skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confounding issues here. RMS is in the position of a critic of the US government, rightly claiming that, while your country is "free", it installs and supports dictatorships all over the world. It is possible to be unfree, and not support other dictatorships, like Cuba.

It is possible to be both unfree, and support dictatorships, like the USSR. RMS's goal with GCC, is to be like the mythical free country that also supports freedom and discourages dictatorships elsewhere in the world.

In other words, your software can be free, and yet support and aid those who would take your freedom away. This is the claim RMS is making of Clang.
What I really want to know is who the hell actually googles "gmail"? There's a link at the top of the homepage!

You'd be surprised at what some people do (on laptops and desktops). I've seen ones who refuse to type URLs in the address bar, with the sole exception of google.com, which they then use to type in the URL for the site they're looking for.

They don't even realize the search bar on the top right exists.
PLEASE stop reposting this.
As a consumer-facing corporate web developer, I am constantly thinking about the design decisions sites make and whether there's anything I can glean from the perceived approach. When spending my time on apachefriends.org this week, it was always on my mind, especially with the narrow layout and that baby icon (seriously spent 5 minutes thinking... 'but... why?').

Unfortunately, I am required to code on a windows machine for my current 9 to 5, so I am fairly limited as to what tools I have to get a LAMP stack up and running quickly and locally. So, XAMPP is my homie for now and it's site is one I kick around from time to time, especially when trying to figure out how to turn off AsychDNS in the curl library (yea... you have to rebuild the lib... fun stuff).

Regarding the download pages, I feel the versioning makes sense if you assume the higher XAMPP version correlates to the higher PHP version, which makes sense to me.
Does google fire over single( assuming ) mistakes. I didn't think they were that kind of company. Isn't there a voting to determine that?
It really depends on the game. Somehow, I was able to get better at Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on my iPhone than I was on the N64 version I played as a kid.
No Google-snooping, and there never will be.
It is really very funny to read your and similar comments and to think why clang was created.
I don't think that's true. Phone systems are standardised. There is also free telephony software (like asterisk). The cell phone stuff is more secretive, but it's still more open than Skype, which is completely obfuscated, proprietary and centralised.
Which mobile phone provider ?

I just went into the three shop and said "take the porn block off please"
Contextual Vs Composable design
Wow, not only is this an entirely ignorant and untrue stereotype; it implies that putting in all-nighters for your job is a good thing which I think its fairly universally regarded as untrue.
I get that concern, and it's your prerogative as the parent to limit what your daughter can access on the Internet.

What I don't get is delegating this to the government rather than using something that's under your control.
Banks make multiple $ loans per single backing $.
>there are vastly better open source UI options than gmail.

Really? Because I haven't found a web front-end as good. Otherwise I am happy running my own mail server.
People feel a lot of pressure to fill in prompts with blinking cursors.
Ah, that convinced me to actually buy membership. Thanks for spreading the word.
Why would an alternative service (or self hosting or whatever) be better at reliability than Google?
Apparently Google indexes those links like any other: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:mail.google.com+mailto#...
It's a slippery slope. If you allow the government/courts to dictate what kinds of speech is "bad", then you are placing faith in the system that nothing not-bad will ever be seen as bad by the government/courts. The cost/risk of potentially losing freedom is perceived to be worse than stopping a few assholes saying bad things (which they probably will anyways.)
Your argument is 'moot'.

Free software is no more 'forcing' anyone to respect your ideological beliefs than proprietary software is, in neither case you can 'prevent anyone from throwing it out on principle'.

Proprietary limits the rights of end users, you are free to not use proprietary software.

Free software secures rights of end users, you are free to not use Free software.
What desperate cases?
I did none of the sort. Whoever invented and implemented this feature did. It's too bad it's hidden in plain site.
It's too bad nobody has CRT's anymore. We used to build these in high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibW_x8lWWFM. Yes, it's entirely as awesome as it looks.
I find it telling that RMS explicitly has a problem with LLVM because it helps private companies "as well as us" instead of only helping us. It's literally zero-sum for him. He doesn't want companies to benefit in any way from open source.

I think there's a big problem with copyright and software -- the goal of copyright is to provide public goods, but the public goods that copyright protects is the source code, not the binary, yet there are no guarantees that the public will ever get the source code. I think if this problem were addressed (e.g. all software that seeks copyright protection must have its source code placed in escrow) then a lot of RMS's legitimate issues with closed source software would be mitigated. I'm sure he would still resent code being closed source, but at least we'd know that in 25 years or whatever the source code would become available to all.
off topic, but the one thing that I hate about google search results is that they are all linked to google.com/url?*. Sometimes my internet will crap out just because of this. Because google's server is too slow to redirect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_...
> I do believe Apple added the restrictions on having only non-GPL code [...]

Apple allows GPL code in the App store. There are many GPL apps (both GPLv2 and GPLv3) in the store.

If you are using GPL code that you do not own in your app, you do need to get a non-GPL license from the owners to allow Apple to distribute it, and so the code ends up dual licenses--special license for Apple, GPL for everyone else.
No photos, videos, music, movies, code? Nothing?
> Ugh, this entire thing is in coffeescript too, now I have to learn coffeescript to make sense of this library.

This reminds me of a really funny bit Louis CK does about wifi on an airplane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk#t=234

Basically, the punchline is how ridiculous it is that some people can believe they're entitled to something being a certain way, that they didn't know even existed until a few minutes ago.

"Ugh, this really cool library isn't written in something I already know. What an asshole for doing that."
Totally agree with you but I'm sure you'd agree that watching porn is not something that a 11-year-old should be doing? She is more or less free to browse what she wants, she reads Wikipedia articles, reads the news etc etc but I can't see how viewing porn would be good for her worldview?
The one time I posted some pictures to share with some friends of course it's down.
Perhaps some validation would be useful, but 20 days per week?
Would love to see it put online :>
>freedom is more important than to have good softwares

Yes, I agree, freedom to have the essentials for human survival is a lot more important than having instant access to the latest BF4 patch.

Care to provide a bit of qualification and relevance to your broad, context-free, ill-defined statement?
As a coder living in St. Louis, I can say that this hasn't been my experience at all. There is an exceptionally high demand for coders around here. Barely a week goes by without someone trying to poach good programmers. Its not necessarily all sexy startups, but there is an excellent market for programmers in general.

We have a fairly good startup scene (though obviously nothing on SF) and a large number of more traditional corporate employers of programmers like Express Scripts, Monsanto, Wells Fargo, Scottrade, Ameren, Charter,
Anheuser Busch, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman. There is also an exceptionally active biotechnology scene here.
Mike Honda: Drawing the Line on Government Surveillance
The actual behaviour (the link with a random email address) is so far from the expected behaviour I'm finding it hard to believe how it happened. Probably search indexing/ranking error as others have speculated.
Opps Gmail is doing magic and someone is suffering
Search Gmail in Google and click on Email (Which is sub result of gmail).
See the magic
Kiev protestors allegedly shot with door-breaching shotgun slugs
It's not freedom in any sense of the word. The FSF is at best a fiefdom, but in all reality a dictatorship. Stallmans utopian future is more 1984 than any of the actors he accuses. This whole thing is bullshit.
I've been playing DOOM for nearly eighteen years, which falls in the SnM category. While Konami's International Track and Field is more like solo masturbation (even in multiplayer).

BTW I now remember that my record for the 100m sprint was 7.12 seconds.
This is what you get if you type "gmail" into chrome's location bar.
At the same time, I feel that the Karma the original uploader of such news gets is kind of, little undeserving.
This made me laugh:

...he contacted Hotmail support this morning to try to get help. Ironically, he asked them to contact him at his alternate email address, which is Gmail.
Well, going by Craigslist you can find 2BR places for less than that -- but it doesn't look it's easy to get much under $3000, and the median seems closer to $4000. I suppose Silicon Valley is still a relative bargain, in the sense that the third or fourth most expensive place to live in the country is cheaper than the first most expensive. :)
Wait till you hear about the 'Facebook login' fiasco: http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_m...
"The whole online review thing is thoroughly broken."

"Star ratings are completely screwed"

"Long written reviews "...are also extremely subjective."

Totally agree. Here is my analysis and resolution: http://bit.ly/LRSdkJ or

If you want to fix this with me drop me a note. I have an idea, a design and a viable business model. :)
Search for Gmail in google and click on "email" which is sub link of gmail. See the magic.

Jeff Morsey is doomed with emails !
They aren't great but they aren't useless either. A customer is basically rating, "Was I satisfied?". If everyone who bought this product was 100.0% satisfied, is that not useful information, even if there is another competing product that might be better?
It's not automatic. I've had to legitimately cancel before and have never been charged a fee.
Wow that's the opposite reaction than what I had.
Let me guess nsa@hotmail.com?
Kids these days, not around in the 90s when all web pages were static and every link refreshed the entire page.

There's a happy middle ground between heavyweight javascript SPAs and static pages.

Frankly I love it when I interact with a web page and it doesn't have to reload the whole page just to update a single element, article, etc that I requested.

But neither am I fan of overly heavy frontend JS apps, like how Twitter used to be [1], or Quora seems to be, for example. Especially since I'm a chronic browser tab abuser where JS-heavy pages bring my browser to a halt or make it chug.

So yeah, aim for that sweet spot happy middle ground when possible.

[1]:https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...
Is it more important even if it allows somebody to remotely disable the breaks on your car while you're doing 50mph? Or perhaps disabling your camera while you're being assaulted by a police officer? What about the predator who's monitoring your children's activities and location because they downloaded a game?

I picked some pretty harsh possibilities there that seem a little dystopian, but I wouldn't rule any of them out, or any of the million other horrific possibilities that increased coupling of technology to our lives, without (self-)regulation could enable.

If you really want software to 'just work', you should probably first ask, who is it working for?
That's 14 years old. The GP's message is from this year.
Ever since I stumbled upon this Steve Jobs submission on HN [1], anything positive I read about this man is disdain. There's a dark cloud hanging around his work. I'm getting the vibe that others are feeling the same way too.

I do realize the products Apple has built are the result of the ingenuity of thousands of Apple employees so one can't just discredit their hard work.

-- Cynical me

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7111531
Woww, I don't think I've ever seen a more specious stock-price correlation haha, that's impressive.

FB is down almost 4%, AAPL is down almost 2%, TSLA is down almost 4%, AMZN is down almost 3%, the whole S&P 500 is down ~2%. I'm pretty sure the market doesn't think that an Apps outage threatens all those companies (and the whole S&P 500) to the point that they'd shave whole points off all of their market values.
> When I finally realized that the FSF is really about being a social movement and that creating useful software is a non-primary goal (or maybe even a non-goal), my level of annoyance with RMS greatly decreased.

Yes, that's pretty much it: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html
NoSQL and non explicit schemas does not free you from modelling
A really short post about the whole flexible schemas in NoSQL land and how easy it is to store data and let the design of it evolve by time. “You just throw some JSON in there and then start harvest the data with some nifty queries.” I’m saying, no you are not freed from not thinking about your data model, because the shape of it will need to vary depending on how you will consume the data.
It's like a snow day.
Kudos. And I wish you all would reconsider your nomenclature.
You'd be surprised at how the normals use the Internet. Searching Google for destinations such as Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook, etc is incredibly common.
PSA: Some libraries have free access to Consumer Reports. Check with your local library to see if they have a membership.
It was designed by contest -- http://99designs.com/web-design/contests/re-design-apache-fr...
Starting our AMA now! http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w29dx/we_are_creating...
Even if you end up with a scheme that can only run efficiently on a general purpose computer, it will probably be through making the computation utilise all the features of the computer. Which means that the computer won't be very good at doing anything else while it is mining.

Outside of 3D video games, the bulk power of most computers is already idle pretty much the entire time they are turned on.
Yes, you can go ahead and just use tasks, projects, time tracking. It won't be ideal because you lose a lot of the benefits of integration, and the ease of moving information between email and tasks/projects.
BSD and Konquer are not the adversaries to RMS.

People who threatens others with lawsuit for doing modification or sharing are adversaries to RMS. For example, he seems to dislike Apple because they threatens jailbreakers with million dollar lawsuits and jail, and do not want his code to contribute to that misery.
The one guy on the Internet who is happy that Google fell over today?
The thing is, there is no way to ascertain the level of competence of the person writing the review. Is this someone really knowledgeable, or is it some dumb newbie? Sometimes it's easy to tell, but other times it's very hard.

Then there's also the issue of reviews with an "agenda" - self-explanatory, no need for me to say more.

One thing that seems to work is to see someone I know using a gadget, to actually see that gadget being used, and talk to that individual briefly about the gadget. The info I get this way seems quite a bit more trustworthy than online reviews. Of course, this could also be an artifact of the way we form opinions.

Another empirical observation: on Amazon, a significant amount of negative reviews is typically an indication of a real issue. But the absence of negative reviews doesn't say much. Positive reviews do not appear to be quite as relevant-information-rich, unless there's an extremely large amount of them.
Sorry I though this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107851 was an ancestor I got my thread branches slightly confused. I wouldn't have posted it if I hadn't.

Most computer software named pySOMETHING is Python but I didn't assume and went and looked in the repo.

I said that my feelings about code written in PHP were unfair and you are right that ease of deployment is a valid reason to develop in it. I did not say that all code developed in it or developers for it are garbage but I do treat it as a slight warning flag. The big thing is that I don't want to learn enough to be working around gotchas in the language.

Yes C or C++ aren't the obvious choice for a web framework and would probably put me off to some extent but I am sufficiently familiar with them to evaluate how clean the code is and tinker here or there if necessary. Of languages that I don't currently know well that I might be prepared to learn some more to tinker are the functional programming languages (Scala, Haskell, ML) I might be interested in anyway or JS/Node.

In terms of the stupidity of using a C/C++ based web framework Apache can probably be used as a basic web framework and I've heard about people using Postgres to do the templating not just managing the data so it isn't implausible to use C/C++.
Of course it's the fault of the person presenting them. If they are competent enough to understand what they are presenting, they are competent enough to adjust a y axis baseline.
I see jeff.morse@d214.org
Ha! I never knew about that as well. Just enabled it :)
Hopefully Google will send this innocent bystander a valuable collectible Scroogled mug.
How Real is ‘Her’? Artificial Intelligence Experts Weigh In
Oh I thought it said 20 HOURS per week.
That's a different problem - namely that they don't want to tie Linux to having a stable ABI.

The side-effect is that it makes it difficult to maintain out-of-tree modules, because people don't fix things as they edit the kernel (if it builds, it builds etc.)
> Sure FreeBSD and Konquer didn't gain much from Apple deciding to use their code, but they also didn't lose anything either.

I disagree.

In fact, I think the GPL probably saved the World Wide Web.

That Konquerer was GPL was the single advantage it had over anything else. It used to be a buggier, and slower, and generally worse web browser, but every time someone made an improvement, the GPL made those improvements Free; When Apple improved it, it was the GPL forced them to make those changes available to everyone else, and while the code being available is what helped Google start their web browser, it was the GPL that fed those improvements back into the community.

Perhaps Mozilla (open source, but not GPL) would have remained an acceptable way to search wikipedia, but I struggle to believe it would become good enough to be embedded in nearly every operating system and WWW-capable device.
>> A simpler paradox which has never been taken seriously is that an outside observer sees that it takes forever for something falling into a black hole to hit the event horizon

> [Credentials: I'm a professional physicist: a professor specializing in string theory with a background in general relativity.]

That's my one of my biggest problems with physics (other is Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics). As I understand it in our frame of reference, nothing ever (before present moment) crossed any event horizon because of gravitational time dilatation.

When I tried to solicit people on the internet to help me understand it they said that in general relativity theory you can draw line of simultaneity arbitrarily and that causes "before" and "after" to not make sense for two distant points.

I can imagine that's true (although I'm doubtful), after all in classical theory simultaneity is straight line orthogonal to time, in special relativity it's straight line but slanted dependent on speed of reference frame. I was imagining simultaneity line in general relativity theory as a well defined curve dependent on speed of reference frame and mass distribution but I can also imagine that it's not defined in unambiguous way at all. I am yet to read some actual scientific material about defining simultaneity in GRT and how it relates to gravitational time dilatation that seem pretty well defined to me.

If you could recommend some reading material about simultaneity in GRT (or some more general concept that gets reduced to simultaneity in universe without mass) I'd be most grateful.

It doesn't have to be too simple. I was International Physics Olympiad national level laureate and I'm pretty motivated to understand that as it costed me some sleepless nights over the last ten years or so.
If you order pizzas and pay for them, you're completely the transaction as expected. If you order a car from a car service and then cancel it, you're not. The fact that a cancellation fee exists doesn't give you the right to use the system in such an unintended manner.

A better analogy than the pizza analogy might be a "customer" repeatedly buying clothes with the intent to wear and then return them. Despite the fact that there is a return policy in place, the fact that the customer never intended on keeping any of the clothes makes his behavior fraudulent.
I know I've posted two threads on this subject now, but I don't have anything to do with the film production or marketing, I just find the concept interesting.
Just a fun poll to see what front-end web design tools everyone is using
Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded
What browser are you using?

I don't see your email in your profile :/ Please just email me at contact at dynado.com.
>watching porn is not something that a 11-year-old should be doing

Why?

Note I'm truly not trying to start a fight here, but I do try to stay open-minded and question assumptions. To me, this:

>I can't see how viewing porn would be good for her worldview

is not only not terribly convincing, it's also not a reason to censor something.
Hmm. I think I'd have to agree with you, actually, not just for the bike proximity. :) I've thought of Silicon Valley as running from Mountain View down toward Los Gatos -- the actual geographic Santa Clara Valley, essentially the South Bay region -- but it would certainly make sense to consider Palo Alto the northern end of it, given the importance of the city and Stanford University to all things silicon (literally and figuratively).
I knew I couldn't have been the only one who thought that after reading the title.
And the other link on the search results page [Gmail - Google] points to material@asvd.sasf.ch
Can you give some examples? Might be useful to know what to look out for.