skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised recently to see that there have been some fairly large volcanic eruptions in what is now Germany in what is, at least in geological terms, very recent history (12,900 years ago):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laacher_See
Top software like SIRI
I have tried alot of softwares which act like a assistant, so i will share few of those -

SIRI (Apple) - i find it just a simple software and less intelligence to entertain your all queries
KickBorn (www.kickborn.com) - New in the market, but it is one which is becoming popular in andriod and iOS platform. Special about this is that you can talk to it like it is your friend. Talk anything and then it will assist you. I love it.

Speaktoit- Very interesting but do not understand everything.
It's even worse for people not using Chrome at the time. I just got to a generic "fuck you" page when I clicked the link on an iPad. I still have no idea what this thing does.
Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
Anyone that needs a color scheme, here is mine https://github.com/prignano/Obsidian2-IntelliJ-Android-Studi... already tested on Android Studio.
Here's the project, looks like a custom game engine was rolled: https://github.com/cazfi/freeciv-web
Amazon paid £3m tax on £4bn UK sales
I am really looking forward to the impact that Firefox OS is going to have in the mobile market. There is definitely still space for a highly-featured low-priced smartphone and the HTML only is a plus for those not willing to put the time in learning how to program for Android or iOS, giving it a small edge apps-wise.
I'd call this an opinion rather than a bias.. A bias is where some exogenous factors (e.g. background, stakes..) are pushing opinions a certain direction.
JavaScript is doomed. (not safe for your nerves)
See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717481

in this thread.
Another pontification from Saint John: "They want everything; their ambition is boundless."

I fail to see how is this different from other big players: Facebook, Micrsoft, Amazon, or even Holy Apple: each wants a piece of the action, and each is prepared to fight for it to the best of their abilities.

Apple used to sell PC's. It now also sells smartphones, tablets, music, movies, e-books, and cloud services. Apple too has entered existing markets and has crushed (or tried to crush) smaller competitors when it served its interests.

There's nothing wrong with this, just please spare us the condescending tone. Google does some great things, Google does some shitty things, just like everybody else (and Apple).
You can hide people from the timeline.
Well, if you compete with booking.com in finding Perl devs, then yes ;)
It looks like there is a SDL graphics backend: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv/trunk/client/

Emscripten implements some of SDL.
Seems like such a feature could help other sites (like yelp) too though: at least where I live, the "what stuff is at this location" feature of google maps shows not just Google reviews, but also has appropriate links into other review services (not yelp, as they don't seem to be a player here, but other very well-known restaurant/store review sites). This is very useful for the user, as there are often many more and better quality reviews on these popular sites.
I'm Trying to Free Your Mind
How the Developer understood it - [Cartoon 2.0]
I'm surprised the obvious solution is not mentioned. That is, the apps should queue up their changes in a system-wide log (the format of this log is left as an exercise for the reader) and the OS must play this log as and when it finds opportunity and/or driven by user defined rules (like the "midnight sync" rule mentioned in the post). This means that only one process (the system sync'r process) will ever do the syncs. This scheme also allows for more advanced features like user-defined priorities on which syncs are most critical (e.g, my calender entries take precedence over the "read it later" list I might have created in my browser).
Maybe, most of us aren't involved in it. Since day one I never found g+ to be an accessible place to converse with people I know or people who share interests.

I am sure there are some great posts going around limited circles of people, just that is not the common experience.
They generally don't. Many Google services have regional restrictions and had them for years. I think they want to do these legally risky stuff within their comfort zone.
None of those configuration management projects really advance the state of the art beyond cfengine which has been around for 20 years. They're still just pushing text files around.
This Week in Spring - May 14, 2013
I was excited (tired of Eclipse), but after a test run, I think it is still slow, and still lack of native code debugging that just works, as in xcode.
See this thread for more details

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010
Can you please comment on this?

http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-ab...
I am also freelancer but not so experienced. But my client love my work and They use to come back to me when ever they need help. Usually I don't charge my client as hourly rather the work I did.
How The “Anternet” Succeeds by Showing Restraint
As a Georgetown alum, I am not even surprised. I have nothing to say about their bio program, but as a language major in one of their more reputed language faculties in a certain language, my best year was my year abroad and my senior year back made me contemplate why we spend so much money to stay.

Their CS department was also terrible in a big way, despite professors who were really good and tried hard for the intro classes.
There's no question that London is suffering from a funding gap however some of the excerpts seem incredibly difficult to quantify:

They are more motivated by building a great product than by changing the world compared to SV entrepreneurs

I also don't really understand how a preference towards mobile orientated start-ups is indicative of quality:

London has been slow in adopting mobile as a new trend. It has 30% less startups than SV or NYC in the mobile space
I don't have an issue with them pulling it, but they did it suddenly and gave MS very less time for a workaround and increased the time only after public shaming.

MS implemented CardDAV and CalDAV standards as Google wanted, and as part of spring cleaning round 2, those are deprecated and replaced with their own proprietary new API!

http://www.zdnet.com/google-do-what-you-want-with-reader-but...
A visual demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S64r-MjBN4
He explicitly mentions stick figures that can be better than photorealistic painting as readers of xkcd might agree.

But take the Scott Pilgrim stories, everybody looks mostly the same except for hairstyles. I remember there is also a joke by one of the characters that everybody looks the same anyway.

I'd say, these are suggestions and not hard rules. You might get away disregarding some of these.
Show HN: Stop sucking at poker. Track your opponents and win!
Didn't like G+ design. They really should copy twitter's style.
ObjC has closures (blocks) and ObjC runtime (but not the syntax!) supports prototypical inheritance.

Actually the ObjC runtime is amazingly powerful and dynamic, as if it was made for a better language (e.g. can handle dynamism of Ruby http://macruby.org/)
>And, if Apple were to switch, why would they pick a language as shitty as Javascript?

That seems to be a fairly popular dismissal for a language designed in 10 days, and perhaps rightly so. JavaScript probably classifies as mediocre language compared to the wealth of sanely designed choices we have available today.

That said, have you taken a recent look at the next generation of JavaScript aka ES6/Harmony?[1]

- Modules? Yup

- Maps and Sets? You bet.

- Tail call optimizations? Sure

- Classes? Finally!

etc

That's not to suggest that a single iteration will magically fix all of its quirks and shortcomings. However, one possibility could be that Apple picked JS, not on it's checkered history, or the fact that it is popular amongst web developers today, but where it is headed tomorrow and how it could be adopted and adapted.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/ES6_plans*
Well, TCL is not a good language for configuration files imho. I'd favor a declarative approach, because you can analyse (hence debug, check, etc) it better. Inspired by Prolog, but change the syntax. A configuration language should also avoid features like "eval", though Turing-completeness is probably desirable.

Nevertheless I agree that standardization is a problem. Not for the "linux community", but in general. Some people do not require Turing-completeness and (reasonably) do not want it. Others already have a scripting language (Lua,TCL,Python,etc) embedded, so reusing it is a good idea.
For DC chains, you might find yourself in need of Operational Analysis, especially when you plan to switch the flow. That beats the "simple" imaginary math just right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_calculus
Lots of posters report that the Youtube mobile site and phone apps don't show ads so I don't know what the fuss is.

Also, if WP allegedly has such low adoption that Google doesnt feel the need to make an app, how much revenue can the WP app hurt?

Vimeo and Yahoo mail have WP apps but Youtube and Gmail don't. Go figure.
When I had a Google Adsense account blocked it took a call to a Google VP that I know. But even then the first call was not enough and he had to escalate internally a second time.

This definitely sounds like something for the EU consumer champion Neelie Kroes to take on.
If this startup is your passion, sometime it's alright to sacrifice something for greater benefit, but if you just work at there as an ordinary employee, better find other place.

To answer your real question, I suggest friday to sunday as "not working day" don't think anything about job even deadline is short, just hangout and do what you like.

For dating people, is good to have partner that understand fully your workload, because understanding is important key to successful relationship.

Don't go to gym just for work out, running 15-30 minutes a day it's the best to keep your health, you can run with your partner or friends.
Microsoft can complain about unfair discrimination when they stop discriminating against GPL licensed apps on their Marketplace.

It's not like users can't access Youtube on Windows Phones either; as far as I know, Google doesn't block its user agent.
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Looks good but it doesn't really work on Chrome. Units dissapear, fail to respond to commands etc.
I think given the cost of this mission relative to things like a space shuttle launch it would have/ still is better to build more than one.

Although I can't really say too much as Australia is useless at putting any real money into space science (of the spacecraft type at least).
Well, Jews are known to be helpful to each other slightly more than any other nation (at least in the west). Of course, that sometime leads to favoritism/nepotism, but nothing is perfect.
Oh yes at least Paypal has some real competition and other payment vendors like Braintree, Stripe, Square are growing like crazy at Paypal's expense.
Yeah, the killer is the lead times, if it were decided right now to build a replacement it would be a long time before any results would be seen. Too bad the program wasn't devised it terms of building more than one from the start.
You're wrong assessing consequences. This happened in Russia and big chunk of Blogger and GMail attachment downloads went completely down.
Why not write a userscript for this kind of thing and publish it on userscripts.org?

1) It's cross-browser: Firefox (Greasemonkey), Chrome (Tampermonkey), Opera users can install it

2) Users can easily read the source code before installation to assure it doesn't do anything malicious

If it changes DOM, but doesn't interact with the browser itself, it should be a userscript.

A small introductory presentation about userscripts and GM_ API that I've recently done: https://speakerdeck.com/jakubg/userscripts-augmenting-and-au...
Well, there is a lot of interest in a secure, scalable, fast, deterministic, simple OS which is also backwards compatible. ;)

What do you mean by "safe" though? How is kernel-space safer then user-space?
My DIY Disqus Hack for Blog Discovery
I love disqus for single signon commenting. But when I started using it for discovery, I found tons of new tech & biz blogs
I still work and browse the internet with an asus eeepc 1000he and g+ is barely usable on that machine. Javascript and html(5) are gobbling my CPU to display images and snippets of text: typically post of maximum 3 lines and 7 displayed comments that are heavily dynamic for no real (imo) value for the end-user. Before that ajax everywhere and like buttons non-sense it wouldn't have been a problem.

The irritating point is that density of information hasn't changed that much. On the whole I think it's a regression of the web.
The Size of the Data does not define Big Data
Google+ and the whiff of desperation
Let me dispute the "beautiful" argument. I don't think Google does a good job at UI at all:

http://i.imgur.com/MtqT2tF.png

My first impression after opening this was "WTF is going on here?". It's floating panes atop floating panes, reinvented scrollbars, while the actual content is sparse. The same kind of nonsense that put me off using GMail.

But hey, that's what you get when you cram a desktop inside a desktop. I bet their new UIs work great on Chrome OS.
yes, really ;-)

Ok, I'm Marcin Lulek, find me on g+ i can share my developer circles with you, maybe then the system will be more valuable to you guys.
Turing completeness is maybe not desirable... look at what happened when YAML was allowed to create objects of any class it liked.

I like your declarative language idea very much, though. As long as it cannot execute arbitrary code.
I only partially agree. For things like hangout gmail android and reader giving support would cost so much they couldn't continue to roll out new products (given that they would have to support them).

However where significant money is concerned I agree they should have real support. Only offering support for some products could get really confusing for users unfortunately.
My problem with G+ is they keep making it harder to read content. The new layout is terrible for that (arbitrary sized boxes in arbitrary alignments). Newspapers have done that but there is human supervision for the content (which is almost always longer than a few sentences) and the layout is human supervised.

The irony is that there is a product specifically geared towards towards reading productivity and following lots of sources. Google will be killing it in two months (Google Reader).
You are mostly correct.

The real question is, when there are hundreds of horror-stories out there about Facebook and Google et al terminating access without notice or review and the devastating effects upon people's digital lives, why do the media and Gov do NOTHING despite thousands of complaints?
Because the less it is like SV the less intersting it is. I am joking obviously, but I found the article strange: it compares all these places with the be-all-end-all bay area and obviously concludes that it is not the same. It doesn't seem to consider that being different can also be an advantage.
Time is your most precious asset, you can't make more of it.
It's one thing to use a free service, but it's different when you make them your business partner. Not offering support for Adsense for example is unacceptable.
> and since we unfortunately are not allowed to just sell the waste to Russia to dump in Siberia, we also have to dispose of it somewhere in Germany.

Isn't it actually sent to France for reprocessing ? (La Hague factory).

At least part of it is.
If you include grants from the government, Amazon actually received money overall. They paid negative tax.
This sounds a lot like me. I am a .NET developer by day, but I like to write Python when I get home. I don't know if Python is good enough for me to ever want to make the switch in my full-time career, but it's still fantastic to use with Django.
This sounds interesting! Have you published anything more substantial on it? I yearn for the day when I can have a Plan 9-ish resource sharing and file system connecting my personal computer to my cloud computers.
Google Buys a Quantum Computer
You can turn it into single-column if you don't like the arbitrary-boxes.
We're almost there with the open-sourcing, I'm pleased to say.

Sadly this process has taken far longer than we hoped because the codebase, which was started about 6 years ago and which was not started with open-sourcing in mind, ended up with a lot of things like embedded passwords, deploy scripts, people's names, API keys, etc. There's been a mammoth effort to deal with that. The entire deployment system has had to be rewritten, for instance, and that done while trying to keep a very busy production system running that also hosts a pile of third-party sites without downtime.

http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2013/01/31/scripting-cycles...

Really are almost there, at last, and it will be a real relief to us, not least to be using Git rather than SVN!
Facebook, Google+, and any other social network or electronic communication is what you make it. But you have to actively use the tools provided to curate your experience.

I don't friend people on Facebook that I haven't met in real life. I de-friend people if I'm no longer interested in what they post or what they do. I hide or throttle down posts from people who have a high noise ratio.

In return, my Facebook feed is pretty enjoyable, and keeps me up to date on what a bunch of people I care about are doing in their lives. But it takes a little bit of work on my side, it doesn't appear automatically, and if you're indiscriminate about adding people as friends, your feed will be not be enjoyable. Simply walking away from it instead of curating it is a lazy solution.
Yes, this is the requirement of the funder, not our own requirement. Collaboration formally with the containing University could potentially be a possibility.
I had my hopes high for Lake Vostok as well, but unfortunately there weren't any new organisms found (though there is some debate over an unknown bacteria http://www.nature.com/news/russian-scientist-defends-lake-vo...). It would be great if they'd find some life forms in there, as by analogy it could exist on other planets as well (they mention Mars).
Oh my bad, I meant EC2. I never used AWS since they require a credit card even for the free things.
Their current claims, no. But it calls into question the validity of their previous actions which they are now contradicting.

I'm not commenting on which of the two situations is right (perhaps neither is), if railing against the "one rule for you, one rule for us" thing.
Conversely, I was wondering what was it that was NSFW at all in the pictures?

In a culture where all nakedness is banned and considered an absolute filter might be the explanation. But this is hardly the case even in the USA that is infamous for how inconsistently and arbitrarily such things are labelled as "ok" and "no-no".
By being written in systems programming languages safer than C.
Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression
Talking about credit cards, what's the difference between a credit card and just a bank account?

At my bank you can get a credit card at an added cost, but it's not needed for anything in the Netherlands so I never looked into it.
Are Bing's ranking algorithms open source then? Or are they too just a black box? This is ridiculous - I'm a big fan of open source but do you think it's realistic that somebody can make their ranking algorithm open source and stay relevant? There's people that would abuse it ridiculously.
While reading your comment, I thought of the problems with configuration files I was having in my own project... when I realized, "why not just use python"?

The program (written in go) could simply launch a new process on startup, e.g.

python -c "import imp; c = imp.load_source('c', 'abc.conf'); print '\n'.join('%s = %s' % (n, repr(getattr(c, n))) for n in ['option1', 'option2', 'option3'])"

and read it's output (which could also be another well-known format, like JSON) and use it for configuration. Simple, elegant, and enables very powerful abstractions.
I think background checks are usually done at the point when you've decided to make an offer, and take the form of "is there something she's not telling us?". At that point, she will have had a chance to disclose the incident in context, so at least the context is considered.

According to this article[1], the employer has to "have a legal release form completed by the applicant, inform that person of his/her rights, and provide that applicant with a copy of the report, as well as adverse actions communications".

If she's rejected on the back of an incident that's not on her criminal record, but found on Google, she's going to have a pretty good case against the employer.

1: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikalbelicove/2012/10/26/the-10-...
Using these two plus the OPs link color one, working pretty nicely!

Hacker News Enhancement suite changes the look and feel too significantly for me to use it.
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Can we have a Zoroastrian Startup Accelerator next?
Btw. did you guys notice the COMMUNITIES functionality of g+? This is a good place to start.
new tool for phishing. perfect.
The benign dictatorship of the London Underground
Driving students into science is a fool’s errand
Yes, but it has to be permanently stored within Germany (if it comes from a German plant), i.e. is sent back here after reprocessing. Furthermore, you cannot reprocess this stuff indefinitely, so you’ll have to store it eventually.

Really, just dumping it in a large area somewhere in Siberia with a sufficiently scary fence around it and generous compensation for the few people who have to relocate for it would be the best solution.
This is a follow-up on, and not the same as, the item submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5711616
Exploiting a Go Binary
Last time I checked there wasn't any NoScript equivalent for Chromium and by design there can't be.
there was a post that explained that what facebook did with timeline - put it into 2 line, so that people would not ignore sponsored posts on their timelines/feed. I wonder if google is trying to do the same. I find this feed quite distracting - my eyes keep on dithering between those columns. I suspect google is trying to do pretty much same thing as facebook.

It feels pinterest-y too, seems alot of social media sites have have had their design converge into what pinterest has realized with theirs.
What Battlefield 4 shouldn't have?
All jokes aside, it's fairly obvious we're dooomed to be Skynet'd one day or another in the future.
"The conversations are less warm, personal and interesting."

So, Facebook feels more "warm, personal" to the author - and I would agree, for the same reasons: On Facebook I share with my friends and family, while on G+ I mostly deal with interesting people I don't know directly.

The funny thing is that Facebook wants its users to interact more with people (entities) they don't know, for good monetization reasons, and exactly this could make Facebook much less warm and personal - and thus worse for its current users. Incidentally, I just wrote a post exactly about this (from a branding perspective): http://danmaz74.me/2013/05/16/facebook-hashtags-when-monetiz...