skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving aside the question of whether this message should even exist, here's a somewhat better approach:

Your profile "Your Name" has been temporarily suspended because it appears confusingly similar to <a href="...">Other User</a>. We do not allow profiles that appear to impersonate another user. If this is not correct, please <a href="...contact form that works with suspended profile...">contact us</a>.

Of course, having a "contact us" link would break Google's usual support policy (namely, don't offer any).
I get the feeling the person not using the company approved services will also suffer in a lawsuit. The company is going to take a hit, but I bet the person screwing around will have some personal liability.
Google's Transparency Report Now Shows US Court Orders
Barnes-Hut uses a quadtree, doesn't it? I don't know whether the code was adapted to use an octree in 3D instead; maybe it was? FWIW there's a really interesting Google techtalk on how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA
It's official. Version 2.0 demands Vine integration.
Is it a bot or injection that maintains itself?
Necessary in the way that a drivers license and car insurance are necessary to drive.
An offer letter from Google or YCombinator (where you are the tech co-founder) which serves as evidence that you passed a challenging programming interview at Google, or that YCombinator believed you would be successful at developing your company product.

Interesting. Because I have no intention of moving to a Google or YCombinator location, I never applied to either, but this makes me wonder if merely having been offered an opportunity at such a place could have value. Even if one never intended to follow through.

Which might not be a great thing for the folks reviewing applications...
There's an initial bootstrapping period before you get to those hundreds of thousands of subscribers, though.
In the entirety of my YouTube use (circa 2006!) I think I've left ~3 comments. I've never seen comments as a core feature of why I use YouTube so this won't change my perceived usefulness of it.

This reminds me of Facebook's changes in ~2010: They changed the entire layout of the site twice in the same year and there was noticeable backlash, but everyone quickly got over it and (more importantly) usage kept going up. At this point YouTube accounts for 18% of US traffic[1]... I don't think there's a substitute premium video service that has the infrastructure to support that level of usage.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20131111/netflix-youtube-half-your-bro...
A workaround would be to wrap the blur layer in another one with overflow:hidden and extend the edges of the inner one. I wonder if that would do the trick.
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Chatting With Mr Snapchat
This is a great concept - giving each question a score and allowing it to gain/lose exposure based on it, similar to HN/Reddit.
A profoundly disagree. Javascript is a great language, but that does not mean there is not room to improve. There is a reason tools like CoffeeScript and TypeScript (and even ASM.js) exist: there is a lot of ceremony building large applications with correct, readable Javascript.

The Dart community is full of folks who have written huge amounts of Javascript and consider Dart a welcome advance.

I'm a bit confused how function emulation -- useful, but certainly obscure -- could lead one to simply discard the whole project as tools for lazy Java devs.
Actually, there's FreePascal/Lazarus, and IIUC it's quite cross-platform:

from http://www.freepascal.org/ :
"It can target multiple processor architectures: Intel x86, AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, and ARM. Supported operating systems include Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/iOS/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, MorphOS, Nintendo GBA, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii."
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Snapchat turns down $3 billion Facebook offer
I'd argue that the size of Javascript output is great and it continues to improve: http://work.j832.com/2013/10/dart-to-javascript-output-size-...
I'm thinking that the release of Mavericks is probably the impetus. Someone was likely digging around to see if/why an updated file system was/wasn't included in Mavericks.
"The boundary where pieces of code manage to control voltage."

I just explained how that works.If you're talking about external ports, then just think of them as bidirectional registers connected to the outside world.
This is literally all there is to it!!!

"Where the text crosses into electro magnetic flux"

If you ignore crosstalk, which is caused by electromagnetic induction between the internal connections, then we can ASSUME that there is NO magnetic flux in DIGITAL microelectronics.
However, if you're dealing with ANALOG or MIXED-SIGNAl VLSI, then you will obviously have inductors (and resistors and capacitors) to manage the fequency components at various stages of your circuits.

It's impossible to explain all this in 300 words. The three books I described ealier are all you need to become an expert in Digitial microelectronics.
The Mano book deals strictly with discrete math, so if you don't have a strong background in Integral Calculus and Differential Equations, you can still learn a lot!

Here's some advise: If you're ever given the choice between Computer Science and Computer Engineering, pick Engineering. It's multiple orders-of-magnitude harder, but the rewards will be amazing.

It's like choosing to be a Pilot instead of a Flight Attendant. Trust me on that ;-))
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It just hurts me to have activities getting logged into two different places, or always logging in and out depending on what I am doing at the moment.

If say I am watching a clip on guns, and then I make a comment on the clip, against or for, people will realize I watch clips on guns which I'd rather not share.
Mobile devices? You just use web viewers to see the files. There are plenty of them.

Or do you mean being able to access the files offline? For that we have browser caching of the files and players :)

People could probably package all this nicely into a distributed Dropbox alernative anyone can host.

Any other questions?
Out of interest - were you using your real name?
So I've watched the video review and I can't help but notice how chaotic is the new PS4 user interface. I am not really a fan of the current PS3 store design, it looks like they have taken the same approach to the overall UI on PS4.
Why do people keep confusing the law with their own personal ultra-libertarian ideology?

Companies have plenty of legal obligations towards their clients, especially outside the US where consumer protection is actually a thing. And "free" users are clients as well (no such thing as a free lunch, there's a reason why Google wants you to agree to a very long legal document before signing up, you're entering into a business arrangement where you pay with your data).

It's weird how people expect there to be no laws concerning corporations and their clients.

By which I'm not saying that the OP has any recourse in this particular case. But corporations do not have the absolute right to arbitrarily refuse or suspend services.

"My company, my rules" is an ideology, not the law.
Some potential scenarios are:

* A security or encryption issue discovered in the protocol that leads to compromise of most wallets. The bug could be fixed, but existing balances and trust may be wiped out.

* Government regulation that makes it illegal to exchange bitcoin for cash or goods at legal businesses. It may remain as a niche underground thing, but even drug dealers need a way to eventually buy something else with their bitcoin.

* Insecure exchanges that make it impossible to exchange bitcoin for cash. Exchanges seem to get hacked and disappear even without government "help". The result is the same: people need a way to use bitcoin for it to have any value.

* Another digital currency becomes more popular.

* Someone with enough computing power takes over the network. This could be a government agency aiming to shut it down, or perhaps a back-door in ASIC miners.
Mavis Batey - obituary (Enigma code-breaker)
"We must have just overlooked some distinguishing detail in that initial +z state!" - yes, or there is an external influence we have missed.

The fact that the x-axis spin results are 50/50 strongly suggests something very specific and deterministic is going on. It would seem that we just aren't able to (pre)determine it without influencing it.
Google (used to) have a controversial strict "real name" policy on G+ and even very aggressively shut down accounts that had "fake looking" names, despite these people having said names. It discriminated against people who had (legal) Mononyms (single name) which is actually common in some cultures. They also didn't allow "unusual characters" in names. They asked for proof of name for shut down accounts and sometimes that proof wasn't good enough for them.

More info here including the weird things that triggered the auto flagging of profiles, and what shut down accounts couldn't do:

http://infotrope.net/2011/08/04/google-plus-names-policy-exp...

From the link above:

If you change your profile name, the following things seem to trigger the automatic flagging system:

Mononymity, i.e. having only one name (and having just a dot, or similar, in the “last name” field).
“Unusual characters”
Actually unusual characters, like a heart symbol (❤).
Punctuation marks, including quotation marks, parentheses, and possibly even hyphens and apostrophes.
Unusual capitalisation (including capitals appearing within a name, as in McWhatever)
Spaces in either part of your name, for instance “Marie Claire” as a first name.
Name using more than one character set, such as a name which uses the Latin character set for their first name and the Chinese character set for their last name.
Certain words, possibly including profanity, names of famous figures or deities, etc.
Professional titles such as Dr., Prof., etc.
Suffixes such as III or Jr.

The above is an incomplete list.

This is beyond bizarre because there are all kinds of names with those attributes, especially "unusual characters," (hyphens and apostrophes, periods) spacing, many first names, many last names, letters, "profanity," deities.

There were reports of people who have "two first names" as legal name (example Ron Paul, and the fictional Gwen Stacy) being suspended without warning as a violation of the real name policy.

They seem to have relaxed that policy some. They got a lot of backlash because of the policy and especially their strict policing of it and blanket suspension without warning of "offenders."

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271?hl=en

Google+ makes connecting with people on the web more like connecting with people in the real world. It's recommended that you go by your first and last name because it will help you connect with people you know and help them find you.
#1: good idea;

#2: maybe i should start blogging, but have problem: as i always find decent post about dev, as a writer i feel i'll write something obvious for people (but it's only my perception, probably my posts could be helpful for others), i'm a bit introvert person;

#3: yeah, but as i look for gigs i see only ultra-low rates, but will try (for begining probably i should hide my pride and work more for small tasks to get a reputation there);

#4: cold emailing is in progres but no luck so far, companies still tend to look for people on-site;
Wolfram announces 'most important' project: a language that models the world
Wow. Obstruction? Because book? I would be really curious to see the warrant application for the customer records of the book's authors. Was there really legitimate need for that, or did the prosecutor just say "terrorist" and that was that? I am really struggling to come up with reasons to remain in this country.

EDIT: Removing some of the emotion.
Facebook Said to Offer $3B for Snapchat to Attract Teens
Could be the same, but people scrape together gas money with greater urgency than they mail checks to pay bills, which I believe drives the change. Now people will be equally motivated to make their monthly payment.
Proved.co - a service that scores product idea
Good luck everyone
Not being evil doesn't mean that you're an angel incapable of doing harm. It just means you're not malicious.

It's the difference between a car accident, and murder by car.
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Jurassic Park may have been a bit silly with the Dennis Nedry "you didn't say the magic word" but at least it had some photogenic computers.

The CM-5 was a real beauty, certainly one of the more attractive supercomputers that ever was. (I think it was a Y/MP in the book which, while resplendent with a stately elegance, lacks the visceral blinkenlights of the Connection Machine.)

Also that weird Irix Motif-based file navigator thingy. Which I guess is cool, too.
promoting hateful inflammatory comments because they provoke responses

Please don't feed the trolls.
May I disagree? The dart2js compiler does everything you'd expect from a compiler, including inlining, removing unused code, reusing constant expressions. There is a reason that the several examples of Javascript from dart2js perform better than the the native Javascript implementation - https://plus.google.com/+KevinMoore314/posts/AZ67yWMgmdq
Thanks -

It's just the tokens and keys contained that really matter, I guess.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I prefer to directly download long Youtube videos so I don't have to deal with the site's garbage flash and HTML5 video players, but I only do that after I've actually watched a minute or two to see if it's interesting. Some kind of a browser-based streaming option is practically required to have a Youtube-esque in-band discovery experience (a roundabout way of saying "click around and waste 30 more minutes than you meant to").
You reckon you'll have time to remove the hard drive? ;)
Cloudera seems to be sponsoring this class and both instructors are from there. I think that explains why the class has a "Big Data in Hadoop" theme, since that's what Cloudera does.

(as a comic aside to the buzzwordiness of "Big data", I saw a tweet yesterday that lamented rising use of the term "Hyper data". Which was followed by a reply about approaching "Ludicrous data", with a link to Spaceballs' ludicrous speed scene)
Why do I suddenly taste lemons?
Countries place all kinds of restrictions that don't exist in other countries, they don't end up "losing".
Here's a solution to the Twitter waterflow problem with loeb: http://chrisdone.com/posts/twitter-problem-loeb
Google releases Dart 1.0, says language is ready for wide web use
SSL tends to be significantly slower on satellite internet connections.
Well, in his case he was an experienced acrobatic RC heli pilot flying in a sanctioned location. Freak accidents happen and when it involves a large scale RC heli, things can go bad very fast. Heck, even medium-large quadrotors can rend flesh quite easily and the small ones can do enough damage to make you respect them afterwards. I have a micro sized quad I fly in my yard because I'm not comfortable flying the larger ones anywhere near people.

EDIT: Also, according to witnesses, the top of his head was 'gone', so while not decapitated I guess, it was basically the same (if not worse).
By the way, are there good developer-level reviews of the hardware? I'm not a console developer (sadly), but it would be interesting to get a little insight about what's it like working for PS4 or the XBone.
+1. I don't see why there's so much whining. The YT comments are shit, and you'll be doing yourself a favor installing by a extension like this [1] (which, unfortunately, doesn't work with the new system yet)

Doesn't want to comment under your real name for whatever reason (trolling, personal info, fear of being stalked, etc)? Don't comment. Everyone will be better off.

[1] http://www.tannr.com/herp-derp-youtube-comments/
What about features like harmony proxies? I'd like to see someone transpiling that to ES5 and getting code that isn't super-slow.

Edit: Consider this dummy example:

f(a, b) { return a + b; }

With operator overloading, the compiler has to account for that, and must transpile to e.g.

function f(a, b) { return __invokePlus(a, b); }

Unless the programmer adds type hints

f(num a, num b) { return a + b; }

Edit: mraleph told me that I'm incorrect - apparently the transpiler does global type inference on the code and will only generate a function call if the type needs it (or if it can't figure out the type)
No, that would mean "Hacker" was back in "Hacker News". Of course it's a post about Google+.
Massive Google Search 3.1.8 Update Rolling Out
I got more something like: "I love writing a cli in a nice, expressive language like ruby, but ruby is a pain to distribute. I wrote this library for Go that lets me write simply and expressively, and I still get the advantages of Go's portability."

Not a groundbreaking revelation, but his point, I thought, was the expressiveness of the syntax PLUS the portability of the code.
This isn't meaningful - you have simply affirmed the consequent: "As noted by many, the fact that the creative output of individuals can currently be owned has rather large drawbacks."

I know this is your belief, but you haven't offered any argument to support it.

You also dismissed what I said out of hand, with the phrase 'This all sounds good but it's theoretical', which is also false on the face of it since it is the current state of affairs and has produced tangible results.

I know what you believe. I just don't think you have a coherent argument for it.
I would also like something like this. I deal with data in my job all the time, everything from surveys to web analytics to customer data, but I only have a foggy notion how to work with it. As a result, most of the output is fairly simple, obvious metrics, but it would be nice to get a few online courses on how to do basic stats, construct surveys, do UI and A/B testing, etc.
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Many years ago, I was on a 747 when an engine blew out (by which I mean a column of flame came out of the engine--no exterior physical damage). As I recall, they didn't say anything about a problem at first but the plane diverted to the nearest airport which happened to be Kuwait; this was long before the Gulf War etc. 747's have four engines though so this was possibly a less serious problem than on a two engine plane.
The benefit to youtube-type model is that there is an aggregator. There's a "channel" where people can bounce between interests.

You can make the argument that you can utilize "the internet" as a channel - but I think it's been demonstrated that people prefer to have a slice that they know is going to be specifically video-based content.
I think that advertising on these for me is a waste of money. Serious clients don't look up there for serious devs, and after years i'm tired with unserious clients.
Dart 1.0 Is Out
Yeah, I've tried from .5 to 50--3 seems to be the best value currently. I may try it with the non Barnes-Hut implementation too, maybe on a smaller number of words. If that works, then I'll bet it is something related to how the quadtree is constructed...

Btw, nice LDA visualization!
In which case you move to #2 which (to me) seems much easier to get: A Github or other online repository of your source code demonstrating contributions to open source projects or impressive projects of your own.
Wouldn't that make it a minimal quora/SO that you don't have to specially post your questions on?

Or, and while we're at it — location filters for location-based questions would be the greatest (although much more hard to implement) feature. I don't want to answer someone's question about his homework, clearly directed for his friends, but I would gladly give advice to a tourist who found himself in a place I know.
Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5960299
I've always appreciated interviewing job candidates that would respond with an honest "Hmm, I actually don't know" rather than trying to BS their way through a question for which they obviously didn't know the answer. Expecting even great developers to know 100% of everything is unrealistic.
Money is fungible. What is the equivalent of deposit insurance on my deepest, darkest secrets? This does not seem like a good analogy.
By HN standards, obamacare is definitely the greater good.
Actually, the original post was submitted. As was pointed out above, this is not blogspam. It's a result of HN's policy that only original titles can be used. The original blog post has a title that isn't nearly as friendly to upvoting. It's a system that has its pros and cons, but it's what HN has decided to do.
Does anyone remember a simar company a while ago with large traffic and little revenues that was almost acquired for $1B but turned it down called Digg ;)
The Democratization of Real-time Video Conferencing
MapQuest Launches New Mobile App
But the hashtags would contradict what I think is the best feature of this site — that you don't even have to know about it to use it.
The future of web apps is — ready? — isomorphic JavaScript
Luck and Entrepreneurship: A tale of two startups
Microsoft Opens Cutting-Edge Cybercrime Center
Programming with people: Fancy Hands lets developers add human workers to apps
Milanese elite given passes to drive in emergency lanes
I seem to remember that the Patriot Act allows the government to ask libraries for patrons' records and forbids the library from disclosing that it happened. Librarians and civil rights activists made a big stink about it at the time, but I guess people have forgotten about it by now and it has become the "new normal". Shortly after 9/11, the NY Public Library implemented their own photo ID cards that you were required to show before they'd bring you any reference material (this is for material that can only be used in the library, not checked out, so there's no real reason why they'd need to track who is looking at it).

And it would be very easy for the government to find out all the books I ever bought from Amazon and everything I read online. I wonder sometimes whether Amazon has some kind of PRISM-like arrangement with the NSA.
Before and After Typhoon Comparison
Electric cars are so new

Hate to be pedantic, but electric cars have been around for over 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#1890s_to_1910s:_E...
Well, the very short answer that I've arrived is that:

If you believe in the Copenhagen interpretation (and similar interpretations) then the universe isn't deterministic - there are many events that can happen but only one does happen in the end (when the set of probabilities assume specific values - the wavefunction collapse).

If you subscribe to the Many-worlds Interpretation then the universe is deterministic in a way - all events that could happen will happen in some branches (or in a portion of the branches equal to the probability of the event happening, as much as this makes sense) and it was all going to be that way since 'the beginning of time'. However, from another point of view (ours) - it isn't determined which branch you will experience yourself observing and this can make things seem non-deterministic (but in reality you or equivalents of you will experience yourself observing all branches in which you exist so I don't think that this would be the correct way to think about it).