skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Britain is in some ways 'cursed' with London. It's geographical location in the far south east of the country, combined with its financial power and the south east's proximity to Europe, means that the UK is skewed both financially and as a direct result, a housing shortage.

There are 22,000 people waiting for council, housing in Tower Hamlets, a poorer area of London with lots of social problems. People live in bedsits that are technically illegal housing, because of poor or downright dangerous facilities.

The current government believes that the free market will resolve these problems. That jobs will pull people out of places like Tower Hamlets and to 'somewhere else'. Thatcher for all of her bad points did bring in the idea of Enterprise Zones, where poor communities outside the south east hotspot would have officing and factories built and then rented for free for several years. The project was relatively successful in encouraging large companies to set up European bases and factories in these areas.

This government doesn't appear to be doing anything like that, at least not on the same scale. It was money well spent, even if some of the companies that used the scheme, especially the multi-nationals, abused the system somewhat.t still brought jobs to the Celtic fringes, and lowered the pressure on the London pressure cooker.

Something like that scheme is needed on a permanent basis. Sure it costs money, lots of it, but long term the entire UK will benefit.
Where are you getting this number system from? I've never heard of it until now.
In science, understanding is developed through abstract mathematics and empirical experimentation.

Whilst UML is an abstraction language, I would hesitate to compare it to a mathematical calculus. Regardless, we do not subsequently carry out empirical experimentation in the same way as science does. There is no "ground truth" that UML is modelling when developing software (ignoring edge cases) - it's a design tool.
This is really inspiring, man. Great work, and good luck. I might do one of these solo hackathons myself, given all the stuff I have floating in my head that never gets to see the light of day. Sort of reminds me of http://hackalone.org - a "hackathon for introverts", which was shared on HN a while back. I normally just end up buying domain names and sitting on them, until I get a notification a year later reminding me of my failure :-) I have a tonne of ideas I get excited about every now and then, some of which I think are good, all (or most of) the knowledge and tools I need to implement them, no pressing financial constraints, and a decent amount of free time. Yet I rarely start any of them, and the ones I do start I do not finish. It's frustrating trying to understand this complete lack of motivation.

PS: I'm a little bothered by how you used "transgendered" in reference to UI design. Some people might find it insulting.
Remember, Google is quite large, and hence also inhomogenous. Some time ago the Chrome browser team did something that could be construed as a service-for-links campaign, an the PageRank team penalized Chrome for two weeks (if I recall correctly - commentary on this [0]).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422386
The difference is in the number of entities which own it and what they can do with it.

AT&T, Verizon et al can't unilaterally decide that you're a terrorist and arrest you, but the government can.

The government should be the gatekeeper for what can be done with your data, but it should not be allowed to own that data itself.
"small businesses depend on the mercy of one giant corporation" - this can't really be blamed on google. It's hardly their fault they are the best at search. If someone comes along with something better people will use that. on the interwebs there's no such thing as brand loyalty. Going forward the internet's biggest problem is security. With hackers pulling millions of credit cards from Target and seldom a day goes by without reading about some big corp getting hacked, people will more and more look to big corporations like google that can hire the best security minds for their online protection. Using google gives you some degree of trust that the sites in the results are there for a reason, people they aren't scams or bogus companies. Google is the internet's filter, and in this case with RG I am not sure that i don't side with google. There are plenty of alternatives to RG. I don't see why anyone would care much about song lyrics, but it's not like RG are the only game in town.
> and when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go to rap genius.

So, isn't it easier (and faster) to go directly to rapgenius or create custom search keyword in the browser, than ask google for the lyrics?
Does it matter with copy-on-write?
Opportunity to make the next big song annotation site before New Year's?

Seriously how hard could it be ... write a Node.js app that can handle 10k clients on one machine, and partition the data by the song being annotated. Don't even need $1 million dollars. YouTube hosts the videos, anyway.

Ah, but there is just one problem... song lyrics are copyrighted and a license to some database is like $20,000

Wish I knew a way around that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6963867
You're right -- no one deserves to get paid simply for working (i.e. creating a work). But everyone deserves the opportunity to sell that work. When someone else takes what someone does, it diminishes the value of that opportunity. Copyrights protect that opportunity.
"Your" mind and "my" mind are not discrete entities, under the description of quantum systems.[0][1].

When you measure the fluorescence lifetime of ruby, for
instance, you only measure the presence of emitted photons
on a quantum physical way, which implies the collapse of
the system’s quantum state, but you measure the time at
which the photodetector gets activated by simultaneously
reading a clock in a classical way. That is a very strange
feature of the quantum/classical dichotomy of the
Copenhagen interpretation, and it leaves one very basic
question completely open: There is no way to predict
quantum physically when the quantum measurement
process and the collapse of the quantum state will take place,
or even to find out the time distribution of the measurement
process in a statistical way. The Copenhagen interpretation
only defines the statistical distribution of the possible
measurement results assuming a measurement is being
performed at a given time, but doesn’t tell anything about the
conditions under which a quantum measurement will actually
happen – basically because measuring is considered as an act
taking place in the classical world, which escapes quantum
physical description.[2]

[0]: "You and I". Sebastian Rödl. Universität Basel. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47805860/Articles/Roedl_...

[1]: "Quantum". Aha Hah. https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#xl6a68x/NLd6c9

[2]: "Quantum Ethics". Sébastien Fauvel. https://github.com/quantum-ethics/quantum-ethics
How about Google Guice? I can't recommend it because I personally haven't used it, but I was under the impression that it is supposed to be the answer to this.

If it isn't what you're looking for, I'd be curious to hear which of these qualifications it fails at.
What company leadership allowed to happen shows a real disrespect for one of the primary risks to the business. Without having the explanation that you described, the two most likely explanations in my mind are either this was standard practice all along (finally got caught), or somebody made one of those epic fail business decisions. If its #1, I doubt we'll see a clear explanation. If its #2, somebody may have to fall on the sword as the "poster child" of bad business decisions.
I generally use !g if I want local results (say, looking for a restaurant) or I use !m if I want a map (which is really the same thing as local for me). I also use Google if I know my particular search is going to be obscure and/or noisy. For instance, weird error messages get a !g. The other major exception is that Google Scholar is incomparable for finding academic papers on a particular topic. However, for everything else (general knowledge, non-weird errors, most programming-related topics) I find the DDG results entirely sufficient. In fact, I intentionally use DDG by itself if I expect to end up at Wikipedia since DDG adds possible Wikipedia matches at the top of the search results.

That being said, I end up using the DDG results for >50% of my searches. If you do more local searches, or if the things you search for tend to be noisy or obscure then, of course, YMMV.
I'm super excited about the new GC and profiling tools. I actually feel like I can't wait to get back to work and try them out =)
Wow! Yup, he made it, just over 1000
pages!

From the table of contents, the only
thing I could find missing was the
kitchen sink!

His prerequisites are:

"multivariate calculus, probability, linear algebra, and computer programming".

He does say that there is code on-line
for nearly everything in the book,
code for Matlab/Octave.
The People-to-Work Ratio
when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go to rap genius

Sounds like a wasted step. Go to your site and search it. Or has it outsourced that (/expectation) to Google?

Even then, search {site: XYZ} in the g box and be done with it.
Someone needs to ask Obama why he both backed and co-signed bills that would curb the power of the NSA before he became president, only to completely change his tune afterwards.

I've said it before, but I also believe that the NSA now has the power to make sure that presidents toe the line.

The question everyone needs to ask themselves is; who's line are they toeing? Who's the piper? Who is the power behind the throne?

It might just be conspiracy theory, but the problem is the NSA now genuinely have the capability to do this. Even if they aren't, how would we know if somebody rogue came in to head up the NSA; an American Joseph Goebbels for example. We wouldn't even know, because all of those secret courts and secret policies would hide the reality from the public until it was too late.

I just hope that we aren't too late already.
May I ask what you think the most important thing(s) you did between March and August to start building your real traffic?

Great site! Thanks for sharing, keep it up!
Can I use the wiki api or scrape this: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Lyrics_Wiki
Thank you. I had the same problem.

You can also get the video file using the youtube_dl script:

youtube-dl 'http://vimeo.com/82666985'
It may be a reason, but it is not the main reason, not by a long shot.

India has a chronic problem of tax evasion, in the grand schemes of things only a handful of their citizens can claim a defense/offense of "it's ability to tax foreign income of resident Indians", since only a handful do not have the ability to evade taxes or have never deliberately evaded taxes.

A quick search for "tax evasion in India" can educate on this topic, including an article[0] that states "tax evasion is India's national sport."

My Indian friends tell me, that they don't feel bad evading taxes a little since the politicians, bureaucrats etc would squander it through bribes and scandals. To which I say, perhaps the main reason for rampant scams and bribery is that taxes are evaded and these public employees are paid poorly.

[0] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/in-india-tax-evasion-is...

edit:

On re-reading my comment I realized that I was unclear why in it's current scope RBI's main concern is not the scope of tax evasion. Currently India looses over $300B to tax evasion each year, even if all of bitcoin's market cap was taxable by India this would be a very small fraction of their tax losses.

I believe the real reason lies in addressing customer grievances. India is plagued by numerous scandals and scams in the private sector and the only resort for most people is going to the consumer courts if they can afford it. Their already few options would be obliterated if they choose to deal with bitcoin.

While this may be a concern in the developed countries, its not nearly as bad as the situation in India and similar economies.
Their search engine isn't very good, as is the case with most sites. There's a reason why everyone uses Google to find things.
The suggested solution may have been a joke (although it is not without precedent) but the analysis was spot-on IMHO.
I wonder if an influx of gamers will spur valve devs to work on the game, like with CSGO
Ah, that explains why they've been DDOSed for a couple hours now.

edit: I'm not implying that Steam is being attacked, here I intend to say that the DDOS is organically driven by high demand for the content.
Valve coming with a _real_ growth hack.

I'm putting this one over the Orange box.
I've been thinking for many years about e-readers and the consequences of tracking user reading behaviors. One likely outcome is that it will result in a wave of "pop literature". As I understand it, pop music is already heavily customized to appeal to the masses based on tracking loads of data, going as far as analyzing past hits to identify the combinations of tunes, vocals, instruments and audio effects that work best to create new hits. Record labels and producers apparently have it down to a (data) science.

Some may point out that mass-produced "pop literature" is not really new: for instance, the entire Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew series was just that. However, since this is not a widespread practice so far, (almost) nobody has complained about it.

But once this data starts getting used more and more, and feedback loops get more efficient, eventually pop literature may suffer from the same criticisms as pop music. In a way it's good: you're giving the customers what they want. But it also has the downside that creators will shape themselves to their audiences rather than express themselves freely, limiting the variety and individuality of creative output. As long as enough creators choose the latter at least once in a while, I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff.

However, this is just the low-hanging fruit and does not explore the full potential of e-readers. E-readers need not just be dumb terminals that phone home with reader behavior -- they're fully capable general-purpose computers, and we should use them as such! We should be thinking of e-readers that "adapt" to the reader and the material. And not just an "average reader" profiled aggregately over an entire audience, but individual readers. Let the authors freely express themselves, and let technology bridge the gap between the creative work and the reader.

I haven't thought it through completely, but we certainly have the technology -- things like NLP and machine learning and user profiling and heuristics can go a long way in performing basic adaptive tasks. User likes short chapters but the book has long ones? Re-segment the text to match the user's preferences! (Maybe using a variant of text tiling.) User looking for new reads? Recommend books based on similarity of reading behaviors! They could even change the language based on user profiles. User too young? Tone down the profanity! User too old? Replace "really whips the llamma's ass" with "totally funkadelic"!

Technology is, of course, not advanced enough, so we would still rely on human input to a great extent. Editorial staff (or other readers) would need to provide tons of annotations and metadata that can help e-readers adapt better.

But eventually it may happen that for the same material two users may end up having very different reading experiences.
The only way to "solve" the problem is to spread awareness of it. Political authority is the idea that a small group of people "has the right" to impose their will on everyone else.

In reality though, they obviously do not. Everyone has the exact same rights (and they don't include coercing other people), and you can't delegate rights you do not have. But the belief in political authority is the root cause of practically all problems in today's world. Once the "Authority Religion" unravels, so does mankind's enslavement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE
What Snowden said still isn't true though is it?

My kids have privacy.
I called it "parody" and not "fake"
So, I guess the best site in any category should be above the rules then?

And come on - the idea that people only have a problem with the founders because they want to appear professional themselves is ridiculous. "Kind of jerky and unprofessional" is a staggering understatement.
Everyone is free to use whatever search engine they wish to use. Google isn't forcing you to use them.

That being said, Google has pretty clear guidelines about what it will accept and what will result in a penalty. RG knowingly broke google's rules. They got penalized. That simple.
Haha same with me man. My cycle is 1. come up with an idea 2. buy a domain for said idea 3. repeat step 1

It wasn't until very recently that I made the very obvious discovery of "the only way I'll ever make it is to make it". I discovered that entrepreneurship is not about coming up with ideas, it's about bringing those ideas to life. I wrote about this epiphany here: http://bitar.io/the-entrepreneur/

PS: I'll change that word :)
Drone Survival Guide - Know your Drones
Disclaimer: I've been involved in several DNS implementations, for a long time, and so probably have a bias.

Namecoin and namecoin-derived systems are cool, but they tend to overlook a lot of real-world functionality provided by DNS. As used today DNS is 1) A distributed key-value storage system 2) Incredibly scalable and fault-tolerant and 3) a de-facto internet routing layer for CDNs and GSLB endpoints. Namecoin systems typically provide (1) but overlook (2) and (3), which makes it hard to consider them as viable replacements.

I think it's interesting to look at what existing entities do when faced with DNS MITM and takedowns. The various torrent searchers and anti-censorship entities just diversified the TLDs they depend upon. So when their ".com" or ".net" domain gets taken down or man-in-the-middled, they tell their users to shift to .is , .ch, .se or some other TLD with a different regulatory framework, thus avoiding a single point of failure.

If a new mechanism depends on the inconvenience of a browser extension anyway, why not automate the process people already use? For example "colmmacc.multi" could be intercepted by an extension and translated into 5 DNS requests against say SHA-2("colmmacc").[com|ch|ly|se|is] and the extension could use a simple majority quorum of the answers to defend against a tampered response. Of course it means you have to register and host your domain 5 times, but that's pretty cheap these days.

Other nice properties: works with all existing DNS security mechanisms (including DNSSEC or DNScurve), provides security against registrar or registry level tampering or compromises. Hash of the domain makes it hard for registries to block domains (they have no idea what the name is until it is popular) and also resets the clock on squatters.
You believe that you and your kids have privacy.
upvote, because while i don't know if it's ethical or not either, that's my situation, although i didn't recognize it as such when i first started.

i've used the "variable workload," justification before (at the suggestion of a manager, in fact), but i think an even better justification is that i've taken a major salary cut compared to my previous cubical-oriented, corporate job. also, i try to spend the extra time developing skills that, while not necessary this week or month, might be useful later.

there was a post a day or two ago about "money is freedom," and while i guess that's true, freedom from money can also be freedom.. or something. i dunno, my reasoning is probably flawed, but i feel like i'm learning a lot, eating well, and pretty alright with my job at the moment. a lot of the original post seems like post-PhD(tum) angst to me.
for example: 600$ is pretty good amount of money at month in Venezuela is even more that the minimum salary.
Yes and further I think every single bullet point can be said about regular money.

Banks are not invulnerable to hacking.

If you get hustled for your pocket money in the street then the police will have to find the perpetrator with any means at hand. Just because it's an electronic currency does not mean anything is different here.

Are they trying to say that every single Indian citizen could withdraw their money as gold or some equally valuable substance that they can equate to cash money in society?

Wealth truly knows no god and no master, nor any border.

Beware of the propaganda, fear what you don't understand.
That's good. Is there a page that shows all your purchases like humble bundle eventually implemented? If you purchase a lot of games it could become a pain to keep a hold of all your URLs.

Another question occurs to me; Do you have a policy regarding early access to games? I saw you mention it on your twitter but your FAQ doesn't set out a requirement for games to be feature complete.
Actually, I've had a chance to use it quite a few times, and I was surprisingly happy with the results. Still I might have not tested all possible scenarios (like searching for a song knowing only a part of the lyrics with some errors), so your point obviously stands, thank for pointing this out.
Now supported on Heroku! https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/376
L4D2 is four years old. In that time, Valve added an absurd amount of updates (including the implementation of the entire L4D1 campaign).

Valve had basically offered it for $5 every Steam sale for the past few years so this is a mercy gift. (as with Portal last year)
When those devices were invented that allowed parents to GPS-track their children, they were quickly subverted: the kids would go to a friend's house, leave the device there, and then go where they really wanted to go.

If you actually premeditate a private moment, it's fully possible to make it so.
>> But what has really changed?

Not much. The only positive change here is that people are now widely aware that they're being spied on in everything they do online, so now there's less resistance to "conspiracy theories" (ie. "reality"). On the other hand, that very same awareness serves to advance "the chilling effect", so it's unclear if it's even a net positive.

Other than that, everything keeps changing for the worse, of course. The police are increasingly militarized, secret courts keep doing their thing, and people keep losing their liberties. The only possible "solution" to this insanity is spreading awareness of the fact that governments are inherently immoral. They're based on taxation, and taxation itself is based on coercion. The way it works is that people are punished for attempting to keep their property. Does it make sense to punish you for keeping your computer? No? -Okay then, does it make sense to punish you for keeping your money? .. Well no. No it doesn't. Yet, that's exactly how taxation is forced upon everyone. If you do not pay taxes, you will be punished for attempting to keep your property. Something is wrong here.
Working at Google I feel the opposite of infantilised. I am given nearly total autonomy to do my job how I see fit (and shouldn't i? Nobody knows my job better than me). I can book business travel, order essential equipment, and even start new work spontaneously without wasting time seeking approval. I set my own goals and am the judged by how well I meet them.

I feel that traditional offices are more infantlilising in that they assume most workers need explicit instructions to get their work done and must seek approval to do anything out of the ordinary.

Aaron here is distracted by the shiny things. As an employee you very quickly become accustomed to the benefits and spend more time just getting work done.