skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree about the ordering (i.e. for me, for certain queries, it was objectively better first, before the other criteria played a part).

However, you're saying that the only thing (or the best thing) that will make the world better is better quality results. This is wrong. Playing the long game by supporting such search engines means that quality can improve and you end up with both better quality search engines AND morally improved companies. The whole world will be better because of it. You're thinking too short term.
Regaining Relevancy: Washed-up athletes and the iOS games they need
It's available in over 200 countries now: https://support.google.com/mapmaker/answer/155415
A masher is a kitchen utensil: https://www.google.ie/search?q=potato+masher&hl=en&s...

See it all makes perfect sense.
...me too. I thought it would go to that side, allowing IDE-like plugins to be written, takiong some of Emacs mindshare on that space.
I actually had to disable apport because of my relatively new hardware. When idle the GPU can enter a super low powered state which the Ubuntu driver interprets as a crash, then the GPU comes back online and... the crash reporter crashes. Resulting in about 20 'internal error' pop ups until it gives up.
Great. Glad you like it.
Hackers take over judicial Web site 'to avenge' Reddit co-founder's suicide
I once worked for an enterprise-y software development company. They had an enterprise-y source code control solution. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but just checking out the latest code took literally an hour.

It was so bad that people who were working together would have one person check out the code, then create a temporary git repository over it, and everybody would branch off that. When they'd finished working, they'd merge all their changes together into one ginormous commit into the "main" SCC.

Actually dealing with merge conflicts and building the software was outsourced, so nobody cared that these enormous commits (usually made months after the initial checkout) took dozens of hours to resolve.

It was the most bizarre thing I've ever witnessed.
Why not? Its the same principle just a question of scale.
'Facebook profile may expose mental illness'
Installing and running the ST3 beta seems to have broken ST2 for me. It now hangs when I try to bring up the command prompt.
your argument is sound, but i'm not sure how this contradicts my statement.

my point is this: they want people who want to be at google, and offering a lower salary (or not the highest salary) is one way of filtering for those people -- because they are willing to take less compensation to work at google.

working at google and working at citibank are like two products on the market. if you value one more than the other, you're willing to pay more -- that is, accept lower compensation.

of course, they will pay more for engineers they deem valuable (as in your example) and even mercenary exceptions who are supremely talented and well-suited for a strategic task.

but this doesn't invalidate the notion that a lower base salary helps filter out people who assign little value to working at google.
We knew eachother personally before this. The plan was to pique his interest with an MVP and then decide how to proceed. With no interest from him I switched gears to one of my other ideas...and its been going better than expected.
It's just a "take-over" http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=social+media&l=
My own experiences with Facebook have been pretty disappointing. I ended up reconnecting with old friends I'd lost touch with over the years, only to find out that with the exception of exactly one of them, they all had political, religious, and social views vastly different than my own.

A large number of them also apparently spend what I would consider a very unhealthy amount of time on Facebook posting angry, racist messages that just seem to continually make them angrier and more racist as they feed off of one another. I've lost a lot of respect for a lot of people because of the things they put on Facebook. It's like, they log on to the site and all filters go off.

I've found that with the exception of 2 or 3 people who only seem to communicate with the outside world via their Facebook account, everyone that I follow whom I genuinely want to keep up with are ones I was already talking to through other channels.

Myself and most of my friends use Skype quite extensively for keeping in touch. Others email and use Google Talk.
> Before then, you'd talk to people face-to-face, (or using smoke signals) so I'd imagine if we looked through some newspapers when telephones first came in, we'd probably see this exact same post.

That's the exact same point I was trying to make to one of my colleagues when she saying that relying on Facebook to communicate with your friends is a mistake, while phone conversations are the way to go. I was telling her that my grandma was looking at a telephone as the work of the devil, not that she was religious or anything, just that the unexpected ringing of it would stop any hardworking people from doing their job so that it would only be a waste of time and resources. My friend wasn't convinced, she was asking me "but how could your grand-mother live without a telephone?".
Does Facebook Owe You Money?
More than that, it's actually the only one that makes sense (to me)!
Flatliners
Just a reminder: This case is not related to his Pirate Bay involvement. He is accused of hacking Logica, who handles data for the Swedish Tax Authority.

How much empathy would you have if someone, not involved in TPB, 'stole' information about you from your local tax authority? Especially Americans who seem to be paranoid about their tax stuff (For example Romney). At least in Sweden your tax data is pretty much public - when requested from the Tax Authority.

As a side note: This is also true for privately held companies in Sweden, all annual reports are pretty much public. You can for example view Mojang's (Minecraft) figures here: http://www.allabolag.se/5568192388/Mojang_AB
Not all artists would agree. He did verifiably found the Pirate Bay. It is doubtful that he stole from artists "everywhere". So, um, less accurate.
Content & Chrome: UI Inspiration
Marketing css ideologies: inform rather than sell
Our old best practices are crumbling, but while coming up with new ideologies and best practices we often seem more concerned with converting souls than informing people about the ins and outs of our preferred ideologies. Rather than sell our believes, we should simply inform others as best as we can.
Angel safe from Java gap?
I had commented on AVC many many years ago about investors being returned their money from the profits of the company, and Fred Wilson responded that it just wasn't the way Venture Capital worked.

Nice to companies are looking at this as an option now, but with the debt financing webmonkey took to buy out their existing investors, isn't that much like trading one investor for another?
Ask HN: How do you manage shared company passwords?
I'm talking about things like client FTP logins and apps / services that don't provide multiuser functionality.

We've used and/or evaluated everything from a shared KeePass db, to commercial apps like Password Manager Pro[1], Passwords Max for Groups[2], and Passpack[3] to a protected Google Docs sheet and an Excel file in Dropbox.

The KeePass solution seems to be the "best", though there are still some caveats - is there a best practice here? Do most small engineering groups roll their own?

1. http://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/
2. http://www.authord.com/PP/ppgroups.htm
2. http://www.passpack.com/en/home/
30 to upgrade.
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How is the performance impacted?

I could see myself using this for a SaaS app I am developing right now; would be useful to run the same language on the client as on the backend. But it needs to performant in this case.
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
That is the coercion I mentioned. I wish I could provide an example, but there have been times where I have to both "quote" the terms I really want and -"quote" the terms it corrected things to. It usually only happens for longer queries when I'm trying to drill into a specific issue.

Come to think of it, perhaps this is their feature which uses previous searches and treats your current search as a continuation of the last one; though I've altered my query the search terms I abandoned get resurrected.

[Edit: confirmed!] I just tried this in relation to another comment I posted. I typed peer to peer lending into Chrome's bar to search for this. A bunch of finance related results came up. I was looking for movie lending, so I altered my search to peer to peer lending movies and looked at the results. Still unsatisfied, I thought that maybe the term borrowing was better than lending. So I changed my search to peer to peer borrowing movies. Lo and behold, the search results show a page full of results with the word lending bolded and no results that show borrowing at all: http://imgur.com/lPPQmxY

If I absolutely didn't want the word lending in the results, I would need to alter the search to peer to peer borrowing -lending movies to avoid this. For development searches where I'm sometimes trying to find a needle in a haystack, I don't want to have to keep excluding numerous terms I have already decided are undesirable. As I never sign in when searching and I can't be bothered to find and change whatever Google setting causes this every time I fire up my browser, I find DDG to work the way I expect and often with better results too.
I used to be in the same camp about not using languages that require an IDE. But I have recently started using something akin to a Haskell IDE, and I have to say, things like displaying the inferred types of expressions in a tooltip and jump-to-definition are nice to have.
But its pretty much ST2...
The ariel imagery still isn't as good as Bing, but the new road layouts are much better. However they don't appear to have the river traces which Bing has.

It's interesting because after reading Escape from Camp 14 last year I looked in to visiting the DPRK, considering the moral rammifcations of directly giving cash to the country via one of the approved tourist agencies.

Luckily before I had to decide if it was OK, I found the rules about being a tourist.

No Smartphone.
No Radio devices of any kind (no GPS!).
No Computers.
No digital storage above 4GB.
No digital camera with "powerful" lens (they never did clarify).
The internet in the 2000s is a much, much richer medium than telephone calls in the 1900s. Look at us - integrating throughout or taking time from our day to discuss and debate the news here, online.
Python's "2to3" utility helps a lot with the mechanical parts, like spotting renamed modules or print statements. After that, it's a chore of hunting down small semantic changes involving strings. Since everything in Sublime Text should be using the same flavor of string, at least that part should be straightforwards.
The Human Brain Project has been funded
I personally find the 70$ price tag rather high for a text editor. However, this is not my main issue
For this premium price I do not only expect features but as well documentation and if you are a plugin developer the current ST2 documentation is just plain bad because it misses too much. In addition, even though ST2 is highly configurable nowhere are all the options explained that you can use and manually set. I fins this rather annoying and think this was something to fix along the ST2 life cycle.

I'm not sure if the beta will conivince me in paying another 30$ for hope that this will some days come.
you're right, sorry for the confusion. i didn't mean to suggest that every google employee works on world-changing software. what i meant to say is that engineers "price" google employment much like they price any product on the market.

if they value google employment more than citibank employment, they're willing to pay more, that is accept lower compensation. beyond world-changing projects, there are benefits to google employment that attract developers -- things like free restaurant-grade food, the google stamp on a resume, and bright, motivated co-workers.

if these intangibles diminish in value and cannot any longer offset the lower cash compensation, people leave.
Faux Logos. For when you don't, quite, have any customers yet
Most of them do. Not many have top-level English, though (speaking generally, not of that particular company).
Didn't intend to throw rocks about not being ported, yet. :) Installing Package Control is the natural first step after installing Sublime Text.
True, I'm not a software developer, but I do a lot of design with HTML/CSS and write with Markdown. I only use a sliver of the features ST has.

Badically, I'm content with my $59 purchase (it's sturdy software that never gives me grief) but wouldn't eek another $30 of value from it.
Is there a precedent for making something that exists to become open source using KickStarter money? I proposed this very thing to KS once and they rejected me. But I don't know if they make these judgments by their perception of the product rather than the nature of the transaction.
Sadly, in the announcement comments, John says this:

"How well large files are supported is mostly a function of the syntax definition being used. Sublime Text 3 does have performance improvements compared to Sublime Text 2 here, but not significantly so."

Big disappointment for a lot of us.
The emphasis on sports in US high schools has nothing to do with the fact that everyone can do it and everything to do with the entertainment industry built around sports in the US. The fact that you can get a scholarship to college just for playing sports well is a symptom of that.

I live in a country where sports aren't as watched or cared about as in the US. And if they are it's other countries playing it(like the world cup/champions league/eurocup in soccer). But the whole not being able to read/write well and not liking mathematics thing holds just the same here as it does in the states. However, people don't turn to sports to derive social status(we do have your equivalent of "the popular kids" but they aren't "jocks"). Furthermore, I know of no school that puts almost any kind of real emphasis on sports.

I think by far the biggest reason so much emphasis is put on sports in US high schools is precisely because of the importance sports holds in overall American culture due to the entire entertainment industry built around it. Not the other way around.
How do these things happen? One moment, I know nothing about a lightweight Python interpreter in JS (a thing I would have heard about, even if it were in its infancy), and I see a full-blown interpretation the next.

I'm amazed at how this has slipped past me so far. Does anyone know the specifics on how it works (performance, does it implement the complete language, etc)?
Yes, you can be laid off from a small company because they lose one of their large clients for reasons that are absolutely nothing to do with you.

They will then look to trim off "luxury expenses" and if they are not a tech company, having a full time IT/dev guy is likely to be one of them.
Which library are you talking about?
I enjoyed a lot stripe 2.0 and I have watched Dan Bone on coursera. In the article, they just split the password in two. 128bit/2 -> 64bits. This remains two much for brute force like TCP port method or timing attack.
bladeRF, a USB 3.0 SDR platform looks to be the RaspberryPi of radios
Here's what I'd love someone to organize:

A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay The Government to make Everything Free.

If Everything becomes free, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with The Government, especially those coming from a Poor background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.

Anything sounds ridiculous at scale
You might have an argument if all uploads to TPB were purchased (or otherwise legally licensed) copies and people sharing materials in this peer to peer library could only share as many simultaneous copies as were purchased. There are a few companies who are trying to adopt such a legal peer-to-peer lending network.

However, there's a great example of a modern library where you can find works produced by small and big media alike, and monetization is effortless for the consumer via nominal, one-time fees: Apple's App Store. Yet still people find ways to circumvent the new guard just to avoid paying 99 cents for apps.
Python noob here, I am very interested in what you think makes Python a better browser scripting language than JS (which I use a lot on client and server side and like very much).
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/28/jody-sherman-ecomom-founder...
Compared to the original JS demo (linked on page), the version transpiled from python looks really choppy.
+1 for gVim working ok on Windows, it's the OS that's broken.
Open Data Resources for Europe and The Netherlands
oVirt is also an option, but your point that VMWare did not collect $1.3B from people wanting to try out Ubuntu on their laptops stands.

(Disclosure: I am not unbiased)
I couldn't agree more, I'm not a wealthy person and while $70 might be chump change to some users, to me that would represent a large amount of money - I couldn't justify to myself to spend it, I would love to be able to pay like $25 or $30 because I would probably be okay with that.

I just don't see the differences between the two being enough to justify me spending that amount of money, especially not when I'm doing just fine with Sublime Text 2 (and yes, yes, the old Hammer being used as a screwdriver argument will inevitably pop up now I've said that) and have no real reason to switch.
A Brand New MBA Curriculum
*Guy who stole from artists IS everywhere.

It's much more accurate that way.

corrected, that's how the torrent work :p
Ask HN: Forcing browser updates on users
I was about to download Wunderlist on a new computer and upon visiting their website, I was notified that Firefox is out of date. I couldn't access anything else on the site without updating.

This got me thinking- forcing the latest browser version could make things a lot easier in terms of cross browser compatibility, but it could annoy some users. Perhaps I have some extensions that are not compatible with the latest updates, so I don't want to be forced into updating.

Then again, a simple notification could be fine, leaving the choice to update up to the user.

What do you think of this practice?

What are some of the things you do to minimize the number of browsers you need to support?
It is surely subjective. Not the person you reply to but I'll chip in anyway.

I write lots of Javascript; mostly 'raw' Javascript in the webGL space. Here's just of the top of my head what's wrong with Javascript:

* looping over elements has too much boilerplate

* the mindfulnesss of 'this' is distracting

* the duality of dictionaries and lists and how that's an easy lie to fall for is fustrating

* that there are multiple frameworks trying to use $

On the other hand, their anonymous functions are very nice. And, I rather like prototypes vs classes. A bit. Sometimes

With Python, I like significant whitespace (so sue me) and especially the syntax for collections and packing/unpacking them.

I've blogged along these lines a lot in the past e.g. http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18319031919/progr...
Not using a CSS rule in a single page doesn't mean you don't use it elsewhere => the generated CSS is necessarily wrong.

This tool is useless but being a POC.
I use LastPass Enterprise edition, everyone at the company has an account and we share some role account passwords via shared folder in LastPass.

Inside engineering, we have been experimenting with a shared keepass db that we move between machines directly using git.
For one, we know they are - comfortably - profitable at the current price per user, so they won't get desperate enough to go in different directions. (They may do it out of stupidity, but perceived financial necessity won't be the reason.)

I'm sure it isn't easy for Twitter to make money, but their reputation is still in tatters, because of all they've done to affirm their position and guarantee what they believe is a healthy profit.

With most companies, we not only have to wonder how they earn or plan on earning money (Instagram! Quora! Facebook!); their business plan may not even suffice.

Tumblr is currently twisting and turning to monetize their platform more, because David Karp has refused to use a business model that is implemented at the expense of users. But good intentions don't guarantee a (sizeable) profit.
There isn't an add-on, else it would be in that list. But we do got TOR Browser, which is optimized to be untrackable, out-of-the-box, with the standard configuration. Even when using it outside the TOR network, you are better off than with all of these add-ons (mostly because of browser fingerprinting that the OP's suggested configuration is succeptible to).

Beware though that not all sites will work with TOR browser out of the box (because of noscript blocking js), but it is fairly easy to whitelist the js code you need to make them functional.
Foundation: Free Responsive Front-end Framework
Interestingly, both the UK and Russia are top destinations for people to both go to and leave.

Also there seem to be almost as many people leaving Russia to go to the Ukraine as leaving Ukraine to go to Russia. Any one have any idea why this would be?
That's a straw man argument. "Same, except for scale" alone does not make it a reasonable comparison.
Nice! Could you mix in some foreign dictionaries too? When I have a word, I'd like to see alternatives for it in French, Spanish, Nordic, Italian, Japanese (English-spelling) etc... lets me be creative and keep the central theme of my brand present :)
Didn't the "original" seeder, pay for the copy?

Seems to be that rather than pay taxes to buy content for the library, one can just contribute directly to that library.
Would love a detailed pg article on what ventures should be nonprofit vs forprofit. If this is a viable model, presumably some startups could go either way. (Open source software?) I think it would help to have more of a community consensus about what belongs - and can thrive - as a nonprofit.
> I started importing products from China

Care to elaborate on this? I'd be very curious to know.
People will continue writing software for windows for as long as it remains the dominant platform. What happens is that they'll use other languages such as C# (which is perfectly fine for them)
(Sorry to start a second thread but it's separate from the language issue.) Is it just me that thinks the controls on the lists work upside down?

I find I want to use the arrows to move the box through the list, not move the list through the box.

I am not a UX guy by any stretch of the imagination, so this is just an observation rather than a judgement.
Why not use the users browser itself to calculate the results?
IOS 6.1 Maps Search API - official alternative to Google Places