skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This week many of the stability issues were mitigated, and I began to enjoy my game. To be honest, while I didn't ask for the multiplayer features, they were a bonus when they worked. I could even ignore the DRM if the game worked.

But posts such as this can only make my blood boil. What I read is neither "straight" in a sense of honesty nor an "answer" of any sort to the downtime/mismanagement they've done.

Shame on you, Lucy. The next time you want to lie, at least don't claim it's "straight". Only there won't be a next time.
There's a lot of peer reviewed software engineering research to suggest what Steve Jobs said is true, long before he said it.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7559/are-there-s...
It depends on who teaches it. I believe the American Heart Association got rid of rescue breaths but the American Red Cross still trains for two breaths every 30 compressions.
It's almost as if most of the people involved are career bureaucrats and don't change with the party in power.
Facebook Cuts Off MessageMe’s Access To Its Social Graph
It's also interesting the things we take for granted now that were missed completely. One I noticed everywhere was wireless communication. (Plugging your key card in to the wall and the car rather than near field communication, plugging the iphone into the desk rather than just using bluetooth (or forget about the desk comp entirely and connect to the cloud), etc.)

Edit: Actually, at the end he uses a remote control to turn off the lights and lock the doors... so I guess that's another example of failing to grok the implications! Still, interesting in general. Some of the things we don't have yet - like the high-tech schools - look like pretty clear areas for improvement.
Although I do have a home robot that vacuums my floors...
The important difference here is that the DoJ made that argument before a court and didn't decide for itself in a "dark, windowless room". You're invoking an image of unfettered power that doesn't match reality. This was a law suit, by definition it was going to be settled by the judiciary, not the DoJ.
The real benefits of AWS is scale on demand, if you need it.

Formspring reached 1 million users in 45 days. How do you plan for this on typical hardware? Especially when you had no idea ANYONE would use your little side project?

AWS isn't cheap. It offers building blocks upon which you can "easily" build and scale a website. Not for everyone, but good enough for us.
There is no Maxis, only EA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxis#Acquisition_by_EA
wanted to contribute, filled out the form, and couldn't find a 'continue' button.
You make it sound like a 5-star rating system is a novel thing, but it's used all over the Internet, and I think most people have a pretty reasonable understanding of the system.
When Dropbox sees a dup, it does not upload the file at all and therefore you know there is a dup. If I understand correctly, Gmail always uploads the attachment. When there is a dup Google saves storage space. Users will never noticed any difference.
$5000 for "another" programming book?
If you forwards emails through gmail then Google still gets your data.
Gmail is ubiquitous. Zero chance it shuts down until something better comes along.
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because i just started to work for the government.
Is GOOGLE down?
Can't do any searches or get to the website? Is it only me? Just realized that google works on firefox but not chrome. Odd.

Looks like it's just me on chrome.
Wow, that is great. When people extrapolate out the bad things in their life to predict a dystopian future, they should read something like this. It totally reinforces the axiom that you can't know what you can't know. Or more simply you can't predict innovation. The only person who came even remotely close was John Brunner [1] whose novel "The Sheep Look Up" might seem obvious now but was written in 1972.

I don't know what 25 years from now the world will look like but I am pretty sure that 99% of us trying to guess will get it wrong.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up
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Even soldiers (with guns, while under fire) are expected to act legally, and ethically where those standards differ, and we need to hold everyone - public servant or not, to the same standard.

Not only does such a law (making challenging a gag a crime) clearly require authority the people would not and did not grant to the government, but applying such a law to stifle oversight of your actions is criminal - especially when in a sensitive position over so many.
Actually, they did have a lot of that back then, I'm not sure why the author thought it was so fantastically futuristic. Coffee makers with timers are old as dirt, and the heating system is not terribly more advanced than lots of systems in existence back then.
Every day I get hit by about 100k connections for email to my domain (0x58.com), the spammers hit <random>@0x58.com. So far they haven't hit a single actual email address that exists.

Out of those 100k connections, one or two emails come through to my valid email account. So yes, scattershot makes sense, but from looking at my logs, unless your account includes a lot of numbers you aren't going to get hit :P
Maybe you should be the motivator then. Bring your coworkers up instead of letting them bring you down.
Thanks for the link - I haven't read that before and it was great.
Interesting analysis for sure, but I think the only solid takeaway here is that (unsurprisingly) Google's private backbone between regions offers a huge performance advantage over the public Internet between EC3 regions.

As the analysis stands, the individual IO stats aren't meaningful. EC2 instances offer a range of I/O throughput in different instances: a t1.micro has 'low' I/O, an m1.small has 'moderate' and an hi1.4xlarge offers 1.1 GB/s write and 2.0 GB/s write. Cost has to figure into a benchmarked analysis here.

And CPU. One of Google's big claims at launch was that CPU time was notably less expensive than on EC2. I'd love to see some data here and clicked the link expecting to find that analysis.
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought they were a generic form site that pivoted into surveys.
Yes.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com
Did they hand them out today? I'm in Santa Clara for Pycon, but got yanked out due to some last-minute work that just has to get done before Monday. :-\
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/02/06/th...
I told my parents about Internet surveillance and they said "Good! Help catch terrorists!"

Average American probably feels the same.
Great initiave, i've always wanted a book like that.
This is no good. I respect the UX of this feature, however I don't want new users to learn their git conventions in a browser, this way. I am not sure what GitHub's plan is for taking over the world.. but it would great for new users, if for each of their in-browser actions they provided help text that showed the corresponding CLI command. This reinforces their intent of these kinds of features.

EDIT: That is humorous.. I write the above only to see this: http://try.github.com/. It does not invalidate my argument, but it reinforces GitHub's motivation.
I've never used Uber but that is absolutely insane!! How is that not a management nightmare!? I'm floored that this is seen as good management of their driver fleet.
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What's the point of a car that drives itself if there is nothing to read while you're driving? I was seriously looking forward to that - or even a text to speech app that reads Reader feeds.
The "power grab" since 9/11 is mostly imagined. There is very little the President can do now that he couldn't in 1970, and as a practical matter he can do a lot less than he could in 1955.
IANAL either, of course.

Thanks for clarifying your claim.

Without having read all the stuff, and in fact mostly just having read the first few pages of the judgement that you posted, I think it's clear that a key part of (B) is that the ISP argued that the gag was unconstitutional. I have seen no evidence so far saying that the judgement against the FBI gets the ISP off the hook for turning over the data.

I agree that, insofar as (B) was about not turning over information, (C) seems reasonable.

I also agree that, as these things go, every time the "bad news" involves "was taken to court", we should remember that the news could be worse, involving arrest or ruin. So yay there. Then again, taking people to court often results in arrest and ruin, so it's kinda a partial victory. But still, yay for rule of law.

There's a place I disagree with you, though:

D, if true, horrifies me. "You're not only allowed to disobey, you're not allowed to ask the court for permission to disobey. Making use of the judiciary is a crime." That's a horrifying assertion to make.

D also, based on the account given, seems insane. The courts had already actively stated, in 2005, that both your version of (B) and my version of (B) are legal. As I write these sentences, I remind myself that any time someone else seems insane, odds are good that I don't have the whole picture.
I think home robots are a non-starter. They're seductive ideas because they duplicate things we already know (servants). But robots and automation don't work the way humans do, and there's no reason to assume that there will be a point where that stops being true. It used to be that if you were wealthy you had servants, or a service, who would clean your clothing by hand, wash your dishes, cook your meals, etc. Today automation has changed much of that. You have specialized devices which make washing clothes and dishes far less of a chore. You also have innovations in the kitchen which make cooking far less of a chore (everything from electric ovens to stand mixers to refrigeration to a wide variety of prepared or partially prepared foods and so forth) and you have a significant increase in the ability to acquire pre-made foods (at restaurants, fast food places, delivery, frozen foods, etc.)

By the same token I don't imagine that further automation in the home will necessarily take an anthropomorphic shape. It'll be things we haven't even thought of yet, tasks we don't appreciate are time sinks or perhaps don't consider to be automate-able. Look at the roomba, for example.
I believe sciencerobot is saying that "<>" could be used as the empty set literal.
Any plans for iOS?
I know that many here are saying that valuation/cost is too big but I'm convinced that this "cloud" is much bigger than people think. And I for one want Dropbox version of email (and cut crappy gmail) - something that is simple and just works.
Indeed. Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1098/
You are going to compare a launch 9 years ago to what is acceptable today? Besides, the whole point of WoW was that it wasn't going to be single-player. Sims could avoid the server meltdowns by having a single player mode.
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set = <> looks like the other empty container literals, but it's not consistent with the literal notation for sets with one or more elements: my_set = {1,2,3}.
100-1 might be an exaggeration, but the knowledge of different tools, methods, and patterns and how to apply them gives the experienced programmer the ability to produce code that does more, more quickly, and with fewer side effects than the inexperienced programmer. There is also a matter of natural talent: The best software engineers can design software that the average programmer would not be able to develop to the same quality if given years to work on it.

To give an anecdote, the place where I most recently worked had two developers who had been there since the beginning, a software engineer and another coder. The engineer on a bad day could quadruple the output of myself and the other guy in terms of both the number of changes and their value to the project.
How about {,} or s{} ?
I'm currently working in a system that seems to have been written by neanderthals. Global variables everywhere, non-descriptive variable names, functions 500 LOC long, no main program loop, etc. It is written in Python, but my god, at this point its fucking Latin to me. Have spend two days trying to decipher it in order to bring an offline system back online (the system is what makes the company money). Realized its just easier to re-write this pile of shit into a program that's less than 500 LOC. Yes, from 5000+ LOC, to around 500. It will now be maintainable, and modular (and fucking readable). Tell me now, how much more is that worth?

PS. It was written by bad PHP code monkeys who lied about knowing Python (much less how to program).
This is great - teaching intro level stuff is hard
“Uber chooses to call us partners for their tax benefit. If they called us employees, they’d have to cover us all,” said Alazzeh.
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Re: high-tech schools. I read that and was disappointed. Learning isn't about flash and glamour. I don't think our schools are any worse off because they lack immersive visual displays. The more interesting applications of technology for learning are availability of knowledge (encyclopedias and libraries at your fingertips) and personalized interactive education (like the Primer from Diamond Age). Right now most educational software is primitive but the potential is huge, but nobody's invested much in it yet.
Kickstarter sucks at preorders because (a) people use them for preorders and (b) they don't embrace the fact people use them for preorders. Why does it matter what they say in a blog post? Swish is reacting to how they see some people _use_ Kickstarter.

And what's wrong about having a place to discover cool things you can pre-order? I pre-ordered a Pocket Monkey on Swish a few months ago. It came this week and it's awesome.
I didn't think to do {,} which I like. s{} looks weird to me, but I couldn't tell you why.
Why is there no mass protest over government surveillance? How about because the article is talking about a bill with only a tangential relationship to surveillance? If you want to talk about surveillance then talk about the Patriot Act and national security letters with gag orders or the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.

What I want to know is why the media has to report vague/misleading things like this, instead of talking about what CISPA would actually do, like exempting companies (and governments?) from all state and federal laws for "good faith" "decisions made based on cyber threat information identified, obtained, or shared" under the new law. Wow.

I mean hey, maybe it could be a good thing, right? Argue that spam is a cyber threat and that setting the spammers on fire is a good faith decision made based on threat information about them?

Seriously, that wording is totally unreasonable. They really need to limit it to at least a specific class of legislation. "Exempt corporations from laws against causing death and destruction" = NOT OK.
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Telstra (Australian Telco) internally uses a number rating for B2B sales and sales-support teams, and point inflation has made it useless. The Sales guys end up needing to explain to the customers what the numbers really mean; 8/10 was being left for "great service", but that qualified as a failure by the internal metrics.

(To make it even worse, the management accidentally let the sales meet their target once; some people actually got their bonuses, so upstairs bumped the minimum target score again.)
> I may not be a blue collar worker but that doesn't mean I expect to be owed any sort of deal from anyone. If I feel like I'm getting a raw deal I'm going to leave that situation and find a better deal elsewhere. It's that simple.

They're negotiating for a better deal. They just happen to be using different tactics than you would.
or, of course, there also exists the rebuttal that, uhh, there's no reason mailbox can't work with things that aren't gmail.....
You are 26 years old. You have, what, 30, 35 years of working life ahead of you? Sure, resign to mediocrity for literally 5/6ths of your career, if you want. But there's plenty of room and time for you to develop how you want. Age is not your main obstacle.
That would be 32 C I guess... certainly they didn't freeze him...
One thing they got as exact as you can conceive:

"Population is the primary consideration. Currently 12.6 million, it's expected to reach 18.3 million in the Los Angeles area by 2010."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles
"The city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world[6] and the second largest in the United States."
Anomalies and discrepancies in the theory of gravitation
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I love awk but personally cannot remind the syntax to do complex stuff without googling or dig in the man.
I didn't test the performance but I don't always need performance (or even rarely) ... I'm adding pawk in my toolbelt and I glad somebody built it
You should slap this into a nicely formatted HTML page and put it up on "honestmaxis.com" (or something less susceptible to a lawsuit).

In the best case someone at Maxis reads it and gets a clue (sadly unlikely). In the worst case it puts a smile on the face of every Sim City player who stumbles over it.

Either way, thanks from me, I enjoyed this translation.
Thanks for that. I'm still working in a "dotcom". Soon, I hope to be working with the likes of you. Could you go a little more into your transition from match.com to yc-startup, the sacrifices and challenges along your way?
I use gmail daily, many times, but I don't actually need gmail site. I rarely even go there. What I need is a free and reliable mail storage server that supports IMAP. I'll take it from there. Same with GReader - I need free and reliable feed aggregator, and then I'll use the tools to consume it.

I am sad Google is getting out of this market, since that brings me inconvenience of migration. But I'm sure the niche will be filled in.
"For instance, Schinella predicts, we may one day be able to drive around Los Angeles in a "sports-utility" vehicle that can go from being a two-seat sports car to a beach buggy--thanks to a plug-in module."

Amazing that they can be so right and so wrong at the same time.
I love it. I wish the next and skip links were larger so it would look good on a mobile device. :)
I've only ever caught one Uber but I wasn't overly impressed. I think the business opportunity wouldn't even exist in the UK because regular taxis are at a similar standard and cost less.

They seem to be hacking the law/industry in order to provide a service some way between taxis and limos at a cost that is just above taxis. But then they expect the drivers to work at taxi wages. If they think students can deliver the same service at taxi driver prices, good luck to them
The smart car blurb is prescient.

Not so much on how Sports Utility vehicles work, but about a sonar shield (proximity braking) and computer system optimizations, as well as the diverse range of car types to fit niche needs. Pretty awesome. Obviously this makes some sense since the people they interviewed were working on the bleeding edge of car development at the time, but still, most of this stuff didn't manifest heavily even in the 90s.
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And the forthcoming Dropbox email API? (jk)
I thought the smart classroom description was pretty spot-on. The elementary school classrooms that I am familiar with do have large computer displays with interactive capabilities, where students can participate individually from their seat.
From the Wikipedia description, I think "The Sheep Look Up" also didn't come remotely close.

"By the end of the book rioting and civil unrest sweep the United States, due to a combination of poor health, poor sanitation, lack of food, lack of services, ineffectiveness of services (medical, policing), disillusionment with government/companies, oppressive government, civil unrest, high incidence of birth defects (pollution-induced), and other factors; all services (military, government, private, infrastructure) break down."

The economy outside the valley sucks, but I think we're a long way from that description.
I've used Uber a lot over the past 2 and a half years. I've made a point to ask nearly every driver how they liked the service and I can only recall one (out of dozens) giving anything but praise.

So yeah, does not compute, unless things have drastically changed recently.
I'm reading all these comments about "RSS is dead" and how everybody uses Facebook for it now and I'm completely confused. How you can even use Facebook for this? Facebook is totally useless as a reading list organizer, it is useful for sharing lolcats pictures, but if you need structure and organize known sources of information and keeping track of what you read and what you didn't - Facebook is as useful as a trombone in a Moon landing mission. The only conclusion I can make is that these people don't mean by reading the same thing as I do. Maybe for them lolcats and pics of each other's dinners is reading...
> binary viewpoint

You're either with the startups or you're against them. Supporting workers in this case means you're against the startups, and that's "wrong." Of course HN members don't write that, but people are here in large part to support their passion for startups - don't challenge that or you're gonna have a bad time. Every would-be founder here is thinking they'd can 50,000 taxi drivers in a heartbeat if it meant a shot at the big time.
>> I actually feel very good about my C code [....] I just feel very bad about the Internet. :)

I laughed first, then realised there is more than a ring of truth to that line :/

If you do release (pseudonymously or otherwise), then release it and please announce to those of us, who are all genuinely interested in it in the first place :)
What, no Lisp? I'm offended.

No but seriously this is useful. Bookmarked and pinned, extra points for making it pretty with nice UI. Certainly loads better than sifting through pages of monochrome documentation for a simple, quick answer to small problems.
Kudos to the EFF. And here is a link to vote with your money: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsl

(And yes, I'm a member)
I beg to differ. We already have walking and object handling robots and their agility is rapidly increasing. In the future we will have to deal with the aging population. As the quality of life increases and more people get university education, the rate of birth declines. Then who will take care of all those old men and women? We need household robots and they will be invented in Japan if not in some other place. They will be a good expensive item to mass produce and sell.
> my guess is that Dropbox thinks Mailbox will be the email app for mobile

I hate to pile on with the normal negative-nancy comments on HN, but I have a hard time seeing this happen. What does Mailbox offer that makes it compelling? The slide left/right mechanic is kind of neat, and I replaced my default Mail.app's location because of that, but the need for sync-on-open almost kills it for me.

Don't get me wrong - it's a very pretty app, but I'd be hard pressed to pay more than $0.99 for it (I suppose the same goes for Sparrow - I paid money for that, and even if it wasn't consumed by Google I'm not sure if I would have paid it again). iOS's environment does not lend itself well to 3rd party mail clients. Maybe Dropbox sees that changing in the future?
Man, lots of downvotes. I guess it's bad to expect anything good from HN users.
I actually don't understand why they would release a statement like this.
It does nothing but stoke the flames.