skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't and still don't particularly care. The arguments to why this is bad always seem to be of the slippery slope / what if somebody does something untoward with the data variety.

The first one is a easily-dismissed fallacy, the second is not limited to Google or any other company. I have yet to see a convincing argument that Google is misusing this data or doing anything bad with it.

On the other hand, a service that knows you intimately enough can provide some very cool things that are otherwise impossible. The cards on Google Now, for instance, rely completely on the search history on your account and the location data from your phone. I get up in the morning and my usual route to work is plotted out with an ETA. I search for a nearby restaurant on my computer and the directions appear on the phone complete with ratings. Things like that.

My philosophy is to deal with any abuses if/when they occur (and mitigate the forseeable ones), instead of walling yourself off from the ever-more connected world. I'm starting to think there's a fundamental shift happening in what "privacy" is, why it's necessary, and what it means nowadays. And as usual, the choices are hop on, get out of the way, or get run over. For better or worse.
Ask HN: It's 2014 -- what's the status of next-gen email?
My wife got a great job which easily increased her Gmail inbox by an order of magnitude. I feel bad for her. I have seen efforts for the next generation of email web apps on HN off and on. And there were quite a few promisses to get people's email in order, but I didn't see a lot beyond their pitch+signup splash page. For those who are in this space and changing the frontier of email, I would love to be introduced to what's cooking.
In your experience, is OSX or Linux graphical software any better? Genuinely curious. I feel like interface freezes happen on all major platforms, and always assumed it had more to do with the applications than with the platforms. I mean, writing interfaces that never block is a lot more work. But I don't have a lot of cross-platform experience to know if some platforms make it easier than others.
Zed Shaw's Learn C The Hard way has an exercise that builds a simple prototype based OO system using C[1].

[1]: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex19.html
I recently had to disable the Evernote clipper extensions in Chrome after discovering that it is breaking web pages after a recent update. I also continue to be incredibly disappointed with the lousy way that Evernote is maintaining Skitch, which has never worked reliably since Evernote's rewrite of the code base.

I'm a paying customer and depend heavily on the service, but I get really frustrated with the poor quality of the software and all of the engineering problems.

I get the sense that Evernote really doesn't care. They know that their audience is effectively locked in and that there aren't any alternatives that do exactly the same thing, so they just don't have an incentive to fix the bugs. I'm still a user, but I've personally stopped recommending Evernote and Skitch to friends.
The reason why this became a topic is only because technology, soft/hardware developer really make a lot of money right now.

I remember reading this in HN:" How to detect female-ism? Don't just focus on the fancy job like CEOs, Founders who made million of dollars, you also need to look at mine workers, bus drivers these dangerous jobs." ask yourself why female-ism not talk about women need to work at those fields too?

Then, if you read "revenge of the nerd" by paul graham, you will understand more.
Is spam from address-scraping bots still a problem? I get why people did it before there was spam filtering, but these days, who cares?
I use my own function to character encode all the letters except the @ sign and split it into multiple writelns via JavaScript. It has a NOSCRIPT fallback as well (email AT address DOT com) which is also character encoded. The combination has worked well on client sites with clean email addresses. My own personal email address was in the clear for years and still is on other sites, so that one is a bit hopeless.

My Obfuscate Mailto function is available for direct use on my site as well as a PHP and ASP function for plugging in to other sites: http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/obfuscate-mailto

You can view the result by plugging an email in to that form or by viewing the source on my contact page: http://johnhaller.com/contact
> If I think of a a lot of things my users would search for and try to create valuable information for them concerning those queries... is that great content or are those doorway pages?

Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages
that clearly and accurately describe your content.

Think about the words users would type to find your pages,
and make sure that your site actually includes those words
within it.

Doorway pages are typically large sets of poor-quality
pages where each page is optimized for a specific keyword
or phrase.

Some examples of doorways include:

Having multiple domain names targeted at specific regions
or cities that funnel users to one page

Templated pages made solely for affiliate linking

Multiple pages on your site with similar content designed
to rank for specific queries like city or state names

>If when someone writes a nice article with a link to my site I give them a a few months of my service for free... is that good customer service or a link scheme?

Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings.
A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable
explaining what you've done to a website that competes
with you, or to a Google employee. Another useful test is
to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if
search engines didn't exist?"

Any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site's
ranking in Google search results may be considered part of
a link scheme and a violation of Google’s Webmaster
Guidelines. This includes any behavior that manipulates
links to your site or outgoing links from your site.

Large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns
with keyword-rich anchor text links can negatively impact
a site's ranking in search results.

The best way to get other sites to create high-quality,
relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant
content that can naturally gain popularity in the Internet
community.

Effectively promoting your new content will lead to
faster discovery by those who are interested in the same
subject. Avoid: attempting to promote each new, small
piece of content you create; go for big, interesting
items. Avoid: involving your site in schemes where your
content is artificially promoted to the top of these
services. Avoid: spamming link requests out to all sites
related to your topic area. Avoid: purchasing links from
another site with the aim of getting PageRank instead of
traffic.

> If I create a press release on PR Web and link to my service with an appropriate keyword ... is that participating in a link scheme?

Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press
releases distributed on other sites can negatively impact
a site's ranking in search results.

Note: I wouldn't expect links from press release web
sites to benefit your rankings, however.
> Even then, is DDG viable competition for Google?

I'd say "yes". I've switched to DDG as my primary search engine, and I'd say they return a good result about 80-90% of the time. They're definitely not as good as Google, but you can always add "g!" to redirect to Google results.

I'd say their best selling point is their focus on privacy, but oddly they don't seem to be touting it very loudly or trying to make hay from the recent NSA revelations.
You can also simply display the address as an image. I don't know how many spambots actively crawl and apply OCR to general images, rather than just specifically programmed CAPTCHA procedures.
Ask HN: What's your most successful Growth Hack?
Why can't I search for Airbnb or flightcar listings on Kayak?
Me too. I am quite reluctant to keep any data plaintext in cloud services, but I couldn't live without Workflowy. I asked them about the possibility of self-hosting, but unfortunately it wasn't in the cards at the moment. I'll keep using it anyway, because it goes with my mind like PB goes with J.
I remember reading an article that tried several methods on publicly email addresses and tallied how each one got spam.
Turns out ROT13 was the best.
I use this tool: http://rot13.florianbersier.com/
So far so great.
This is nitpicking at its finest. If you take sentences out of context, you can most surely find that the sentences are false. Try again, NSA shills/apologists.
And then it was found to be inadequate for real work and turned into a separate language.
Great concept. No creep factor as most every retailer is using my IP to hit me with ads after I left their website.
That's exactly what I do. I go through lots of Miquelrius notebooks like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Miquelrius-Wirebound-Notebook-6-Subjec...

I use Freemind sometimes, too, for example when I have a huge project in front of me and I need to get a quick sense of the various parts and their sub-tasks. I apply little icons like a bomb with a lit fuse for "waiting on client", green checkmark for "done," etc.
They tend to also be brittle optimizations if your code is not tied to a specific platform, since cache behavior on different architectures and even micro-architectures differs significantly.
Feminism is not meant to only help women, at least in the last few renditions of it. It's meant to seek justice for all persons. It's a rather complicated political-social phenomenon that has seen many renditions, so I wouldn't try to simplify it further.

Anyways, I doubt women-only-initiatives only help women in the great scheme of things, as that's not how things/communities/humans work. Women-only groups and incubators are wonderful, and of course they would support the world beyond because they exist in the same world.
Startups have an even worse track record. I switched to Google Keep when catch.com shut down.
if you want a centrally managed cryptocurrency and can tolerate deferring double spend detection (i.e. you have an overdraft and debt collection system) then there are better cryptocash solutions than bitcoin that don't require a block chain and provide untraceable transactions and complete anonymity. The only worthwhile innovation in bitcoin in fact is its use of a block chain to eliminate the possibility of monetary policy manipulation.
To get more stuff in to the public domain we just need to enact mandatory euthanasia laws.
But Google Glass hasn't seen 'public' release. I can't go out and buy one.
Startup team sizes
Didn't we just do this and in more depth, a few months ago?[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6577524
Make sure to read "Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared" as it tells which technique is most effective

http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfus...

Ultimately, obfuscating your email address might be futile

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/dec/21/keeping-em...
For fuck sakes. Nobody gives a shit what you use or how, or for what. Just shut up and use wherever fits the way you work.

Seriously, at this point we've covered every facet of every note taking or todo app. Enough already.
Ofcourse, added option "none".
You're correct. You only get a subsidy if done through official channels.
It is not trivial to support ios7 with the latest gui elements (ios7 sdk) and also support prior versions. Practically speaking you will need to support only ios7+ after feb1, which for me is a lot of development work which is not worth doing with the income my apps give. I am therefore no longer supporting my apps.
It's a sign we're having trouble in handling the complexity of our computer systems. Programming is mostly human-mind-bound now (and has been for many years); we need better tools and better abstractions.
The whole point of the website was to be easy enough to use that young people who dislike interacting with call centers would be more likely to actually sign up. If "just call" is actually the easiest way to use the program (and anecdotally, I agree that it is), then the website was largely a waste of time and money.
aka Dogfooding...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
I challenge you to prove that making movies which are based on public domain content does either.

This is rarely a "Science" debate and more often an economics debate.

Which is better? Wizard of Oz in the public domain so Disney can make movies with out paying a royalty? or Mickey Mouse not in the public domain so you can't make movies about him?
Publish And Perish? What To Do With That Book Inside Of You
All the links you need are in the first paragraph of danimo's blog post. If you're referring to the HN commentary Google is failing me but it can't be too many "Next" clicks away.
As a woman, I've been told I was bad at math and science since I was a kid. And the funny thing is, is that I'm not bad at math and science. Quite good, really. Your comment drives down to the pits of social and cultural challenges for the past few decades. Remember, women were only allowed to compete for the same jobs as men a generation ago.
My favorite is that they seemed to have spent a few hours (more than 3!) improving their code so that it would run in 15 minutes instead of three hours.
This is a nice design for reviews where each product has individually voted features.

Would be cool to be able to facet search on aspects like you might on an ecommerce website. (So you could compare products from different perspectives.)
When was the last time you saw a mutext deadlock that could be worked around by moving the mouse?

You're right that this discussion is light on details, but there is one relevant detail from which reasonable conclusions can be drawn: there is a workaround that involves moving the mouse around continuously. I can't think of any plausible scenario that could produce that behavior that does not involve some blatantly horrible design decision by Microsoft (hence "their fault"). It's possible that such a scenario exists, but I can't think of one, and I have not seen any such plausible scenario proposed by anyone else. I also know that Microsoft products are chock-full of blatantly horrible design decisions. In particular, Windows tightly couples the graphical UI with the OS kernel in a way that other OSes do not. It seems to me exceedingly likely that whatever is causing this problem has something to do with that.
FYI: I would keep tabs on Ghostery, there's a for-profit company behind it that works with Ad Networks - They don't do anything bad now but experience shows that a massive user-base that you make zero revenue off can be a tempting fruit when profits start falling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
The Market for New Cars
In order to judge if something is better, it presumes absolute reference points. In otherwords, google ranks the "productivity", generally. And then only later, refines the relative merits within a sub-class. (And if this was true, it would have nothing to do with Rap Genius.)

Avoiding the (questionable) debate on the productive capacity of planet-earth...the "model" of what customers' "really need" is questionable. Do they need (1) information that is factually correct?; and/or (2) do they need the actually meaning or interpretation of (1). And if its true a subset need (2) what is the ratio of (2/1)?

And only then does this framework make sense.
Pointers / links?
I had a huge interest in game programming as a child. My older brothers and their friends were making text based RPGS. I however was a pretty good athlete and didn't have a hard time making friends like they did. I went from being a star junior high athlete to convincing my parents I wanted to be homeschooled so I could play on my computer all day.

I had a natural advantage in athletics so that some of my peers could not compete not matter how hard they tried. I think this is what helps me accept that there are hackers out there that will blow me away no matter how much of an effort I put into this.
This was not greyhat. This was blackhat. Paying money for inbound links on keywords that trasnfer page rank (don't include NOFOLLOW) has been blackhat for a LONG time.
While I agree with you I was trying in a humors way to point out that these studies contradict a lot of what this debate is about and therefore will be ignored. Which looking at all the discussion around these studies seems likely.
Unsure if you meant cojones you see, cajones translates to drawers.
Unless you're working on ancient software or writing an OO programming language that translates to C, you really shouldn't need to worry about OOP in C. I suggest learning as much as you can about C and then graduate to C++. Java would be fine, too (as would C# or Python or whatever), but I personally like writing C++ whenever I can. It's a nice blend of low-level system programming and high-level abstractions. C++11 is even better with standard threads, clocks, promises, futures, anonymous functions, and so on.
Just to back you up in your throwaway point, I'm not from America, and had never heard of the five paragraph essay structure before.

This was not due to a lack of essay-writing during my education...
Yes. According to Google. It is a myth that is years old.

Matt Cutts answers: Do AdWords customers get special treatment in organic search results?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aV5DmL_eog

If there is evidence that Google gives special treatment to Adwords customers in organic search then this could be verified as a lie. As long as this evidence remains nothing more than accusations and suspicions, then I choose to believe Google that there is no teacup orbiting Venus. It seems unlikely, but not impossible. I am willing to sway my view when I get evidence. Till then, I will treat it as a common newbie myth.
It is taught for a reason though. Having some kind of introduction and thesis is important. Overly formulaic, etc it is, but understanding what it's supposed to be teaching is pretty important.
An Organic Approach to City Design
Why do people assume there would be "legal complications?" Why the assumption that they just took what they wanted without licensing? They're not obligated to inform us about these arrangements, the licensor has no interest in disclosing what its licensee is up to, and the licensee can say (or not say) whatever it wants.
He writes:

"I create things all the time on the web. Its my chosen profession, so I know how hard it can be to make a good website when you need to integrate with a lot of different 3rd parties."

But I have read in several places that the Kentucky site works great. And I suspect that Kentucky's site works well because Kentucky had a limited budget and therefore kept things simple.

The New York Times quoted one official as saying that "changing requirements" caused the Federal site to be in flux up until the last moment. In my experience, I am most likely to run into "changing requirements" when my client has too much money to burn. Lack of money often leads to a reasonable restraint regarding feature requests.

In my opinion, the correct question here is why the Federal site can not be as good as the Kentucky site.
< I never really understood the reason behind driverless cars

Really? It might sound crazy but I think people would just buy them because they are, you know, useful for getting places.
If you're looking for categories to prompt users' initial app use:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Portals

Amazon, and the publishing industry in general, probably has some interesting information based on book sales.

Mine: news, computer science, a small handful of stringed instruments, personal finance/wealth, peace.
True, but there is an effective way around this:

"Would you hire Jack(ie) again?"

Tells you all you need to know.
You understood the reference, and so did everyone else, so does it really matter if he says "on the wall" instead of "on a pedestal"?

Also, you have misquoted (?) the article. When quoted like that, it sounds like the author is criticizing Daft Punk, when in fact the author is addressing potential detractors.
> Google is just researching and trying out new products that can potentially help their bottom line - so what if some may not explode in popularity.

That's all good. Where it's a problem is when they take a product that they haven't sufficiently researched—haven't finished, in other words—and then charge people real dollars for them. Lots of real dollars.
This whole Court needs to be disbanded. Even if they keep it as a (hopefully much reformed) institution they need to at least choose the judges in a much more open way. I'm still very skeptical such a spying-focused Court can not become corrupt, though. Single purpose courts have a very bad track record in serving "justice", I think.
http://m.entrepreneur.com/article/230631

But now, Rap Genius co-founder Ilan Zechory tells us the site has returned to Google's search results. "It takes a couple days for Google to re-index everything, so search results are a little wonky right now, but we are officially reinstated," Zechory said in an email.

Somewhat ironically, Zechory served as a project manager at Google for two years prior to founding Rap Genius in 2009.

>> Wow that is troubling. So site that gets banned gets unbanned quickly and founder just happens to be ex google project manager
A cool thing is that you can prefix your query with "!g" in DDG and it will do an encrypted Google search.
Writing is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Once the length of what I need to write exceeds around a hundred words, it's almost as if my brain stops working. I'm graduating from college this summer and looking back on it, I'd go so far as to argue papers were harder than thermodynamics midterms.

What I have going for me is that I'm a pretty good public speaker. The moment I picture myself behind a podium in front of an audience, ideas organize themselves into coherent patterns. It's a skill that's been honed over many weekends of debate practice.

My writing process now looks like this:

1. Identify thesis
2. Give a speech
3. Take bulleted notes
4. Give the speech again
5. Revise bulleted notes
6. If satisfied with structure begin expanding bullets into sentences and paragraphs.
In my experience, no. I suppose it might change if I had an order of magnitude more popular website, but I've left mine in plaintext for a while and not experienced any issues.

I had an image instead a few years back, but that's just a hassle for readers.
"Anyone can put a urinal on the wall and call it art"

I'm not sure this is too far from the point of duschamp's piece, which is that you can "put anything on a pedastal" and the "sign it", and as long as it's done by someone with a certain "aura", such an act becomes transformative.

The "wall" and the "pedastal" need not be taken literally, IMHO. There is a whole "deconstruct the art gallery" theme that followed. Things like..."pile of rocks in a white cube". And for that matter, the actual "white cube" itself.

see, eg.

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-White-Cube-Ideology-Gallery/dp/...
Allowing people to create links to your website isn't shady.

Paying people to link back to your website on high-value keywords like 'justin beiber lyrics' from blog posts on other sites to artificially inflate your pagerank is 100% blackhat SEO. The payment in this case was a Twitter post about the link provider's website.
My wife is a doctor and 65% of all medical students in her year were female. Soon another high paid status job will be dominated by women, because to suggest these programs promote a gender bias in the opposite is met with vitriol and hate from feminist groups and campaigners.