skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact, Google doesn't play nicely with ESPs either. Most mail providers (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) use a feedback loop when you report spam. After you mash the spam button, the ESP that sent the mail is notified that a particular email was flagged as spam.

This allows the ESP to curtail spam problems on their end (for example, Mailchimp heavily throttles your emails or outright bans you if your spam rate creeps past a very low percentage). It's an all-around good thing for the ecosystem, with the exception perhaps of publishers that get the unlucky "spam instead of unsubscribe" user action.

But Gmail does not participate in this loop. They don't tell any ESP that a user has marked an email as spam...that data all stays in house. Why? Hell if I know - perhaps they don't want to tip off spammers to being detected. On the flipside, reputable ESPs get less leverage on spammers in their network.
> A bolder move than the Wii U would have been to completely flip the tables and infiltrate the cellphone gaming market.

Don't judge Nintendo by the Wii and its descendants--consoles are increasingly irrelevant, and "casual game" consoles doubly so. Multiplayer = internet play, these days. Nintendo knows that: the Wii U is a definite niche product, aimed straight at those rare instances when you actually have lots of people in a living room who want to sit around a TV and play the same video game at the same time. Playing games with your kids, or at a party; not fragging d00dz on a leaderboard. It's why the Wii line's online story is so bad: the whole console is aimed at the multiplayer you do offline.

So, as I said, don't judge Nintendo by the Wii. It's not their main business any more. Instead, judge Nintendo by the DS, and its descendants. It's increasingly where all of Nintendo's actual "game" games have gone. And its online story is becoming better and better with each generation--it might actually become a phone one of these days, who knows. (I could see Nintendo buying a Japanese phone company, firing all their industrial+UI designers and putting the DS people in charge, and then building a "Nintendo DS" that happened to internally be an Android phone.)
You're comparing Monicagate to Watergate? Nice.
Ask HN: Is Google driving the world towards Facebook?
By turning its back on RSS, isnt Google giving power to the "Like" System of Facebook? How are people supposed to follow a websites update otherwise? Does G+ offer any RSS like features?
When I was writing games, There was a lot of re-implementing nearest neighbor searches in python. Now that I'm working on a Saas web app, it's 90% UI busy work.
what does what Clinton did have to do with the post you replied to?
I know! I was about to mention Opera too.

They are just jinxed that way! Do it all right, but just not getting the mindshare that they (in a way, rightly) deserve (despite being closed-source)!

And the browser itself is just fantastic in terms of speed, configurability and performance (despite failing on pages here and there due to no fault of theirs).
That sounds more like Sociology.

As an aside, I believe my first post and this one could sound like I'm trying to be a dick, I'm honestly not. I am wondering and interested. Business majors and related (like your accounting professor father) always seemed to me to be more practical degrees and not really research fields.
The Second Screen Comes To The Movies With App-Enhanced Film, “App”
"By killing a product that was beloved and heavily used by most influencers, you start to alienate those folks. Killing a product like Picnik with tens of millions of users, might have less impact on the business than killing a product with less than a million users, where most of those users are influencers."

Reminds me of what Apple is doing with the Mac Pro.
Google has made a pure "Top-down decision". Apple also made one like this: replace Google Maps by Maps Apple style. #Fail
Seriously? If I was doing the same thing I'd be buying from ODMs like Compal, Quanta or Foxconn, not from Dell, Lenovo or HP.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/
http://www.compal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=...
http://www.quantatw.com/Quanta/english/product/qci_nb.aspx
That seems to be a popular topic. At least, I just came across this yesterday: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~rafkind/papers/dissertation.pdf
And that's why reading rss is your emailer is so great, because presumably you already have a system to to synchronize your email reading from multiple places. I get news sent to me via rss2email and I read it using my phone, my laptop, and my desktop.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail
We're being trolled by robomartin, which is not normally acceptable behavior on HN.
Interesting, I can see how that would be useful, although some of that is already working using XMPP (Google Talk, really).

Is there a way to be notified when you have XMPP integration? Most of our dev tools integrate with it[1][2] and having some of those notifications(build failure, issue fixed) stream into a common area would be very cool.

[1] http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/whatsnew/
[2] http://blogs.jetbrains.com/teamcity/tag/jabber/

Edit: wrt/ YouTrack, it doesn't support group chats yet(see http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JT-18866).
I think that if Michael Dell or Steve Jobs were running that shop we wouldn't be seeing this message.
Pretty much 0%. Mostly because of libraries already solving the problem for me.
hold on I'm compiling a list.
Could be. But lots of people "overreact". Not everyone who reacts differently than you expect or anticipate is "overreacting".

But, again, if you've made a conscious decision that it's OK to alienate a certain subset of potential visitors, and your business can withstand that, then you've made a rational - and possibly quite correct - decision.

I don't begrudge you the right to make that decision, although I might say I dislike it or whatever.
Thanks, will add it to the list! definitely looking for feedback, feel free to ping me offline via the contact form, or linkfest (at) linkfest.com !

( also hackers who might want to work on this sort of thing )
Go back to /r/politics and leave HN to grownups.
"Search, which provides the majority of Google's revenue, is precarious because there are very low costs for someone to switch to another service."

Google's dominance in search has nothing to do with customer switching costs. They are dominant because, imperfections and privacy issues aside, they legitimately have the best performing search engine on the market. They are able to retain this position because search is an extremely difficult and resource intensive technical problem (like mapping), that nobody has been able to credibly challenge them on since they took over.

If someone builds a better search engine than google, then yes, their position will be precarious, regardless of the other ways they've roped people in. But none of the current crop of competitors give any reason to believe this is imminent.
I would be a possible customer for this. I use Campfire today, and I looked at your homepage and it looks very similar... can you give some points on which this is different/improved? Thanks!
Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valley's ‘War For Talent'
It makes sense given that most religions are founded upon very old texts in very bad condition. Papyrus is a font designed to mimic very old / damaged manuscripts.
There's nothing more annoying than some person with a vanity project complaining they aren't getting rich.
Sweden: Arctic town celebrating “Facebook effect” – creating human like symbol
That it is a “thumbs up” is obviously a nod to Facebook
I suppose it pushes websites to be on Google+ somehow
Given that it's an Australian casino, its highly likely that the gambler is associated with a syndicate working out of Southeast Asia (see for example the recent soccer gambling scandal). The problem isn't identifying who took the money, the problem is a) prosecuting and b) identifying and recovering assets in a tangle of opaque foreign legal systems.
Well, clearly they did not look around enough.
How come these people can sell laptops and workstations without OS:
http://pcspecialist.co.uk/ (no affiliation)

And they're just an example. Europe is full of this kind of small firms.

I wonder what their real reason for quitting is.
Avoid immigration woes, floating offices
You're right, I've noticed that too. Probably because they're going for the old and wise feeling. "Established in 1860" kind of thing.
Human livers kept 'alive' out of body in donor breakthrough
When Google announced they were killing off Reader, the big problem was that there was no obvious alternative. That's not the case when they remove features I like from Chrome. I hear Firefox is pretty good these days, I'll probably try switching over and see how I like it.
Pure Leverage Review: The Perfect Ally for your Home Business
While I'm a massive fan of pedantry, unfortunately the Wikipedia article you link to includes references to him as "Abe".
I'm comparing undermining the US justice system, one president stepped down, the other just hung around. Or do you think that doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing is only something that Republicans should do?
Is there some reason that it outputs to names.txt? I'd rather it output to stdout, and let me decide whether to save it or not.
I don't think it tweets anything automatically. It just has an interface to twitter (for when you need to tweet something but you phone is all the way upstairs). No one in that house has a twitter account so it's never been tested.

Slightly more useful is the screen that can be used as an electronic whiteboard to leave notes. In practice that got used a lot in the first month and then never again (the interface is just too clunky).
Work-Life Balance for Startup Founders
I've seen CEOs making millions of dollars act like "disgruntled losers" because they feel they haven't been paid enough. Who decides what is enough? An employee may get paid what you think is a lot, but still not what he thinks is fair, and he may be right. All I can say is -- without knowing which party is right in this particular case - that there are people on wall street making much more money than Uber drivers for much less work; they certainly contribute less to society, if at all.
Sure, if you sign up we are sending announcements about new features.

Dev tools integration is our big focus. So far we have GitHub, BitBucket, CloudForge and Airbrake plus raw HTTP and direct email address for each chat room. One of our customers created a Ruby Gem [1].

[1] http://rubygems.org/gems/lechat-rb
You are just wrong. For example, algebraic topology is one of the most abstract subjects I hear conversations about week. It has applications in physics, data analysis, and numerical computing.

Also, saying that reality is 4-dimensional is hooding yourself. The machine learning techniques we use everywhere depend on the math of higher-dimensional spaces, and they wouldn't work if reality couldn't be meaningfully viewed as many-dimensional.
I had this eerie feeling that I was reading Thomas Friedman -- a lot of hand waving with little substance.
Is Abe short for something else? I was being facetious about red v. blue silliness but I would love to hear how freeing the slaves was the conservative position, having a hard time seeing how that would work.
David Naylor: Why universities shouldn’t change to suit industry needs
Official technology stack documentation by Trello:
http://www.bestvendor.com/lists/building-and-maintaining-tre...

OpenSource clones:
https://github.com/oo7ph/Trello-Clone

https://github.com/chris-ramon/minitrello

https://github.com/GraemeF/rello

https://github.com/commoncode/mello

https://github.com/swizard/brello

https://github.com/guysherman/itemlist

https://github.com/philipposgate/mello

https://github.com/ichiro101/jirello

https://github.com/brendanheywood/ghello

https://github.com/jluna79/pillo

https://github.com/jiewmeng/Tickle

https://github.com/edulix/kanllo

https://github.com/StrictlyBusiness/Mello
thanks thanks!
N.Korea 'Under Cyber Attack'
I show projects that I've worked on and make sure to state that this was at an X company, and the code is their property. I identify the parts I took part in. Never found any issues with it.

Freelance or side projects are also a huge plus so definitely dive into either.
I am not sure how this made it to the front page...
Major differences:

- We strive to have the best history search experience. As-you-type very vast search that does not obstruct you conversation view.

- We want to enable having more than one concurrent conversation without needing to constantly switch between tabs.

- We want to provide state-of-the-art API and integration with tools you are using.
The nordic model works for Norway, mainly because they have a gusher of oil money coming in.
Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected
A lot of CS people complain about that. Especially in college and those who are just joining the work-force.

The classical problems were problems back in the day. There is no point in re-implementing them nowadays. But it is very important to know how they are implemented, and the logic behind them.

Why?

Because we are tackling much, much harder problems. Fields like data analysis, NLP, machine learning are yet to reach their potential. If we cannot master the easy classical problems, how are we expected to tackle the bigger fields? By master, I mean understand and not re-implement/re-invent the wheel every single time.
Does it compile sourcecode or not?

Does it compile to bytecode, does it use the JVM?

How fast is it compared to C?
No they're not. The government is allowing private companies purchase harvesting rights (lasting several decades). The title is wrong. There are however serious concerns about it, especially given the complete absence of competent regulation of any kind in Ireland of late.
Doesn't it take three days to understand the code base?
All Windows 8 certified machines

This only applies to x86 platforms. ARM-based "Windows RT" systems are locked down. I think you're right about this case but I think it's important to remember that some EFI secure boot systems can't be unlocked.
Averaged over my entire career, about 0%.

In isolation, I've had a few brief stretches where I spent some time doing low level algorithmic stuff. I wrote some sorting/searching stuff by hand once, because I was working on external files, not doing it in memory. There was, at the time, either no library that did exactly what I was trying to do, or I didn't know about it.

More recently I've done some graph theory based stuff (Floyd-Warshall algorithm for "all pairs - shortest paths"), as I was experimenting with some social network analysis stuff that I wanted to do. But even that probably won't go anywhere. As I explore the capabilities of existing off-the-shelf graph database products, I'm finding most - if not all - of what I need.. At one point I thought I might need to roll my own, but it's a burgeoning field and there are more and more OSS options popping up all the time.
That letter from Jack Daniels is impressive. I've never seen anyone be so nice about that. I've received a couple myself (my favorite was from Zamboni) and they've not been hostile but nobody offered to pay money to switch it.
Professionally: 0

My own project: At least once a week.
It is more information about the years that led up to the Iraq war, the long one, addressing the poster's comment on what else might come out. My post was to show that there's a lot out there now that happened in the 90's that seems to sometimes be lost.
I have too much bound up on gmail to risk closing my account and may be one of the ten people world wide who actually use G+, although not that often.
[Edit: Original HN title was "Linux computer shop closing because of thwarting by large companies."]

Narrative about unnamed "large companies" trying to kill Linux? Check.

Story about Microsoft Windows 8 killing off a poor Linux company? Check.

Lack of any details like the names of companies that stopped shipping machines without OSes? Check.

Lack of explanation about how exactly Windows 8 "closed the doors permanently" ? Check.

This is just plain FUD designed to garner clicks and sympathy by invoking the bogeyman and it's working very well, just like usual.

As an offtopic aside, even RMS is not immune from resorting to unproven FUD. For example from http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

>This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in Windows. My late friend Fravia told me that when he searched for a string in the files of his Windows system, it sent a packet to some server, which was detected by his firewall. Given that first example I paid attention and learned about the propensity of "reputable" proprietary software to be malware

I haven't been able to find any reputable reference for Windows sending local search keywords to "some server", maybe someone can point me to one. But the FUD campaign continues unchallenged and unabated, even in a community that prides itself to be technically superior to the unwashed masses.
What does IIS have to do with the UI, exactly? It's just a web server.
Exactly his point. Read the history...
jQuery, Node, Sublime and Stack Overflow as equalisers?

They don't even narrow the gap by 1/10 of an inch.
If changing the reason for going to war three times a week (nuclear weapons, complicity with bin laden, uranium yellow cakes, etc), outing CIA agents with contrary evidence, and lying to the public on just about every other fact in the lead-up to the invasion isn't enough to be interesting to the american public, I doubt any revelations forthcoming in their 70s and 80s will be.
I dont spend a lot of time on these kind of problems. But the times I do, it's an exillerating experience.
Knowing the theory of big O notation and time complexety of algorithms has allowed me to build amazing things, I've even used for GUI and JavaScript in the browser.

The most exciting stuff has been implementing things where I have been unsure if what I was trying to would be possible at all in a browser. The feeling you then get when it actually works, and you know that you've pushed a limit that you have never seen anyone do in the browser before, can' be beaten.

If you push yourself to the limit, think outside the box etc. You are going to need knowledge of algorithms.
Yes, I'm surprised by that myself.
Opera Software recently took the decision to leave the old browser-foundation behind for Chromium[0], which may change the things you listed for better or worse. Since Chromium doesn't support RSS natively, it is currently unknown whether it will be supported in future versions of Opera.

[0]: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...
Very true. Only thing I can object to is that the size of the blue dot should be just barely visible, maybe 1px in size.
The actual app itself looks pretty neat. However, I see their pricing and it's "$1 per user per month". If anyone from LeChat is reading this - you should charge more. Although it appears like having a lower price is a differentiator, in reality it will hurt you.
Another old saying: "If growing up were fun, I would have done it a long time ago."
Oh, please. A Windows RT system is not a Windows 8 certified machine, not even close, the capabilities are vastly different. Might as well point out that the "ARM-Based iOS systems" come with a locked bootloader.
I really doubt it

Some OEM brands are good. Some name brands sell OEM computers /lines.

Get some brands, models, test them.
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I expect when it came to money actually changing hands, or the deadline of that C&D the tone would change a bit. They'd either have their own interpretation of the vague phrasing of "reasonable amount", or more likely want to see invoices.
Same in Germany and possibly more countries in Europe. And here in Germany there are also special courses for giving first aid to children available to parents at low to no cost.
Johnson has plenty of blood on his hands.

The thing about blood, though, is that there's always more to go around.
Are We At War With Pakistan? - Ron Paul
"Maybe it's the desire for official Nintendo games to come to iOS and Android that's coloring my opinions, but it seems like the writing is on the wall for some form of mobile gaming to eventually and completely push consoles to the side."

I understand where this "Nintendo must get into mobile" idea comes from. Folks look around on the subway and see that everyone is on their smart phones, and many are playing games. It's still very unclear to me however, to what extent smart phones are affecting Nintendo's business, and how Nintendo should adjust their business model in response.

Nintendo just announced[1] that Fire Emblem: Awakening for the 3DS smashed franchise sales records, selling 180k copies in the first month (a month plagued by shortages[2]) and selling more than a third of those units via their own digital distribution store. For perspective the lifetime sales of the previous Fire Emblem title was only 250k.

This game is selling out at $40 and 1/3 of the sales are online sales that they don't have to share with anyone else (still $40!). One of the main reasons why I don't think Nintendo should become a software only is company that I don't see how they can remain as profitable if they had to adjust their prices for the realities of the iOS market and had to share their profits with Apple. The most profitable games on mobile stores are free to play titles, and while I think Nintendo should experiment here and develop their own F2P games to test that market, I don't see why they couldn't do that on their own platform.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/14/3dss-fire-emblem-awakening...
[2]http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=511036&highligh...
The most useful part of studying algorithms is knowing what problems they solve. If you've never heard of sorting algorithms, you'll waste time implementing a bad solution.

(Everyone knows about sorting algorithms, but many algorithms are not well-known. They're almost never needed, but when they're useful, they're really useful.)
Doing so would mean that I value your curiosity more than I value my client, their business, their employees, my family, and the well being of everyone who depends on that system. So, no. And it's not cool to ask, either.
Mr. Rogers: Can you say hero?
I don't see how any of that calls into question whether or not the Wii was successful (as a product, it succeeded by every measure). The Wii U failing on it's own merit certainly opens up Nintendo to criticism about the choices they made, but calling the Wii a failure by way of pointing fingers at it's ancestors doesn't seem to fit for me.
I set up my own domain (hosted by InMotion, who have fantastically good customer service) and run my email through that. My initial reservation was that I'd be relying on spam filters that were inferior to Google's. In practice, it hasn't been a problem at all. Obviously, this is anecdotal, but the light-years ahead advantage in spam filtering that Google one had seems to have eroded to the point where it's no longer enough to keep me on gmail.

I still have my gmail account, but it's no longer primary.
And cut 99% of your visitors?

I have a handful that I visit often, reddit (heavily changed which subreddits I follow), hn, facebook, a local news site and google.

Anyway your site is never going to make that list, but I am prepared to go visit it if it shows up in my feed - that is the reason I have a feed in the first place.
The problem is that we have to value Nintendo as a business and the Wii is costing them money. I'm replying from my phone at the moment but Nintendo is losing money. Hopefully someone else can paste sources. With the wii u performance, the DS family is also at risk.