skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What definition? Why not?

Unkindness and cruelty still exist if they are built into systems, don't they?
I had no problems. My friends had no problems. What were we doing wrong?
What annoys me I suppose is that the issue was entirely predictable. I now know there are customers who got in before the shutdown who now have a server with double my spec at half the price. Of course current customers were going to move if they could! Why this surprised anyone is beyond me. The shutdown locks loyal customers in to a worse deal, and this rant/article/whatever doesn't even come close to apologising for/mitigating that - it is exclusively concerned with the ramifications for OVH. I'm the customer, OVH is the variable that bends to my will, not the other way around.

I'm eyeing up online.net now anyway, as I didn't know of them before. Now I do, and I have an insight into how the OVH mind works, I'm unlikely to ever use them again.
Thanks. Can you also use that for if/else, other block things?

(Last I looked -- the answer was no. It removes a use case for ideology, sigh.)
As a side note, I was excited to see that there was some geospatial support in there. That's certainly piqued my interest! How much of a focus was spatial support?
I think the way to get around it in the OSX case is to just not fill the fields out and click "next" a couple of times.
The human image is after post-processing. But we do not (cannot?) know what post-processing cats apply! Their impression of their own visual field could be just as sharp as ours (and probably is).
Urban Outfitters' Co-Founder is Building a College without Classes
I was not taught creationism.

Nor was I told to read Ayn Rand.

Nor was I taught to sympathize with the War of Northern Aggression.
It's hard to disassociate the word "Jap" from World War II racist propaganda.

http://img.moonbuggy.org/superman-says-you-can-slap-a-jap/
What I would do is, just order a fresh new ip and point cloud flare to it. it is very difficult to find it and even the domain tools history will never know about it.

if the DDoser is really willing to invest more on attacking me, then my business shouldn't probably run on Hetzner :)
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Agreed but to code as well there are much better alternatives ex. Text mate, although you can use Sublime. And one more thing I'm not judging Linux or windows but I think OS X can be better if all you want is best of both the worlds(my case).
I always wonder how many different things like (specialized results for certain queries) this Google has programmed into their systems.
first of all yes, i think internship is worth it for a) experience in a company/corporate environment, which you cant get on your own, and b) a famous company's name on your cv. i was at O2, would never work there, hate corporations, but it helped me massively in getting a job and taught me a lot of things.

plus youll earn some money which you can spend in the 3rd year (typical intern pay for programmers is £15-20k)

and yeah that was without the bills. i lived in houses close to uni to avoid commuting and the £400 was common if not a bit steep, but i suppose my uni wasnt in central (it was brunel in uxbridge). also i lived in pretty shitty houses, because hey, im only there for a year, but on the upside met lots of cool people.

a key to eating cheap is buying in bulk and cooking large amounts of food. say you buy 10 or even 20kg bag of rice (i used to do it on indian holidays for better discounts), that will cost less than £10 and last a few good months. get some canned veg, maybe micne. big tescos in poorer areas are your friend. its hard to calculate but for around £7 (and certainly for £10) you can stir up enough to last you a week. shits not gonna be gourmet but it works.

there are other ways too... freeganism, putting stuff through self checkout as onions, etc.
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At least there are a countless number of people who want to know the answer.
Is HN a replacement for the TIL sub-reddit now?
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I was a bit surprised to see Mozilla admitting that HEVC exists without smearing it. If only they could be this impartial in their video comparisons. Instead we had to endure the embarrassing spectacle of them trying to argue that Theora was competitive with H.264[1].

[1] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2009/06/theora_v...
"Merchants selling digital goods may transition to Google Wallet for digital goods"

Except they are. But I'd say we are both correct.
Well having spent a lot of time in both places, I must say I really dig Miami. It's the right mix of laid back and intensity for me, and San Fran summers are too cold. Plus, my Don Johnson outfits don't fit in nearly as well in SF.
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Thanks, will shoot you an email!
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Raspberry pi compatible? :)
Unfair competition! All candidates should be given equal chance via the same means of presentation. He's just trying to sneak around the gatekeeper.
Mozilla misses one important of WebP : Alpha channel.
Today PNG 24 is the only way to achieve transparency with a 24 bits palette, resulting in unnecessary huge files.
As a webdesigner, WebP would replace PNG 24, not jpeg.

Anyway, I have this strange impression that Mozilla is more akin to spent ressources dismissing the format rather than implementing it or finding an alternative.
How Strava built a routing engine from the ground up
I'm not sure why MS decided that the release of a free upgrade of their product that's trying to address pain points with Metro would be great opportunity to shove the Windows Store down users' throats. I can't even open Windows Store on my media center PC (hooked up to a 720p television) without increasing my screen resolution past native. That's just irritating.

Do you realize that your Windows 8 license key will not allow you to download and do a clean install of 8.1? You need to download 8.0, install 64 or so important updates, and only then are you deemed worthy of being eligible to download 8.1 through the Windows Store. Who thought this up?

I went the clean install route after my upgrade from 8.1 preview stalled out on the "Almost There" screen for 15 minutes. I rebooted, and all references to my installed applications were gone.

All in all, the 8.1 upgrade wasn't a pleasant experience.
I just updated from the 8.1 Pro Preview. Everything went smoothly. It's just that the upgrade removed every program from my system and every form of application data. I have backups but that means reverting back to the preview. Four hours of re-installs later, I still have a two month gap in my Thunderbird email data. Sigh!
I think this is gratuitous - perhaps MS is trying to stampede everyone into using their cloud based storage,
Seasonal?

Some startup founders might need inspiration for the last question of their YC application.
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A minor note on 1. - rtccopy.com does use (optionally) OTR in javascript on top of the DTLS channel in order guarantee identity (something not currently guaranteed with the DTLS channel).
The problem with sites like these are that you have to trust the site owner to not just add some javascript to the page which breaks the security of your conversation.

Except this site is worse, because they also let their third party user tracking provider run arbitrary script on every page too.

Nice as a demo of technology though.
Ask HN: Would it be illegal to make a Pirate-Bay-based application?
I was looking into making an open source thepiratebay library for using it programmatically via python or ruby. Seeing as PirateBay isn't the most legally recognized website, would making something like this be considered illegal?
You missed the claim that it is well documented that the Japanese young have less sex. A quick check of condom sales (and/or VD statistics) can verify if people have less sex.

But, of course, the article really might be just pure fantasy with invented statistics.

(I have no idea. Since it is easily testable, any fact checkers at the magazine would find out quickly. But maybe only NYTimes have them, these days.)

Edit: Grammar fix. ferongr, I wrote condom and VD sales like that, since they obviously play off each others -- we do talk about short term affairs... (Ok, gaius did note the third case -- pregnancies/abortions :-) Also supports my points, the amount of sex is easy to measure.)
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I can't help but read these stories and think, "well I guess that's what a dying culture looks like".
Anyone interested in this phenomenon should check out the anime "Welcome to the NHK."
Hmmmm, somebody's never been out in town on a Friday night.
FaceTime only lets you connect to that small percentage of the world that uses FaceTime. FaceTime won't work on Windows (91% of PCs) nor will it work on Android (80% of shipped smartphones last quarter). So it's not really a viable solution unless you only talk to Apple users.
(To add on to my reply now that the edit window has closed)

The school I attended is 41% minority [1] with a significant international contingent. Only two of the top ten in my graduating class were American and one of those two was an economically disadvantaged Hispanic girl (and my ex-girlfriend). Slavery was treated as America's original sin and we covered race in America in more detail than most schools (we used the exact same US History textbook used in every AP course [2]). Our literature and rhetoric courses covered writings by Frederick Douglass and MLK Jr. in extreme detail.

[1] http://www.texastribune.org/public-ed/explore/katy-isd/seven...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Pageant
What is this fascination with showing skills as some kind of graph? How did this start and why does anyone do it?
Yes! Just follow the linux install guide.
Perhaps 'rhetoric' is a better word. I'm a predictably pissed off customer, the last thing I need from OVH is a lesson in business strategy. All I want from them is a fair plan for what they plan to do for me now they've gone and got my back up. I don't think that's unreasonable given that I'm one of many who has chosen to keep them in business, and the hand that giveth is the hand that taketh away.
What the Economist article seem to fail to mention: "In the accelerator-on-a-chip experiments, electrons are first accelerated to near light-speed in a conventional accelerator. Then they are focused into a tiny, half-micron-high channel within a glass chip just half a millimeter long."

From: Stanford's own article: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/slac-chip-accel...
"bringing in new customers and new projects which will allow us to increase our business figures"

Guys, you need to realize this isn't about getting the balance sheet in the black. There is no legitimate or interesting problem to solve here. They've been deep in the red. Their ultimate goal is to increase revenue figures at all cost and perhaps look "good" for an OK exit. Maybe there isn't more users or market share to grab in their niche. Hence the "thrashing." Their target server count is a million. They've been building DCs left and right with this figure in mind without there being solid sustained demand. I think they've spread themselves too thin.

OVH is working hard to acquire as many users as it can for the sole purpose of pleasing investors. And when that becomes any business' only focus...
Yep. Conversion percentages for my site drop like a rock whenever I get significant HN traffic. And my site (http://letscodejavascript.com, a programming screencast) is directly relevant to the HN audience.

I'm not complaining—even if percentages go down, signups go up—but the lesson I've taken away is that, while HN traffic is nice, it's flash-in-the-pan stuff, and not something I should pursue as a primary strategy. I think I can get better bang-for-the-buck focusing on other things, and if my work occasionally catches HN's eye, all the better.
Fair point, as often happens I forgot to consider the possibility that your preference for FPGA's caused you to get a job selling an FPGA platform and not vice versa.

In any case, my own viewpoint is that CUDA and OpenCL are the best that has been produced by a huge effort by well financed and technically sophisticated groups. GPU computing offers advantages in flops/watt and flops/dollar, and yet is still not widely utilized because of the increased programming complexity.

Given this, I think it will be very hard for a small group to compete using a completely new architecture. On the other hand, you are starting with a blank slate and you are controlling the entire stack, so I hope you can use that to your advantage.
He said, "except Japan" ;)
They're probably doing a s/negro/black in their head.
I always heard it described that Japanese are shy to a large part for the same reason Scandinavian/Nordic people are shy -- a very violent society, which isn't violent anymore. The shyness is a historic anacronism.

(The shyness comes from that in a large fraction of quarrels someone(s) will be carried away, in pieces. You don't cause offense without very good reason. Not sober, anyway.)
I personally keep expecting to see a schism develop between Mozilla and Google, considering they compete on two fronts: web browsing and mobile OS. Hopefully, nothing more than just healthy competition will happen.
I wouldn't call it interesting, the situation was massively predictable - I would call it profound incompetence.
It seems you've got some bad experiences with OVH. Could you go into more detail on this stuff?

Do you think Hetzner is better than OVH, by the way?
From the Economist article: "Dr Byer did still rely on an old-school accelerator to feed moderately high-speed electrons into his device in the first place. But lasers could do that job too, as the German team, led by Peter Hommelhoff, of the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen, and John Breuer, from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, demonstrate in a second paper, just published in Physical Review Letters."
I agree with all your points, but, regarding the last sentence, I'd like to point out that this is definitely one of the (perhaps rare) cases in which a desire for radical conservation is compatible with openness and freedom.

I'm talking about letting people choose not to reproduce (textbook freedom), instead of having a government policy to influence them to revert their choices for the perceived greater good (central planning).
Thoughts about the Open Source Tea Party
Fukushima is very troubling, but at least it was only an accident. The overfishing mentioned in the article is systemic.
> With the accumulated failures, an alarm siren went off immediately after the takeoff with sound and volume similar to that of a civil defense warning. The crew could not figure a way to switch it off and the siren stayed on throughout the remaining 75 minutes flight. Eventually the captain ordered the navigator to borrow a pillow from the passengers and stuff it inside the siren's horn. Luckily, all landing gears extended and aircraft was able to land.

Yikes!
If you think Google shuts down APIs this quickly and casually now, wait until after the stock market bubble bursts.
When I read these types of articles, I always end up doing a bit of mental translation in my head to make sense of it.

The ocean is obviously not "broken". It is a large body of salt water covering the majority of the planet's surface. It still exists as a liquid, therefore it's still an "ocean"

A more useful translation of the title is "The ocean had a lot of artistic meaning to me in the past. A recent trip demonstrated to me that this artistic value is now gone"

Very difficult to get clicks for, sure, but at least with the modified title I can pick it up and know what to do with it.

It's a shame the author had this experience. I too like the birds and water without debris. I wonder, though: is the state of the entire ocean the same as this author indicates? Or might he be using a bit of artistic license and hyperbole to emphasize his loss?

I feel that he's probably stretching things quite a bit for effect, but that's fine. After all, the point is his emoting to us and us understanding his feelings. I was able to feel what he was feeling. Very well done.

The problem here, however, is trying to have some sort of public policy discussion based on what amounts to a poetic interpretation of reality. Just what is the ocean supposed to do? Look pretty? Purify our air? What job do we assign the ocean that it can then fail or succeed at? Do we owe some consideration to a large body of water that we don't to, say, a rock? Or is the ocean's "job" just to keep us alive?

These are subjective questions. Different people can have widely different answers to them. We make a mistake when we jump from a nicely written article about one man's personal loss at his view of the changing state of a large body of salt water and deciding what's right or wrong for everybody else in the world.

So I liked it, but with caution. Many readers will be unable to both appreciate the author's loss and keep in mind the context of these types of works. It all just bleeds together to them.
I think this comment is a great example of the disconnect. You (and I presume a majority of the people working for Google) are not actually able to even comprehend why people might want multiple accounts, or to have separate accounts for their email and their video watching and their blog. He even gives examples in his post, like administering an account for a charity organisation, but somehow things like that are unimaginable to people in the Google bubble.

It's pretty worrying when a company can't even understand the basic motivations behind the actions of their users: how can they possibly weigh up the costs and benefits of forcing account consolidation when they can't even imagine the use cases where consolidating accounts doesn't make sense for users.
I totally agree with what you write - It's long been my pet theory as well that the soul-crushing long hours are a big part of the problem. My SO has a similar job - a normal day is 8 AM-8 PM, but she works a lot "on site" so she'll lose half to all the weekend days in a month to work. Sometimes he has to travel across Kyushyu and so has to get up at 5 AM. It's no wonder people get depressed, and when you're depressed, the sex drive disappears.

The fact that you can now not rely on your company supporting your family for life is just the final nail in the coffin.

My gf is actually looking at marriage as an honorable out with her company - if she just quit flat out, she'd be "abandoning" the company and placing a higher burden on her coworkers (company isn't doing too well...), and if she wanted to get a new job, it would be a huge black mark on her resume. Getting married? Well then OBVIOUSLY she needs to quit, it's not her fault.
Breakfast REALLY is the most important meal...
If you use the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox addon it will protect you from this.
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it's been discussed 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6563152
How to escape a monster (using calculus)
I'm guessing this has some interesting legal implications. This specific incarnation might not survive.

I like it!
I can't imagine ever building something that relies on a Google service at this point.

There is a lot of collateral damage when they do things like this, damage that hurts them when even when it comes to developers like me who've never written a single line of code that integrates with Google Checkout.
>A quick check of condom sales (and/or VD statistics) can verify if people have less sex.

Or it could mean that Japanese people have more unprotected sex and that they value personal hygiene and health more, resulting in lower condom sales and V.D. rates per capita.
i think square has come up with a very good idea thats going to change the payment systems
Portability usually means taking the machine as you find it. If you're pre-installing stuff then that is just configuring your environment.
Yeah, the article explains all of this and you even got your links from it. No need to rehash the source.
Time to build a million year wall around this plant, deep enough to protect the aquifer and big enough to keep it from the ocean and the ocean from it.
Send Air Force One out to Silicon Valley, load it up with smart people...
Seems like government contractors does not good a job anywhere in the world.
> Education was actually valued.

> I was not taught evolution.

... Could I ask how you reconcile these two statements?

To give you some idea of where I'm coming from, I'm British, where we tend to feel quite proud of Darwin (1). As far as I can tell, evolution is a fact of the universe, and the foundational idea in many of the biological sciences. The idea someone could come out of education (and feel they've been well-educated) without a grounding in evolution makes me confused.

(1) eg http://currencyguide.eu/gbp-en/10gbp-en.html
It is not a scam...
Yep. Everytime I through it down the trash or toilet I wonder where it's going for about a minute. Then I forget about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_de_basura
Still, hardly my problem to figure that out and make allowances for it. It's his job to have it copyedited/run past someone in the company who is capable of empathy with customers.
<li onClick="javascript:location.href='http://members.cloudatcost.com';"><a href="#">My Account</a></li>
<li onClick="javascript:location.href='privacy.html';"><a href="#">Privacy</a></li>
<li onClick="javascript:location.href='terms.html';"><a href="#">terms</a></li>

This baffles me. Are you trying to avoid things (especially spiders) accessing the T&C and such?

(It's only a few which are done this way; most are honest links.)
That's not true for REPLs which allow interaction with running processes, which is probably most of them.
the human need for potable water is not subjective
Nintendo definitely won't.

Namco on the other hand appears to still be somewhat reliant on sales of their 30-year-old Pac-Man game. They issued a DMCA on my silly Pac-Man project last year [1][2]. My goal was to archive and educate people about the internal mechanics of the game.

[1] http://pacman.shaunew.com/play/index.htm#learn

[2] http://pacman.shaunew.com/play/index.htm#cheat_pac
Great parody about the media coverage of 3-11 there.
Are you forgetting that Darwinism applies to cultures as well as genomes?
This is just an ad for WebSockets, essentially. No "one line of code" anywhere.
Meanwhile the Japanese countryside is depopulating at an amazing rate, leaving ghost towns in their wake, with elementary schools built for 700 students housing 2.
The good news is that apparently the Japanese aren't having sex anymore, so maybe the ocean around Japan will soon get a bit of a break:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579294
I can't tell if it's jealousy, but the comments here are dreadful. I wish good luck to this dude, clearly a very gifted web designer.
> This specific incarnation might not survive.

Actually, I am all for wallets implementing similar functionality and making the overall experience better. It's just that they are all really, really slow to do this. But escrow transactions are useful and the purpose of the app is just to allow you to create / redeem those.

Besides that, I plan to add some URL scheme where for example you create a payment request and send the link, and the buyer just pastes their private key and pays. (On a marketplace where the system generates the payment request and present the buyer with the link, for example.)

It's just that bitcoin:// URLs don't allow you to do things like this, and not every wallet supports URL scheme regardless.
IF fewer children are being born AND sales of contraceptives are not up THEN less sex is being had. I don't see how it is possible to argue against that.
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