skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. After doing 2 years I left with a masters and never looked back. What is even scarier than the minuscule contributions you might make is the few that have done anything but minuscule. Those people are amazingly smart.

By the way, cats do like vacuums... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCzkm2z4-6g
I cannot believe there is not a complete solution for this. I mean user tracking AND lifecycle emails in one single easy to use package.
My shock is that some webservers don't remove an ending dot before trying to match a virtual host (any besides IIS?), and that web browsers don't assume equivalence, for website SSL cert CN purposes, between "fqdn." and "fqdn".

I'm also shocked that chrome and firefox send a relative domain in Host: headers if that's what's typed into the url bar. Why wouldn't they send the fqdn? Is it specified this way in some RFC? What does this browser "feature" do other than require webservers in orgs with corpdomain.com search paths to add additional vhost aliases to ensure all the requests get to the right place? Switching vhosts to an intranet website based on the request's Host header does not provide any security in an intranet/dns-search-path setup.
LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More Than $50M
It's like having everything rely on directories called "com" and "net", but when someone uses the correct, absolute path of "/com" or "/net" it somehow stops working. Nobody would stand for the latter happening with relative paths, yet somehow relative domains are the default! Madness!
It will hit hard and quickly as lifting the average just a few percentage points are going to make a big difference in how productive a society is. You don't need to make everybody into a genius.
"According to Barron Stringfellow"

With a name like that, you'll either grow up to be a Bond villain or a casino consultant.
I'd hypothesize that that's a different effect. Orange juice is denser than water, so if you pour water into orange juice, a lot of it will float on top. If you pour orange juice into water, on the other hand, the orange juice will sink through the water, mixing relatively evenly.

By the same reasoning, tea should actually mix better if you add the tea first, since milk has about the same density as orange juice and tea has about the same density as water. But in the case of tea and milk, you just have to bite the bullet and stir it manually if you want to avoid scalding.
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
Don't tell me what I need. A lot of people like following more than just content that gets picked up by the hype machine, just like some people aren't satisfied only listening to top-40 music. Aggregators are good for new discovery, but they don't know more about what I'm interested in than I do.
This reminds me of a quote from Richard Hamming's talk "You and your research"

``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
"ASM.js, a subset of JavaScript that runs extremely fast on modern browsers without modification" -- NOT TRUE. The author implies (either purposefully or accidentally) that ANY "modern browser" will run asm.js fast, or in other words, current advanced JS VMs don't need modifications to effectively support asm.js. If you believe that, just look here: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/b3d85...
London committed to increase the number of apprentices to 250,000 by 2016
Seems like it is a one-time $50 fee. I suppose you could argue that as a positive, to weed out non-committed types.
It seems that every decision that betters Google+ hurts the Google brand. If Google+ is the new Google, then Google is now Google-, obviously.

The fact that they are (allegedly) surprised at the amount of people using Reader is a tastement to how insignificant it is to their business.
I'm not understanding all the people saying this kills RSS. There are plenty of RSS readers out there.
its a problem I've thought about too. its a big problem on twitter.

some people post rarely, and they often have very high quality well thought out posts. others are media outlets or blabber mouths.

you can balance them by presenting a feed of what is new, moving each item through the "what's new" section at a speed relative to that feed's post frequency.

so a feed that posts rarely would have its new items persist in the new area for a longer time.

a feed that posts 20 times a day would move its posts through the new area each day.

> it's pretty easy to put all your high volume stuff into a single category so you can mark everything read at once

I have thousands of subscriptions. I'm not going to take the time to judge and separate them. this is a job for a computer.
Not sure why down-voted, but here is a screenshot to show that its still working for me: http://i.imgur.com/rzJNMGE.png

Tried it under OSX, Ubuntu, Windows7. Working in all of them.
I did my PhD in the database area, and I really relate to some of the stuff in this article - most particularly the overwhelming difficulty (and pressure involved) in doing something genuinely new. I came in with all these wonderful ideas, and within a few months realised that not only had they all been done, most of them had been done decades ago. Quite the comedown!

It does give you a bit of a cynical outlook on new tech in general.
It looks like C++ entry is missing my favorite C++ reference site by far: http://www.cppreference.com/index.html
jedi master?
Yes and it really showed in the beginning: they had lots of issues and you could constantly see the cat saying "sorry, i am wurkin' on fixin' yer problem" (don't remember the exact msg but it was a lolzcat message).

SO is also hardly something impressive from a UI point of view: it is a very simple UI really not doing much. Usenet readers from 20 years ago were way more capable than SO...
I'm just finishing a math PhD. Talking to CS PhD's my impression is that we do pretty much the same thing, we just work on different domains.
Sure, RSS isn't ideally suited for "news" when you can just hit an aggregation site or two. But it's extremely useful for following particular content you're interested in regardless of popularity. If I come across a particularly insightful, well-written blog on some obscure programming topic I'd like to read more of what that person has to say without having to remember to check back at some point or cross my fingers that enough cool kids upvote it on an aggregator.

And the best part about Reader (and now The Old Reader, for me)? The comments come from people I mostly know or are vouched for by people I do, so there's a distinct lack of inane Reddit-y comments.
Show HN: Mint Programming Language
At my university, the administration is really pushing to have business undergrads active in research - I don't think most of them have the patience to contribute. Makes me really wish they would read articles like this
The Paperless Future
Ask HN: Why just don't charge for Google Reader?
I was wondering why Google wouldn't just charge a small fee for the usage of Google Reader. I guess loads of users are willing to pay. What do you guys think?
The problem remains I think.
Your description of research as "pebbles" reminds me of this representation of PhD research (posted on HN a couple years ago). I like how it captures the idea of pushing out the boundaries of what we know just a tiny bit at a time.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Ask HN: how important is the name of your startup?
I am wondering how everyone feels about the importance of names. Would twitter be big as it is today if it was named something else? How about instagram? If a startup has an obscure and not as catchy of a name, how much effect could that have on its growth?
One aspect of the ilegality, if you will, of card counting I don't yet understand is the fundamental idea behind it: using your brain to make intellectually sound batting choices is not legal.

I know the casinos would rather have people turn their brains down to "idiot mode" when they play. However, I can't understand why the law supports the idea that I am not allowed to use my brain, memory and deductive reasoning skills when playing.

Weird,

I don't get it.
AFAIK only G+ related things are deleted. I don't use Picassa, but my Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Wallet, Play Store, etc accounts are all unaffected.
Ask HN: Javascript libraries for intelligent tables
I know datatables, but isn't there something more versatile and less bloated?
Argh, I hope I'm not waiting in line for the same experience.. :-)

I'm still curious to see if I like it (I am an inbox-zero person), so I'll stick it out.. But yeah, I've been in line for 3 weeks now or so, I think...
+1 This is what I have been concerned about also. I rely a lot on Blogger, Gmail, and (now) G+ photo albums. I like the way Blogger is easily mapped to a sub domain (blog.markwatson.com) and I don't have to run blogging software myself. GMail has been central in my workflow and I like the convenience of taking pictures on my droid phone and have all pictures auto uploaded to G+.

However, I have been thinking of starting an open source project that would be a one JAR deploy that would support personal photo album with easy sharing, blogging, live messaging (ironically I would like to use Apache Wave), and perhaps email (but probably not). I believe that since most technical people have their own servers and many of us are tired of walled gardens that this might garner a few users besides myself.
Ask HN: Trello-esque cards/panels in Javascript?
I remember seeing a jQuery lib for that. Any?
Is it okay, if I am busy setting that right?

It is disgusting to see all these half-baked, half-assed and half-minded articles that don't see the whole picture paraded as gospel here.

I don't mind what you do with your life.But the blood is on your hands, if some young kid takes this for advice.
Relevant clarification:

People with less than €100,000 in their Cypriot bank
accounts will have to pay a one-time tax of 6.75%,
those with more will lose 9.9%.

The measure is expected to net €5.8bn in additional
revenues, Mr Dijsselbloem said, greatly reducing the
country's financing need.

Nevertheless, this sounds insane.
Site seems to be over the traffic quota. Mirror?
One has to admit, EU politicians (and their financial advisors), are cunningly smart... First, they force Greece to default, now they force Cypriot banks to default, but they never actually call it default, so the reaction of the financial markets is quite tame.
Innate talent just seems like a cop out "explanation". Oh so and so is good because he had an innate talent. One might as well say so and so is good because he has a frogelmonbal. Very few things are innate in humans and I highly doubt many of them matter except in comparing across deviations in some distribution.

Obviously, if you want to play professional basketball you likely better be pretty tall, and that is out of your control. The other skills necessary are definitely not innate, they are learned and improved through practice and competition.

I think people claim some things are innate simply because they don't see the struggle that went into building up the talent and thus it just seems inexplicable. That or they are the people with the supposed innate talent and like the adoration of people thinking they are "blessed by the gods", so to speak.
There are collaborative fields, e.g. Most experimental fields.
After seeing the results in Greece, and after they admitted that austerity failed, how can they do the same with other countries? I fail to understand the thinking that leads to this.
Only that at one point, to purchase the rights to that domain name, they effectively paid the Ghaddafi regime a small amount of money, and that they run a popular service that at any time could be hijacked by the current regime in Libya.
Or they are just making it up and using this as an excuse to never allow him to play in their casinos
You don't need to add the FQDN - heroku already supports it. E.g. http://www.leedsindustrialestate.co.uk./ is a Heroku hosted site.
Not the same thing, really, since domains are reversed compared to file paths. In domains, the root token is optional and assumed; like if 'home/user' meant the same thing as '/home/user'.
Canto[0] is also very nice.

[0] http://codezen.org/canto/
I admit that I have little knowledge of how many fields work and probably know the least about academia but I still have to ask (or maybe that's why I have to ask) what research does a business undergrad participate in?
Also: for many years I have forwarded email from my own domain to GMail. I am going to stop doing that even though I really like their anti spam service. It probably makes more sense to just use my gmail account for access to customer's shared google docs, etc. in other words, still use useful Google services but stop relying too much on them.

I also now prefer paid services. Evernote and Dropbox, for examples, are clearly motivated to support me because I am a customer not a product.
The webfont doesn't load for me because I have Ghostery installed (it blocks remote tracking scripts) so the page is all blank except for the code snippets (because Adobe Typekit is blocked). You should consider adding a fallback font.
And we're back.
Sorry for the issue, got caught by site44's late warning.
Oscar-awarded Movie Fonts 2013
Really? I think it's a valid move. If people in a certain economic zone are using one of the countries as a tax shelter, and that is causing problems with regional stability, then an adjustment is required. The saying "we're all in this together" comes to mind..

Even though the tax shelter is legal, it doesn't change the fact that if the regional governments are going to step in and provide bailout money for the country that was the tax shelter in the first place, then the financial residents (so to speak) of that country should be made to chip in..

If Cyprus didn't have such an imbalanced tax and banking system (that led it to be a shelter in the first place), they wouldn't have needed the bailout..
Nerds on message boards also think that the country is outraged alongside them about TSA scans. But I listened to Talk of the Nation this week on the new TSA pocketknife policy, and the sentiment was overwhelmingly in the other direction --- "I fly with my children, so I think anything we can do to make ourself more safe...". People are angry at TSA... for relaxing restrictions on carry-on items!

I opt out of the electronic strip search at every airport. How many times do you guess I've seen someone else opting out at the same time? Zero.
Or if you want to make it clear that it's your domain, mydomain.example or mydomain.test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Reserved_doma...
No, $9 for another programming book. Which is a steal, frankly.
Here is a little video I made showing how to use Gnus in Emacs to read RSS via Gwene: http://vimeo.com/asjo/rss-in-emacs
Better title: "Man taps into security camera system to cheat casino out of $33 million"
Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valley’s ‘War For Talent’
I was with you on the first paragraph but the second goes off the rails on the second sentence. It's hard to say that Google isn't also championing the open web unless you claim that Chrome isn't a Google product - NaCL and Dart are interesting experiments but it's not like Google hasn't poured a TON of expensive, high-quality time into creating an industry-leading JavaScript engine (along with CSS, HTML5, etc. support) and put a similar amount of time into evangelism, developer outreach, etc.

Even if Google cancelled Chrome tomorrow, the entire open web community would owe them a debt of gratitude for administering the coup de grace to IE's reputation as the only significant desktop browser and pushing Mozilla to heavily invest in performance and the user experience – they cared about them before but as we can see now, setting your goal as “better than IE” was still too low.

There were a bunch of nice things which happened around that time – Firefox, Safari, iPhone, etc. – but the thing which really opened the desktop market moving was Chrome shipping a radically fast, user-friendly browser which you could install even on typical corporate IT-mismanaged desktops and which you never needed to think about updating. Web standards advocates had spent years preaching using standards first and fallbacks for compatibility and related ideas but the rise of Chrome seems to be what got the mainstream web developer to really internalize that idea and start coding with the assumption that the browser would improve before they revisited a site.
In the US, and likely most countries, card counting is not illegal. However, casinos can refuse to do business with anybody they want, so they can ban you for it. The exception is Atlantic City where you can't be banned for card counting, but if you are suspected of it, they will use other tactics to negate any advantage you may have (e.g. shuffling after every hand)
There's going to be a major demand in Cyprus over the next few days and weeks for a non-bank store of wealth.
Word Lens
If you're from a country with a decent visa situation (I.e. not the US or UK) I'd really recommend visiting Iran, its incredible and full of the friendliest people I've had the privilege to meet.
> Contractors are not employees, and the relationship is well defined, and not just to skirt some obligation.

Contracting is a useful economic and social agreement intended to define a more limited mutual responsibility than full employment, just as dating is not the same as marriage. No one would date if it were expected of them to treat their newly acquainted dates with the same responsibilities spouses are supposed to treat each other. On the other hand, what matters (socially and ethically, if not legally) isn't what the relationship or contract is called, but how it's expressed de facto. For example, I'm not too familiar with US laws, but in my country (Israel), courts grant domestic partners the same rights as married couples (when it comes to splitting property, or even when it comes to spouse health insurance), and contractors (or freelancers) are granted the same rights as employees (e.g. severance pay, insurance) if it is shown that they were contractors in name only (for example, if the contractors worked solely or mostly for one employer, or if they were not at liberty to turn down work without expecting immediate termination).

Since Uber's drivers are the very core of its business -- in fact, they are the most crucial "department" in the company -- it seems to me they are actually full employees, and must be treated as such. This is especially true if the drivers work in regular shifts, and are obligated to actually show up to work (I don't know if this is in fact the case; if not, Uber would naturally be less responsible for them).
There's nothing illegal about counting cards. The law simply allows casinos to choose whom they allow to play, or to visit their premesis, and they choose to exercise this right when someone is playing several standard deviations better than math would predict.

It's really no different from your choosing to walk away from a table after losing a lot of money.
If they want to ban somebody, they don't need to make up a fake story and get it in the news, they just ban them
Linux computer shop closing
Assuming this wasn't a case where an insider broke into security and installed a transmitter onto a specific video feed, isn't there an argument here as to who owns a presumably unencrypted RF signals?

Also, is there an implied Terms Of Service you agree to when entering a casino? I've been to many and have never seen anything even remotely resembling a TOS.

I was asked to stop playing roulette at a major Vegas casino a number of years ago. I wasn't betting big or making tons of money. I am what one might call a geek gambler: I enjoy devising ways to improve my odds. During my occasional trips to Vegas (example: Once a year for CES) I test the ideas with a couple of hundred bucks. It's purely for fun. If the goal was making money it'd be far more effective to spend four hours coding rather than gambling.

Anyhow, on this particular occasion I had memorized a betting pattern that improved the probability of my bets winning. On average it seemed effective. I got kicked out when I won thirteen times in a row. Fun while it lasted.
Do you think Email usage can be reduced at workplace?
You think For Enterprise Collaboration or at workplace, Social Networks Are Better Than Emails.
Well, reverse the path then. "news.ycombinator.com." is equivalent to "/com/ycombinator/news", but more commonly we use "news.ycombinator.com", equivalent to "com/ycombinator/news".

The root token is not optional and assumed at all. Instead, there are multiple "search paths", like with binaries on *nix and Windows/DOS. Now, usually, it will check "." ("/") somewhere along the way, but people often have intranet domains which are also checked, so what you expected to resolve to "news.ycombinator.com." might resolve to "news.ycombinator.com.mycompany.com."
I wonder what steps they are taking to avoid a complete, Armageddon-style bank run in Cyprus?
Last time I submitted a Google+ link I received some feedback from people who couldn't read it. For those, here is a copy:

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http://www.hettes.nl/hettes-stopt [Dutch]

This is sad. Translation:

Hettes is closing

We have to announce that we, the team of Hettes, can no longer deliver laptops with Ubuntu Linux or another Linux distribution. This is not because we want to or because of time or resources, but it's because we can't buy computers (anymore) without operating system.

We started our webshop a few years ago with a lot of ambition and fun, continued developing it, and helped lots of customers with satisfaction. Since the beginning of our passion and ambition for the webshop with laptops and desktops with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux we've had problems with buying systems without operating system, or simply said without Windows.

We have tried to continue our work in different ways and we have had small successes. However with Windows 8 all doors are being closed permanently and we see no way to open these.

The worst of the story is that the community, you, as user of Ubuntu or another distribution were very happy with the different parties that deliver/delivered laptops and desktops with Linux and we always received positive and nice feedback from you.

We'd like to continue our activities and serve users and consumers with your request for laptop and desktops, but we are not given the chance to do this. Because of this reason we decided to stop our internet activities.

This does not apply to existing customers of Hettes, we as team have decided to continue technical support and warranties for you because, as we said, we're not closing because we want to, but because we are being held back by the large computer manufacturers.
Assuming this wasn't a case where an insider broke into security and installed a transmitter onto a specific video feed, isn't there an argument here as to who owns a presumably unencrypted RF signals?

No. Most gambling locales have a law against the use of hidden electronic devices to assist play. It has nothing to do with airwave rights.
Ah, OK, I thought it was illegal.
you cant' improve the probability in roulette with a pattern
This is great. If you sign up for new feeds they will
be available almost immediately.
I'm using Gwene with mutt as my newsreader.
You made 12.000 and you sold 4.000 copies. I don't see the problem with that.
Is There a Future for .tel?