skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. Google apps have already come a long way. Even right out of the box, I liked the spreadsheet functionality. Excel is great for complex projects but for simple data storage, I find docs to be easier to use.

I believe they were the first to auto sum columns in the bottom right hand corner, a feature which excel later added (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong). Something simple like this can be great for quick projects. I also like the ability to share within a group and allow multiple people to edit it. Imagine how much longer it takes to pass an excel sheet to 10 people and have them edit things.. I like the new update to edit without making instant changes that others will see.

More to your point, I would say that the spreadsheet app is definitely "good enough" for basic use but the word copy in docs needs some work. I like the share-ability feature, but I think word is better in almost every way.
The problem is your sister is in direct competition with Google. Searching Portrait Quilts brings up your sisters site then a large box that says "Shop for portrait quilts on Google"

Google is a competitive enterprise. They have to report to stock holders every quarter that income is more then the previous quarter.
This is an excellent idea. Kudos! Would love to see this grow and evolve as a primary way for prospective employees to do their due diligence. Quick Question - How do you guys ensure that the employees are actually employees at Zynga etc. once it expands beyond friends and family?
I have to say that I find the gmail experience vastly superior to thunderbird with my work email. There is something to be said for having a server do all the work instead of my desktop.

Thunderbird is currently my #4 memory hog, behind java and firefox, on a computer that routinely hits 100% memory usage.
Yeah, that's totally convenient, fast and easy! I'll just spend several hours of my time (at $200/hour) on the phone and driving around town ($50 in gas) to clear that package and save $20.
Does Google let you buy search result placement? Not ads, but better placement in search results?
Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end around 2060
I can do the first report free if you like
And I don't use Python because I hate snakes.
Except he could have given some helpful hint...
> On the plus side of Outlook, it has much more powerful searching/sorting abilities

I'm a bit surprised by this one. I'd pick Gmail search over Outlook every time, though my only real choices are Outlook for Mac or OWA.
I'd contend you're the one talking out of their ass.

Relying on another company for all your business isn't a sound business strategy. The person in the article put all their eggs in one basket and this is the result.
Yahoo Mail Is a Consumer Disaster, But Company’s Response Is Even Worse
And the shading is so much more hidden now. I had to tilt my screen properly to even see that it was ads.
Hello friend. You seem angry so I'm going to attempt to tread lightly as I throw some friendly suggestions out.

1. Do you have a verified valid robots.txt that Google can read?

2. Does your verified valid robots.txt point to a verified valid sitemap or sitemap index?

3. Did your submit your verified valid sitemap or sitemap index to Google Webmaster Tools?

Based on the responses to this, I or someone else might be able to help you further. Good luck to you.
There is a genetic predisposition toward finding it terrible. That's like asking a colorblind person "how can you mix up red and green; they're totally different?"
Why do you guess that?
SecondMarket CEO: Wall Street Will Put 'Hundreds of Millions' Into Bitcoin
They can also impound your vehicle, depending on the modifications and their mood. I used to ride heavily modded motorcycles - all the entries would need a second sheet in the papers. That was always great fun to see the traffic patrol compare serial numbers for air intake, exhaust, lights, indicaters, ... especially when it was wet and they had to crawl on the ground.
Maintaining rank and attracting organic traffic from Google requires constant, continuous work, and there are plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot. We all compete for this traffic; getting angry at Google and writing a pissed-off blog post won't change her ranking - stepping up to the plate and competing for the traffic using white-hat SEO, semantic markup, webmaster tools, syndication through social media, etc. is the only way forward. SEO has changed - adapt or die.
It's genetic. It has a very unpleasent soap-like taste. Even if there's a little bit it tastes like someone put a bar of soap in your meal.
Looks like systemd 207.
ASK:HN Is HN accessed more by mobile or desktop/laptop?
Why the Rent is Too Damn High
The CIA--er, Carlyle Group.
Try posting it to Google Plus, you should get crawled instantly (not necessarily indexed though).
The controls are pretty horrible, especially when using the mouse and the cursor leaves the viewport.
Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 Per Day
Why Companies Are Terrible At Spotting Creative Ideas
Snapchat: the next Groupon. Except worse.
this is awesome guys!
Yeah, that's a pretty rude move...
Also, be sure it's nontoxic, because removing it all from the atmosphere later is likely to be more difficult than the temperature problem was.
The real effort to create such a virus is not clear, but I always wonder why governments never tried to make an effort in order to make humanity more resilient to attacks of this kind (natural or artificial) with education. The incredible thing about viruses is that if you have a disciplined population that stays home as much as possible, avoid contacts during interactions, and so forth, during an epidemic issue, you can do wonders at containing the event. But for some reason we are not prepared at all to act rationally to such an event.
So how does this work? How do I know the people you're chatting with are actual employees of the respective company?

Details are very sparse on the site.
I also think this is a fantastic idea but further to your comment, its also impossible to determine if you are talking to an employee in a position you may apply for, or someone on the HR department who is trying to attract talent and so may give you a biased view.
> There are many, many kinds of assistance available to people

Yeah? Like what?

> It's not an either/or situation where you run out of unemployment and then your next option is death by exposure and starvation. Come on.

It's not like you run out of unemployment and die from exposure the next day. It's a very slow, gradual process. Many people survive for years on the street before they succumb. But unless something changes, or they are taken in by friends or family, the vast majority of the long-term unemployed will end up on the streets (or in prison) and sooner or later they will die there, because the sad fact of the matter is that at the moment there is no place else for them to go.
It's blocked by my work firewall. Oh well!
But a certain (large?) amount of the economic cost is exactly because of the overreaction to terrorism, as opposed to worrying about other threats.

Sam's saying "let's spend X amount of that $100 billion on preventing biological disasters, rather than just terrorism".
This api really needs to operate off an atomic snapshot, or at least return a timestamp of when monkeyness was observed, to avoid latency & synchronization issues. What if the monkey hands the phone off before the client code can continue execution?
Curious what "San Francisco Area" means. I can only get Fresh in San Francisco, not Oakland. Maybe down the peninsula?
So is Snapchat just big enough and hot enough that investors will ignore due diligence red flags? In any other startup, I feel like a year of litigation over an founder's equity stake would send investors running. If you haven't seen the Snapchat deposition video leak on Business Insider, it's well worth a look.
Your argument would be much better placed in our support forum. There, we do see much more opinions that are not the same, and the conclusions we draw are based on a bunch of inputs, but our support forum is probably the #1 place for issues we look at. Blocking pre-selections are currently slotted for mid-2014 because its actually a low priority item according to the votes we see.

If you feel strongly that your opinion is important and should be prioritized, please create relevant topic here: https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/ and gather support to change it so we address it quicker.
What is AngelHack, what is it for, how does it make the world a better place? When the tech bubble bursts, this schmuck will find himself in the lower part of society...
> I just searched this comment thread for "Taleb"

Ha, I did the same thing.

> I am partway through Antifragile and do not find it as compelling as The Black Swan, however.

Personally I think Antifragile is much better, in that it it's a more complete work that contains his previous books and irons out what the consequences are. It's possible you need to have a similar view on history, culture and modernity in place before you appreciate it - I was into stoicism, empiricism and classics in general before I read Taleb - as he's largely using that as "the other side of the barbell" in his explanations, with the first side being mathematical (see his technical online textbook). I've read The Black Swan once or maybe twice, whereas I am already on my third reading of the Antifragile (I can't help myself, it's too relevant).
How did you infer the site was deindexed? They said specifically by typing the URL of the site, it would show up.
I think I'd also like to add where's the motivation? Basically someone who did this would have to be what? A Serial killer with a biotechnology fetish?
I'm sure that a profile could be constructed of someone that would have the motivation to do it, but that would of course be a big limitation of possible people doing it, and then out of that group limit it to the people capable of doing it, and so forth - and actually would it really be likely that someone with the skill to do it would also be in the group motivated to do it? 12 monkeys aside I actually think not.
In reality, he couldn't. There are likely several million sites that are wondering about their Google page ranking as well. Figure several thousand of them know someone who knows someone who knows Eric Schmidt. From a practical standpoint, how many hours are in the day and how many do you think he should devote to such activities? From a fairness perspective, is it fair that you give inside Google information to someone because they're an acquaintance of an acquaintance?

Eric Schmidt said he was sorry but he couldn’t help. Now I’m angry.

This line strikes me as very similar to the person who makes a scene in a restaurant when they can't get a table right away. "Don't you know who I am?! My sister has the former #1 Photo Quilting business online!"
Where's my luggage?
Care to expand on this rather than draw a baseless analogy?
Earth's retention of its atmosphere also owes a significant amount to its planetary magnetic field, which deflects solar radiation that would otherwise energize molecules in the upper atmosphere enough to escape the gravity well.
Yeah I think so if I grok what this is doing...

One interesting approach I came across recently was: https://github.com/chrismccord/sync
that arm hair
Learn to code (but don't become a programmer)
Remember that EC2 charges $0.12/GB for data transfer so $30 only buys you 250 GB. I suppose if you used a spot micro instance and only sent not-already-encrypted data through it you could save money.
Ew.. Friday 13th... wait til it passes.

I don't believe this crap, but coincidently my own PC burnt with fire (literally), right after saying that and turning it on (a few years ago). Yeah, bad coincidence. However, I got part of the money back, because I sued the A/C Adapter company, whose part caused the fire. But I tell you, they were such big assholes, who looked up for the cheapest comparable parts on ebay for my hardware as a "base" price. Interestingly I had a $1200 worth collectors edition graphics card and they paid just $100 bucks for it, because the next cheapest and older model of the card on ebay was that much.
From the site:

"...but if you look for photo quilts or any similar search term, Portrait Quilts — which for years was always the top result — no longer appears."

I'm being a little imprecise, but her site was deindexed for a bunch of search terms that she used to rank highly for.
The site did not vanish. Go search for a snippet of text on the site, and it shows up right there.

Edit: Even for "portrait quilts" in quotes, her site shows up on the 8th page for me (opened incognito window to limit customization).
In principle, I'd agree that relying on another company is not a sound business strategy, but Google has a virtual stranglehold on organic traffic to websites, something that is outside the control of most web companies.

How do you suggest a web-based company should counter that and not rely on google for much of their business?
The problem comes when you scroll past some detail because the speed changed. That happens to me a lot with these things. Also, I'm never sure when I'm supposed to stop scrolling. As others have said it's just distracting.
And I don't because I hate British humor (so much that I refuse to add the second 'u').
Legality of Zavvi "recall"
And now, I can't look past it.
I'm not really talking about doing something for society. I'm finding it difficult to put into words what I'm thinking.

Pursuing pleasure as an end goal rarely leads to pleasure. A lot of addictions seem to stem from the pursuit of pleasure as an end. We treat people for doing something that makes them "happy" to the exception of all else (whether that be gambling, alcohol, drugs, etc.). I honestly think if there was a happiness pill we would consider treating people for taking it.

When I talk about doing something, I'm talking about what you do with what life throws at you. Everyone has different circumstances, but what is common is the ability to choose how we respond to those circumstances. Whether we make something (whatever that means to us) of what we are given or not.

Taking a happiness drug and checking out from the rest of life is deciding to do exactly nothing with what life has given us. And I honestly don't think most people would want that.

I'll end with a quote from Viktor Frankl's excellent book Man's Search For Meaning:

"By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence."

I am sure I have butchered my own thoughts, but hopefully this helps make some sense of what I'm trying to say.
"Why the heart of our city has to be overrun by crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash I have no clue."

It's a valid question. If there were crazy homeless drug dealing drop-out trash hanging out in front of my office building, begging for money every time I passed by on they way to my car, it'd be unsettling.
Personally I'm more interested in projects like Webodf (http://webodf.org/) and it's integration with OwnCloud 6 (http://owncloud.org/). Stick it on a Synology NAS at home and I've got my own office suite in the cloud.
>You could also jack a postie

The level of audacity it takes to assault and rob a government employee, versus casually walking into someone's driveway and grabbing their mail are not even close.

I have people delivering fliers to my mailbox multiple times a week. It would take no effort for them to grab my mail and stick it in their sack.

But again, I don't think "the ease at which your mail can be stolen" should even be part of this argument, as it's apparently significantly low in most cases.
As I said, we are adjusting to fit what our users think rather than what we preached. The site is 2 month old, and it reflects the new updated stance, and as I said earlier, the extensions will also be updated with pre-configured settings.

I'm not sure what you mean by that question? Ghostery is a separate team inside Evidon with full control over what we do. I'm one of the people managing the product and my customers are users of Ghostery. As such, my primary goal isn't improved blocking, its education - to let users know that they are being tracked, to provide relevant info on who are the trackers and where to find out more about them, and finally, provide control in the form of blocking.
The common pitfalls with performance-related pay
> He thinks he is better than other people.

He has a job, an education, isn't addicted to drugs, isn't violent and is generally a well-adjusted and contributing (more or less) member of society. All of that takes a lot of work, and merits some appreciation. How is that not "being better" than drug addicts, drug dealers, muggers or single moms on welfare, or even people who just watch reality TV all day? Many normal people put in a lot of work into being self-sufficient and productive, instead of relying on free money from others.
Can't get an internship
I'm a CS student at a small college (no opportunities at career fairs) in WA, and I've been trying to find myself an internship for the past couple of months, and I've had little success. As far as I can tell, my resume is decent (modeled after careercup's resume), I have stuff on my GitHub (no one really asked me for it though), but I still rarely get any replies (especially with resume black-holes like Jobvite - 0% reply rate). I've tried pretty much every approach from contacting people individually and "showing passion" for their company, to blasting my resume to anything I can find (ironically, response rates are about the same). I'm not particularly confident in my skills, but my get-an-interview rate is 100% for whenever I had to do a programming test/challenge for the initial application, so I can't be all that bad, but it never works out in the end. I even had an interview at a (mid-sized) startup in Seattle that went from "we'll make you an offer" to "you're not a good fit" as soon as they found out I'm not a US citizen. The prevailing advice on HN for "I can't get a job" seems to be "get an internship", and that you just have to not drool during the interview to get one, but I haven't found it to be as easy as some people make it out to be. I'm pretty desperate and at this point I'm looking for pretty much anything that would pay just enough for me to be able to survive the summer (I'm finishing up my junior year, so this is pretty much my last chance of getting a job that will allow me to stay in the US after graduation), but has depressed me to the point where it's starting to affect my day-to-day life in pretty severe ways. If you have any advice, I'd be grateful to hear it
That depends on what you mean by "not very many." Accurate numbers are hard to come by, but as of the mid-2000's there were an estimated 750,000 homeless people in the U.S. That number is almost certainly higher now.

Most of them manage to survive without starving or freezing because food and shelter are sporadically available. But it certainly doesn't extend their life span.
Running thataway.
> It's unclear if Amazon has actually started using Kiva, though.

Yeah. They use them a lot. A lot, a lot. It was cheaper to buy the company than pay to outfit every FC. All newish fulfillment centers ( http://www.amazonfulfillmentcareers.com/amazon-fulfillment/l... ) are divided into "kiva" and "non-kiva" areas. I think there is only one FC that is fully "kiva," but it may be as many as 3 now. Details are NDA.
Thing is, it does just work...if you follow the directions Play gives you once you create a new project. Namely, to use their play wrapper around sbt.

(I am not saying this is a good idea, but I am saying it "just works".)
The real problem is not that they couldn't get preferential treatment. The problem is that there is no way to get treatment at all. If they hadn't have asked Eric Schmidt, then we could have wondered whether they had really tried everything. Since they did, it's obvious that Google simply has a problem that they're not interested in fixing.
True, that would be an inaction.

I disagree with your moral though, a moral would suggest a choice, and it would be difficult to not depend on Google for exposure here since they are the dominant source of identification. It is perhaps a poor choice to depend on Google for 'organic' exposure however.
"The absurdity of this style of learning math hit me squarely between the eyes in my post-secondary education. In a statistics class I once approached my professor, asking for help. “What sorts of practice problems should I be drilling?” I asked. She looked at me like I was from the moon. In her French education, she had (apparently) not learned math in this way. “Go somewhere, lie down, and daydream about it for a while” ended up being her advice."

So jealous of French education now.
I think I'm gonna make a quick startup and sell it for $50M
He doesn't offer much support for his prescriptions.

Why is it bad to "try to keep things secret" but good to "spend a lot on proactive defense"?

How would that apply to hydrogen bombs? Should we open source the specific details on how to engineer a maximally efficient hydrogen bomb from the most accessible materials, and just spend a lot on hydrogen bomb defense? (Which is what exactly?)

When you omit support for conclusions, it implies you think the reasons are obvious. But it is not obvious that we should do away with efforts at secrecy around hydrogen bomb tech. Nor is it obvious we could defend ourselves from widely available thermonuclear bombs by being "proactive". It's a hand-wavey answer that appeals to the "information wants to be free" sentiment, but not actually well supported.
And here's a link to follow for any information on the beta testing program:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Announcements/Beta-t...
Whatever happened to “to whom much is given, much will be required”?

I've seen it written that a great many successful business leaders have sociopathic tendencies; I find it very hard to relate to the kind of person who would say such a thing from their position.

I can imagine the thinking behind someone who has nothing or very little and wants someone to blame, but this coming from someone who has so much? What could possibly be the motive?

It is sickening.
- No. That is too much money.
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Agreed. These medium-tall people with transparent skin in northern europe where the sun don't shine are definitely not stuck in the past.
The problem with this is that most of the general public will read it as "Google helped NSA intentionally ..."
For #1, Hit the "Expand all" button (it's the one to the left of the print button at the top of the entire conversation. Then use Ctrl-F to search within.
Drivers are usually kernel-tied more than anything else.

I wouldn't expect too much improvement from the FOSS drivers like Nouveau (I suspect the performance required of modern games is still out of their reach), but the binary X drivers from should see some big improvements - any distributions that currently can leverage those would benefit.
No, because you'll be five years older and young people will cost less than you do. Might as well go eat worms.