skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bang searching is obsolete as far as I'm concerned. For any bang search I can think of, I'm confident that I can just search Google for the same keywords (without the bang) and still get the result I wanted. If I search for a movie title, I get IMDB in the top ~3 results, if I search for a product, I get Amazon results, etc.
Oh for heaven's sake. It was obvious that I meant during peacetime.
> I will always wait for the day I can say my computer runs GNU. Nothing else, just GNU.

Well, um... why?
>Jesus, do people actually buy into this crap? The iPhone UI was never anything special; the mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple got into the game.

A screen with icons in a grid?

Yes, you really convinced me how this is totally the same as the iOS UI.

I mean, it also uses icons in a grid no?

What's there to differentiate them? I mean, apart from a totally different visual look, different behaviors, different affordances, gestures and the employment of touch (and much more: multitouch), etc etc.

Now, how exactly "mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple" and yet, all the phones pre-iPhone were non touch crap, with small screens, keyboards and BS, slow interfaces, and all the phones post-iPhone followed it's UI guidance (either directly, as Android, or in a flat facade, as Windows Phone), is a mystery.

(Not to mention that the Newton --or even '80s Apple stuff, from prototypes to finished products-- already had icons in a grid, if that was that mattered).
> The first two are focussing on positive emotions and ignore the important role negativity plays.

There's no definition of either that I know of that includes "positive emotions" and ignores "negative emotions". That's a made up definition.

> Smilarly, confidence does not in any way equate capability.

Never said it did. I also never said these were the only things you need. But you do need them.

There's no way forward without going to specifics. I guess I'd need to see an example of 5 or 10 industry leaders or greats, from any industry; Linus Torvald, Mary Roach, Warren Buffett, Jon Stwart etc... that did not have energy, enthusiasm and confidence.
Managing experimentation
Some questions:

Do you believe that the 20% as a bottom limit is the result of a group colluding with intent, or is it just the result of a type of evolutionary convergence?

By chain rule, as long as the market has some modicum of elasticity, isn't fixing supply analogous to price fixing? Maybe I'm assuming that the supply of appealing early stage equity is much lower than it is? Or is something flying over my head and this has nothing to do with supply of said equity?

I definitely agree on the bigger point. The whole early stage equity market is weird as hell, and it seems like there are plenty of opportunities to manipulate/exploit it.
Please do. That's the one feature of Simplify I saw that made me want to switch.
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Ok, but you still need to distinguish between Snowden and the historical cases of civil disobedience where thinkers have agreed that submission to punishment was necessary for justification. Simply pointing to some revolutionaries which are commonly accepted by the public as justified is not enough. You need to engage the argument of MLK, Rawls, Gandhi, or whoever.

Would they have agreed that the revolutionaries were justified? Is Snowden closer to the revolutionaries, or to repressed blacks in 1963 Alambama?
My browser didn't want to resize the page smaller than 25%, so I made this to visualize the logos at very small sizes:

http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png
That's very informative, thank you.

I don't suppose you have a rough estimate for UK roll out do you? We're planning on adding a payment gateway to our system over the next 4-6 months or so.

We'd really love to use Stripe after looking at the APIs for every other payment gateway service :)
It's the difference between you wrestling your brother and a stranger punching him in the face.
Yes, totally like iOS 7:

http://techplore.com/technology/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/s...
Wait, these are all separate processes?

What happens if you crash / ?
That's an awful lot of hate, considering I wasn't even sure which one was the new one when the page first loaded. I guess it doesn't matter how small the changes, people will treat them the same.
Common sense prevails. And for a red state whose politicians espouse a free market ideology, for once a chance to come away without looking awfully hypocritical.
Are the last 2 sentences of my post not visible on your monitor?
I can dream of a better world at least.

I mostly (at least try to) ascribe to the Thomas Jefferson ideal of "if it neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket, then it matters not to me" style of involvement with other people's business.

Aside from that, I worry about the growing perception of a media/government encouraged class war, which feeds mostly on people's completely unjustified jealousy.
The issue is that you'll hit a local optimum, and all progress will halt.
You bring up an interesting point. I very often read that the UK joined for the single market but then afterwards the EU started taking away national sovereignty.

I don't quite understand how this view of things is possible.

From the very start, when the Coal and Steel Community was created in 1952, loss of national sovereignty was, to a certain degree, built into the system. The primary goal of European cooperation was to take away the ability of European nations to go to war with one another. Also remember the "de fact solidarity" that Robert Schuman spoke of in his famous declaration in 1950: With all the horrors of WW2 fresh in mind, nobody could expect the people of Europe to show solidarity for another, so the framework of Europe must be set up to generate a "de facto solidarity". The whole system should be set up in such a way that the people of Europe cannot _not_ show solidarity.

We learned this in school and it seems to be generally accepted by the general populace, at least in the "old" continental Western Europe. If you ask older Germans or French about European integration, they will talk about avoiding war, not about the single market.

The only possible explanation I can come up with for the sentiment that the EU was "all about the single market" is that UK voters were horribly misled by their press and politicians at the time of EU accession. Is this plausible?

On a side note: I admit that what I wrote about hating Europe was harsh, but we (i.e., me and many others I've spoken to) do feel genuinely betrayed.
Hmmm... people are complaining about their browsers mysteriously crashing, interspersed with random strings of Russian conversation...
To be clear, I'm not saying that he's given out the keys to any country. However, I'm not sure that really matters right now.

Realistically, the data in there probably isn't all that time-sensitive. It's not like we're in an active war with Russia and Snowden took copies of an upcoming US invasion plan with him there. In that case, two things would matter: if the Russians had the data, and whether they had cracked the encryption. However, in this case, the data Snowden has is useful as a general "What do they know" exercise. This is data that will remain interesting for the Russians and Chinese even if it takes months to crack. So, at this point, it is a problem for the US if the Russians are just in possession of it, even encrypted. It's just another bargaining chip that they have.
Weird, but interesting bug. Have you reloaded it and ran it long enough to determine if it's reproducible?
Make sure you read the end, it is the best part of the essay:

'''
The more we depend on social networks and other online services to share content with friends and family, the more we risk that our content inadvertently becomes public. The enforceability of intellectual property laws around user-generated content — our photos, videos, and other content — is one of the best protections we have. The media has, in many cases, chosen to broadly construe all content shared via these networks as “public” when in fact much of it is private, and the copyright on that private material belongs to the creator. Sharing photos on Facebook should no more constitute a public license to use those photos than sending them over email.

The ubiquitous license agreements and privacy policies that online services force their users to enter into should be scrutinized by the courts around the principle of adhesion, and if the courts are unwilling to reconsider the status quo then congress should intervene with legislation limiting the scope and enforceability of these agreements. We also need to be willing to consider that only Congress can prevent the abuse of governmental power that is used to coerce online services into to turning over data in a wholesale manner.

I am certain that social networks, technology companies, and telecommunications companies would prefer not to kowtow to governments around the world, but operating a service on the scale of Facebook or Google puts these companies in the crosshairs of governmental agencies of all kinds. Once a company has reached this scale, only governments pose a meaningful existential threat. It is therefore incumbent upon the legislature to craft appropriate boundaries that strike a balance between the valid needs of governmental authorities and the equally valid privacy demands of Internet users.

In the end, the lesson learned from my wedding was something much less obvious than the “parable of excess” that was claimed. Rather, the democratization of the media that I idealized in my youth when it was just a distant, blurry dream, suddenly seems much less worthy of idolatry now that it’s become a stark reality. The lesson for me, felt acutely over the past two weeks, ended up being a familiar moral to a familiar story: “Be careful what you wish for — you might just get it.”
'''
>Now I get to uninstall the last MS product on my machine!

...Except you'd have to install Windows 8.1 and use IE11 in order to use the "wonderful" HTML5 Netflix with their proprietary DRM blob that has even less compatibility than Flash and Silverlight.
Do they also accept Maestro debit cards?
I think it's fair, if you're the underdog against the proverbial fatcats and then you realize in a turn of events that you're the fatcat. I think it better he come to his senses than remain ignorant and hold to some naive principle he had as a kid. Let's get off that high moral horse, people change opinions and judgments, it wouldn't be prudent to hold that against them.
DigitalOcean is nothing special, don't know why they get so much hype.

Droplets are just another marketing gimmick, another layer of abstraction which developers don't really need.

If you want a bare box to play with, try the companies at LowEndBox.com.
Just remember that as useful as this feedback could be, there's probably thousands of people that disagree with him silently and are happy with it. I think it looks pretty cool FWIW (which is not that much...).
Octopress + free Github or Heroku account
Perspective: This is how the normal person will see what you are hating http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png
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exactly what I was thinking. Making "point and click" servers isn't the greatest idea in the world, and those folks are more difficult/time consuming to support I imagine.
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Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to AT&T, Verizon
EME should most certainly NOT become standardized, as the future it will bring is even bleaker than the one we have with Flash and Silverlight as far DRM and compatibility goes. Instead of a few NPAPI-compatible solutions, we'll likely have dozens of proprietary DRM binary blobs that will have even less compatibility on average than Silverlight does at the moment.

This is not the kind of thing that we should be encouraging.
I know it's not strictly related to the matter at hand, but the notion of the EU churning out absurd and illogical directives is largely a construct of the tabloid press.

As someone who has had exposure to certain parts of EU human rights law, the coverage of the relevant issues in the British press is disgraceful. Unfortunately, respecting people's human rights is often difficult and costly, thus an easy target for sensationalist headlines.
Personally, I feel like these are fairly minor issues. To reiterate my point below, wouldn't you say that the new logo (http://i.imgur.com/fKCH7Zx.png) looks better in the taskbar than the old logo (http://i.imgur.com/9QFgDVi.png)? (Caveat: this is a Photoshop mockup, so they might add outlines or do other stuff to it when it ships.)
Dear Firefox,

Please don't.

Sincerely,
the Internet
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It is nonsense - the text was altered - with modified, added and removed words, that make it nonsense. This is why the latin translator doesn't translate it. It is based though on a Cicero text.
What are you talking about? A publisher owns the copyright to the composition. The performer (or usually her record label) owns the copyright to the recorded sound.

US radio stations pays for one of these, pandora pays for both.
http://milomlaw.com/news/terrestrial-radio-performance-royal...
"they announced so much new stuff at once"

There was only one thing you could buy, though: a slightly better MacBook air.

"Available today" is the genius of Apple keynotes. They get the wave of interest combined with instant gratification drive. People are watching at home waving their credit cards.
Looks like it removed the apostrophe...
The live/test switch is a good example. It confuses everyone: you're just switching between the data that's shown, but everyone thinks you're switching the underlying state of your account. It's something we've had on our list to fix for a long time.
Sure thing, just email me -- patrick@stripe.com.
Git configuration on a new machine
I really hate how the American legal system lets the guilty get away with things.

In this case that hotel was very guilty of years of violations, and got away free. Didn't cost them a penny. You see those settlements all the time where the guilty party made a payment but admitted no guilt. And of course the government has unlimited deep legal pockets and can make life hell for people. It is in their interest to overreach which makes it even more expensive and threatening for the innocent or those guilty of only a little bit.
Then why do they bring up the Flash player when I've opted in to the HTML5 preview?
https://www.clinkle.com/signup stripe connected.

/legal may say something about what they are working on to.
Or perhaps a cracker if you believe in the original usage of the word.
The "Alpha" mouseover notes of the Latin translator

"This language is still in early stages of development..."

Really? I thought it had been around for a while... :)
yep, and due to a bug in the perl script, it harvests all the lines to the next From.
Loan a Google Street View Trekker
In an office nobody pops in every 8 seconds and takes a picture of you.

All this talk about trust is essentially useless if you're under surveillance all the time.
Except the revelation rings hollow when he's still sitting with a fortune made by doing so. He's trying to have it both ways and has no qualms getting his and then fighting to keep the spoils (i.e.: his lavish life and the privacy surrounding it are absolutely spoils of his previous actions)

It's hardly (just?) a high moral horse. I dislike the whole do as I say and not as I do attitude.
And in 2-3 years there'll be another post 'explaining' how the 2013 logo was too dull or the gradients lacked dynamics or something, and there'll be another logo that's basically the same with marginal changes, because people basically can't resist the urge to tweak.

I appreciate that people get bored and design sensibilities change. But spare us the long-winded itemization of why this is 'objectively' better, when it's obviously a simple matter of taste.
It may not be as flat as currently trendy (Microsoft, iOS 7) but it still has way less contrast than all the previous revisions.
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Stripe.js is copyrighted content. The rest is not too big a deal but if they've copied your software (even if it is JavaScript) that's not legal.
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What was there? Just getting a 404...or is that your point?
You can just press 'a'. And it's because I didn't have enough time to make it better, and that's the first place it went.
Here in Germany we signed up exactly for that. A Europe with peace and democracy, without borders, countries with political integration, large enough to be heard outside of Europe, ...

The 'common market' was a tool to achieve that. We were also certain that France (and some other countries) also wanted that. Something which was/is very important for us.

Not sure what Britain was and is thinking... but if Britain says they did not know about these goals, then something else went wrong. But that sounds more like internal problems in Britain and has very little to do with the EU or Europe.
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This is a rather passive way to cope with NSA peeping. No one can bear the disturbances of the awkward typeface.

If you really concern about privacy, vote down these peeping freak. This would be the more powerful and persistent response.
Where have all the wildlings gone?
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It may be the case that you're writing code that must, for one reason or another, interact with a bunch of other poorly-written code that itself has unclear gotchas, nasty edge cases, or hidden side effects. It may not be possible to improve that code - maybe it's a third-party library, or maybe it's very entrenched and fixing it would cost too much time or money.

In that case, I feel like it's extremely important to comment what your code is doing, as well as why it is doing it.
"On Wednesday Mr Yildrim said: "Facebook has been working in coordination with the Turkish authorities for a long time... We don't have any problem with them."
Yeah, that's not saved as a preference yet. Some day...
It’s not a perfect vacuum; there are particles — so there is some speed at which pressure waves propagate through the medium. That’s the speed of sound. Speeds faster than that speed are "supersonic”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Termination_shock expands on this somewhat.
For ads (and DRM).
The first one to successfully do this will definitely get me to open my wallet.
About effing time
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ChromeOS runs on a Linux kernel, but the entire experience is very different from what you would normally expect from a Linux distro. I call the more recognizable distros "GNU/Linux" to differentiate.
Sorry if off-topic, but I wonder whether a negative (albeit well written and argumented) has more chance of being on top in HN's comment section that a positive one.

And please don't get me wrong, I love when after a sensationalist article/title, a well written informative comment puts the article in its place, but the pattern seems to repeat itself in every kind of post.
Ask PG:  Can I name drop 'Hacker News' on a t-shirt design and sell it?
They say, 'Hacker News Beer Drinking Company"

Long story short...I'm a graphic designer/web guy looking to raise some money for a friend that could use a little financial assistance.

I'm also just starting a t-shirt company and have a design that can be customized with different locations, Jackson Hole Beer Drinking Co., or group names, Hacker News Beer Drinking Co., and sold in their local markets. I also thought Hacker News would be a great place to test the design and the idea.

You can see the design here:

http://bigriverbeerdrinking.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=66#

If this is ok, to test the overall concept I would like to run a teespring campaign.

Full Text On Shirt:

The Best In The West
Hacker V2.1 News
Beer Drinking Co.
Established 2007

Any thoughts? 100% of all sales would be donated to my friend. I could provide more details if necessary.

Regards,
Dave
I'm actually native of Houston, but my girlfriend's folks live up in Round Rock, TX, just outside of Austin. Austin is a unique city, no doubt. I've spent many weekends up there and it's always a lot of fun-- the best food you'll ever have in my opinion. Especially the food truck scene! If you love craft beer, you're welcomed with open arms. The city itself is very active and lots of people love being outdoors/staying active.

Cost of living is very reasonable, and that's a good thing. No state income tax! As far as tech jobs are concerned, you'll find that you will make a pretty good living.

All in all, I think Austin is a great place to live, and I plan on moving up there myself in the next couple of years. You'll find lots to be happy about and proud of in Austin!
The secret life of Edward Snowden (Translation)
Especially since the Ouya, while certainly open to development as much as any other Android device, isn't any easier to develop for. Making an Ouya game is just as difficult as making a game for any other platform.

From my perspective, there's nothing in the Ouya that will interest the kids in programming any more than any other console.
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I explore places like this tons (known as UE) and the rule is never post public photos that could give away entrances/increase security ruining it for future adventurers.
Mesmerizing. Apart of the glitz, I think of living in a city, is exploring.

When I was young with friends in SF (we were around 12), I remember the most adrenaline pumping thing we did was walk in the muni tunnel off I think Duboce (back in 01', so I'm not sure of the right names) and we'd always climb to roof access in the condo where they lived.
This is a pretty cool idea. If you actually do free shipping to New Zealand, I'll pick some up next paycheck.
That would only be accurate if you could trigger one of these bugs remotely.
6) ‘Agile’ is an excuse to do it later

That one line made the article worth reading.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clinkle/id458523629?mt=8
I personally climb bridges (in fact suspensions just like this) and other structures for photography now and then, and i would never do what they did without a harness and safety system preventing me, or any of my gear, from falling. Unfortunately not everyone is safe about it,

things from his post:
> A slip of the foot could result in certain death. But We rolled the dice – flipped the coin.
> Needing to get above the streetlights and not having time for fall protection I reminded myself to fall to the left should I slip.
> https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5209/5315871803_95f74f1027_b...

Scream "this is some young kid who probably should not be doing this". Safety should always be the most important thing when doing anything like that.
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A scrambler can be used in audio band, although I'm not sure how well it will mate with a GSM codec. Still it's an inferior solution to purely digital P2P VoIP systems (like e.g. Skype before the supernodes).
Clarity at smaller sizes depends on color & contrast, not small details. Of course they will do manually-optimized 16, 32 and 64px versions.