skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a frustrating experience. Waited in line for an hour only to have a broken checkout screen. You think they would have their shit together by now.
correct me if i am wrong, but don't windows XP/2000 and windows 7 both use significant parts of the NT kernel, and aren't they the best OSs MS offers?
Obligatory Maddox from SOPA 1

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pass_sopa
coderwall.com has achievements for github activity, so you might want to check that out first
I thought he was making a joke... like trying to bring out the stark contrast between the word fame and the relatively unknown Cheddar.
7:45 AM PDT

I got to the wallet screen, clicked 'start now' and the clock was ticking. Looked at the developer console and noticed a failed POST. Closed the popup window and tried again. It worked.
Depression feels painful and unpleasant and it's not in the brain.
Brain generates thoughts and in case of depression these are "beating yourself up" thoughts that are being felt as a subtle pain within the body. The trick is to try paying attention to exact physical sensations within the body. You'll start discovering that it actually hurts within the body, and often covering rather wide areas.
Registration for Google Code Jam is open
What i found most interesting about this is the slimmed down nature of what you collect. In the video, when you showed the grid of things you've collected... it was really appealing.

I think the real strength of this would be in it's technical implementation; how not-annoying is it in my browser, is it resource heavy, how can i adjust it etc, and then the community around it.

Which is where i think there would have to be some real differences between Pinterest. If you give the user the option to share (or not!) what he/she has collected with other people (perhaps a dedicated page), and played with the idea of how users could interact with each other ("This is what Julie collected on Tuesday," - then i think this idea could have even more potential than it already does.

Good luck to you folks. As i said this is really interesting.
Did anyone else get 500s from the server? I got a 500 early on, and two of my friends got tickets and subsequently got 500s from Google Wallet. In retrospect, I wonder if my initial 500 was actually a successful ticket.
Are Kickstarter crowdfundings slowing down? Uh huh
And this is why they should stop giving large amounts of free swag.
The term "ghost employee" is a standard English term used by auditors. Any sufficiently large organization must periodically reconcile the payroll system with managers and/or a timecard system. It is usually as simple as just sending a email to managers asking them to certify that a list of employees are working for them. There are often a bunch of edge case that must be worked out, like the people that don't have managers in the HR system, or people on leave where the paperwork didn't get processed correctly.

Unfortunately, audits aren't really designed to uncover fraud with collusion. This is why any fraud that is found should be criminally prosecuted, which the Brazilians are doing correctly here. They need to also prosecute the employees that were receiving benefits without working as well.
It needs to source profanity from urbandictionary.com in an intelligent way relative to the race, gender, age, and sexual preference of my users... all of which will not be optional on my JFDIN app.
Whoever is an inventor and gets to the PTO first gets rewarded. The patent system is an exchange. Inventor teaches the public how to make and use his invention, and the government gives the inventor a limited right to exclude others from practicing the invention. The switch to "first to file" encourages early disclosure, rather than inventing something in secret and waiting to file, or waiting until the inventor's one year bar period was about to run, then filing. Under the new system, if it's valuable and likely that someone else is working on the same system, early filing will be encouraged.
> The reason Blizzard went online only with Diablo 3 and SC2, was because the Diablo 2's battle.net was reverse engineered, and there was an abundance of servers that could be played on with a fake CD Key all over the world.

I don't think that's the only reason. Diablo II is plagued with bots and duping. While the balance between client-server data on the Battle.net closed realms is much better than it was with Diablo (where you could just edit your character data locally to increase gold/upgrade inventory online), Diablo II still has the problems of 1) loading the entire level map into memory at once, giving bots the opportunity to path their way to POIs with no effort and 2) reconciling local inventory with the server's inventory after lag spikes and server crashes, which is hypothesized to be the main method dupers use.

But, as could be expected, both botting and duping happen on D3 anyway. And, to your point, during the D3 beta period, there were several devs that were able to reverse-engineer the D3 protocol anyway and create a local server. shrug
I think there is more to "Google and Big Brands" story than what you have mentioned.

1. "Google has been pushing brands way up in search for 4-5 years now" - True, but it's important to note this is not a result of Google deciding "let's promote brands", it's a result of Google's algorithm improving. Google looks at query chains, sees that people hit certain sites after a few unsuccessful broad searches, and thus improves the broad search rankings of those sites. It is no coincidence that a significant portion of these "certain sites" happen to be big brands, which leads to point 2.

2. Brand advertising creates affinity - As Eric Schmidt put it: "Brand affinity is clearly hard wired." People end up at brand sites at the end of query chains because they recognize them, they trust them more, or they are just more familiar with them.

3. Google has lots of Brand advertising space - A quick review of the numbers of any Big Brand's SEM program will show some really abysmal inefficiencies and totally unnecessary bias towards branded searches (that's another problem altogether.) But the point is, Big Brands don't care if they could turn off Paid Search Ads in some areas and get the same ROI through other channels, they want to buy ads to signal they are a big brand, to saturate your vision with their brand and create the above mentioned affinity and familiarity.

Thus the cycle continues and Google has nothing to worry about with regards to big brands lowering Paid Search spend.
Journey into Cryptography
I like to think they are trying to preserve the spirit of being able to right click->view source and learn a thing or two. Geocities + view source did spark early interest for myself in coding.

Maybe sourcemaps will help with that in the future.
Interesting... it doesn't allow signing up as example+dragdis@gmail.com
Nocco.cs
Locco.lua
Marissa Mayer Personally Reviews Every New Hire at Yahoo
Eh, sure, a loading screen is perfectly OK if you have a game or demo or something. But that's the exception not the rule. For forums, blogs and news sites and such it's absolutely a no-go.
Win2k was as good as Microsoft got. Reliable, stable, functional. Happily that was the last Windows platform I developed for.
Decent criticisms but I could make a list about 50 items long of the problems with their own website. Glass houses, etc.
I have a pending charge of $900 in my Google wallet transaction history but no confirmation. It timed out while I was making the purchase, so still not sure.
Dear Google, we also love you if we are outside the USA. :) Please organize other such big events in Europe or Asia. Thanks. (BTW, why do I never see events organized by Zooglers?)
When I fail to do something within the allotted time - I would love to see:

{
"my_custom_task_name": {
"task_id": 124575,
"result": "FUCK_YOU",
"reason": "Time limit void"
}
}
Same here, using a Mastercard.
I wish you'd realize how damaging that is to the Android / Google ecosystem. Small-time developers who are working really, really hard to build the most amazing products and services possible in the modern world are being intentionally shut out of developer events by people like you who want "free stuff". Please don't do that next time.
Are Game(r)s Art(ists)?
Hm, maybe, I got a 500 when I first clicked at ~t+2 seconds, then after refreshing it was all spinning wheel until sold out.
Got a 500 early on, only once, then not again during the next 45 minutes...
how is this a platform aimed for developers to integrate gamification elements and create gamification elements in their projects?
The White House petition against it passed 100,000 signatures, too:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130311/16221022286/white...
wait, wait I don't get to pay $1k for an infomercial? SHIT THAT SUCKS!!
Widely used cancer cell line hasn’t been what scientists thought
CocoaChina’s Fishing Joy generating more than $6M a month worldwide
A combo of doc + a branch commit would be spot on.

You're right on the code bomb problem, but I think a good review involves making a judgement on the entire codebase. Something may be the 'right' thing to do but completely uneconomical due to dependencies.

Understanding the impact of a recommendation leads to a valuable refactor or rewrite call that developers often have to make on a mature ecosystem.
I'm pretty sure this outcome is exactly what Google wants. Hardest tickets to get in town, even with a $900 price tag. Why else would they continue to give away such great swag at an event with such high demand?

On the up side, streaming basically the entire event for free does calm the righteous indignation to a degree.

Still, it would have been nice to get a chance to meet and chat with other people working on the platforms I use.
I use pinboard, and in my opinion it has adequate solutions to almost all of the things you mentioned.

I tend to use it more as a history of sites that I've looked at though, for research I would use Zotero.
It's not always "that obvious", some ideas just make sense for the time, and there are some seriously low-grade patents filed which barely even qualify as invention anyway. I'd hate to be drawn into some BS politicking at the sake of concentrating on my technology. Look at Leibniz&Newton ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculus...
I am very pleased to see this released, as some good improvements have been made.

Note, however, that there have been some last-minute troubles with NetworkManager and ifup, and I am not sure they have been 100% fixed[1]. Heise pointed out that they had the same problem with the release version[2]. If any problem should arise, YaST should be able to switch between using ifup and NetworkManager.

Other than that: try Tumbleweed, the sort-of-rolling-release based on the current major version[3]. It is about to be rebased to 12.3 and will receive updates more quickly than the mainline. And it is curated and steered by Greg KH!

[1]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798348

[2]: http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Neuerungen-in-Opensuse-... (german)

[3]: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
Sometimes I feel that their efforts are misdirected by supporting multiple desktop environments.
I'm pretty sure I'd be ok with the fact that I wasn't able to get a ticket if I could understand WHY. What a frustrating process.
What if you consider the application a trojan horse for doing interesting things which are useful well outside the supposed domain of application?

I think the trope of "the best minds working on ad clicks" is perhaps not giving people enough credit.

Hackers and academics always find a way to screw around and work on interesting things. The trick is to find interesting structure in mundane problems.
123 ÷ 4/5 + 6 | 7 x 8

= 123 ÷ 0.8 + 6 | 56

= 153.75 + 6 | 56

= 159.75 | 56

= 2.85267 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142...

i.e. here | acts as a low precedence division operator, ÷ as an ordinary precedence division operator like infix / and the 'closefix' rational notation 3/4 has the highest precedence in my programming language

n.b. in case you were wondering P v Q is used for Boolean Or.
Got one!
I was delayed and didn't login until 7:30.
Waited a few minutes for a ticket to be allocated and then needed to open and close payment window a few times before redirected to the survey.

Do you think preference is given based on location? Am currently in Vietnam.
Unfortunately Google I/O has become a "why not" conference. I would love to go to Google I/O at current prices even if they did not offer any swag. Unfortunately that doesn't seem apply to most people trying to get a ticket. They really should get rid of the swag and/or add random programming challenges during the registration process.

I was able to reserve a ticket only to time out trying to pay with Google Wallet: http://i.imgur.com/vSCppd8.png

The problem is Google I/O is used to launch new products and hold tech talks. There's a lot of overlap of people who are interested in both, but now the audience has grown too big.

This was the same problem GDC was having a while back--too many attendees weren't interested in the game developing but were there to check out new games. Making GDC developers-only and creating PAX for product announcements was a great way to handle the issue.
Interesting. I've never gone to a WWDC, but I've been to the first three I/Os, and while it could be the fact that the conference has become better known since then (and increasingly at larger scales), you can definitely see the effects that the free swag have on registration demand (and the effect on the quality of the people going to the conference) over the years. It's been really disappointing to witness the change, as personally I/O was my favorite tech event back when it was true to its original purpose: a conference for developers.
Google I/O 2013 already sold out after 50 minutes
When you get into the office, and your code has seemingly magically improved with no explanation visible in your git log, it's ninjas.
One of the biggest (and most frustrating) problems with the legislative process is that the people who really want this to go through KNOW that we - "the masses" - eventually start to suffer from "protest exhaustion". They can propose a bill - we can rally our troops and get on TV and black out Wikipedia and do 100 interviews and maybe - just maybe - we can kill it.

The first time. And maybe the second time. And maybe even the third time. But after a while we're going to start to get numb to the calls-to-arms. And eventually our sometimes-well-intentioned-but-pulled-in-30-directions representatives are going to stop getting those concerned phone calls and emails from constituents, and they're going to fall prey to the typical "think of the children" argument that often gets put forward on any security bill, and something ugly is going to get passed.

I hate resigning myself to this, but it's the disappointing reality.

What to do?
As a wise man pointed out on HN the last time around, we haven't won when this law fails to pass. We've only won a law explicitly stating the opposite passes.
It's called cracking
Okay, you win, rigging the outcome is a better simulation.
This brings up a common problem I have with high demand ticket sales. Why not, for at least the first portion of tickets, us a scaling price? When sales open, the price is $10,000. Drop the cost by 1% of the starting price per minute for the first 90 minutes. Recalculate the starting price at the current price and begin again until we reach a floor.

So if sales start at 9:00 am we have the following schedule:
09:00 am : $10,000
09:01 am : $9,990
10:30 am : $1,000
12:00 noon: $100
I think what he means is "how does this scale?" If the OP is personally reviewing the code, which the landing page makes it sound like he is, he can only do so many per day, and there will be a long queue if his service is popular.
With the ARM/Raspberry PI support I fully expect to see this get productized in to a low cost "pentest in a box".
my pending charge has now been cancelled...
Single player cheating a.k.a "God Mode" was considered a feature for early versions of SimCity. Multiplayer requires a network connection either way. As long as multiplayer is optional, cheating issues should not be an impediment to single player.

There are gamers who prefer to play with unlimited resources and complete control of the situation. Many prefer a sandbox where other gamers cannot mess with their experience. Are you telling me Maxis is in the business of getting between the consumer and their game? That's a losing business proposition if it's true.
The way I would put it is that Go was designed to incorporate some of the simplicity and speed of C as well as the ease of use of Python, while Rust was designed to combine the speed and flexibility of C++ with the safety of Haskell.
I actually practiced mindfullness meditation with, lets say it, zero results.
The method I used is more, like:
"love your enemy" or rather "love your pain", or more precisely be aware of the areas of the body which are feeling pain.
Negative thoughts are just light energy sparks causing pain within the body. This bodily pain is heavier, more resident energy that could become alive on it's own, even without further thinking.
It was really frustrating to me to wake up in the beautiful morning and within 2 seconds feel heavy wave of depression dawning on me again. I didn't even had time to think and was wondering why it is happening to be.
Until i realized that depression lives in the body, not in the mind.
Once I started paying attention to the body, the depressive thoughts and depressive emotions starts to disappear.
This is more what Eckhart Tolle was writing about, albeit without specifics that I added to my practice.

As i started to see results - I started having fun with it, like looking for negative emotional reactions within me on different thoughts or situations and then frying and washing these emotions off and away by applying the method.
Mojang targets families with Minecraft Realms subs service
Link to the actual research paper: http://conference.nber.org/confer/2013/EoDs13/Tadelis.pdf

(preliminary paper published and presented at the March 8 NBER "Economics of Digitization" Conference)

As a side note, you know an article (reuters) is dumbed-down linkbait when they don't even bother linking to the actual study they are referencing.
Under the "Contrast Fail" is my single largest pet-peeve of form design. Once you click over that form, the text goes away and you may not know where you are.

Please use labels, people. I have no idea why he didn't include that in this article.
Mozilla wants to bring Firefox to iOS, but mean ol’ Apple’s standing in its way
Uhrm, I can already drag bookmarks onto the bookmark bar/folder to make them. That's built into my browsers.

And I can already drag images and text from my browser onto my desktop and it will automatically save them. (Or into my dropbox folder if I want it synced.)

Why on earth would I need this? I don't see a use case.
Touralot: an iOS app built with PhoneGap, Knockout, and Azure Mobile Services
If two people invented the same thing together (or, more commonly, one person invents feature A, and another invents feature B, where both feature A and feature B are part of one invention), then they are joint inventors (and without an assignment or an obligation to assign, they are both joint owners). On the other hand, if two people invent the same thing separately (e.g., similar research goals at two competing pharmaceutical companies), then the first to file gets the application.

It still must be an enabling disclosure, though. That is, it has to teach the public how to make and use the invention.
I've been preaching this for years- it's not a "developers" conference anymore when you have your average tech enthusiast queueing for swag.
A lot of these are just poor UI/UX considerations that aren't necessarily HTML5 related.

It's funny how this article is featured on a site that has a fixed container at the bottom taking up almost a quarter of my viewport.
Xooglers, as in ex-Googlers.
It's been discussed. Because it was published in a public forum, fair use is certainly a consideration. Is it legal to copy stuff from websites without permission? U.S. courts haven’t made a clear determination. Andy Sellars, a staff attorney at the Citizen Media Law Project, says he would argue that it counts as “fair use” under copyright law. However, he notes that the Archive Team’s torrents don’t offer a mechanism for copyright holders to demand that certain material be taken down, which could hurt its case in a court. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/426434/fire-in...
Obviously the nexus 4 is a good deal, and if we see more android phones with those specs selling for those prices, we can begin to call iPhones overpriced (I.e. google isn't just selling these phones at cost). Still, there are plenty of head on reviews that can't make up their mind which one is better even with the huge price delta.

I haven't actually seen any nexus 4s for sale yet in my market (china) beyond a few smuggled in. It will be interesting to see what happens then.
A result of PR people wanting to generate headlines such as the one in the OP. WWDC will sell out even faster, 'etc.
The First Ubuntu Tablet – If This Is It, It’s Disappointing To Say The Least
I say "jump", you say "how high?"
China Probes Coca-Cola Over Illegal 'Mapping
How much bounty did this net you?
Searches never got anything for me. Girlfriend got to buy button which never returned from graying out after pressed. Wish I'd tried the dismiss popup and retry or check wallet in another tab tricks people mentioned working here. As it is, lost the ticket due to the 5 minute finish count. Oh, well, always next year. :)
If you've been to an I/O before you realize there isn't a whole lot of advantage to being there in person vs. watching live via the free streams they offer. It isn't like WWDC where there is an abundance of google presence for you to talk your issues over with. It is more of a dog and pony show where they give out free shit. You are assuming he isn't also a developer. Please don't do that next time.
I guess people who frequent HN have noticed this post...and your comment by now.
Hence we can rest easy on the recognition factor :)
Had a quick check for Basque/Estonian/Finnish online dictionaries as the major outlying European languages out of further interest. Basque alone seems to use the recognizable root ek... (one would suppose from common root with the Sanskrit for one: eka). Estonian and Finnish seem way closer to Latin languages in most cases .. I checked words like and, plus, sum, total. Lots of readily distinguishable slight variations, but no yu to be found. What about English union, unit and unity? Same root I suppose. Dictionary.com claims union is from Latin ūn(us) (one) via middle French but that unit is only attested to 1642. It seems the Romans had some of that yu going, too.

I guess that's as far as exploration will go with western sources: apparently the Romans weren't big on composing etymologies. Perhaps Indian sources are useful though: Nirukta (Sanskrit: निरुक्त, IPA: [n̪irukt̪ə], explanation, etymological interpretation) is supposed to be one of the six Vedānga disciplines of Hinduism. One of the primary texts there is available at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/nighantuniruktao00yaskuoft

Potentially related tidbits I found there: "Yosa (a woman) is derived from (the root) yu (to join).", "Yutham (herd is derived from (the root) yu (to connect).", "Dasyu (demon) is derived from (the root) das, meaning to lay waste: in him the juices are wasted, or he causes works to be laid waste." Also had some good discussions of soma (a psychadelic draft).

OK, curiosity sated. Obviously there was some yu going on circa Central Asia at the dawn of history. Anything more specific seems like guesswork only. My take is it was to soma takers what PLUR is to early ravers. Party on man!
I read this as "Hilary Clinton" has joined Google, and did a big double-take! Aha..