skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just beautiful. I don't know the facts to this case, and neither do you, and yet you assume that what could bery much be a political action by a non-democratic corporation is either a mistake or a result of government intervention. But get this: large corporations can do whatever the hell they feel like. If they want to advertise abortion clinics but not come-back-to-Jesus ads because that's their political view, that's exactly what they'll do. And while they do have some incentive to take a customer's money, they have other incentives, too, like enforcing their political views without answering to anyone. True, they do have obligations to their shareholders, but no one will yell too loudly if they're turning a $1B profit rather than the $1.1B that they could have, and there's a lot of political influence forgoing that $0.1B could get you. And they don't even have to pass laws that you say Congress is so fond of passing.

Some people feel that the free market ensures fair behavior in spite of being shown the opposite again and again. Free market gives rise to monopolies or non-monopolies with too much power, and those companies don't have to operate by the same rules anymore. This is where the invisible hand hypothesis fails: To the powerful players, a dollar is not the same as a dollar to you because they have enough power to change the market. Set the rules of the game, if you like.

That's why I'll always take government red tape over corporate red tape. That's why I'll take government corruption over corporate corruption. True, even in a democracy money buys influence, but at least the players are often required to give a good explanation. But a corporation, as long as it's very profitable, can behave like a dictator -- benevolent or otherwise.
How I Made a (Summly Founder) 15-Year-Old App Developer Cry (2011)
At the risk of stating the obvious, big companies overpay for deals all the time especially when there is some perceived intangible benefit to be accrued. Alas.
>"Why do you want to work here?"

The problem with this question is that many people won't answer it honestly. A lot people just want to get, say, a better salary, but instead will answer stuff like "I want to solve difficult problems" etc.
It's not like he has to lean much english.

New appointment, alarm, the days of the week, etc.
This article should provide an overview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
Or Project Jaberwocky from Better Off Ted.
No, I wholeheartedly disagree. There's nothing wrong with being over or under 25 - it's the UK insurance system that is broken. I come from a country where you buy insurance per car,not per person. So you buy a single insurance which is determined by the age and power of the car, and anyone with a valid licence can drive it. The amount you are insured against is the same as in the UK, so why is it that if I wanted to insure myself on a 1.2 Corsa I would have to pay above 2000 pounds/year, a car which I could get fully comp+assistance for myself in my country for 300 quid per year? If I wanted to get insurance just for myself(not shared) on my dad's 4.4L V8 Land Rover, I would pay 800 quid for full comp. In the UK insuring the same car would cost me in excess of 6 thousand pounds.
I have had my driver's licence for 4 years and never had an accident, driven probably more than 150k+ miles now yet my insurance is an order of magnitude higher because some idiots want to street race without insurance? Talk about fairness.
> One of the defining characteristic of a sociopath is that they don't think they're a sociopath.

No. People who aren't sociopaths normally also don't think that they're a sociopath.
As far as "Relentlessly resourceful" is concerned, I am sure Nick D'Aloisio has "relentless" really nailed.
I'm wondering.. when i hit ctrl-shift-t it seems to open a new terminal? Atleast i get a new prompt.. but no way to switch?
Maybe it was just quicker/cheaper for Yahoo! to buy Summly and their license than to negotiate their own license off SRI?
Hi Rob! Instaboard enables businesses to reach experts whose timely advice would help companies overcome key challenges. It is more of a help request model, and we want to create an environment that'd make sense for both sides.
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By running AdBlock, you're the one doing the exploiting. It's no different than pirating stuff, you don't have the moral high ground here.
Google is part of the advertising industry. You cannot separate that two. That makes no sense at all.

Who do you think wants targeting to work? Advertisers buy targeting services – but the ones selling them are companies like Google. That’s what they do.

To want to separate that is completely crazy.

You know, why are we even having this discussion? You know who complained about Mozilla here? Why, yes, it’s the IAB and one of their members is – you guessed it – Google. This is one of the lobby organizations Google is part of.

See: http://www.iab.net/member_center/1521/1534
The rise of the nuclear greens
Stopwatch, Timer and Pomodoro in one app for Ubuntu
One of the problems with using a self-hosted alternative like this is the fact that Google open up a lot of their services through APIs which other applications then consume. A web app I wrote a couple of years ago is one example (meetingShed). This easy integration with other apps opens up a lot of possibilities, but is there an alternative with ownCloud? It would be really interesting to see if a solution could be developed to expose self-hosted services (dynamically located) through a publicly accessible API (statically located).
Love it, if only PHP were like this. My favorite is definitely the catch block, sorry, would_you_mind block!
It's just a metaphor, and I think a reasonably apt one in this case. Were you genuinely confused that China might be initiating military operations against Apple when you read the headline?

In any case, calling it a "little disagreement" when a government launches a propaganda campaign against a company seems pretty disingenuous.
Could someone that is down voting care to explain why?
"I've got 30 billion, I guess 30 million is not too much to ask for. Do it." - Li Ka-shing
Is your MVP wrong or just not right enough?
Clearly they're actually storing them using very strong hashing techniques but then using super secret technology from MI6 to reverse them if they get forgotten.
simply running ads themselves, targeted at their own viewers' likely interests, without relying on third party middlemen

One minor point here - speaking as both an advertising guy and someone who runs content-based websites, this is much harder than it may appear. I qualify as at least a professional if not an expert in making money off website space, and I still frequently find it difficult to beat (intelligently set up) Google Adsense for raw CPM.

For someone with no experience or interest in making money directly off advertising space, it'll be much harder, and I'd expect most people trying this to take a pretty significant revenue loss in the short term. That may reverse itself in the long term - there are big advantages to running your own ads if you're prepared to put the time in - but the initial income slump will be painful.
Please tell me someone has implemented most of the control structure stuff as a DSL in Ruby. I would find that a most hilarious prank.
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The part that I particularly like actually is slightly different to that:

> "They'll see untargeted ads, which will look like spam. We have to get this information to them somehow."

Oh really, you have to get this information to me? Seriously? I didn't ask for it, I have no desire for it, no you don't have to. You want to, because someone is paying you to do so. Yet another case of someone thinking they have a right to a business model. No you don't. If it fails it fails. Find something to sell that people want (or at least don't despise enough to actively put you out of business).
This is a big deal when you consider that, IIRC, GCHQ instructs you not to tell anyone you've applied, and admitting that you've talked to others about your candidacy can disqualify you from the job.

But perhaps I'm remembering a different intelligence agency's policy.
I've never read the MacLeod hierarchy, but who wouldn't envision themselves as a "sociopath" on his scale? They sound ideal, cool, and nearly superhuman.
> both lowercasepassword and Uppercasepassword

When I was applying to uni both of those would be invalid passwords too, as they're more than 8 characters. I emailed them to complain, and was told that this is to enforce easy-to-remember passwords, because they didn't want to deal with the hassle of people asking for password resets...
I've been using DDG full-time for almost 3 years, even since before I abandoned Google. The !bang searches alone made it a better option for me.
There isn't a trace of Google on my Android phone unless you count blames for the source code.
Adding a blocking javascript resource that disables speculative resources loading is going to speed up pageloads?
You're attacking my point without attempting to correct it.

you can legally discriminate if there are objective reasons for doing so

There is a ridiculous breadth of methods to legally discriminate. Equally, there are a large number of ways to fall fowl of the law. I've highlighted one of those ways, and provided citation.

The rule of thumb when it comes to employment law is to always err on the side of caution. That's exactly the suggestion I'm making.

Also: I am an "approved" person within the meaning of UK employment law ie I could represent you at an Industrial tribunal

I am also an 'approved' person. As are the majority of tax paying UK residents.
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Is this how new indie apps get reviews?
I can't speak for it now, but it certainly was at the time. "Was" does not necessarily mean there was a cessation, merely that said state was true at an earlier time.

FWIW though, I was a huge fan at the time and it went majorly downhill after it was sold to Yahoo. I don't know how it is with the new owners, because I moved away.
With 17? Hardly.
“the foundation of the internet has more to do with software and Linux”

Linux is barely 20 years old, the Internet has been around for decades before that. In recent years, it seems like more and more people are using ‘Linux’ in a context where they actually mean ‘Unix’. Just like the Internet and the web are not the same, these distinctions matter.

“ I must be the only HN regular who finds himself working in the world of marketing and advertising”

Nope, there are plenty of us here.
This is corrected now, good! :-)
There's arguments for and against both methods. Back when I first started programming, memory was a luxury (we're talking 80's personal computers here), so it made a great deal of difference. These days, however, choosing an integer type which most closely matches the values stored is largely an academic process which costs developer time (though obviously there are exceptions, times when it makes more sense to be mindful and times when it makes less sense).

My point is this: the problem when talking about "best practices" is there's some approaches that actually doesn't make a huge deal of practical difference, so it's more subject to specific circumstances (eg developer time constraints) or even just personal preferences (eg the arguments between ()\n{\n\t and (){\

Anyhow, in answer to your other post, the intn and uintn types have been available in Go since day one. So (and in answer to your original post as well), this int issue you raise isn't an issue unless developers have written extremely bad code to begin with (ie written counters which they know will exceed a 32bit integer and not cared enough to write an error handler nor specifically use an int64 type). Go does do a lot more to protect the developer from shooting his own foot off (more so than C/C++), but if we're completely honest, if the developer is crap then no amount of hand-holding from language design will help.
Spam was already a big problem, wasn't it? (Started around 1994.) Though I think I still checked in on Usenet occasionally.
The sad thing about it is that people keep on reinventing stuff and selling it to young developers.

For example, Modula-2 and Turbo Pascal compilers were already having Go like compilation speed back in the mid 80s.

Smalltalk and Lisp Machines environments offered features that current IDEs still don't quite achieve, while offering desktop operating systems fully coded in GC enabled languages.

Oberon language family used for doing desktop operating systems in a GC enabled systems programming language, used for several years at Zurich Technical University.

Distributed computing in the early 80s.

And many other things.
Which in the UK would belong to your employer in most cases any major piece of work is 95% likely to have been done at work.

You need to talk to a HR professional and understand how the master and servants act (as amended ) apply and who owns what.

Startups could be opening up them selves to legal attack by competitors if they are found to be looking at a competitors code.
I sympathise, because I also run a couple of low-traffic web sites purely to share information I've found useful or thoughts that might help others. Then again, I never expected to make any money from those sites, and I don't run ads on them either.

Whatever we might ideally like as site creators, I think the reality is that small-scale, targeted-ad funding for web sites, where we create something like a personal blog or a site with some articles and then slap something like Google Ads on them to cover the hosting costs, isn't going to be a sustainable model.

Instead, I think sites like that are either going to be done for love (as they always used to be), or done for profit (and run as a business, including marketing and advertising arrangements or some other revenue stream), or perhaps hosted on some sort of aggregator site that does have critical mass to run a cost-effective ad program even if its individual contributors wouldn't (which might be a business, or might simply be a bunch of like-minded individuals clubbing together to split their hosting costs).

There might even be some sort of positive cultural shift over time, where people stop wanting everything for free and start to realise that you get what you pay for and good sites are worth supporting. I don't expect that many people are going to actively donate to sites any time soon, but then you only need a few who do to pay an annual hosting bill for a low traffic personal site.

So while I do see your point and understand your concern, I don't think we're talking about the fall of the Internet here. Little guys like you and me will keep our sites running one way or another and still spend our time on content we think is worthwhile.
The problem with these scales is deciding what is a 10 and what is a 1.

I've seen people put these on their CVs , what they tend to do is put the language they are most comfortable with as a 9 and then scale everything else according to that.
streamingsoundtracks.com, although it has deteriorated somewhat over the years. It used to be exclusively instrumental tracks from popular movies, but now there are more vocal and video game tracks than I care for.
Yahoo, please read :)

"If I wanted to invest in an app developer, I'd put Nick D'Aloisio through etiquette school, manners class, drill him with social skills and most importantly, teach him the basics of how e-mails work (or maybe just strip him of e-mail rights altogether) and then I'd let him work."
why is it that i cannot find a link to the github repo?
Everyone now knows about this app. For $30000000 they pulled off the best marketing campaign ever.
Talking about app marketing, is there any way to get marketing without connections or money? I tried connecting with all the known app review agencies - either I didn't get any reply, or they provided me with paid-review options to expedite the process without which my app might not be reviewed at all. Any suggestions?
Oh, right, should have seen that I guess.
I am jealous. :)
This is worth a patch to PHP core... not that it would get accepted.
said no one ever?
The same argument can be made for not running Flash, JavaScript, or any other technology the site asks you to run in order to run ads. After all, the intent is that you watch those ads to consume the content. If the intent is to require me to watch ads, then the site can be setup to require that. What I download from where is up to me.

I could say that I actually do whitelist sites to display ads, but we both know that I'm in the minority there, and beside the point.
When I listen to advertisers talk I realise that I understand the individual words, but all strung together they mean something different, and reality starts to slide away until I'm through the looking glass in a weird world where "We want to show you our ads" is the same as "Why don't you want to see our brilliant content? People love those shouting smileys and buzzing mosquitoes!"

Me saying "Really, I only leave ads on to give a smidgen of money to the content provider; I'd much rather make micro-payments direct" is interpreted as me being an obscure hard-line communist.

I genuinely feel lost when listening to advertisers
would_you_mind {
// Code here
} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) {
// Politely move on
cheerio('Message');
}

amazing
What sort of signal though? Other than the mainstream media, pretty much anyone else with at least a clue seems to be confused by this acquisition.
Nice URL and "Error establishing a database connection". I smell Wordpress.

Here's a cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
Maybe, but they still have to drive past the 3rd street cans on the way from the full cans on 2nd street to the full cans on 4th street. I'm thinking windshield time is much larger than emptying time. Basically garbage truck drivers probably spend a lot more time driving than hoisting trash cans.

Its like the mailman argument. If I don't get any mail today, my mailman can't magically teleport past my house. True he does save the time of opening a box and tossing some sorted mail in, but that action only takes a tiny fraction of the time of walking 100 feet past my property. A registered mail transaction takes a LONG time like 5 minutes and if more people got registered mail (or fewer got junk mail) then the ratio would flip and he'd save huge time.
The solution is trivial - just have some json in a specific format. The problem is getting everyone to agree on a standard and to get big players like Google, MS, Yahoo to use the standard.

To be honest though, there doesn't really seem to be much effort to even try - maybe someone famous will step forward and get the ball rolling?
Failed at the first one (it's still alive and used, but it's not a success). Working on a second right now that I'm approaching completely differently and I'm really excited about.
Go to 'Download'. There is /only/ a link to the github repo.
You could of course include a weasel-phrase like "videos over 5 minutes long count as one additional video for every additional 5 minutes."
That's their job though. Don't forget, the face of that new hype machine is also an employee at Yahoo now. I am sure if he stays at Yahoo long enough he will also be asked to integrate other acquisitions into software he is working on.

You make a valid point about Yahoo being able to produce similar results in house but the software alone doesn't get you a client base, publicity (certainly not the same level of publicity the Summify purchase has received) and the 3 guys they have hired.

So what if he's only 17? If he has good ideas about how to take Yahoo's mobile news presence forward then the problem should disappear. Of course if he's a poor developer then other employees have the right to be frustrated but it should only be based on his competency and not what he is worth.
> A large minority of the civilian population would have a much easier time deposing the government and instituting a new one than a foreign state (or group of US states attempting to secede) would. [...] A large minority of the population rising up against the government would likely gain the support of some of the military and could blend in with the rest of the population when not fighting.

I think this is pretty rosy-colored view of what would happen. A "large minority" would have to be several hundred thousand people, perhaps a few million. Anything less is just a radical cult that will promptly be put down...and everyone will say "thank goodness" as they watch on the evening news. If something big enough happens that a few million people take up arms, you have a full blown civil war and things are totally different.

Stockpiling guns and weapons is the opiate of libertarians - "it's fine, I have the weaponry I need to overthrow the government if things get bad enough". In reality, you have a better chance fighting zombies than successfully overthrowing the government through violent means.

To be clear, I have nothing against guns. I'll probably purchase one once I've moved into a more rural area. But I'm under no illusion that the weapon will ever be useful in deposing any government.
That was mainly related to political issues with the language's runtime, which are sorted now.
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This article pops up every few months, but I still love it every time.

cheerio('Message');
Some of my coworkers made a firefox os app installation page that had both <marquee> and <blink>. At first I thought they were doing some crazy css animation thing to get scrolling, flashing text on the phone. Nope, just marquee and blink.
Yes, America has tricked the world with clever marketing and the threat of invasion.
In the two examples you gave, one could safely infer that you are at least 27 and 38 respectively, assuming you listed a degree. If a company wants only to hire young engineers, this is a way to discriminate. But I assume the 55 year old would probably include some prior experience on a résumé or application as well.
“We took the liberty of trying your email and password on some popular websites and have rejected your application”
Thanks for the article! I didn't hear about ownCloud (or similar projects) before, I'm already reading manual (http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/admin_manual/) and will be installing ownCloud on my VPS today. I had doubts about giving Google (or any other company) so much of my data (not only emails, but schedule, contacts etc.) - now I found a great solution. I love HN.
Can't stand 'em, find the whole thing creepy as hell.

I find out about new (tech) things by reading tech sites, which probably means I'm a sucker for advertorial, but at least I'm going out looking for info rather than having it shoved into my face.
Who actually confirmed the $30M number though?

No-one that I've seen quoted?

Maybe it was $30M in stock?
The University of York have a similar length requirement. When I enquired about it, I was told it was because some of the older systems have a maximum length, and they keep your password the same everywhere.
I'm starting to wonder if you're actually being serious.

The vast majority of employers (at least the better ones) like to review developers github/bitbucket repo's in advance. Everything in there is open-source.

Your master and servants act has literally zero relevance to my point.
He said that they are on the right track. Not that this will be the only change needed to protect the privacy of the users.