skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never seen Rap Genius on Google, even before all of this. I've seen Metro Lyrics, AZ Lyrics, Song Meaning, etc. I've gone through pages of Google results because every lyrics site sucks, still haven't seen them. Everyone says Rap Genius is excellent, but I've never heard of them outside of HN. I find that odd.
It's not close to a full-blown Evernote alternative, but Google keep (http://keep.google.com) is my alternative.
And many of those little sites have the excuse of ignorance - they read a dodgy SEO page or hired bad SEO people.

RapGenious had no excuse.

Still, I'm glad they're out of penalty now.
Or we can post them here and have mods delete them.
The way to submit an original article headline with an HN submission is to select, copy, and paste directly from the article. That cuts down a lot on spelling errors in article titles. (In empathy with other people, I recall a time when my select, copy, and paste missed the first letter of the headline, and I didn't catch that during the time it was possible to edit the submission. That made the title look really stupid, and a comment called that out.)
just use your favourite text editor and dropbox. It works for me
When I was a kid, Windows ME would hang on startup unless I kept moving the mouse.

My friend's dad, a Math/CS teacher, did not believe me until I showed him.
There's a couple problems with that idea.

1) It requires the US government to run the payment network. That's an expensive and security sensitive installation. The government, by far and large, isn't terribly good at running IT installations (see, the recent healthcare.gov)

2) The governments like to exercise capital controls. They do that way of the banking system. If it introduced digital $, they can't control it. Because anybody with a wallet could receive and spend them, assuming that everybody can create a wallet.

3) If not everybody can create wallet, i.e. the wallet needs to be governmental registration, it puts further demands on the features of the IT installation of the government. This isn't making it it any more likely to happen.

4) The credit card and banking industry would feel themselves threatened. Because, a lot of what they do would be taken over by the government, there'd be no end of political flamewars and stalemates trying to get this trough.

5) You're assuming that the government running the payment network would somehow, magically, be better than credit card companies. I very much doubt that, transaction fees would probably be even higher, and reliability would probably be pretty miserable.
Submitted once already (but not originally from the canonical URL of that news source), with lots of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009350

And this same story was submitted two other times in the last day or so. What's with the duplicate detector these days?
Social Darwinism Isn’t Dead
And this is a lot smaller than the bracelet.
Bokemarks.com is a good alternative:
http://www.bokemarks.com/

Here is an invitation link:
http://www.bokemarks.com/#!invited?code=bHjj1KloPRx56W
If I understand correctly, they have a system where the one getting the biggest amount of vote wins, even if it's not even half of the total, and the other side was cut between two parties (+ the historic quebec party), and the conservatives won with a quarter of the votes.
And even if you could force these other parties to merge in order to oppose a single force, you end up in the usual "bi-party" situation which is still bad.

Without changing the whole thing, I don't understand why a system like this doesn't use a two turn election, unless one gets 50% of votes +1 in the first turn, a second turn happens when you can only vote for the two who had the more votes in the first turn. Conservatives would have never won in that situation, and that shows a huge problem in the system as-is.
To take a poor analogy it asks people what is there choice between 3 shades of blue, or bright red. Most people agree on blue, but they differ on which exact shade of it, and red end up being chosen. If you had given the choice between blue and red, blue would have won absolutely because people who votes blue 1 were still very much in favor of blue 2 or blue 3 if the alternative was red.

Anyway, good luck to my friends in Canada
I just shrink my Following list. I see whose tweets I find interesting and see if they have a website that offers 80% of the stuff they talk about on Twitter and if that’s the case then I remove them from Twitter and just follow their website instead.

I don’t reply to interesting tweets much so may not work for those that want to engage in conversation a lot.
I think he makes an interesting point, though: hacker culture is to a large degree the culture of modern social exclusion. There is a sort of horrible irony to more well-adjusted people feeling excluded from it.

I know personally, when I was a teenager, "hacking" was definitely an escape, not so much from social isolation, but definitely from Problems You Don't Want. I can understand why people might be offended by the authors stance.
I'm always fascinated by how tightly bound various software is with UI code in Windows. It's the equivalent of random shell scripts having Xlib or Gnome dependencies just to show a progress meter.

I guess if it's an event loop thing one could also alternate 'z' and 'x' as fast as possible :-)
It depends on what you need.

- Serious note taking for study / research or whatever requires a lot of editing: ms word or alike.

- Quick saving of webpages: readability / instapaper / pocket etc.

- Quick note taking for a few words: google keep

- to do list: to do list apps

I have tried all kinds of things and I found I have to use different apps to achieve different goals.
Why couldn't he have been surreptitiously poisoned? Put even a small dose of heroin in his drink and he's not going to be putting up much resistance.
There are countless historical examples of the burning of books and cultural artifacts to suppress ideology and culture. The Catholic Church was a constant destroyer and perverter of opposition cultures for political power. A few examples are: Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities, the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the new world...

The total destruction of information is an act of political conquest. It eliminates the ability to use that information to form an opposition in the future and it delegitimizes any current opposition.

I'm seeing at least two other mentions in Canadian press:

http://o.canada.com/technology/environment/harper-government...

http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/09/Dismantling-Fishery-Librar...
Guess death by overdose beats death by umbrella.
Okay, I see why you were not able to follow the problem.

>> stupid mistake like Rap Genius did your site might be off Google for a month or two, possibly destroying your business.

Sometimes businesses get wrongly blacklisted. Yes, it happens. They do get destroyed because of this, people do lose homes and jobs over this.

But this isn't because Google takes a month or two to sort this kind of thing out (a month or two is also not really acceptable - too long - given the impact Google has on a business). It's because experience shows that once you are on the wrong side of the big G, there's pretty much nothing you can do to get on the right side. It's no longer a question of a month or two, it's about registering a new domain, and starting from scratch. Sometimes you have to do this even when you didn't do anything wrong. This applies to almost every Google service whether it's Search, Adsense, Gmail, or anything else.

But Rap Genius definitely did something wrong. It was obvious for everyone to see. Yet, they managed to follow the 'recommendations' and get back in the game pretty quick. We know that this is probably because of connections because every business out there that gets blacklisted by Google will make sure that they are 'regulation-compliant' ASAP. Yet, many of them never manage to make it back and those that do take years at times.

Yes, knowing the US President helps, but that's provided you can get your work done without knowing him as well, in a reasonable time frame. Especially when it may make the difference between running a thriving business and being homeless.

QED: Monopolies are bad.
By owning a Surface RT, I've used OneNote for almost a semester now. For me the only minus side of OneNote is that the PDF slides from the lecturers can't be editable inside OneNote. This is because the things that are "printed" inside OneNote are images which makes the OneNote file big. But then, after trying some alternatives, I cannot find any better one. Seems that I will stick to OneNote for now.
Hahaha, very interested in seeing this. I'm same boat.
+1. I also find Google Drive very convenient for this. The great search within my drive just lets me litter a large amount of new documents and not worry about it. I usually either view the most recently edited or search.
Unfortunately they don't have a osx version.
I have mentioned this before in this thread, I'll do it again. I AM really happy for rap genius.

I also view this post from RapGenius as a kind of a PSA.

They used the reasonable doubt argument, and won, they could have kept quiet about it. But, they let people know that others could appeal on reasonable doubt too.

Which is commendable!

Unfortunately, the underlying message some people miss when they feel this is about bashing RapGenius is that it is not.

The outrage is against Google. More specifically about 3-4 things:

1. Google has penalized sites for way lesser, and refused to reconsider, even when reasonable doubt was jarringly obvious (ex. some sites affected by panda/penguin algo updates targeted towards content/blog farms were penalized for as less as having similar posts type of intra-site linking as all content farms were using it)

2. Google will never apply this reasonable doubt argument for anyone in the future, unless they have friends like the investors at Andreessen Horowitz.

3. Google has given no indication on how they modified the algorithm for this special circumstance, the question that people are thinking is more in regards with if this was a team decision, or an individual's special favor.

4. It's a slap on the face for all white hat SEO professionals, webmasters and founders who have been burned by Google's no bullshit policy. Again its not about the policy existing, that's just a fact everyone has to work with. It's because now enforcement is clearly optional dependent on connections.
With all the complaints about the mis-spelling, there are two things I'd like to mention:

a) You can edit the title up to 2 hours after submission. It's not too late - you can do it anytime in the next 80 minutes.

b) Mistakes like that don't happen if you use the submission bookmarklet: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
Were the flaws he was going to demonstrate ever made public or fixed?
The 'State' here means the Roman state or Babylonian state as some people describe it. The administrative and other publicly funded institutions of countries tend to be confused with the 'State' as they same name is used for both of them. The former is intertwined with and virtually controls the latter.

The 'State' was responsible for 2 world wars that killed close to 100 million people in addition to the 30 million or so killed by the Communists (in between the wars) and the 6 million killed in the Holocaust, and explained them under 'ideology'. And it is the same 'State' that is creating enmity and hatred between the 'Christians' and 'Muslims', as a pretext for future genocidal conflicts, a recent example of which is happening in the Central African Republic.

Confusing them is to suppose that groups of civil servants sitting around suddenly come up with the idea of killing millions of people and suddenly obtain the resources to accomplish those goals.
It's a shame I think this got flagged because of the misname. A lot of users have Ron Paul scripts that auto flag those stories.
> eating meat as it is in the animal,

Meat produced from american food animal lines is very fatty compared to what is in the wild. Turkeys for instance, can't really walk their breasts are so big, and cannot mate: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=11929

"Fat as it's in the animal" is quite unnatural compared to wild animals, or even animals that can feed normally (aka, grass, as opposed to penned and force fed corn).

Meat is a manufactured product here. Control your fat intake yourself as you would with any other manufactured product
As an iOS developer this pains me to hear. It's not rocket science to make a stable highly dependable app. I don't use Evernote or know anything about how they do things, but I track all of our apps' crashes on a daily basis (lately almost none) and do extensively performance testing before release. Our QA staff is awesome and lets nothing get by them. I don't understand how other companies can't do this as well. Our apps are complex, have a complex mobile API on the server side and do ecommerce. So I really can't understand why this is so lame.
Not saying that there was foul play involved, but don't you think that if a "professional" was hired to kill him, he'd be more than aware of the various things left in the crime scene and on the body that could point to signs of foul play?

Also, this reminds me of an episode of House of Cards.
Travel insurer Staysure warns customers over IT hack
> multiplatform support

$ apt-cache search onenote

Yielded no results for me. What is the GNU/Linux client called?
How does this work? What makes mouse movement relevant to this... this is computers, not magic.
Alright, I fully agree :)
Sen. Rand Paul says he's suing over NSA policies
Citizens ought to critically examine and assess the policies and practices of their government on an ongoing basis. To simply through up one's hands and say "there was an election, basically anything they do is legitimate" would be be slavish, immoral and absurd.

Of course one would hope and expect that a government would govern in alignment with it's agenda. It's hard to imagine that the core of the agenda was "badly manage a digitization process to destroy priceless knowledge while not really saving any money"

Presumably many of the people who voted for Harper will want the incompetent underling responsible dealt with, if for no other reason than to prevent the management of their actual agenda from coming into disrepute.
As a Windows Phone user, I have come to love OneNote as well.
A data pipeline built with capnproto-rust and ZeroMQ
If I cheat at a couple of questions in an exam; but I would have had the exam anyway with the others, do I get punished or is it fine ?

If I match-fix a game in a sport championship but I would have won the whole thing anyway because I beat the next opponents, do I get punished or is it fine ?

When a group of politicians ask to be in control of a country and to be trusted with all of its power and responsibilities, and they have proven to be lying and cheating to those they represent, is it ok because the end result wasn't affected ?

I realize the analogies there are not all that good, but honestly whether or not it did have an impact doesn't matter, the fact is that it did happen.
What Gruber I think is missing is that if Microsoft (or Google) employees continued using products that weren't great products yet, but were commonly viewed as 'the future', the company could take the experience of those employees and improve the product to the point where it was good enough and they did want to use it.

I think Google did the right thing making Glass a limited release product, what they don't seem to have done well enough yet, is to iterate it to the point where it is adding value. Sadly, with the current backlash, I doubt they'll get there.
Bug ridden horde of elephants...
I'm guessing you had a 12-month vesting cliff.
There is an interval trainer app for running but I think it will work for this. Set it up for 5 minute intervals and you should get a similar functionality. The only thing is it won't run in the background so you have to keep the app open.
Keep is the first note taking app I can use without getting frustrated, precisely because it is so limited and does not feel bloated.
The solution may not be a tool, but simply not following so many people (particularly "noisy" ones). I've also turned retweets off for probably two thirds of the people I follow, so that also helps.

With few exceptions (for especially interesting/notable accounts e.g. NASA, WSJ, HN100, etc) I try not to follow people who tweet more than two or three times a day (shameless plug: I created shouldifollow.com so I can easily see how often someone tweets before following them).
I have helped sites with over 2 million backlinks and got them out of manual penalty in under 3 months in very competitive verticals like travel & finance.

It entirely depends upon the scope of penalty. Unless you are completely deindexed from Google search results, you can always recover from a penalty.

Feel free to email me if you have any specific need.
Microsoft and mice seem to have an odd relationship.

The first versions of Windows NT would crash if you moved the mouse while shutting down. Like a child throwing a tantrum because it's bed time...
It's not quite that simple, though. The Harper government has cheated in most of those elections - they were caught in 2006 in the In and Out scandal, but it carried no punishment and so nobody cared. They are also recently (2011) accused of using robocalls targeted at (elderly/non-conservative) voters, posing as Elections Canada, and telling voters to go to the incorrect polling station. This definitely happened, and a few Conservatives are implicated, but to what extent it affected the elections and to what high level of power the order came from is being investigated still (by those appointed to Elections Canada by Stephen Harper).

Canada may have elected the Conservatives - or we may have never voted them in to power at all. It's tough to tell because they cheat in every election.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election_...
wider problems include:

- Recent revelations about NSA activities, make out any cryptocurrency designed by USA, to be unsafe. It is the biggest single damage done to trust factor of US tech industries.

- Sooner or later, diplomatic pressure would be made upon smaller countries to have their forex reserves in crypto currency, and sooner that pressure will spread to bigger countries. Some will oblige, some will build walls(leading to economic sanction---> war possibilities{one word: CHINA)

- Then on, hit a button, all forex reserve belongs to USA.. or worst case scenario, to someone who gets access to weakness in the cryptocurrency. Resulting in world economic chaos.
Wth?!
It's much more common than when you were 22. Career changes, diff tracks through school, all sorts of reasons why people want to do internships into late 20s and thirties since the recent recession.

Companies are still desperate for top talent, and for specialized skills at growing firms (tech) that's especially true. We have interns starting with us in the summer at http://www.thinkful.com/ (edtech) and two of them are in or finishing masters' in CS from Columbia.

As long as you're not being taken advantage of by a cheap employer I think internships are a great low risk way to try a job and career.
See also this great recreation of a Prodigy track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
The article mentions reports of misleading calls in 247 ridings. Anyway, parties receive public funding based on the number of votes they receive, so any amount of election fraud is essentially stealing funding from another party.
I use JustNotes on OS X, which is built on top of Simplenote. It syncs wonderfully and is very, well, Simple. The reason I switched to Evernote: rich text.

Google Keep can't do RTF either :(
My theory is it's the Baby Boomers nearing or now in retirement who are concerned about crime, pension, maybe even concerned about immigrants and oddly immigrants tend to be more conservative.

I also think it's deceptive that they call themselves the Conservative party I bet older people may think they are the Progressive Conservatives but they are not it's two radically different political parties with similar names. I consider the current Conservative (Party of Canada) to be nothing more than the Reform Party reborn, for those who don't know Reform was like Canada's Tea Party.

The last election was supposed to change it all it seemed like everyone wasn't going to vote Conservative and there was even a massive push to get young people to vote which seemed to be working. Then the bottom fell out and the Conservatives were not just voted back in but a majority! I say it's the Boomers.
Gevulde savooikool of groene kool: lekker en gezond
This made me laugh out loud in the old school sense of this phrase.
Hanlon's Razor applies:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The combination of drugs is not new:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(drug)
The built-in Reminders app on the iPhone is great for list-crossing-offing.
Awww I see optical illusion!
Two things you have to take into consideration. Are you financially able to take on a job with low pay to learn for months to a few years at a time?

The second is that if a company is going to spend resources to teach you what you need to know, are you going to want to stick around for a full-time job and contribute back to the company? I don't see this being an issue at 31 years old. I would hire a 31 year old if they were dependable, eager, and committed to staying for the duration of their internship.

I see way too many people not apply for various positions because "degree required" or "3+ years of product x knowledge". I always tell them to apply and make the company say no, don't just take yourself out of the running.
Thanks for the clarification.

I am aware of what you mention in your answer. In my statement I simplified quite a bit. I know that runloops have different modes. What I was saying is that if you just use the "defaults" then you will see the phenomenon that I described.

And I don't think that it is a programmer error if you use the defaults... but sure: These days you would probably just use a framework or take care of these details...

May I know why you have reimplemented CFRunLoop?
isn't it a matter of ambition? if you include apprentice in your dictionary, people still do it in mid-50s.

definition: less accountability, steep learning curve, short immediate economic returns.
> Anyway, parties receive public funding based on the number of votes they receive

This is false. The Conservatives put a stop to the per-party funding based on votes a long time ago.

> , so any amount of election fraud is essentially stealing funding from another party.

...but this was true when the elections happened. That's extra evil, I hadn't thought of it that way.
AnyPerk (YC W12) is looking for a Senior Engineer (Ruby on Rails) in SF
I'm thinking of setting up pretty much the same, but with emacs and orgmode files. Even has a mobile app to view any outlines I want to look at.
Source code in TV and films
After the government trying to subvert crypto standards, what could possibly go wrong with this idea, that would force half the world to use this instead of the US dollar?

Nobody would trust this. Bitcoin works because people trust it, because it's built on open source and P2P principles, so they trust it because it's "trustless". That's where most of its value comes from. People also trust the US dollar because it's been around for so long, and nobody even thinks about it anymore.

So yes, the Fed Reserve could come out tomorrow and say that 1 FedCoin = $1, and dollars are gone from existence (unless you're suggesting FedCoin should compete with the dollar? But then what's the point?), all of them being replaced by trillions of FedCoins. And the next day FedCoin would drop in value by half, taking the US economy with it.