skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two points:

1) You can disagree with a law yet concede that you broke it. I might disagree with the concept of copyright, but I can recognize and admit when my actions, fit the definition of infringement.

2) It was not a violation of Aaron's 4th amendment rights for MIT to hand over documents without a warrant. You cannot invoke 4th amendment protection over someone else's property, only that person can. And that person is free to cooperate without a warrant.
If I understand it correctly, Canada had 3 elections in the span of 5 years, and Harper was elected as the prime minster 3 times in a row. To be more precise, the Conservatives had 2 minority governments and 1 majority government, with Harper being the leader of the Conservatives.

Sorry, but just like the Bush era, by voting someone in again and again, and knowing his agenda, it basically legitimizes anything he does. I think Canadians already knew who he was and his behavior, and to imagine him getting voted in 3 times in a row, well, this isn't on Harper, it's on the Canadians for voting him in.

It's a real shame though that Harper is such a tyrant that he would allow this destruction of historical data. That's not someone I would want as my leader, and I hope in the next election his party gets voted out. But for that to happen there has to be a better alternative, and apparently so far there hasn't been one.
Nope - no equity. Was a few months away from my one year cliff.

You are surprisingly restrained for someone who got cliffed.

Did you get a severance, at least? An Agreement of Introduction? (That is, the CEO agrees to a positive reference and to introduce you to investors on favorable terms, preferably in a legally binding document.) If not, you should have burned the company down. AoI is the absolute minimum you should take after getting cliffed like that.

If you have savings, it can sometimes be wise to let them go on severance (they're cash-strapped) and take the AoI, because a good reference (+ intros) from a CEO can do a lot for your career. On the other hand, if you got no equity, no severance, and no AoI and you didn't blow the company up, then you're a pussy (no offense).
I just want to add that this attitude doesn't even reflect poorly solely on Google Search. Adsense is another product that if you get kicked out of, you have zero recourse.

What about that gmail fiasco a few months ago? Users got blocked out of G services for not providing their real names and had no recourse to get their data for several weeks/months.

Just goes to show that in several cases it's not what you know but who you know.
I live in a very small apartment and only have a very small freezer inside of my fridge. I suspect that many poor people may not have enough space for a big freezer, not enough money to get a decent efficient one and/or not enough money to pay for the electricity.
I've noticed this issue since I switched to comcast last year. I figured it was a bug that would get fixed soon. I actually didn't pay my bill the first month because I never received anything saying I needed to pay until I received a reminder email about my account balance. I've just set up auto pay and track the bill through my financial software
The tech part is obvsiouly here to calm down people from Hacker News and make them say "Oh this part was good, after all they are not so bad".
It's just a shitty scraper but they talk about it like it was a revolutionnary script...

There is no way they could get back so fast and so easily on google.
Any enterprise that grows to a certain level becomes slow and lame it is a fact you have to accept. Until you are a fat account your bug reports do not matter. I do third level support for my financial client and some very nasty and obvious (and easy to fix!!) issues are coming from small people and are put to backlog and never even looked at until someone big outside or important inside comes across it. It is so disappointing and demotivating but I am tired of fighting it and they pay well for not fixing anything.
Can you show a calculation which shows what the effect is on the pricing of healthy v. unhealthy food?
I can just agree on that. My side project http://mailparser.io has ridiculous low traffic compared to other projects i developed. Still it's doing much better than the other sites regarding the conversion and finally the MRR.
Disavow tool actions take months to bring any effect(if any).
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better than the alternative: "vibrating unisex".
Techs don't talk gobbledegook, just that non tech's listern with the wrong mindset. This is why we have managers, to act as translators - it is what they do and are paid to do.

The day when an employment contracts is shorter than a CV is when techs do not need to talk gobbledegook. A CV explains your liftime of skills and experience and a employment contract explains how you are paid and what you do to gain that pay. With that in mind, techs deem life too short to expand upon what people do not understand. WIth that you always get the sturborn person who wants to know details they need not know and with that we ask that person for a charge code for our timesheet and play one problem of techs of against another.
It is quite common with a 3-6 month trial period, where you can be fired with shorter notice.
There is a limit of transactions per hour based on the blocks

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks

There is roughly 1 block every 10 minutes and it can only include 1 megabyte of transactions (transactions are around 500 bytes)

I don't think this limit has ever been hit but it doesn't allow for a ton of transactions per hour
Maintenance for a physically active adult male is 2500+ kcal. Not for athletes, not for people doing hard training, for an average adult who does some basic exercise to stay healthy.
As someone who knows folks who got wrongly blacklisted.. Well, you pretty much never get back. No matter what you do.

You're lucky if you get a decent reply from customer support to begin with..

Your best bet is to change domains, fill in a redirect and try to build up backlinks again. It'll take a year or two and hopefully no competitor pops up in your space.

Or, you can try and get Andreesen-Horowitz interested in your business.
The network split had nothing to do with transactions per hour. It was due to a very subtle difference between two versions of BerkeleyDB used in different versions of the Bitcoin client. Basically, a perfect storm:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its...
In fact, how are they not being sued for copyright by the owners of all the lyrics they're posting, anyway?

They have had some legal troubles, but are trying to sign licensing deals http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/business/media/rap-genius-...

However, if their licensing deals are anything like what other sites have to pay for lyrics, it's going to significantly (entirely?) cut into their profit margin.
As a Canadian voter over the last 5 years this fact is really frustrating.

Everyone knows he sucks; Other parties get a lot of hype, and the future seems bright.

But when the results come in, Conservatives always win.

I just don't get it man.
Lawyer would have been nice, but I already signed an Employer Termination Contract, so what's done is done.

You signed it without a lawyer? Dear God...

What was in the contract? Did you get anything? Given that they clawed back a bunch of equity, you better have gotten 3 months' severance or a legally binding agreement to positive reference and introductions (at your demand) to present and future investors. An AoI (Agreement of Introduction) can make it worth it to go gently into the good night because those intros can make you a founder in your next gig.

If you got two weeks severance and no AoI, then you're an idiot and you should stop blogging about this before you embarrass yourself more. (I'm being blunt because people like you get screwed over every day and the only way to stop it is to fight harder when it happens.)
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> I guess Go can't do type inference on the function types though?

It can't, and there are no generics which is why the input has to be cast back to a Student* in every function. Also why the Sum implementation and the min, max and order (sort) situations are absolutely gross.
Ask HN:How to categorize people's interests?
I'm working on an app that shows people interests divided into some categories.
I already thought about: books, movies, activities, sports, food, etc... and the list goes on.

What do you think are the main 5 (or less) categories in which your interests fit?
Probably not nearly as feature packed or maintained, but Google Keep (https://drive.google.com/keep/) is an option.
Not at all suspicious.
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I don't think it's a good idea to store a .git folder in Dropbox. Dropbox doesn't know how to resolve conflicts deep in git internal files and will break your repository.

I love nvAlt though. Been using it for years and never had any data loss.
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No it doesn't. It means that Google employees can do stuff manually, when asked by a friend or colleague. It says nothing about Google as a business favouring Rap Genius as a business.
> To be more precise, the Conservatives had 2 minority governments and 1 majority government ...

And all it took was some country-wide election fraud[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election_...
Why not use something like dokuwiki? That's what I use.
Here is a crowdsourced list: http://www.slant.co/topics/697/~what-is-the-best-cross-platf...
I went on 1700-1800 cals a day for four months

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

Semi-Starvation Period (24 weeks): During the 6-month semi-starvation period, each subject’s dietary intake was cut to approximately 1,560 calories per day.

a 24-week starvation phase, during which the caloric intake of each subject was drastically reduced—causing each participant to lose an average of 25% of their pre-starvation body weight

So, I'm guessing here - either your weight is way smaller than an average adult, or you have way slower metabolic rate compared to an average adult, or you miscalculated your calorie intake?
I do not understand why people are offended that they came back quickly AFTER doing a bit of penance.

Should their investors not have made calls? However, it should be noted that they did their part.

One of my favorite quotes is this: "To save a drowning man, he must first give you his hand"

If the Rap Genius guys were incompetent and did not do their part in removing the links so quickly (see main story for technical details) there would be little or nothing their investors would have been able to do about that.

BTW, it also helped that people really found Rap Genius useful. I'm sure many searched had rapgenius appended to it. So the lesson is, make your app so good that when Google delists you, it will make them look bad.

Thankfully?, there is also a precedence for other offenders to use. if you can detail you have atoned for your sins and Google insists your you must do a certain time, you know where to turn to.

BTW, this is Hackernews, and I look forward to the discussion of the (de)merits of how they scrapped and analyzed 177,000 links and not espousing of anger that they survived the punishment.

I'm sure Mahbod (my favorite) and co have learned that you do not go 'daaawging' when you are in a hole. I wish them success.
I realize 1700 may be somewhat low, and I was slowly losing weight. It may be low however, many people are consuming too much the obesity rates prove that. They don't prove that people can't afford to eat healthy. They prove people are consuming more than burning.

I'm for taxing the bad instead of subsidizing the good however.. But we can't ignore the personal responsibility aspect and these studies while useful also give ammunition to the excuse makers and excuse making is a tremendous impediment to solving important social problems.
> much more interesting than Select and Where (i.e. you can implement Select and Where in terms of SelectMany).

Well it doesn't provide a folding method either, and just about anything can be implemented using a fold.
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Fascism is a kind of authoritarianism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism It's extremely conservative but not necessarily racist.
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Definitely check out Springpad: https://springpad.com/about

For me, I've been using Basecamp for practically everything. It's so useful and reliable, and the mobile site has the best most functional interface I've ever used.
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Did everyone forget the lessons of Google Reader that quickly? I wouldn't use Google Keep.
"Mac’s ‘helper’ — an official mini app that’s meant for jotting down notes without having to switch to the hulking beast that is the desktop application."

This set buzzers off in my (perhaps simple) mind. Is this feature creep? I'm a physical notebook and 'one big textfile' person myself.
In your first point you skip that the reason why Aaron was able to get into the system was that MIT was a breeding place for the hack culture and didn't clamp down on security like keeping the door of the switches closet open and allowing highly privileged access to its network. If it was locked or entry was prohibited then it would have been outright against set rules. It wasn't. This means according to MIT's followed traditions he did what everyone else was capable of doing and it was not against the law because heavy use of the network and access to the switches room was allowed.

As for your second point it doesn't hold. The kerfuffle around the NSA is partly because it was collecting data from the ISPs without a warrant and 4th amendment rights are being violated. In this case MIT is in the same position as the ISPs while not having immunity over their actions like ISPs did.
BTW, I am referring to lifestyle business specifically as one not tied to the VC exit strategy. I.e. a business is a lifestyle business as long as you are neither trying to be an acquisition target nor trying to build up to go public.

The point is that you don't have the same kinds of relentless pressure in that environment that you do in a vc-backed start-up. Those are different environments. If you are running one, great. I wish you the best of luck.
My 2 cents :) The trouble is that there are little or no real alternatives. There are plenty of hacks like dropbox, simple note, etc but nothing with the complete functionality and cross platform capabilities which Evernote.
As I see it, the "technical digression" serves two purposes:

- first, they use it with Google to show how sincere they were about "cleaning up"

- second, and perhaps more important, it gives Google a public excuse to justify why they restored RG so quickly in rankings. As in, "Oh they did a very thorough job of complying by our standards that we had no option but to restore their status".

Unfortunately in this case Google's response speed comes across as a bad thing. Because it applies to only a very select group of sites that are either very rich (aka large advertisers) or very well connected.

[Edit: clarified imagined comment]
Very observant... I wonder what Google would say about this. I would almost find this more egregious than their original offense due to the posts having nothing to do with lyrics.
Those are all good reasons not to do this. But "nobody smart would do that" doesn't refute the reporting. You could come up with a similar list of common-sense reasons not to start wars in the middle east but in the US we do that like every 5 years.
Did those close to him know/suspect drug use before his death? Just trying to gauge the plausibility of the accidental overdose theory.
Interesting thread. I've gleaned a few useful ideas.

http://www.eventwax.com is an online event registration tool that uses several techniques for increasing traffic.

1. We use a freemium model and about 75% of our users use the free service to host their free events. This helps us because of #2 below.

2. Our built in viral mechanism is that when one hosts an event, everyone who signs up for an event sees a "powered by eventwax" logo at the bottom of the registration pages. So, even for free events, we are getting a tiny bit of passive exposure to all event's audiences. That means 10's of thousands of people a month see our logo.

3. We have a semi-active blog that brings in some high quality traffic.

4. We've had success at targeting a few keyword phrases that bring in a bit of traffic but SEO targeting has also been one of our biggest disappointments. Online event registration is a very competitive field and we've "wasted" a lot of time trying to improve our keywords.

5. We do run very limited Google Adwords and Linkedin PPC campaigns but haven't optimized them yet. Our current combined budget is only about $100/month. The next think we need to do is "bucket" our keywords into semantic groups and then create custom landing pages for each group to increase relevancy.
Ask HN: how do you read your noisy Twitter stream?
The more people I follow, the more noise I have to filter out from my stream to grab the interesting stuff... I'm currently using the official OS X Twitter app (I've also tried Tweetdeck, but all these columns were kind of confusing) and I'm now looking for best-practices or a new productive tool. Any hint?
"To say this post pains me would be an understatement. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several years and nearly seven thousand notes. "

This is the kind of stuff that makes me not want to read what you have to say. Come on, what you are saying is car ad bullshit.
This really shows that even in Silicon Valley, your success is driven as much by the connections you have and the people you know, rather than pure talent and merit.
This article is irrelevant. Throwing cryptocurrencies in at the end makes zero sense. That, and AMD is posed to make a substantial recovery, in part due to mining: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-02/bitcoin-equipment-b...
The problem with these (and all the other alternatives I've seen in this post so far) is that they ignore the one thing that locks people into Evernote despite the bugs, poor interface etc: scanner-support and OCR. Sure, if you have your information in digital form already, there's a bunch of decent solutions, but in terms of killing the paper mountain I am not aware of anything that supports that workflow, certainly not that easily.
I use Notational Velocity every day, but the reason I still use Evernote is that it supports images.
Ask HN: When is it too old to be an intern?
I went back to school recently for a 2 year master's degree in information science (think: UI/UX, data science, databases, statistics), and the program strongly recommends doing an internship at a tech company during the summer in between the years. However, I'm going to be 31 this year, and I assume most of my competition for the positions are going to be in the 18-22 range. Will managers at SV-type tech companies (probably younger than me) even look at my application? My background mostly linux sysadmin-ing and bioinformatics, looking to get into more analytic/statistical work like BI.
TweetDeck is the best for me tbh.
I'm a long time Evernote user and honestly, it's great for record keeping but I find it pretty awful for daily use.

A huge improvement could be made by Evernote if they would support markdown within their notes. Currently the editor is very basic and can't handle functions like tables very well (creating them sure, but then adding/removing cells or sizing them is a chore)

OneNote has the best editor but it's also a lot heavier than evernote.

Google Keep can't be an option after what Google does with it's side projects like iGoogle and Reader.
Phil: "We have independent teams building all the different versions. They compete with each other to see who can make the best version. They steal each others idea and they leap frog each other. We don’t have consistency as a goal. There is no goal to make different versions of Evernote consistent with each other. Cause I think what happens if you make consistency a goal, you wind up achieving it though mediocracy. Like you achieve consistency by having everything equally crappy."
<http://thisweekinstartups.com/thisweekin-startups/phil-libin...

When I heard Phil talk about this at SXSW (as part of his talk about making Evernote a 100-year startup, I believe), I thought it was neat. But I wonder if this strategy is undermining reliability.
You're addressing a point I didn't make. I was talking about language, not morality.
Etherpad can do that?
this guy is blowing his own trumpet all the time, and possibly the reason why he got fired. If this was the case, it was totally justified.
I use OmniFocus. It is relatively easy to customize it to support GTD, but it is commercial software. I believe the price is around USD 80.
It's also explicitly nationalist, according to that article. Regardless of the definition, I think it's obvious GoC closing some research stations is neither nationalist, espousing a supreme Canadian nation or Canadian race, nor authoritarian, "characterized by absolute or blind obedience to authority, as against individual freedom". That's just ludicrous. This is in the same league as equating socialized health care with communist totalitarianism: it's about 15 orders of magnitude of Godwin.
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People should worry why Google has so much power nowadays, rather than why they unban Rap Genius so fast.
And how did you configured your columns?
I hear these comments (and all the HN ones), but my use-case changed a long time ago: Evernote is now (just) my digital "junk drawer". Not high praise really, but it performs this job well. Really important stuff never goes in there, but all the little bits that I would lose otherwise all end up in there, only loosely categorized in a couple of notebooks with a couple dozen tags.
Yes, we might call this the "no one would ever fight a land war in Asia" fallacy.
I'm perfectly aware of that. I was just saying that it doesn't aid readability of the code (rather the opposite). There even have been proposals to solve this problem (scoped macros being just one of them) so this is acknowledged to be a rather real problem instead of just some cosmetic issue.
Heroine, cocaine _and_ a cocktail of other drugs?

And the guy is a top notch hacker about to embarrass some pretty powerful conglomerates?

Sorry but I don't care how many bottles of champagne were in the room trash bin. This has MURDER written all over.

For the curious, here is an interesting story which might, or might not, be relevant:

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/suspicious_deaths_scie...