skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, it seems expected. Every time I +1 something it's with the goal of that turning up in someone's search results one day.

They only use your reviews in ads for strangers if you share it with everyone. Just share it with one circle, and only people in that circle will see it, if I understand this correctly.
They don't appear to have much of a product or much business. Let's call it what it is: a signing bonus, not an acquisition.

Perhaps I should use this approach the next time I apply for a job. "You're going to have to acquire my side project in order to get me to start working here."

Maybe I could make techcrunch.
The Social Security Administration considers interest on its special treasury bonds as pure free money (negative overhead). That's plainly ridiculous, as it's just tax money that came from the general fund.
Massive mushrooms and zombie fungi at Kew Gardens
Awesome! Thank you for the link.
I believe Exitround is doing something along those lines.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/09/exitround-first-exit/
Shouldn't it be opt-in ?
I agree. It was so backward from what I would expect. Definitely great to see the box unchecked as default.
Braintreepayments is somewhat strange in this case by fixing price to 2.9% + $0.30 but only for US accounts. For EU it's less clear "Interchange+.9% + 10c" while also having a 100 EUR minimum monthly payment on 10c commissions.

I hope they fix up the EU pricing so it's less confusing and with no monthly minimum as they have with the US.
The "prime directive" is completely nonsensical. (And in fact it doesn't seem to stop Star Fleet from messing with more primitive species, it simply causes them problems when they want to do something completely reasonable, like save them from an asteroid collision.)

Personally, I enjoy leeching off the progress of others. I'd hate to have to invent philosophy, physics, math, biology, etc. from scratch.

And of course, a huge amount of the technical platform we enjoy originated in China, including the gunpowder we used to steal our real estate from the Native Americans with.
I would argue that java application servers fulfill the same role as that of an Operating System (especially a virtualized one) and exist almost entirely to side-step the sysadmin priests.
>especially if I knew that that safety net existed for me as well.
Name another time that Google spent years putting its entire weight behind something no one wanted.
Blockchain.info loses 5 BTC, ignores related support requests
It is usually admitted that there are huge overlaps between conservative and libertarian philosophies. Thus if one equates conservatives with libertarians, one can (falsely?) conclude that there is an incoherence with the idea of libertarians receiving handouts (see Atlas Shrugged, and Ayn Rand's 'propaganda' for more details)
Agreed. This sort of advice is great if you're the founder/owner, because you're the one standing to get rich when somebody comes in with a buyout offer.

If you're an employee at such a shop, though, this is a sucker's bet. Most likely your hard work is paid off with a bunch of feel-good bullshit about how you're changing the world, and the expectations that you'll do it all again in three months.

Having a crunch time (especially scheduled) is a tacit admission that you are not, in fact, reducing scope properly.
Not necessarily. If you're naming your keys nicely, and using an easily-understandable structure, for simple config files, you shouldn't really need comments.
>I fear you are confusing systems programming language and operating systems programming language (or conflating).

Systems programming doesn't seem to be a very well defined term. My understanding is that it is certainly not application programming and it requires pretty tight management of hardware resources. That includes things like operating systems, database systems, embedded systems, networking software like firewalls, etc.
Actually, there is evidence of people accusing Google of evading taxes but until they are found guilty of it, they are not evading taxes. Since you yourself admit you have no idea if the accusation would stand up in court then you cannot say that they are in fact evading taxes.

The MP can grandstand in front of an audience grilling Google in a public hearing every day, it means nothing. If the MP is so sure they are breaking the law, then charge them and take them to court over it. Otherwise, it's just posturing for people who like the drama of accusing large companies of keeping the little guy down by using special versions of the law that supposedly only they have access to.

Some people see a bad company, I see a bad law. A company following a bad law does not necessarily make for a bad company.
Honestly, I would either choose Python or a JVM language.

The nice thing about Python is that the library support is amazing, and there is a fairly easy path to performance improvements using PyPy and/or wrapped C code.

Obviously a JVM language will have a huge ecosystem of libraries and good performance out of the box. I prefer Python as a language but that is entirely personal.

While Go is really popular around here, the language doesn't have a very ecosystem of libraries.
Switzerland Will Vote to Give All Adults a Guaranteed $2,800 Monthly Income
Agreed. It's nice to see an opt out page that isn't asking me if I'm sure that I don't not want to opt in to not being used as a not ad.
"In some cantons, up to 60 percent of the inhabitants have a migration background."

To have a migration background does not necessarily to have a different ethnicity.

Also, in Switzerland's case, it would be worth mentioning that the (cultural but also the ethnic) diversity was always a little higher than a lot of other European places and somehow they learned to handle it pretty well.
In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High
Nice to see some common sense on the subject here. Totally agree. This is a nice feature. I like seeing my friends reviews of Android and Chrome app I download. I would like to have the same feature for ads. This is great.
std credit now:customer pays % after 1st month & merchant pays 36% APR during customer grace of 1 month.
Keeping your money when you owe it for a service is, yes. It's called "theft of services".

EDIT: Perhaps I should put it more clearly...

If you sell goods on Google Play, I believe there is a fee of 30%. Now, imagine I found a bug in the Google Play store that meant that, even though I sold millions of copies of my app, I actually paid 0% to the Play Store. Do you think that Google would just accept that I'd found a bug in their software and therefore I owed them nothing? Do you think I owe them nothing?

Google chose to participate in a market where the costs were clearly labelled up-front and they didn't even have to pay a penny unless they made a significant profit!

Why the hell should they get away with paying nothing for a service that other people pay a lot of money for?
Unfortunately many companies let themselves be led into a complex mess by so-called "rockstar" developers who usually are just people who have mastered a particular language and its libraries, and perhaps one common framework in that language. This allows them to churn out masses of poorly written code and bamboozle management into thinking that they are 10X productive. They are like the sales guy who makes some big sales, collects his commission checks, and then leaves the company before everyone finds out that the product was not suitable for that customer, and the contracts are cancelled. Then, working for another company, he does the same thing again. Some companies now withold part of their commission payments for a period of time to be sure that the product was sold correctly, that it gets delivered to the customer properly, and that the customer begins using it and gaining some value from the product.

However, in software, we let rockstars create a big mess, and then over the next few years we spend many man-years of effort into maintaining that software, fixing bugs, attempting to shoehorn new features into a system that is rigid, inflexible and even fragile. This is what rockstars bring us, momentary euphoria until the concert is over and we are stuck in a traffic jam trying to get home. This is not scalable and not sustainable. If you see a job ad that asks for rockstars, run away. Their management are fools and they are busing building a complex mess that will destroy their business.
"When you disable this setting, your friends will be less likely to benefit from your recommendations." - I'm surprised that even my computer could render these bytes with a straight face.
Either that, or it's a perfectly fine social network I use routinely to stay in touch with several friends who don't use Facebook or Twitter.
Why would a rating or review of a place be out of context on an ad for it?
Yeah, that's not what it's for.

Semantics matters, believe it or not. The world is not a hack fest. If you use a chainsaw to cut some vegetables, don't be surprised when you end up cutting the entire cutting board in half.
Analyzing Server Performance With R
Please avoid posting comments like "+1"

They don't add anything to the discussion and it's redundant after you upvote.

Thanks! :)
True, I worded that badly. Nonlinear systems are not random. The present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.
Didn't realize you could do that without destroying your profile elsewhere in their ecosystem. So something like GMail and YouTube still work, but you have go Google+ profile?
Here:

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues?page=1&st...

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/pulls

Result:

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/graphs/commit-ac...
As some economists have pointed out recently, the future will look back on us as nucking futs that we subsidize the poor to live in downtown Manhattan.
Introducing Qualcomm Zeroth Processors: Brain-Inspired Computing
I downloaded this after seeing it on HN last time and played for a good 2 hours (something I haven't done in years).. then it crashed on me and I realized I'd been playing for 2 hours when I really should've been doing more productive things. I'll chip in so as not to get reminded of real work next time and I can just keep playing.
While I personally love this answer, I have to admit a basic physical metaphor works. If you remember an answer, it is practically immediate. The further back in your records you have to go to find something, the slower it will be.

We have faster ways of recalling notes today than we did in the past, you might say? Well, yeah. In many respects our ram is faster than registers of early computers, too. That all things have gotten faster doesn't change that things which were faster are still faster. (I'd be delighted to know examples where this radically changed somehow.)
What tool are you using to measure this?
The solution is simple, but initially shocking to most: corporations should not pay income tax.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-poli...
It's the Opera of programming languages.
Mark Zuckerberg Buys the Four Houses Surrounding His Own House ‘Cuz He Can
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/<youtube-username>/favorites?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile
Is this a news article or an advertisement for this guy's commercial Haskell tools? I'm having trouble figuring it out.
Can I easily delete my Google+ account w/o hampering my Gmail/calendar/etc? I made it once but I see only drawbacks in having it.

I'm already fed up with the repeated requests to merge my Youtube 'channel' (wtf? I don't have or want a channel, I've made <10 comments on youtube and that's it) with my Google+ pic/name, and I definitely don't ever want to do that - but there's a risk that at some time I'll accidentally misclick one of their prompts.

[edit] For example, I'm worried about their warning on Google+ deletion page 'You won't be able to use the "Sign in with Google" button to log in to third-party apps.', since I have used google-signin in some apps (IIRC that was even before google+ was a thing), and that would mean these apps becoming inaccessible.
If a such a highly publicized Google product is only used by "several friends" years after launch, it should be killed--not spammed more into the faces of users that do not want it.
Nice, I'd recommend using LeafletJS JavaScript mapping API and OpenStreetMap for the map though - firstly because Google will ask you for money if its busy or you want to make money off of it, secondly Google's terms of use, copyright etc might be worth looking at, thirdly customisation and optimisations.

You might even start to want to interact with the actual data in the map further on down the road - something you cannot readily do with Google's offerings.
This NYT graphic explains the technique for anyone who has enough money to make it worthwhile.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...
Why there are so many Google apologists?
Oh, they can always print more money, and considering how much international money is held in their currency...
Looks really cool and promising... now I just have to find somebody to play against! ;)
New York Comic Con using attendee Twitter accounts to send promo tweets
Fitness Apps (and Devices) Suck
You're not happy with where you are in life so you don't smoke it? Or you're not happy with where you are in life when you actually do smoke?
You've slightly improved the problem by moving it away from the last item on the list, but you've now screwed up the first item. You can no longer insert a first-item using the same format, and instead of a trailing comma bug you can get a starting comma bug.
I actually think I do. Go does offer a couple of primitives for poking into memory, but it is my opinion that a systems language needs much more refined control over memory layout and allocation.
Postscript is so unpopular to use as a programming language that github doesn't even have it in their languages. I'm not even sure if you're just trolling or serious?
I agree. I wrote a long thing about that a while back:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/google-the-charge-of-the-li...

It really is just a single monumental mistake, everything about Google+ except for the product itself, which was always high quality (but the wrong product to begin with).
Especially if two or three people live together.

And there will be an extra kick to the young, whose labor is less valuable.

A negative income tax or EITC tends to work better, since you have to do some kind of work to get them. And the best way of determining if someone has a job tomorrow is if they have a job today. Long-term unemployment sucks.
Bad wording. If the software vendor did in fact allow access to a third party for nefarious reasons, then you're darn tootin' I'm going to blame them for it. Plus I'm going to blame the hacker for the nefarious things he does with my personal information.

Loopholes do not circumvent tax laws in any way, if the method is allowed within the wording of the law then it is perfectly legal. By your logic any time I follow the law to reduce my tax burden I am in effect circumventing the intent of the tax law, which somehow makes me immoral.

I guess the difference is that if people don't like it or can't do it themselves it's a "loophole" and somehow wrong.
>Sanskrit grammar is again another beautiful and well thought creation that is considered the best grammar to be used for scientific work.

J Robert Oppenheimer was a fan of Sanskrit. He quoted the Bhagavad Gita, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," to express his feelings on observing the Trinity test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e67mIPR6ryA
Exclusive Photos: Apple’s new campus in Cupertino
Like Google Reader? /ducks
There are whole bunch of things you can do to mitigate the risk, and whole bunch of other variables regarding the network environment that you're setting it up in. The network behind that NAT might be compromised, and depending on the operating system there may be ports open by default that could be compromised before you can close them or there could be some other remote vulnerability. I remember about a decade ago having a Windows box that I was wiping/restoring for a family member infected with Blaster after its first reboot before all of the system updates were finished downloading.

Something with a good reputation for security, like a clean OpenBSD install with no ports open, is unlikely to get hit on its first round of updates. Even so, if you're going to go through all of the hassle to set up an airgapped system anyways, why bother taking the risk?
Well, I don't know about a couple of days for learning a new language, but I agree with the sentiment. Learning a new language is more than figuring out the syntax for a loop. It's the library(s) that takes time.
I literally gave you one example where that helped. Stuxnet and others are further evidence.

Simplified scenario: Your target will open a single file from you. How do you exploit them?
But would it help anyone if those people go back to work? I'm pretty sure that in the future we need to refrain from the notion that everybody can find work. With increasing automation there just won't be enough jobs to fill.
> the program will chip in the rest to top it up.

You just instituted a 100% marginal tax rate on the working poor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499409

Previous discussion
Entire weight behind Google Wave! I think you got that wrong, chief. Also, it was killed in 1 year: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/wave-goodbye-to-google-wave...
I don't say that designers should program instead of using their tools. What I say is: Stop the craziness of 50 different projects which give you some set of icons. Each a little different but each repeating things over and over again. Let's define one framework and go from their and satisfy 95% of all projects.
Given the wide variability of where my smartphone is at any particular moment, I really wonder how good any data it produces can get. I think forecast.io / Dark Sky handle this problem well - use standard data sources but combine them with user data to make things more accurate.
> and he is using Windows !? WTF. He is going against his own advice - to use public/free software as often as possible.

It is weird, but I saw it coming. He has always used Windows. Back early 2000s it was because that was what his company was standardized on, and that was to make things simplest software distribution-wise. They did network security solutions (consulting-style, IIRC) and it may have been it was easiest to match their clients. I take it he hasn't bothered to migrate since then.

I'm curious to know which version of Windows, but I kind of assume it will be 7. XP was too security-poor, Win8 is too new. Security people who use Windows tend to lag major revs by a little (like most software releases).

For the record, the irony here isn't that a security guy is using Windows, it's that he's using Windows for security as he reports on deliberately backdoored commercial software.
> Browsers don't currently allow sites to use third-party images as WebGL textures

The quote included specifically addressed that point: “you'd be limited to the operations which the GPU can perform without the browser seeing the bits”

Just as browsers have limits about how plugins interact with the rest of the page, it's quite easy to imagine analogous restrictions on how a restricted layer could be composited or tainting the rest of the page to prevent read-back operations.

Again, the fact that everyone from users to content providers seems to be satisifed with the Silverlight status quo shows that this is not technically impossible because it's already in daily use by millions of people.
The money exists and is given to the government, the difference is just whether the government should decide to give it to those who need it most, or whether it should be distributed equally.
Online comments: why websites should be worried by court ruling
I don't know how thought provoking it really is. It's so general, and the range of human opinion is so vast, that it could cover almost anything. For some people, typing up this comment on a fairly power-hungry computer, in an area where most of the electricity comes from burning coal, could be considered evil. Sitting here could be evil. Not sitting here could be evil.
So what are you waiting for? Gather your friends together and start a new political party. Don't worry about whether or not you will ultimately succeed or whether your party is big enough. Just get organized and adopt a platform that is open to compromise, and is ready for merger with some other party. If enough people do this, and then negotiate a merger with other small parties, the sum total of all these efforts merged together will be big enough to mount a serious challenge in state and federal elections.

Just remember, that the goal of doing this is not to get your opinions enshrined in laws, but to negotiate and compromise and build a party that is large enough, inclusive enough and has enough heart, that it can represent a majority of the American people. Only such a party can beat the elephant and the donkey at their old game. You need an octopus party that has many arms and which brings together many interest groups.

But most importantly, you need to do this now. Get some friends together, organize some meetings, and ask everyone why they would not join a political party that stands for compromise, inclusion, and a big heart.
In the "Salary of Every BART Employee" visualization it won't let me hover over the top row of dots.

Using Chrome 29 on Win7.
>the US per-capita healthcare spending on Medicare, Medicaid et al is actually higher than comparable nations with universal healthcare.

This is true.

>The rationing, measuring and paying is really very expensive to administer.

This is not.

We have written legislation that prevents us from negotiating for healthcare goods and services; we protect US doctors from foreign competition and allow the profession to artificially constrain the supply. We also prevent Americans from importing drugs, or buying into other countries' health care systems - also shielding the domestic market from competition. Also, patents and reformulations.

Administration is actually a very small overhead. Rent-seeking is the problem.
As I understand it, these "shared endorsements" _are_ only shown to friends, they're privacy/visibility isn't changing in any way.

It also looks like they're not ads in themselves, but paired with a paid add much like they're already shown on the original item in the first place.

Disclaimer: Googler here
what about markers or sharpies?
Just to be clear, basic income is not the same as negative income tax. Guaranteed income is the same as negative income tax; it has the benefit that it should cost less overall since it only goes to people who need it but it has the cost of trying to catch all the people cheating on it.
Even then, I bet Google Reader had a higher happy user to pissed user ratio than Google+.
EU Court: News portal liable for the offensive online comments of its readers
return politics('expected ROI for VC') == war;
Aren't they spending a tremendous amount of effort regulating the tech as it is?
no, that's not what json for. JSON is for exchange data between machines. We already have data interchange formats for humans, we call those 'languages'.
Closures and literals are pretty basic things for many languages and very well-known.

Prototypical inheritance may have gotten much more exposure via JS, but I'm not overly impressed with it, and I hardly think it makes up for the rest of the language.
Fight bike theft with the open source bike registry