skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternate take:

You used other people's content without their permission, ignored multiple warnings that specifically told you that your account would be suspended if you continued, and now you're surprised that Google doesn't want you back.

Did you ever even consider asking any of the content owners for permission here? Did you ask Google for clarification after the first application was suspended? No, you pretended you were doing the content owners a "favor" (valued at tens of thousands of dollars?!!) by reusing their content, and you assumed the suspensions were routine.

This is exactly the kind of thoughtless behavior that I can fully understand Google having no interest in enabling.
In a past life I worked for a company that was acquired by Amazon. It was like what HBO talks about, how cable companies deal with infrastructure & advertising & distribution, letting HBO focus on making TV- As we were taken into the fold, exactly that sort of thing began to happen for us, as the mother ship shouldered infrastructure burdens & so forth.
Dropbox tone-deaf? Hardly
On a similar note, I'd love it if there was some kind of media server for documents, pdfs, cbz, cbr files etc. that has an android/ios app and web app (like plex) to stream to.

Anybody, know of anything like this?
Thank you for doing a fantastic job synthesizing others' arguments. HN could benefit from more level headed comments like this on controversial threads.
Actually, I think this model is a step forward for btc transactions in general. Getting the details worked out 'in the wild' like this should net them a compelling platform to build from down the road too.
Show HN: sync your fitness activities between online services
The problem with Google is that their guidelines are just a red herring. The ban account based on their whims and fancies.

For example consider this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eterno

And give me one good reason why it is not yet banned.

For Adsense look at this : http://khabar.ndtv.com/ (This is a site in Hindi and Adsense does not support Hindi)
> what are your self-publishing plans (if you don't mind discussing them)?

The book will remain freely available in web form in its entirety. When I put up the last chapter, that will include a nice redesign that should hopefully make it pleasant to read across most devices.

Soon after, I'm going to start working on an eBook and print version. I'm not sure how I'll do the eBook yet, but I'll do some investigation. The book is written in markdown, so it should be fairly straightforward to eBook-ify it.

For the print version, I'll be laying it out by hand with lots of love in InDesign. I was a designer before I turned to programming, and I've always wanted to typeset a full book. I didn't think I'd have to write it first to get the opportunity!

Sometime soon, I'll also contract out for a proofreading pass over the book. Each chapter has gone through a few revisions already, as well as numerous bug reports from eagle-eyed readers, but there's always mistakes. I'll pay out of pocket for it.

I'm purchasing my own ISBN. I'll put the eBook and print-on-demand version up on Amazon. I'm not sure if I'll sell it through other channels yet. I still have to look into it.

The best thing I did was start a mailing list when I was about halfway through the book (using MailChimp, who are swell). It's got over 2k subscribers now, so when the eBook and print versions are ready, I have an audience I can tell.

> What software do you use for writing?

Sublime Text. The first thing I did when I started the book was set up a very simple workflow. I have a Python script[2] that takes the markdown, transcludes the code snippets (which are in separate source files so they can be compiled and tests), and converts it to HTML.

I write in Sublime and then run the script to see the resulting output. I find seeing the prose in two different forms (markdown and styled HTML) helps me during the editing process. It's serves as a proxy for a fresh pair of eyes.

[2]: https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/blob...
I think it can be useful when the TCP connection is going through NAT which may drop the rule and stop passing packets after idling, no?
That's pretty much my guess, Marvel & DC might be hoping there is growth potential.
I'm wondering what you have to gain out of promoting bitcoin so much. are you heavily invested in it?
The heuristics used in regard to article submissions that relate to political news events are not applied because the article submissions relate to political news events. They are drawn from experience and that experience is that it is particularly difficult to have a productive comment thread associated with such article submissions.

Case in point, the parent of this comment which infantalizes those whose view is that political stories are detrimental to HN.
Right now? Us.
Perhaps this is a better title: Google Hired All The Engineers At This Startup, But Not The Company's Only Designer
How do I donate something to your cause to say thank you for the work you've already done (and for putting it online for free)? Paypal/Bitcoin would be easiest, but anything will do. :)
Then you could make finding what you want to do with yourself a daily practice. Could be meditating, or a period of isolation -- walk in the woods, time in quite reflection...
Good for him. It will be interesting to see Colbert host a talk show as himself instead of his "clueless conservative" alter ego.
Good point. Though it only claims to "partially implement TLS 1.2". http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/
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Facebook cleans up the News Feed by reducing Like-baiting posts, spammy links
Yep, crappy routers tend to do this :/
Boosted send an email this morning that their boards will retail at $1,995
You're right. I was being handwavey, and I apologize for that.

Let me clarify my position: In theory yes, you're right, it is decidable. In practice Agda and Coq force you to prove pretty much everything about your program using expensive annotations, in order to satisfy the typechecker. It's like pulling teeth. The type checker must be taught that your program terminates, and it must be taught that you maintain even the most simple of invariants.

There's a reason dependent types haven't caught on in industry, and even the "fancy" types that are cited by proponents as being used in practice (like ML's Hindley-Milner type system) are MUCH simpler than full blown dependent type systems. Because the burden is shifted to the programmer, and that makes it super unusable.

I'm not a dependent types hater. (I have dependent type friends :) ). But the best way to get a usable type system is to restrict it's expressivity to make automation easier, and the annotation burden much smaller. Sure, we're giving up something there. But it's better than having a system that can prove any theorem in the Calculus of Constructions, but used by about thirty people.
I thought Loaded Boards was attributed for creating this style?
She sure does understand how to kill foreigners, but I'm not so sure about marketing to them.
Yes, I have to work hard to limit my non-writing tinkering, so I timebox the design stuff pretty harshly.

I started the book four years ago, so the first design was unreadable on mobile devices (fixed position navigation will do that!). After a number of complaints, and the creation of Google Web Fonts, a mobile-friendly better design was a necessity.

I just finished another redesign that will launch when the last chapter is done. It's even more mobile friendly and has a front page that reflects the completed status of the book. It also just looks a hell of a lot better. :)
I've been meaning to switch to Google Drive for a while now, this is a nice catalyst to actually get me to do it.
>In a free society, people can unite in their business ventures even though they might be far apart in how they view the world generally.

In a free society boycotts and free speech have a very successful history of pushing forward human rights.

Human rights don't disappear because people try to hide themselves within the paperwork and legalese of a corporation or foundation.

Human rights don't disappear because you enter a workplace.

>Think about what it means to the HN culture

It's called human evolution and HN is evolving with it.

I feel like you're the kind of person who back in the day would have complained that Rosa Parks was harming the bus company with her actions.
It's not a real router if it does NAT. NAT is just a half assed proxying hack for hosts not on the internet.
Maybe this was a defensive move by Amazon as eBay was partnering with Comixology: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/ebay-pushes-into-curating-a...
I really like this approach. I'll do my best to write meaningful code every day to my side projects.
Safari is the reason Webkit exists. Apple forked KHTML for their browser project and called the result Webkit.
It might be interesting to approximate how remainders work in Google Now: set a time or place to trigger a notification on a pending refund, and permit rescheduling within reason.
Tesla responds to Wisconsin lemon law case, questions lawyer's motivation
Interesting timing, Boosted have just announced final pricing at $1995 USD. It certainly looks impressive, it's slightly lighter than a Boosted board. I couldn't see a top speed though, Boosted has always seemed on the verge of terrifyingly fast (20 mph, 32 km/h) but the riders in this video seemed to be going slower than that.
A thank you alone is enough!

If you want to back that up with cash, the best way will be to buy a copy of the print version when it's out. Part of the magic of self-publishing is that I get a very large cut of the sales of that, so it's a good way to say thanks. (And you get a physical book out it!)
Our box actually wasn't disabled - just the network. We were getting hit with > 1 Gbps of bandwidth inbound. Prior to the DDoS, we were handling the traffic quite well with a single 1GB RAM box. At times we were pushing around 20MB/s outbound.
Non-Compete Debate Exposes Political Rift in Boston Tech Industry
Were you ever able to get in touch with an actual human? I feel that since you uploaded 10 apps for the same purpose, you should have gotten only one warning and all the apps taken down, not a warning per app.

Google Play Store needs a "sandbox" area for people who are new to the app store, which can be promoted if enough users rate the app positive, or if the developer has good standing.
Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB
I have mixed feelings about the NSA stories. I think some of them were somewhat relevant, but maybe they weren't all relevant. Or, maybe none of them were. Maybe I thought they were at the time, and now I think I was wrong in hindsight. Truth be told, I don't remember exactly what I did and didn't submit, versus what I simply commented on. I will allow that I let myself get drawn into that discussion pretty deeply at times, and now I doubt that was a wise thing to do, for exactly this reason.

Don't get me wrong... the NSA story is absolutely important and the overall issue is something I'm passionate about. My question now (and should have been before) is "is this a good topic for HN"?

Edit: you piqued my curiosity, so I went back through my submissions for the past year or so. And yes, I did submit a few Snowden/NSA stories (I count around 10-12 depending on what you include as "Snowden/NSA related"), and some of those I would look back and say "Nah, not worthy". But by the same token, I think most people who bothered to go through my history[1] would say that a small percentage of my submission are political or clearly off-topic.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mindcrime
Yep, in particular the Guardian article which the linked Reuters one is based on [1], says:

>"For the past decade, NSA has lead [sic] an aggressive, multi-pronged effort to break widely used internet encryption technologies," stated a 2010 GCHQ document. "Vast amounts of encrypted internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable."

> An internal agency memo noted that among British analysts shown a presentation on the NSA's progress: "Those not already briefed were gobsmacked!"

Which certainly sounds like SSL traffic was broadly compromised as far back as 2010.

That doesn't conclusively prove heartbleed isn't of use to these agencies though; for example one possible scenario is that the British analysts were "gobsmacked" by some other undisclosed vulnerability similar in scope to this one, which has since been fixed (and, if you're inclined that way, you could theorize that heartbleed was introduced to replace it..)

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryp...
But surely they would want to be the ones in control of this?
Yes - this is my point. He is despised, but still is knowledgable, and I'd listen to him about China.

Granted this is about tapping specific knowledge. I would never hire someone with a morality deficit as an employee. (And maybe it would be dangerous to have one as the CEO's boss)
I worry about that a lot. But I think that brittleness may be what makes me work so hard to not break it.
I'd love to live in Hawaii. It sounds like heaven on Earth.
To be fair to her, it sounds like she did a lot more than design, but sure, I think focusing on role in this case is more accurate than gender.

Also, and at least to my ear, 'All' sounds like more than 5 people. Unfortunately, "Google only hires 80% of a company in an aquihire" doesn't have the page-view potential.
HubiC is 25 free gigs.
Dependently Typed Programming in Idris: A Demo by David Raymond Christiansen
Any plans for branching this out on the retailer side? I can imagine any business that already has a gift card program in place and wants to impliment bitcoin payments would be interested in this.
Not saying they wouldn't love to be the ones in control, but it could be just one more reason they elect not to get in a bidding war with Amazon, and hope for the best.
Here we are getting a little out of my element, but... How well do we know that she gave bad advice, versus him not listening? I do know that her speciality was Russia, not the Middle East, but after all that time in DC I am pretty sure she's learned a lot. Sometimes you learn from political failures, just like entrepreneurial ones.
Oh god, how did I omit that? A Pattern Language is seriously one of my all time favorite books.

Filed a bug: https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/issu...
Things to know before going to Burning Man
So the author won't just create a new google account and start over because google will find out since it knows his credit card numbers, location, IP addresses, and more.

Still, I wonder how the author can attribute such intelligent surveillance to a company who fails to classify him correctly and bans him for such innocuous apps?

If they were really de-duping users by location data, and IP address I'd expect more complaints from false positives like the author.

Edit: Why don't you give it a try anyway?
How/where do you recommend to learn prolog? The concept looks really interesting and useful, at least for me.
Thank you and thank you!
Look at the unboxing video. It looks like it comes with a physical slider-switch control.
Behind the Scenes of the Cross Country Rally: Episode One
Looks like there are a lot of solutions out there: https://www.google.com/search?q=manage+contracts+saas
Your link redirects to a login page?
Makes sense; thanks for the clarification!
Heartleech – simple pattern matching is not enough
Great product. You should have friendly URL's for users, like Github has https://github.com/username. Also, it would be nice to make it easy to incorporate secondary information. A lot of scientific publications involve code and raw experimental data, which is usually not included in the final paper, but is nonetheless of potential interest to others. Providing hosting for this seems like an additional revenue opportunity.
My best guess is they have been trying to get lucrative government contracts for a long time.
Live map of the Hyperboria (CJDNS) network
Right now they have no chance of being elected unless they spend obscene sums. Remove that need through campaign finance regulations and you will remove an enormous source of leverage. I would be happy to see a 50% mix of public money and 50% individual capped donations making up a cursory figure. Legally require large networks to give free and equal airtime to each candidate with enough support to justify inclusion. It simply cannot be impossible to remove the biggest sources un-democratic influence.
Interesting post and you are spot on with this from a high-level.

For advanced digital marketers, the next step of course is looking beyond last click data. The attribution model you view your data through plays just as large a role in determining the success of it as many of the other factors that this article and others focus on.

Since you have conversion tracking setup for FB, FB conversions will obviously be higher than what GA shows in its standard reporting since FB's own conversion data is the equivalent of awarding 100% attribution to all assisted click conversions.

What would be more interesting is to see how this stacks up along with your other channels with various attribution models.

For those that are wondering if FB is working for you and looking at last click conversion metrics, you're doing it wrong. For a large % of scenarios, Facebook tends to play a much bigger role at the beginning of the conversion funnel, ie. the "Awareness" stage. This is also true of many forms of display advertising. To expect it to perform strongly on a last click model is unwise. First click models are likewise not great, but even that stark comparison will give you a sense of the contribution, and the GA multi-channel reports can show you that overlap.

I'm constantly blown away by how many amazing attribution tools Google gives away in the free version of GA and I'm always disappointed that none of the marketing articles that hit HN focus on that piece of the puzzle.
Yes. Many, many plans.
If the situation is as bad as my interpretation o your comment then I don't think there are any realistic alternatives to violence. I don't want to put my eggs in that basket, so I'm going to blame the victims.
Drop the media part and yeah sounds about right. Anything that has a large enough collection of things to need discovery.
I never said it wasnt useful, I said that it was dead...much in the same sense as COBOL. I use datalog and constraint programming extensively, but I'm a black sheep.
Very good discipline in the article, and very good discipline in your plan too.

If you don't mind me asking - what's the point in writing a book about an area that you used to work in, but didn't want to going forward? (I assume you moved out of gaming if the domain was fading)
Prove specifications about your programs using Dafny in this in browser tutorial
I honestly didn't realize there's a market for 1,000-dollar boards.

When I used to skateboard (not longboard), I enjoyed the simplicity and flow of just pushing and coasting. I also didn't have to worry about holding controllers, damaging the board (a replacement cost $30-$50), or battery life.
Can't seem to reproduce that - it's just a Medium article. Could have something to do with Heartbleed if you've logged in before.
That makes sense; my only thought was that if you are graphing "anomalies" you might want to filter out non-anomalous behavior. Higher highs or lower lows are actually to some degree expected in those years. I suppose it could be best not to control for oscillatory behavior though as the affect of any climate shift on those oscillations is possibly not insignificant.
Both enforcing it and observing the spirit of the law would work for me. There is space for continuous deployment of no bribe regulation here.
Nobody is forcing you or anyone to agree with this, nobody is coming for anyone, it's just a statement and a call for whoever agrees to join and make the statement louder. You can absolute ignore it!

This right-wing victimization syndrome trips me out.
I think, if you are against a powerful opponent, it would need something like controlling the hardware infrastructure..

One idea that is organic and can work with simple Wifi routers is something like mesh networks.. so the people with wifi routers next to limits of a free neighbor country would have access to routers with internet..

Of course, to build such a network, some sort of incentive are needed.. maybe creating some sort of bitcoin for mesh networks would do it?

This would also help in war times.. anyway.. at least you are giving something back, a starting point.. maybe this will end in a org for you.. and you will have the means to achieve more?

Congrats for the attitude.. it may mean a lot for people who really need it
This is exactly my approach on my side project, but rather than "write code every day" I say "make some progress every day". Simply because it's not a Open Source framework, but a wannabe product.
This may be a weird reason to not be happy with this, but I pay for my subscriptions and purchases on Comixology with PayPal, and I'm pretty certain that will go away pretty soon now.

I'd love to think that this will stay the same, but I see lots of changes happening from this, most not so great.
If by "heavily" you mean "bought a tiny bit after the January crash" then.. yes!

People should be able to spend their money however they want. That's what we're excited about.
Yeah, sorry, you don't get to just declare "fallacy!" and not explain yourself.
It is but we should have a dose of humility in mocking them since many, many people [including everyone on this site that is a dev] make stupid mistakes from time to time. Such is the nature of the profession. None of us commit perfect code the first time, every time.
Connections to megacorps.
Will Bond writes very good stuff. Definitely going to check this out.
How long do you spend every day on your side coding? Do you try to set a minimum/maximum amount of time?
Is it still money laundering now that the IRS has said that Bitcoin is property and not currency?
I think http://www.blockaid.me/ has been doing this, too, and I believe there were others.

Some other approaches I've seen are based on Namecoin somehow. DNSChain for example uses a custom "regular" DNS server to resolve .bit domains. So in works in a similar way, but in a much more distributed way, I think, because you can also create your own DNSChain server, and then be able to visit all of those .bit domains, once you use a DNSChain server's IP.

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain

Then there's the FreeSpeechMe Firefox plugin that when installed also allows you to view .bit domains.

http://www.freespeechme.org/

My favorite right now is DNSChain, because it's federated, but ideally, both Firefox and Chrome would have support for .bit domains built-in. Then as long as you'd be using these browsers, nobody could censor those .bit domains.

I doubt they will do it anytime soon, though, so until then the only browser that will do something like this seems to be the upcoming browser from ThePirateBay, which is meant primarily to save TPB from global censorship, but any website that's compatible with their protocol will work within their browser, and while it won't get the customer base of Chrome or Firefox, it should be a few million strong.

http://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-plans-to-beat-cen...
I don't think boosted invented their style of board. I've seen many long boards that have their exact style. I guess if you've only seen boosted first, you'd think everyone is ripping off from boosted.
If they add the Comixology library to Prime subscribers, I would pay double!
If at any point in the future of human history FTL travel or communications gets invented, we would already know about it.
If only I could find an entire album that I actually enjoy...