skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've landed many times on Quora but then left site because they allow me to read only one answer without siging in.

This has been something that really irritates me. They are doing same thing on phones now. I don't know about others but from me, they are not getting any visits now.

Remocing Quora from my Google search results in 3..2..1..
But if it's so easy, why has nothing changed after all this time? It's apparently not rocket science, yet all these intelligent people are going into teaching and the same methods are still used. Teachers continue to spend long hours after school planning lessons and aside from module websites made using Google's site builder tools and interactive whiteboards there is little difference in the UK.

Originally, I thought it was a money problem, but some schools have a ridiculous budget and are happy to spend them on the same old stuff. Why is no one investing in these things that will apparently improve education?
Several people have made the same comment and it's especially important for people who are new to the scene and don't know many people. It's something that I would definitely like to improve and welcome all suggestions. I'll post an update with pub details on the event page too.
Google Now has been updated, finally has a widget :-)
First three-year LHC running period reaches a conclusion
Chrome 25, beta channel
Sorry, I should have read the parent post more carefully. However, I still think that's it's valid to compare Chrome and HN strictly on "freeness" regardless of whether or not they're the same kind of product.

We're talking about advertisements and the advertisement's only one one page. The scope of the actual advertisement is roughly the same as it is on HN. The fact that an advertisement in the default tab of a browser is likely to have more viewers is irrelevant.
suffice it to say that the guy seemed to permanently have a nervous sweat going on and he did this over 5 years prior to when i spoke to him.

per the article, it is not uncommon for "serious" distributors to do this for whatever reason.
Well, the car might not let him do that. It's less clear why he can't just throw the car into neutral and let it coast to a stop. I guess that would mess the engine up pretty good (edit: I'm not actually sure that's true), but it still seems like the right move. I'd be curious to know why he didn't/couldn't do that.
Gmane the mail-to-news gateway and archive? It's not like Google Groups owns all those mailing lists.
I guess the point was: because some nonintuitive things can happen, conservation of energy isn't real. Or something.
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"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This version was posted a month ago, and discussed at length: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091962 It contains some important details that are missing from the version above, although any version of the events is unverified.
or thrown it out of gear, or even used the handbrake to slow it a bit. Seems a bit ridiculous that nobody in the emergency services thought of any of these things ... something's not right.

From wikipedia:

> The Laguna featured a 'keyless' ignition system which, instead of a key, used a credit card style device to unlock the car and start the engine.

that might eliminate the first possibility: the car could be "clever" enough to not allow cutting the ignition while it's at speed. There's also mention of a model being shipped with a "proactive transmission", on which I can find this description:

> flick-shift, six-speed, proactive transmission

I suppose flick-shift might also be routed through the computer so you don't damage the machinery by attempting to put it into low gear or into park at speed ... or into neutral, I guess.

Are vehicles really being approved without mechanical failsafes?
Great.

Opera was my primary browser before Google Chrome. I tried sticking to it but it was always left behind. Then as I dived into Google's services more and more, it was clear that Opera wasn't a consideration for Google.

Want to Drag and Drop something in GMail, not possible! Any other cool features on many other websites, no!

Now that they are switching to Webkit, I hope Opera gets support for all these features.
I used to travel up from Brighton (1 hour on the train, about 1.5 hours each way all in), now I live in London (and work a 5 min walk from the event).
People think they are right. They will ignore evidence that they are wrong, and over-emphasise the evidence that shows they are right. The debate becomes politicised. The debate splits along lines of unions vs others; politicians vs teachers; parents vs others; etc. Proper double blind research is hard to conduct on students for a number of reasons, and so we don't bother with effective research.

See, for example, the length of time that it's taken to get synthetic phonics over analytic phonics recognised as better for teaching children to read.
> Both Iraq wars were fought and won with maneuver warfare.

They were won from a tactical perspective, but I'd say that strategically the second one was lost (while the first one was not such a clear-cut victory either, with Saddam still clinging to his post). Yes, I know that the US had their "mission accomplished", but true war is never that, is only "the continuation of politics by other means". True war has nothing to do with video games (with the probable exception of "Eve Online")
Help make rooting / jailbreaking of tablets legal (United States)
Can you provide some examples of terrorism in the middle-east for the 500 years in-between the downfall of the assassins and the creation of the US? The GP was talking about a terrorist haven - you've pointed out a single order.

Incidentally, Europe has historically been awash with terrorism, and up until 9/11, there have been plenty of Americans happy to financially and socially support terrorism in the form of things like the IRA. Terrorism has been often featured in the history of Africa and central, south, and east Asia.

So tell me more about how this single species of extinct terrorist made the middle east some innate sort of special, super-terror playground for all eternity.

EDIT: Also, if we're playing the 'once upon a time' game, then I'd like to point out that historically, the US was one of the greatest users of slaves, and through the wonders of Manifest Destiny, engaged in genocide, terrorism, and straight-out wars of conquest.
Interesting to see the KIM-1 in there. Some time around 1984 I used one of those to build a prototype replacement for the large electromechanical controls on a machine that placed labels on bottles (shampoo etc.).

To program it I wrote the control program (which used the I/O ports to interface with the machine to read the speed bottles were moving and adjust the labeler appropriately) on paper in assembly language, debugged it there by hand and then converted it to machine code and entered it on the KIM-1 keyboard.

The display was enough to output information about the program's operation and using a microprocessor meant that the machine could get new functionality quickly (such as spotting that there was a missing label on the spool of labels and accelerating the labeler so that it skipped the missing label and didn't skip a bottle).
no, no, no, the bikeshed is YELLOW.
Note that this is NOT about cell phones, but tablets. I already know that rooting phones is legal.
Edited immediatly, but my previous title: ~"most awesome app has been updated" really reflects my personal opinion about the app.

Perhaps you have never tried it :)
You can rekindle those 8-bit days when you knew _everything_ about how your machine's software and hardware worked with a microcontroller such as Arduino.

http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-...
Yes, this would make sense, but he didn't mention it though.
Has this actually happened, or do the low-level agents use this as an empty threat?
I've thought about doing this. But, why bother? Most of the time the answer I'm looking for is just one or two more searches away.
Why Apple Needs to Get into the TV Business
You can Model Queues and calculate the service level
when you do inteligent routing

The Erlang C formula expresses the probability that an arriving customer will need to queue (as opposed to immediately being served).

http://owenduffy.net/traffic/erlangc.htm
This phrase:

"'terrorists' are usually just normal people who have frustratingly little recourse"

is a _value_ assessment.

It is literally a normalization of terrorist motivation.

And, the idea that al Qaeda is motivated by outrage at American or Western injustice is at best a huge oversimplification. And at worst, a credulous acceptance of their propaganda.
Adobe CEO repeatedly refusing to answer Australian pricing questions
> We're "catching up," not "innovating" on the battlefield today. That's the big lesson here.

I've lately come to the conclusion that modern warfare came into being because of Napoleon's genius and his wars of the early 1800s. He was way ahead of his time, and you could sense this by how "surprised" at his tactics were the guys confronting him from the other side (the Prussians, Austrians etc). For what it's worth, I think that WW1 which took place 100 years later was still an "old world" war.

What I'm trying to come at is that even Napoleon had to face a huge "insurgency" war in Spain (those insurgents will by today's standards be called "terrorists"). Even Napoleon couldn't "win" that war, I doubt it that in today's US military there are smarter heads when it comes to war.
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Gemnasium, now with npm support
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The new version also features what we call the "watchmen", ie: a bunch of us manually looking at changelogs to check for security issues.
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Admittedly, he was refering to the 2.0 line, the goal of which was to drastically lower the size of the codebase by cutting out support for non-current browsers.
I can't help but wonder if this kind of surreptitious change to the platform might in any way be connected to Byron Sebastian's sudden resignation last September from Salesforce. Is that nutty of me?

http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/heroku-loses-a-star-as-ceo-and-...
No, I think overnight was at 400 miles. The Milford Supercharge was at roughly 322 miles according to the graph. Broder says he traveled 79 miles before spending the night at Groton, so that's at roughly 400 miles.
You're assuming that the issue isn't actually caused by load, even though he said it is.
Google is desperate for revenue, their PE is 25+, Apple and MSFT have it 10 or so. Their stock will drop in half if growth isn't there. Every search page with commercial interest is already pay-to-play, some openly, others obvious enough for anyone.

What's next for that 30% growth Larry wants? What other service is he going to ruin for short term profits? At their valuation it becomes harder and harder to beat the previous year's earnings.

Google has done a lot of sleazy and illegal things for revenue so spare me the outrage
I have always found the best time for networking was at the start of the event but that might be because I usually get there early.
Sounds like great news. Hopefully those extra resources can go into returning the GUI to the best in the business and at that point, I look forward to returning. In the meantime, Chrome will keep me warm.
I bought my KIM off the doorman of the bank where I worked (in the mailroom). He mentioned he had a computer for sale on the message board in the hallway and I went with him (on the back of a rickety old motorcycle, scariest thing I've ever done) to his house in Almere, came back home by train with a bag full of bits.

This particular KIM-1 was sold as a kit which had been partially completed and some of the parts were installed the wrong way. So I got to practice double sided PCB parts extraction for a while before being able to program it.

The FSK chip eventually got cannibalized to do duty in a home-brew modem for the BBC (which had a dedicated serial port).
Being an Android user is a lot like being a Mac user in the 90's.
I did, and I even agree with you, but it still makes a bad title. ;)
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No kidding! I'm dying to make a pomodoro timer for mine.
Personally I don't do that. Unlike many technical people, I don't have AdBlock installed either.

Giving a service attention and eyeballs in this day and age is like giving them money. It's actually worse, because you're the product and so they don't treat you like you're the customer. Even if they don't get money from you, even if you're using AdBlock, even if you are totally immune to advertising or any other means of indirect monetization, they might get something from your friends, which is why Quora is insisting on logging in with your Facebook account and showing your activity to your friends. And even if you don't log in with your Facebook account by bypassing their wall, you might send links to your friends at some point. So the mere act of giving them eyeballs is helping them grow and is encouraging them (and others) to use the same tactics.

What I do is that I simply don't use Quora or any service or website that doesn't treat me well. Quora does have some interesting content in there, but it isn't valuable enough for me to do any sacrifice. Even if it's a free service, I'm not putting up with free services that don't respect me. If companies need to monetize and provide value worth paying, all they need to do is ask for it, as I've got money to spend on valuable things.

Otherwise I would rather focus my attention on things and products that actually deserve it.
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I suppose anything you already know could be described as a platitude. Doesn't mean everybody else knows it already. Apparently the people currently responsible for education don't know it yet.
I'll make notice for the future ;-)
An opt out is not a protest.

It's not.

The TSA doesn't keep records of opt out rates. The random folks waiting in line around you probably don't recognize that you're opting out as a form of protest.

The only thing opting out accomplishes is letting a TSA agent rub his or her hands all over you.

IMO, the opt out is a genius maneuver by the TSA: They give passengers who have privacy concerns a sense that they're protesting, without them actually having protested.
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The estimated range assumes that the driver follows the car manual which says it should be plugged into a 120v outlet over night, which he neglected to do.
Regarding Alexa and Compate, you're half right. They're wrong in useful ways, but not the way you suggest. What's important to realize is why they're wrong - sampling bias. So they give an accurate representation of a certain demographic, but the usefulness of that depends on the target audience of the site in question. I don't have any examples at hand, but I've come across plenty of big sites that pretty much flatline on Alexa et al - because their clientele is not welcoming to such measurements, for cultural or geographic reasons. So you can (usually) use them to contrast direct competitors, but I would be wary about quora vs. stackexchange.
>Well, that should be obvious: the car stops.

Yeah but does it stop on zero? Does it brick the car?

As it turns out Tesla knows what they are doing, and there is a reserve, probably that's pretty disappointing as a car journalist. But hey, when did we think car journalists were on the side of car manufacturers?
A short story of how my startup failed and succeed (part 2)
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Ask HN: I have a pretty good idea, but don't want to patent it
Like a lot of people here on HN, I'm very much against software patents. I have a pretty good idea (or so I think), but don't want to go and patent it. I want others to use my idea without restrictions.

My main question is, how can I stop someone from stealing my idea, requesting a patent and then force others to pay a license fee to use this idea?!?
That's a silly way to frame it when one side has a clear motive to make the product look good and the other side has no clear motive to make it look bad.
Scientists create automated ‘time machine’ to reconstruct ancient languages
When I was travelling through the US, it seemed to me that the state religion of some Americans is "America" - and like all religions, it's not up for questioning.

I noticed that this patriotic religion increased and I had a lighthearted mental count going in my head of how many houses had a little US flag in the front yard (in LA, this would be on the other side of the yard as the post telling you which security company would respond to a burglary). It seemed to me that the more patriotic-religiouse areas hit one beflagged house in every 4-5. To be fair, most areas didn't have any flags or rare flags, but when it got to one in five... anyway, this theory was turned on its head when I stayed in a part of Pittsburgh where it was one in five houses that didn't have that little flag...
A JIT compiled Ruby implementation in RPython
Someone needs to make an algorithm that does the opposite of hq4x and does the most optimum reduction of say a 64x64 complex image into pixel art.

Then you can hand tune the pixels.

Simply reducing ala nearest-neighbor is not good enough.
Only half true with or without brain.
Photoshop on Mac has separate windows up to the present day.
About Red Gate Software (a very open and honest company history)
Programming the PC (after the ST with its linear memory space) really felt like a step back in many ways.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way. It actively put me off from programming for a good while (that and Doom) because it was such a hassle, it felt so needless. Why make things harder than they should be, or why fail so bad at making hardware? (Remember this was an arrogant 16-year old thinking.)

Needless to say, I came across such situations a lot more once confronted with the real world.
I'm also curious whether something like raw charge percentage is shown to the user directly, or whether it is made more familiar like a bar graph or something.
I imagine Tesla weren't terribly keen to press the point when he left Norwich because a journalist having to stand around for several hours in the freezing cold whilst the Tesla Model S charged wouldn't look that much better in print than the same journalist running out of power and having to be towed.

It would have taken him, oooh, about 8 hours to do a full charge at Norwich. What actually seems more likely - Elon Musk's insinuations that the only reason he didn't charge up fully there was because he was deliberately trying to run the car flat, or the journalist not wanting to hang around for an entire day in a small town in freezing weather?
Digital displays are easier to read in bad lighting, not harder. So it's impossible to have misread 5 as a 9 at night.
It's true that creating a watch that means you don't have to take your phone out of your pocket isn't as "worthy" as solving world hunger.

But that's true of the vast majority of modern human activity. If we only ever spent our time on creating/doing things that are at least as worthy as solving world hunger, we wouldn't be making pretty much any form of consumer electronics, any clothing beyond the most basic required to survive, playing any sports/games, or creating any art/films/music/books, or satirical podcasts.

If we've jumped the shark by focusing on our personal non-essentials before worrying about the basic needs of the rest of humanity, then we did it a long, long time before this watch came along.
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What's the difference between Juche and self-reliance?
Yes, you are wrong.

"Contacts in the recruitment world" are probably right about contracts with clients that use recruiters.

I'm currently turning down more work than I know what to do with through my network.
Thinking out of the box here, what about the West (US and Sout Korea) letting China take over North Korea. Make it part of China. Wouldn't that make it better for everyone involved?
I would love an invite! I was just about to sign up with one of their competitors but would prefer to use Stripe.
Announcing Async Data Discovery and Interchange (ADDI)
I wanna say "too sad; don't read". I can't read it right now. It was bad enough scanning through the torture and executions.

One day, these people will be free. And we may develop the technology to do it sooner than you think. I see the first wave of robots disabling their nukes. And the second wave disabling every fence and gun.
iPhone lockscreen can be bypassed with new iOS 6.1 trick
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