skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no gmail account, no Youtube account, and no Google Reader...Google's always been a little too big for me to want to trust more than I have to, so I've gotten by without accounts on their services...

And that means I get to feel smugly superior to everyone else in this discussion.
Stolen credit cards... keep 'em. It's all about banking logins now
No one except Apple and Samsung make any money out of cell phones.The glee started a while back. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/07/apple-samsung-profits...
For 7 months.

That definitely sounds more likely than spam on the internet.

He's most definitely not Jay Hathaway, AKA sexyalterego on reddit, currently "assigning editor at the Daily Dot".

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=You+...

I for one am shocked it wasn't some random unaffiliated person who just really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really wanted us to get our news from dailydot.
In the EU, there was a law in the makeing around "the right to be forgotten". Looks like we really need it, probably for Google as well.
How algorithms rule the world
Lets break it down logically. I think most people would agree this guy should be found guilty if he had used spraypaint to deface sidewalks 13 times. Spraypaint, like chalk, is removable too, it just requires more effort and cost. Removing the chalk, according to BoA, cost a few thousand dollars. (Probably because they had to hire someone come with a power washer, and weren't going to ask their employees to do it.)

I guess my question is, why is chalk different than spraypaint in the eyes of the law? Is it because the rain will wash it away, or because the relative cost to washing it away with a hose is low compared to more permanent media? What if there is no hose access to the sidewalk in an area where there is no rain for weeks at a time? Where is the line drawn?
Had a little look at this whilst waiting for a shower, so I was on my phone, apologies if I missed anything.

My understanding is Node.js is caching the same read requests to avoid having to hit the DB?

ApiController does not do that by default in MVC4, for reasons best known to themselves, regular vanilla controllers do.

However, this:
https://github.com/filipw/AspNetWebApi-OutputCache

Fixes that.

I appreciate it might be cheating a bit to bring in a 3rd party library when looking at a full stack provider, but it would explain the discrepancy between Read and Write performances.

Additionally, with the EntityFramework (MS's ORM) when the security you are using is not that of the SQL back end, it can be beneficial to 'cache' it, rather than use a session each time. There are obvious cons to this, but it is a very real world scenario, one of the nice things about an ERM (Entity-Relationship-Model), well the only nice thing, is that it ensures the integrity of the data. Assuming you defined it correctly, which is sometimes an arse, in the same way you don't end up with the perfect 3NF design the academics taught us.

I've put a reminder in my calendar once I'm done on this project (all hands on deck time, as the business has imposed a deadline, without consulting...) I feel I could give a more realistic example.
Definitely one of the best CSS tricks I've learned this year.
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That's great.

However, ArchiveTeam has uploaded all data that they've found (at least 46.23M feeds) to the Internet Archive. That means it's public for everyone to mine through and/or use.

I'm not trying to belittle Twingly here - but their "last few months of data" are maybe not really comparable to completely free and public data - kept forever.
Thanks. Just for the record, don't be thinking I agree with that statement. I consider it among the creepier quotes Schmidt has produced, and he has a great selection to choose from.

http://www.stateofsearch.com/top-15-of-eric-schmidts-remarka...
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And that also means that in other than a few of these instances, you constantly feel inferior to everyone else in the society, because of the things you are missing :).
I'll take it back. I was thinking of their general font EULA that comes with the Type Collections and it is very liberal when it comes to web-embedding. It's permissive of Cufon and others, but not @font-face.
Deployability of Python Web Applications
Why the Story on Snowden and the NSA Doesn't Add Up
Recruiters suck, and why I became one.
I can't register on their website using OAuth? Really?
"Algorithmic trading" is just a broad umbrella that encompasses any trading system where a computer algorithm is making the trades based upon pre-defined rules. Buying the S&P every Tuesday can be considered "algorithmic trading."

And of course, the answer to your question about which algorithms are working, they are the ones on the opposite side of the trades of the ones that are losing. (Or, alternatively, the ones you can't read about in academic papers or books.)
Css3 loading experiment
I'm more interested in how companies hit $10,000 or $100,000 in sales, and in profits, on their way to become a "real company".
I found this statement there...

"IT IS YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION... Look at the permissions, they could read pretty much EVERYTHING you do with the phone and track WHERE you was when you did it, and WHO you did it with.. There is NO REASON why its in there, none at all. And last I checked Motorola Corporation was NOT a Government entity, and if it WAS a Government trying to do this very thing the outrage would be extensive (unless you lived in a Country like North Korea)."
> Measuring the usefulness of a page by percentage of screen real estate only seems useful if the user is looking or clicking randomly around the screen.

You should tell Google that. They claim to be penalizing web sites with too many ads "above the fold": http://searchengineland.com/google-may-penalize-ad-heavy-pag...

The bigotry in this has been pointed out by many people already ... Google is basically forcing other sites to use less attractive advertising while offering extremely annoying ads "above the fold" themselves, smells like unfair competition to me.
Why nobody? Opera is quite popular in some communities/regions.
I liked Google Reader, but all those great posts queued up with no time to read them properly felt like neglected homework. It's a shame to lose it, but maybe for the best. I won't be rushing to recreate it.

Links posted on Hacker News and Twitter allow me to find something interesting to read when I need it, without making any kind of commitment. For the very rare thing that I don't want to miss, I subscribe by email.
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Show the proof or stop trolling. What can you gurantee exactly? Op links to article with raw packet data. Suprised mods does not change title to Google. Stop talking out of your ass
Bastards, they killed reader :)
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So, is all high quality content people link to "SEO"?
Those are not providing liquidity in a useful sense right now. Usually the measure is people prepared to trade at current bid or offer ie a very narrow measure. If you want to buy at 1% down that's not useful now.
I'd think it is because the name "Wikileaks" has higher visibility and meaning to the typical Australian voter than "Pirate Party". Despite common ground, they also have a different highest priority, Wikileaks being transparency, Pirate Party's being copyright reform. Separate parties will avoid tension due to different priorities.

Having two parties is not too big a deal in Australia's preferential voting system, as each party will probably pick up the other's preferences, meaning their votes will get transferred if they get knocked out of the contest.
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that is pretty cool. don't understand why he put other gifs that increases the size of the site.
After Selling Bebo For $850 Million to AOL, Founder Buys It Back For $1 Million
Yep. Just don't try to board an airplane with that laptop!
For everyone else wondering who that guy is: It's the ex-CEO of Groupon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mason
The scariest part of this thread is the responses from the user 'Poko' a little bit further down. Go ahead an read them — I'm still not sure if that's an astroturf account or not.
The map refuses to zoom out more than a small bit. Is that some kind of in-joke about hipsters being only in that area?
> now it's the "global workforce"

I know this is highly anecdotical in nature, but perhaps there's some useful information to it :-).

I'm part of the "global workforce"; I don't live in the US, but I have done some contract work with US employers as an independent consultant. I was born and currently live in Europe.

Funny thing is, while I absolutely loved learning and still do -- to the extent that an important factor in my choice of avoiding large corporations (after getting burned twice) was that a job there would leave me too little time for history, philosophy and programming of my own -- I didn't go to school that much. I was one of the top students in the class (I even unintentionally ended up as a valedictorian, so besides my BSc in Instrumentation Engineering they also handed me a badge of nerd shame or something), but I was regularly getting into trouble for skipping classes, faking illnesses and, every once in a while, challenging the professors' authority.

Fortunately, I actually had my parents behind me on this, and both of them are teachers (high school and university level, respectively). I'd literally tell my dad I was too hung over to go to school this morning, he'd shrug and tell me that as long as I think it's best to stay at home, I can stay at home.

And it was ok. I'm not starving -- I'm actually quite well off -- I have a job that I love, I do what I like and what I am best at. Despite my trouble with authority, my academic credentials are fairly good (to the extent that I am a published author -- my work ended up in IEEE journals -- but that was before I got my BSc, and I didn't push for an MSc after that).

Quite frankly, I'm horrified at the amount of work we put children to. I managed to dodge it because the system in my home country is shaggy enough that, as long as you're blunt and cunning enough, you can get away with anything. The sheer thought of actually having gone to school all that time is simply unrealistic, I'd have broken down.

I think this is a typical case of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". No one bothers to think what the problem is, and appears to put it strictly in terms of MOAR SCHOOL MY LITTLE MINIONS! This is woefully unproductive. I swear, if I'll ever have kids of my own, I'll do just like my dad did with me -- encourage them to think for themselves and learn what's interesting for them, treating school as the necessary diploma-producing evil it seems to have ended up in our days.
I didn't expect them to release a stable build this fast. The current build is still lacking a lot of features which might alienate some users forever.

And while they didn't add native bookmark support (they really seem to want to push this) they have released an official bookmark extension which is also a work in progress. You can get it here: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-man...
Appears to be another "the whole world uses Google Chrome" bits of advice.

I bet other browsers have different performance profiles if this even works...
It is no solution to the problem, but perhaps a band aid for some of the symptoms. If everyone stopped using Google, Startpage would need to get their own crawler. I welcome a day where (in practice) a search engine doesn't have monopoly on search.

For me it is a first step. Google wont have an easy time connecting my searches to my any of my Google Profiles (where their every source of data is combined). I've been using raw Google since I left Altavista (RIP), which was quite a while ago. I'm looking forward to look into http://www.seeks-project.info/
Constraint-Based Type Inference and Parametric Polymorphism
When will we all have effect systems?
Js2me - J2ME implementation in JavaScript
While the value of Motoblur has been questionable and the service is no longer a focus for Motorola, it makes sense to do this server side.

One connection that pushes aggregated social networking data saves the need for a multitude of apps constantly polling or keeping their own open commections to various services.

BlackBerry also provided similar services as part of their BIS plan. It would poll Gmail and Exchange servers from its own servers, and push compressed data to the device.

Also, remember that these services existed at a time of slow networks and devices and a lack of support for it from Google. At the present, it's becoming increasingly clear that only few companies have the expertise and trust to do this securely. Motorola is probably not one of them.
Artificial Intelligence for Humans Vol 1: Fundamental Algorithms
Hi Chuck,

I'm glad that folks like Blekko are trying to improve the search landscape but do you have any figures to back up the declining revenue per click?

I feel as though Google are becoming more and more focussed on profits (evidenced by their (not provided) data hypocrisy, role out of "enhanced campaigns, etc.) but their profits seem to grow[1] and they seem to focus on margins over advertiser or user experience with increasing focus.

I'm glad that folks like yourselves are in the market as I say but until someone develops better algos and better results (for the majority of queries) it's unlikely that folks will get angry enough to move or see a viable alternative.

In spite of these changes I haven't really seen a decline in Google's market share[2] drop consistently or significantly so I don't really see a change coming any time soon.

References:
[1] http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/1-22-2...

[2] http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2275863/Google-Bing-Bot... (June, '13)
"Google has the identical search share of 66.7 percent when comparing May 2012 and May 2013."

vs.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2269591/Googles-Search-... (May, '13)
Do you have a screenshot? Looks like it has been deleted.

Edit: Oops. Never mind, you meant a user on Motorola's website. Please disregard this comment everyone.
4 New Slides Of The NSA's PRISM Spying Program Have Been Published
This whole affair gives me an odd vibe. For reasons I can't figure out, I feel like everyone is holding back information. Obviously the government is, but it sure seems as if the journalists reporting this story have also declined to tell us everything they know. Maybe there's good reason for this. But I wish I knew what it was.

Perhaps it's that the information is in the hands of a 'left wing' newspaper which has a specific agenda/editorial slant and is using the information for those purposes. It makes sense for The Guardian/Glenn Greenwald to put out just enough information to cause a ruckus while keeping everything else to themselves.
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Your paint comparison is plainly erroneous. Paint poses practical safety and environmental problems and is therefore not comparable to chalk.

The rest of your comment appears based on an equally faulty premise -- that I would think the messages need to be washed away (naturally or otherwise) at all. Why on earth would I invite massive use of chalk on sidewalks for virtually any purpose if I would be bothered by its presence?

In my view, it was BoA's choice to waste their money on an overpriced erasure of a message they dislike. My opinion on the use of chalk on sidewalks changes not one whit whether they make that choice or not.

Chalk messages could remain on sidewalks until universal thermodynamic equilibrium is achieved, I really couldn't care less.
Its really important in the first instance to learn how to do things by hand and then use tools to speed up the process. Nice tool though, needs more DB options.
Nice to remember just how rough we had it to really appreciate the state of search today. Searching for something as obvious as "President Clinton" (while he was President) and having the official White House page not even come up in the top 10 is unthinkable today.

Of course, it still isn't #1, since that spot is universally reserved for Wikipedia... something that I suppose would've been unthinkable in 1998!
Wow, HNers for restore the fourth! Hello comrades.

I'd like to create or join a working technical organization for the creation and distribution of existing of liberating technology, such as distributed social networks with strong perfect forward secrecy encryption, alternative currency systems etc.

RestoreTheFourth protests will be a great place to find more like minded techies, so let's organize before the 4th and spread the word during the protest.

Please join me, `fourthtech` on cryptocat, or see you in front of the Civic Center.
Not just cool, this is beautiful - how could I miss this before? Thanks for the suggestion.
Nice article! And interesting startups, hope they find their funding, either in Europe or US
I'm sure the servers that this data is stored on are completely locked down from malicious employee access, are protected by a diligent legal department from overzealous government access and above all completely safe from malicious external threats. Oh and I bet the logging is water tight.
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If you've left finding a replacement to now, please take a second to check out kouio:

https://kouio.com

We posted it to HN a few days ago, and since then have had over 600 signups and processed over 1.5 million feed items!

We've made a ton of tiny improvements since then, with many more to come.
>Is it unlikely that 3rd party would buy data from Facebook or some entity that obtained the inaccurate data from Facebook?

Probably. Using a fake/altered name is incredibly common on Facebook, especially among younger people. I think any 3rd party assigned with that task would realize that and avoid it.
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To be honest, a reminder is definitely good. I was just worried about making definite claims without evidence. And just because one spam account can be explained like this don't mean it can be applied to all of them.
This makes a whole lot more sense than "We don't want you to get the firmware because you've been naughty"
Are the new phones still as sturdy as they were before? I admit that I miss my old Nokia 3310 at times, and being able to throw it around anywhere without a single dent.
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You obviously aren't familiar with Glenn Greenwald. He's been extremely critical of the Obama administration on a variety of issues. What your claiming makes zero sense. There is a reason why Edward Snowden sought out Greenwald.
RIP By the way, I quite like the Digg Reader but it doesn't display the unread count regardless of the settings. Is it only me?
Just cant figure it out why?? Anyways , using Feedly on web and android. Looks ok!!
I'd take you up on that bet — the blur filter is always going to be computationally expensive given that has to do Gaussian blur according to the spec. There are faster ways to blur, but they're not as "good".
"The irony here is that the big portal sites are the ones, increasingly,
making it harder to use the Web: They’re under such pressure to turn
a profit to justify their market valuations that their pages have become
crowded, blinking arrays of commercial distractions. Meanwhile, they’re
failing to drive forward the technology at the root of their business."

Striking similarities to Facebook's current position.
Wikileaks has now published the list of countries: http://wikileaks.org/Edward-Snowden-submits-asylum.html

The requests were made to a number of countries including the Republic of Austria, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of India, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, the Swiss Confederation and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Serious question:
Why no one offered to buy or take over the service? Like Google Wave - Apache Wave
That's true. Could you elaborate?

PS I think you are reading something I didn't write.

I'm claiming that it makes sense for The Guardian/Greenwald to hold back because they can drip feed information that creates a long running 'scandal'. That has two effects: it keeps The Guardian itself in the news and it prolongs the story.

Perhaps you think that I am equating Obama as a "Democrat" and The Guardian's notion of "Left Wing" as the same thing. I am not.

For example, The Daily Telegraph did a similar thing with revelations about MP's expenses in the UK. They had all the information but over a period of days let out different bits of information. This is the sort of thing newspapers will do, and, for The Guardian, Snowden's leaks are a massive story. They'll milk it as much as they can.
Yes, that's the point. If you are worried about Google cooperating with the NSA, and you decide to roll-your-own mail solution, but are using US-based services like MailGun, you are doing it wrong. :)

Moving to a self-hosted solution (even a US one) offers you more privacy protection options than Gmail/Hotmail, that's for sure. But since physical access is everything, using a US-based VPS provider means there is only a small speedbump between the government and your mail. Using a US-based service like Mailgun, while extremely cool, removes even this speedbump, since they will presumably be forced to cooperate in the same way that Google or Yahoo do.

The best option would be to host your own mail with a VPS with a very strong privacy record, explicit statements about not cooperating with US inquiries, based and hosted in a country with strong privacy protections.
"Profiles describe him as secretive, fascinated with computers, and with knowledge of things like Tor (a peer-to-peer network for maintaining anonymity for computer communications)."

Doesn't that describe most of us on HN? ;-)
Oh, I absolutely guarantee it. Your FB search history, other people's FB search history (of your real name and of your fake name), which pages you view in correlation with what e-mail contacts you might have, the schools the people you talk to went to, etc.

Luckily there's no online record of relationship history or it'd be an open and close case.
Two awesome toys and I don't own either one. Way to make me feel poor and abandoned outside the cool club!
From what I understand, Google Reader was fairly tied into Google's infrastructure (e.g. piggybacking off of Google's web crawler for feed updates), so there wouldn't be much left if you separated Google Reader from Google.
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