skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few things of real worth happen due to master planning

Those few things include Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Economy,_Trade_and_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Development_Board
>convicted of engaging in homosexual acts and sentenced to chemical castration. Amid that personal drama, he still found the time to publish a visionary paper

Even in the face of his entire society condemning him to a crippled existence, it's a testament to his fortitude that he continued producing brilliant works, unfettered. We're left to wonder what other insights Turing might have contributed to human progress had he not been stifled and squandered by the people in power in his day.

History is filled with examples of intellect being trampled on by the establishment: Galileo, Socrates, and even now Aaron Swartz. We still haven't grown out of it. We still need to fight it.
There aren't really any mail.app-like clients, with a heavily simplified interface. Most clients I can think of have very traditional interfaces, or are aimed at big mail users and lean on the heavily configurable side (like, say, mutt).

I'm not sure if there is a demand for this sort of simplified things for Linux, tough, but I guess I'm not the target audience.
Big Moment For Vine As Wolverine Movie Footage Comes Via 6-Second “Tweaser”
One last suggestion: subtitles on the video. I watched the video but wasn't really sure what kind of functionality is was and how it would benefit me.

Then again, I have a touch of ADD, so I may be your 'worst case scenario'.

I wish you success!
Ah I didn't even know that was a thing. I think I am so used to the misspelling that I didn't even realise - the only place I regularly come across the word is in reference to HTTP.

Here for anyone who didn't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Origin_of_the_term...
I find weapons ads far more offensive than porn ads. Our natural form vs a device whose sole intent is to obliterate said natural form.

How come your measure of offense is more important than mine?

Also, if you want to play community standards, I'm pretty sure the majority of the people who live around Google HQ (Bay Area + SF) would agree with me.
> While I feel bad for the knife company, I also know dealing with user-generated content (like these ads) is hard.

Uh, what? Where does it state that the ads are user generated?
Yahoo Buys Coolness From Teenager for $30M | Wired Business | Wired.com
Nokia's VP8 patent claims: we've been here before
AFAIK Yorba uses Vala which is a native C#-like language.

I do agree with you that PGP and S/MIME would be awesome features but most people using Linux are so frustrated with default apps that I think they wanted to show their focus on the basic workflow.
As more of these stories happen, Google adwords will simply consist of the big-brand marketers. There is something I trust in this process -- the market.

Companies like knife-depot are specialty, niche, hyper-focused on their particular product: knives. From their post, it's obvious they know those products inside and out. WalMart, Target, Amazon? They don't know squat about those products. If I want a specialty product such as the knife described in the article, I trust a specialty shop much more than the bulk-focused vendors.

As Google runs more of the specialty folks away and caters more to the big brands, I would venture they'll see click-through activity commensurate with that change. And that's called opportunity in that space.

Nice going, Google.
"'hacking the mainframe' is still a convenient but lazy plot device that lets characters discover vital expository backstory"

Kind of like how most of the articles on Gizmodo are non-Gizmo related stories with baited titles and lazy journalism to sucker the maximal amount of people.

Nevertheless, video made me laugh and cringe.
Murder rates are often given per 100,000 inhabitants - so size of country isn't really a factor:

United States: 4.8
United Kingdom: 1.2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

vacri's statement seems completely accurate.
FBI aiding in 5-state search for missing Brown University student
No, I agree with this and no ADD. I don't know what I'm looking at, it's too small to read what's being moved around - nice music, though. Very relaxing.
Not sure if my math is right, but cope with me...

To win the first prize, four independent events should happen: the participant has to answer (either right or wrong), and a random person in the street has to answer the same way.

Let an event "QnPmAo" mean "Question n, Person m, Answer o", where n=4, and o can be 1 (right) or 0 (wrong). The probability of winning the first prize would be:

P(Win) = (P(Q1P1A1 ∩ Q1P2A1) + P(Q1P1A0 ∩ Q1P2A0)) * (P(Q2P1A1 ∩ Q2P3A0) + P(Q2P1A1 ∩ Q1P3A0)) * ... and so on, for all four questions.

To win the second prize, only two independent events are need: a participant knowing any two out of four questions. The probability would be:

P(Win) = P(Q1 ∩ Q2) + P(Q2 ∩ Q3) + P(Q3 ∩ Q4) + P(Q1 ∩ Q4)

From a statistical viewpoint, the second scenario seems always more likely than the first, assuming the knowledge of the population about trivial questions follows a normal distribution. If during the first round all four participants know the answers, the odds of a fifth participant knowing at least two are high.

Still, from the episodes I watched, people seem to refuse the second challenge regardless of the outcome of the first round - in other words, they don't seem to make a rational decision.

Hope someone less rough than me in statistics can shed some light if there's a mistake!
Refusing to advertise them for one company, but running the ads for another company, is an evil double standard. Whatever Google's knife rules are, they should be the same for small and big sellers.
RefControl is a nice addon for that, with ability to set default behaviour and override it for specific domains.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
I want to share free hosting for life.
Even Google employees realize the hypocracy. Our (unnamed for his safety) rep at Google emailed us with this:

“I am still waiting on an answer to my reply where I asked for a universal enforcement of the policy OR we allow knife depot back online. I replied and said, I refuse to tell knife-depot they need to remove a product category that 7 other competitors are advertising & selling the same products.” I then named each domain, called out the double standard, and requested that they state the clear differences that allows these competitors to serve & knife depot to be suspended. Still waiting on this reply.“

That email was sent over a month ago.
This is great! My wife and I were just discussing the nutritional value of amaranth (Calcium in particular) and then I saw this.

To be clear, the bottom bar graph represents what 2000 calories of that food would contain of that nutrient? Being used to reading ingredient labels and the recommended values, I was thinking amaranth contained ~90% of Calcium per serving, then I watched the video. Do I understand this correctly? If so, you might want to label that somehow.

Very nice work! We love it!

Thanks!
"I did not meet a single non-technical person who had done any of this leg work. I would have taken them and their idea very seriously if they had".

In the last year I've met more than a dozen such groups. Of those, 2 had actually done some legwork on their own - one had attended a tradeshow showing nothing more than a powerpoint and had collected some leads. (initially, that was impressive). Another had done a lot of exploratory work, and when I asked them to do XYZ, they actually did it and gave me the results from it.

In both cases, I've extended a bit more of my time to work with these people in hopes of getting the project to a point where we might work together long term. In one case, we simply parted ways because the vision was shifting a lot on his end - no focus. In the other case, that team has actually called it quits - they had simply underestimated the time and effort involved in making it work, and I appreciated the halt vs dragging it on for months on end.

But rarely do I meet groups or people that have done any significant legwork at all - they're the typical "idea man/woman", and just need someone to "make it work".
As the OP explains, the knives in question are not illegal and not in violation of Google's policies

They ARE in a clear violation of Google's policy which prohibits selling knives as weapons. They seem to have some confusion about the word of the ban, but as I linked elsewhere - http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/176077?hl=en

This is not at all unclear. The examples of banned knives are not the exhaustive set.

And for what it's worth, assisted opening knives are only legal by the most marginal of gray areas (that the "button" is laughably a part of the blade rather than the side handle).
Gervais / MacLeod 16: Healthy culture vs. “Why you?”
End of the Road for Golden Gate Bridge's (Human) Toll Collectors
So my best guesses are:
1) $30M is basically a BS, "maybe they can get it in some crazy situation number"
2) $30M number is not real at all
3) They had some technology that was patented, hard to build, and was perceived to be super valuable to Yahoo but not obvious from the app itself
4) Something about having this "wiz kid" was really important to Yahoo's image

And it was definitely not:
-the product (being shut down)
-much of the team (only 3 are going with)

The lessons from (1) and (2) would be don't believe everything you hear. The lessons from (3) and (4) are that having great corp dev resources (VCs, advisors, etc) are worth a whole lot.
From inside the State monad though, it "looks just like" (has semantics of) mutability. It's simply interpreted in an immutable lambda calculus.

The ST monad has the same game but a different interpreter.
New Studies Suggest the Speed of Light is Variable
Actually, we do sync your bookmarks across every device you use. The Firefox plugin is available as both an addon from the Addons Center and XPI file for direct install.

Did you have any problems installing the plugin, or did you just have trouble finding the page that links to it?
An invisible bicycle helmet
"I've Done This Before"
...in New York? I would consider that a jump from the fire into the frying pan.
Actually it appears as though Google demanded that they stop selling those knives altogether, not just stop advertising them through AdWords.
Google got sued over online drug ads before and had to pay $500 million in fines. The US Government was even running a criminal probe against Google that could have put executives in jail for these kinds of ads. So you can only imagine they are a lot more careful now given that experience.

Alcohol, Weapons, and Drugs are areas regulated by various governments around the world and carry civil and criminal policies for even small violations.

You say health market, but don't specify details. Might this have been for quack homeopathy junk, diet pills that don't work, vitamins? Every time I hear a health related ad on the radio it is for some bullshit product backed by outright lies about "clinical studies show NutriWeightBlah will lose you 20 pounds in only 2 weeks", and bogus testimonials.

If Google is shutting down ads for that kind of product, I can only give them kudos, for essentially banning con-men who take advantage of desperate people.
This is a gigantic diversion, but saying that the UK doesn't have knife murder is pretty profoundly ignorant. The last stat I saw was that the UK had some 330+ stabbing murders a year.
Not the OP, but I do work for Knife Depot. There is no real viable alternative advertising company that can compare to Google. This is the heart of the problem.
Are using a modified version of Foundation? I love the UI of this site. Great job.
> You're using it to create a false equivalence between immature jokes and sexual/racial violence

I've provided some context for why there is a link (not equality) between the two. Why is this a false equivalence or link?

> and having done that, are using racial/sexual violence as an appeal to emotion and morality.

I don't really think I understand this either. Microaggressions and the broader fabric of sexism are linked. Racial and sexual violence are not defensible even from a logical basis in a social context, no appeal to emotion needed. Am I missing something about this?

> Having done that, you're using that appeal to rationalize Adria's disproportionate response and overstate the severity of the offense

I don't believe I have overstated the severity of the offense. I am not advocating anything other than what happened, in that pycon pull the gentlemen aside and that Richards was free to blog about the incident. What makes Adria's response disproportionate?

> manufacturing a reality in which the conclusion of any rational observer is foregone

I believe I am being quite rational.

> Adria is the victim of sexism backed by sexual and racial violence, rather than the reality: she overheard an immature and minimally offensive joke.

These are not mutually exclusive. Even if you feel the pycon incident is minor, Adria lives in a society of sexism and racism that target women and people of color and some of that sexism and racism have surfaced throughout the various stories and reactions about this incident.

> In this context, 'microaggression' gives you the rhetorical tool you need to tie together minor offenses into a broader tapestry of systemic violence and oppression

This is exactly what I am getting at with microaggressions, they are tied to the broader tapestry of systemic violence and oppression. These kinds of aggressions have been studied and do have real effects on people and perpetuate the broader sexism, racism, etc. in society.

> from which you can use emotional appeals to justify almost any response, no matter how disproportionate to the original offense.

This is not true, I do not advocate any response to this incident. I do believe that reporting the incident to the staff and blogging about it are completely within reason for any individual.

> Adria chose to evoke public mob justice by shaming individuals for behaviors that she herself engaged in, while giving the individuals in question no equivalent platform to defend themselves.

Twitter and blogging are totally available to the gentlemen in question. Public shaming is not mob justice.

> This was wrong, and was done in the name of an ideology that uses rhetorical tricks such as your 'microaggressions' to justify such disproportionate behavior.

Again, I have no idea what ideology you are referring to. Microaggressions are not made up, have scientific rigor, and are actively studied (your quotes imply you don't believe it is a real thing). Allowing someone to speak up in a public space like Twitter about someone's poor behavior is not some grand scheme to justify unfair treatment of others.
I'm hardly a DB expert, but I would have thought Percona would make more sense to replace Oracle MySQL in the repository. True it doesn't have a few new bells, but it should be a drop-in replacement for pretty much everyone.
I can't recommend attending the Starter League
I think wexpect (a fork, used in Sage) is faster, and fixes some bugs.

[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/goreckc/sage/wexpect/]
I'm curious if we can draw any comparisons to what Google is doing with Go and what Sun Microsystems did with Java, as far as a corporation supporting development of a language goes?

How many resources did Sun allocate to developing and supporting Java?

EDIT: One of the things that excites me about Go as opposed to something like Ruby on Rails or node.js (V8, aside) is that Google is behind it.
Okay thanks. i always get nervous seeing new product launches on HN without About section. The bookmarking field makes me even more nervous. I am one of those who would rather keep my bookmarks to myself, thanks all to Delicious experience.
In my honest opinion Yahoo! acquired Summly for their launch video: https://vimeo.com/52014691
It's simply so cool. Yahoo! is nowhere near that cool. The experiment now is if buying cool makes you cool.
I meant the actual ads themselves, not particularly the products. The average porn banner ad is an assault on the eyes, even if you're in the market for porn. I don't know if this is inherent to porn or just because it's an impulse-buy information good which is usually advertises through multiple levels of affiliate. Most firearms or knife ads are the name of the product and maybe a static shot of the product. e.g. http://www.blackfriday.fm/bf_image/big/2011/37266_1321045669...

It's a fair argument that porn is pure free speech and thus should be less regulated than guns, or that it's morally superior (although I'd say sex is morally superior to violence; porn is in some most cases morally inferior to sex)
isn't this http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013 that site?
Ask HN: Who do you register domains with?
So I keep hearing about not using Godaddy for registering domains and my current registrar (123-reg) is terrible but I thought it would be interesting to hear what people on HN use/recommend and why?
I think it was a very deliberate strategy by Oracle to undermine open source RDBMs by extinguishing the number one solution if it failed to attract customers to Oracle db. Their major mistake seems to be that they underestimated just how skeptical the foss community is of them - and rightly so - and how fast it can re-group and create alternatives. But you know what I really like? The fact that virtually no startups these days talk Oracle when discussing big data, which used to be the domain that Oracle truly dominated. Seriously, when did you read about Oracle (db) here on HN? It's interesting that Oracle focused so much on fighting open source RDBMs when NoSQL databases were the real threat all along.
That would be true (I would be definitely notice), but at the same time I feel it would be likely we would see some folks who see nothing wrong with it and give it attention over groups like PyLadies, groups that serve people who don't really get the same kind of attention, representation, or space in tech.
When things go terribly right
No one using a knife as a tool is going to buy an assisted opening knife. Aside from usage reliability considerations, having it trigger unintentionally (again, a tool they would handle constantly) would be a major concern.

This is product sold only to teenage boys desperately seeking that high of invincibility.
I didn't realize Amazon didn't allow non-firearm firearms parts, since I've bought ~10k in knoxx stocks, slings, sidesaddles, ammo holders, holsters, etc. through their marketplace. It's possible they just don't enforce it very well.

Apparently their policy (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...) allows a lot of things, but not other things, in a not entirely consistent way. Primers and brass are ok, but not bullets. Stocks are fine, but not barrels. wtf.

There are some parts where Amazon would have liability. Magazines, for instance, especially since Amazon likes to be able to warehouse items wherever it finds most convenient. 30 round magazines would be really complex given that some states ban them.
> But you, Type of Dude to Whom This Post is Addressed, would never do something like that.

"We really tie the room together..."
Its not tough, you work with douchbags. I'm not trying to be rude here, I'm giving you some advice, change the habbits or leave, that kind of environment is toxic. "tight deadlines" when it takes 30 minutes to rewrite even a multiple page readme from scratch is a very poor excuse to not keep even the simplest form of documentation up to date.

I know its much harder than that to just leave so I would suggest at the least: not accepting code changes from some out of town baddie who obviously doesn't respect you or your work. Trust me if your boss asks why you didn't merge and you say "he didn't spend 30 minutes to update the docs to reflect the changes" they will take your side, bosses care about future proofing and best practices being followed believe it or not.
They're not syntax sugar for goto the way switch is though. You can't pull stunts like that with two intermingled while loops because a while loop operates on a single block.
If you google "that sherlock holmes story with the dog", The Hound Of The Baskervilles" doesn't even show up on the first page.
No problem.

Say goodbye to folding is good enough, it's short and good. (shorter is better, simpler words are better to). I didn't mind the texts, but you specified to much on what it solves, without letting the visitor know how you "do it", that's why i proposed to change the pics or to change the video.

Now you see three pics, i'd suppose it would be better to do this (just an idea)

First pic: stick with clothing on it

Second pic: both sticks with clothing on it (in the middle of the process of hanging the clothes over)

Third pic, someone taking out the clothing they need.

As i mentioned, it's just an idea. On the "Send it as a gift", make it personal. As i see women buying this for their husband (because they throw their clothing on the chair) or moms for their sons.

Example: son going out in his suit (drunk ;-) ), gets home and the suit is halve on the chair, halve on the ground.
That's an example to get the mom frustrated. I think definatly some moms would buy this for that reason alone :-) ).

I think prices on the frontpage are a must, but something like the text. Neverfold, get yours starting from 29 $ (just to give people an idea of the cost) could be sufficient.

Don't get to much hopes for "send it as a gift" just yet, i don't know if that works. But there seems to be some reason for it, wives giving it to their husband because their frustrated or moms to their sons. It just seems logical.

Also, i think giving it as a gift should be something you add when you already launched.

Just remember, i'm no pro. Just wanting to help :)
Buried In Grain
There are several reasons they excel, but when I did a Harvard Business Case about them the main factors were the supply chain innovation due the ability to move quickly and keep less inventories + not having to hire expensive designers by copying = fast copying.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4652.html
Google's not the only one who bans you. I'm at work: "This Websense category is filtered: Weapons."

Yes, I work for a big company that filters the web and it does suck for me... but since a lot of people shop online while at work, it also sucks for you
It just happened and private enterprise made it happen.

No actually. The total amount of private sector activity (measured in dollars) in this space may dwarf anything the public sector put in, but that's businesses setting up their own websites etc etc etc.

The amount of business involvement in the web which represents invention is tiny.

It was Compuserve, AOL and Lotus Notes that just happened,
because the private sector was completely incapable of making anything to rival the Web or the Internet.

The Internet was nurtured in the public sector and commerce was specifically excluded. Similarly, the Web was nurtured at CERN. The private sector contributed nothing.

Of course, after the Internet had been developed already, it was decided to let the private sector in.
A friend of mine started making these wickedly cool sculptures out of the tops soda/pop soda cans. He's been posting to FB for a while, but he just opened a website. I think it's amazing, so I'm sharing it here.