skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a ticket-- been lucky the last four years.

Frustrating experience every year.

I "got" a ticket three times, but Google Wallet times out and wouldn't let me buy the first two. The third time around (after waiting in the queue), I noticed an ajax request being fired when you clicked the "buy" button (which would become disabled.... it would time out and it would still sit there as if it were doing something. Reenabled the button, pressed it again... it fired off the request... timed out... timed out... then finally it made it and kicked me to the rest of the registration process. Apparently refreshing the "buy" Google Wallet page would work too.

Google Wallet fail.
H&R Block Statement on IRS Form 8863 Issue
Not any more. Your idioms are once again safe.
Better: Start forming a coalition of private individuals and companies, and use that group to hire lobbyists. The game is broken, but you can't win if you refuse to play.
ChromeOS isn't really about providing a fast booting browser, it's about rebuilding a secure platform on ISA's. There is very little overlap.
This is how we end up with bans on soft drinks larger than 16 ounces.
It's not rude, you said:
"Cars drive with purpose from one place to another. Traffic congestion seems to make sense."

But the videos clearly showing that cars take nothing other than shortest path into consideration. They don't even check if their destination is still valid. This does not make sense.

So asking if you read the article is not rude because your quote seems to be in direct conflict with the article.
I change default art/themes always. KDE is quite understandable for a Windows 7 user I think.
My impression is that EA has some great creative talent, but that the business management function is entrusted to people who have honesty and competence issues.

One of the big problems with American business is the focus on academic credentials, particularly with regard to "soft skills" (no skills?) in areas such as management. You will not learn management in a classroom. Furthermore, if you can't grasp the fundamentals of what you are supposedly managing, then you are just in the way.

The path ought to be:

Become an engineer -> Become a high-performing engineer -> Get some business education -> Do management

If you can't handle the engineering phases, why on earth should anybody put you in a decision-making position in an engineer endeavor?

While the practice should not be barred, it is unproductive for universities to offer "management" degrees at the undergraduate level, unless such degrees require the demonstration of significant prior work experience. Graduate management programs should not accept twentysomethings arriving straight from undergraduate programs.

Less fluff, more umpf.
Cinavia Anti-Piracy System “Blocked” By AnyDVD
Yeah, from the title I assumed the author was advocating getting into the emerging realm of microfab rather than the established realm of coding.
I think you should reconsider your take on that paper 11. It's not "about" Google-- it is the cornerstone work that led to the creation of Google-- and it was written by two academics (PhD candidates at Stanford). In your previous post, you mentioned "the somewhat vacuous atmosphere of an universities[sic] thinking". But you need to step back and realize that this paper is showing that the university environment led to the creation of the key ideas behind Google, and thus I don't see justification to call it a "vacuous atmosphere".

In fact, I believe what Google is doing so well (and what is attracting great academic researchers like Hinton) is the creation of the rich and rewarding atmosphere mimicking that of classic academia. (And at the same time, cuts to education and research budgets are helping to erode the benefits of a life in the academy.)
A Place at the Table
Amen brotha?
He's still the Chrome lead.
How A Mysterious Site Got Access To Celebs' Credit Reports
As a visitor, no I never use them and I seem to think no one will want to use them. However, as a webmaster, I prove myself wrong, a lot of people do use them and they do seriously become part of your site's daily traffic. So in other words, if the snake oil sells, you better carry them in your store!
Indeed. If you look at Japan the entire top 10 is dominated by variations on "japanese".
Emphatically: yes. Those who collect stats on them find that they contribute a substantial portion of shares.[1] People rant against them often, probably because they wish they weren't effective, and they might not personally click them. But others do.

[1] http://www.luigimontanez.com/2012/actually-social-media-butt...
That's like saying people buy Dells for all the crapware they come with.
So you mean Google picked popularity over consistency and sold out to the OEMs and carriers for the sake of marketshare? Android is the pretty much the only OS where this is such a big problem, unlike Windows, OS X, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Windows Phone, iOS and probably even Linux.
Whoa, that's an interesting behavior. Proof of concept: https://twitter.com/geetotes/status/311904987007553536
I'd imagine that's because much of the net is US-centric by default and there's less variance/no language barrier between NY/CA/TX, as there would be between, say, Brazil/Argentina or Germany/Norway.
Rome conclave: New Pope chosen by cardinals
Allan Calhamer, who invented Diplomacy, a board game, has died aged 81
Startup Metrics with Keen IO
Khan Academy changes its UI.
“A lot of the time will be spent waiting for the database or other IO, so blazing fast templates are not absolutely necessary.”

I'm not sure I agree with this philosophy. It's not like you can render the template in parallel. If your database/other IO is slow and you're already taking 200ms on your templates, it may be the difference between a happy user and a sad one.
This is a huge deal for folks stuck in Salesforce. I've already had our team of 6 regional sales managers begin using the app.
> Now that's lazy thinking. No one accused Google or Verizon or of not having "many people" that do serious research.

By assuming that every single person who joins Google is somehow being used to optimize ad clicks, the implication is that they are abandoning whatever serious intellectual research they could have otherwise been doing.

> There's no trick in the book they do not use to make you click on ads or sign for their services.

This doesn't counter my point. The fact that their ad click team is actually doing its job doesn't mean anything about the greater motivation of the company.
White House peititon to end robo-calls or provide physical location
WH petition to help end robo-calls or provide the physical location so the American people can protest the call centers in person.
Did windows mobile ever really have a wide variance in hardware types, e.g. phone size devices vs. tablet sized devices? It was my understanding that windows mobile targeted certain screen resolutions (that or those resolutions were the only ones manufacturers were producing) and that was pretty much it.
This is why when people ask me how they should learn X web technology, I usually tell them to pick something they want to use, and make it. It's a ton more motivating.
Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge
Any reason why pricing isn't available on the site?
Then why does my IDE have a 'Build' menu?
I'm not sure they're actually using A*. In the following video, some cars are going directly right, although it isn't the shortest "bird-view" distance to their destination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ufAd79bOA

Edit: actually, they seem blocked by cars from the left lane. They'd go left otherwise!
I don't really disagree with anything you're saying. Bitcoin has a lack of rigor all around, and it's quite annoying to see the masses of people defending Bitcoin as being anonymous (etc) when they've no context to place it in.

What I am trying to point out is that Bitcoin has a design property that enables it to actually be adopted (no "bank" - something no other ecash system had, as they were mostly designed in an era when people still believed that banks would be interested in preserving their customers' privacy. lol). This is important if someone is to ever build a better system.

I'm less familiar with recent MPC literature, but the general concept strikes me as more of an existence proof, given the actual efficiency of resulting implementations. Practical ZK/WI results seem to generally decompose larger domain-specific chunks of the problem into primitive operations, rather than one crypto op per generic logic gate. Which seems to be what Bitcoin is doing, in a bumbling sort of way. And I don't see too much of a philosophical leap between "majority of parties" and "majority of computation", given that the former is wishful thinking that admits Sybil attacks.
Your post says the same as my third sentence.
I'm really curious to know why they decided to place the content on the new Timeline on the right, instead of on the left. First instinct would say that the profile information and who their friends are would fit better on the right hand side with the content on the left.

Anyone care to guess?
Even if they aren't in the US, the majority of hosts will still accept DMCAs.
Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian Defence Research Organisation - Hacking News
Despite the advice in the article, never use an <img> tag with an empty src attribute - it causes the page itself to be requested, which is probably a larger request than just serving up a low res image in the first place.

Otherwise lots of interesting points here, and a lot of thought given to the fine details a lot of us would otherwise skip over. Good work mate
I read this as:

Monetizing your movie information.
Monetizing your literature information.
Promoting Facebook apps.
Stepping slightly away from the UX atrocity that is Timeline.

I have no problem with any of those. But I wonder about the ordering - is this announcement aimed at investors or users?
I don't know where you get your information from, but Blackberry has broken compatibility in the last 3 OS releases, and Windows Phone 8 doesn't even run the same kernel as the previous version (breaks compatibility). I'm not sure if you ever touched Java ME back in the day... but yeah. You're just wrong on this one.
Crowdsourced Workforces Rising
Use Bundler.setup Instead of Bundler.require
I didn't buy the game either, but I've been following the news on it. What I've been seeing is that it's difficult to get population north of 200,000, though I would imagine not impossible as the accumulated skill of the player-base increases.

So, yeah, a couple of orders of magnitude... except, somewhat upthread from here someone makes the claim that a population of 100,000 sims actually corresponds to about 10,000 modeled sims, and then 90,000 "phantom population" on top of that. If true, this suggests only one order of magnitude more population than your Tropico examples, and the achievement is considerably less impressive.
Ask HN: App to create Khan Academy Styled videos
Could you guys suggest some apps for creating video lectures similar to the Khan Academy lectures.
Exactly. I mean, Chrome itself (being an app) is pushing updates on android at a cadence now that almost matches what they are doing on the desktop.

Doing hardware integration is a lot harder than writing an app. I wish more app developers recognized this.

(That said: I do think Google could have done a much better job at separating out the true kernel/HAL/BSP layer stuff, which needs to be done per-device, from the framework layers that are largely device-independent. There's no reason to force a full hardware test just to push an fix for the Intents framework or whatever).
This man never wants to take a solid shit again.
We by nature are social and while teleconferencing has improved exponentially over the last couple of years, you cannot beat in-person communication. If you eventually want to lead a team, you must be there in person. If you want to socialise with your teammates, you must be there in person.
The kind of fragmentation Google has to deal with in developing Android and its framework is very, very different from the kind of fragmentation the average app developer deals with. The vast majority of apps only need to test on a couple different device types, all of which can be done via the emulator. Most app developers have trouble with the APIs their apps use that do not behave as expected on some devices, usually as the result of a manufacturer or carrier change that subtly alters the behavior of or breaks the API.

Google, OTOH, has a significant amount of testing to do on most Android devices produce. Not only do OS devs need many devices to ensure the OS and framework continues to function, but most (if not all) devices will be run against the Android CTS (http://source.android.com/compatibility/cts-intro.html).
Alas, I cannot. My main interest is PAC 12 Football, and the cable networks have a lock on it. You can stream to your heart's desire - if you have cable.
"Does it make sense to incorporate up front? "

If you will be taking money from anyone up front, then incorporate up front. If you start as a free service in beta etc, may be you don't need to incorporate right away. But the moment money is involved, things get different. You want to protect yourself personally from liabilities etc.

Personally in my opinion, I would advise doing a corporation and not LLC. One reason is that it is much easier to convert b/w S-Corp to C-Corp if you ever get in the big leagues. The question would then be which one for now ?

I would say call up at least 2-3 lawyers or CPAs and talk to them. There are no one size fits all kind of answer here and even the lawyers/CPAs will give you different answers based on what they think.

My 2 cents and IANAL.
Arbitrary width user content can overflow the right hand margin without disrupting layout? Hard to say without seeing it in action though.

As a Timeline hater but someone who doesn't have a problem with Facebook in general I (for once) welcome a Facebook change!
My SO and I would do that fairly constantly with a few TV shows when I was living across the country. Making that trip every week for an hour of TV and talking was getting expensive :)
Hi Matthews,

I think that the main idea is that your app should be portable between Firefox OS and other mobile web browsers such as Opera Beta and Chrome for Android.

Gaia is not meant to be run under another browser. I think as other vendors implement the needed APIs, they will be unprefixed.
Fisker founder Henrik Fisker calls it quits
>fragmentation exists, how do we make the best of it?

>The idea that every person on the planet is going to use the same phone with the same capabilities and the same size screen is a fantasy world iOS developers live in.

There are a billion plus PCs running Windows with various hardware, screen sizes and even different form factors. Yet fragmentation is not as big a problem as on Android.

The primary problem comes with the deep customization of the OS and lack of standards, not things like screen sizes. For example, look at this http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/12/10x120...
New Pope, New Head of Android--a wonderful correlation...just kidding.

It's an obvious move to try and blend Chromes OS with Android more seamlessly but I think it also means something else BIG at Google is coming--and not their everyday-'big'. As qualified as Pichai is, it doesn't make sense for Rubin to go anywhere UNLESS he truly is upto something groundbreaking.

My bet is that Rubin has a vision, perhaps a "moonshot" as Paige said, that impressed the execs at Google so much that it made sense for him to move on from his current position. It'll be interesting to see exactly what this is, but I have to imagine Rubin is upto something the masses (most of us) have not yet heard about...and his ingenuity will be absorbed by Google themselves.
Well...

Blacks are still a minority in these places. I know they are a minority in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. I think it is probably a combination of blacks and whites searching on 'Ebony' that makes it come out on top in the data. Just as in California I strongly suspect a combination of Asians and Whites searching on 'Asian' places that term high in their data.
I was actually more excited about the functionality of Dolphin, than the default theme, which is a bit dated. I have seen some people do some nice themes for KDE. Better defaults are needed, I agree.
Another way to look at it is that Android was a home run and basically accomplished everything it was supposed to do, not much left for Rubin to accomplish.
PyCon 2013 Updates
Where "things" still means "software."

I think a more accurate title would be "Code first, learn how to code later."

And you're probably right. Personally, I learned how to code in PHP because my company needed a web app for something, so I bought a basic web programming textbook that happened to teach PHP/MySQL, read it for a week or two, and then started building the app.

Now I have a few different "stock" scripts and applications that I've implemented, and when I want to learn a new language, I learn by studying the new syntax for a week or two and then dive right into re-implementing some of my existing scripts & applications in that language as my "homework," and just googling things whenever I get stuck. I think this is a pretty good way to learn programming outside the classroom.
and what version of Android do you target?
Parts of it can be fun, but much of the time is spent writing tedious (and repetitive) reports, documenting each step you took for each compromise. Dealing with unrealistically limited scopes. Often clients don't actually care about increasing their security posture -- it's usually about compliance with XYZ (PCI, etc).

(Good) pentesters don't just run hog wild on a network compromising things left and right with Chemical Brothers blaring through their headphones. It's pretty methodical, and it's all documented and screenshoted for the client's benefit. You want your clients, both the technical and executive people in the org, to understand what you accomplished and how they can mitigate.
Habemus Papam
If you subscribe to the philosophy that every line of code is a liability, which I do, this really hits home.
I think in the deep South there is still a 'taboo' of sorts on relationships with blacks. Leading to more searches on 'Ebony' as fewer people experiment with it. A phenomenon similar to the data from other more conservative nations where the top search becomes *(Gay). It's just a 'safe' outlet.

The presence of places like Spelman probably magnifies the effect. I'd wager that if you put the college for the daughter's of the nation's elite blacks in the middle of say... Iowa... the number of searches on 'Ebony' would shoot up in Iowa as well.
> - You can record the moment your {girl : boy}friend says yes to your marriage proposal and post it online ASAP.

Are people really so blase about recording video that they would hold their phone in front of their face, recording the other person, while proposing marriage?

I think alot of joyous "yes" replies would turn into "get that thing out of my face at a moment like this, are you kidding?".
I was not impressed with Codeyear last year for this exact reason (and I did it with coding skills; I just did it for interest to fill in any gaps as I'm self taught). What started as JS then moved to HTML/CSS (fair enough, they do relate to each other) … and then in the last four months switched entirely to Python! At the end I didn't know whether I was coming or going.
The Psychology Behind the Sims Addiction
Totally awesome!

Some time ago there was a Smalltalk for Java announced - I wasn't particularly thrilled, because I have nothing to do with Java. This time, however, I'm more than excited - I'm starting to play with Amber right now!

EDIT: this is getting better with every page I read. It's compiled to JS, so I expect it to be fast. It supports seamless integration with JS libraries - it's IDE is written in Amber but with jQuery. It's class library is simplified, but based on Pharo. It has a Canvas implementation - and I don't mean <canvas>, but a HTMLCanvas known from Seaside. It's a live, interactive, clean Smalltalk environment in a browser.

My life just got a bit better and more enjoyable :)
If OTA updates aren't baked into the existing OS, it's highly unlikely that will be possible.
Having worked on search engines for over 10 years and seen what people search for first hand from the logs, these lists are the PG-13 version. Which is for the best. Some things cannot be un-seen.
I wouldn't call it laziness. Network setup is something most people just pay their ISP to take care of. It's a commodity service. They don't care how the bits get from here to there, they just want to check their email and go on Facebook.

How many people do you know who, say, do their own water softener maintenance? Is that plumbing illiteracy/laziness, or is it a sign that people are willing to pay for service that frees their time and attention for more productive things?
ah I see, sorry if the title was misleading.
After living in Hungary I picked up on the fact that mother/son relationships are not what they are in the rest of the world and what we in the States would consider too close. I heard that it wasn't uncommon for married men to take their laundry home to their mother's house on the weekend, etc. Western Romania is still strongly ethnically Hungarian, so that could account for the similar prevalence there.
You obviously don't get my point. Which is that we are about to reach the point where video is going to be used for short communication like images, tweets, and status updates. That has not been properly done before due to network speed, phone hardware, and software.
Given I don't understand SASS and Less, you seem to have, in each case, replaced some CSS with something which is longer, and less easy to understand.

I am sure these is some extra magic you are not telling us, but given that you are assuming we don't know about SASS and Less, you are obviously missing something important :)
Here you go: http://cobra-language.com/
This became clear to me when suggesting using a language other than that supported by Visual Studio to one of my previous teams. Their reply of, "Can't do it; no IntelliSense" shocked me completely.
This is kinda insulting towards Matt and the whole WordPress community. How can a person that represents a web firm be so ignorant?
Two in our company were on it also. Started within seconds of it opening and went through the 6-minute process 7 or 8 times. Neither of us even got to the Wallet stage.

I managed to get one last year on my third attempt but I was using multiple browser windows. They had a clear warning about that this time, so we stuck to one tab each in the vain hope that it would give us some priority or preference.

I will try again next year. The uncertainty makes it hard to plan though, given that I'm living in Ireland.

Freebies are nice and all but would happily forgo them or pay 3-4x the ticket price to be able to attend.
Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes movies and games
Offer HN: Giving away expiring domain 
I have owned the domain spjackets.com since 2010. It was originally used to sell invisible shield type screen protectors, but we have since shut down that business (Scratchproof Jackets).

This may be suited more for an ecommerce site, though I'm willing to bet fellow HNers can find a unique use for it. The domain expires in 3 days so send me an email (in my profile) asap if interested!
>Windows Phone 8 doesn't even run the same kernel as the previous version (breaks compatibility)

Windows Phone 7 apps run fine on WP8. Anyway breaking compatibility is a tad different from fragmentation. If your app runs on a WP7 phone, you can be reasonably certain it runs on all other WP7 phones. With Android, you can easily run into device specific bugs even though the version is the same and thus you're forced to test on the real hardware devices.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/this-is-what-developing-for...