skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you and 0x0 below. But is the number of query keywords so critical which cannot be released to the owner? I remember that it was shown to everybody when we type keywords and I think that's helpful information to users and to the site owners.

I know if the number is released, the site owners can cheat: "Create networks of fake sites to provide backlinks on popular keywords". This is really the problem of the current SEO. I have a report discussing about that: http://bit.ly/1fcOp8I
This pegged it:

> The fundamental difference between the Mac and other personal computers is that the Macintosh is visually oriented rather than word oriented.

That is the crux of what Apple brought to people with the Macintosh, why they love it, and why I wish it never existed.
Apple Pushes Deeper Into Mobile Payments
It's very risky to put all your eggs in one basket. Why not spread stuff around?
SV = technology region. SV != actual valley.

Just like Wall Street != actual street.

This is how the media and public use the term SV.
Except the the claim he is making is that free software is fundamentally different than open source.

"The values of free software are fundamentally different from the values of open source, which make "better code" the ultimate goal."

Perhaps you could provide quotes where RMS in the article says that clang is 'free software'. According to RMS in the article clang is a major set back for free software. (because it's better than their piece of crap)
The GPL is absolutely restricting what people do with software. To say otherwise is a lie.
SV = technology region. SV != actual valley.

Just like Wall Street != actual street.
Considering that all un-viewed Snapchat's have to be stored, there's no need for a secret db. I've heard a rumor that snaps are stored in memecache and they are running in to scaling pains with the amount of un-viewed pictures stored in memory.
Until a couple of days ago I only took Bitcoin serious. But dogecoin might me think twice. And today I learned about Cthulhu "offerings" (another Bitcoin currency). I could just imagine how some people would prefer to use "offerings".

No idea how things will actually play out, though.

Most development energy is certainly poured into Bitcoin, but it tends to be easy to transfer the technical progress in Bitcoin to other cryptocurrencies. The wallets for dogecoin and Litecoin seem to be forked from Bitcoin, too.
But not different than free vs. open source.

"The values of free software are fundamentally different from the values of open source, which make "better code" the ultimate goal."

Clang wants to make a great compiler, they chose the NCSA license to facilitate that, according to the article makes it open source software and not 'free software' rather than 'unfree software'
You should. I write code in another industry (HFT) and most people coming out of college are getting 400-500k bonuses or more after a year. We joke about how raw of a deal the average developer in SV is getting -- Google has roughly the same net profit/employee that we do (maybe even more), and all they're getting is chump change.
This is exactly what makes Snapchat fun and addictive. It takes all the friction out of taking photos and boils it right down. With Instagram, you spend a lot of time taking the right photo, the right lighting, the right filter, the right caption, etc. All of this is gone with Snapchat, because you know it'll be gone. People are happy to share slightly embarrassing stuff, like a mouthful of burger or no makeup.

Selecting who receives is easier, too, because you can uncheck some people. Instagram doesn't have that option, I'd need to create a new list with Facebook, and group texting is a lot more work.
Dispelling Backblaze's HDD Reliability Myth
> This STILL did not convinced her

You basically presented a collection of anecdotes. That hardly constitutes compelling evidence.
archive.org has it in its Apple II disk image collection:

https://archive.org/details/apple-ii-disk-collection

Just need an emulator.

And a scan of the manual:

https://archive.org/details/Robot_Odyssey_1_1986_Learning_Co...
Exactly.

Legit customers can't book cars because they're busy and when they do the drivers might bail because they think its yet another fake order.

Screw Uber. Theyre not a tech start-up, they're an illegal car service masquerading as a tech company.
Yeah, I like to see the original website url too.

Even if we redirect users to the search result sites, we don't track by the url, but track by number of hits and number of subscriptions as the performance indicators.
Mars Rover Marks an Unexpected Anniversary With a Mysterious Discovery
Now they're caching each image once for all users, which pretty much defeats that.
To me, clang was created because gcc was working great for a lot of things, but wasn't working well for what some people wanted to do (and couldn't officially be made to do it without forking)
It's not obvious at all that the GPL had anything to do with causing OS licensing fees to collapse. There are numerous high quality open source operating systems that are not based on the GPL, and the general reduction in price of commercial OSs is a function if competition between corporations.
Same here. I was 8 or 9 years old and couldn't understand how chips worked. They were just sort of magic to me, so I wired all my solutions without chips. It required a massive mess of logic gates to solve things like the Ventilation Shaft and Minefield puzzles in level 4.

The signals puzzle in level 5 was as far as I could get... but it got me hooked on algorithmic problem solving.

Edit: to get an idea of the complexity of the puzzles, here's a link to a walkthrough of level 4:

http://mysite.verizon.net/thomasfoote/DQ/id28.htm
I am just wondering if modeling human intelligence is becoming a "coastline of Britain" problem, with more complexity revealed as we progress such that the goal being in sight may be illusory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Long_Is_the_Coast_of_Brita...
Today’s outage for several Google services
I'd found things from over a year ago with sort by date functionality (because of lack of good synonym matching and the fact that hn's url structure makes searching for comments less likely from an 'SEO' perspective)
Walmart Funds Effort To Bring Manufacturing Back To The USA
I remember being blown away by the almost print quality of the black and white display on the original Macintosh computers. My family was in printing, and I grew up with an appreciation of finely printed black ink on white paper. Seeing things move on such a crystal clear display, even if it was smaller than a piece of paper, seemed like the future. Even without color, I often preferred to mess around with my friend's Mac (even with the limited entertainment software collection available at the time) than with their other computers.
Link might not be relevant for me, only been doing OT for a couple months, before that had an EMG done and nerve damage was shown to exist.

Yeah, I had multiple EMGs done on both hands. Nerve damage in both. You know when you're doing an EMG and it is supposed to raise up super fast and then drop down super fast in a very thin inverted V? Well mine was a plateau of a couple inches wide, that's how much nerve damage I had.

It's been over 8 years since I've had a symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome though. I type 130 words per minute and probably type the equivalent of a novel per week (I do a lot of SEO stuff in my side gigs) and never have a problem.

If you really want to learn what's causing your problems - get Healing Back Pain by John Sarno or The Mindbody Prescription (same author). Check this 20/20 segment out from several years ago - I can't find the original Google Video version that I watched, this seems to be a substitute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsR4wydiIBI

It's not "in your head". It's real physical problems. It's not "not applicable" to you because you have real physical issues that show up on tests.

Or, just ignore what I've said and carry on.
Same fundamental reason why AWS charges $120 / month for 1tb of bandwidth, and for $5 / month you get 1tb with Digital Ocean - they're targeting the market in a very different way compared to Digital Ocean.
Speeding up common Git actions
Why GitHub's CEO Ditched Its Divisive 'Meritocracy' Rug – ReadWrite
A full reply from Chrome security on the issue:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=291258#c...
MSFT sucks big time, and I'm glad someone found out about it.. Many thanks to trustlook.com
Marathon v0.4.0 for Apache Mesos Released
Because Hacker News? :)
I love the project but I don't think you capture the value proposition effectively in your sales copy. My feeling is that if I keep asking myself how does this justify the cost then you didnt sell me on the value, you sold me on the feature set. I also think the value is probably working with organizations that are political in nature because they'll want their base to use this.

Honestly, the design is fine.
I must say, all the news about this outage is crazy. Emailing random people, strange search indexing, gmail down for 1+ hour! Nutty
wow.
I read this comment after wasting all day on reddit and HN doing nothing.
Sadly, I don't like this much at all. I don't see any way to filter by whether the searched for keyword appears in the title or in comments, or to sort by date, etc. This appears to be much less useful for the kinds of searches I do.
Sounds like very dangerous attack and not very difficult to implement.

DNS hijacking:

1. Quicker DNS response than router to pollute the Android's DNS

2. Rouge AP that pretend to be common free public wifi like "att", "starbucks", "cablewifi" or "Free Public WiFi"

3. De-authenticate valid AP connections and force user to try rouge WIFI

MITM attack:
1. ARP spoofing
Self-referential functions and the design of options
Other people came to a similar conusion to me. So, being charitable, your post wasn't as clear as it could be. That's me being civil. If you agree that I misread your post you can stop reading here because the rest of this post is less civil and not relevant.

On the other hand maybe you really do think that women should learn self defence or somesuch because they could be the victims of violent crime.

Except this wasn't some mugger trying to rob her. The appropriate response is not to say "that sucks, but it would have sucked less if you learnt self defence". The appropriate response is to say "that sucked, and it sucked that noone steps up to tell him he was wrong".

People blame the victims of crime all the time and it fucking sucks.

"Contributory Negligence" (Attila the Stockbroker) was written in 1985. It's baffling why people still think that when a woman is groped in public it's somehow up to her to have a backup plan, with everyone else there getting a pass to just ignore it.

The really fucking baffling thing is that these abhorant views ("she deserved it") aren't going away.

http://www.newstatesman.com/glosswitch/2013/09/there-no-grea...
Some localities do have laws forbidding buying something with the intent to return it.
Please reinstate search-by-date to this site
please.
But obviously you do have enough time to complain about it.
Those problems are the result of heavy government restriction and bailouts - the exact opposite of a free market.
Do you at least agree that he was in the vacinity of other people and they also had a responsibility to fix the problem?
According to some accounts, Margaret Mead, the most celebrated anthropologist of her generation, was similarly trolled by Samoan girls:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Trashing-Margaret-Mead-Anthropolog...
At the very least, the controversy around that study should have led these researchers to be more circumspect with their data.
Out of curiosity, why not use text messaging or WhatsApp? Both have more options that Snapchat.
Good information. "Port your I-140" though?
apparently. Nobody could confirm though.
I'm not concerned with trust or consensus, those aren't scientific concepts. If anyone shows a logical inconsistency with GR, then it's invalid regardless.

> but "seeing whether the small region can be extended to a larger region" is not a test you can perform within the small region

That law K doesn't apply in a frame falling through a horizon (a logical test within that frame, which is defined to be an inertial frame) indicates that physical tests can also show that the laws of physics differ between that frame and other inertial frames. The picture in the blog is an example of that. It's impossible to conduct a test where the cloud described there isn't splitting in two, unlike in some other inertial frame.
Correct ;-)
Petition To Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card.
Instruction creep
meanwhile, my self hosted mail hasn't failed yet for 15 years. but i heard self hosted mail is hard!

(just had to)
I'm not convinced we're in desperate times. There are several significant open source communities built on copyfree licenses that flourish.
I said it was fraudulent, which it definitely is. Whether or not it fits the legal definition of fraud is debatable.
You mean the encourage more drivers to go out despite the bad conditions by providing higher incentives?
Being completly biased. I won't use Microsoft services in any way. Even if it was 10x cheaper.
Google Pushes Back Against Data Localization
ORNL provides partial confirmation for Room Temperature Superconductor
it's a movie, not a prediction. it didn't have to be "real".

but eventually we'll get there. eventually. when? dunno.
and the "when" question is really the important one, right?

and the only answer is "don't know".

the most important caveat, however, is that we might well
go extinct before "eventually" ever comes. indeed, probably.

i guess we don't know, but i'd say extinct is not self-aware.

-bowerbird
“We Just Can’t Have You Here”
I clicked on his profile before replying just to make sure I wasn't countering someone in the know. I made the wrong assumption.
Hopefully one day the default HN search will understand the # in C# or F# or the . in .NET
That's just one patent that got invalidated. And that required Google to identify one comment from more than a decade back to argue that the patent was obvious (rather than anticipated). All that to kill a single MS patent.

MS has hundreds, probably thousands of patents in their portfolio. A single patent makes negligible difference to the portfolio.

In addition, MS has prevailed in court with several other patents in many other jurisdictions, so clearly they have enforceable patents in their portfolio. That is why they can rightfully continue asking for licenses.

This is one of the "practical" problems of licensing large portfolios that I alluded to. The quality or fate of a single patent does not reflect on the entire portfolio. Conversely, invalidating each patent or valuing each patent is also incredibly complex.

There is an entire field of specialization for valuing portfolios. Calling it extortion is mostly the efforts of one side of the table to exert indirect pressure on the other
The TOV Limit for those following at home. It's when the star's gravitational pressure exceeds neutron degeneracy pressure and collapses into a black hole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff_limi...
Pixlr is very popular among young crowd. This one pales in comparison in the same category (free). I don't know about open-sourced though.
The woman you were talking to was an idiot. For proof look no farther than identical twin studies that show that while sexuality has a large genetic component, there is an environmental component as well. Furthermore people can be confused over their sexuality - either way - for a very long time. And other people don't have an easily classified sexuality.

To give an interesting example, how would you classify a male who is mentally a woman (had not yet had the operation) and into BDSM with both genders? (For the record, I don't do hypothetical examples ...I know enough interesting people that I don't have to.)

In general, if you have a simple model of how people work, it is almost certainly wrong. And if it is both simple and in accord with your personal politics, the likelihood of it being wrong goes way up.
Reminds me of ChipWits. God I so loved that game.

http://www.chipwits.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChipWits

http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2005/03/29/chipwits/
DOJ files its first lawsuits over counterfeit apps
Maybe parents are just more likely to have the guts to stand up to this kind of abuse.

You're expected to work overtime? Refuse. Quit. There are no other healthy options. I do occasionally work overtime, but it's my own choice, and I get the time back when things cool down again. Becoming a father didn't change my approach one bit.
Back in my day the best place to learn about sex was the school canteen.
Ask HN: How do you find clients?
Curious to know how HNers who run their own design, development, marketing, consulting (etc) business find or get clients.

Referrals seems to be the big one, but would be great to learn about some of the strategies people use to land a larger client or project.
The Mac Keyboard has a broken Caps Lock button "by design"; you can't press it too fast.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1192
The discussion about the new search is in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118496 . Most of the users are asking for the search-by-date option there.
[OT]

> about:	hell-banned by bigoted assholes

I don't see any evidence of you being hellbanned^. Furthermore, hellbanning is (typically, at least) an automated process. It is done by an algorithm that evaluates the quality of your posts using their score as the metric of quality. At the time that I am writing this, this seems to be your only post in this thread that has been voted into the negatives.

^ I have showdead turned on, so unless you deleted the comments that you have made since being hellbanned, I would see them in your comment history.
>As far as I am aware 'he' has two meanings in common parlance, one gender neutral and one specifically referring to males.

That works, if you were educated before 1960: "The use of he to refer to a person of unknown gender was prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early 18th century until around the 1960s" [1]

The thing is, you have read, most of your life, seeing male pronouns. I was a young teenage girl when I realised this and it made me feel left out, like I'd never be relevant. Acknowledging half the population is a good start - I like those programming books for example where Alice and Bob are equally represented.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neut...
Same with guitar tube amps. "Deadly voltage", but I can't find many/any instances of people actually getting killed from tube gear repair.
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for your comment. And no offense taken. :)

Most people are surprised how "few" respondents it takes to get to 5% margin of error at 95% confidence levels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Different_conf...

In this case, .98/sqrt(365) = 5.1%

So, perhaps counterintuitively, 300-400 respondents gives good read on large populations (like Snapchat users...or the US population!).
why is this posted on HN?
Why GitHub's CEO Ditched Its Divisive 'Meritocracy' Rug
Really cool. I hadn't seen this game before, but the idea is dear to my heart since a few years back I developed a similar iOS app called Circuit Coder. Sorry for the shameless plug, but if you're into games like this, it might be worth knowing about.
I use hnsearch quite a bit as a general search/opinion tool. I use it less as a gateway to HN and more as filtering tool (wherein I expect readable, non-italic versions of the comments on the result page). For instance if I was curious if Don DeLillo ever popped up in HN comments.

Compare the results:

https://hn.algolia.io/?q=Don%20Delillo
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Don+Delillo

Algolia's manages to find a result that hnsearch doesn't, but on the other hand all of the white noise surrounding each result and false positives further down the page feels anti-utilitarian, and frankly is difficult to visually parse.

The HN comments are useful body of knowledge if you use it the right way. Having a fast, easy to read search that lets you scan for the best comments on a subject is really handy. Focus on the text and readability because that's all that's important.

I also use Pinboard and Quora (and to some degree Reddit) for this kind of opinion/commentary based research.
That video you linked is insane. I couldn't even see what moves they are making. It reminded me of chess between Joey and Phoebe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n_zq_M9OGk Thank you for sharing.
I wouldn't have as high of a karma as I do if I were a troll.
I agree. Early on in my career I had a general distaste for relational databases but after finding my way back to using them I now realize that most of the issues I had were really just limitations of the software (and to some degree the hardware) at that time that caused large amounts of design-time analysis paralysis.

eg. WILL THIS VARCHAR COLUMN EVER BE BIGGER THAN N? How should I size it? I don't want to size it too small and then have to rewrite the column... But bytes are precious... Oh, dear!

Now I just make it a TEXT in Postgres and don't worry about it. Obviously you might have good reasons to limit the size of a text column for other reasons (security, interoperability... YMMV depending upon lots of factors), but it is nice to not have to think about it if you otherwise have no reason to think about it.

The actual relational bits of the relational database never bothered me and in fact I quite liked the abstraction they provided, but I really hated how rigid the systems were at the column level, which is now pretty much solved.
I actually did the exact same thing! I staid away from the chips because they were to black-boxish and then gave up on level 5.

I have yet to see a current-gen game with as awesome a circuit wiring mechanic as RO.
You work as many hours as you decide to, so does everybody else. Get abused as much as you like, but please don't try and make others feel bad for not doing the same.
Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal
The other AI left too.
tbh I think you're still missing the point here. It is highly unlikely that Snowden is the only person to have got his hands on that material. He's just shown up the flaw and at least some of the bad guys are highly likely to have it. The utter stupidity here is blindly following a 'collect everything' Pokemon strategy, which leaves you wide open to not only internal abuse from factions in intelligence, military, politics, business - but also organised crime and foreign actors. Even worse, that seems to be being stored in perpetuity thus causing a combinatorial explosion of those threat vectors. And if that wasn't bad enough, we learn of another multiplier where non-US countries were adding to that toxic heap of data. Great way to contribute to global stability. The individuals involved may mean well but you know what they say about the road to hell.
Rarely does a game from that era have that much complexity, and in CGA. Wow.

Also, an ASCII guide to gates:

output input(s)

+
NOT --o< |--
+

-+--
OR --( (
-+--

-+--
NOR --o( (
-+--

--+--
AND --( |
--+--

--+--
NAND --o( |
--+--

- +--
XOR --( ((
- +--

- +--
XNOR --o( ((
- +--

{C,P,N}MOS transistor implementations are exercises for the reader. :)
Values and the question of whether a given license meets RMS's technical requirements for being free software are also two different metrics. He even explains that in this email. OSS puts an emphasis on the practical benefit of open source, whereas free software emphasizes the principle. And RMS never calls Clang nonfree in this email, he talks about nonfree derivatives of Clang.
"There's a horrible vulnerability in the Bing app! ...but we're not going to give you any details."

I hate stories like that.
In, it doesn't.