skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. Even more important for apps, where only little real-estate is available and your app has to nail that one use case (because if you try to do two use cases, your users will move away to two apps who do either use case much better than your app).

If you totally got this post, also read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985951
That is exactly right. Also, if I want to ride my bicycle without a helmet, or go rock climbing, or cross the street without being wrapped in bubble wrap, that is my business too.

Although the seat-belt thing does have some legitimacy, in that it keeps the drive in front of the wheel during an accident, allowing him to potentially keep some control over the car.
Technically Poland was under soviet occupation, so it was like Vichy France during WWII, but for almost 5 decades.
I've got to say that I read the title as "DuckDuckGo gets 28 queries a day on average".

It was a lot more impressive when I actually looked at the graph.
I don't understand why SPDY / HTTP 2.0 is being framed as "fitting the needs of a few major players".

Google is not the only one who benefits from reduced latency, fast page loads, efficient use of SSL sessions, and server pushed resources.

If anything, the people who benefit the most are those who _can't_ afford massive forward deployed CDN networks, large servers, and fat network pipes.
Global mobile advertising topped $8.9B & jumped 83% in 2012
Empathy to that level gets expensive! You have to really feel it to do it.
Japanese scientist created anti Google Glass gadget
Still the best article I've seen on this whole affair was the one at foreigpolicy.com back on June 11:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/11/to_protect_and_defen...

The US actually tried to impeach a president for lying about a sexual encounter with a White House intern yet does not seem to care much about a president who despite teaching Constitutional Law (G.W. Bush was not even a lawyer) does not appear to know his primary responsibility as president - to protect and defend the Constitution - and proceeds to violate the sworn oath of allegiance he took (twice) after being elected and reelected.

Do we really care more about presidents who lie about sex scandals than presidents who violate their oath? Maybe we should change the oath to state "I do solemnly swear that I will not have sexual encounters with any White House staff." Under that oath, JFK would have been in clear violation.

The Constitution is far more important than any single president, administration or election.

I guess there are still some folks who might still believe that there's really been no obvious violations of the Constitution in the course of these surveillance programs. But then why did so many senior lawyers at DOJ, even the Attorney General himself, oppose and threaten to resign (or resign) over these programs when they learned about them years ago? How many more lawyers need to look at the facts and say, "Something is not right here," before we all agree to get to work and fix it?

Bush Jr. too was at fault for what has taken place, but it's Obama who has been fully caught out (thanks to Snowden). Why should Obama be excused for this? The issue is not personal nor political (as it may have been with Clinton... as if he was the first president ever to cheat and to lie); it is a matter of protecting the Constitution. What higher calling is there for any public servant? And while it's unfortunate the issue has come to the public light during his term, this is much more important than Mr. Obama, his presidency, his administration, or his legacy.

"Yes we scan." Time to stand down, my brother.

EDIT: added "www." to link
Ways to fight fatigue while using your standing desk
I switched to DDG for a week. I found the results very good considering they don't track at all and can't improve ambiguous terms. I found the performance a bit disappointing however and the lack of Chrome instant suggestions a minor annoyance.
Google forces Latitude users into Google+
I agree with most of the article, but would strongly argue against any use of the 'robustness principle'. There have been huge security vulnerabilities because systems disagree with each other about what is a valid request and response.
That sort of makes your point an exercise in circular logic then: The recovery drove money to people who spend money on goods and services. Well yes, the people who work in fields that are doing well now are more likely to spend the money they get paid on new products.
How we refreshed Ordoro's UI in six weeks
Google Latitude will be retiring on August 9th
It's very much the fight of simplicity versus committee-think.
From the post:

"One important change you should know about is that Latitude and check-ins will be retired. These features will no longer be a part of the new Google Maps app, and will stop functioning in older versions by August 9. We understand some of you still want to see your friends and family on a map, which is why we've added location sharing and check-ins to Google+ for Android (coming soon to iOS)"
Apple, meet Orange.

Why are they bashing Stripe Connect, which is not comparable to Balanced? They were looking for Stripe Marketplace, which does offer a complete white-label solution.

For a fairer comparison and review of Stripe's white label marketplace API, I will shamelessly plug my blog:

http://blog.chriswinn.com/working-with-stripe-payouts

The people at Balanced are great, but I still prefer Stripe's products any day of the week. They've written the best API and documentation I've seen in a while, and laid a lot of groundwork for others to mimic. A good thing for us developers, at least.
Yes but there is a problem, other countries also have submarines/boats that protect their assets.
It would be even nicer with parallel columns IMO.
Not a fan. If the user wished to interact with it, you can't advance/rewind slides manually, so it's annoying. If the user doesn't wish to interact with it, it's still moving and distracting and wasting space, so it's still annoying.
While I have myself made the decision to start using DDG and abandon Google for these very privacy issues, I will voice another devil's advocate argument that there's another big plus to personalization (and data tracking): If I search "go" or some equally generic keyword which has one technical meaning besides a host of other ones, Google will actually be pretty smart about giving me results that I'm after, thus saving me lots of time.
This is a dup (with a / appended to the URL) from yesterday, which already had discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6015509
It's never been published "there" before, so it's technically true.

And this is the first time I'm making this comment here.
> It is sad indeed, but perhaps every political system sooner or later becomes a tyranny and dictatorship.

Uh, are we observing the same history here? The trend has distinctly been in the other direction. I'm less afraid of the NSA circa 2013, than Hoover's FBI from the middle of the 20th century, or McCarthy's Senate in the 1950's. The British's Parliament has governed Britain with tremendous continuity for about 325 years now, and it has on the whole only become more democratic over that time. The Soviet Union fell, East Germany fell. Brazil is ripe for democratic reform. Even China probably won't be able to stave off democracy forever at its current pace of development.
Sequoia Leads $8.5M Investment in Instacart
Amen, OP.

herge: You could also use the "data" program from Hobbit's netcat.
If we are going to rely and trust the slide, it mentions "You Should Use Both". That might mean, they are still not using the two of them, or one of them.
> In the sense of a true netbook-as-a-thin-client, the Chromebook is the only competitor in this market.

Some Sun partners tried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray

and

http://www.aimtec.co.uk/sun-ray-notebooks.php
For those with security clearances, clicking on a random HN link is risking your job and livelihood. It's easy to see a link to WikiLeaks and avoid that but when it's the WP posting it, not so much.

These articles really need to be flagged/tagged by HN and by the newspapers that publish them. I don't want to see a TS/SCI-classified document and I don't want to be seen as seeking them out.

I love the technical stories on HN (95% of what we read here) but it bothers me that I'm risking my clearance when I read this site.
I wasn't advocating anything. I was just saying that the grandparent was odd presented as a critique of the book, when the author spends the next three books examining those issues.
In all honesty you can get these same benefits from dedicated hardware. Throw openstack or similar on a set of Hetzner or similar machines and have at!
Stripe Connect, according to their own website (https://stripe.com/connect) is Stripe's marketplace offering.

Stripe Connect is not a complete white label solution. The user still has to be redirected to stripe.com to complete the OAuth process. We had many issues with users being confused as to who Stripe was, and why were they asking for their personal information when creating an account.
Pilots suggest plane slowed despite presence of auto-throttle: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/us/asiana-airlines-crash/

My point is, it is premature to rule out aircraft problems.
I've used it a bit and found top and -cum very useful. Nitro seems to combine memory and CPU(?) but besides that I don't understand the benefit.

Edit: The author expanded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022679

Nitro seems quite nice.
I use the Wikipedia auto-suggest url [1], it works great for my needs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=...
One of my best friends is NYPD working in the projects in Brownsville NY, one of the most dangerous cities in NYC. From the stories he tells me, he is fighting a war.

Of course, that's not applicable to most other areas, but it's worth noting that when your day-to-day job is dealing with the criminals and scum of the earth, it changes your perspective on life.
I know I'm probably an odd user out, but I find myself annoyed more often than not that Google tries to make every query I have return local results. I agree with Skalman that I can add a location if I want to search locally.
You CAN NOT continue to use products and services by NSA companies like Microsoft - Yahoo - Google - Facebook - PalTalk - AOL - Skype - YouTube - or Apple and THEN turn around and BITCH AND CRY ABOUT LOSING YOUR RIGHTS AND PRIVACY.

So is it by coincidence the products that have the most users are the ones watched by the NSA? Any product/service that will reach such a huge audience will be a target.

Not using the product is not a solution. Getting the NSA to respect the law is what we need.
Thanks for the counterpoint. I'm completely of the mindset that police should take the mindset of community-servants first (perhaps the fighting mentality is appropriate in certain situations at specific times.) But so many of these kinds of articles (not this one specifically) take anecdotal incidents, tell them from one specific viewpoint that makes the cops look like trash, and expect you to be all outraged with them. I'm personally not going to get outraged until things are prevented in a fair light and I can decide if things are over-militarized.
Actually, once we started getting into the market, we found that most do not know they need to do regular, offsite backups.

Consider the some examples:

* An older photographer who grew up in the days of film who has just transitioned over to digital.

* A homemaker who is trying to add some much needed income for her family, with a passion but no formal training.

* A well-off software developer who moonlights as a photographer for fun and a little extra money.

Of those, only the third has been exposed, formally, to correct data backup procedures. The others are likely to keep their photos in folders on the desktop of their laptop.

Furthermore, photography is not a very lucrative profession for most photographers. That limits the amount you can charge. Our original pricing was much higher, but we realized that would be problematic, considering the average photographer brings in around $30k per year.
My solution is to copy them all to Glacier, I also have local copies, Glacier is only for worst case scenario retrieval. I wrote about the little script I use here: http://www.brianlane.com/automatic-backup-of-files-to-s3-and...
I guess I have no choice but to leave it off. Anyone recommend otherwise?
\n? or \r? or \r\n?
You haven't quite understood me. Of course her problem was with the structure of how valve worked, it was different from what she desired. My point was that that doesn't make valves flat structure terrible, but also doesn't make her terrible either, it just means they were ill-matched. However, her desire to bend the company to her will doesn't seem like the most likely outcome in my opinion.

Also please keep in mind, she was slating valve, as far as I know they haven't criticised her. If they did, I'd no doubt look for reasons to find their opinion invalid. :p
This sounds similar to an argument you could make for writing all of your code in assembly instead of C (or other higher-level languages.) Yes, there's a layer of obscurity between a program written in C and the resulting assembly: a tool (yes, a tool, spouting abstraction all over the place!) called a compiler. As a core tenet of engineering, we create tools that often leverage abstraction in order to let us tackle more complex problems without wrapping our heads around (or writing code to handle) the details.

It's a matter of balance, and we can all choose our own camps along the abstraction <=> ease-of-understanding-every-detail continuum (I'd tend to plop myself toward the former.) Just as we can create a reliable C => assembly compiler, we can create reliable tools to let us leverage abstraction for the better and focus on the bigger picture rather than the smaller.
If you want to see a true Cold War hero, a person who prevented a nuclear war from starting, read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Moxie Marlinspike is the real deal.
It is not correct to say that Medicare "would not allow" online pricing. Medicare doesn't care what hospitals charge. Medicare ignores hospital charges. It only pays what Medicare calculates is a fair price based on what hospitals report as their actual costs.
It would be more reasonable to say that Medicare will ignore any posted prices whether or not they are posted online.
Very nicely done. And thank you in advance for not leaving the crypto in a black box
It is impossible to outlaw drugs. Attempting to do so merely increases the price by increasing the risk, resulting in unending escalatio.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/may/03/deviant-globalizati...
Hello Private Equity Marketing
Maybe add the movie Sneakers and maybe Swordfish?
If you're curious about the scene and who the players are, I recommend checking out http://en.startit.rs, a blog on tech entrepreneurship, covering mainly Serbia + nearby.
Let me consult with my cofounder. I've considered it in passing, but haven't put any time into it.
Architecture proposal for a secure plug-n-play email system
Having lived through the first dot-com bubble, my belief was that it was facilitated in part by unsophisticated investors chasing outsized returns (the so called "retail" investors). The startup market largely escaped the 'bubble' fate by virtue of the fact that the bar for investing in startups was high enough that the people who qualified either understood the risks are were willing to lose everything in their bet (pure gamblers).

My fear is that opening up startup investing to a wider pool will not only fund a lot of startups that should not have been funded (just like the dot.com boom rewarded companies that should not have been rewarded) it will result in a catastrophic correction down the road where a lot of people will have lost everything and will be asking the government to use taxpayer money to make them whole again.
a) The charges should have never been filed.

b) The police should have been suspended and/or fired. Even if the girl did buy a 12 pack of beer, the level of force used was beyond excessive for the crime they thought occurred.
"1995, the court dismissed Kuklinski’s sentence completely, declaring that he was acting under special circumstances and the higher need of his country. Kuklinski finally returned to Poland for a visit in the spring of 1998."

truth being told, USA, like always, bullied Poland into withdrawing the charges ( and that "helped" them join the structures of NATO) which is quite well described for example in the latest book by Leszek Miller, who dealt with the case as a prime minister after 1989.

( I don't have a personal opinion about Kuklinski's choice - it was treason, it was patriotism, it was many things - everybody lives by their own ethical backbone ).
I'm not 100% clear on what that feature includes. If I'm on a roadtrip and I'm moving into an area with spotty coverage, do I lose the previously cached map? Were offline maps automatic before?
For "local", it seems quite feasible to add optional location personalization.

For context, I find DDG's top-of-the-results-page "did you mean this foo or that foo" fairly reasonable most of the time.
Something along this idea[1], but properly drawn by a designer in more than three minutes?

[1] http://i.imgur.com/DR2w9Jl.png
Sounds like he'd be better. Especially if the veto was done with concern over cost. He'd likely appreciate how much cost this automation could save him.
Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article:
"The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."
Coursera Secures 43M in Series B, Plans to Double in Size
Coursera closes with 43 Million in Series B funding, looking to double its team size to build mobile platform, apps platform, collaborative learning environments, translations and more! http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/coursera-an-online-education-company-raises-another-43-million/
Responsive.io - Responsive Images as a service (beta)
So what if Apple didn't have wads of cash laying around, and felt that it could not afford to take a loss to grow the market. Would they be unable to enter the market. This sounds like if Walmart was busy undercutting all the small business in a town but one decided to keep prices a profitable level, and then Walmart sued that small business for price fixing.
Kickstarter is the way to launch your startup without giving up equity
I thought it was a 50/5, but the speed test I ran just showed 65/5.
From the Kuro5hin article:

> On the phone and in his incoherent published reply, Card repeatedly shows ignorance of what he himself purportedly wrote. I simply cannot imagine how you could write such a stunningly well crafted piece of work (inasmuch as it is wildly popular and deeply affects people) without being aware of every fibre and splinter of its composition. About the third or fourth time I heard Card say something wasn't in his book that I knew was, I began to suspect that it was more of a committee effort.

> Notice that even John Kessel distances himself from the Hitler Hypothesis even though he draws many of the same conclusions Elaine does. Card manages to sound very convincing when he says Hitler was never on his mind and that it's Elaine who has the Hitler obsession; I think he's so convincing because he wasn't in on the joke himself. Elaine's essay may have been as much a revelation to him as it was to anyone else.

> I've seen Elaine's notes and heard Card on the phone, and there is no doubt in my mind that the Hitler Hypothesis is correct; it is simply impossible that Ender's Game and Speaker were written by someone who did not have a very detailed knowledge of Adolph Hitler's life. There are very exact parallels in there that you wouldn't even notice unless you read the footnotes to the most detailed Hitler biographies. I also tend to believe that Card does not have that level of knowledge about Hitler. Ergo, it is very hard for me to believe that he wrote the books. The assumption that he did not explains a great many otherwise mysterious things.
Although personally I tend to agree with you, this isn't evidence that they did know something else was going on.

A good lawyer would always insist on such phrasing, only addressing the absolute minimum necessary, even if there is nothing to cover up.

Of course, the fact that such outspoken CEO's all let the lawyers use them as sock puppets is still a big red flag.

(And the subsequent transparency theater that carefully circumvented any of the actual accusations makes it even more suspicious.)
I've always hated the personalization Google does, because I don't want local results.
Or Google Fiber!!

Really, I think it makes sense for someone to prepare for the future and assume this will be feasible for upload in the not-crazy future.. unless more hobbyists keep deciding we need exponentially larger RAW files.. It's a crazy race :|
Interesting your mind went there. It's fascinating to see how people categorize things based on prior knowledge and experience.
>Personally, I see the length of time that Valve takes to make their games as a sign of problems.

Valve make money and they make some of the best PC games about. Even if they're not your thing, it's hard to call love and polish a problem in a world where most of the moved loved series have been slated with their recent releases.

>I would hope that wasn't the issue because it seems silly to fire someone over the fact that they like to produce things in a timely manner. But, I suppose it's possible because it more or less fits the story we're hearing from her.

>Which is totally understandable. From what I read, granted her words, I'm assuming that Gabe handed over the project to her because she got a raw deal.

My guess was more along the lines of Gabe not thinking she had anything because she mentioned they were some serious major hints that her project didn't have interesting gameplay metrics.

I have to admit, like I did in my first post on this subject that I'm bias because I don't believe in the idea, but I find it strange that most people are behind her despite the fact it doesn't sound like she's got a game for her hardware.
Show HN: Trello for GitHub Issues
Google, Bing, et al are ducks and DDG is the goose?
effectively this is already what I do, except that you added a step of sending the data to AZN which doesn't help me any if the data is already offsite. Once I've driven somewhere, we're done.
I didn't realise they had done that to ehow. I wonder if they could kill some of the region specific crap. If you search for a company here in Auckland you get these junk sites (localist, hot frog, finda) that have out of data that's been scraped an age ago and for some reason ranks high. This would probably be a deciding factor in browser choice for me.
I backup offsite via CrashPlan which keeps files even after I delete them. I sent them a hard drive for my initial upload. Now, I've got about 800M backed up. I haven't yet had to get it all back :)