skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We hit this at MSN: we removed the "print" button from all articles. Result? Engagement in Japan fell. Why? Apparently, printing out a sheaf of articles to peruse on the train is (or was) a thing. Solution? Re-enabled the "print" button in Japan; everyone else was saved from downloaded the unused-in-market "print" button, lowering PLT.

Please keep in mind I'm talking about stuff from about five years ago when you run to MSN.jp looking for print buttons.
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Hipster huh? Well what about Lycos, remember that search engine?
I think fewer features isn’t something a user would request. Fewer features is just something they would notice the absense of. Users don’t always know what they want.

For example, there may be a ten-item menu where the user only uses the two features at the bottom. The user is slightly annoyed every time they have to move the mouse all the way down there to select that feature. But it probably wouldn’t occur to them to ask that the other menu items be removed – they are just trying to ignore those items.
What is hipster about that? Your statement makes no sense.

I'm 46 and started using the "internet" in 1992 - usenet, gopher, FTP et al. Then came the World Wide Web". Altavista was really all there was before google, why is that "hipster"?

That's like saying you were a hipster for using horse and carriage before Henry Ford started mass producing cars.

If anything being an early adopter of Google seems more "hipster" than using Altavista. Gawd, I musta been and early hipster, how much more "hipster" can you get than that.
>I think the likelihood of of abuse of intercepted material by individual agents is probably worth emphasizing more than the remote possibility of America electing (and supporting) the Presidential candidate that wants to build death camps

The possibility for individual abuse is certainly worth emphasizing, but the risk of systemic corruption is not to be dismissed.

People blame Hitler and Stalin individually, but they were far from the only ones in their respective countries with blood on their hands. A President who comes in and says "I want to build death camps" with no popular support is not going anywhere. But nobody advocating them will actually call them death camps. They get names like "military detention center" or just plain old prison. The people put there get sold to the population as terrorists or violent gang members. The soldiers or police don't contemplate what they're doing as wrong, even if humans die or are abused, because they're "the enemy" and they don't count.

And even if we never make it to death camps, every step on that road is human suffering. Even our existing prison and criminal justice system is an unfathomable catastrophe that people fail to revolt against almost entirely because those with the capacity to make change are not aware of the true nature of the existing system. The entire concept of secret surveillance with secret courts making secret laws can only exacerbate that effect significantly, creating the very real risk that one day we'll wake up to a world vastly different than the one we previously contemplated solely because no one was allowed to tell us about the changes until it had already happened.
Thoughtfully designed and intuitive; immediately useful.
Intrafold (YC S13) is your company's employee directory for Google Apps
So don't use silver nitrate. Elemental silver has low toxicity, they should be able to find some salt with also low toxicity.
Phones haven't hung in decades? Does the author truly believe offices don't have phones anymore?
It's okay, but including to the ajc article, Microsoft only checks https links - not http. If they were truly checking for phishing you think they would check all links.
What happens if I register today (or any day before July 1st)? Will I get the new prices or the old ones?
This is probably true for a most infections you encounter in every day life, but the infection rate for surgical procedures is higher, despite reduction through sterilization and antiseptic. There are also a number of professions where the chances of injury, and subsequently infection, are much higher.

It's possible that there would be large societal changes if the ability to undergo surgery or work in risky professions is hampered by an increased risk of lethal infections.
> You can argue that we can communicate using images, but that communication is limited when compared to words.

Like so many other things, it depends. When people are online looking to book a bed and breakfast, buy a pair of shoes or find a date, they tend to find images very valuable indeed. In fact, in the absence of images, many of the web's transactions would simply not happen.

It's not for nothing that we often say, 'a picture is worth a thousand words'.
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Thank you. I've shared this with someone whom I know who's interested in learning to program. I think HTML is a great first step. After you learn HTML you can learn to write programs to generate HTML... and that's an application. From there you could learn more advanced programming concepts or native app development, but I think this is probably the best way to introduce people to programming, something which seems almost magical and impossible, until you get the right introduction.
That is correct. If the NSA or any other organization really wants to read your message, it will be able to. There are several ways to accomplish this (including what you just mentioned as well as the image sifting and OCR method I included above), but some of them just involve more work/modification-of-strategy than others.
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Gravy train...cute :) Making money off the app store is hard.

Like others have said, don't quit unless you're capable of sustaining yourself for a period of time. As for the job market, I assume its good, just look up craigslist or linkedin for an idea.
In my cynical opinion Roberts wrote his finding as a tax to prevent being responsible for the ruling that found you could use interstate commerce to argue the government could compel you to actually _engage in commerce_ so that your activity could then be regulated, because inactivity affects the market. Ginsburg wrote a pissy rebuttal defending the Commerce Clause interpretation. It's almost comical she had to write a dissent for a decision in her favor simply because she loves the omnipotentCommerce Clause so fucking much.
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I wonder if copper would also work. Copper is just as toxic to bacteria, but is more "bio-active" in the body.

This can be both good and bad: Good in that the body can actually remove the copper from the body (unlike silver which stays there permanently). And bad in that copper may be more toxic (don't know).
Pretty sure YouTube is transported over HTTP. Not sure about Netflix but I wouldn't be surprised.

HTTP has become a generic TCP wrapper for the common request->response pattern.
"with though simplifying" doesn't sound right to me....did you mean something else?
71 comments as I read this, and no mention of eBay. That says to me that eBay itself is broken, as time was that the only logical answer was to sell this sort of thing there. In New Zealand we have Trade Me, which is much larger than eBay in population adjusted terms. They didn't court the larger sellers, but instead maintained focus on helping people sell to people. They are also, in my mind, not making it easy enough to list and sell ones goods. The bar has raised.
Your argument is basically a straw-man argument/non-argument. No duh that inanimate objects can't be evil. Yet they can be used for evil purposes. And some are more likely to be used for evil purposes than others. How does that really make a difference?
Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data
Oh yeah. Vividly.
This is awesome! Great use of git & latex! This is the exact problem we are tackling at my startup, Banyan, with our new latex platform http://cl.ly/image/3u3Z3f40382K
Well, homotopy type theory is in the same general area of study as the type theory studied in computer science.
We are rolling out support for Latex & Git with our new latex editor in the next two weeks. Sneak peek here: http://cl.ly/image/3u3Z3f40382K

Drop me a line toni@banyan.co if you want early access.
First, the 5 year limit is, if I recall correctly, based on Holder/DOJ's secret interpretation of the law. It's not fixed in statute. It could have changed at any point.

Second, Holder signed the secret authorization in July 2009. It hasn't yet been 5 years. The question is whether it's extended by July 2014 or not.
"Bait" someone, "troll"ing....to observe that demanding a Facebook login might not work for everyone?

Give me a break. Save the outrage for a case where it might be appropriate, however thus far the only troll here is you.
I believe that I have yet to meet a Korean whose last name is something other than Kim, Lee, or Park.

[edit] I was wrong I know a Cheong as well.
We are also tackling this at http://banyan.co . Our major focus right now is publishing tools, but science/academics need improvements pretty much everywhere
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Who is, by this definition, evil? You could probably call Hitler or anyone else "righteous and shortsighted, and thus not evil." It makes the word useless, because it no longer refers to anything that exists in reality (just in fairy tales.)
Curry – Howard correspondence
Another getting-rid-of-shit option: http://www.freecycle.org/
Of course, it's also a getting-new-shit-for-free source which may be irresistible for some people.
Tile Wants You To Stop Losing Important Stuff
In East Germany, this thread would likely have led to our arrest.
I seriously doubt that even assuming that the company did all their diligence (I'm not saying that they did not) that their success rate would be 100%.
I was at a computer camp sometime around '94, and the camp had a printed "Directory of web pages" which was exactly like the yellow pages of the phone book. You would look up a subject, and it had a printed list of urls on that subject.
My point is that putting trust in a switch is a surprisingly deep subject. For instance, it's hard (and expensive) to mechanically switch high speed USB while retaining the proper electrical characteristics needed by the transmission lines.
The last guy that I met that talked like you had blue-gray skin.

Well then he's an idiot and has been drinking it every day ignoring the MASSIVE ALL CAPS WARNINGS not to. I've used colloidal silver internally maybe three times in the last five years.

This isn't silly like arguing against thermodynamics, but it is an extraordinary claim and anecdotes are just not going to cut it.

It's not an extraordinary claim at all: silver in small concentrations is well known to be an anti-bacterial agent. I've used it against dysentery. It worked. In gel form it heals burns and keeps them sterile with nary a gauze in sight. Motorcycle manufacturers churn out pairs of socks by the million which are polyester impregnated with silver. They stay fresh.

This isn't quite 'Nobel Prize' territory but it would be a sea change in the scientific literature and it goes without saying that we can always use a new antibiotic.

If you think that the scientific literature about pharmaceuticals is this wonderfully neutral repository of human knowledge, untrammeled by commercial interest, bad science, junk test results and plain old fraud, then be my guest.

If anecdote is all you have to offer, however, please refrain from troubling us with reading it.

Naah, I'm just getting warmed up. How about good old oxygen? I have first hand experience of people with full blown AIDS going into full remission after ozone therapy. It's almost trivial to do too: get the patient's blood - if you can call the horrible black sludge that someone with a CD-4 count of 20 has blood, but never mind - ozonate it until it's cherry red, and stick it back in him. Lather, rinse, repeat. No anti-retrovirals or hellishly expensive treatements, just oxygen. Unpatentable and of course not profitable. And therein lies the heart of our problem with modern medicine.
That sounds like it derives from McLuhan's theories in "Understanding Media: Extensions of Man", a book I'm currently reading.
Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders
Perhaps you misunderstood my point, the article is incorrectly referring to the movie, the Soylent product has and continues to reference Soylent from the book.
I'm not sure it is universal. I love the written word [1]. You can be precise and make nuanced arguments with caveats and qualifications where required. You can skim when reading it in a way you can't[2] with video. However some things are better and more easily shown than explained and some people have a preference for visual explanations.

[1] As I suspect most people spending much time on this site do as they aren't here for the pictures.

[2] Actually video editing software does give mechanisms for rapidly scanning the video so perhaps it is possible but not offered in web video software that I have seen.
I agree. Also, upvoted for motherfucking civilization.
Note that Gmail includes a setting to switch the icons back to text labels (Settings --> General --> Button Labels).
Thanks, I'll have to take a look at this. Can you email me at hello@sendtoinc.com so that I can get back to you once it's fixed.
Aaron’s Law, much-needed reforms to computer crimes law, introduced in Congress
It seems to me that "evil" is such a poorly defined word that any argument that depends on a particular definition will fail to compel anyone who doesn't already see things the way you do. All the turnkey tyranny and righteous shortsightedness seems like a (perhaps fairly banal) type of evil to me, but it really just comes down to using different definitions of the same word.
We let you define server-side logic (for security and validation specifically) using our Security Rules API: https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/security-rules.html
It always matters. When people say "it doesn't matter" we become stick and accustomed to the past.
You don't think they have more prominent wins in their portfolio than most other VC portfolios out there?...
As I said in my second paragraph, feeling trapped or confined by the breaches of privacy commited by the government “is not an instrinsic part of being watched”. It doesn’t matter whether I personally feel trapped or confined. As long as there is someone out there who is “constantly being watched” yet does not feel trapped or confined, then that means “someone who is constantly being watched” is a bad definition for ‘prisoner’. And I’m sure there are people out there who don’t feel trapped or confined by the government’s surveillance.
It wasn't hard, it was one of the better ones from back when I still read Dilbert, so it stuck in the sieve that is my mind.

Searching for Dilbert bug bounty brought it up in the top results.
It's been thought of before.

Hydrogen doesn't have the same characteristics as natural gas. It embrittles most metals, leaks like buggery and is not very dense (ie, it needs to be heavily compressed).

What does this mean? It means that the existing infrastructure isn't suitable for hydrogen, it would need to be replaced. Problem not solved.
Seriously doubt this has changed, even now Japan sells millions of fax machines a year domestically, Japan loves paper.
I am not trying to be rude, but MS has a lot of useful templates: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=...

Also google: https://drive.google.com/templates?q=startup&category=2&sort...

This looks good?

https://drive.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0AuTYwDzB4XSudEJ...

related: http://okdork.com/2010/07/15/quant-based-marketing-for-pre-l...
It was a sad day when Skype was bought by eBay. Prior to that, the CEO was asked what he was going to do about the new U.S. law requiring provision for wiretapping. He said "we're not a U.S. company, why would I care?"
Not that I am a fan of paparazzis, but you are mistaking random people with persons of public interest.

If every person had a bunch of people following them, taking photos, video and notes, how long do you think that would hold up? And how is it different just because it gets automated and hidden?
Do you not find use cases where you do -not- want the document saving?

I spend a lot of time editing code that is being served by a local development server, and much of the time I do not want my changes saved until they are a complete set simply because I don't need it to start feeding me a bunch of errors from half-finished code.

Similarly, there are a lot of times when I will open a document, modify or reformat part of its contents in preparation for copying them somewhere else with different requirements, and then close the document without saving it.

So aren't there any times in your workflows where you don't want the files saved unless you explicitly want to commit some changes?
> It was actually a very close ruling (5-4) that hinged on whether "regulating interstate commerce" gave the power to the government to compel people to participate in commerce.

No, it didn't hinge on that point. The court split a number of different ways on different points in the case, but the rationale to which a majority signed on to for finding the individual mandate constitutional was the Taxing Clause, not the Commerce Clause.

There was an apparent 5-4 majority against finding for it under the Commerce Clause (the four conservative dissenters who would have struck it down plus Roberts), though there was no single opinion to that effect joined by any majority.
I think that the usability of words/pictograms/etc. depends a lot on the user. I find pictograms generally easier to distinguish at a glance, but only if the color content is different, or if the shape is strikingly different. I tend to have a problem with the way a lot of icons for programs come in a couple different shades of blue. Words only work effectively for me if the words are different lengths or at least if the first letter is different -- I tend to only notice the first letter and the shape.
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That's quite beautiful for such a small stylesheet.

I once almost started a web site called SimpleStyleSheets that had that goal -- maximum of 4 lines of CSS, no ugly compression, maximum of 120 characters per line. And see how good you can make a page of simple semantic content look.

I should do it now -- it'd be a good exercise in this day of complex designs and bloated styles.
Thank you. If I could give you more up votes, I would.

Reading through it, I find some clear difference between what is actually said in media/commenters, and what the police actually found. For example, the 10k records was not a list of people with hidden identity. it was a record of 10k people where some had hidden identity.

As an interesting side note... They have quite few bad spelling errors. I particularly like the "postskanningar" that they found.
Enforcing things like #2 is what the press is for. Write a law, try to find instances of the authorities breaking it (or look for whistleblowers!), cause a stink. The difficulty of the second and third parts of that formula shouldn't be a reason to not write the law (presuming it's a good one).
Back in the day you bought magazines like ".NET" (a UK publication) that told you where the hotspots were on the web.

There were other physical publications like the "Internet White Pages" or some such thing (no seriously) which I remember seeing in UK bookshops and thinking "that's gonna be outa date in a week or two".

Back then you felt you could contain all of the websites (or pointer sites) in your head. It was truly an exciting and exploratory time.

Oh and I forgot, using KA9Q [1] for your TCP/IP stack on Windows 3.1, because Microsoft had't quite caught up at that point. And hacking the UK's PSS network to find your way into a university that was connected so you could access usenet. And the early days of Demon Internet in the UK....oh the nostalgia of it all :)

[1]: http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/
That's quite wrong about Unix. http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html

I can't speak as confidently about the rest, but the impression I get is that people like Gauss were hacking up telegraphs very soon after enough basic components and knowledge were in place; i.e. the gating factor was not the need for better communications but the new knowledge out of left field. Likewise the CRT seems motivated by curiosity more than technological problem-solving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray#History The Bell Labs transistor seems to fit your model, though I wonder about the Lilienfield patent 20 years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor

"Invention is the mother of necessity" looks like a better fit for most of these examples.
Vancouver BC also has a large homeless population, so I can see it being a part of west coast culture (and of course, California...). There is something to be said about the boom/bust natures of the logging (skid row!) and fishing industries that probably feed into the problem.

Buses out of Alaska aren't cheap, its much cheaper to fly these days. You can get a ticket to Seattle for < $300. "blue tickets" seem to be ingrained in Alaskan culture, its a word that is understood very well up there; people like Palin use it to trash talk others they want to go. You are right the overt practice is probably not acceptable today, but the philosophy still holds.
I give to my local thrift shop (or charity shop as we call them in the UK) and their average bag value is £25 ($39) [1]. That probably includes the 25% extra they can reclaim through tax breaks.

[1] http://support.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/donate/donate...
I like that idea too. The Institute for Advanced Hacking.
And tomorrow's top story on HN: "Users can't read".
Same here. Most seem to expect you to do the Heroku route and just run your database off of another cloud service... well, what if I DON'T want to do that? The answer seems to be oh well for many projects. Frustrating for sure.
Google says brainteasers don't work, they're paritally right
We've been using Asana for our personal tasks. Free for < 15 people, and most of the same functionality.
Then you get into "What's the definition of IQ?" You could argue that IQ is a theoretical construct that's defined to average 100 with a standard deviation of 15 - but then, if you can't measure it with any tests, and when you do try to measure it the tests come up with different numbers, what's the point?

In my physics courses, my professors were always very careful to stress that "If the theory says one thing and the data says another, it's the theory that needs to change." (Well, unless it's a student lab report that measures the speed of light as different from the commonly accepted value. ;-))
IQ by definition fits the bell curve. A given normalized IQ test is only good for a given rang and time period and when incorrectly interpreted outside of that range will produce excesive people with high IQ's. Also a test that's accurate +/- 10 IQ points is going to bump more people from 150 to 160 than drop people from 160 to 150 simply because there are more people at 150 than 160. Not to mention the tendency for people to pick the highest score vs the average.

PS: Often the limit is as low as 135.
Better idea -- stop acquiring crap in the first place. Where did all this crap come from, and was it crap when you acquired it, or did it morph into crap?
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Between Altavista and Google, alltheweb.com (FAST Search) also had their day. I was in charge of a major web portal around 2001, and we were contracting out site search queries to FAST. One day I got a call from a new company named Google. The guy said he could give me a better price than FAST. I asked what price. He said, "Any price."
Leben der Anderen (2006) a movie about STASI surveillance relevant today