skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of products/services like Windows, Xerox, tipex start as generic terms or become them during their lifetime. I'm not saying that they should therefore always come first, but it's instructive if you compare xerox to this website - they dominate the entire first page of google results. What should come first is what would be useful for end users, and I think it's fair to expect a company named after and with an url of a phrase to come at least once on that first page, if lots of people link to them (as from other search engine results they appear to). If that's not the case, Google should be transparent about why these penalties are applied. I understand why they don't want to be transparent for commercial reasons and to stop people gaming the system, but think given their monopoly position it behoves them to be so. Otherwise they can destroy businesses maliciously or, even worse, with complete indifference.

Personally I find Google is providing results which are less and less useful, with their recent emphasis on monetising search, indifference to fairness, and lack of transparency as to their ranking methods - it certainly seems as if in this case a draconian penalty has been applied, and there is no effective way to appeal or even find out what the judgement against them was (webmasters very often is not helpful). A penalty of a few places would be completely understandable if they don't like this site for whatever reason, a penalty of 8 pages while other spammy results dominate search terms is not.

I've switched to DuckDuckGo for now and it's pretty good. Compare the results for Tipex (a popular brand of correction fluid in Europe) for example:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tipex
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tipex
Google and Facebook were doing that to eachother for a while, until they reached a gentleman's agreement to stop poaching eachother's employees.

If memory serves HN was very angry, saying it was collusion to keep developer salaries below true market value.
Mac Plus has a CPU limited line speed of ~19 kilobits/sec? That's pretty amazing.

My first was a Kaypro II with 64kb of RAM, 191kB floppy drive, and a 2.5MHz Z80. I just looked up some videos of them running and the memories came flooding back. Good times.

Just imagine what computing power we'll have in another couple of decades and how silly what we have right now will seem.
> I don't exactly live in fear of muggings but I take sensible precautions like e.g. backing up my data, making sure that I can turn a factory-new laptop into a working dev environment within a day, and carrying insurance.

Yep. When I visit the US, I bring a freshly-wiped laptop with no personal data on it with me. If I lose it, it doesn't matter.
As an employee, I sincerely hope companies are doing this.
The topic now however is lying and misleading the public on unconstitutional acts by the highest members of the government who formally are supposed to protect the mentioned constitution, not the possible technological problems of executing some specific spying actions and protecting the constitution at the same time.
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Do movies have awful music in general, just because there are lots of shitty movies and movies with a music budget of at least $1000 represent .0001% of all movies?
So was the government. They sued these companies, apple also.
I don't really travel internationally, but I decided -- about ten years ago, when people first started talking about the way laptops are searched at borders -- that if I do feel the urge to travel internationally with my laptop, I'll dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda on all my gadgets before I cross any national border.

Of course you want to have VNC / ssh set up ahead of time so you can actually do stuff...
I wish my Aunty hadn't thrown out our IBM Pentium PC @ 100mhz, and a whopping at the time 16mb of RAM. Seriously powerful machine for the time. I miss it...
Yes you do get and can resolve the conflicts.

Despite common knowledge you can diff and merge office documents with TortoiseSVN. All it does is fire up their built in review/diff tools.
As someone who put in the years required to learn Classical Latin and Attic Greek I can but only heed you to make very, very sure you are willing to invest the enormous amount of time required to learn an ancient language.

If you have a normal job, wife and children, and can't find at minimum 2 hours out of your day to dedicate to language study, then don't bother. You will never read any Sanskrit at a comfortable pace if you can't commit to such an investment. I'm talking about picking up a book and not hitting an unknown word 3 times a sentence. You'll need at minimum 2 years of a full time schedule like before it even becomes fun.

It's the unfortunate and sad reality about the time commitment required in learning ancient languages to the level of fluency.
You can keep it minimal if you want to. In some situations you can avoid javascript completely (e.g. QML based framework covers all details for you).
Same...until the GC kicks in. Then the app locks up for 60+ seconds at a time every few hours, at which point the developers start moving anything memory intensive out of Java to avoid the pauses, and/or reduce their severity (c.f. Cassandra). At that point, is it really Java? You might as well use a scripting language to integrate with all that C...
How about: because there is still something called the constitution, and those who lie are the ones who swore and with the highest duty to protect it?

Why does constitution get to be completely ignored now, together with all the unconstitutional acts by the highest in the government?
Pulling that sort of stunt would probably get you in a lot of trouble.
Want your head to explore: the future of package management: an Emacs plugin when Emacs goes Guile! (Personally, I think that would be pretty cool.)
The future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
I used your script to help me figure out how to dig for DogeCoin. Ultimately I wound up doing everything on Screen. Did 1, 3, 5, and finally 1 instances, a few hours at a time. I've stopped mining for now, going to wait until I set up my own rig and maybe create a new AltCoin. https://gist.github.com/benatkin/7868889
That Mac Plus is decked out. 4MB RAM, external hard drive, System 7. Jealous!
As someone who really doesn't know, is it actually necessary to have an adult watching a baby every moment of its existence?
Newspapers occasionally publish these things - see the recent example of an upstate NY newspaper digging up the addresses of gun owners. Or see the nyt widely publicizing the location of the new Goldman Sachs HQ, something that was nominally private.

(I say "nominally" because like the address of assorted gun owners and revenge porn victims, these things are a matter of public record.)

Send the editors to jail?
As Bruce Schneier suggests, when crossing a border, encrypt your drives and change your password to something so long and convoluted you cannot possibly remember it.

Give you password to a trusted friend (preferably your lawyer) with instructions not to give you the password until you get home or to your destination.
It is really pathetic to see how people are quick to snub off anyone or anything that's related to Hinduism, ancient Hindu works, scriptures etc as propaganda, brainwash etc. Is it some kind of reverse propaganda??

>>>You can also see that the site claims that Jyotish is astronomy but it actually means astrology.

Where? They do mention it as "astrology".

>>>In reality, the scriptures are filled with filth like procedures of sacrificial, bestiality and orgy rituals, calls upon gods to slaughter their enemies (who have stolen their herds), etc.

>>>29. [Saturn] has an emaciated and long physique, has tawny eyes, is windy in temperament, has big teeth, is indolent and lame and has coarse hair.

What is legit or scientific about it?

Have you heard of mythology, euhemerism, and personification? Out of all those stuff on that site, you zeroed-in on sacrificial rituals, description of Saturn, and dismissed everything as "filth"? Then, what is your say on Ganit Shastra, Kaam Shastra, Khagol Shastra to name a few?

Based on that logic, all these below must be filth and their sole purpose is to brainwash people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mythology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_mythology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythologies
And does it have to be a single person, and its genitors?
With 15% you can have a seat in the board or at least some voting rights. Having that it would be more difficult to just dissolve the company without any real reason.
But generally speaking you're right, thanks.
Now There's a Zombie Drone That Hunts, Controls, and Kills Other Drones
Did you read this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893190

And did it affect your opinion?
It would be even nicer if we didn't live in a surveillance-state kleptocracy; then we wouldn't have to worry about a lot of crap like this.
The solution is to assume that anyone who gets power will act in a 100% corrupt, cynical, and self-serving way. It's a bit like building fault tolerance into a distributed system. Even if each of your servers will only be unreliable a very small percentage of the time, you must assume that at any given time, any given server could be down, or your whole system will be fragile.

Similarly, a government that relies on the moral character of its officials rather than institutionalized checks and balances is a weak and easily exploitable system of government.

If you have the checks and balances, you can still hope for politicians that will keep their promises, but when many of them inevitably don't, they will be limited in the amount of damage they can do.
Maybe. My experience (not Qt based) with Javascript on iOS is not very bad (I expected worse). While I don't like that Apple created fake problems using script languages in iOS.
You are right about the vim clone being the wrong description. That was a mistake on my part. A vim-like command interface to creating 3D scenes is more appropriate.
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> If the president were still GWB when all this stuff came to light there would be a constant drum beat of news coverage rolling into the next congressional

I don't think this is the right approach to the problem. Without getting too much into politics, if the general public didn't really care when torture was considered fair game nor when it was proved that the whole "WMDs in Irak" was made up (and let's remember that soldiers actually died because of that), I think they certainly wouldn't have cared about Snowden either.
You can change the name that other users see on Steam. It's been that way for years. Unless you mean something else?
How is a poor person going to afford an iPad and accessories? Child behaviorists also advise limiting children's exposure to electronics, ESPECIALLY in the first two years. Sounds like you're advocating for poor people's children to treated more poorly than the "two parent household with enough money for regular day care."

I also don't see how the only options are "spend all your waking hours focused solely on your baby" or "abandon them to be raised by an electronics firm." Sounds like your friend just needs some "work life balance."
That's almost exactly what recruiters do...
You are misinterpreting the post.

Derek isn't claiming that your decisions about what to keep private shouldn't be respected, but rather that you - the person who wishes to keep things private - might benefit from thinking twice about what is it you are actually afraid of, and whether it is all rational.

Claiming that her diary was secret because "she wanted to" is really beside the point. People constantly "want" many things which are harmful to them. It is of much higher value to try and help them, than to deny attempts to do so on the grounds that "they have a right to do whatever they want".
And your unsubstantiated statements mean more..?
How do you define the mode of a data set where all the values are different?
I have a feeling many of the peopel who are complaining will end up sitting their child in front of the TV in years to come. A product like this may be useful as a entertainment device for the child and can be combined with parental involement.
But you're paying for it. It's friendship prostitution.
Beeping 'My heart will go on' from Titanic
Depends on how do you define a Hindu kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hindu_distribution.png
I've basically made the same realization a few years ago and decided to stop going through the trouble of keeping my personal code private.

It's been great so far. I get all the benefits (like godoc.org providing docs for my code, free github repos, easy to share links with people, etc.) and none of the disadvantages.

It's a personal choice, and not for everyone. But it just makes life so much easier. In fact, I'm trying to reduce the number of things that I'm forced to keep private because they're considered to be "security questions".

On theft of ideas: https://twitter.com/shurcooL/status/266294572949327872
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No, that's their taxi service, which is mentioned in the grandparent.
Perhaps it's more accurate to say that the spy organisations have become one entity - a supra-national and extra-legal one which ignores national laws or political control - GCHQ for example is completely in the service of the NSA now, to the extent that their internal briefing documents and top-secret information are all stored on NSA servers (hence Snowden's access to them), and their activities are dictated by the priorities and funding of US agencies.

Nations continue to disagree (for example the UK refused to back the intervention in Syria), but the spies will always cooperate.
It should be fixed now, https://github.com/pyramation/vim3d/commit/49d8f94fa7fbc4f27...

Thanks, the primitives caps issue was also fixed before this commit.
Why is it that video games are not filmable? I cannot imagine Grand Illusions' (https://www.youtube.com/user/henders007) videos being flagged for not owning the copyright for the toys he does "let's plays" of.
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1. Developers are in short supply.

2. Non-developers are not in short supply, broadly speaking. Every business guy/girl and their mother wants to get into startups. Finance people, former consultants, you name it. These are all highly-credentialed, experienced people, too. Obviously, superstar salespeople and PMs are in high demand.

3. Startups would rather have as little on the job teaching as possible, because that would slow them down.

4. At all the companies I've seen, there is a roughly one or greater than one to one ratio of non-devs and engineers. So hiring numbers for non-devs and engineers would seem to be the same. However the supply of devs is highly constrained, so companies have to expend more effort recruiting engineers.
SOAP Web Services.
I am from India, and I am getting the default nginx page. That does not look good.
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Meanwhile, most keyboards (especially desktop boards) have spacebars so wide that none of the modifier keys are easily reachable by thumb. C through M should be the widest allowable spacebar, and splitting it is great.
RequireJS basically assumes your code will compile correctly/free of errors. Linting or other activities besides straight up "successful compilation" are a bit outside the scope of a RequireJS plugin.
What useragent string did your browsing generate?
yes, but archbang and crunchbang have nice defaults.

As great as Arch's documentation is (best in all linuces I've tried), I still prefer to have some nice defaults so I can get stuff done whilst learning the knobs.
Never tried. Don't need that feature myself.
That's funny because I am seeing nginx's default page. They are probably balancing the load across servers with different setup.
Currently I´am testing https://rukzuk.com/en/
Why do you say Debian is a "monstrosity"? What would that make Ubuntu then?
Are you involved in Tor development or something similar? Is your response relevant then?
What this makes me think is that the market for drivers (or at least good drivers) is in high demand and they are a limited pool with more leverage than is recognised. That means they can probably command higher prices which will ultimately have to be passed along to consumers somehow.
At least in DC, they're distinct. The taxi service sends actual city-licensed taxis to pick you up, and the rate you pay is based on the meter (though you still pay for it via their app). UberX uses cars licensed as livery vehicles (like the black car service), and the rate is set per mile or minute or whatever by Uber, but they're mid-range cars like Priuses rather than towncars.
Moz founder Rand Fishkin goes public with plan to step aside as CEO
I found Lubuntu the fastest. I copied ArchBang's awesomewm setup because ArchBang is beautiful. The result was fast and usable.
And don't forget that, in the US if a federal agent asks you the question, "Do you have access to any remote servers?" and you answer with a direct lie, even if they are not acting in the course of an investigation, you have violated the law[1] by speaking a falsehood to a federal agent. In fact, you've committed a felony.

And before you argue, "Well, they'd never use that for something so trivial," remind yourself of what you used to believe that the government would never do. (And I wonder today how many people are accused and convicted under that particular law.)

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
What to makeof this thread? I see bias all around - on both sides of the house! Sure, it's always fun to be thrashing the big guys ("evil empires") and cheer for the under dog.

Those who have been watching more closely (IMHO, the only ones entitled to raise public critism) would back me up in saying that there has been an ongoing change for the better and SAP has really been opening up to the broader developer community - empowering developers and lowering the entry barrier!

SAP offers free education and free developer licenses so it's easier than ever to get started. At the end of the day, it's all about making a living as a software developer and hence I believe this is a positive trend... And one that should be acknowledged in a positive way.
My thoughts were similar: if the parenting is assigned most of the blame, maybe the parents should be serving the jail term? (I'd hate that as a general precedent – even good parents can yield a criminal child – but if in this case the parents have effectively embraced that culpability...)

Perhaps civil suits, leveraging the criminal case argumentation, can approximate that outcome.
Last time I passed through LA on the way to NZ from London, and back, I was eyeball scanned and fingerprinted. I had a moan about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6566274

At the time they didn't appear to be siphoning off folks for hand-luggage special treatment, though it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
The idea that surveillance can be "reformed" is unworkable, unrealistic.

I disagree and feel this is a dangerous abdication of responsibility. I wouldn't believe politicians' reassurances about any reform, but clearly budgets could be cut, and strict safeguards put in place. We should expect nothing less from our governments, while working to protect ourselves as well.
Implementing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award would have prevented these type of issues in India
I just looked up the page on Nix, and, yuck.

First of all, requiring the directory you install shit to to include a full cryptographic hash in its name? Do you even comprehend how completely useless the file path is now to a human? Sure you can have a directory of symlinks to make it readable again, but as we should know by now, plenty of applications bork on trees of symlinks (and you can't hardlink a directory). Plus your garbage collector depends on hardlinks (or a whole lot of tree indexing). This could have been managed in so many ways to make it a lot more user friendly.

"Complete dependencies"? You mean MANDATORY dependencies? This is so fucking annoying. Now I can't install an entire OS because one package with a specific SHA is gone. So even though I could rebuild it from scratch and it could be functionally identical, with 1 bit different the SHA is hosed and now everything is useless. Not to mention even if I had it, I have to ship every single dependency to anyone any time I want to give them that package/app/etc. Fantastic. And 'scanning binaries for hashes of directories'? This has got to be the laziest, dumbest solution to a complex problem i've seen supported by GNU since...... Wait, nevermind. They've probably supported dumber things.

MULTI-USERS?!? YOU MEAN A NORMAL USER CAN INSTALL A PACKAGE? GET OUT. NO PACKAGE MANAGER CAN DO THAT EXCEPT.... All of them?

Atomic rollbacks/upgrades sounds nice, until you realize a program might be running other programs, which might trigger your runtime dependency checking, which might screw everything up.

"Garbage collector" ? Oh. If it has hardlinks, you don't delete it. Gotcha.

As far as "functional" operations go, it's been pretty well proven in production environments that you don't actually have to completely recreate a binary exactly; just approximately. Functional operations management gives techies a hard-on, but means diddly in terms of real-world problem solving. We have managed away the implicated problems years ago.

WHY ARE WE STILL INSTALLING FROM SOURCE?! Did Gentoo teach you all nothing!?!

Service deployment? You mean service configuration management and deployment? Sigh, here we go again. Let's combine three different things into one and pretend it's a viable solution for general operational challenges.

Everything else seems handy.
I doubt it's true for any demographic.
>if you are an extremely talented musician, it's not in videogames that you'll get [...] the best salaries

>Music is not just about how much money you throw at it

That doesn't make much sense.
I do wonder that if it was declared that math is not patentable simply because it is executed on a computer whether this would apply to hardware implementation too.
Ask HN: does your job put meaning in your life?
I really enjoy programming especially Python and Django but as I'm looking to get more and more into actual jobs I'm starting to question somethings. I want to do programming especially Web development in a way that helps millions of people.

How many of you make websites that actually help people? I want to put meaning into programming any advice on how?
HN is awesome. Where else do you get someone who had something to do with a project post a comment about it? :)
The Noun Project Re-launched
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I know one other offense which is both breaking an american company contract, breaking american law, and making you lose any argument about good faith. Does that make someone at risk?

It's using a false name of facebook.
>Music is not just about how much money you throw at it

I meant that because someone else mentioned the usage of orchestra as a sign of good music. It is not.