skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think has to do with the complexity of the software you're working on. The games you're working on right now are likely much more complex that 2004 html game. And as someone who recently tried to get the original Doom source code to run (still unsuccessfully), this is just as true for older code.
FWIW, here's Facebook's robots.txt file. While this was a firehose agreement and not subject to robots.txt, it is an interesting look:

https://facebook.com/robots.txt

They give the Internet Archive the most access, but oddly go out of their way to block their TOS and privacy policy from them and not anyone else. Sneaky.

Update: scratch that, I missed that they were Allow statements for ia_archiver. The Internet Archive has by far the least access.
I'm from the US, and I got the impression that the passage was meant as an objective observation.

There are a lot of criticisms to be aimed at many levels of the US healthcare industry, and I don't think anyone would claim otherwise.
If I was criticizing anything, it is the absurdity of such a title.
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You haven't tried some of the heavier auto-complete plugins. As it stands right now, they have an annoying tendency to block the UI while you're typing! It's bothered me so much that I've even considered writing my own vi clone based entirely on an asynchronous message queue such as this!
There is a sense that more of something means less of something else. Perhaps this is true in terms of market share, but it doesn't happen to be true in devices.

TVs didn't kill talk radio, though radio may have shrunk.

The PC didn't kill TV, though TV may have been augmented, and perhaps shrunk.

Mobiles didn't kill PCs, though PC use may have shrunk.

This idea that the web will be completely replaced by Facebook and mobile apps is crazy. It's just another layer in a multi-technology world.
I'm all for using the actual meaning of words. If that means it is harder to make emotional arguments, then so be it.
Had this happen recently. The error logs and console output ended up not being particularly informative, so I downloaded and installed the Steam client again. Sorted out whatever kink was hanging the client at start, and the game library was still intact.
Canonical posts a $21 million loss - is Ubuntu's future doomed?
26 Delightful Pictures Of The London Underground In The '70s And '80s
This isn't some magic from AngularJS, it is a standard HTML5 API and it's been around for a while. It is designed to allow single page applications to use beautiful URLs.
So, this isn't an AngularJS gotcha. Not at all. You can read more about it here: http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html
OAuth on HTML5
> On Oyster, once a person reads more than 10 percent of the book, it is officially considered “read.” Oyster then has to pay the publisher a standard wholesale fee.

via: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/technology/as-new-services...

This article also talks about the "Sizzler Problem." Oyster costs $10/mo, so they basically have to hope that, on aggregate, people won't read more than that in cost of wholesale fees. It'd be really interesting to look at their actual numbers against Spotify and the other companies with a similar model. According to the article, only 2% of users read more than 10 books a month.

I'd imagine that the % of users that actually "cost" them money couldn't be more than ~5-10% of their entire subscriber-base. Anyone have any insight into this?
شاهد بالفيديو الفرق اول عبد الفتاح السيسى يتفقد اللجان بمصر الجديدة
Rspec: Response Status Code Testing
Why Soft Skills Matter in Data Science
Goes both ways. In PHP you can take an arbitrarily complex object graph and marshall it to JSON with a few keystrokes; in Scala, unless you're working with MongoDB or other native JSON speaking backeend, you've got to go through a laborious manual process to do the same...for each complex object.

That's partly why Dynamic came about in Scala, to deal with the case where, shit, you've already got a type safe represention of an object in Scala, and now you have to create a type safe JSON version of the same -- pointless double duty...PHP, Python, Groovy, Ruby, etc. win this particular battle.

I am, BTW, completely playing devil's advocate here ;-), Scala's my daily bread; PHP, wow, I did some horrible things [shudder]
As a finance person I really like this one. I'll have to check it out when I get home from work. Thanks!
Do you have a source on that? It didn't gut check with me and some quick googling turned up some contradictory, but not decisive, information otherwise [1]

1. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_size_of_a_DNA_molecule
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics "whiz" Dr. Ignacio V. Ponseti developed this astoundingly cheap fix for clubfoot in the 1950s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponseti_Method

Of course, these guys are doing good work and don't claim to have cured clubfoot. But the Wired coverage is, unsurprisingly, sensationalized and misleading.
Do consumers really control their devices anymore? Maybe they still can, but in the industry, there's no doubt that this is viewed as a problem that needs solving.
And, once you willingly give data to third parties, you lose certain protections (at least in the US as I understand current interpretations of law).
To be honest, I'm shocked this is on the front page as this website has been out for years and already notably mentioned, but I guess it's good to recycle very important websites for those who haven't heard of it.

My favorite problems is 98. This problem, along with the Sudoku one at 96, require much more careful programming than some of the others due the drastically fewer number of people who solved it compared to the surrounding problems.
- syntax highlight
- decent automatic indenting
- semantic auto completion popup
- on the fly compile
- on the fly syntastic check(lint tool)

In vim, those settings are very sluggish in my old AMD 2 core 1Ghz cpu laptop. Sublime Text and Emacs both are quite reasonable.

I think vim could be more responsive.

This slow response problem is only reason for trying other editor. Please make this real.
Different models for different services. Some services are 1 to Very Many. (TV) Some encourage more involvement (StackExchange in the early days, or HN now). As a principle it's good to be on top of this, though. You have to treat your content creators different. And your content editors.
My thought on the topic, after being shocked at the price, was that Apple must have some home automation products as their next big thing.

3.2B to head off Apple from creating the "iPod of home automation" is still a bargain.
Wait, are you implying that the UN has declared that stealing the results of someone's labor is justified because it's a "right"? We might as well declare anarchy and get it over with.

I also fail to see how copyright laws are preventing anyone from enjoying their culture.
That's why I like Euler for this, there's no possibility that someone is trying to get some free work out of you.
So, how does it aggregate rankings? Arrow's theorem says there is basically no good way to do it ;)
right, mixed up the history of genetics study a little.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster#History...
Trends: Because the best way to disrupt an industry is doing the same thing everyone else is doing.
Snapchat Spam Has Gone Too Far
Creative Compulsive Disorder: Remembering Zina Nicole Lahr
I was thinking the same thing. Why would she want to advertise this? It almost guarantees that they won't be able to help her in the future.
Anyone can learn to be a filmmaker: Wikiversity Course
Filmmaking is not rocket science. Everything about filmmaking is extremely easy to learn. Anyone can do it if they wish.
technically correct but they are talking about touching the accessible surface of a compact molecule which is approximately spherical and thus "size" is determined by its raised profile on a surface.
Even though there is tons of evidence suggesting that DevOps is clearly advantageous over the traditional approach to releases, it seems like organization just like to say they'll implement DevOps "next year"...
Our build process automatically generates a directory tree of HTML-formatted unit test coverage reports. Sometimes it's nice to be able to share links to those reports in a code review. I use python SimpleHTTPServer for that.
They give the Internet Archive the most access, but oddly go out of their way to block their TOS and privacy policy from them and not anyone else. Sneaky.

It's actually the opposite. They allow IA access to their terms and policy, but block everything else:

User-agent: ia_archiver

Allow: /about/privacy

Allow: /full_data_use_policy

Allow: /legal/terms

Allow: /policy.php

Disallow: /
I am, too, but like "hacking," those horses have long left the barn.
... what's the on-line division? Skydrive and Outlook/Hotmail?
How to block all blue light from your devices

I can't help but think 'turn them off' is the most obvious answer here. The author seems to think he needs the iPad/laptop to fall asleep. Well, that's simply being untruthful to yourself. It's just a habit, and with some correct training (and eventually even seeing a psychologist) he can replace it with another, probably healthier, habit. Like reading a book or meditation.
Tips to Attract Angel Investment in 2014
http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php lists very few removed functions and no renames. One case I had (which isn't even mentioned on that page) is htmlspecialchars assuming UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 if no encoding parameter is given. I'm not sure that falls into »We're removing weird artifacts from the language«.
No, I think it's more the role of the victim of the theft to decide whether it was morally wrong or not.

Otherwise, yes, this idea of being "forced" to pirate something they want but don't have easy access to seems a rather silly statement.
I like the idea of net neutrality conceptually, but the ulterior motives of its proponents bugs me. It strikes me as just a way for the Youtubes and Netflixes of the world to get a bigger piece of the pie for themselves.

Consider the basic streaming transaction: consumer tunes in to watch an episode of their favorite show on some streaming service. Several companies are involved in the transaction: the streaming service, the broadband provider, and the content company that made the show. But the consumer doesn't really care about any of that, he's willing to pay $X for the experience of watching that episode.

How that $X is split up amongst the companies in play is the subject of a lot of legal wrangling. Each party has an incentive to try and turn the contributions of the other parties into a commodity. The streaming service and the broadband provider have an interest in weaker copyright protections, so the content company has less leverage. The streaming service and the content company have an interest in net neutrality, because that prevents broadband companies from differentiating their services from each other, and forces them to compete only as "dumb pipes."

It's not clear what the "proper" division of that $X should be. Arguably the content creation is the least fungible from the consumer's point of view. If they want to watch "House" that's what they want, not some substitute. The broadband provision is arguably the most technically complicated and the one that involves the greatest capital expenditure. Distribution is, in my opinion, relatively simple. Computing power and commercial bandwidth are commodities thanks to AWS and the like. So all that differentiates Netflix from Hulu from Youtube is the software. The software isn't easy per se, but it's easier than making a blockbuster movie or building a fiber network. That's why streaming sites are a dime a dozen but it takes the likes of Amazon or Netflix to even attempt to compete with NBC, etc, in developing AAA content.

That's almost certainly why Netflix is getting into the content business, and why Youtube has always been in the content business (through user generated content). That's what's hardest to turn into a commodity.
Granting your point about non-trolling benefits to NPE corporate structures, doesn't this also give MAV the ability to troll while protecting the assets in Spaceship One and the other corporate structures responsible for the actual development? In other words, legal action taken by MAV to enforce their patents would still seem to fit the colloquial usage of "patent trolling".
Or we could ban giving them to animals
Shortest unmatchable regular expression
Circuit Court Of Appeals Strikes Down FCC’s Open Internet Order
Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
Again, I point to observed facts. Are you saying the US system has more government involvement than a socialist system where the government pays for most health care? Are you saying the participation of private business (insurance and providers) is irrelevant to the equation?

If the US is less socialist than the "socialized medicine" systems, and socialism leads to increased costs and reduced quality, then that should be reflected in the numbers. It is not. The American system is far more expensive than any other system in the world, for results that are generally no better and often far worse. This isn't despite the role of private insurance, this is because of the role of private insurance. Occam's Razor, man.

Your ideology is failing you because the results implied by your ideology are completely at odds with the observed facts.
That would definitely work. For v1, your customers would be able to see each others results. Would that work for you?
Duh, all the others were Disallow statements and I just missed that the IA ones were Allow. Thanks for the tip.
Curious - How do you get the ability to downvote articles?
All the comments here debating whether AI in the movie would. What about the topic of the article, design?
Fossil reveals transitional link from fins to feet
"2014 web design trends"
- web design
- design
- web
- internet
- computer
- why are you even reading this dross?
It's not the "free work," it's asking the candidate to make a large time commitment that she cannot use for pursuing other job opportunities.
Asm.js AOT compilation and startup performance
DOM animation is done native, by GPU.

WebGL... you can't even do fonts.

And DOM is more accessible by creative designers.
So, content providers are "harassing" you in some way by not making it easy for you to purchase their content or they want to charge what you personally feel is too much? You pirate because they "harass" you? That's a new defense of pirating for me.

Do they target you specifically with this harassment or is it just in general for the population of where you live?
I tried to find what you are talking about by goolging, and by searching directly at http://5by5.tv/search/results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=dissertation&...

I could not find what you meant, could you provide a link?
Mixrank, they're a YC company. Nice folks and really sharp too.
What happens if I don't fall asleep at 0? Will I die? Will I get a BSOD?
Well, if you say "no, really, ...now...this time stop lying and cheating and stalking. Ok, we're good not, right." then it will mean something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system is a great read. We're basically doing a Borda count.

Keme­ny-Young technique as an upgrade feature? :)
I don't have any insight, but I'm curious myself. How exactly do you compete with Amazon here? Considering Kindle, free wireless delivery, free classics, market power, etc, etc.. Competition also comes in the form of libraries.
How gangs in United Kingdom used the Freemasons to corrupt police
I see more and more investments pouring in to business/enterprise SaaS. Analytics, whilst not normally considered SaaS, is certainly strong in the mindset of investors and when companies start understanding how they can use their analytics data, they will see fantastic returns. At the moment, it seems that only small business ~<$10m really understand true analytics or conversion optimisation.

Data Science startups/apps are an extension of this and my money would be on them if they can easily show ROI to their clients.
That's too blunt of an instrument, though. Antibiotics still have legitimate veterinary uses.

A small tax per unit might stand a better chance, though. Something that might not be onerous at the low quantities one typically buys antibiotics for when they intend to use it legitimately, but adding up to something prohibitive in the mass quantities needed for industrial-scale prophylaxis.
As a coder or a CTO, I say you can't do both.

Code 30% of time? You know nothing of coding. Can't be done.
Project Euler is great but as others here have said it is very math focused. Can anyone share other programming challenge sites? I saw one the other day here on HN in a comment but can't find it again. The only thing I remember is the problem I checked out was a kind of AI / pathfinding for a "floor cleaning robot" and code was submitted directly in the page.

[Edit] Just found it going through my history: https://www.hackerrank.com/
Successful People: The 8 Self-Limiting Behaviors They Avoid
I work with some pretty brilliant people, and I was honestly shocked to see how many felt they hit these behaviors in their day to day operations. The good part is they are aware of said behaviors, and I suppose knowing is just half the battle!
API health monitoring for developers
In case codeplanet goes down, see the demo: http://rcorral.github.io/github-stargazers/
This is horrible. Being a developer, I make money off building fast web based applications. It sucks because the fast part is now out of my control. I can write the best code ever and it will run slow unless I pay for provider preference. This will cost small companies dearly and rewards large ones unfairly. Why must our courts and political system line the pockets of the already rich? Now is the time to aid and promote innovation not stunt and slow it.
I don't use the last four of the features you're mentioning, but I can confirm indeed that syntax highlighting can make things terribly slow with large files and/or complex languages (I'm a Perl 6 guy), so yeah if multi-threading can help, I hope it gets implemented soon.
http://htwins.net/scale2/

Zoom in and you can get an idea.
AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution
Nothing works for me, no loading icon so I don't if it is loading or it has crashed
Listen to Nujabes[1] and reflect on what you did yesterday, what you did excellent, what you could have done better and internalize that information.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-uG8o4dsE
And here...

> The reason why refreshing your browser breaks HTML5 mode is that all the routes in your AngularJS application are not real. Release[Board] doesn't have a /releases page. AngularJS is using some clever JavaScript to make it seem like a /releases page exists. When the user hits refresh, the browser tries to load a real /releases page, which is non existent. I find this a completely unacceptable user experience.

...isn't this a case of "Duh. What did you expect to happen?"
6 Disruptive Technology Trends that Will Shape 2014
A few things. First, it costs 250, not 300. Second, an alternative would be much cheaper, but it is non zero. Third, it provides other benefits than just potentially saving money such as a great user interface and apps with which to control it remotely.

So say an alternative is 30, the cost is 220, not 300. That takes several years off your calculation. Then having the benefit of an improved interface is non zero. Even if it takes a long time to pay back I plan on living in my house for a long time, and I liked nice things.

Now if you want to argue about overpriced absurd things, go with their $130 smoke detector or whatever it is. No thanks.
IBM Wins Most U.S. Patents for 21st Year in a Row
How ironic will it be if the next generation of German kids has to rise up to fight the totalitarian might of the USA? I see it happening, already .. truly a staggering circumstance that we are here now in the 21st Century, and not even Germany can stand up to the tyrants.
The role of the fringe in the Free Software and Esperanto communities
From the UX standpoint the problem with Minority Report (MR) is that when you compare it with the tech we had in 2001-02 its completely INSANE, while Her is actually building on top of something we already have

Point in case 12 years ago we didn't have ANYTHING close to the UX in MR, and even today we don't. Any consumer-available motion tracking and gesture recognition is still not comfortable to use in a professional way (ie: for work) as it was in the movie, but voice recognition is much much better than it was in 2002.

Basically Her is like Siri or any other decent voice assistant, but MR is like...........what? kinect? nah, wii? yeah right, leap? yeah right! I can picture tom cruise losing all tracking the moment he rotates his hand...
Should "Yes, delete it" be red or green?
you wrap around to 100 and start again. Hopefully, this endless loop with help you fall asleep. :-)
What github username did you use?
Do you mean "this same fix" or do you mean "this other cheap fix"? Because they read to me as similar techniques but with drastically different tools, and the older treatment uses more labor and material (thus one would expect it to me more expensive.)
Selenium of course does provide web automation technology but here at Automately we are trying to do more than that. We are trying to put web automation in the hands of developers as fast as possible and inspire them to create new things.
I read a lot if I have those 40 mins. I try to learn stuff.
Okay, but lets say someone then takes your original brain that was replaced by the electronic replica in your sleep, and puts it into a different body.

Now which one is 'you', the electronic one or the original one... or both? It's not quite so simple.
Responsive UI with Luminosity Level
Video backgrounds = not progress.
Boosting it means if the power goes out for a few hours and the temperature drops 20 degrees in the house it goes from 70 to 50, not 50 to 30.

Protects the pipes, too.
Appeals court strikes down key parts of the FCC's net neutrality rules
It's not perfect, but I would kill to have it on my daily driver Android. Siri consistently nails daily things like "Directions home" or "Call [girlfriend]" or "set an alarm for 10 minutes" or "Show movies near me", all manual tasks when I'm in Android.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/117/
Why are you trolling, kid?

Stop projecting your emotional state onto other people.
Surely the best thing here is for broadband providers to be reclassified as "common carriers"? That would be a fitting end to Verizon's campaign.

The FCC is free to make this choice (right?[1]), and it means they can regulate broadband companies the same way as they do phone companies now - it will have some penalty (which is why they've avoided doing it up to now), but hopefully they will have the guts to fight back.

(note, I'm in the UK, so this doesn't affect my home internet speed, although it could affect any of you 'mericans trying to read my rather obscure blog.)

[1] I don't actually know, so by all means correct me.
It's like indirectly saying the provider can charge for any content they want. You don't pay, then they won't traffic it. It's like censorship, protectionism and a bunch of other old world BS rolled into one. I'm livid.
I've read that the most effective way for the state to control the public's behaviour is a combination of taxes and subsidies (sorry, don't recall the source). Simply tax bad behaviour and subsidize good behaviour. Other means are possible, but less efficient.

The user fee could work, depending on the scale... if it is possible to be small enough to not deter individual use, but large enough to deter mass use in agriculture, then it stands a chance.

As an aside, the common practice of municipal hotel taxes never made sense to me. Wouldn't a city wish to encourage people to visit?
And midgets. I'm really disappointed that Project Euler doesn't do more to motivate the vertically-challenged to excel in STEM fields.