skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once worked with a digital marketing manager that spent most of her day running scripts to spam Digg and Reddit, and using her budget to "outsource" these kind of things (probably using Mechanical Turk or something similar). She'd worked at marketing agencies before, on a number of large client accounts (including notable names in tech and consumer electronics), and I'm willing to bet that she did the same kind of stuff.

They may have guidelines in place, but I bet they don't check up on what external agencies do, otherwise this woman would have been found out a long time ago.
I've been up to something similar for the last year or so. Man is there a lot of complexity in a simple turn-based word game than I ever imagined.

I threw together a prototype of the basic gameplay in a weekend but to actually ship something you need user accounts, game history, push notifications, error handling, multiple games per user, game creation, a way to get friends into the app to play with you, screenshots, icons, copy, instructions, game win/loss screens, current game state indicators, transitions, a way to quit a game in progress, a way to nudge a dormant opponent, a massaged dictionary, and that's not even getting to the marketing side of things!

Luckily it's almost ready to go... but along with that comes the anxiety that not only do you need to convince someone to play, you also need them to get a friend to install it as well! (unless you want to program a matchmaking process or AI on top of everything else which comes with its own can of worms).
I do.

It was a total game changer in every way. Partly, the 3D; mostly, the scale.

If it wasn't for the discovery of the Mandelbrot set around the same time it would have been denounced as totally ridiculous. But, as Fractals were just becoming popular around then, it fitted neatly into the Zeitgeist.

As for the 3D the only time you saw it on a home computer before Elite it was 'fake' e.g. in a basic maze game like 3D Monster Maze (think Wolfenstein but with only 4 straight-on views, no guns and a badly drawn pixelsaurus to run away from) or as an isometric game: Ant Attack springs to mind. As I recall Ant Attack[2] was also amazing for it's shear scale, if you look at the full 3D map[3] it's amazing to see how far we've come!

In the arcade we had 'real' vector 3D: Battlezone and later on Star Wars[5], the latter being the first I remember being in colour. I am sure these were an influence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Attack

[3] http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=AntAttack

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)
> The company gained attention when it started in 1998 because its opening search page, and following results page, was uncluttered by adverts and other elements

Google isn't what it was, and Google wants many more users than they can get from keeping just the early adopters.

People use Google like a portal. This is just Google giving in.
AMD Releases New 3D/Compute GPU Documentation
I wish I haven't skipped Biology in school...
Sure, generic functions are awesome when you don't care about performance. This is why C++ does not have them. If you knew nothing about C++ and somebody told you "here, we have a language with zero run-time overhead, can you guess if we managed to implement generic functions?" what would you say?

Function templates are not generic functions. Same as template classes are not types. They play really well with the rest of C++ but I agree, not so well with the rest of Java or Haskell :)

This is the major problem people nowadays have with C++ - they learn some "practical" high-level language in school (usually riddled with random stuff, judging by how much people here are pissed with my mentioning of PHP) and try to think about C++ in concepts of such a language. Then blame C++ for not being their favorite language.

Don't get me wrong. I am quite happy with this making my skills very rare and expensive, giving me both job security and decent compensation. I also want to thank all the people spreading the "C++ is complex hodgepodge of completely random things so it's impossible to learn" idea :)
What did you discover/do?
If that's a banner ad, it's the most relevant, pleasant, and appropriate banner ad I've ever seen. It's directly related to the search term and is not obnoxious in the least.

If all ads were such high quality I'd have no problems with this (but would still probably use adblock!).
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or you can e-mail them to request screenshots of this feature.
Love this concept of niche email clients:

1. Unibox based around contacts

2. Mail Pilot based around to-do lists
Their tagline should be changed to - "Be Evil".
Problems getting started in Open Source
The article specifically called out that this is a US-only test. That said, I also do not see any banner on this particular search.
Over the years Google is way more aggressive with ads then it used to be.

For any query less and less percentage of first page is dedicate to organic example.

E.g. a silly example:
https://www.google.com/search?q=trash+can
25-30% organic, rest are the adds.
In related news: I am no longer with my college girlfriend, despite the fact that 8 years ago I told her I would never leave her.
A billion-year storage medium that could outlive the human race
Flash Player now sandboxed under Safari on Mac OS X
it actually costs so much more, because of how critical email, and past stored emails are to any professional's life. Can I transparently try it out, leaving me current email client in place? If not, that's too much risk right there, risk of loosing access to past emails is quite the cost.
Unibox is a fully native OSX app, webviews are only used for rendering the HTML email content.
Wow, the autodetect is pretty amazing. I'm using Fastmail with my own domain but it correctly knew which servers to use. I always thought that email clients just look at the domain and if it's gmail.com, yahoo.com, it uses those settings, but it sounds like this is checking MX records? Any insight into how it's able to do this (never seen another client be able to)?
Discussed extensively here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6602902
If I search for southwest airlines, is that image truly a banner ad?
You'll just have to live your life on the edge like that.
That's a fair semantic point, but in terms of ego required, I don't think it makes a difference.
I will never understand the persistent fetish to make E-Mail more like Instant Messaging. Sure, if you only send emails that are a couple of sentences this might make sense. But that's not what people use email for. That's what they use one of the bazillion IM services for. And the IM GUI vocabulary breaks down very quickly for real world email use.

The abstract root of the problem with "let's reinvent email clients" to me is this: There are things that I want to do in email and things I do not want to do in email. The "attachments reinvented" (really?) is such an example: Sure, you could show all the attachments for one person in one place. But when would I use that? In most cases what I want to do is move data out of email and get them where they are useful. Gluing them closer to the emails solves no problem for me.

I get that this is all social and everything, so as somebody who mostly uses email for work, I'm not the target audience. But either you mostly work stuff with emails (then this fails on a number of fronts), or you do mostly social... no wait, you don't do mostly social with emails. That's the problem. And that's why most email clients are not very satisfying for one particular use - because serving multiple uses at the same time simply is a dirty business.

Sorry to fall into the typical HN snark here, but that's how I feel: It does look nice, but so could a thunderbird theme.

Footnotes:

- "Sent with Unibox", really?

- No overview window (at least none shown - do I have to click through the people sidebar to find a recent email if I'm not sure what I'm searching for?)

- mentioning "Exchange" - be very careful here, saying that you support Exchange sets a very specific set of expectations that I'm pretty sure you cannot meet. In any case, you're probably inviting in customers that you don't want and it could cost you a lot of time and money to deal with them.
I think it's time for 2 very americans quotes :) :

"I have a drinking problem? Fuck you, Peck! You're a Mormon! Next to you, we all have a drinking problem!"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading

"They found the Dutch morals much too libertine. Their children were becoming more and more Dutch as the years passed by. The congregation came to believe that they faced eventual extinction if they remained there."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)
a form of mental incontinence, perhaps?
Interesting, I wasn't aware that this was permitted in the UK.

Here in the US, under-18's often aren't allowed on the premises of a drinking establishment at all, so the OP does raise a point depending on the location of the conference.
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Just curious, what is the term for the (sort of) reverse, which essentially to name your kids with famous brands?

I've seen people named Sony, Panasonic and Honda because their parents thought of some home appliances which happen to sit nearby (true story).
you found it hilarious. I found it painful.
How to get started with lean growth hacking - good video
I run 5k and 10ks pretty often. I don't think I've been to one that didn't have free beer at the finish.
I think "certain branded queries" are the key words here; if that style of banner is displayed for more generic searches (simply 'Airlines', for example) I think people would quickly become frustrated with the experience and move on.

When searching for a particular airline, being confronted with a photograph of one of their aeroplanes isn't the end of the world.
That's already EU law: only assistance (no power-on-demand), capped at 25km/h (~15mph) and 250W maximum.

US fed law allows power-on-demand, 32km/h (20mph) and 750W blocks. That's closer to a slow scooter than a bike.
I don't know. I think it's more of a panic response than the right response.

Imagine this: "Kids, as President of the United States, I'm responsible for a lot of things. I just got a call that I have to take care of. I'm sorry. But I promise I'll come back and finish reading this book to you some other time."
>> People like drinking.

This is the one sentence rebuttal to any complaints about drinking in any industry.
US federal law is 32km/h, 750W and power on demand (no need for the user to pedal). That's closer to a moped than to a bike.
>Airbnb users helped prop up 4,580 jobs throughout the five boroughs

I am courious about how they calculated such precise numbers
If the creators are reading this, maybe they could meet you half-way and do a demo video of the app in action.
If you send us an email to support@uniboxapp.com we'll ping you as soon as we're able to provide a trial version.
So? Even if it's true, you don't get a trophy at the end of your life for being slightly more productive and having a better personal life. The Internet also makes people more literate and understand the world better.
I could not agree with this more. In my case, the very product I'm working on is all about kids and family. It seems ironic when giving all I can to make the product succeed is taking away from enjoying time with my wife, and kids while they are young.

Sometimes it seems like we can only pick two:
- family
- startup
- health

I know the balance can be achieved, but is it balance we are looking for? I have a fear of being mediocre at both. But, we can do better than this. I can do better.
>very slow production of new housing due to a lack of buildable land and zoning that makes it difficult to replace small buildings with larger ones in many areas

This is not true, new housing is actually one of the things NYC has done really well. See this story for more detail: http://www.wnyc.org/story/300641-how-new-york-vertical-city-...

>building boomed during the Bloomberg years, both in terms of sheer numbers and in terms of height ... In fact, the housing supply well outpaced the city's population growth, as it has in the past several decades. The number of housing units increased 5.3 percent between 2000 and 2010, while population rose just 2.1 percent, according to the Furman Center
That's strange. Even without an ad blocker, I see 0 ads on that SERP.
Ruby-wpdb: a Ruby object mapping for WordPress
If you try to use ipairs to iterate then it will skip the zero-th index but if you use a numeric for loop (for i=0,N do) then you should be fine.
It's the old stock scam! Someone needs to create 2048 twitter accounts (AAPL0001, AAPL0002, etc), then make half say "AAPL closes UP today!", the other half say "Down".

Delete the incorrect accounts the next day and repeat for the next 7 days... You'll have one account left at the end, but it'll be exactly right.
Show HN: Code Climate for JavaScript
Co-worker got one and installed Cruton on it. Haven't gotten dual monitors to work (mirrored only), but am really impressed with it right now.
Fortran is totally known for its computational prowess.
Even if it were legal, it would not necessarily be ethical. People incorrectly assume that when something is ubiquitous, it should belong to the public.

Super Mario is not something that has always existed or would eventually exist, it is a creative work that became successful through Nintendo's efforts. There is nothing wrong with Nintendo wanting to reserve their rights to it.

That is not to say that Mario fan works are not enjoyable - there are awesome Mario ROM hacks and Flash animations out there - but that people shouldn't feel entitled to the rights to make them and to complain when Nintendo takes legal action.
Google is not doing this as a service to the website, they are doing it as a service to the user. Giving the owner some kind of grace period to fix the issue could mean hundreds of thousands of people could get hit with a malicious script in the meantime.

> You sir, get -9,001 Internets.

Cut this shit out, you're not on reddit.
Well, but at any rate the mirrors will likely stop tracking the sun, right? Where will the light spot end up?
Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources from pdf document
john adams clearly had already made his money when he said that.

I believe his son did his own studying of 'politics and war' just as his father did.. just as we do and, unfortunately or otherwise, just as our sons will.
Yes, we're checking MX records.
>> "Vertical advertising for sports betting" sounds like the definition of useless to society.

I work in the same 'industry' and equally dislike it as a whole and also completely lost my motivation.

>> No pay is worth working at a job like that.

Not when you have a family to raise or bills to pay, the thing with this betting industry is that it pays as said relatively to very good. There is also an overload of jobs, and if you are anywhere smart and in this stuff for a bit you can get a pretty good salary. I made a salary jump of about 80% in 3 years working in this industry.

What I hate the most about this industry is that there are some very talented people working in here, which could do much better things then programming systems to make people loose more money then they already do. Makes me sad.

What I do? I am working on some side projects, and just 'grind it out' during the office hours and do what I have to do, time goes by faster. Hoping to get one of my projects off in the next months/years and leave this industry behind for once and all.

Where are you based?
Is email still people-centric? Looking at the 25 latest messages of my inbox, only 8 are from real persons. The rest comprises 5 newsletters and 12 notifications.

Close friends I contact via SMS mostly, and other friends I contact maybe twice every 6 months.

Maybe my email usage is unusual, I don't know. Still, Unibox's market is a niche. Good luck to them though. It's always interesting to see new approaches towards a medium as old as email.
> Why should patents be assignable or transferable anyway?

Because the purpose of the patent system is to turn trade secrets into public assets. Bob the blacksmith's new alloy is not much of a public asset if for the first twenty years all we get are the few thousand horseshoes that Bob can hammer out. You are advocating a Chairman Mao patent system, with patents only benefiting garage semiconductor fabs and artisinal jet engine factories.

The transferability of patents allows them to immediately be deployed throughout society.
And... Did you leave her? or just break up as a common agreement? In legalese language, I am pretty sure that a promise is synonym of contract, and contracts might be dissolved if both sides of the contract agreed.

This being an open promise is not a contract but a reaffirmation of a goal, since people change is regrettable but OK to break promises to ourselves sometimes when the interest of the goal had changed.
Metasploit, DSploit, Shodan, etc - these are all automated attack systems (vulnerability finders / exploiters).
For the deals I've offered, it was always sales - variable cost of sales.

I sell credit reports. So just take out the vendor cost of the reports.

I am happy to eat credit card fees, server fees, any other fixed costs for running the business, salaries etc. to test candidates if it helps me find good people.
Rental business Aaron's admits role in spying on customers
Or just get rid of software patents altogether. Software you don't want copied should be considered trade secrets, rather than IP.
One way to put things in perspective is to compare against predictor that always chooses the most frequent label (higher in this case).

dynofuz made 14 predictions, 13 correct (at least they claim so) and their predictor agrees with majority label predictor 10/14 = 71% of the time. The difference is just 3 correct predictions.

correction: 13 predictions, 10/13 = 77% same as majority label predictor.
If it is relevant to my search and the image gives better impression of the product, I am okay with that. Though people forget about their promises. But I am against having multiple banners. I am okay with say "search Amazon" and return amazon's latest banner on thanksgiving sale deal. Just one, a good one, reasonable size, and that's it.
I don't particularly think it's important how Bush spent 7 minutes in response to an unprecedented situation. If he spent the next 7 months (or even 7 hours) going on a book reading tour, well... 9/11 was a confusing day. I was actually in a classroom at that exact same time, a mile uptown from the WTC. The professor got a whisper about the first plane, and then another about the second. I recall we broke class after the second. It's an easy target to criticize Bush, because it's a comical situation, but it has no real substance.

I agree in the West Wing situation, there is a national security concern. But why? Shouldn't this "great" man be able to use his power justly for the greater good, and not let things get personal? No, he understands he wouldn't be able to resist that temptation. Relinquishing his power is showing that his family is more important to him.
That would be pretty awesome. Nearly as good as a trial.
The crypto stuff is handled by these guys -
http://www.bouncycastle.org/

I was originally looking at their library to help me programmatically generate self-signed certificates via C# (that are Apache / openssl / mod_ssl compatible), but ended up trying to use some native interop code and Windows crypto-api, and could only get it 80% of the way, so I gave up and moved on.
Can you post a screenshot? I don't see what you describe when I click the link.

Also, do you get better results on another search engine? If so, which one?
You're echoing my thoughts exactly. Mine started out as a simple proof of concept using the CS area in Khan Academy and then I took it "offline" to flesh it out. That's when I started running into all of the complications you just mentioned; it really is a daunting task. I'm even struggling with a platform. It's HTML5 Canvas right now which opens up Facebook, and mobile using something like Phonegap, but I'm so inexperienced with both that I didn't think about keeping things responsive for different screen resolutions. Ugh!

I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one bumping into reality, though it definitely sounds like you're further along than I. I'd love to check it out once you've shipped.
Former?

Do you know something I don't?

;-)
This is one of those movies that could really benefit from a well made, modern treatment.
Even under lax US federal law, these are not "bicycles" and are classified as motor vehicles.

Public Law 107-319 defined "low-speed electrical vehicles" and altered the motor vehicle safety standards to make these low-speed vehicles not considered motor vehicles. Low-speed electrical vehicles are defined as:

1. two- or three-wheeled

2. fully operable pedals

3. less than 750 watts (1hp)

4. maximum speed (power-on-demand) of 20mph on a level surface with a rider of 170 pounds

If it goes at 50mph, it's an electric motorcycle.
As a thought experiment, what do you think of trying to make this completely de-centralized? Each service has its own synapse, and the services form a nerve for that service. They communicate status directly to the app servers, which form their own nerve.

Boot-strapping would of course be a problem, so you would still need a centralized nervous system for that, but you could survive its failure.
>> "But that's not what people use email for."

Source? 9/10 of the email I get are only a few sentences. Same goes for emails I send. The reason I use email rather than an IM service is that it easier to keep records. Every message has a subject and searching works well.
Well.. it is a banner and the company is paying for it so it is an ad. In my opinion the cleanness of the banner should not interfere with the description of being an ad.
First impressions are very good. It's extremely smooth and responsive, the experience when replying to an email is excellent, and it feels an awful lot lighter than Mail. The people paradigm in the sidebar didn't take a lot of getting used to though it'll take a fair bit more use before I can decide whether I prefer it. At the moment it feels to me like there's another sidebar missing, one that would take me directly into conversations.

Only drawbacks I've found so far: search seems to make it go a bit sluggish and it's not that easy to actually find what you're after. I seem to have sent it into some kind of spin by hitting the sync button which brought up this error:

An error occured while syncing account
[redacted] (2001):

Could not parse command

Overall though, I'm liking it and I'll give it a go as my primary email client for a while to see if it can replace Mail for me.
Percona Server 5.6.14-62.0 is now available
The "see also" list is worth a look...

Elephants are surprisingly easy to overlook and behave erraticly if you split their group (e.g. by carelessly driving a car between the group). It is not unusual for cars to be hit by elephants running to their mother.

Still, don't fear elephants to much: Hippos are actually dangerous as hell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus#Aggression
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Are you still using POP?
> Sure, you could show all the attachments for one person in one place. But when would I use that?

People often remind me that they sent me some file a few weeks ago. This happens to me pretty frequently, a few times a month. Right now that turns into a spelunking session (although mu4e helps a lot) but if I could just see all the attachments from that person in reverse chronological order it would make it much easier for me to find things.

For what it's worth, features like this would be hugely helpful to me in my work.