skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are getting into politics here. We all have representatives and policy makers that are deciding all the time for us and we also have to support the consequences of their decisions, no mater how informed they were.
Indeed, I'm German and of course I know "Heise", but I never heard of their international part "The H!". I would happily pay some bucks regularily to support their journalism, but it seems they don't want my money. (or any other voluntary/donation money for that matter)
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if they can survive 65000 years on the island I'm sure they have witnessed a few natural disasters and managed to survive as a culture.
There have always been ads in GMail, and they have always been clearly marked as ads. These new ads are still clearly marked as ads, and clearly distinct from emails, they are just placed slightly differently in the UI.
Software style over-selling in the context of a bookshop would be something like taking money for a book that the author hasn't even thought about writing.

Or maybe, in the style of "salesmen who can't say no":

"Is it a thriller?"

"Yes"

"Is a romance?"

"Yes"

"Is it an accurate historical account?"

"Yes"

"Is it science fiction?"

"Yes"

"Is it easy to read?"

"Yes"

"Who is the author?"

"Who would you like the author to be?"

[NB I really have been the sales engineer in meetings like that and I found them to be awful - no amount of kicking under the table or subtle hand signals would stop some people]
Wow, that was quick! Smart move by Cloudera. If any existing users are looking for an open-source alternative to Myrrix for a scalable recommender system build on Hadoop/Mahout check out http://prediction.io
if you turned the gene off would you be able to have kids though?
Nice plugin, but dear lord the readability on this site is atrocious. Leave the ultra-light font weight for the headers (even that might be too unreadable). Body should be at least 300. http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato
The Echofon client lets you mute people you follow, or just mute their retweets, and it also lets you mute clients, e.g. Instagram or Runkeeper.

That functionality has become indispensable to me, and I hate reading my timeline in other clients.
Although battery life is something you only notice or care about when you've bought the product.

Figures on boxes will never match your actual usage so are meaningless.
No because that entire user base transitioned to an entirely new OS where ALL the old software didn't run natively just a few years earlier.
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That "also" should have been an "always".
Or, alternatively, it was a known place where the brass congregate, and hence a good target anyway.

Or, alternatively, it was in the middle of the Pentagon and hence the bulls-eye for a missile aimed there anyway.

The story does smack of a little hubris.
Is anyone able to find the wreck of the Primrose on Google Maps satellite image? I've looked around the perimeter of the island but cannot see it -- did the Indian government clean it up?
true - ive seen the same story with almost no different facts but from different news sources on the home page multiple times - e.g. when steve jobs passed etc - my point was just about posting a single url - the hn algorithm is typically decent enough. AT the end of the day - if its already been posted - it shouldnt end up getting upvoted much anyways - but in any case - if it makes you feel good - you should keep doing that :)
This looks really good. Just need another Ruby programmer to try it out with now :) Anyone free a week today - next Friday, 26th July?
Seems to work for 1080p AC3 MKVs, something GoodPlayer took away.
It loads fine for me. In Chrome 28 Windows. Plus, very nice. I really enjoyed this :)
if you need an api I can build one for you in rails for 200$.
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Hacking has a strong connotation with openness. Look at the outcry when Bill Gates complained about people copying his stuff. Hacking is about stretching things beyond their designed limits. Who the "things" belong to is usually irrelevant.
Horace Dediu's (asymco) graph of Googles rapidly declining margins probably illustrates why Google is now resorting to this sort of thing.

http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot...

And related post.

http://www.asymco.com/2013/07/19/whats-an-android-user-worth...
Here's the thing - I don't give a rat's arse why Google hands over my data to the US government. All I care about is that they do. They apparently find it easier to hand over my data than to shut down operations or move overseas so that they don't have to. OK, they are free to make that decision (as I have already stated), but they are still bloody well handing over my data! And you, as a googler, are party to that. You really should have a long think about that.
http://foaas.com/off/NSA/me
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They did say per driver. It's still a high number of course, but I don't see how you can read that differently? UPS has around 400,000 employees, so if 200,000 of those are drivers that number becomes $150 per mile saved. Still way too high, but not single use golden robots high.
that's funny... it looked to me like one of the better promotions you could have had for the banned book in question. In fact, the whole thing seemed, well, like an unsubtle advertisement, unsubtle to the point where it became less effective.
Why did I learn about this site only now, when it is closing? :( Looks very interesting, it's a shame.
Thanks for the link, I never realized that about Catholicism.

I guess my position has always been similar; I don't see any conflict between evolution and the Bible. Evolutionary theory has no special tenet that God does not exist. The Bible's creation story may or may not be literal but it has no special tenet that the world was created such that it doesn't have a complete history, e.g. cut down a tree in the garden of Eden and I'd expect it to have tree rings showing its age or dig up some fossils and find dinosaurs, Adam's ancestors, etc. Everyone seems like they'd feel more comfortable if these were mutually exclusive but I personally see no reason for them to be mutually exclusive. Feel free to correct me if I'm overlooking something major.
I think there's an extraneous parameter in /this/:from Oh, and minor niggle, you haven't replaced :from in the final three examples.

Also, please can you add localisation? The word "donut" makes me feel physically sick. http://foaas.com/you/%22donuts%22/lotsofcows
As someone who deleted their reddit account 2 days ago to escape the cesspool, I'm glad that interesting articles are floating this way.
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There's also www.quoka.de, a classified-ads site in Germany and Austria.
I don't always check all the tweets (I follow 108 people). What I mostly check and is excited to is the Twitter Interactions. Mentions, replies, follower notifications go there. And those are relevant for me.
http://foaas.com/king/cronin101/tarcon
Don't you dare bring out the fucking "oh the children" argument. People die all the fucking time. Its what people do, we die.

These people, if the suppositions are to be believed, have been able to survive and reproduce for tens of thousands of years. They don't need your pity or "help".

If you sit back for an hour or so and re-read your comment 10-20 times, you'll realize what a Western missionary statement it is. Basically, your mindset seems to be similar to the "save the heathens" mindset of 18th - 19th century Europe in regards to the US and Australia, among other places.

Surely we can't save them in body, but if we convert them before they die then they'll be saved in the light of the Lord. Hala loola or whatever.

Yeah, I'm serious. Leave them alone.
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That doesn't really matter. If a girl refuses to go out with you, she might not be in a position where she can make an informed decision. And she is possibly depriving her future children of a magnificent father, condemning them to life without you. But you should still respect her "NO".

On a more serious note, given some historic evidence how our contact with other tribes ended (pick any tribe, anytime, anywhere) I am both surprised and happy that they exist. I hope they stay the same for as long as possible and may we never learn anything about them.
I don't know anything about your classes except for what's in your post, but in my experience, most teachers who have this opinion of their students are usually not aware that it may be their teaching style that results in basic math classes being "hard". That teaching style typically boils down to regurgitating what the book already provides, which isn't what students need. I've also found that teachers who use that methodology don't actually know the subject matter terribly well outside of whatever cookie-cutter textbook is being used.
Does OPlayer have AC3 support?
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I think Last.fm support is pretty much a requirement for a music start-up - assuming the start-up wants to attract early adopters who are music enthusiasts.
I've been doing this for a long time now. It's a very useful security feature.
Flat.io, an Open-source web-based collaborative music score editor
Actually, I would argue that their information is VERY relevant. Humans make the same mistakes / crimes / ... over and over and over again. I am quite sure that Columbus approached the natives with gifts, and look where it ended.
>The truth is I think Google's adsense business has never had any real true value to customers.

I doubt that adsense has positive overall value to advertisers either. Weigh the amount you spend on the ads against the amount of profit you get from the revenue resulting from that advertising. Some people will be able to make it work but I really don't think it's a large percentage.

According to Wikipedia Google made $42 billion in adwords revenue in 2012. That's like $6 from each person on the planet.

Do adwords really have enough power to increase operating profit by that much?
Being unable to believe in a theory the author cannot see with her own eyes (evolution of life on our planet is generally regarded as a relatively long process), the author jumps to a conclusion that the story in a book is more likely, on the basis of compulsion.

Considering I cannot prove without doubt either creation or evolution, compulsion is the only thing that can lead me to either side of the fence. So really, the mistake is to be compelled to decide one to be true ahead of the other, if, one regards being compelled a mistake.
Well, that is the rate.
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Interesting. That could mean that this is a stop-gap before ads appear in the main inbox for users who don't use tabs. I expect that would take years though as people would need to be conditioned to the current system first. In any case it feels like a slightly underhanded way to 'subscribe' you to 'mail' you didn't ask for.

I use Gmail over IMAP so no of the web UI stuff they've done has affected me at all (in aggregate, I feel that's worked in my favour).
I still have to keep all of my inboxes at zero. Every inbox must still be checked in case there is something mis-directed. I go out of my way to unsubscribe from most promotions, so no, even in the promotions box this is not welcome for me.
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However, like most app games that potential revenue isn't sustainable. Users stop downloading, stop playing, stop paying. Some new app game comes along and users move on.
Only two people have been tested and documented with having a truly photographic memory, yet in this thread alone there is at least 10 people with self proclaimed photographic memory. What a marvelous and gifted community we have!
Some of the appeal of Twitter is that, unlike Facebook, there is no algorithm showing you just what it think is important.
Legendary! Always good to have an early afternoon laugh :) I shall be spreading this forthwith!
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=primrose,+north+sentinel+isla...
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Perhaps they should reconsider some of their AdWords bans (not AdSense).

We got an apparently lifetime ban for misspelling "iphone" as "iiphone" when our ad mananger didn't understand why everyone else could put up ads for iPhones and we couldn't and kept getting these ads blocked (supposedly for trademark reasons, but our use was 100% legitimate).

Now there's no chance to talk to anyone in charge (typical Google "service") and they've lost a customer who has been spending 6 figure amounts/year. I am biased, but somehow I don't see what Google is gaining from this.
What's "evil" about following the exact same business model that you've been following all along? It's not like they sneaked this up on us. It is public knowledge what they do for revenue. They provide you with simple ways to migrate your data off the service if you're displeased with it. You can connect to your inbox via IMAP and read your mail without seeing the ads (unless these new ads will be sent to that inbox, in which case even I would think that's going too far).

Is it so hard for people to get that some people actually understand that what Google sells is personalized ads based on what they know about us, and actually consider it a fair trade for the services we receive in return? Not everyone is ignorant about this. We just don't care.
What's PBUH?
Sorry. I remembered the facts incorrectly. I know that heise is working together (owning?) with another publisher (d.punkt) and they said about themselves that Springer is invested in them. So I got it mixed up in my brain. Sorry again...
Solid engineering! Definitely needs a mobile app though.

Question that might be out of the scope of this HN post: what are some of the most obvious monetization models for this kind of services?

Edit: Last.fm doesn't scrobble music? Why?

Edit 2: After spending sometime on it, I'm loving it even more. I would suggest some sort of a community or rooms feature where I can discover music from a specific genre or style.
> The new building will cost about $1.2 million to complete, he said.

hmmm ... 1.2 million for a hot dog stand ... let the ridicule begin.
Also http://foaas.com/you/pay%20me/Freelancers%20Everywhere
works well with the latest version of firefox
Ask HN: has anyone built an HN to Twitter auto poster?
Seems like it should be pretty easy with the official HN API and twitter API, so I was wondering if anyone had done it.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none.

What can they trade ? Knowledge about their way of living, genomic studies, dieting habits, linguistic analysis, anthropological studies of they way they represent the world.
Last both are really dangerous to them because those interactions will alter their culture in significant ways.
The first one are highly valuable.*

What can we trade ? A lot. What can we trade that wouldn't annihilate their core identity ? I can't think of anything yet.

* but not yet as valuable as oil, diamonds or uranium otherwise the Indian authorities would have adopted a very different set of directives.
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Let’s suppose our earth is visited by aliens. Giant extraterrestial spaceships appear. They make contact, abduct a couple of humans, some of which return with strange diseases. Oh yeah, and heaps of iPads as gifts. The people that make it back speak of a strange society, where everybody is essentially a mindless part of a big mainframe, not unlike the Borg in Star Trek.

One day, the aliens make contact. We try to fend them off, but our weapons don’t seem to harm them. They explain that their intentions are good, and that by assimilating mankind, we no longer have to deal with hunger, poverty, crime, fear or even death.

You like?

Absurd, right? Yet this is probably not far from how the Sentinelese see us. They have heard from diseases they cannot fight from other tribes, they have witnessed the abductions. Why should things be different all of the sudden?

My point is: we have to stop seeing our culture or civilization as superior. In the alien analogy, becoming a Borg-like drone is probably far better in the eyes of the aliens. Why would these ‘savage’ humans would want to deal with the perils of life? Why can’t they see that we’re just here to help them?

Their culture, their world view is so far apart from ours. Do we really think that, when we show them a modern hospital, they’ll think it’s a good idea? Do we really believe that these people would somehow benefit from things like cell phones, cars, education, healthcare? Besides, we can’t show them just the good stuff. We can’t NOT show them pollution, taxes, budget crises, alcoholism, child pornography or facebook.

I’m sure the ones that genuinly want to help these people have good intentions. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. No matter how good our intentions are, making contact is not in the best interest of these people. They don’t need our view of what is civilized, and they don’t need our vices and virtues. And they make it pretty clear, too.

Leave them alone.
Takes a while to load (Firefox Dev) but it's really nice when it does!
This isn't Hacker News material.
Won't anyone think of the children?

/s
Especially considering the game has been available on smartphones for less than a year
Did you pay for it?

No.

Quit complaining, pay for it (Google Apps), or move on.
MtGox at $90 and BTCe at $83. Easy arbitrage money? Probably not, but why not?
Man, I'd love to see what would happen if you submitted this as a student project for a class on web services
It's a well-executed joke aimed at the Hacker community. I enjoyed it and upvoted it.
> I guess all I'm saying is that not establishing contact is also a choice that we're making on their behalf.

It's also a choice that they are making for themselves. It may or may not be a fully informed choice, but they are making their opinions pretty clear. They certainly aren't coming across as a group of people looking desperately to some outside group to save them from anything.
> People die all the fucking time. Its what people do, we die.

Yes, and it's a problem! We should be doing everything we can so that people finally STOP DYING. And we should strive especially hard when it's children dying because their parents are too used to everyone dying to ASK FOR HELP.

Now, in some cases it's difficult. We can't do it for everyone just yet.
But in this case it's not.

>These people, if the suppositions are to be believed, have been able to survive and reproduce for tens of thousands of years.

Oh, that makes it all right then! Let's stop any kinds of aid, it's not like people will go extinct. Most of them will die, but some will survive and reproduce, and that makes it all right!
Answer 1: Yes, stay the fuck away. If Race XYZ has ability to monitor us without us knowing, thus not interfering with us, sure go ahead. Its not like there's much we could to stop them. But the moment they make their existence known, we're fucked.

At that moment, we aren't the world-conquering successful species we love and proclaim to be. We're the little tribe living on the little island that's quietly being protected by the corrupt government of a minor power in the universal state of nations and empires that we just are now learning about. There's a lot of euphemisms in my last few sentences. Figure them out.

Leave these people alone.

This is kind of in response to your second point. Think about the scale of what we're talking about. We have a massively global, interconnected society of both economy and knowledge comprising billions of people. Even the poorest person in the most desolate parts of the world can, with some inconvenience, get on to the Internet. The people on this island, 400-1000 souls that they be, don't even have the understanding of modern society that the poorest person in the modern world has. Where do you start with that?

So suppose your friendly aliens show up and say "Hi!". What then? We're the people that struggle to maintain ONE space station. We have no extra-terrestrial colonies or establishments. Aliens decide to claim Mars? What are we going to do? The Moon? Its theirs. Pretty much anything outside of our little island Earth is open for claim, and not by us necessarily. The fucked up part is that if you traveled tens or hundreds of light years to get here, Earth itself is probably not the main goal. Its just the natural resources of the system. And what happens in a few hundred years when we decide to get off our asses and go into space? Nothing's left, because fucking Zork claimed it all.

So when you think about all of this together, what options do you present to these people even if they were interested? Medicine, food? Sure. Maybe we can get them vaccinated before the common cold or bird flu wipes them out. Education? Here's some books representing external human history from the perspective of the people supplying the money. Oh, check out our religion too! By the way, did you know that your island is one of several others claimed by India? Its a big island (not really) with over 1 billion people. Too many to count? Don't worry, once your 100 kids have moved to Bangalore to become tech support reps and within 20 years your entire culture has died they'll be able to explain.

I know this is a bit rambly, but hopefully you can see where I'm going. There is no benefit to the people in question to be contacted by us. It only changes and hurts them.
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"Peace Be Upon Him" -- usually used for the Prophet Mohammed.
I too feel this pain acutely, to combat it I wrote a small and VERY basic JavaScript file a while ago to change this on the fly on a webpage based on your GeoIP location.
https://github.com/MartinMcGirk/English.JS
If someone was raising their children in a similar quality of life in a western society, they would have their children taken away by social security. Do you disagree?
> "Why law enforcement is so squeamish about releasing numbers is mystifying."

Perhaps because once you release numbers, there are many ways others can use them to make you look bad/incompetent. I'm not justifying this position, merely pointing out a possible opinion.
Do we really have to be vastly overestimating this stuff? What happens if we use the phrase 'brute-force search' and people go look up what it means? Seems like a net-positive to me.

If we reduce everything for the lowest common denominator, then pretty soon nobody has any reason to raise themselves above that.
Seriously, seriously? you think that the previous batch aristocrats were more ethical than our current batch?
so tired of "Infographics" that are just text articles with an excessive number of pictures inserted. Makes for a worse article and never actually uses graphics to represent information.
They should put the source up somewhere, I'd love to see what the filthy minds of the hacker community could add on.
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How a Theoretical Claim About the NSA Magically Transformed Into Factual Reality
Take a look at the author's toy language for the rationale for the separation: http://magpie-lang.org/
> If an asteroid hits the Earth, who do you think will be best equipped to survive?

Them, obviously. You and I would die a painful death in a few days without sanitation, proper housing and supermarkets. They on the other hand, are perfectly used to manage with extremely scarce resources.
How usefully useless
That's a nice problem to have.

After my company gets our "$200m+ a year", I would think of something else to sell. Or not.