skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're great if you work in an office. They get a little pricier if you work from home and need to actually use your connection a lot by day.
It seems to be entirely cookie-focussed though, and not even consider that data on UK citizen interaction with government, regardless of cookies, may be something to keep private.

I mean this - "despite the fact that no personal data was collected, it was good practice not to share analytics information with third parties in order to reassure government websites’ users." is ludicrous.

It's trivial for a service with as many hooks into everything as google to correlate cookies and IP addresses of visitors to GA-using sites with their Google accounts and other tracking data. It's almost as ludicrous as the answer I got direct from them "we don't allow google to use the data".

You don't allow it? How exactly is it that you stop them keeping records when every time I visit your pages my computer also tells them what I'm doing?

What a load of carp.
Because of the reasons in the post, but mainly our design team. I didn't want to set up a WordPress instance and make them learn the intricacies of php and WP theme system. They already understand the Rails folder structure, Sass, Haml and all the other tools we use.

tl;dr: it made collaboration easier.
The remark was not intended to be sexist. It was intended to reflect that I don't think Mayer was particularly easy to work with, that her elitist values were contrary to much of the Google culture.

(That being said: I think she is good CEO material. In fact, when she took over Yahoo! I bought stock in the company).

If you really can't imagine that it wasn't a sexist remark then I'm sorry for you: it must be hard to be so easily offended.
Dropbox acquired Endorse
They don't. They bought them all in.
'stimulate' people? How about some tea instead of OOP?
The education requirements are strange especially considering they only require one year. e.g. I started my business in the final year of high school and although I got accepted, decided not to attend University. I would be denied a visa. However someone who decided to drop out at the end of their first year of University would be accepted for a visa.

Doesn't seem to make much sense. Does anyone know how strict these requirements are yet?
These kinds of stories pop up every so often. There was one in '05 about a programmer who became a bicycle messenger in SF[1]. I think as programmers, we often get so absorbed in our own thing that we don't see there's a world of opportunity outside of programming work.

[1] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548
you sir, do not know China.
Coerced sex does occur but 'almost always' is completely wrong. Besides I am not talking about two animals mating, as you then go on to say, it is a scene where a sapient, intelligent being subjugates a 'lesser' creature using a sexual organ for their own goals. It's really not something that belongs in a film that was so widely promoted.
He's bound by any U.S. law covered in the U.S./Turkey extradition treaty.
Why exactly is that a shame?

Especially considering how many don't ever come around to publishing anything?
Read this as "Google Now" the product, please lowercase the now at least.
A security researcher has claimed responsibility in a comment[1] on the article citing his intentions were not malicious and he reported 13 bugs to Apple prior to the dev center being taken down

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/21/apple-confirms-that-the-dev...
I think more in terms of "you get all of what you pay for".
Yep, in the french version of the message they specify that it's salted.

http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=8998
Rightly so. They're not complaining that someone has leaked an internal report, this is a draft report which will be made public. Selecting snippets from an un-reviewed paper is silly, taking it potentially out of context and drawing your own conclusions is downright irresponsible.
Are you implying that cooking is not a creative and technically skilled employ? Because I'm sure there are several people that would be glad to argue that point with you. I mean, sure, a line cook or something? Maybe not. But someone running their own food stand, responsible for everything from the menu to presentation?
Cloudant Contributes CouchDB clustering code back to CouchDB
Yes, but you still have to install a closed-source Dropbox client in your system.
I upvoted this because I think it's an interesting experiment. Attempting to raise $1M+ every day for a month, though, I think is insanely ambitious. Asking people for $830 for a device that they won't get for a year is asking a lot, particularly since the specs aren't worlds away from current phones (two years time, and probably $500 would get you a device with those specs, unlocked).

Worse, I just don't even get the use case. If I have to dock it with stuff to make it work, that means I need some kind of installation. Spending more money just so I can carry my PC around instead of having at home on a desk - hm, really not sure about that. People who use their mobile as a primary device tend not to have any sort of desktop, and I don't really get the impression they miss it that much.
What do you think about tax liens as a passive investment?
I know. I said that I didn't have an issue with porn, I was simply explaining to glesica the logic behind making actual rape films illegal.
They don't throttle, though they do have a cap. But when they say "you get this much" you get all of it, without fuckery.
Book a session for today with Lior on LiveNinja. He specializes in this kind of stuff and can help you out for sure: https://www.liveninja.com/liorleser/
I don't think it's a conspiracy in the sense that liberals have a secret convention where they decided to make up Global Warming.

I do believe though that global warming feeds into their belief that industry, growth and capitalism are somehow evil and confirms their pre-existing prejudices.
Okay, I added your observations. Thank you!
The request might be unfair, but I wouldn't risk it.
It's really more of an issue:

http://english.sina.com/china/2013/0717/609718.html

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/190358-protests-after-street...
I would propose the opposite.
Does she/he really like street food better? If so all the best to him/her.
How someone depicts rape or how stereotypical it is is irrelevant. The dangerous component here is the limitation on freedom of expression. This horse has been beaten to death 10 million times, but here's a distillation of the argument:

If you ban, for example, all simulation of racist themes, you eliminate a certain kind of harmful imagery, which is a good thing. But this also prevents one from educating people as to why racism is wrong, by showing a depiction and how harmful it can be. It would ban things like movies about the life of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr or Emmett Till.

As relates to rape, this would ban Lifetime movies which show the gritty horrible reality of rape and the subsequent damage it does to people's lives. That violent struggle is a stereotype of rape that hides non-consensual sex as a form of rape is irrelevant to the main point: this law destroys our ability to educate and our freedom of expression.
I used to be with Eclipse. They were great, then they were bought by Kingston who were bloomin' clueless. Been with Zen since 2005.
They don't even have final specs nailed down, and they're trying to raise $32 million for a production run?
http://throwingfire.com/storing-passwords-securely/#notpassw...

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
Marte Dalelv pardoned in Dubai
The rest of your conspiracy crap has no place here. You are hung-up on a subpopulation that is likely not even on HN.

Where in any of my responses have I said anything about a conspiracy? It seems as if you're the one who is hung up on an ideology you're trying to inject into my argument.

Anywhere policy decisions are made, it is practical to vote on alternatives. This is where the "consensus" is justified.

Try not to interpret this as trolling but, I don't disagree with this statement. What is your point here?
To clarify, since you fixed one of these but not the other, a lessor is a landlord. Lesser means not as good.
I read those links when choosing the font, and several others as well. The font I picked is a Google web font (Cabin) which is closest to Gill Sans, which is pretty close to the original. I should probably use the thicker version, though. Thanks for the feedback!
Seems like a shot across the bow of their Southern neighbors. The US needs to get our act in gear. Vancouver and Toronto are already world class cities.
I hate to play devil's advocate here (especially since I already have a post here) but I had a thought. For Snapchat some of the biggest selling points are the self destruct abilities of the media sent. So an unauthorized client puts a stake trough the heart of that claim (and the company). I see why they may be worried, but I think that they should have communicated their concerns more clearly and pleading, and not intimidating.
I value the non political aspect of our monarchy. It is cheap, has only one power for extreme use only and that is to dissolve parliament, and is not part of the nasty political punch up. I value the stability and depth, leading to a decent adviser to an elected PM.

Next, if the monarch asked something of the country as a whole, most people would take their word for it, because there would be no political motive or bias. If a PM did so, it becomes partisan and a debate. We had Blair take us to war twice on his say so. As such, most of the country opposed it and saw it was willy waving or macho-ness, or sucking up to the Americans, and so on. Had the Queen believed in it and come out and said something like, "Look, Im sorry, but with 60 odd years of experience, we have no choice", I think the country would have backed her, if only reluctantly. But the Brits would have thought, "bloody hell, she speaks, and well, OK". And that would be because of the huge constitutional risk doing so would have caused.

Finally, we could in the UK vote in something like a Nazi party. We could then take to the streets and have a violent revolution and kill the nazi's. After all that, the Monarch would still be there as a shield of stability for both us internally, an as an external sort of front. Having won our revolution, Queenie would still be there, and ask the winner, "Ok, now what?"

I prefer all this to every other presidential system, most notable the insane US presidential race. I don't want out head of state to be in that cesspit. I like that it just sits there, all nice and stable.

I care not for all the pomp and ceremony. I hate all the silly gossip. I dont think they need so many homes and hangers on. All that can be up for grabs, no problem. But at it core, I personally, prefer our monarch to any other alternative.

Sorry, but I do not believe that a vote is a universally good thing. Mostly, yes. But not an absolute. Here in the UK I firmly relive we have the two almost perfectly balanced. Democracy can do anything it likes, under a safe shield of our monarchy. If it ever got real nasty and extreme, the monarch can shut it down. We would have a crisis in that case, but we would not go Nazi, or something. I believe that externally other countries and cultures can see we are a thriving powerful democracy, but we also have depth and stability supplied by our monarch head of state.

UK! UK! UK! :)
>> I suspect that, as an area with harsh drug laws and strict enforcement of marijuana and cocaine, the balloon effect drove up interest in the designer chemicals. But that's just a hunch.

I think you're probably right.

Imagine what we could do in a non-prohibitionist atmosphere, where mainstream labs could research into stuff that gives people a buzz without being addictive or harmful...
I would say that while you're correct about Google being faster the reasons are probably less obvious.

Whereas Google is going for absolute fastest delivery of content, Apple is trying to deliver a full ACID database system with guarantees their licensing vendors will sign off on. This likely means massive replication and it likely means that Apple is enforcing a lot of service guarantees to ensure these are atomic transactions.

On the other hand, Google just really wants you to have blisteringly fast load times. Different problem domain in my opinion. One is an index with few guarantees necessary, the other would not be obliged to sell you content if one of its guarantees failed. Different strokes for different folks.

Granted Apple could be faster, but I don't think it's fair to compare their propagation to Google's.
I have a version of this that I've used for years. Objects make good nouns. Closures make good verbs.

Software organized around nouns looks different than software organized around verbs. Not better. Not worse. Different. Use what is appropriate.
Mexican Hospital 'eats' pollution
And...... cloned. Sure go ahead and take it down XD.
The lion’s share of it comes from YouTube.

Hardly anything surprising that YouTube is the source of most traffic. Take out YouTube, I suspect they'd be closer to 5%. (Didn't really see a breakdown anywhere in the article)
> If you really can't imagine that it wasn't a sexist remark then I'm sorry for you: it must be hard to be so easily offended.

You're right. It must be that time of the month...
I just do US stock index investing. There has never been a 25 year period where the US stock market did worse than 3% if you include dividends. Let me know if you want sources. This year alone it is up over 10%. That being said there will definitely be down years but that is ok with me as they will even out over the length of my career.
ugh, who upvoted this crap?
An engine would make some sense. I'd be interested in collaborating if you decide too: https://github.com/danawoodman
And I hate the "I can't imagine how to do this, so it's not possible" argument.

We have syslogs going back 7 years. You want to come audit our network? I'll bet you all of the money in my bank account that you find nothing.

> with the usual suspects--Java, Flash, Adobe Reader, etc...

Nobody in my house runs those.

> It's all about staying on the machine, and staying silent.

They have to communicate over the network at some point though. Otherwise, it'd be useless.

So yeah - as far as I know - and that's pretty damn far.
Programmers "today"? Maybe I'm not old enough but I cannot remember a time when programmers would choose a platform based on their target userbase, unless they are forced to do so (e.g. iOS). Even back in 2000, given the choice, programmers would always choose to use their favorite language if they can. I remember that back in the days I was very much concerned about distribution. If I write an app in Java, users needed to download a 20 MB runtime (mind you, circa 2000 dialup was common). Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc all required some form of runtime. .NET was in its infancy and not widely distributed. I chose to write as much as possible in Delphi so that users only had 1 executable to worry about, even when Delphi wasn't the most productive platform. I asked questions on various developer forums, and I was being ridiculed for thinking so much about user distribution; the consensus from the community was: pick a language they like, and the user will just have to put up with whatever additional multi-megabyte runtime it requires.
If anyone is doing a story on this I have photos from the announcement that are CC released :)

http://500px.com/zachaysan/sets/startup_visa
Good catch – wasn't sure there was an English version. Thanks!
OWS is pretty damn dead. I doubt anyone cares what their tactics are, in any event.
Hopefully, but from the comments this an old, hacky system based on old software with critical software vulnerabilities. I don't imagine their encryption reflects that, but until it's clarified it's probably better to assume it does.
It may be dumb, but it's not laugh-out-loud crazy. In fact, it's specifically one of the things that the DMCA does. Here's a whole ton of information about the law: http://chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi

And here's an article from the EFF with a few citations of cases where DMCA article 1201 has been used: https://www.eff.org/es/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca
As mdasen mentioned, Google Analytics probably doesn't have much of an effect on SEO due to regulatory concerns.

However, it probably does handicap you if you use other Google services, such as Adwords. Google Adwords heavily leverages Analytics data to optimize your marketing campaigns, and doesn't offer the ability to interface Adwords with a third-party like Piwik. So not using Analytics will cause Adwords to fly blind to user behavior on your site, and won't be able to tell which leads were useful and which weren't.
Very good point on market centric versus customer centric view of the MVP. Is the critical path "Will someone pay for this" or "Can we get it to work"?
read to the bottom.
Midnight in Paris cleared in 9-word copyright infringement case.
Hacker News hosted the following discussion regarding problems that have already occurred maintaining Go software due to reliance on binary distribution: "Golang dependency hell in Haunts The Manse game" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796597

In this specific instance it was more of an incorrect understanding of Go dependencies and misuse/lack of source control, but it seemed to at least come close to an echo of the issues you are raising. The specific quote from the comments: "There is no version control for dependencies".
Biz Stone: Passive Aggression (to Perfection)
I don't understand. Apple needs to make a lot more guarantees about integrity and atomicity, which is why their data integrity sucks and their transactions are not atomic?

I could kind of sort of understand if apps took twelve hours to show up on the store, in general. But no, they take twelve hours overall to show up after a long period of bizarre, inconsistent rollout.

The speed difference is much less important than the fact that Apple presents its users with a wildly inconsistent view of their database for any recent changes for a period of hours. Of course, updating changes quickly would be one way to fix this, but the speed is not in itself the problem.
Hardware acceleration and compositing
>The harm is in convincing people that this is normal or reasonable.

I'll assume that by "this" you mean rape fantasies. What if it is normal? Do you think there would still be harm in convincing people of that fact?

> It's extremely easy online to find an echo chamber where virtually every post will agree with you. These exist for mens rights groups, anorexics, conspiracy theorists, practically every topic.

So?

>Rape porn is one of those areas where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred.

Is it? How so? What about romance novels?

>It's highly unlikely someone accessing rape porn is doing it because they are aroused by the idea of simulated rape.

Not so fast. Are you assuming that anyone who would watch/read such a thing is trying to work up their nerve to commit/participate in a rape? Or that once they've seen a depiction that they'll be somehow compelled to go and rape someone?

Here is a quote from an article in Psychology Today: "Many men daydream about getting the girl by rescuing her from a dangerous situation--without the slightest wish to confront armed thugs, or be trapped in a fire on the 23rd floor." Thanks to speeder below for the link: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201001/wom...

>By providing or permitting a similar echo chamber it is much easier for people to convince themselves their actions are perfectly acceptable.

Rapists may indeed seek justifications for their actions, or may wish to merely blame some external factor. Is it your opinion that suppressing such material would prevent the behavior? Can you support that opinion with evidence? How about the fact that rape has existed before pornography? Or that rape occurs in other social primates' groups (I'm assuming that no pornography exists for non-humans.)?

>That is the danger of almost any media that depicts this sort of behaviour.

Is there some proof that viewing or reading such material will cause previously ordinary people to become psychopath/rapists? Or is it merely popular to want to externalize blame for one's actions?

>It's not exclusive to the Internet, but it's the diversity and complete freedom on the Internet which permits these echo chambers to form.

But you want to start stamping it out on the internet first?
Never investigated them. Have a summary link?
I'm going to agree on your point as well. Designing with things like WordPress, Tumblr, etc become a major pain quickly. Especially considering the speed at which you can design with a bare rails app.
Your interactions are pretty much opposite of mine. OVH is constantly doing stupid things to their network (like updating all their BGP reflectors at the same time last week and then falling out of BGP because of it). What they have in transparency and they lose in being a bunch of asshats to deal with. They've taken a week to replace a blown PSU (caused by their own inability to wire a rack); they've dumped my servers because their own internal billing checks weren't aligned with my actual billing details; ffs they essentially root all their servers with their default install image.

I won't even go into their blatant breaches of contract...They toss a ToS at you, but you can only read it when signed into your manager and you can only sign into your manager if you accept the ToS. They won't email you the new ToS either, you have to accept it without being able to read it.
Smalltalk is many things, but I don't think it can be considered fast. As for CLISP, it has 50 years of performance optimzations behind it. CLISP programmers can actually mix compiled and interpreted code in the same program. Crazy.
I would rather have temporary worker visas for startup employees. Our biggest labor problem has been the difficulty of getting programmers who didn't go to college into the US. We'd move to Canada in a heartbeat if we could get the developers we wanted colocated with us.

How about N temporary worker visas/amount of VC funding?
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Code, the newsroom, and self-doubt
> You often find that the people that have their sex life suppressed and made to feel disgusting are the ones with the weirdest bedroom habits.

Now let's imagine Britain in 18 years time when today's babies are adults who've had their sexuality suppressed by this censorship.
The conditional on Canadian funding thing is killer. There is so little VC in Canada.
Spam made me give up running my own mail server and start using Gmail.

Gmail is slowly making me give up email altogether.

I am not saying that email perfect and doesn't need innovation, but there should be greater sensitivity towards complexity and friction on Google's part. It is bad enough already that various functions are spread semi-randomly around in different buttons, drop-downs and links so you have to click around to get things done. There's really no need to try to get too clever about things.

I'd like more predictable behavior ("where did that email I looked at just 5 minutes ago end up?") and I would really like a better filtering system. They should have a look at the scoring system in Gnus and then think long and hard about how you build a sensible UI atop that kind of expressive power.
Made the same decision as you recently.

The only pep-peeve of mine is that I'm not a huge fan of using JSON as a configuration mechanism. I much preferred having a Ruby file for configuration. My middle ground here is using a system ruby via /usr/bin/env ruby and generating the necessary JSON output for people that want the nice syntax.
looks great - does any one here have any experience with any of the listed VCs/Angels? I can only spot 1-2 familiar names..
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