skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just skimmed through the project description, but it seems like they're hiring a developer and don't code it themselves. If you're hiring somebody to build this with great attention to details, I can imagine those 100k being quite reasonable. Consider internationalisation as well (perhaps not for Chinese, but to different languages with Latin writing).
Paramount Aquires Rights To Ramez Naam's Nexus
This is awesome! I really should learn iPython one of these days...
While I hope they aim a little lower this time and work out the UI first, it'd be a true shame if they didn't attempt some resurrection of the agent/plugin interaction they attempted with Wave.
Swype was acquired by Nuance. Nuance has quite the portfolio for input entry whether it be by speech or typing.

Reinventing text entry/editing is something I've always wanted to do/see done. Wish there were more solutions that weren't based off of QWERTY, though. I realize it's been the standard since the typewriter, but if we really want to see huge gains in speed and efficiency, we should shift away from it.
I would add to my other response that your wife is probably a very caring and patient person, and by listening to people with trouble, taking time to understand them, and doing whatever it is she does with ayurveda, I have no doubt at all that she helps people.

I wouldn't even rule out that ayurveda itself is helping them as well as just spending time being listened to and relaxing as a result. I don't know much about it and if there are dietary, meditative and exercise aspects then it's probably doing her patients a power of good!

I just think the other poster's talk about poisons is rubbish :)

My 'bullshit' comment was a sort of a logical construction. If some of the 'facts' upon which Ayurveda is predicated can be shown to be wrong, Ayurveda as a thought system is wrong (it produces incorrect results). Doesn't mean everything about it is wrong, just that it doesn't always make good predictions/proclamations. A bit like... I don't believe in Jesus but the whole 'do unto others' line is awesome :)
How many users turn off JavaScript when visiting an untrusted site? I for one never have in over 15 years.

And if you did turn it off, and the site doesn't work, what do you do? Read the source code and look for malicious JavaScript? Your down to the 0.0001%.

Extension.
Marcia Hofmann is joining his appeals team, so I suspect this is going to SCOTUS.

Normally you pick the most compassionate defendant (like they did in Heller in DC) for a test case. Weev is probably the least sympathetic defendant. But I guess you go to war with the weev you have, not the aaronsw you wanted.
I think the most interesting use of this would be typing via eye-tracking.
You can get it on your Kindle for free: http://www.amazon.com/How-Live-Hours-Day-ebook/dp/B0084AHN6C...

Interesting that there's no original publication date on public domain works in the Amazon store.
Cool.

Haven't looked at the code yet, but I wrote:

https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/pytho...

which does something similar (and is interpreter agnostic as it looks like this is).
At least mention what the default hotkeys are, and what will/should happen when you hit them. On Linux, after hitting CTRL+SHIFT+R, I just get the option to launch Chrome. I come back and hit CTRL+SHIFT+R again, and it's the same option.
GChat is already a well known brand name that most people view positively, hopefully they continue using that name.
Would be great if you could provide me with a jsfiddle,thanks. i'm kinda not getting it.
Absolutely disgusting, AT&T.
It will be interesting to see if uptake is diminished by their recent shutdown of Reader. It's hard to feel unwary of new Google services that don't smell like something 90% of folks will use.
Fizz Buzz: Enterprise Edition
Yes, there is. Link: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/p...

Not entirely related to Google's idea, but not completely unrelated either.
Sure, but that will require users to get used to a different layout. Dvorak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard) does this. It isn't very popular though, as it's few people want to spend time relearning how to touch type.
For context, this guy used to be part of the GNAA. They don't care at all about exposing security holes. His goal probably wasn't to cause some sort of security improvement. Yeah, the punishment was harsh, but this guy isn't exactly a folk hero.
The Danger of Our Sedentary Society
AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison
I've spent a lot of time recently wondering about short-term vs long-term thinking. In politics, I've heard people say that the important decisions are all "long-term", which they define as 2-3 years (Canada). In technology and science, "long-term" seems to also mean 2-3 years for so many people (the author of this article excluded, obviously). The Apple/Samsung/Google blog posts that dominate tech media almost all reek of this thinking.

It's very bizarre. In these domains, why is the prevailing thinking not that "short-term" = 2-3 years, and "long-term" = 20-30-500 years? I think the world would be a significantly better place is more people thought about what the world will look like, and how their actions will affect it, 50 years out.
Every time I see a ruling like this, I can't help but think that future historians will view this time period in the same way that present day historians view the crusades/religious persecution/witchhunts of the past millennium.

It's amazing how much point of view can change perspective.
I wonder why there isn’t more roaming competition. Roaming users actually have a choice of carriers: my AT&T phone will never connect to a non-AT&T network in the US. In other countries there are usually 3 or 4 networks different networks I can connect to. (My phone is SIM locked, but I’m roaming with an AT&T SIM.) Why doesn’t one of those advertise to travelers and say “Use Carrier X, we’re 90% cheaper”. Is it because they can’t convince AT&T to pass on the savings?
it's ridiculous how a single, cohesive act can be broken apart into individual charges which each has its own punishment independent of the others. it's like sentencing someone for murder to 10 years in prison and another 3 years because the person used an illegally acquired weapon to do it.
I preferred Chrome's Omnibar to Firefox's AwesomeBar as well, but then I found this FF add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/. One advantage I have always preferred with FireFox is that it's add-ons can have tighter integration with the browser than Chrome's extensions. In example, one such add-on that Chrome can't do is FireFox's Last-Tab add-on. It lets you switch between tabs in the order they were used. After getting used to that work flow, I have a hard time using any browser other than FF. To me, Firefox seems more extensible than Chrome.
Aurelio's used to have amazing pizza before the original owners sold it and it became a franchise. Don't waste your money, there's plenty of better options.

Also, I agree with you regarding Chrome's Google search priorities.
Today all domains have at least one dot in them. If, at some point in the future, you're allowed to have "jimmy@nike", directly at a TLD, we'll have bigger fish to fry than that.
You might like http://hnalerts.com/
It doesn't have to be just about curiosity. It can be about wanting to make a useful or even important contribution to society.
Google's Webmasters Help for hacked websites
Imagining a More Engaging Web: 3rd Anniversary of IE Test Drive
Either Readline let's you do the same, or that is just a bash specific feature I am miss remembering. I can check later when I'm not on my phone.
Seven reasons your coworkers don't trust you
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but why do you blame AT&T?
NYT Announces First Class of timeSpace Startups
I'll agree with that, too.
Consistently only getting < 6 hours a sleep per night is associated with a higher risk of stroke, IIRC.
Why? That seems to be making a very different point (and not a very valuable one, in my opinion).
I'm only using GNU readline for my bash prompt, but if I press v it spawns a full-on $EDITOR instance to edit the commandline.
Meanwhile, progress is being made to legalize cellphone unlocking. With grassroots groups leading the charge, the Obama administration announced its support for overturning the ban last week.

I'm astonished that people overwhelmingly believe this falsehood. The White House response opposes legalized phone unlocking, except to phones already out of contract. When they say they "support unlocking", they have a different interpretation of what that means:

And if you have paid for your mobile device, and aren't bound by a service agreement or other obligation, you should be able to use it on another network.

[...] neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...

A (very) few journalists are paying attention:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/obama-s-stance-on-unlock...
Tests will show how correct it will be. May I suggest to also try swype with this?
Probably because they were the ones who royally screwed up in the first place, disclosing tons of customer details to literally anyone who wanted it (including automatic web spiders), and nobody from AT&T is going to spend a day in jail or pay restitution for that.
I like Safari's solution best.

Hit space and you get recent searches.

Start typing and you get suggestions.
A good start: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/4-simple-changes-prote...

I also use NoScript whenever possible.
No, I'm saying the consciousness will actually outgrown the bounds of the brain so completely that when the brain itself finally dies you won't consider it anything more than a small appendage anyway. The brain isn't going to be replaced bit by bit, it's going to be subsumed into a much larger consciousness.

You seem to have this notion that the consciousness will be either in the brain or in the machine, I think that notion is fundamentally flawed, consciousness will expand to include every tool and sense available in both hardware and wetware, it cannot and will not be bound. Your sense of "self" is going to include every hardware upgrade you have; when you can Google with a thought, you will feel like part of you dies if that's turned off as it will quickly become part of your consciousness.
Improving Readability With Proper Typography
The people behind Press, the best Google Reader app on Android, are apparently working on finding another place to host its content, but they have no webapp for now. Feedly has a good Android app and webapp, but it's more of a Flipboard type of interface than a Google Reader interface.

I've gone with Newsblur; hopefully they'll work a bit on the Android app, but for now it's the one with the best feature set.
There's one we attempted to use in school for p2p messaging over the network. [1]

I also came across a chat system for the Plone CMS. [2]

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/babble-chat/

[2] http://babblechat.org/en/latest/
BlackBerry CEO Talks New Devices and Roadmap Plans, Throws iPhone Under the Bus
Those are massive generalizations. Yes, plenty of engineers have terrible taste. Plenty of designers have no deep knowledge of data-structures. It's status quo to compartmentalize talent. This attitude is so entrenched in my experience, that it's best to pretend that you don't know anything about design if you're working in an engineering department. But, a different level of insight in design can occur when the designer intimately understands the technological constraints.
Sweet mother of moses... if this is at all close to the stackexchange/serverfault http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/127/the-comms-room chat rooms, I'm all in! Seems like it at least, will have to give it a try.
It makes more sense reading it as intentional.
Nevertheless, what applies to him will also be applied to folk heroes. So it does matter, even if the defendant is unlikeable.
I couldn't get it to work (and want it to!). It says "Command Set is not available". That's if I open a png image and click "Work the magic". Thanks
As a person who fielded calls from thousands of ordinary people with totally hosed browsers because their cousin saw an article and told them to turn off Java script or else his computer will be hacked, I totally understand this article. However, I hate it when software I use is dumbed down to the point where I can't configure it to be useful to me. My suggestion? Keep those options. But bury them. Deeply. Maybe provide an Easter egg-like thing you have to do to get at them (ie: enter "I really want to turn off javascript" into a textbox verbatim). People with the savvy to use those options will be able to find the process on Google. And the people who turn things off by mistake are typically busy wrestling with the concept of drag and drop, and won't graduate to more difficult things like that for a few more years.
The Steubenville rapists will probably get less time.
It doesn't really matter if the guy is an asshole. Harsher sentences for incrementing a URL than for rape or vehicular manslaughter are ridiculous.
I use Firefox because of its many customization options and his powerful addons. I i didn't knew what i was doing i would've used Chrome.
We are supposed to prosecute, convict and sentence on the facts of the case, not the likeability of the defendant
This doesn't seem to solve any of those issues, except to also provide granular access to keys (just in a much more cramped setting).
type="password" inputs are not explicitly saved to browser form history, which is the biggest functional differentiator.
Enlightenment and Romanticism – The myth about romantic love
Why are you insecure about it? I'd encourage you to explore the feelings that arise inside of you when negotiations occur.

And if you can't do the haggling in person, defer on negotiating a number at that time and then negotiate over email?
Ah, you are right. Such a useful feature!
Agreed, I look forward to the "Top 5 replacements for Google Keep" stories on Lifehacker, etc. in a few months/years.
How long before Google discontinues the service? I'll stick with EverNote.
At the time, yes.

In particular, there were somewhat irreconcilable differences in goals and priorities...
If you're interested in alternative keyboards, take a look at GKOS. It's a thumb based chorded keyboard.

http://gkos.com/gkos/index-gkos-com.html
Any popular project that is written in Rails, like GitLab or Redmine, typically gets tricky to install real quick because of all the third-party dependencies. This is particularly true if the person installing it is not a developer or it is installing it on Windows or OS X. Gitlab is a bit more trickier than usual because it needs ssh configuration, etc. We are always looking for feedback on how to improve the process
This is why micropayments for individual pieces of content have never taken off, and never will.
I am not sure if those numbers hold good anymore. The starting salaries have gone up to 10-25K, thanks to growing cost of living in India. That hardly gives you a few months to survive.

Even if you were willing to sacrifice a decent paycheck, you need to think of hosting, marketing and other expenses.
CLI all the things: Introducing Josh.js
Josh.js

The result of this work is the Javascript Online SHell, a collection of building blocks for adding a command line interface to any site.
NextGxDx Selects Eligible for Genetic Testing Marketplace
Ah ha, thanks :) Woke up this morning and was wondering why. Was a late night post.
This is great for https://github.com/fat/slow-flying-pizza
3.5 years for accessing public urls and then forwarding the information on to a media organisation (yes I know it's Gawker, but still). Makes me wonder what Aaron would have got if he'd gone to trial.
I was really upset at all the options I lost in applications on my phone when it updated from Ginderbread to ICS. I wanted a more powerful phone. But now many of the features I typically used are gone. Note to developers: beating iOS doesn't necessarily mean becoming more like it.
oh my god this is awesome
Modeling Neuron Behavior in C#
Very good call. This is becoming a serious problem on hn/reddit.
> Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.

And complete mess when someone other than you opens your file :)
From the comments:

"People who have programming skills should enjoy better productivity and lower frustration while editing Wikipedia. Perhaps most exciting is how many people will have a gentle and practical introduction to programming because of this."

A lot of people on HN get down on Wikipedia because of deletionists etc. and support a forked version but the fact is Wikipedia is the most salient expression of the spirit of the internet. Google is great but is a business with all the downsides that entails, project abandonment etc. Maybe I am gushing but Wikipedia is without peer.
The setting is vitally important for an extremely small number of people.

That sounds to me like it should be moved into an add-on. The users affected still can get the capability while the rest of the world is spared another setting that clutters the UI.
Stack Overflow eats up 54 TB of bandwith a month
I'm all for Google fixing their mess of communications platforms, but by attempting to consolidate those into a proprietary solution, I fear they've doomed it to the same fate as Google Wave.

If they were to at least include support for XMPP clients, they would be golden; however, the opposite appears to be true.
I'm not sure profit is relevant here. Creative types (I use that loosely) are generally interested in wide distribution of their work, not necessarily the money that may follow.

> any preexisting beliefs that they may hold that the videos are all fake would be irrational.

I don't think anyone is suggesting they are all fake. The question is that if the want for the content causes some events to be depicted for the camera. It is only irrational to think that that could never happen.

And even the content that is completely genuine is still not very representative. A friend of mine is an animal rights activist and we took him out to another friend's dairy farm. He came away saying that he was quite impressed by the level of care the animals received and it was nothing at all like he expected.

I also remember a video that made the rounds of the slaughter of a pig that was pretty horrifying. However, it was slaughtered that way to comply with religious needs of a certain group and was not indicative of how all pigs are taken at slaughter. The people distributing the video made no mention of that fact though. The shock value is all they were concerned with.

The production of this type of content, even when real, is highly cherry picked at doesn't come anywhere near telling the whole story.
Comparing touch typing to touch keyboards is quite a stretch, pardon the pun.
So that's why every time I start typing a reddit url, Chrome suggests I visit http://www.reddit.com/r/gone wild (sic, with the space in there).

There are a number of reasons why they really need to rethink this, default it off, or do some better filtering. Didn't impact me personally beyond the confusion but I could imagine that URL and maybe some others coming up in what appears to be someone's unique search or browsing history raising some interesting questions at work and/or at home for some users.
Glad to see this project get more attention...the good thing about HN and other submission sites is that you always have the opportunity to do an explanatory/reflective post, as you've done here.

One suggestion I have is to SEO the title page a little bit...that is, put the tagline ("Interactive maps with open buildings data") in the title tag so that your site is associated correctly with what it offers, rather than just "Majuro.js"
Berners-Lee wins engineering prize for world wide web
Mine's not interpreter agnostic because I had to mess with the stack frames to insert variables into the global context.

But yours is able to do that because your importing a top-level edit function while I was pretty set on dynamically creating a vim() method and not having to import a function (just a module).

I love how yours lists the globals though! I might just have to bite that feature :).
Clutter is not bad in and of itself.
DissidentX - Bram Cohen's steganographic framework
Currently adding over 4k paid users per day.

He reaches $1 million at just over 40k paid users.

Factor in the userbase he's already been building for 4 years, the hundreds of thousands of Google Readers currently leaving, the millions that will need to find a replacement before July, and the last-minute movers on July 1st.

I don't think server costs and a couple of employees will put him below a 7 figure income.
Once Google is the nexus for the greater part of the world's communications, the project could be renamed Google Babel. We can then prepare allegations of hubris, and the possibility of them exploiting it for sinister purposes.

"The shadow of that hyddeous strength / sax myle and more it is of length."
"We will not release any source code of the bot or the backend because we consider the risk of abuse as too high"

A great deal of raw data is available for download over BitTorrent. It shouldn't be too hard to test the validity of the census results by verifying a random sample of the results.
What total bullshit. JavaScript should not be mandatory. It SHOULD ALWAYS remain controllable, and killable. That should stay in the hands of the users. The idea that "disabling JavaScript" is a bug and not a feature is repugnant to me.

And images? Most people are too naive to understand that the <img> tag represents an HTTP GET for every occurrence. Being able to lock down GETS and limit them is a safety measure, not a bug. Just because users are naive, and that such naivety is encouraged by greedy parties, does not mean that the feature should not exist.

Certificate Authorities? SSL? Destroying the ability to control your cache?

Alex Limi should take note that the browser exists for the user, not the faceless "product" locked away in remote internet server land. Not all websites are "product" designed with the intent to extract cash from people's pockets. The browser is the last gateway of control a user has over what the internet is allowed to do to their machines. Taking these settings away represents a set of handcuffs.

Is it not clear that JavaScript can be used as a weapon against the user, to obfuscate, and limit the user's understanding of the actual behavior of any given HTML document?

Privacy Engineer Monica Chew should take note that people will fork or abandon their open-source browser if it doesn't represent their interests. People with the technical awareness to know better will advise people to avoid Firefox, if decisions like this are on the horizon.

Blame people like Alex Limi and Monica Chew if Firefox becomes the next Internet Explorer.

Design-by-committee indeed. Design by Steve Ballmer is one possible alternative, is it not? Does that sound better? I think we know what authoritarian decision making can look like.

Wow! No respect for this troll-bait article under any circumstances. I don't care what their pedigrees are.
Yeah, I suppose the existing Google Talk name would fit the new system as well
Google Reader is one of those tools that is hard to replace. I'm trying out alternatives but they all feel odd to me. I really liked hitting space to jump from one story to the next too. Keyboard navigation was really good in GReader.
It's no secret that google hates the desktop. I remember getting a sales call from Google to move one of my clients from Exchange to Google Apps. When I asked about Outlook integration the rep was very upfront that Google's goal for Outlook integration is merely to get users comfortable with the transition to full-on web client. Doing everything online is Google's whole thing.