skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is available on Amazon[1] and can be downloaded from the NSA[2]. I'm not sure why you needed to make a FOIA request.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Untangling-Web-Guide-Internet-Research...

[2]http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf
In its stead, Hawking’s radical proposal is a much more benign “apparent horizon”, which only temporarily holds matter and energy prisoner before eventually releasing them, albeit in a more garbled form.

'No black holes' is good enough for me. Now, Hawking's been chipping away at these ideas for a long time - remember his essay 'black holes ain't so black' - but this is indeed a radical departure. Cue fooljhardy adventurers dashing off in search of black holes and an outbreak of highly similar sci-fi plots. /opens Final Draft
They haven't innovated much since the SNES era

What a ridiculous statement. The first Call of Duty wasn't even released until 2003, more than a decade after the SNES. To say that gaming hasn't innovated since the SNES era is just wrong.
Set up times to work with people. The best stretches of pounding out productive side project work usually start with discussing it with a friend, both lamenting how much we're wasting time and messing around on it, and then we show up at one person's apartment or a coffee shop and hack on our respective side projects for 4 hours straight.
I must be overestimating the market for tablet gamers. It seems like we used to pay $200-400 for console game systems that didn't include a TV or stereo sound (sure, we all had TVs). I've spent around and below the low end of that range on half a dozen tablets, some as gifts, and the price of this kind of hardware is going down while hardware quality goes up.

Now many people are shelling out just as much for tablets and phones (or through subsidy plans, eventually paying as much as for TV consoles). Today, I have a Wii Mini which was $99, pay extra for more controllers, $10-30 a game since mostly all Wii games are used, or at least are priced as used... and I couldn't be happier that there's no way to hook it up to the internet and Pay-to-Play.

I wish that some of the games were more casual, but from a small sample, the Lego LOTR game is engaging, multiplayer, and really just couldn't be done at all on a small screen with a touch interface. Same goes for Just Dance, or Michael Jackson Experience. Still I can't help feeling like the makers of games for iOS and Android are sandbagging the market. It is about depth for me, and I honestly can't say that I've seen a lot of Android games competing on a much higher level than even the crappiest Wii games that I got for under $10.

Then again, I haven't paid more than $7 for any Android game.
The rotation tool works exactly the way Illustrator's does.
This is ridiculous... the search result really links to

https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dsp559@hotmail.com
Google's stock just took a 3% dip (~$36), since 10 AM (close to gmail downtime).
https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG
Allowing you to do whatever you want is not the same as allowing everyone to do whatever they want. You can't understand free software from an egocentric view of the world. A non-free derivative will ultimately restrict someone's freedom, hence, considering it restricting freedom is perfectly applicable.

We could debate forever on the semantics of which is more free, but I don't think having the freedom to restrict the freedoms of others is going to encourage freedom.
Doubtful that anything you do yourself, especially "relatively-cheap" is going to have better uptime and less hassle than gmail (or other major provider), despite today's brief outage.
It explicitly says in the guidelines not to post this kind of question here. Why have you done so? Have you emailed them as the guidelines say?
That's interesting. I didn't realise that there were some currencies that involved useful calculations (OK so not useful, but practical in some way at least).

Reminds me of http://www.distributed.net/ - it's like their distributed computing but with a currency as a side effect!
She's probably not as innocent as you'd like to believe, and she's probably tougher than you give her credit for. She also has a basic human right to access information.

Please try to see that restricting information when someone is young deforms their worldview for the rest of their life. We as parents hope that the deformation is a positive one, but this isn't necessarily so. We're biased into thinking we've made positive choices for our children regardless of any evidence to the contrary. The bias is hardwired, and unless we take conscious steps to evaluate whether our behavior makes sense then it's easy to get swept up in a "think of the children" argument.
This is craziest thing I saw this year. And I've been watching The Daily Show, so there are no shortage of crazy things.

In any case, I really look forward to explanation how the hell something like this could ever happen.
I am not sure it's a glitch. It could be someone link bombed it.
There is a wealth of advice from Chris Williams, creator of JSConf --> http://jsconf.com/

About three-quarters of his posts have something useful for a conference organizer.

His blog: http://www.voodootikigod.com/

He's trying out something to share how its done, called "Ask A Tech Event Organizer" AATEO http://www.aateo.com/
The problem is that you don't want mining to be too efficient. You cannot scale a GP mining operation easily. you want decentralized multi node network. Probably even better crypto currency will be one with logarithmic returns and not linear on computing power invested per actor - but I am not sure if this thing is even theoretically possible.
Worldcoin (WDC) was created with retail in mind. Transactions are fully confirmed in 60 seconds or less.
It happened at one point. Turns out it's kind of superfluous, and a fairly noisy data source.
That's priceless. I would sell all inbound addresses on the spam market as high-quality leads. >:)
With the intent to disrupt business. They can be easily sued for this practice. This isn't a consumer doing so, this is a company having their employees vehemently attack a competitor.
Cutting commutes up into hours per year doesn't seem all that useful. Lots of stuff takes up what sounds like ridiculous amounts of time if you look at it like that. I'd rather look at it in terms of your day.

If you plan to spend 8-9ish hours actually working, and another 10 per day on sleeping, eating, shower, and other such necessities, that leaves about 5 hours of real free time. A hour and a half a day of commute time is a pretty solid cut into that. 20 minutes of commute time is hardly noticable. Personally, I'd sooner take the 10 minute commute and have that mental seperation between work time and off time than have an extra 20 minutes a day and work at home.
Show HN: Video Communication SaaS for Healthcare Providers
"It's dickish, but no actual harm is done."

In the case of a real restaurant, yes there is harm done. The cost of taking an order is not zero for people: it cost people time and real customers may not be served in time. Maybe not for this particular case with Gett since they're automated.
That is great! Poor guy.
You fucking changed my life.
Tor developer the first known victim of the NSA's laptop interception program?
What KeyFrame said. Even if the video were intended to be viewed by children, her body language and behaviour would still be a bit over the top, and as it is,the intended audience is people donating to Kickstarter. So yeah, I think it reinforces gender stereotypes. Which, I mean, I'm unsure if it's a good or a bad thing, but, well, shrug.
This reminds me of a story on an Australian comedy show where the host gave out an unusual telephone number, calling it "Satan's phone number". Turns out it was a valid number that belonged to some poor sap who got inundated with phone calls. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a source after reading this years ago, so if anyone can confirm this as real or a hoax, step up.

But this really makes me wonder what kind of architectural mishap has had to occur for this to happen? Either way, the poor guy just became a celebrity. Hope he gets some benefit out of it.
> I totally get all the snarky comments and dislike for the porn filter but as a father of a 11-year-old girl who surfs the web I am 100% behind the idea of regulating material that is not suitable for kids.

Does the filter protect children from "cyberbullying"?
>Otherwise that work will become extremely hard to maintain when merges do need to happen.

Why would it be hard to maintain when there is a plugin system which allows you to leverage the compiler functionality through a stable API?
From the perspective of the filter is it working like intended. The word sex is in there, if any character can be used as a whitespace. They limit the such characters, but then you would use dirty words with underscores or punctuators, which would get through. Therefore such filter for words in useless and impossible to make accurate enough.
Bad sitelink (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en) selection there.
select userid, name from users group by userid, name

is equivalent to

select distinct userid, name from users

It's easy to add another column to the "distinct" based query and change the behavior accidentally. With the "group by" query, you'd get an error saying that the new column needs to be either aggregated or added to the group by.
Here's What Google Engineers Do When Gmail Goes Down
Bummer, bootstrap still causes the same issue, which can be seen on twitter.com.
Deleting this thread.
If you take a look at your life as see everything else you are reliant on then you might have a full blown panic attack.
Guess the Movie based on the code
Save Nullspace Labs
Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose

This went away in mid 2011: http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...
Those are just valid email addresses (and names, I guess). High-quality leads would be a list of people who are already especially qualified or interested in whatever you're pitching.
They simply need to have WebSQL as part of the standard. For anything other than trivial apps IndexedDB is a step back. This is the work of the NoSQL movement, pure fuckery. And it's also a shame Google removed it from packaged apps.
We all know that there are various filters, different for each ISP, which exist because the government pressured them in to it. Generically and collectively we are all oh so terribly lazy and refer to them as a UK porn filter.

Please stop believing that we are stupid enough to take that short hand as literal.
Sorry but that's not true at all. DKIM keys, spf records and gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en

Recent Exim exploit: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25970/

Dovecot exploit: https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/linux/smtp/exim4_d...

I found a few Sendmail exploits as well but nothing from this year. Sure this stuff is easy to install but there is a reason managed email exists.
Facebook v academia: The gloves are off
sorry for the Budsiness's insiders ad, I didnt put it there :-)
I hope to spare my son from significant whitespace for a good while.
If they are actually composing and sending an email without checking what's going on, I guess that says something about those users' personalities... :)
The is also http://vectorpaint.yaks.co.nz an online vector editor
Disclaimer: I know some of the people who built this and haven't actually used their product.

http://coconutcalendar.com/
There are tens of thousands of traffic deaths per year.

Of course they care more about being associated with this particular incident than about the singular victim.

Are you going to call them out for not expressing condolences for the other hundred people that died to cars that day?
Immediately after dinner from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM. Then all afternoon/evenings on weekends. I forgo most leisure time except time with wife and baby.
I found out about that a few days ago, and it looks neat. But we don't have Windows and can't afford it.
I think it is a testament to how quickly relevant news for people like us rises here. Hacker News is working as intended and I think it's fantastic.
It's not a "Gmail Glitch", seems like an index error by Google search, his email was indexed in the site links for "Gmail". I assume that due to the outage searches for "Gmail" spiked, so has his inbox was ddos'd.
Buy BTC first from a place like http://coinbase.com then exchange it to DOGE on exchanges like http://cryptsy.com. Alternatively you can try http://reddit.com/r/dogemarket but it's riskier.
Blogger is shown on that page as not having been down, but I (and other HN users) saw it down with an intermittent 503 error, for some minutes.
Jobs was a buddhist, but Woz is the buddha.
I didn't mean bad as in poor.
It's a function of the size of the market. When Stallman was programming computers, the number of computers was quite small and it was much more expensive to create software. These days, especially after the PC revolution, creating and modifying software is much cheaper, especially relative to the demand for software, which is much higher.
Hanlon's razor‎

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Looks like one simple change to hashmap may not be the best answer. May I draw the conclusion from your case like that? The best score now went up to almost 3000. I couldn't imagine how many possible ways out there and one of them could be that excellent. Just curious.
It's still not fraud to call someone and waste their time for a while. See also: telemarketers
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/google...

is adequate for me. What's so devastatingly wrong about that feature that makes it "almost impossible" to use?
To their credit Google makes it very easy to get your data out. I was really surprised how easy it was to transition to different services.
*much
Someone's getting fired tonight.
Okay, so install a filter yourself. Alternatively, opt IN to a filter.

Why impose your choice as the default on an entire nation?
If drivers keep getting requests cancelled, they will be less prompt and enthusiastic about actual ones. The cancellation fee is calculated on the assumption that frequent orders will not be deliberately placed to be subsequently cancelled.
For sure:

For reference: I work 8 hours a day at my day job, with an hour for lunch.

1. Wife does not work outside the home (full-time caregiver)
2. We both share kid activities - I try to take as many of these as I can.
3. Basically from 5:30pm - 8:30pm I'm in dad mode: dinner, chores, playing with kids, reading bed time story, putting them to bed.
4. Typical weekend: I wake up early Saturday & Sunday and work on personal projects. The rest of Saturdays is hanging out with family. Every Sunday we try to go skiing as a family.
For me, my 30 minute commute is time to wind down for a bit. I couldn't tolerate a longer commute than that though.
and the second one (for "GMail - Google") is:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=material@asvd.sasf.ch
I interpreted what he and I both said as a statement of the pointlessness of this ongoing debate that everyone knows has no end. That seems like an on-topic statement to make on HN, especially if it deters others from jumping on that perpetual bandwagon.
Hibernate can work quite well with my/i batis as in a CQRS pattern. Let hibernate eliminate all the crap CRUD you don't want to write, while using tuned SQL via xBatis to do those complex analytic fetches. Works well for us. :)
Agreed wholeheartedly, and this is as someone who's literally spent thousands of hours using Illustrator. I played with it for a few minutes and found the interaction to be very natural, and I only found a couple of bugs. I would suggest that if you avoid a lot of the print-specific aspects of Illustrator like color separations, supporting spot colors, screening options and a lot of their more gimmicky features, this could actually end up replacing it for a lot of people.

* one bug is here: http://mondrian.io/?p=5xf0YH Somehow I created a piece of geometry that's a line segment that can't be filled or stroked. Hover around near the end of that arrow and you'll find it. It was created using the line tool.

edit: never mind, it turns out I just didn't completely grasp the selection model. If I click on the line segment, the endpoints get selected and I can move it, but the fill/stroke panels don't appear. However, if I drag-select it so I get the line's bounding box, they do. The selection model is a bit quirky, although I suppose you're probably trying to simplify Illustrator's weird assortment of selection modes. Good luck with that. :)
The search index is built in mysterious ways, not only from crawled links but also visited sites in Chrome I suppose. We'll probably get an in-depth article from an SEO blog.
Yesterday the GMail App for iOS glitched on me as well. At one point the number of unread emails went to over 2k (in reality about 200), and then notifications for the app got enabled (usually disabled). Nothing major, just minor annoyances.

I didn't think much about it until today's events. Coincidence?
I have to agree.

I love free; what doesn't feel "free" to me is the GPL, since I can't use just about anything GPL in my job.

My job involves creating non-free software. Given the GPL's goals, it's not a surprise at all that I can't use it.

But it strikes me as ironic that RMS talks about "freedom" when really he's advocating restricting your freedom to use the software.

I understand it's in pursuance of a "greater goal" of Freedom to modify everything, but the problem is that, in the large, free software sucks, and I don't really want to be responsible for making it good.

Sure you can come up with a dozen really great free software packages (I'm using Firefox to post here, for one, and I make builds using gcc daily and gnu make). But I can come up with a thousand that suck -- and that includes the "best" packages in a number of different categories: Image editing, document editing, development environments (Eclipse has some nice bells and whistles, but that doesn't make it not suck), 3d editing... ALMOST everything with a GUI, browsers being a huge exception. [1]

Those are just the categories I've tried and tried again to make Free software work for me, because I am attracted to the ideal of working with Free software. But every time, the paid/proprietary solution has been so much better than the free solution that I've defected and paid for the proprietary version.

No, I'm not going to use free software to support an ideal. I'm going to pay for software that helps me get my work done faster and better. Because at the end of the day, I appreciate good tools, not ideals.

There may come a day when I try to make my own "free" software project, but if I do, it will be because I really want to make a world class tool in that category, and I feel that the free model is the best for that tool. But I will continue to choose my tools based on what they allow me to do, not their source code license, and the proprietary tools I do use offer me more advantages despite being closed source than their open source equivalents.

[1] Don't bother posting arguments about this or that free software package in these categories. Unless it's brand new and awesome, in which case I might like to try it out. Regardless, one example doesn't change my overall point, and I don't want the thread to devolve into "Gimp is great!" "No it sucks!" -- "Good enough" for one person is not always going to be good enough for another.
East St. Louis is a different city, across the Mississippi river and in a different state than St. Louis.

St. Louis has taken its share of knocks over the years like many Midwestern cities, but those crime statistics are not indicative of the normal experience here.
Shouldn't you be paying for a cleanfeed connection for your home broadband then instead of having the govt. back hand it onto everyone?
I trust some reviews of some products by some people. I differentiate. For example, for car reviews I read Edmunds reviews but don't trust all of their opinions. They don't try to do anything with car reliability which really sucks, but they can't. You don't know what's what until you've owned the car for 10 years, and they are reviewing new cars. I trust my mechanic friend much more here since he can actually look under the hood and tell me if the type of car has a transmission that's prone to go bad, or an engine that's going to burn oil. It's possible that he's pulling his opinions out of his own biases, but what he says usually makes internal sense so I feel better if he tells me something is good or bad.

I don't trust good restaurant reviews, and only trust bad ones if they cite specific issues, like using wrong ingredients, etc. I trust my friends and family when they say a place is good or bad much more because I know their tastes and I can ask followup questions.

For electronics, I pretty much don't trust anyone with anything unless something is backed by the manufacturer. I only trust Apple products because of Apple Care. Everyone has had a bad experience with a laptop, a phone, a tablet, a mouse, a USB cable, etc. It's not worth listening to most times since it's usually a horror story from 10 years ago about a company that who's had their entire manufacturing line re-tooled since.

On Amazon for a generic product, the biggest indication to me is if there are lots of reviews. That means lots of people own the product. If most of the reviews are one star, it's a crappy product. If not, it could be good or bad and I personally find very little correlation between the way I perceive a product and its Amazon reviews.
This is the only answer. Back when I was trying to build a prototype to try to get some angel investment. I kept trying to find time to hack on the project, unsuccessfully. It wasn't till I set myself a hard schedule that it fell into place for me.

I'd wake up at 6, go to the gym for 2 hours. Be showered and ready to go to work by 9. In at work at 9:30. Out by 6-6:30. Home by 7. then I'd allow myself just 1 hour of TV while I made and ate dinner. so I'd start working on my stuff by 8:30-9. then I'd hit the sack at 12.

It added up, and I was able to get it all done and ready to go in 2 months. Unfortunately the investor flaked on us (shocking), and my partner wanted to go in a different direction. So I'm now stuck trying to do the pivot on my own, which is hard(er) because I don't have the Real estate license I need to complete the pivot.
Huh, interesting! I just looked up the parameter - "the planner's estimate of the cost of processing each row during a query". So increasing this will tend to cause the query planner to forgo complete table scans in favor of indexed queries more often. Increasing the parameter by a factor of 20 seems like you're telling it "never do complete table scans unless it's completely unavoidable, always use an index".

I can see why this would make the query plans look better (in that index scans make more sense to humans) but are you sure you're actually getting better performance? If you are getting better performance, why is the default so wrong? Computers are really fast at sequential scans, less so at random-access stuff.
Allow me to continue, then. Stallman's original problem was essentially, "I had a broken car once and I couldn't get the part I needed to repair it. That sucked, so all manufacturers should provide everyone with all the information needed make any replacement part."

In today's world that problem really doesn't exist anymore. Software is a mass market product, and the software that is produced already conforms to what people want pretty well. Sure, I'll take cheaper parts for my car, but on the list of humanity's problems, non-GPL software is very, very low.
But the point is that it might not be necessary to record those conversations, even though they were large life events. Why do you need to re-read the transcript of you telling your wife that your mom got hit by a car?