledge here? Knowledge that is shared freely, which you then claim to gain a "competitive edge" from?

Seems like you want to keep HN private so you can reap rewards from the knowledge of others, without being forced to share it with the common plebe.

And here I was just wishing people who posted on HN used proper punctuation...
EU Sets Out Plans To Modernize Copyright For The Digital Age
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My inner devil's advocate says: is that the spirit of spending massive amounts of money on one-upmanship and buying votes* ? ;-)

In reality, I don't have a strong opinion on this. It would be amazing to see humans reach Mars in my lifetime, but I can see why governments aren't pouring money into it.

* From the Wikipedia page Moon Landing: "Mindful that the Apollo Program would economically benefit most of the key states in the next election—particularly his home state of Texas because NASA's base was in Houston—Johnson championed the Apollo program."
Based on the conditions listed at the end of the article, I think a lot of people in academia aren't doing research/science.
--former scientist.
Oh okay, I never read that anywhere before today and since the PLT group is rather active in prog lang theorory conferences I guess I've always assumed it was the meaning of PLT. Thanks for the correction.
Show HN: Review my App (Android)- Sqardius
Hi all,

I just launched the project I was working on lately, and I need advice on everything, and especially on how to promote it and spread the word.

Sqardius allows you to share and view pictures around you, and save them for others who will be there later.

Here the link: http://www.sqardius.net
Why does it take so long? I mean 8 years to send a V2? what's stopping them rolling it out in 1 year?

I don't understand the reason for such an extended timescale.
A clickable link: http://www.sqardius.net
Very much in keeping with recent Google and Microsoft design direction. I quite like it.
Here are two of my favorite tricks. You can do this just after you set your account ID:

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Update: Included complete GA code to address any confusion on order and values available in stack.
I find this extremely interesting. I'm a programmer who has had some mental block when it comes to "real math" (whatever that means). I'm very eager to change how I think about math to try to break through the mental barrier. Do you have any books or blogs or anything to recommend that reflect your change in thinking?

The summations as for loops is what got my attention, as I am guilty of that. Also the idea of math as more manipulable than programming is intriguing.
I find it odd that they used rounded corners in their documentation, even though not having rounded corners is one of the key features.
Privacy aside... I simply don't trust the government or any of the people who might have access to this data. Assuming you somehow have information about everyone whats to stop you from eventually controlling everything.
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> it's much better to write an interface and then provide multiple implementations

That is a reimplementation.
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If they stick to technical specifications in the spirit of RFCs I will be silently content but this is the UN we're talking about not the IETF, and I am too old for closed-room negotiations that directly affect me (and everyone). Any technical standards proposed by the ITU can and should be written by the technical community and industry participants in an open manner, as everyone has come to expect.

Telephone traffic is also, ironically, a pretty small part of global Internet traffic now so I would paint this more like a power-grab from an organization hanging off the cliff of irrelevance. Telephone-like billing and regulatory models, for example, are simply not applicable to the Internet. At the same time, there is a huge potential for this to be the place that anonymity on the net is simply outlawed, for example.

Seriously discussing "global Internet policy" legitimizes the creation of a single lever that can be pulled to manipulate the whole world's ability to communicate, and that is way too much power -- even (some would say especially) for the UN. IMHO, the Internet should be deaf dumb and blind and keep on switching packets really really fast; there should be nothing to break or bicker about, and we can all get on with things. It's obviously going to be tempting though, and that's what all the posturing is about. But even well-intentioned proposals (surely standards are "a good thing (TM)"!) simply foster the idea that it is appropriate to centralize that power. IMHO, we need to stop that sentiment before it congeals and formalizes into a World Government.

Historically, people have been able to ignore the IETF, etc, when they "get it wrong." The problem with a UN group, or any government, trying to serve a similar purpose is you have to work really hard (sometimes with force) to dismiss a terrible idea -- for example: global censorship, brought about by a simple prescriptive "standard" that enabled it. (This mirrors some of the debate around Canada's snooping bill -- for example, I believe our core networks shouldn't even support government spying, thats the RCMP's job to budget for, and they damn well better have all the right the warrants to actually snoop.)

IMHO, with government, less is usually more.

There is also a more general conflict at work here: it's easy to confuse leadership with "directing" rather than "facilitating." The former leads to dictatorships (ever had a boss hold a meeting and not ask for feedback?) and that's the impression I'm getting here, while the latter has been the source of IETF's and the W3C's, etc's, successful roles in "governing" the Internet. The Internet's governance so-far has basically been de-facto based on technical successes (the word meritocracy feels loosely applicable). Reading RFCs is like reading source code and it makes me feel the closest thing to patriotism that I can as a member of the Internet and the F/OSS community (and a bit of a techno-anarchist).

So yeah, it's wincing to see the Internet at the center of yet another closed-room power grab.
I was going to type out a long explanation of my thoughts on this since I used to work in the market research (survey) industry but I decided it's not worth it since nobody will ever see it.
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I wouldn't want to seriously see humanoid robots as the first workers on Mars. The human body isn't terribly well-shaped to perform the kinds of tasks needed in an efficient manner. Balance, for example, is monumentally tricky and doesn't need to be with a four-wheeled style robot.
Doing research for a company has the end goal of benefitting that companies' shareholders. Doing research for a publicly funded institution has the end goal of benefitting society.

Look at the decoding of the human genome. No company has a patent on that because public institutions did it first.
Seems like a complaint mostly against the current realities of the native app stores, not against the concept of mobile or even "mobile first"
And the funny thing is that the people that are now loudly proclaiming everything should be flat are likely the same that were calling all old 'flat' interfaces boring in the days that gradients and shadows became hip.

UI design seems more sensitive to fashion whims these days than woman's clothing.
Wow, this looks really good. I've spent some time designing UIs to solve the same problem, and you've done a better job than I did.

I just have a couple thoughts:

1. Give the demo by pointing out things in the actual application. Psuedo UIs or presentations aren't nearly as effective.

2. Allow me to use the scroll function (in both directions, like on a trackpad or magic mouse) to move around the interface. At first I thought it was broken before I realized I needed to click and drag.

3. When dragging a question to reorder, change it so that you are dragging the actual question, not a copy of the question. Leave a dashed border around where the question was.

I often find it helpful to highlight the drop-able areas as well, but this may not make sense for this use case.

4. Make the Settings and Delete icons on the questions more clear. Since they are hidden in the bubbles it is hard to tell what the icon actually is. Be clear first, clever second. If one of those has to go, get rid of clever. (paraphrasing Jason Fried)

Very nicely done. Keep iterating and you'll have a great product.
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It is not necessary for the government to have your key; They can impersonate your site (using their own key) if they have the cooperation of the CA.
Not talking solar wind in terms of photon pressure, talking magnetic flux coupling.
It smells like you're talking out your ass.
Are you an American? How much effort have you expended in campaigning to raise taxes and increase the percentage that NASA gets from ~0.4% to 0.6%? If you've spent less than a few years on the issue, that's the reason why they're going to take 8 years.

Most Americans think that NASA is 10-20% of the federal annual budget. Most Americans want NASA to have less funding, do fewer things, and take longer doing them. If you want to have NASA move faster, you have to spread the knowledge that NASA is cheap. Then NASA can move faster. See efforts like penny4nasa if you want to help!
The problem with apps that have stock Apple alternatives is that they always feel second fiddle to the OS. Even apps with tons of better features (reminder apps come to mind) often don't offer the same seamless worry-free integration of relatively bare-bones apps like Reminders
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>Go is a programming language designed by Google to help solve Google's problems, and Google has big problems.

I believe that this part of the speech is wrong, or overstated (and Rob did it on purpose). There ARE actual texts about how Go came to be, and none of it involves Google, as a corporate entity, wanting something particular and asking for some specific set of requirements, the way, say Ada was designed by the defence departments, of Erlang might have been designed by Ericsson. The story, as told also by Rob Pike elsewhere, speaks of some guys getting together t hack on a new language on some pain points THEY had, and mostly as a side project.

And, really, Go was never put front and center by Google, or that Google seems to care a lot about it and advertise. They've done far more for V8 and even Dart, including building a large team of full time paid compiler guys to work on those, whereas the did nothing of the sort for Go.

Not much adoption at Google either: some mysql load balancing service in YouTube, a caching layer for Google downloads, a Google doodle served by Go, and beta support in GAE pretty much sums it. Sure there should be some other small projects, but nothing earth shattering, the way C++/Java are used.
An important difference is that to operate with the term is much easier to use short names. If a term is adding in the right side of a equation, and you want to put it on the other side subtracting, you must copy all the equation (and Ctr-C Ctr-V doesn't work in paper.)

A typical program is written one, read a few times (perhaps years later) and executed many times.

A typical math calculation is typed once and read only a few times (a few minutes later) and discarded ("archived").

In the draft, I usually find myself replacing sin(x) and cos(x) by s and c, because it's only a little calculations and in the following 10 minutes I will remember what it means and there is no other s or c in sight and I get bored of writing all the letters.
In this situation, it's probably best to differentiate between the two with color—but you're right, it's silly to lose the already-established visual cues.
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Thanks, as I mentioned in other comment - I plan to digg deeper and share knowledge, so be patient :)
Unless of course you're Richard Feynman, and you happen to know them because you all worked on the Manhattan Project together.
Yeah, the iPhone keyboard is what finally got me to stop using r2d2 or c3p0 as a part of my password. And the fact that they are probably in the cracking dictionaries.
This is a crowd-funded rover in a way, though not private. About 200 million people have contributed a little bit of money to the project.
I wonder why this very interesting article is not picking up on HN.

It did very well on reddit/r/programming though.

EDIT: Here is the link to reddit discussion thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/149ib2/building...
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It and even works most of the time. I have had it reply with a different email address from the one that an email was sent to
Obligatory xkcd that describes the unfortunate situation very well as usual: http://xkcd.com/898/
That's actually a much better sounding idea than just fragmenting the source into a whole new project, that will probably eventually suffer from disregard as Bootstrap continues to flourish.

In fact... https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/wiki/Contributing-to-Bo...
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I find mixing tasks helps me out. I use duolinguo at home and I have a bunch of Pimsleur tapes (old method but still great for basics) on my phone for various languages that I listen to when I walk home from the gym and I'm still excited from working out.

Of course I seem like a madman walking down the street still flushed from the gym muttering to myself in french or german but hey, that's how it goes sometimes.

I really do think immersion is the best way to master a language but you still need a basic proficiency in it. Then just walk around speaking like an idiot and asking for corrections until you don't sound like an idiot anymore.
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This. We recently started doing this and the data it's provided has been awesome.
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That's a really awesome hack! Thank you for the detailed explanation!
Oh, I must have missed that in the comments. I really appreciate that! Keep me posted, would love to see that article! Thanks! :)
I generally dont like the "persuasive essay" type of blog as is presented here. However there are some valid points. I think the key takeaway from this is not so much about quitting Twitter as it is taking a break from the distractions that take away from your family/work/actual life. I remember having an epiphany of sorts when thinking about how my kids would remember me after they get older.

I dont want them to remember a man who was more interested in the rectangle in my hand than I was in them. I want them to remember me being fully engaged with them, and being there for them. Twitter/FB/HN arent a problem unless you let them interfere with your life. If you need to take a month off to get that sort of perspective, great. If not then everything in moderation.
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> "// Track page load time in Google Analytics"

After adding that, where does that appear in the Google Analytics dashboard? Can you explain further how that works? Thanks!
I disagree with the 'very small subset', especially when we are talking about advancements going forward. There is very little to nothing that wont be possible to build using web tech.
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Facebook uses Varnish, so does Twitter. They use it where it makes sense, where reads are high and content is less dynamic. To say they'd gain almost no advantage of it is oversimplification as they have various requirements and some of those do indeed benefit from caching.
Best to check for the existence of _gaq before pushing elements into it, or the user might get a reference error.
A good next step for Bootstrap would be to create a centralized theme repository with the ability to select and change themes from a centrally-managed repository of approved themes. Almost like an npm for Bootstrap themes.
Next time I can't find an IRC log I'll just call the NSA.
This: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/20121204-the-202...
Amazing advice! Thank you very much.
Not trying to change your mind, but I personally have a strong distaste for being tied to one product because I use another (unrelated product). It's the reason why I've never bought a song or movie on iTunes. I was where you are a while back with Google products, but email is just email. I don't want my phone purchases to be influenced by what email provider I use; that's just silly. I'm currently using Outlook.com and couldn't be happier with it.
With its annual budget of $18.724 billion maybe? Seriously, where does that money go?
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Yes, you're right, I didn't check! This never used to be the case. Now that is stupid!

I know a lot of people write it in their posting, only users with 10+ feedback.
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RSA keys are composite numbers. Bruteforcing them involves factoring, not trying 2^n possibilities. A bruteforce of a 1024-bit RSA key possible to be published this decade and likely by 2030.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve
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Facebook is doing weird things. I get promoted posts from Amazon. They say "$Name Liked Amazon" - well, I knew that the first time the promoted post told me. I still know it now. And it's weird that the promoted post keeps telling me. I don't want promoted posts spamming my friend's timeline (or whatever the heck I'm supposed to call it this month) telling them that I liked some page (which I probably did years ago and have forgotten about).

And I genuinely have no idea i) what you can do to my timeline or ii) what information you get about me from FB.
That's true. I just can't justify the high price when I won't use the features, especially since by that stage things in my possession are pretty broken :-p
> None of which are relevant the the internet

...but all of which are relevant to the comment you replied to.
Will do! Thank you for the suggestions :)
Remember that, at least according what they said at the time, Apple didn't want apps. They wanted websites that were designed for iOS and mobile devices using HTML5 to perform all the tasks.

Now, this could have been a smokescreen to cover the fact that they didn't have their native app infrastructure finished yet, but going at face value, Apple didn't want native apps.
It is implied that the NSA surveilled Petreus' gmail using naris by capturing backbone data which implies that the NSA has cracked 128-bit SSL. Or maybe they just got it from google...
Meh, like I said I was going to do this tonight myself, now I don't have to. HN saved me some work and I think that's worth an upvote.
This is great news, but I hope Elon Musk's human crew will be watching the landing from Mars.
I use facebook, but do not EVER use FB authentication. I've been burned in the past, like I suspect most of your detractors have. By authenticating using FB, I'm not just signing up with a website and giving them my own details, but potentially giving up the details of friends, access to post information as myself, the ability to read my information, etc. I will authenticate using Google, Github, Twitter, and other services, just not FB, ever again. I've removed all "apps", no longer like corporate pages, never "connect" it to a website or application, etc. Even my friends who are not technologically literate refuse to do it.