skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But, a year later with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft told all the developers that the investments they made in Windows Phone was a waste of time because none of their apps will work on Windows Phone 8.

Isn't that completely false? All WP7 apps run on WP8, bar a few minor incompatibilities.
I'm pretty sure you can hold up withdrawals. You just cancel the automatic transfers from your dashboard then when you want to do a transfer just schedule it manually (or through the API).
Some of us have long memories of astroturfing and don't much care for it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000118072436/http://lists.esse...
I'm in the same boat. I actually didn't find out what my first name was until I was in 2nd grade and I saw my birth certificate for the first time. My parents named me "Mohandas" after Gandhi, but were concerned about that being the name I went by, so not only did I always go by "Schuyler", my 2nd name, but my 2nd, 3rd & last names were on every legal document I ever filed.

About 3 years ago an agent at the RMV in MA, while looking at my birth certificate, which has all 4 names on it, decided that my license had to be issued to Mohandas. I showed her everything I had, passport, taxes, etc. yet she wouldn't relent and I couldn't figure out any way to protest it. At first it didn't really matter, until I got a letter from my bank that my car insurance was issued through, that I was Mohandas now, so far as they were concerned.

Then, when I went to get a license in my new state, they also insisted, though they were much more polite about it and raised the issue up to supervisors, etc. In the end they sent me to get a current copy of my social security card, which didn't have Mohandas written on it. When I arrived at the SSA...they balked at the difference and issued me a new card with Mohandas in first, and my 3rd name dropped completely. That sealed the deal at the DMV, so now my social security number, my license, my bank statements, utilities, etc. are all issued to "Mohandas" which isn't an identity I have any connection to.

Sorry for the rant, it's just been a frustrating, strange couple years as I've watched my lifelong identity transform out of my control.

EDIT: Would also like to add that in the scope of the article and the very real suffering this issue is causing an already embattled minority, my issue is absolutely not comparable.
No she doesn't. The exact quote is "I don't remember" which is completely different from "I didn't". That's the danger of implication, it makes you think one thing is meant while another is actually said.
No worries - I didn't mean to imply that you copied me, but just to point out persistent this problem has been, and to underline the fact that Google doesn't consider it an issue.
Half of your citations are Gawker

The links to original research are trivially available.

But if this type of comment makes you feel special, no worries.

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-054_e3c04a...

http://kentbrew.github.io/profiling-atherton/
-1, 1 and t have worked for me in setting most modes except that blasted scroll-bar-mode, which it turns out calls for a 0 - what the heck! Thanks for a super post.
So out of the 321,000 orders how many caught a suspected terrorist or foiled a terrorist plot?
Oh, nice mode-line! I can't figure out how to get the theme from your repo, any hint?
Hi, article author here. This was more a comment on the verbosity of Google Closure's syntax. If you're not familiar with it, to get the most out of the closure compiler, you have to add type annotations in javascript comments for pretty much every function parameter, return value, constant, etc. Otherwise the compiler's static analysis doesn't really have much to work with. This makes it kind of a pain to javascript devs who are not used to this sort of thing.

Coming from Java, I probably found it a little less annoying than most javascript devs. Although in Java (as I mentioned in a footnote) you have really powerful and mature tooling like Eclipse, which--whatever else you think of it--does really help with Java's general verbosity. You're not going to find the same sort of tool help for dealing with Closure javascript.
IBM still has their usual business of building questionable enterprise applications to fall back on. That or continue building $200-million supercomputers for the NSA. Eh...Sorry, I meant Department of Energy.
Bad translation. Some phrases in subtitles have opposite meaning; or another character starts speaking, but subtitles join his words to the sentence said by the previous speaker.

E.g. stalker says "идите" (go away), translation says "come with me"
Fwiw, I made the same decision with my device choice, for the same reasons. I do run my own calendar and contacts server over SSL, to help safeguard things a bit more, as I don't trust Apple all that much either.
* > > you had a problem with a badly written wordpress plugin
> The plugin is top 10 popular one*

Popular !== Good
(where in this case good is in the context of being well written)

> so hacker found a exploit, crafted a parameter aginst one particular .php, and got in

That could happen with almost any laguage/framework though. While PHP makes it easy to write bad code (as do other options) it doesn't make it impossible to write secure code and you can't blame PHP and/or Wordpress for every bad plugin out there, even the massively popular ones.
You are all extremely superficial. Being "potentially" able to do something, doesn't mean that you can actually do it or that you'll improve your situation by doing it.
A "go bag"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug-out_bag
Best link ever ! (Haha we had the same idea)
Actually, I'm also on the "less configuration, less trouble" side. That's why I like some minor mode to let me get rid of what I don't want to see, sometimes.
What does IBM even do these days? It's like Nokia selling their mobile phone division to Microsoft.
Ì wonder if some Emacs people intend to migrate to LightTable in a few years?
My favorite part is if you go to this site and hold the space bar. Just trust me.
Definitely! I've used Spring's DI container before and while I wasn't a huge fan of the (at the time) XML config, I found the experience to be pretty nice.
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I like this approach to package mgmt. https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live

Even though it is "manual", i prefer stability of my programming environment over the ability to install packages "quickly".
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to get started modding Quake2 or similar?
I just found https://github.com/id-Software/ the other day. I'm pretty familiar with C, and there was a time when I'd play Doom and Quake2 a lot.

I'd really like to jump in to the source, change a few things, compile, and play my modified version of the game.

But first of all I'm having a hard time compiling it. I'm on Mac OS X and started thinking maybe the problem is that it compiles most easily on Windows or Linux? Google isn't helping much in this regard.

Secondly, where would someone find free (legal) data files to use in place of the official ones that only come with buying the game? Is it easiest to just buy it on eBay, or are there places to find community-made data files?

If this is an off-topic question, please let me know and I'll delete it. I try to use my best judgment on this, but I don't always get it right. And I'm not sure about this question.
> Finally, don't worry about starting small.

That in Italy might be a problem by itself. There's an incredible unemployment rate. Just pack your stuff, say bye to momma and leave the country.

Oh and remember to inscribe to AIRE before having nasty taxation surprises.
Not to mention that the server business brings in $5 billion in actual real revenue yet is being sold for 1/2.
(scroll-bar-mode -1) and M-- 1 M-x scroll-bar-mode RET both work for me.
I'm sure everyone hits you for feature requests, but if someone would make a podcast app that made it very easy to start at the least recent episode and continually download more recent ones so I could 'catch up' on a older podcast, I would be very happy.
Far and away the biggest problem with all of this is that it's not opt-in. None of it. Not even the decision to have a G+ account at all, unless you posit that everyone who signed up an email account a decade ago before "social network" was even a thing.

To then turn around and call it "user error" when some forced integration has undesired consequences is just abominable.
#firstworldproblems
(I couldn't find the post on reddit, and couldn't resist)
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The problem is that most people don't want to be told the truth, they want to be told that the beliefs they already hold are correct. Say that a browser extension doing what you're suggesting existed. When you open up the Fox News site, it would say something like "this site is highly biased and often blatantly lies about political issues to give them a pro-Republican slant". Do you think that Republicans would see that as a sign that they should stop reading Fox News? No, they would just disable the extension.
nice stuff. My .emacs keeps the mode line, which I like, but turns off the scrollbars and menu bars, and sets a wide fringe (though not quite as wide as shown). I don't like text jammed right up to the edge of the window.

Anyone know how to achieve a "fringe" on the top and bottom? And also how to do it in xterm windows?
Your persistence, repeating the same point, and use of multiple accounts suggest otherwise.
It does seem to be a standard format though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
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This is a great resource for young and old alike. Enjoy!
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> The Windows trust and value proposition was always compatibility, low-cost devices, and an open architecture

What?
Readium 1.2 - Ghost Open Source theme
LINE, a free messaging app in Japan, made $194m in a single quarter, and its high margin business continues to grow fast. It's monetized through virtual goods and partnerships. And yet, it's nearly unheard of in the US.

I'm not sure if SnapChat is a winner and if their multi-billion dollar valuation is correct, but there's there's still whitespace in the market and plenty of money to be made.

http://www.techinasia.com/line-app-financials-q3-2013-sees-r...
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I hate PHP as a language, I really do, but bugs can happen in any language (eg C++ bugs are exploited all the time to gain machine access). Plus when you get a platform as popular as Wordpress, you'll find that it will constantly be under attack from 'hackers' who bank on people being slow to update their plugins.

With regards to ownCloud, that is PHP by the way.
Let's see what I can find:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/voice/HDkcM-0a...

Here's my earlier G+ post. The biggest problem: before submitting your phone number there's no way to tell what the company will do with the information

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/gA73LST6...
Anyone even vaguely knowledgeable about technology knows what these company's business models are. They involve targeting adverts at you based on the information (directly supplied or assumed) that they have on you. In Google's case it's been this way for over a decade. This isn't news.

If you have information which is likely to damage you significantly, don't share it on the platforms they provide. Encrypt it. I can't be the only one who's accidentally shared things as public on Facebook. Assume that something you share via these sites (rather than send via a single receipiant message or similar) is semi-public, because history has shown that it often is.
ANN: Helm-dash, the documentation browser for emacs
The Internet of things needs a new security model.
IBM does enterprise software and professional services. It's much more profitable than low end hardware. They are one of the largest software companies in the world. A lot of consumers just don't get as much exposure to the brand to realize how big it is. If you've ever worked in the corporate world you would know.
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Kinda huge, but interesting reading. I don't like windows, never did, (probably) never will - so the will to develop on windows has never reached me.

But it's a good bad example for others to avoid.
http://skepchick.org/2014/01/grantland/

Uses of the Word “Mistake:” 15
Uses of the Word “Mistake” in Reference to Actions on the Part of Grantland
Writers & Editors: 14
Uses of the Word “Mistake” in Reference to the Actions of the Outraged: 1

Compliments Given to Grantland Writers & Editors: 12
Manic Pixie Dreamgirl-Esque Words Used to Describe the Late Dr. V: 5

Total Sentences: 214
Sentences Mostly About Dr. V: 9

Mentions of the Motivations and Feelings of Grantland Writers & Editors: 23
Mentions of the Mean Things Others Have Done: 17
Mentions of the Sad Feelings of Grantland Writers & Editors: 9
Mentions of the Sad Feelings of Dr. V’s Family & Friends: 1
Mentions of Dr. V’s Feelings, Any Kind: 0

Instances of “Apolog[y/ize]:” 3
Instances of “Sorry”: 1
Instances of the Word “Sorry” Directed at Anyone But Caleb Hannan: 0
But… what's the difference between nohz_full and tickless? The article mentions tickless as a means of avoiding clock ticks and then ignores it for the rest of the article.
I'm currently CPU-mining (and one crappy nvidia gpu),which would net a few dollars a day at current rates. If I had serious hardware, I would imagine it would be quite profitable. I'm currently just holding onto it and tipping with it occasionally, as I find the whole thing kind of entertaining.
Well the article mentioned 7,500 employees so that has to be close to the billion dollar range for salary/benefit reduction. So that is one way to go after $20 eps...
I said it at the time: "Two mobile-losers' getting together doesn't automatically make a winner". It's still the case. When you go beyond hard-core Nokia fans and MS fans, who buys Lumia?
> Some of us actually like MS [...]

You sure? :-P
What line numbering plugin is this? Looks very similar to vim numbers. I've been trying to find something like that for emacs for a while now. All I found wasLinum mode, which clutters the UI and doesnt give relative line numbering.
Someone has made fake London Underground signs...a ruddy genius.
Not too surprising; outside HN comments I have yet to find anyone actually liking these phones here (in the EU). Most people I know who have one (including me) like the hardware but not the software and they don't like the hardware enough to not get an iPhone or Android. I tried to like it but it's gathering dust only to be swept off when a client wants to order an app for it from us. After that it goes into the drawer again.

From non tech people I usually hear complaints about it still just not working all too well (annoying to hook up to computers, not being able to easily put movies and music on them compared to android/ios, no worthwhile apps compared, random crashes).

Like said; the only positive things I hear about it are raving HN'ers here or MS employees on Facebook.
Only a week or so after I upgraded to 1.6
I appreciate your comment and yes, maybe, I was too dramatic. But it feels like it. I know I am an EU citizen and so on that's why I asked for advices and I got what I asked for. This community is wonderful, I love HN because there is always someone who can help.
Yeah. I think with the move towards heavy client side apps, things like Reacts model will become the way to go. Possibly even implemented on Canvas... but that's likely a while off.
I would guess rabid fan, or maybe Google employee off the meter, who's about to get in trouble. Google's HN gardening is rather more sophisticated than this, but it does leave signals.
Here you go https://twitter.com/asymco/status/426357753188466688
Warn them.
When I give a name to my bank or council tax or utility provider, and they then leak a different name, i can use the Information Commissioner to enforce correct data usage and to provide sanctions. (In theory. IRL they are too busy and too soft).
Vic Gundotra.

Please, get this guy fired. G+ is the biggest failure of Google. It has destroyed gmail chat with hangouts. Youtube with stupid G+ comment integration. It's slow, privacy unfriendly (to say the least, this present article is sadly crazy!), technically weak and socially awkward. They even fuck up the search, even the search!, with a strong bias on G+ "likes" and G+ authorship.

The Internet needs blood... now.
The select keyword for waiting for multiple channels with Go simultaneously
When the president says these leaks "shed more heat than light", he's been not being specific.

If a single person had died as a result of Snowden's actions, the US Government would trumpet the loss as the most tragic breach of national security and call Snowden a murderer.

But they haven't. Because they can't.
That's a good bit of info to know, thanks for sharing. I daresay it won't be the last bizarre spam rule that gmail implements.
A good UI would make it explicitly clear by highlighting the email address and/or by auto adding an explicit entry to the guest list.

At present there's no way to predict the behavior until after the fact. Something with that much consequence (sending an email to an unintended recipient) should never be done silently. By all means take the initiative with autofill etc, but the user should have the final say.

If the supposed design revolution within Google (http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016268/google-the-redesign) isn't just for show, the Calendar team (assuming there even is an ongoing team) clearly hasn't been touched by it and that ought to be corrected.
Excuse the delay. Thanks I'll have a read of that. Agreed, he hertainly is an inspirational character, have seen him in concert twice now and both times were fantastic
Facebook 'Could Lose 80% Of Users By 2017'
Personally I prefer 'Pydio' (formerly AjaXplorer): http://pyd.io/

Though I do also run ownCloud for automatic photo uploads from my phone
I love the implication that having something auto-opt you into something and then doing it is the same thing as voluntarily doing it. Like we're supposed to be ok with the companies we do business with behaving like evil genies.
Hi, article author here. Our blog doesn't have any functionality tied to tracking services except the tracking functionality. If you're using something that blocks all js and css from *.chartbeat.com and you're trying to read a blog post on blog.chartbeat.com, you might run into an issue though :)
To be clear, our iterating like crazy is getting customer feedback and making new features or products to test new ideas as fast as possible.

A few weeks ago I was asked to make a dashboard for a client of ours on the last evening of our hack week. In two hours I had a proof of concept up, the client had a live URL and gave us feedback immediately. We are now devoting resources to making it real. We have angular to thank for that...

Source: I work at chartbeat.

Also you should checkout our product demos, our quality of product is never sacrificed. The newest dashboards really are quite useful and beautiful.
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In a world where they are not building their software from the ground up, themselves, which they almost certainly did not do.
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Nostalghia is one of my favourite films ever. The scene with the shadow of the rain on the villa walls… poetry in motion.
This seems rather a stretch , I don't see anybody suggesting that this is a panacea but I see no downside to this approach.

There is no loss of clarity in writing whether your hypothetical developer is a "he" , "she" or any other pronoun. It is certainly preferable to clumsily using "they".
LINE makes 80% of its revenue from stickers (20%) and games (60%). I can't see stickers as a workable revenue model outside of Asia. As for games, it may work, but I don't think Westerners like the idea of integrating their games into their messaging apps/services. After all, Facebook tried this with games, but nowadays people prefer to play standalone game apps on their mobile devices.
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Definitely warn them. And make it very easy to cancel (e.g., 1 click).
People are vulnerable. And there is a lot of... cruft, attached to sex changes. And not only that, it appears that some family members essentially cut him/her off. So, that's basically a lot of pain all tied up in with the decision to sex-change.

I don't think any of us would have an easy time imagining ourselves in those shoes, but I'd bet that many of us would have an even harder time dealing with it, given how closely we cling to our specific gender trappings.

Some sensitivity to this may have helped.

It would be easier for a person to be honest with the world if the world (and her family, apparently) at least accepted, if not completely understood (because ultimately, it's so subjective that you barely can), gender-change decisions like that.
Revenue matters, but the valuation is driven by the amount of profit. Margin in the server business must be very low (5%) and hence the valuation is a multiple of profit and not revenue.
awesome man, joined the club 2 years ago and now my company relies on you and EasyPost, both YC companies to get our work done every day. It's great to work with your group, you guys have done a great job, props!
Well, besides the usual hell-holes, only Colorado has really changed their gun laws for the worst in the last N years.

Compare to the nationwide sweep of shall-issue concealed carry regimes starting with Florida in 1987 and ending with the court enforced one in Illinois right now (ironically enough, including Colorado, and they had to drop the law they proposed to ban them from public college campuses). Only 7-8 states are left out, although they include the large population ones of California and New York.

At the judicial level, the Supremes finally acknowledged the 2nd (Heller) and 14th (McDonald) Amendments, and while this has had almost no effects "on the ground" outside of Illinois, hey, a Federal judge just granted a preliminary injunction against the Army Corps of Engineers' new total gun ban on their lands.

At the national level, the "assault weapons" ban sunsetted and shows no sign of returning, you can now carry concealed in National Park land, put guns in Amtrack stowed luggage....

The sweep of shall issue regimes has had an effect on gun sales, as many people take advantage of them. But they don't explain the whole incredible increase, especially the increase in sales of rifles of military utility; heck, the last batch of military surplus inexpensive bolt action battle rifles has been exhausted....

I don't know if they claim their gun laws are "working", outside of the traditional gun owner's hell-holes; if they are, they're delusional.

As for the rest, well, anyone who can read a chart notices that LBJ's "War on Poverty" ended the decline in the poverty rate. Jobs, they only emphasize the number still looking for work, not the ones including the underemployed or dropped out e.g. due to giving up trying to find a job. And we've noticed a pretty constant pattern of economic reports being adversely adjusted after first announced....
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