skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without agreeing that journalists are more credible than bloggers, I think the discursive intent of that correction seems to be jibing at her social status. That's adding insult to injury, if the injury is the real difference in purchasing power between young techies and young journalists. The jibe isn't even accurate, as she has articles in the print edition, as well.
Personal account costs 4.95$ / year. What kind of premium account do you have to pay 50$ / month for?
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With 4 operations/day they will be the masters of heart surgery, but will they have the time to write scientific papers?
>Email: Gmail surpassed Outlook in market share only in Oct '12.

Sorry, you can't say "Outlook" when it's actually "Hotmail". Just because Hotmail had 400 million accounts, doesn't mean Outlook will have, too. Outlook only had 10 million accounts last I checked.
Certainly. How to manage a bitcoin portfolio isn't worked out at all. One of the problem is how to factor in the price instability with the payment schedule.
Those are not innovations, those are incremental improvements. (If you want to call all minor improvements innovation then, well, everyone's innovative.) Innovations are new products and new ideas.

Of course Android is following in Apple's footsteps; Apple came first, after all, and established everything that Android has since also implemented. Whatever Google is doing, it's an incremental improvement on that revolutionary approach to smartphones. Google Glass is innovative, possibly even revolutionary; but Android isn't.

> Google Maps recently added vector based maps

I doubt users notice that. (I'm a developer and I haven't noticed.) (Also, didn't Apple do this first, with the Maps app?) I'm sure there is lots of technical, low-visibility innovation happening at Google, but that's not what we are talking about here.

> Search has added countless quick results

Again, miniscule, evolutionary improvements.

> Gmail has litteraly changed web based mail and still continues to do so.

Gmail launched in 2004 and has hardly changed since then. Sure, it got priority inbox (a minor feature, hardly the revolutionary feature they claimed), GTalk and themes. Not really innovations in any meaningful sense. Gmail is possibly the worst example of all, since everything after 2004 has essentially been polish.

> Also, [Go] isn't an offcial Google product, so stomping Go to the ground really shows how you are just bashing away.

The parent was the one who mentioned Go, I merely responded.
What did the service do?
An Apple store? You could do much better per sqm of retail space than a restaurant (you can do much worse also).
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99% of websites make money from ads. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Imagine if everyone even asked for $1 per month to sustain themselves. That would be unfeasible. Ads are here to stay.
> I think people tend to grossly exaggerate how many emails they really do get.

For some people it is a real problem... I get 100-300 emails a day and I know people who get a lot more. And these people aren't "well he's pg, of course everyone emails him for advice" these are just general day-to-day emails.

Personally I'm with you in valuing politeness over efficiency, but I do spend a lot of time reading and responding to emails, and sometimes I get a couple of days behind in doing so.

(Maybe my experience differs to that of many HN readers as I'm not a hacker, I work in advertising and publishing.)
> I wonder if Watterson was simply old-fashioned, or if he noticed something that nowadays we're less capable of noticing.

I think it's the latter. What we are often missing is time. Having time in general as well as taking time. The older I get, the more I inch towards what Watterson was talking about. A while ago, I decided that I should extrapolate from this inching towards the ideals he expressed and simply act as though I had arrived there.

It has definitely made me happier, but he is right, too, that it is harder (at least harder than just shrugging and taking the money). You certainly make less money, although it's often simply a case of money arriving more slowly, building up, sustaining you - instead of making it big quick and then seeing things taper off, always trying to hold on to that big success.

In the end all the things mean so infinitely more. I enjoy living a life where the main focus is meaning.
That's a false dichotomy - I can consume curated news through RSS just fine. Trivium is one of my favourite feeds, for example.

The only difference between using RSS and following the author on FB/G+/Twitter is that I can use any client I want, and neither of us has to use yet another web service.
If Congress Cannot Pass Basic Gun Law, What Meaningful Law Will Ever Pass?
The obstacle to effective gun control legislation falls on people like potential presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, who does not support universal background checks. If Sandy Hook is not reason enough to act, what will be reason enough?
So this is where the inspiration for http://xkcd.com/557/ came from.
How do people manage to actively avoid the spell check in their browser or do people just ignore all the red squigglies?
> IPv4 works just fine

Here you are supporting the network problem. If no ISPs support IPv6, it makes no sense for websites to support it. If no websites support it, it makes no sense for ISPs to support it.

You're right that everyone with an address needs no new address to be globally reachable, but in order to actually fix the issue we need everyone to switch. The protocol versions just don't inter-operate.
I forgot to add that I would only consider this option when your only other means of payment exceed the costs of financial engineering involved in bitcoin payment...

I haven't calculated it yet, but I would estimate the cost to be between 3 and 10%, and certainly higher when mistakes are made.
So as you suggested, lets simply want to ignore Now, Android, Maps, Glasses and Self Driving cars:

Chrome: A hell lot of features that are pushing web forward, arguably the best development tools, significant contribution to Webkit (now to Blink), becoming platform for Chrome OS, v8 engine that serves as basis for NodeJs.

App Engine/Drive: So when Heroku/Dropbox does it, it can be called innovation but when GAE/Drive does it, it is just iteration? That's an insane standard to work against.

> doesn't even support formatting other than bold and italic, how's that for retrograde.

There is no way you could argue that supporting lists and headings will suddenly make Google+ an innovative product out of nowhere. What I find awesome are Hangouts and circles. They work very nicely for me, YMMV. You can set the entire profile to be hidden and no one will be smearing contents of your private life anywhere. I am not sure exactly is this complaint coming from.
1) Google > Apple in mobile
2) Apple > Nokia in mobile
3) Facebook > Google in ads
Aah, I thought they just moved everyone from Hotmail to Outlook and that they are now the same thing. Unfortunately, I can't edit the post now.
Well said. I'm in that uncomfortable place right now where doing what I love doing makes me no money, and is months (at least) from making me money, and it is hard to get myself into the mindset where I'm trying to ask people to give me pay for what I can do – which is hard, because I don't want to do it and I worry that I'm bad at pretending. Or else the jobs market is just fiercely competitive nowadays. Probably both at once.

Here's hoping there's a light somewhere down that tunnel... it's soothing to know that Watterson went down a similar one, and fought a fierce fight to get to the end of it himself.
Good question. There aren't many. Most of the ones I can think of (Kickstarter, Github, Heroku) launched years ago and have since built on their success without really innovating much beyond the initial idea.

The YC portfolio has a lot of interesting, innovative startups. No products that I use myself at this point, though.

Right now, personally, the new idea I find the most exciting is crowd-funding computer games. Last year I spent a ton of money on Kickstarter to fund small indie developers such as Double Fine.
I don't think he took inspiration from it. From speaking with friends we have all had the same dream for the first few years graduating University.
I would actually be willing to accept payment this way, but only under very large provisions and at a considerable premium... for example I wouldn't have accepted btc at 200$ during the recent price blow up...
I actually tried Kera for our product (https://codeable.io) and even had a Skype conversation with one of the founders, but I knew having a walkthrough guide (their product) was just a band-aid for poor UX, and as such, just a temporary solution, not really worth paying for in the long term, especially when it was easy to use one of the open source solutions and adapt them (like Zurb Joyride) to our needs.

Nevertheless I wish the Kera team good luck on their next venture!
Is this a late April fool's joke?

In Switzerland, I _can't_ buy more than ~2 [1] packages with 16 pills (500mg acetaminophen/paracetamol) at a time without a prescription from my doctor. And the biggest package size is 100, but that always needs a prescription. Also, you can only buy it at a pharmacy anyway.

[1]: it depends a bit on the pharmacy/pharmacist, sometimes you can get away with 3, but they start asking questions and propose you just come back again when you used up the 2 packages they are willing to sell to you.
'Breathtaking' Document Reveals Pepsi's Logo is Pinnacle of Entire Universe
In this case though we would only pay in bitcoin when specifically requested by the contractor. So the contractor would bear all the risks associated with that.
I've always thought we get conscious around the 28 years old mark.
This was probably well known to everyone else, but I recently discovered you can use 'debugger' in non-test environments.

Ie: when running a non-detached webrick server, you can step though code and launch irb in the middle of browser based request.
Algrebraic Data Part 1 - Golden Trees
Using computer vision to update Duck Hunt + zapper for the iPhone
I appreciate having children makes it hard to think about these things straight, but producing less children really is the only way (short of killing others) out of overpopulation and all that it's doing to our planet.

The gene pool quality line of thinking doesn't lead to anything good. Our gene pool is pretty resilient to these things. If our smarts genes were easily ousted by ones procreating like rabbits, we would have gotten rid of intelligence a long time ago.
Huge six-legged robot built in UK by enthusiast
I figured that was what you were getting at. I just wanted to make sure. I appreciate it, thank you.
C will give you 2 times the performance with 1/2 the memory usage of Go for 10 times the development effort, if you are skilled at optimizing C.
> Chrome: A hell lot of features that are pushing web forward …

There are technical innovations, but I thought we were talking about product innovations. Users don't care about WebGL or canvas or CSS3. Those things are not innovations to them.

The only significant user-facing innovation in Chrome is arguably the extension/app store. Maybe incognito browsing, although I believe Safari had that first.

> App Engine/Drive: So when Heroku/Dropbox does it, it can be called innovation

The word "innovate" derives from the Latin name for new. You don't innovate by copying. Heroku (as far as I know) launched a year before Google, and is clearly prior art. Dropbox launched years before.

> There is no way you could argue that supporting lists and headings will suddenly make Google+ an innovative product out of nowhere

I didn't say that. I said that the lack of support for formatting is old-fashioned (the opposite of innovative, really).
I actually have none of these; ... I bet all of these will work over CG-NAT.

Yes. Let's gamble the indefinite future health of the internet on what works for you, a single point of reference, right now, at the very beginning of the IPv4 shortage, without a single thought spared for use-cases not concerning you.

That sounds like a very good and not at all short-sighted strategy.
No, that's what you get when you don't read the permissions you are granting. Here is the permission request I saw:

Quora is requesting permission to:

View basic information about your account
View your email address
Manage your contacts

Given that, you shouldn't be at all surprised that Quora was able to figure out your phone contacts.
I'll be honest with you, as a US citizen who has traveled to the U.K. often (to visit family) I'm right with you. There are way too many things that seem "incomprehensible".

For the most part its due to religion and social conservatism. You kind of learn to pretend it doesn't exist in order to deal with it.
There's still an upper limit of 64K listening ports at the top level of NAT for both TCP and UDP. The UDP side is probably worse. A shortage of UDP ports would pin down DNS servers to a single IP:port and make spoofing responses easier. You'd also need a DNS cache at each level of NAT to avoid burning through top-level UDP ports for DNS. That would mean that any successful DNS poisoning would hang around until the bad responses get flushed out of the resolvers. (If you're very lucky and the TTL is followed correctly, that would be after the top-level TTL expires.)
I know some people who were operated at "Narayana Hrudayalaya".

One of my relative had received treatment there. Like any other news reports the $800 figure is a bit of exaggeration. The total cost of the surgery including travel, additional stay at hospital, pre and post-surgery treatment etc. costs around <$2500.

More power to NH.
this is just beautiful "Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards."
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a global communications network to provide globally unique addressing.

This a million times. People growing up these days, behind NATs, probably never experienced the internet like it was in the early days.

Back when anyone online could offer anything to anyone else without having to resort to "hosting providers" and confined to what they "supported". Because you didn't need anyone to "provide" you with "hosting", because, hey, you were already online!

That sort of openness allowed the internet as we now know it to flourish and develop. Who are we to deny the future the same possibilities?
Intel's Ivy Bridge processor has been out for almost a year now, and is on the 22nm fab process.
Ignifuga - a multi platform game engine based on Python and Cython
@unalone:
You're dead and most people won't see your comments/reply.
Hrmm....Better_errors gives you something similar after a 404 or some other error - along with an IRB in the browser.
The Decline & Fall of IBM
> If viability is what matters, does the proper age to curb abortions change as technology gets better?

Important to say here that even though technology has increased and pregnancy is much safer now than it used to be, but it's still the case that most children born before 24 weeks will die.

The details are very distressing, and I don't particularly want to go into them here, but people suggesting that technology means we can keep these very ill children alive for any meaningful use of the word "alive" is wrong and cruel and heartless.

The Dutch went the other way - if viability is what is important should we limit killing of children to just those that are unborn?

This would affect about 15 babies a year in the netherlands, about 1,000 worldwide. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4093965.stm)

> If an adult dog is smarter than a newborn, why the disparity in legal protection?

People might say that they dog will stay at its limited intelligence while the newborn will develop. Another example could be any of the more intelligent apes compared to a human with very severe mental disability.

(I'm deliberately choosing to use the words of anti-abortionists, because even when the discussion is framed so emotively I am still firmly pro-choice; pro-abortion.)
I'm sure we'll be fine: http://xkcd.com/1046/
> Still, that's pretty huge.

They are not monopolistic, like you said.

> they canceled Reader for such altruistic reasons

There is no evidence that it was done to bring more users to Reader (like the article suggested) either. They did allow you to takeout your reader content. So yes I do evidence that they hope that users find services that fit their needs.
Build dependencies, yes.

Runtime dependencies for upgrade in situ, not so much.
Ahem, I was speculating as to Randall Munroe's possible future retirement.
Incredible marketing!
BaaS is no silver bullet
Journals do exist, but tend to be used for big archival papers: you might take 3 or 4 years' of conference papers on a project and wrap them up into a giant 40-page journal article for posterity.

That's the polite interpretation, at least. I'd say the pattern I see more often is that the exact same research gets presented repeatedly at 3 or 4 conferences before getting published as a journal paper. Also, the research was probably done by 1-3 people, but an entire group of 6-10 people will have their names on all the papers...
IMO, the main issue with IPv6 is it's overall complexity compared to IPv4.

And what complexity would that be, if I dare challenge you? I say it's the contrary: IPv6 is dead simple. IPv4, having to deal with NATs and other networking hacks like it makes everything which should be simple complex.

Really: IPv6 is a no-brainer, and the only thing remotely "complex" about it would be that addresses are larger, and that would be because IPv6 was designed to accommodate a larger address-space. But since end-users will be using DNS anyway, that's not going to bother anyone except techies.

Techies who should be able read a few simple FAQs on the subject and be done.

TLDR: If you find IPv6 "complex", that's because you've been too lazy to look into it. I recommend you go do something about that.
What, no tests!? Just kidding. We don't need no stinkin tests.
What are you working on for your PhD?
Could you explain how Apple is malicious? That's quite an assertion and not one I've previously heard.
Despite my cynicism, I too have had a positive experience with at least one Indian medical institute. Instead of using general anesthetic and an operating theater to work on my friend (which would have required several nights recovery in a hospital) they operated on him under local anesthetic in the dentist's chair. It wasn't pretty but it was a complete success. Other doctors had quoted me 60,000 rupees for the procedure ($1100 USD) but the whole thing was done for 10,000 rupees ($184 USD).

Working with people who live on the street, I cross paths with the medical profession here regularly. Some doctors have proven to be pretty apathetic, but the odd one, through the necessity of giving affordable health care to India's thronging poor, has proven to be truly innovative.

An account of discount surgery here: http://lostinmumbai.org/2013/03/11/9/
Some of the discount was good will but a lot was innovation and the ability to take risks through the absence of repercussions.
I have a question for tenured profs, why one needs to apply for grants after getting tenured?

my guesses: to increase its own salary; to buy equipment; to support the group.

is it possible, to do research alone (maybe having one or two grad students) ?
They provided web site tutorials (like Zurb Joyride) with voiceover. IIRC they'd set it up based on your script for a fairly low fee, and then there was a subscription fee for keeping it going.

Sorry to hear that it didn't work out!
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Didn't they effectively increased the "download size" of pages and slowed the rendering down because now pages depend on the font which has to be downloaded, at the same time as they made the rendering on Chrome on Windows looking worse? Is that progress?
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As with the original adoption of NAT, it will be slightly bumpy at first.

The key difference here is that the NAT is now outside the users control, and if they want to fool around with anything funky and put it on the public internet (like a new Tim Berners Lee making a new World Wide Web) he wont be in a capacity to do so anymore. Ooops.

The old internet let people invent things and publish it as they saw fit. And that's why the internet we have now is awesome.

This new internet you are describing lets people apply for permissions to publish thing. That sounds like the exact opposite of what the internet was designed to do and what was required for the internet we have today to evolve.

It is a very short-sighted strategy pushed forward by people to lazy to read up on IPv6 and see how simple it really is. It's not earth-shatteringly different. The bigger, as by design, and that's about it.
> "You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept"

Reminds my of my favorite saying of Thoreau: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

And Watterson was right in that precise sense. Had he sold out, there would have been no end to the things he didn't want to, but would have had to do.
“Snipping”: l’uccisione volontaria di bambini vivi.
I have showdead:no and could see it just fine.
Microsoft CFO exits; company tops earnings expectations
The bottom line is: the time necessary to optimize Ruby to run below 8 minutes was bigger than he could afford, and apparently Go, once written (which apparently gave the OP some issues) needn't be optimized.

That said, Go wasn't necessarily the better choice, because of the subtlety that made the Go program overflow silently. Writing the solution in Scala or even in JS would have probably given him less of an issue.
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What exactly do you mean by google > apple in mobile?
Don’t do “skip to content” links wrong
I've never found Firebug to be lacking; what do the Chrome developer tools have that make it impossible to stop using Chrome?

In my experience Chrome is a PITA for web development due to its weirdly aggressive caching. I thought people were just making it up a few months back, but I experienced it recently and it's infuriating.
"Most cough civilized cough countries"

God damnit not this shit again - were you really unable to constrain yourself from slipping in this self-righteous part turning your otherwise OK (even if devoid of real content) post into a holier-than-thou political statement?
I doubt many would leave Amazon permanently because of a service outage, but it probably does cost them something in impulse purchases, if the impulsive desire for the item passes during the downtime.
Because we'd be talking about something closer to ipv4+1, something that allowed core equipment to not have to process packets in a different way

If that would be true, then it wouldn't be able to provide any better end-to-end connectivity than IPv4 and thus would be a completely wasted effort.
"Decline" and "Fall" are the same thing.
Operation Shock and Awe - DDoS operation set up for major bitcoin sites
That wouldn't give the sequence of almost-blank lines I find most helpful. It would also merge the first, long, line of the prompt with the tail of the previous command's output.
I thought the most fascinating thing (mostly because I hadn't considered it, despite having 2 kids) was that babies aren't conscious at birth or even, optimistically, before 2-5months.

That's kinda neat.