skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your "would you get coffee with no business interests" test is a neat way to think about it. Thanks! I know I definitely would hug my best friends, but would not hug my coworkers.

In a sense, it's like the German distinction between friends and acquaintances: friends are a rare treasure, whereas in America we seem to consider just about everyone friends.
That is fantastic, thanks! Idea just became my default IDE.
I have a tangential question: What screen capture software is this?

It's unlike any other I've seen, because the screen looks like it is viewed from an upper left angle (like at 0:10). Really brings the video alive; I'd love to use this software to make some video tutorials.
To add to that, Google has consistently done invite rollouts in their past like Gmail and Google+ to name a couple.
>I don't know what effect my iPhone would have on aircraft instruments, so I turn it off.

And my buddy at work takes flying lessons from a pilot who leaves his on so he can check weather and use other cute apps. As do probably numerous other less-enlightened pilots. So where is the epidemic of anomalous readings?
But you waited until the 7th paragraph to mention that. By that point you had already framed the argument as being a female issue. Not only that but you dismiss it by saying "this isn’t something that often happens to men." It's not something that often happens to women either. Most people in English speaking countries do not have hyphens or spaces in their names.

Your point is totally valid and important but it would have been much more effective if you framed it in a gender-neutral way.
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I feel bad for the Apple maps team - trying to catch up to a fast moving target.
Given the country-specific regulatory red tape that comes with anything involving money, there's more of an excuse than normal to roll this out country-by-country.
Trust is not transitive: or why IRC over SSL is pointless.
Seems like a smart decision to me. I probably wouldn't have cared about GMail if thirteen year old me didn't want an invite more than anything. Anyway, it's still a gradual rollout, just with hype. Seems like a smart decision to me if they don't overuse the gimmick.
I put funny first for a reason - I think that's the primary reason for her popularity.
Agreed. And another problem is that all these interpreted languages are terrible at exploiting parallelism which is a problem as we get more processor cores.

They were able to solve this in C by inventing Blocks and GCD.
Amazon Payments allows you to send up to $1000 from your credit card for free. Step it up Google.
The same sort of thing happens in NYC. If I see a crowd that's larger than normal trying to pack itself into a full train, odds seem to be about 90% that the next train will be significantly lighter, AND that it'll show up pretty soon.

I think the reason is that the first train to show up is delayed, so more time passes before it shows up, allowing a crowd to build up. They, then, all try to cram on the train that FINALLY got there because GOD who KNOWS how long it'll take for the NEXT ONE to get here. Meanwhile, 30 seconds later, I'm in a train car with a seat.

(NB: This seems to apply to the B/D/A/C lines in Midtown. As far as I know, the 4/5/6 is always a miserable pack of people doing their best impression of neutronium.)
When people shorten my name, it's familiar and it's a relief because I don't have to smile through their awkward pronunciation.

The point is, it should be your choice what you are called. Having someone else "take your name away" is just as demeaning as the article says. And yeah, I think actresses' names are shortened a lot more often than male actors'.
Checkout and Wallet are not the same thing.
I'm almost at the point where I root for MS when they go up against Google, almost. Maybe another 6 months and the curves will cross over.
Not having immediate access to something makes people automatically want it more (generally).
> For example, just one hyphen separates OMICS's Entomology-2013 conference from the Entomological Society of America's Entomology 2013 conference.

Sure, but what exactly are you going to call it? It's an Entomology conference in 2013, I hardly think the ESA has a "right" to the name.
They could at least tell you which account has been signed up. Everything's so easy with 1-click, but now that I have multiple accounts signed in at the same time, I have no idea which one requested the invite and I'm going to have to continue to watch _all_ my inboxes... if it has an Android part, which it better, I sure hope I've linked the right account to the invite so that the device can download the app.

grumble grumble

It actually looks cool though.
remember when the story first broke everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion that "big brother" was out to get bitcoin?
A school founded in 1693 has a 200 year head start on alumni donations on the school founded in 1890. Living alumni are not the only ones whose money is in the endowment.

I'm not sure how recent the phenomnenon is, but many people bequeath much of their wealth to their university when they pass. 200 years of alumni, and in the case of many of the named schools, especially wealthy alumni can have a dramatic effect.
How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled
Well, it's apps like these that pressure browser vendors (and the OS vendors who have existing vulnerabilities) to push for the feature.
I've seen it both ways. There's also the possibility of the lowercase form changing to uppercase with even more programmer assumptions about surnames always starting with a capital.
"Good luck with that."
The Real 'Me Generation'
Your kid might enjoy "The Big Numbers Song" from the KidsTV123 youtube channel. After 100, it counts by powers of 10 up to 1 trillion.

Mine is a little older (3 years 4 months) and has graduated to spelling and skip-counting, mostly on the "havefunteaching" youtube channel.

He's also learned which apps seem to respond well to extra taps. There are a few that do, and a few that just require patience.
Is there any acceptance for bowing outside East Asia, or salutes outside of the military?
While this obviously reduces friction in sending money, it's not clear that this is entirely a good thing.

This would definitely make classic social-engineering tricks like Nigerian scams easier to pull off.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishe...
Sorry. What I meant was I don't know anyone who owns a car and is able to charge a $100/hr consulting rate and only drives 700 miles each year. Barring edge cases, I expect the usage pattern for the average person for car driving is >700 miles per year.
Google support's "Learn how to cancel ... All Access" link goes to a 404 page.
"Correctly" will mean different things for different problems. This list gives you things to consider so you can make the right choice for your application.
The passenger cabin is already a pretty good approximation of a Faraday cage. As far as aircraft GPS go, their antenna is on the outside of the fuselage, top, (because it wouldn't receive a signal on the inside) and connected to the GPS receiver with a shielded coaxial cable. So, I'm not buying any of this nonsense about cell phones and readers and video games mucking up the GPS.
In general people don't like ads for things they cannot have.
This is a good article about this problem: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
TIME Magazine 'Millennials' Cover Tumblr
No, they don't want to open this up to everyone until they can confirm that ad revenue is unaffected by the changes.
"More effective"? It's a post on a personal blog, not a manifesto.
You would hope -- I noticed the same issue. I ended up just opening an incognito window and logging into my main account that I use for e-mail and requested an invite there. Hopefully that'll make sure at least something lands into an inbox I check.

I'm not going to complain though, I just want to try it out!
"If there had been even one single man handling the database, the thought would have been raised that perchance, just possibly, a caching layer should have been used."

That statement sounds just as wrong as stating that if only a woman had been on the tech team or handling the database, that the Comicon registration system would have accepted all last names. Women are capable of deploying caching strategies just as men are capable of recognizing nonsensical name validation.
> "This is the flip side of the "global citizenship" bullshit people like to prattle on about"

Occasionally, there will be a poll of non-US citizens regarding who they would prefer to win a US political election. My response is always "you vote in your elections, I'll vote in mine. Your government can send ambassadors and diplomats to speak with mine."

It doesn't even have to be other countries. Residents of Texas and California can have fairly different ideas of how to act.
I'm not claiming anything - I'm simply pointing out that the answer to the question "will tor protect me" has a little bit more nuance than it is usually answered with...
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502 Bad Gateway error. Prices holding stable on exchanges for now (approx $111).
You are talking after tax wages are you? I really hope so. Comp Sci college grads who like programming in Seattle & the SF Bay Area with maybe a year or less of experience are making more than 100k.
> The most interesting possiblility would be that this is the start of Apple’s evolution away from Objective-C into promoting a higher-level language for their platform

That seems like an enormous leap of speculation.
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There are two assumptions that people in these discussion make

1) If 30% of the passengers leave their devices on today, leaving 100% of the devices on won't cause any increase in problems, and

2) If something happens it's either a) nothing, or b) the airplane falls out of the sky.

The fact is that an airplane is an incredibly complex machine. Instrument failures happen all the time, and pilots deal with this (they have redundant instruments and alternate procedures they can follow). If some of these problems happen due to interference from electronic devices, that's pretty much impossible to verify.
Inside Hangouts, Google’s big fix for its messaging mess
"The Google Earth Plugin is currently only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6+"
What's not clear is how a person without a google wallet account claims the money. Is it the same tedious process of having to verify a bank account, give a social security number, promise a first born child, etc.
It is so refreshing to hear from somebody outside of the US.
> People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points.
> People have names.

These are apparently not true, so I guess that "a Unicode field in a database" is not the correct answer for my application. So what is? As far as I can tell, patio11's position is that people should simply not gather names, which is an unreasonable position.
Sidenote: afaik, "Van Vlack" is not a "Dutch" name.

Inappropriately adding the "Van" (which in Dutch is written with a lowercase v) is typically something Americans of Dutch origin did to make their name sound more interesting to Americans.

But for those looking to process Dutch names (or other cultures with similar construct), those names are sorted by the part behind the "van", i.e., "Jan van den Brink" (yes, it gets more complicated) will expect to find his name under "B".
Invite-only creates hype around your product. Google wants people to Tweet and post on Facebook: "I got an invite into the new Google Maps!". Simple marketing.
> "When that happens, how will Google address fraud claims?"

Presumably the same way PayPal handles "personal" funds transfers - they don't.

They've specifically flagged this as between friends and family only, which is to say it comes with no warranties. PayPal also has a lower-fee version of their service for the same use case - you get the lower rate in exchange for giving up purchase protection.

This is also why when buying things online anyone who asks you to mark the payment as "PayPal gift" should be given a very stern sober second look.
In that vein, people deride the U.S. for not participating in international criminal courts, and my response is a heartfelt: "thank god." For all its flaws, I'd rather only be subject to prosecution by the U.S. government, than some international entity influenced by all the countries (the vast majority of which are terrible.)
Haha... I did exactly the same thing. After, I realized it was so easy that it's really dumb to complain about it.
I don't just want any old rom. I want the one Google is using for its version of the S4. Is this likely to be available? (Apologies if this is basic stuff for the Android experts--I'm still figuring things out.)
This has nothing to do with "global citizenship". You wouldn't see something this specific come into "global law"; you'd see laws like "You can't kill people" and "You can't steal things" in "global law", things which are true across all cultures, etc.
What is the solution to this? Names don't always follow first middle last. What about people who have 7 names? What about people who only have 1? Data needs some kind of structure to be useful.

I'm about to start a new project, I'm thinking of two fields "Legal Name" and "What should we call you?", both with special characters allowed.

But then you can't search by last name, and I think a lot of our users would be confused if names were in order lexicographically by first name.
Likely, in paypal-ish way the receiver will be force to Gmail-ize his existence.
Yes. This is a trade-off. Do they search your hand luggage for air band radios? No, they don't. That's also a trade-off, even though you could certainly cause interference with one.
What's the difference between this and Hangouts in the Plus app?
> Do not hug someone without asking first.

Nope. I usually know when a hug will be good and I'm ready to be wrong. I'm not going to pussyfoot my way through every slightly-more-intimate interaction I take in this life.
You are comparing a company launching on its own platform to a company launching on someone else's closed platform.
Compound interest. Many schools invest part of their endowment and use part for expenses. So older schools have a literally exponential advantage.
last time I check a) javascript is a c derivative language and b) it is used for "non-trivial software" c) there will be developers believe it or not that would be able to create maintainable apps that maybe won't be good enough to your standards but I have a small feeling the average consumer will not care, my advice: http://alwaysbetonjs.com/ Apple's on board
I don't understand the recurring drive people have for trying to write native applications without Objective-C. The various bridges and other glue projects never feel complete or as well-integrated with the system frameworks.
I don't follow that argument.

It seems like you're arguing that a right is something that you can choose to do, as long as it doesn't involve using force against someone. I agree with that, but it begs the question. Why _can_ you choose to do anything you want? And why _can't_ you initiate force against people? My earlier answer is a starting point that connects rights to ethics.

Speaking of which, you're wrong that the question reduces to metaphysics and epistemology. I mean, it does, but only indirectly. Actually, the hierarchy is:

metaphysics (what exists)

epistemology (how we know it)

ethics (what is good) <- you left this out

government (what is good in a social context)
Good job! What made you take a HN approach instead of Reddit?
Google demands Microsoft removes YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads
To get around in Austin you use either a bicycle or a car/truck. There is bus service, and a one-track commuter rail link, but if your expectation is something like the connectivity of NYC then you will be sorely disappointed.

Personally, I'm holding out for the city to build sky gondolas.
The User is Drunk [video]
If I'd be Google - I'd force senders to have 2-step authentication configured before sending money.
On Defense Against Power-Play Meetings
The US govt is attempting to do a similar thing to Kim Dotcom. I assume though that it doesn't go both ways.
At last the true reason for the Pixel becomes clear: lovely product shots of Google's apps.
Dictionary of Numbers: Putting numbers in human terms
This thread - of smart people - shows a little bit of confusion over the difference between anonymous and secret.

That's kind of scary when we think about the reasons someone might be sending stuff to a newspaper, and the need that have to be anonymous. Secret would probably be good too. At least until the newspaper prints.

Newspapers are supposed to explain stuff to their audience. This article doesn't explain much. Like the saying goes, when I see how badly they do with stuff I know about I have to wonder about everything else too.
Interesting that the MTB/MSB laws where what they used to go after e-gold a decade or so ago.

E-Gold got used by customers even sketchier than anything I've seen BTC used for -- I used to think of it as the carder currency, but it was also heavily used in the CP world, I think. They really hated e-gold, but chose to use the MSB laws against it.

I know the e-gold guys tried to go out of their way to be as compliant as possible, too. They were fundamentally pro-liberty/pro-gold people, not involved in the "sketchy" business, and had been fully cooperating with authorities as much as they could (e-gold was not really about anonymity as much as "honest money"; they had bank-level KYC requirements for accounts at some point, although initially they had none.).

The interesting question is whether fully KYC/etc. compliant Bitcoin businesses will be allowed to register as MSBs, or if there will be artificial roadblocks put up. One issue is the global pseudonymous network that is Bitcoin once it leaves a KYC-compliant site, but that isn't too different from either a KYC-compliant bank that pays out physical cash or one which sends SWIFT wires to overseas banks with more lax KYC requirements (or issues prepaid debit cards).
You don't have to fix every problem for every application. If you don't need someone's name, don't require it (maybe an email address will do). Maybe you only care enough to implement Unicode code points. The problems you actually need to worry about depend on what you need to do with the data in your application.
I wonder if this is a re-thinking on what they want to do with Google Checkout, as it hasn't really been taking off in the commerce realm since it's initial release.
I've never heard of someone taking both their given last name and their married last name together as their new last name but without a hyphen. This is a new one for me. Hyphenating is very common. But so is replacing your given middle name with your given last name and taking on your married last name. If I saw "Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack" written somewhere I would have just figured you did that. So technically you full name is "Tarah Marie Wheeler Van Vlack". Interesting.

Edit: I also have a female friend who I'd always known as Maggie Smith-Brown[1] and I always just assumed that she started as Maggie Smith and married Mr. Brown. Until I met her husband... Mr. Smith-Brown.

[1]not real name
This is a straight up attack on yelp, targeting local commerce. Their goal is that instead of searching yelp for massage therapy, you search google maps. That sort of query is extremely valuable (trust me - my company pays for it every day). It makes a lot of business sense - it's probably the most lucrative way to monetize maps, and get people to use google reviews more.
Google Talk Chat History can no longer be turned off by default
...and Apple Maps is trapped on only one platform (iOS - not even a web gateway), so only receiving a relative trickle of usage-based feedback... and Apple Maps perhaps only ever existed as a leverage chip against Google.

Apple Maps might need to ally with other Google rivals to get the mindshare/critical-mass needed to have any competitive chance.
>Can web design generated algorithmically still be considered creative and artistic?

what I think you really mean is:

>Could algorithmically generated web design possibly maintain an acceptable level of usability?

Because 'creative' and especially 'artistic' imply websites which are medium of artistic expression, which I doubt is ever subject of our discussion here at HN. (ex. Olia Lialinas http://rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/1729/)

To which I think the answer is yes; but right now would require a human to assign importance/context of elements of a websites, before generating specific styling to particular element groups (as in: body, footer, menu, etc.). There is some subtle evidence in the generative art field, that there can exists aesthetic results to 'just' an algorithm. The next question you want to ask is - how narrow do we need to define the algorithms to make it a workable approach? With genetic algorithms on the run, thinks seem to be improving.
Randall has shown the capability to draw enormous amounts before. Don't forget http://xkcd.com/1110/ . See http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/how-big-is-the-xkc... for an analysis of how big 1110 is.
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Latest in a long saga.

From a post from Microsoft in 2011:

First, in 2006 Google acquired YouTube—and since then it has put in place a growing number of technical measures to restrict competing search engines from properly accessing it for their search results. Without proper access to YouTube, Bing and other search engines cannot stand with Google on an equal footing in returning search results with links to YouTube videos and that, of course, drives more users away from competitors and to Google.

Second, in 2010 and again more recently, Google blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube. Google has enabled its own Android phones to access YouTube so that users can search for video categories, find favorites, see ratings, and so forth in the rich user interfaces offered by those phones. It’s done the same thing for the iPhones offered by Apple, which doesn’t offer a competing search service.

Unfortunately, Google has refused to allow Microsoft’s new Windows Phones to access this YouTube metadata in the same way that Android phones and iPhones do. As a result, Microsoft’s YouTube “app” on Windows Phones is basically just a browser displaying YouTube’s mobile Web site, without the rich functionality offered on competing phones. Microsoft is ready to release a high quality YouTube app for Windows Phone. We just need permission to access YouTube in the way that other phones already do, permission Google has refused to provide.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
Perhaps if you don't realize you're logged into gmail. I thought it was well understood that being logged into gmail meant you were logged into all of google's services?
Google App Engine SDK for PHP
Tried it with a few more accounts - if you try to use it with a regular gmail account it says "Authentication error: Google+ is required".

It's a little off that Larry Page was complaining about Microsoft not using open standards but then they go and introduce a totally new closed system within their closed social network.
https://www.google.com/settings/account

Click on "Close account and delete all services and information associated with it."
Can you please elaborate on why Romanians are an issue? I'm curios because I am one and I'd like to know more about your perception.
They even share the obsession with finding a place to eat in San Francisco.
No sorry! :)
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