skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they have Facebook envy and now wants to keep every visitors they get on the site for as long as possible, just like Facebook. This is a departure away from their original philosophy in which their goal was to send users to the most relevant site for the user query as fast as possible.

I hope they haven't forgotten that the reason Yahoo lose out to Google was precisely because of this. Yahoo switched their vision from a search engine to a portal, and their product search engine start to suck.

This is dangerous. The best ad platform (which generates the most revenue) are those that are most efficient at sending traffic to advertiser's properties. Facebook main source of revenue comes from mobile app install ads which direct users to the app store for download, and page post ads, which sends traffic to advertiser's website.

A change in priority to hold users as long as possible on Google search isn't very tenable in the long term.
Some of my colleagues did some perf testing for mobile and found Angular.js was not suitable (I guess due to the compilation it does). I don't have any numbers unfortunately, but I think we use mostly Backbone for mobile projects here.
I always used my stereos build in timer and a death metal CD for the same effect :)

But now my stereo and my CDs gather dust and I (and my neighbours) do not miss them.
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I think all these kind of searches fall under the "conversational search" goals that they are now aiming for.

Conversion: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=150+GBP+in+USD
Weather: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=temp+in+london
Given cables were leaked, assuming it was totally Assange's fault, and sources were revealed. Were any revealed sources harmed? If so, would it not have come out at the Manning trial?

It's the same Disney who made racist propoganda during WW2, it's surprisingly blatant if it comes out like WikiLeaks reading of the script signals it will.
Except that this is a very different approach to being a portal.

Yahoo filled their front-page with items that wouldn't be relevant except for some tiny percentage of the time, such that even if the front page had what you were looking for, it was like a needle in a haystack. Google's approach here is only revealing the portal functionality in response to a specific request for it. It won't kill them, and may even be a competitive advantage for them over any competitor search engine that has superior ranking algorithms.
I have 8 digit pass code on my phone.
Ah, shades of Kent.

Four dead in Ohio.
MDMA would be a much better substitute for alcohol

I think you are seriously misunderstanding the normal use case for alcohol.
Introducing Syngr, my attempt at an Standard Library for PHP
It didn't work for me on Epic, but it did in Firefox.
If I have to choose 4 things came to my mind:

Health, Space, Robotics and Food imho.

Health, to produce better treatments agaisnt sickness, cure for cancer and other applications like regenerative i guess will be the ones who will coin a lot of dollars, specially from labs.

Space and robotics to produce better transportation, manufacturing and other hardware potential advancements.

Food. The food industry will work for sure o new sintetic food, to mass produce as well to produce safe transgenic meat.
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For those interested in utilising the R language on the JVM (and thus relevant to web applications and thus to this post) there is the renjin [http://www.renjin.org] project which has been making steady progress implementing the complete functionality of R. For example they now claim that 'most' packages work with it, including many with C/Fortran dependencies.
The philosophy of Google was not to send users to other websites in as little time as possible. It was to give users the correct answer in as little time as possible. If the answer can fit in a tiny utility tool on google.com itself, than that's faster for the user and it's actually a better experience.
The amount of kool-aid drinking about TouchID in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6403089 is pretty staggering.
This is also far from the first (or even broadest) utility of this type from Google.

See also:

https://www.google.com/#q=calculator

https://www.google.com/#q=time%20in%20new%20york

https://www.google.com/#q=50%20miles%20to%20km

https://www.google.com/#q=1%20usd%20to%20rmb

https://www.google.com/#q=barack%20obama

https://www.google.com/#q=weather%20in%20sf
Honestly I think you're underestimating the gall of certain businesses. These aren't big multinational chains, they're like booths that pop up and down every year, in the less salubrious parts of town. They might not do it as openly, but there will be places thieves can go to circumvent touch ID if it's hackable...the knife wielding thug wont have to sit in his bedroom fiddling with acetate paper.
Why don't you help out then, instead of complaining?
Evolution of AMQP at SoundCloud
The truth about the war for talent
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One notable case in point was the suicide of Dr Bruce Ivins, senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

By 2008, Ivins had found himself on the FBI's short list in the Amerithrax[1] investigation. No autopsy was ordered[2], due to the medical examiner's blood tests which revealed an overdose of acetaminophen and codeine.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

[2]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aKQxd...
Odd: When I play a genre, the site tries to POST to http://localhost/cmdfm/api/users/, which is denied by my local Apache since it does not exist.

Coding error?
Right, I had not thought about this aspect of things, both the 500mg and 1g tubes I have at home contain a total of only 8g.

It doesn't seem difficult to accumulate more than 8g at home over time though, I'm not a big consumer of these and I have 12g at home, in three tubes. I remember my grand parents having a lot more packs at their place.
Is the Aussie too expensive? iPad index says no
To their defense: there has been a worrying trend recently where the perpetrators of thus shootings have been much better equipped. Until recently thus shootings was mostly done with 9-mm semi-automatic weapons. But for example both the batman theater shooter and Anders Behring Breivik her in Norway did use at least some bullet resisting equipment and assault rifles.

It is totally possible that the next shooter will have full tactical armor and a fully automatic assault rifle with drum magazines. When this happened first responders has to be prepared. They shouldn't have to wait on SWAT while someone is going around shooting others. (This was what happened during the Utøya attack in Norway. The police that first reposted did not have the capability to stop the perpetrator, so they was set to direct traffic instead, while they waited on the national counter-terrorism unit to come to aid them. In the meanwhile Breivik could go around executing children.)
A precedent has already been set a while ago with Google's calculator [1], Knowledge Graph [2] and whatnot.

Search engines' goal is to deliver information and services to their users as fast as possible. If they can provide those themselves, it's a win both for them and their users.

I wrote about it here: http://pioul.fr/dont-trust-search-engines-with-your-traffic

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=1%2B1

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=banana
More:

https://www.google.com/#q=aal+1

https://www.google.com/#q=nfl+scores
> I will tell you that we won't do anything that would compromise our product or our service.

Wouldn't be the first time someone said that prior to being acquired, only to realize later that they do not have the influence over upstream decisions that they imagined they would.
No, you are missing the point.

Having some shiny new method does not mean these people that do not currently use a pin/password will magically start using this.

Now, if Apple started forcing everyone to use one or the other (or both), that's another story.
Need to tackle wealth distribution first. Because that tale of a world mostly free of work has been told so many time, it is not funny anymore. That one man can earn more money in a day that some of us can in a year, makes the horde of consumer a salesman wet dream. Let's face it, we have a finite individual capital, that is kept as low as possible, and still continue to create more wealth as a society.
Schneier discusses NSA docs (working on new stories)
Google has been keeping users from calculator web sites with its calculator/unit converter since before Mark Zuckerberg even wrote Facemash[1]. A fairly obscure timer feature that only shows up when you search for a particular phrase is nothing like search portals of old, nor is this a departure from the different search result widgets they've had for a decade now.

This feels like a feature that the OS should have but most don't, and I'll use it like I use google as a calculator or as a dictionary: if it's faster to open a tab and put in the query than it is to launch a program or a particular page and start a timer there. I did the same thing when I was on windows and it was faster to ask google than to run "calc" and then do the calculation, and it was the same tradeoff when I switched to a mac and it turned out spotlight could do many calculations even faster with just a command-space.

[1] http://mentalized.net/journal/2003/08/12/google_rocks_my_wor...
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/was-this-wh...
Apple is being greedy
So what happened to refinements? They were given a warning in 2.0 because the other implementations warned that implementing refinements would lead to worse performance. Has that been fixed?
Agreed: that's why I said it would be especially worrying if this "secure enclave" Apple talks about is cracked and if it's then possible to reconstruct fingerprints from the data inside. But unless that happens, the iPhone itself doesn't make my fingerprints any easier to leak; someone can already get them from everything I touch!
Agreed. It might be easier to charge the customer rather than the merchant. If as customer I could choose from a list of payment providers and get a different fee from each one then the competition would be very transparent. Plenty of barriers to overcome to get to that point though.
What was painful about it? Was the language itself cumbersome to use, or was it the problem with the graphical editor software?
That's an awful idea. The potential for false positives is significant, since fingerprints are not 100% accurate identification method.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093498/ states that even professional forensics required independent verification to eliminate false positives.

The hashes, whatever they are, will not be "binary" in their nature. Matching against a range of visual characteristics requires to allow some level of fuzziness. Even assuming that near future improvements bring the false positive rate to half of that of the best forensic experts (to 0.05%), the law of large numbers guarantees that innocent people will be caught up in investigation dragnets. Just imagine the lives destroyed by these kinds of clerical errors.

The above is the same reason I'm against our national law enforcement getting access to the passport biometric databases. Even discounting the potential for abuse: once the police have a suspect with "matching" fingerprint available, they will have less incentive to find other ones.
> Well you see these guys (Media and research agencies) Play with Statistics you convince you.

Fair disclosure: I am one of "these guys" (a journalist).
But the point is that you don't need a picture of the key beside the lock for a locksmith to break into your house! And, indeed, if there was one it would probably be faster and easier for him to use a lock pick rather than taking the time to cut a new key.
Why it takes 5 years to become an entrepreneur
Google is able to test changes thousands of times every second, and since Larry Page became CEO the changes have all been done to create a consistent feel across Google's services, and have all been tested and refined. What are your credentials? Saying "I’m writing this post hoping that it will reach someone that works in Google and they are going to do something about it." is ambitious, the opinion of one person does not reflect the amount of data they have that likely implies that this change is an advantage.
>This should be contrasted with the originally envisioned costs of $118 per kilogram (approximately $53 per pound) of payload in 1972 dollars ($1,400/kg, [approximately $630 per pound] adjusting for inflation to 2011)

Please check these figures. Whatever measure of inflation i try i can't see 12x inflation from 1972 to 2011. It was more like 4x.

Launch rate - correct, problem was Air Force which first dictated the oversized payload capacity and even more oversized payload bay dimensions, and a huge cross-range capability (to enable single-orbit missions), resulting in a system too big and expensive for anything else, then pulling out resulting in vastly lower launch rates. So Shuttle was commercially doomed long before its first flight. U.S. would be better off flying it a few times to prove it works, then getting back to drawing board to design something fitting the market better. Reusable launch systems have been, and still are, realistic, it's only epic fail of Shuttle which make it look too toxic to anyone to try (just like failure of GM EV1 delayed electric car revolution for a decade - nobody dared to try, engineering and business failure of a particular project was mistaken for the whole idea being bad).
Seems to be limited to 1 second short of 1 day. What good is that? I want a timer that counts down to my favorite console launch. (I am not saying which one because I figure if I choose the wrong console I won't get any upvotes)
This is not a compiler that does python -> llvm. It is a way to build llvm IR from python using the C++ API. Otherwise you output LLVM IR as text, and call the llvm command line tools to do stuff with it.

For example, you can use this to generate LLVM IR at runtime, and use the LLVM JIT to compile and execute that LLVM code.
Show HN: Turn your existing design to responsive
So, the next question is, what animal is saddled with our universe, and who is riding it. Perhaps it's The Foe from Pohl's Gateway series? :)
Doesn't work for me in Safari 6.1 or latest Chrome. (Strangely worked on google.co.uk but doesn't work on .com)
"Smarter" has many different meanings.

-> It could mean "more working memory", in which case games of various kinds are helpful. Anything that requires maintaining a set of values or decisions in your head for a while: bridge & hearts (count cards) or poker, go (weiqi / baduk).

-> It could mean "more mindful", i.e., being more observant and aware of yourself and your surroundings. A lot of people today claim that meditation is good for this. I find that not owning a smartphone is helpful. Reading a hefty dead-tree book can be a good antidote for "Goldfish Attention Span Syndrome".

-> It could mean "better at reasoning", in which case some courses on philosophy would help (logic, epistemology).

-> It could mean "more domain expertise", in which case you should spend some time taking courses or experimenting in some area of expertise.

-> It could mean "broadening your experiences", in which case you should go out and start something completely new, preferably something which is a little bit intimidating.

-> It could mean "being more healthy", because poor sleep habits, poor nutrition, and poverty all effectively lower IQ and general intelligence. Fix some things in your life, get more exercise, learn to cook / eat better.

edit: get in touch with HN user tokenadult (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult); he studies and works in the field of intelligence and education (and frequently writes very informative posts on the subject); I'm just a dabbler.
I don't think it's to hold users on Google as long as possible: it's to give users what they're looking for as soon as possible.

I was looking for a timer utility the other day. I googled "timer 10 minutes", and got back a list of options, with no way to choose one that was actually good (the top result claimed it had an audio indicator but it didn't work, so I ended up missing the end of the ten minutes). Likewise, I used to Google for weather forecasts -- then pick a site, wait for all its chrome to load, and then get my forecast. Now, I search for what I want and get it right away. If I don't like Google's version, I just scroll down to the search results.

At first, their only way to get users what they wanted was to get them off the site; the goal is still to get users what they want as soon as possible -- there's just a better way to do so now.
Time for some Benchmarks. Ruby 2.1, JRuby 1.7.5 and the Duke Nukeum Rubinius 2.0.
Does anyone know the people behind this? i.e. could someone make an educated guess as to whether they're likely to meet their Feb 2014 ship date?
Also of note: there is the Nordic Game Program, which encourages the development of original game projects. http://www.nordicgameprogram.org/?id=23
(for all Nordic countries, not just Sweden)
The usability of first Kinect was hampered by low resolution resulting from low bandwith on USB2.0. Can a smartphone deal effectively with bandwidth offered by USB3.0 ?
It changed from 2.0.0 to next minor. And this is 2.1 already.

What is the course of this delay?
More if they use their cat's paws.

But then again it might not be too convenient to carry said cat around all the time.
Doesnt work in my Nightly 27.0a1
7 Things that WILL go wrong when you run a Webinar
So? I'm sure ~90% of all non-darknet sites in the world ping Google in one way or another. Do you distrust all sites? Do you not store a password on any of them?
Having a lock in your front door is not perfect but it is much better than not having one at all.

The way that Apple haters use stunts like this to suspend normal logic and reasoning in order to express their juvenile spite is staggering.

No one, ever, claimed TouchID was impregnable, but it is very good security and is better than what the vast majority of people do at present.

Anyone prepared to devote the time and resources that CCC did to breaking your phone has other simpler means at their disposal. I personally believe that no one else will replicate this achievement because it is simply a publicity stunt to get clicks and feed the hordes of anti-Apple zealots.
Could you define what kind of toy problem that would be hindered by the license?

I could speculate. Maybe your company has patents covering RStudio software and wants to go suing its customers. That would indeed pose a problem with AGPLv3.

Maybe your company produces devices which have web servers in them, and those servers are going to host "toy" pages which uses Shiny, and the devices are locked down with DRM which prevent modification to Shiny. I guess it would be possible...

Or maybe the company does not want to ever give out code under any circumstances, regardless if it's a toy project with no inherent value to the company. This is clearly possible, which is why a dual licensing scheme sometimes is a good choice.

I am intensively curious about which one it is.
I hate that Gmail took away Exchange support.
The language is actually C (you can also use Python, etc. I think the original underlying language was a variant of Oberon). The painful part was the graphical editor, or, I'd say, the idea of using graphics for programming instead of text. Imagine aligning all these rectangles and then realizing that you got a part of algorithm wrong: now you'll have to realign everything!

I think it would be much easier to edit some textual representation, and then use a program to convert it to the graphical one, if you want to read it this way.
It's harder to do immigration formalities without a degree, no disagreement there. Although I believe that's somewhat true in the U.S., too: while many Valley companies will hire someone without a degree, my impression is that there is a higher bar for hiring someone foreign without a degree. E.g. Google is more likely to sponsor a German degree-holder for a U.S. visa than a German non-degree-holder. The world of good tech jobs without degrees is a lot easier to unlock (in both the U.S. and Europe) for permanent residents / citizens.

Yeah, I wouldn't leave the Valley if you want to make a higher salary, unless it's a jump to some kind of high-level management position. The Valley has pretty much the highest tech salaries afaik. Switzerland might come close.

You might come out ahead in some places in lifestyle after cost of living, but it depends on your lifestyle. A nice thing about Copenhagen is that, while it's expensive to live in the city, it's not NYC/SF levels of expensive (or Paris/London, for that matter). It's maybe $1500-$2000/mo for a nice centrally located 2bd... rather than the $3000+ my friends in SF pay. And you can buy a condo for maybe $300k, which last I checked was completely impossible in SF.

As far as private universities, there aren't any: only state schools are accredited. There are some private professional institutes, like an animation school and a film school, but they aren't allowed to give degrees (instead they give their own certificates), and are seen as a different kind of thing.

The time limit for the student stipend is the regular length of the degree, with possibility in some circumstances to get another 6 months. So, 3 years for the bachelor's, plus 2 years for the master's. A hard max (after both degrees and extensions on both) of 6 years.

Typically students will do the two together as one five-year program; you can stop after the bachelor's, but the traditional Danish first degree was a 5-year degree (called a candidature), which is still sort of expected. The 3-year bachelor's/2-year master's split was introduced in 1993 to harmonize with other EU countries' systems, but a bachelor's on its own is still seen as not quite complete education (may change as memories of the old 5-year candidature fade).
While I haven't used OpenIndiana specifically, I have used OpenSolaris and a great number of it's forks, and honestly I didn't like them much (preferring pure Solaris).

However even that aside, I couldn't see myself prefering OpenIndiana; FreeBSD is a very different kind of 'UNIX'. While SunOS does historically have some roots in BSD, it's still very much a SysV-style UNIX; and as much as I use SysV-like systems daily for work, my true love is for BSD.
Is there any way to cache, or memorize calculations in Shiny?
No mention of the fact that they are invading your privacy by reading your personal emails and selling that information to advertisers?
They have perfected objectively correct design at Google, he is clearly just a moron to question their conclusions.

Slight trolling aside, I think this is a fairly obvious example of how a purely numbers & statistic based design process can go off the rails.
I hear already recruiters ask: "Do you know Drakon?". Just like when it was the default to insert UML in every job listing.
Try this: http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018
That's a VERY bad exhaustive statistic.

Kids that are annoying, are more visible than non-annoying kids. Therefore your mental recollection of such kids is biased towards kids that you find annoying.

Seeing how American kids are very attention seeking driven, I don't see how it's better than the alternative. Kids screaming top of their lungs to attract attention.
Post mortem means that your project is dead...
What am I supposed to be seeing? There is no special behaviour when I do this search.