skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on the worst usability for a web-site I've used in a long time. Flash restaurant web-sites are easier than this. Just awful.
> In the majority of cases, the reason is...

You are the third person making the same kind of claim. It's not that I disagree, in the majority of the cases, something like that isn't a nice thing to do...

But this is one case, not the majority, we know nothing about it, except that it's in an extreme minority. If for no other reason, because the designer decided to retaliate this way. We are looking at extreme selection bias here, don't shove it under a carpet.
Freemium type games are all the rage on both iOS and Android -- there is no difference there (I remember the nonsense when the Dead Trigger publishers went freemium on Android, claiming that enormous piracy force their hand. A week later they quietly went freemium on iOS as well. Their real reason is that getting suckers to buy ammo packs turns out to be much more lucrative).

Is it so hard to just pay 5$ for a game, and leave me the fuck alone? Why do devs bombard me with upsells every loading screen after every level?

What game did you pay $5 for? Examples? Most people refuse to pay $1.99, much less $0.99, leading to the current situation. Again, this is the same on both platforms.
What causes injury and death is defective safety systems and poor safety culture. This is true of any dangerous enterprise, whether operated for profit or not.
thrown out of your apartment if you failed to pay rent

This doesn't happen? I'm pretty sure it does. Try renting an apartment in a decent area and then never paying the rent. Let me know how long you're able to stay there.

the hospital would make the pacemaker stop working

The hospital will never install a pacemaker if you don't pay in full up front or have medical insurance that will guarantee payment. They'll happily watch you die in the ward if you can't pay.

Your lawyer would tell your secrets and tell
the court you are guilty if you didn't pay his fee

Don't know enough about the payment of lawyers to comment here, but I'm pretty sure not paying your lawyer is a particularly bad mistake to make.

Your citizenship would be revoked if you didn't pay taxes

You get to keep your citizenship, but they will happily take your freedom and put you in jail. I think I'd rather lose my citizenship to be honest.

I don't understand your examples. Having your website go down if you don't pay the guy who made it sounds pretty normal. I have a friend who installs burglar bars on windows - if you don't pay him, he will come to your house with a crowbar and take those burglar bars back regardless of how much of your house he has to break to do it. He still has plenty of customers, since it's standard practice in that industry to take back the burglar bars. They argue (successfully, it seems) that the bars are still their property until you pay them.
Curious. I get redirected to [0] on Debian/Opera, with the following content:

Entschuldigen Sie, Mozilla Firefox für Yahoo! optimiert ist nicht für Ihr System
verfügbar.

Die für Yahoo! optimierte Mozilla Firefox Version ist nur für folgende
Betriebssysteme verfügbar:
[…]
Linux

(paraphrasing: Apologies, the version of Mozilla Firefox optimised for Yahoo! is not available for your system. It is only available for the following operating systems: […] Linux […]).

On the other hand, the UK version of that website, [1], doesn’t mention Linux at all:

Sorry, Mozilla Firefox optimised for Yahoo! is not available for your system.

The Yahoo! optimised version of Mozilla Firefox is only available for the
following operating systems:
Windows XP SP2
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Mac OS X 10.6 or later

See the System Requirements for more details on hardware and software
requirements and recommendations.

So, two questions:

- Why is the German version apparently available for Linux and the English one isn’t?

- Why don’t you allow me to download the version for OS A from OS B? OS A might not have a browser yet, after all.

- Why are you still using browser sniffing like that in 2013?

[0] http://downloads.yahoo.com/de/firefox/blocked

[1] http://downloads.yahoo.com/uk/firefox/blocked
I came across this while looking into options to convert my Blogger blog to.
Ballmer forced out after $900M Surface RT debacle
I want the underlying improvements too. I just wish the GUI changes weren't so jarring. When I say "Vista", I mean the perception, not the quality.
I'm not sure, I was mostly thinking of something that will involve a lot of coding assignments. The idea being that if I code to learn there will be less pressure to deliver something and move on, instead allowing me to investigate it at a different level. While still having a framework to get me working.

I guess what I'm thinking about is something like c++ for grandmasters (http://www.cppgm.org/), but less epic in scope.
>How exactly am I gonna lose my money with Bitcoin?

Having this mindset is a start.
I've gotten used to 8 despite the jarring issues I had with it at first. 8.1 addresses most, if not all of those issues.

Also, Alt+Up Arrow is your friend for navigating up a directory. ;-) (I find it much easier to use the keyboard shortcut than hunt for the toolbar button anyway)
How does DVL compare with optimizations GHC runs? Especially re the ad library?
After a WHOIS, it looks like the domain was registered by Onemine - and this is the most likely candidate for who registered it: http://www.onemine.com/

My guess is, they still own the hosting and server space for the domain too.
It's a test bed for aggressive control-flow based optimization a for Scheme. It's not a practical production compiler--too slow and requires whole program analysis.
Cogs that are missing a few teeth will still turn most of the time, albeit inefficiently. No matter how much of a bureaucratic mess a business or government department is, shit always seems to get done ... eventually.
I wonder what the current state of domestic spying would look like if the 9/11 attacks had never happened or had been thwarted.
They're free to park it by the road with a big sign on it.
Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'
I don't think there is a way to tell your 7th grade peers you are going to a math camp for the summer that wouldn't end in mockery.
Schemaverse, a game entirely within a PostgreSQL database
Runnable, great idea not so great people.
About one week ago I saw three project on elance (website where you can get or offer freelance jobs), the project were pretty easy, it was about build a GET request, POST request and form validation using python/flask.

Those little projects were suppose to serve like example for runnable and they offer something like 20-30$ for project.

So I get a very simple idea, I contact runnable, I offer myself to do all the job for a fair amount of money (100$) to be paid by elance, in a very quick way and everybody win:

1) Elance still get their money

2) Runnable get its code easily and quickly

3) I get the job and some money

I send my email and I wait...

I waited a week and since I get no reply and I was running out of time I send another one... Nothing.

Finally I decide to check elance again looking for another job and guess what I found...

Still Runnable that was looking for some python example, this time they were looking for 25 examples and they are offering something around 100-200 $

Honestly I don't think it is the way to run anything, at the very very least they should have replied to my email...

Be aware of those guys
> Is it so hard to just pay 5$ for a game, and leave me the fuck alone?

Yes, actually, it is. It's clearly a lot hard than you realize.

> Why do devs bombard me with upsells every loading screen after every level?

They want to get paid. Not specific to your description, but they are optimizing to get the most money from their players.

> I haven't used an iOS product for about 3 years, but I don't remember it ever having this particular problem.

Making you aware of IAP? They do. PvZ2 has this. It's constantly making you aware that IAPs are right there, quick and easy to purchase, throughout the game. And it does feel like every new level had some in-game way of sharing this information with you.
The government's argument in this case seems fairly reasonable. Conducting an in-person search of a cellphone after the suspect has been arrested seems similar to going through a bag they're carrying.

The WaPo article argues that the storage capacity of modern cellphones should make them legally different (even though the phone in this case was a dumb phone), but I'm not sure how such a legal standard would work. I suppose one approach would be for police to be able to search things physically on the phone (like contact lists) but not things that the phone simply gives them access to (like email, social networks, bank info, etc). The problem with a smartphone is not so much that it contains a ton of info, but that it serves as an access point to a lot of personal info that would otherwise require a warrant to obtain.

Maybe the legal analogy would be that police can't search your house without a warrant after they arrest you even if you have your house keys on you at the time. They can search your belongings but can't use those belongings (like keys) to conduct further warrantless searches.
Why not use BitNami pre-configured VMs? http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab
Could be worse - you can't to that on a Surface RT.
When was the last time NSA hacked into civilian infrastructure of other countries?
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Try not paying for any of those things and see how it goes.
Bit of a stretch, but when I read the title, I thought it was going to be a satire about how the main functions of schools now days seems to be social proof and nothing else (PROOF school!).

Pretty much anything you learn in school, you can learn on your own or with a much cheaper tutor. We only go to school so that we can say we have a 'background' on a subject, when really, we went to class hungover or slept through the passionless lectures. The real learning happened in the library when we read the textbooks ourselves.

Kind of what the Soylent guy is going through. He probably knows a lot about biology and human physiology from self-teaching, but because he 'doesn't have a background' (i.e. didn't sit through 4 years of ineffective lectures), society doesn't give him any credibility. I wonder if there is another way we can scale 'proof' without having to go through that waste of time we call college.
I agree this is a conversation that should be had.

Yet I vehemently disagree with your comparison of a cell phone to a wallet. The amount of information carried on a phone dwarfs the information carried in your wallet. The information in your wallet can't give a detail view of where you go, what you say, to whom, and when.

I believe warrants should be very fine grained and not used a troweler net to be cast about hoping to catch someone for any "minor" infraction they can find. The preponderance of regulations, rules, and laws means everyone one in this country is a criminal several times a day and is simply waiting to be caught.
Sorry, but a website is still classified as non essential to sustain life or we'll being. It can even be considered by some as luxury. And Web designers are many times shafted in that process. Good move on his part. Hope he gets paid.
I think it is rather unfair to criticise Calibre for being a one stop shop for all things ebook. For none technical people who I would assume are the majority of people reading books this is exactly what they need. Trying to get them to use different applications for different aspects of ebook library management will be a nightmare for whoever is trying to help them out into the world of ebooks.
There's a pool of sarcasm under your post
While it may be efficient to have companies this large, it does not serve society's interests regarding privacy.
I would make an argument that giving Mr Obama every morning a brief what is going in secret in UN, Kremlin and Beijing is NSA mandate. They were created to collect that kind.

It is intelligence agencies work to collect intelligence.

So basically - trying to open Merkel inbox from NSA or GRU = totally fine and vice versa. NSA collecting data on millions of people that are disconnected from the politics is not fine. So is checking out what is your loved one doing on facebook with tools inaccessible to the normal people.
A used 11" macbook air also fits your requirements. It runs windows or linux just as well as mac os x

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-MacBook-Air-11-120GB-Flash-4GB...
Right, the qobi doesn't even use that scheme in his AI class. He uses another scheme that he wrote. =)
That's a two part issue:

1 - Cloud services are for experts. It's too hard to use one and not have it backfire, lay-people have no chance here - most of the times, it will backfire and you won't even know it.

2 - Don't stiff the people whom your survival depends.

Now, of course, #2 is only an issue for people that stiff people. And for those, good luck trying to determine who should fit under this rule.
Beyond the fact that this is super useful, it's also a great example of how to build and structure an Ember app.
Do they mean optimized, literally? or just toolbars, default search engine etc?

and also how does it circumvent google search engine revenue deal with mozilla?
I would agree with you, but the danger of cellphone searches seems to be that smartphones allow access to data far beyond what they actually contain since they're often linked to numerous online accounts. Arresting someone doesn't give the police the right to search their email, but having access to their cellphone might give them the ability to do so.

Allowing warrantless cellphone searches after an arrest seems at least somewhat legally reasonable to me, as long as police are limited to searching things physically on the phone.
Is this new? I though they had this for a very long time.
Anyone capable of downloading a browser for a different OS from what they are running doesn't want to download a browser "optimized" by Yahoo.
This looks worth a look : https://register.blib.us

It currently only supports PDF books (search/share/...), and is broader than a book library (includes photo album support/openid/...), something related to Calibre.
> Apple revolutionized the music industry, how music is sold, and how it's listened to.

How? iPods are great, but they are just mp3 players (not the first at that) with a great user interface. iTunes is a program I used as a music player only because I had to in order to transfer songs from my iPod. At least when I was using it, I could get "illegitimate mp3s" by putting in only a slight amount more effort than by buying them from iTunes. And when I did buy mp3s from iTunes, I wasn't able to make them to play on different computers - so an inferior product compared to the illicit mp3s. I have an eBook that I bought from iTunes that I have never been allowed by iTunes to listen to.

Maybe you're (also) talking about some Apple products that I don't know of.
Not unless the compiler did some magic to remove the heap allocations, which iirc none of the JS engines do yet LuaJIT, however, will. see http://wiki.luajit.org/Allocation-Sinking-Optimization . I believe the Dart VM does this too, so it might not be far off for JS engines.

Still, other semantics might slow the code down compared to ASM.js, but the heap allocations will be the biggest.
Others have mostly covered your myriad errors, but:

> Your citizenship would be revoked if you didn't pay taxes

Per US Supreme Court decisions going back decades, citizenship cannot be "revoked" from a natural-born US citizen under any circumstances, and may only be removed from a naturalized citizen in case of fraud during the naturalization process. Failure to pay taxes is a criminal offense, not a grounds for loss of citizenship.

And:

> Your lawyer would tell your secrets and tell the court you are guilty if you didn't pay his fee.

Attorney/client privilege attaches the moment you begin speaking to an attorney as a client or prospective client. It is not dissolved by failure to pay. It is not dissolved by anything except, sometimes, death of the client (and courts are inconsistent on that one).

An attorney who did what you described would be disbarred, and the "evidence" would be inadmissible in court.
So a woman who is not a feminist is actually a feminist.
Have fun with your redefinitions. Time for me to step out of this while I still can with my sanity.
Sure, I considered using Moonscript as a starting point. It looks pretty neat.

But what I have in mind is just a little different. I want explicit type declaration, and I don't want to type "->".

So, something more of this character:

void chant( string thing, int times ):
for int i in range( times ):
print( "$thing $i" )

Also, I'd like to write the compiler in Terra.

I'm pretty fond of Lua just the way it is as well, but I'm picky and stubborn and idealistic. I keep telling myself not to think about it, but I can't help but daydream about writing a language. I think Terra presents a fair opportunity to get it out of my system.
Exactly! In fact, given the revelations of NSA employees spying on their "love interests" and that most of the breaches are self-reported, it really appears that the assurances of security are misleading.
Thanks! And sure, I'll put the compiler versions up sometime next week, along with the compile times.
I grew up playing the piano, then went on hiatus for two or three years, then took a year of harpsichord lessons (harpsichords have significantly lighter action. And narrower keys.) Now playing a piano is downright painful--I'm no longer used to the finger and wrist strength required to get a key down, nor am I used to the stretching required to hit larger intervals.

The plural of anecdote is not "data", but I, for one, will no longer understate the difficulty in transitioning to a new type of action.
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A nice clear and comfortable line is that the police can conduct a physical search that increases their safety. Stored data is generally not physically dangerous.
which medication are you on?
Why does nobody remember the story of 1998 when NSA and Microsoft were caught at including backdoors into Windows?

CNN article (1998) [ http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/27/security.idg/ ]

Heise article (1999) [ http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html ]
"Sorry, Mozilla Firefox optimized for Yahoo! is not available for your system." << This is where they already failed.
Congratulations?

Are you aware that like 90% of corporations run Windows? No other operating system can claim anything even close to that.
This is presumably to be used during PR stints and, given the $20 price point, this isn't aimed at PR agencies, but smaller companies. As such, a one-time fee would be a far more sensible option.

I realize that you have bought into the service hype and now probably dreaming of recurrent revenue and lingering subscriptions, but in your case it's really trying to fit a square peg in round hole.
Do you think Paypal will notice the 10 million dollars transaction? I'm not sure.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056924 :P
There is apparently not space in this article for the important qualifier: during a search incident to arrest.

The administration isn't arguing they should be able to search cell phones whenever. The case is about a legitimate search incident to an arrest. The key sentence from the article: "Last month the Obama administration stepped in and petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case and rule that the cellphone search is, in fact, lawful, because, 'a cellphone is no different than any other object a suspect might be carrying' and thus fair game for searches."

Police are allowed to search you when they arrest you. That includes looking through say a backpack you might be carrying. The Obama administration is simply arguing that the contents of a cell phone should not be treated differently than the contents of a backpack. This is a sensible, intuitive argument to make.

The key consideration for such searches is securing weapons and preventing the suspect from destroying evidence. The weapon concern obviously doesn't exist with cell phones, but the destruction of evidence concern certainly does.

Obama's argument is that creating the additional wrinkle of disallowing searches of particular kinds of things will create additional litigation over searches incident to arrest. Which is a legitimate concern: the courts are filled with all sorts of nonsense by criminal defendants trying to get off on the technicalities of searches.
Looks like someone is after their stackoverflow promoter badge;)

On a serious note, this is actually a good resource, and probably an example of a question that wouldn't be allowed on Stackoverflow today but is kept around due to it being so darn popular.
> To me, this seems inefficient, since not everyone wants your message.

I would like to point out BitMessage uses streams. Streams are a collection of nodes that have a particular part of their address in common. If you have an address that is part of one of these streams, your computer will listen into that stream. So you won't download all streams keys and messages, only those that pertain to you.
>Zeiss makes great lenses, but they are also available for Nikon and Canon.

That's not true. Zeiss for Nikon/Canon is a manual-focus only line. They make totally different autofocus lenses that are only available in alpha mount. And Sony also makes their own high-end lenses that are not Zeiss (their G line of Minolta heritage).

>Canon and Nikon do make some mediocre lenses but they are all cheapies for cheap bodies. The top end is what will keep them in business.

The only top-end that I know of that's really unique to them is tilt-shift lenses, and mirrorless can even take care of those by allowing for tilt-shift mounts for normal lenses in the mirror box space. For any other specialty lenses (telefocus mostly) mirrorless will allow for fully featured adapters.

>The electronics companies are in a terrible position. The only people who will buy their bodies and lenses are cost-conscious hobbyists--a group that is rapidly shrinking.

Industry statistics say otherwise. Mirrorless is the only growing category and Canon and Nikon are basically not in that market as both EOS-M and the Nikon 1 system have been flops. Nikon is especially in a tight spot because they depend on Sony for sensors.

>You're never going to show up at an NFL game or press conference and see a bunch of Sony and Samsung systems.

I wouldn't be so sure. Sony in particular has the ingredients to make that happen (good telephotos and fast bodies).
That whole anonymity thing is overrated, IMHO. Who would ever argue for such a thing?
Damn right we need third-party solutions. Everbody has been complaining about lock-in... ever since it was invented.
I use Calibre and it's great to see how far it has come. That said, let's not pretend it's all kittens and rainbows.

It has all the problems people associate with GUI based FOSS. The UI is pretty terrible. It looks and feels like FOSS from seven years ago. It has about a million prefs / settings buried many layers down in a very confusing series of prefs dialogs. It shouldn't take you 3 hours to configure an ebook reader. It should just come with sane settings out of the box. As someone else remarked the UI often feels slow / sluggish.

The app is 253MB (OS X version)! Is it just me or is that crazy?
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There's a decent chance that's because they have no area of expertise.