skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use google, but I try to avoid it when there is a better alternative. Nowadays the search engine is almost the only thing I use. I also have a gmail account that has devolved into a spam sink used to register in websites I intend to use only once or twice. And once in a blue moon I use google maps.

They may have metadata about myself (which is still a lot!); but data, like photos or personal conversations, not any more.
There's some other howlers in the same song like "canope" instead of "canopy", "intervenes" instead of "intravenous".
an artist that meets the requirements for the data, AZ. He's got 5+ albums, some of which were gold and it'd be interesting as I believe he may also be the highest selling solo artist in the top 10 aside from Ghostface
In fact they do that already. The problem is that it's not perfect.
Sooner or later this will break. I used this method for years. However, the latest versions of Dropbox (around 2.6.7) screwed the whole thing up: since Dropbox doesn't support symlinks, it frequently “thinks” that the permissions of the symlinks is the permissions that the linked-to files should have. And since symlinks often look like “lrwxrwxrwx” it will chmod the original files 0777, i.e. user, group AND world writable, which is probably not what you want.

E.g., I had symlinked my webserver's directories into Dropbox, only to find out that all the files had their permissions changed to “-rwxrwxrwx”.

Your mileage may vary, but be sure you know what you're doing. Dropbox is unreliable with symlinks.
The Weird Impact of Expertise on Ideation
Is isn't something to do with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZef_VIoL5A ?
Taxes vs. subsidies in the fight to preserve the Brazilian Amazon
This is the most comprehensive account of the Sewol sinking that I've seen so far.
Nope. The conclusion is that it is really easy to benchmark the wrong thing. If you are trying to evaluate AWS vs DO vs Google Compute Engine vs Joyent you better make sure you are actually comparing apples to apples. Your comparison will probably invalid if you are using a different kernel version or compiler version or possibly even different shared libraries.
The nice thing about this, is that if it's really annoying to users, then Chrome will bleed market share to other browsers. The browser market has shown time and time again that when the developers mess up, they get punished and another browser rises to the top.
I checked for him immediately once I saw this chart. Between Doc Oc, Dr. Dooom and Black Elvis, he has some insanely weird lyrics.

We stuck together when one of my parakeets died
You broke down and cried, for the love of animals
I used to always cut the legs off a roach
See if he'll stay there on a piece of tissue
And give him a piece of toast
That morning, he would wake up and be gone
What, the insect had a ambulance?"
How a popular two-letter word is undermining your credibility
I hope I can always get access to the URL. I frequently have to switch the 'smart' geo tracking language selection in the querystring from de-DE that some shortsighted developer thought meant Germany === German to en-US or en-GB.

I'm looking at you Google as the worst offender. I swear that some developers have never left the US.

Geo location != preferred language.

Accept-Language header in my browser is telling you what I want. Listen to it.
Chromebooks on Fire
So what other service would you trust more to have possession of your photos?
This is a question I've wondered myself. I once read a bit about someone using live crabs to perform computations -- a group of crabs behaves deterministically (enough) to make a series of logic gates that can be used for (very slow) computations. Since reading that, this has been a question on my mind.

(source) http://www.gizmag.com/crab-computer-kobe/22145/
>they'd be just as cryptic to me as Mandarin characters

Yes the meaning would be just as cryptic, but the act of typing and probably memorization would be much easier. As an exercise, try downloading an input method for a foreign character set and typing out a string that you see rendered in an image.
There's a rich irony in your avoidance of the most obvious car analogy possible: between internet addressing and street addressing.

Understanding URLs is in no way similar to even a rudimentary understanding how an internal combustion engine works.

What it's most similar is understanding how we address and route physical destinations so that you can get there in your car.
Google Play offers the same ebook $10 cheaper than Amazon's Kindle version ($19.99).

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Miguel_Grinberg_...
What I would like to see, is this same comparison done against album sales with the implication of mainstream vs. underground.
Does anyone have any suggestions on resources to learn more about this field?
None of the above.

I trust Google, but not the US government (or the UK govt for that matter) to not order them to turn over data, or take it anyway, and because of this I have moved most of my data, everything important, to my own server outside the US.

As far as Google themselves go, I realise they are driven by profit and use my data "against" me in advertising, but in return for that, I get reliable services that add a lot of value to things like email (i.e. Google Now). As far as I'm concerned, this is a totally fair trade-off, and one I'm happy to make.
The cost of running a WordPress website
Are you serious?
What planet are you living on?
When did you get the idea that big companies play nice?

So long as they can negotiate the fines that go with their misdeeds they will play dirty, assuming they get prosecuted in the first place.

Why do you think the bankrupt TBTF banks are still up and running with their bosses earning their obscene bonuses as usual?
I observed a bunch of high-schoolers using the web.

They go to Google to visit a site. They don't type URLs.

They go to google.com, enter "Facebook" and click on the 1st result.

Remember the Facebook Login fiasco?

http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_m...

Google showed this post when people searched for "Facebook Login":

http://readwrite.com/2010/02/10/facebook_wants_to_be_your_on...
I suspect this is a shorter duplicate of http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-web... which was on Digg (IIRC, or maybe reddit) a couple of days ago. It was quite a good article.
It is standard procedure for ATC to request altitude (or, more commonly, to get unsolicited altitude reports) on initial contact, and to not trust the Mode C data until it can be cross-checked for exactly this reason.
I think the core complaint, though, is that people's first step should be "search using a general search engine" (whether Google or Bing or Baidu or Yandex, etc.) not "search using GitHub". The complaint and expectation is not "someone should have tried to see if it was explicitly on BitBucket", but "people should not assume that you are using a single service". It is effectively similar to "I tried to find your email address and I couldn't" coming down to "I looked on G+ so I could find your Gmail address, and you don't seem to even have an account". There are tons of alternatives to both GitHub and BitBucket, including "I am hosting my repository on my own domain": having everyone assume "well, the content must be accessible within a specific silo" to the point of not even considering "I should use a general purpose web search engine for this use" is an egregious example of "bad monoculture".
Jay Z's stats are there: he's at 4,506. Pretty middle of the pack.

About Biggie:"35,000 words covers 3-5 studio albums and EPs. I included mixtapes if the artist was just short of the 35,000 words. Quite a few rappers don’t have enough official material to be included (e.g., Biggie, Kendrick Lamar)"

And to respond to your child comment, I'm sure the same problem (not enough material) applied to Big L.
Thanks for understanding former or latter iquestion which I wrote at once:-)
I trust Facebook with my personal data and I am still using it as much as before.
I no longer trust Facebook with my personal data and I am using it less than before.
I no longer trust Facebook with my personal data and I am not on Facebook anymore.
I no longer trust Facebook with my personal data and have deleted my Facebook account.
Good point. I think the author (and many other people) was just blinded by self-conceit and jumped to a conclusion too quickly.
I bet you could get something insightful from plotting "unique words" versus "total words" - That might give a good idea of the amount of repetition over time, the length or quantity of output, and the total vocabulary.
I never heard of Book Depository before but it's cheaper than Amazon for most of the books on my wantlist. Neat! Thanks for posting.
Is there really a correlation between being well known and having horrible code? Do you have anything to support this idea? It seems a bit arbitrary.
Or chose the heights of new buildings. Tokyo Skytree was built 634 meters high, because that number can be read "Musashi", the name for the ancient province of what is roughly present day Tokyo.
In cognitive sciences there is a dispute about the nature of cognition and what scientific tools to apply. Some say cognition is computation, others say its just behavior of a dynamic or connectionist system. A good sumary of aspects can be found in Fresco, Nir, 2012 - The explanatory Role of Computation in Cognitive Science, Minds & Machines, 22, 353-380.

The discussion is quite interesting, because computation is very hard to define. Understanding what makes a system compute can yield useful insight for understanding cognition.
Ok then the "evilness" per pupil is higher, however what's more evil?

Kidnapping 230 puplis or spying on 23,000 pupils, or 230,000 or 23M?
We've seen this before:

http://www.musicman.com/00pic/credits.jpg
> Back in the 1960s when computers were unknown quantities, you could put whatever bullshit you wanted up on the screen and that was fine.

Oh could you ever. Except back in the 60s, blinkenlights, tape reels and noisy dot matrix printers were more likely to be featured than screens.

I distinctly remember a 60s (probably, can't remember the name) movie where the con man lead character gets himself hired as head of a bank's computer division despite having no technical expertise whatsoever, and one technician explains that the computer is totally secure and this is indicated by a specific red light - as long as that light is on, it's secure!
Yes, I missed that, even though it is very clearly spelled out (oops!). It makes the ordinal comparison valid (modulo noise), but it does not completely address the concern. If you have two artists, and artist 1 uses 5,000 unique words in 35,000 lyrics while artist 2 uses 10,000 unique words in 35,000 lyrics, artist 2's vocabulary may be substantially more than twice as large as artist 1's. It is unlikely that a lyricist exhausts their entire vocabulary in such a small sample, particularly if their vocabulary is large and contains many words that they use infrequently. http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.mit.edu/stable/2284147 has a correction that can be applied, although even there the author notes that, when applied to James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist, their technique appears to greatly underestimate Joyce's total vocabulary.
Apple wouldn't need to add a beacon to devices like phones, tablets, or laptops. They already have Bluetooth. The problem is that Bluetooth is usually turned off and when turned on is not discoverable. Manufacturer could easily add software that regularly turned on Bluetooth and sent out a beacon. With Bluetooth LE, it wouldn't use much power. The Bluetooth MAC address could be the identifier.

Also, Wifi can be used as a beacon. Wifi is usually turned on and broadcasts message to discover known networks.
It was not 100% impossible for Google to not turn over the data, there would have been ways. It's not about if Google is evil or not it's about how evil it is.
You could detect forms that have more than one user provided input field as they are submitted. This wouldn't detect most search boxes or forms that use hidden inputs to transmit values to the backend.
Greatly enjoyed the analysis but while I was reading it I felt a lot like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlDBi0cyIA
I don't think that's what the poster meant. By "average unique words per song" I take it to mean, within each song words are only counted once, but across songs, words can be counted multiple times. So if song A had the words "I like cats" and song B had the words "I like dogs", then the average unique word count would be ((3 + 3) / 2) = 3, not ((3 + 1)/2) = 2.
It could be interesting if Gmail did the Chrome experiment in email links in a popover, by displaying the domain of a link...
This is so true. I remember how irate I was when I realized that Rambo III insisted that a thinly mocked-up Browning was actually a DShK. That annoyed me but not nearly as much as Neo's Scorpions ejecting what looked like 5.56 casings on the floor during the lobby gun fight. Maybe necked-down brass looks sexier pinging off the floor.

But worse than all of this is what happens in movies when people are shot. People inevitably fly backwards, sometimes tens of feet. There's a nice Quora answer about this [1]. I get the need for a great action shot, but it's a thumb in the eye to everyone who actually has even a ballpark concept of kinetic energy delivery.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Guns-and-Firearms/Does-shooting-someone....
Of course, in terms of raw dollars US GDP annual growth is the same or higher than Sweden's entire GDP.
The custom extension popup, and you dont want to fix it(status is wontfix) ,where a simple checkbox in the settings could have fixd it... you made our lives miserable.
There are a few options missing. I would vote

"I no longer trust Facebook, but continue to use it regardless"
After reading this post and your other one, I stand corrected on my the last point.
> It seems unlikely that the seller of a stolen device will be willing to allow you to check the serial number against a database.

Well if they are reluctant then you know it's stolen, so that's not a problem.
This is a great graph, but I think it would be neat if a y-axis was thrown in. My first thought was album sales or some other metric of popularity that help you find specific rappers quick instead of going through the huge bunch of little pics.
Protip: don't fly above 65535 ft. Or book a flight with ' ; -- drop tables: air
I hate this behavior in iOS 7 Safari so much. Whenever I want to modify the URL, it's a huge pain (on HN specific links, usually) -- there's no way to edit the parameters at the end of a URL (that I've found), and typing the whole long url on a phone or tablet isn't fun (especially when it includes lots of parameters, rather than just a simple path). It's one of the few things an alternate browser on iOS actually fixes.
Can you explain further? First time I here about this.

And in which context are you using the "evil" word?
see the above.

I read the transcript. You didn't read the post and responses carefully did you?
Nowadays I use Facebook primarily as an instant-messaging protocol, just because it's so convenient. I've effectively disabled my news feed by manually (well, with a script!) clicking "hide all from this person" on every post, and never post anything I don't also post on Twitter.
where is KRS-ONE?
Brain Helmet Finds Pulse Of Depression Treatment
Wow, a push-poll on HN. Nice. Flagged.
It's a false dichotomy unless you can actually provide an objective dichotomy against the two types of pleasures you mention. I derive pleasure from saving my money, because I know that earns me some financial security and allows me to buy bigger and cooler things in the future. I derive pleasure from exercise that is physically uncomfortable, because I know there are future benefits.

"Utility" is absolutely a better word for this, because "pleasure" often has the connotation of immediate physical euphoria without regard for future ion sequences. In a way, you're right that it's begging the question. Saying "people should do what gives them utility" is basically saying "people should make the decisions they prefer," or "people should do what they think they should do."
"I deactivated my account but it didn't have anything to do with trust."
Definitely this. Most of the stuff I put up on Facebook is stuff I'm making publicly available, so while I wouldn't trust Facebook with private information I'm definitely still utilizing it a lot.
"I no longer trust Facebook, but continue to use it with a fake/dummy account" my case...
It wasn't impossible to not cooperate, but from what I've heard they (and Apple and Microsoft) really tried hard not to comply, and pretty much ran out of things to try. Unfortunately as it was all secret, they didn't have public support, and the amount they could fight it in court was limited.
I no longer trust Facebook, but continue to use it as much as before regardless.
You're welcome! The Book Depository was actually founded by some ex-Amazon employees. Amazon bought them a couple of years ago.
Great link... Seeing people communicate "google yourbank" and address bar becoming a search box, I thought href could be extended as an innovative technology to allow intermediated linking through a search engine.. (or Url shorteners with keywords)... But AOL already had it...
I'm skeptical that anyone ever really trusted free services. Such a thing would be far different than simply using free services, and providing personal data as it is necessary or convenient in order to make use of compelling features.
Robots will take over
I would love the same chart but sorted by vulgarity.
Companies won’t/shouldn't hire Jr devs unless they have the bandwidth and desire to mentor them. They may also see your non-dev work as a potential distraction.
Is it spying when you're just not turning off automated systems that nobody looks at the data for?

It's literally no different than what Google does for anyone else, yet it's spying for schools because... why?

Were the children using the services under 13? I've never understood why this was potentially illegal, and never seen anything address that.
Missing option: I trust Google, but I still want to reduce my exposure

Google is awesome in lots of ways. At least for their core services like Search and Gmail, they are the epitome of reliability and trust. I check whether the internet works by loading Google. I trust they have good internal controls and won't just read my email.

However, just because they are competent and trustworthy doesn't stop governments from stealing data off of their servers, or compelling them to with a secret letter.

I don't want to use "another service". For example, switching from Gmail to Yahoo Mail because you don't trust Google is tomfoolery. Using PGP is cool. Google is not the problem--the lack of end-to-end encryption is the problem.

People already understand that we can't trust routers and access points with our plaintext--that's one reason we use HTTPS. I think we should start thinking of servers the same way--as untrusted messengers--regardless of how much you trust the company that's running them.
I guess that would be your version of events if you only got your news from Microsoft PR.

GApps for education had an option in its admin console to enable ad targeting, it was off by default, the main reason it was there is that it and gmail shared much of the same infrastructure.

As for the lawsuit which despite your claims and those of your linked source (which is parroting the PR folks at safegov in their interpretation) didn't uncover anything other that what Google already stated, but sadly the efforts of these vested interests to confuse you and other uninformed persons by misusing the word "scanning" bared some fruit.
This is well written argument, but there is one big difference between China now and Japan then.

China is still going through urbanization in unprecedented scale. About half of the Chinese live in cities now. By 2030, cities will be home to 70 per cent of China’s population and generate 75 per cent of its GDP. There will be 200 million Chinese moving into cities in next few decades. China can be close to where Japan is now in the 2040 banking crisis. For now, even massive crisis just delays the inevitable increase in demand that eats away all mistakes in fiscal and monetary policy.

http://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/what-should-we-underst...

http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/presscenter/pre...

http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/presscenter/pre...
This is a very good point - Aesop Rock, for example, uses one unique word every 5 words (7k unique in 35k), and if this does not stop, maybe he would continue and we would find the same average in 70k or 120k words. After all, you still have to have filler words like "to", "a", "the", "have", etc - he could be saturating the spots where he can put uniques.

So this could substantially underrepresent vocabularies. There are only so many unique words you can put in a sentence. As an extreme, if we looked at the first hundred words of every rapper, we would not find a hundred unique words in any of them: (due to repeats of grammatically common words) even though, clearly, all rappers have a vocabulary over a hundred.

I wonder if this is a fatal flaw? How can we estimate where the distortion stops? (For example, if someone uses 1000 words in their first 35,000, intuitively this seems to imply to me that's most of their stock. But if someone uses 5,000 in 35,000 - that is not so clear at all.)
What about the, "I never trusted Facebook and continue to not use it." option?
America’s dangerous addiction to suburban sprawl
Maybe this will help me answer that nagging question at the back of my brain: What does DJ Khaled actually _do_?
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I wouldn't trust the results of such polls given the fact a user can vote more than an option.
I have never trusted Facebook with my personal data and I have never had an account in the first place.
Yes, OP meant all of them I think.
Fed's decade long easy money policy had a vitalizing effect on many businesses in many countries...Soon unfortunately we may get a zombie attack all over the world.
> My only wish was that he'd used something other than Heroku.

Heroku is just Linux. What do you want , windows server hosting? Using Heroku has been quite educational for me,as for how to manage a production server and good deployement techniques. Care to explain what the problem is?
If we're going to have polls like this, can we at least use proper questions? These, and the other one's questions are compound and weighted toward lack of trust. This is a solved space.
I don't want to give my photos to a third party at all. With a normal camera, I wouldn't have to.
EyeWire's First Scientific Discovery
Have you used DDG? I find it's perfectly usable as a general-purpose search engine.
The fake film-dirt noise is really silly.
This is super. Simple, easy interface. Search results are presented very nicely: clear and easy to scan. Excellent work. Bookmarked!
Brilliant , i always do this manually. It would be better, at least for me , if you could add also amazon.es :-). Thank you.
I've never been an heavy Facebook user, so even if my account is pretty old I've never feed it with much data. All I use it for today is to talk to some friends that refuse to use something else. Maybe I might give a quick read at my wall if I'm really bored, but that's it.

Regarding trust, I trust Facebook as much as I trust other free (as in beer)/closed systems: "If you're not paying for it, you're the product".
This is silly. The realism of code in "Social Network" is secondary and irrelevant.

What really matters is that the movie's characters, plot and dialog are inconsistent and formulaic cliches.

I wrote a post about it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134065
Today I learned what a push-poll is. Thanks, tptacek.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll