skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Save the URL!

Phone numbers suck and are a usability nightmare.

But people are used to them and everyone understands it.

No URL - no decentralized web.

I understand why Google wants to place itself as the key search and directory for the web. I remember AOL Keywords 'go to www.webvan.com, AOL keyword : webvan', the ads would say on the radio.

But the web is just a bunch of content hooked together with URLs. Heck, websites are just a bunch of content hooked together with URLs.

I already hate sites that are not linkable or discoverable due to excessive postback-ing and unbookmarkable deep results.

I will always seek out a browser that displays the URL. There are ways to defeat phishing without obscuring the URL.
The last paragraph of your statement could be applied to MIT or the prosecutor.
> It's not about being a luddite, it's about keeping perspective.

You clearly have no perspective.

I'd prefer my next trauma surgeon can relax and take in half a movie before he is called in on his pager to try and save my life, of which I have one that will be entirely in his hands. I don't give a fuck if you miss a couple of minutes of a movie that cost you $15 or even if it meant myself never being able to go into a movie theater again.
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A solution, or rather loophole the FAA might argue, would be to create a non-profit whose cost the commercial entity covers, but is free to undertake any operation they deem endearing. Police might change their mind if said non-profit proves a free and reliable asset in their own investigations.
I'm late to the party - where is part 1? Tldr?
Every modern car becomes an old car.

It's fine if you want to turn over your vehicle every three years.

'Modern' cars are not fixable - even the specialists tear our their hair on some cases and give up completely.

Classics are rising steeply in value for people who want to own and understand a piece of machinery for its own sake. Much of modern automotive history will disappear into the maw of the crusher because irreplaceable, irrepairable parts render them useless.
Two stroke engines are actually smaller, cheaper, and more powerful than four stroke engines of equal displacement. The issue with two stroke engines is cleanliness. Because there isn't a spare cycle to push all the extra unburned particles out of the chamber and let only clean air/fuel into the chamber, there is some loss of power efficiency due to the attempted combusting of leftover particles. This is more than mitigated by having double the amount of power strokes per equivalent displacement. There's actually some really interesting design techniques that have been used to "coax" the waste particles out of the chamber, take a look at MotoGP technology circa early 2000's if you want to learn more.
Good write up, only gripe is that the font is unreadable.
A car has that simple goal of A/B movement....for you. Plenty of other people want to hack with their general purpose mobility machine infinite in scope and possibility.
Part 1: http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h
you described the nefarious walled garden metaphor.

The holy grail of companies. Full control over 95% of the users by sacrificing 5...

you are just dead wrong thinking this is good design. obscenely profitable? Yes.

Good design is made by serving the extreme 5% while accommodating the 95... Take it from someone who actually majored in product design and usability. The rationale for user interfaces is that the 95% will at some tasks be the 5percentile, and if you don't serve them, over time you lose them. People think ios is a hallmark of usability only because the market has too much canon fodder so the 95percentile seems infinite. But eventually enough people will be fed up by being unable to send a file from one app to another the way they want. And will move to whatever crap interface that at least have a file system that allows them to compete the task.
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You have no idea how better USA is on almost all parameters than many large countries like India or Brazil.
and previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
I'd also be happy to help out and hop on a call with you. I'm generally pretty good with this sort of stuff. My contact details are in my profile.
Is there any impartial way to resolve the situation?

Last time matt cutts posted a comment calling the poster a fraud, the thread was flagged to hell, and it dissapeared from the front page.

What does Google need to do to prove itself innocent to the public?
Indeed:

go install -a -tags netgo std
go build -tags netgo
ldd wipes.git
not a dynamic executable

Thanks for the tip :)
skilledinterns.com - I am interested in selling.
Good for someone who intends to start up an internship business.
The footage, jokes and date it was released (Apr. 1st) made the PR stunt fairly obvious, but automated deliveries (using flying drones or something closer to Google-self-driving cars) are something that Amazon is seriously considering. It’s just not cost effective and practical at the moment.

However, rest assured that as soon as someone (presumably Google) manages to lobby a way to lower the legal burden of responsibilities on the human ‘driver’ because he or she was not supposed to pay attention, or react to the automated driving, there will be an way to argue that a car can drive empty. And, from then, they won’t be many truck drivers employed very soon. Drones for the last mile or last yard delivery might make sense, but I rather see Wall-E-like o Big-Dog-like bots swarming from the truck.

In other words: Amazon wasn’t joking entirely, but the idea of a swarm of flying things isn’t any more energy efficient then than it is now.
As a developer I need to SEE the url as well. A lot of time I need to check get params. Also when hovering a link I need to see the full url in the status bar.
Promises are an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a monad.
So you're saying that all he received was justice?
but am I supposed to edit them as an end user or draw conclusions from their look?

Here is a data point that may be of interest: On YouTube, since links are filtered from comments, many users link to other videos by posting the "tails" of URLs - some with "watch?v=xxxxxxxx", some "?v=xxxxxxxx", and some just post the random-looking video ID part with nothing other than "see video xxxxxxxx". In other words, there's evidence to suggest that a reasonably large portion of the otherwise "computer-illiterate" have at least a basic understanding of how URLs work and will edit them manually to get what they want.

Edit: or to put it another way, there are people who, upon having made extensive use of YouTube (or possibly other sites), have been able to notice the patterns in all of its URLs, and use that knowledge to succinctly name a video, without explicitly giving the entire link. They are also implicitly teaching others about this knowledge in the process. This is a perfect example of the kind of learning experience that would be deprived from those whose browser hid the path in URLs.
This seems to hint that Chrome reports its settings back to Google, so they could discover how many people disabled the feature.

Is this true? Does Chrome phone-home with details of user settings?
No one who is indifferent to URLs has had to pay much attention to them for most of the last 20 years. The UI change discussed here doesn't bring any positive change on that front.

Being able to attend to URLs offers significant utility to a portion of users, though, and this UI change takes that away.

You and your family don't want to think about URLs? Fine. Nobody's asking you to.

But they might ask you to apply that ostensible concern for other people's use patterns a little more broadly.
Maybe the problem could be solved at the software level, rather than through operator training. Drones would have the different rules governing airspace built into them, and would either override illegal operator commands, or at least warn the operator that he is doing something illegal, and log the incident. This would make them considerably more expensive, but it would solve the whole issue of regulation.
Using a infra-red laser to blind it seems a more appropriate and cost effective reaction, unless the device itself is upsetting. Legal elements stand — especially FAA’s reaction to people shining lasers into pilots' face.
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I'm assuming that a generic prohibition for loosely defined “irresponsible behaviour” is the best take: Police remain able to ask you to stop for any reason -- same as ‘reckless driving’, in a way.

That would have to be enforced by more powerful drones, able to out-run, capture and drag down commercially available models.
> I have communications. I have documents, I have files, I have lists, and I have names. I have all of it.

Then publish them you dimwit, and cease with the endless rhetoric.
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I'd change the example to reflect a more realistic use case: mails sent by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker%2..., with name/insult pairs.
There is no way we can be certain this "second" part to the leak is actually even a legitimate followup to the first leak (assuming the first leak was legitimate).

In the future, if a leaker wants to be able to prove a future anonymous document will be leaked they should post the hashsums in the first document, so they can be verified as authenticate followups. For all we know, this is just /b/ having fun with the first leak pastebin.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I've updated postman to use your package.

Edit: Hmm, I ran into an issue with the MIME type in my mail client (sup). I'll look into it, but have reverted the commit in the meantime.
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You shouldn't be downvoted, but please don't talk about being downvoted - it's against the site guidelines, mostly because it makes for boring conversations.

Thanks!
In this build, if I type in a well formed url, will it take me to google search results or the webpage the url was pointing to?
I'm not sure it's solved by encrypting at the filesystem layer either, though - the problem is that the smarts need to move all the way up to the applications themselves. That's likely impossible, so your next best option is to just hard-fail the entire system on a MAC failure, which is just as easy for dm-crypt to do as ZFS, for example.
Yeah and the "otherwise computer-illiterate" may also think: oh wow, this is a cool feature I should rely on. Eventhough you can just paste the Youtube URL into the comment field and get a nicely formatted link.

For me this is another evidence that the main argument is broken. Youtube is super successful but in fact it is really restrictive when it comes to hyperlinking and mashing things together.

Update: just for clarification because of the downvotes, Youtube does not filter Youtube urls.
Probably, though that involves a little bit of retroactive attribution: at the time it was just an online game on some network. In 1980, ARPANet, PLATO, and other large multi-site networks were roughly peers. ARPANet turned out to be the one that "won" and evolved into the Internet, the global internetworked system that everything else got rolled into. But I'm not sure that retroactively changes the status of what a game in 1980 was: if one game was on ARPANet and one was one PLATO, you couldn't really say one was one "the internet" and the other wasn't, without being pretty anachronistic.
Say you have a computational task you want to run.

You can run that on a single server for 1 minute, and use 5 watt-hours of power.

Or you can translate it to JavaScript and run it on 50 web browsers for a minute each, and use at least 50 watt-hours of power. That's what this would look like, since you lose so much to having to use JavaScript, not having a dedicated server-class CPU devoted to your task, and to overhead of transferring the data to/from the client. Heck, you'll waste a bunch of power just sending the code and data to clients that leave the page before sending back results, which means their slice of the work has to be run multiple times on multiple computers.

Same end result, 10+ times more electricity used, through a combination of having to do much more work, and doing it on much less efficient hardware. Money down the drain, pollution in the air. In reality the math is even worse than that for most tasks.

So, nobody's suggesting you fill homes with more PCs for some reason. The suggestion is to leave the PCs we already own alone, drawing a fraction of their maximum possible electric usage. If you're going to try to better utilize existing capacity, do it by buying spot instances on AWS for pennies per hour, because those machines will give you vastly more computation per watt. It would also be more power-efficient to add a brand new dedicated server to the data center for these tasks than to utilize visitor web browsers.
Just across the pond in Sydney, Australia, one of my earliest jobs was related to the traffic control systems at the Roads and Transit Authority (RTA). I do have the distinct impression that they had wireless communications allowing reprogramming of lights by emergency service vehicles. They also had zero authentication ISDN-based video dialups on major intersections, under-road sensor loops to compile traffic volumes, and had kept a VAX running right through to ~2001 and later. Most of that's probably gone now, but I suppose the wireless traffic manipulation is still about.
One thing they can do is show the statistical distribution of when account cancellations occur in the billing period. If it's skewed to the right, they have some things to explain.
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Unfortunately, you're right (about "the wrong tool for the job"), but just as you use the best tool for you and for the job, many designers love Photoshop and it is the industry standard. For now, this is the best solution unless you're both designing and developing.
Your exasperation is understandable, but the popularity of phones is often backed up by trafic numbers.

‘Often’: many websites don’t see this; I’m willing to bet those I use regularly (StackOverflow, HN) aren’t even close. Most analyst describe a currently slight majority for phone metrics (except time on the site); more importantly, demographic elements suggest phone attention share will grow.

> I'm truly sick of hearing that the phone is the only device that matters.

‘Only’: OC hasn’t said exactly that -- he talked about authentification; most people don’t really say that either. Many journalists exagerate a trend and slight majority, but I would (tongue-in-cheek) blame you first for reading badly written magazines.

My experience is that authentification is safer for non-developer users on their smartphone: you have a lot more stream for consistent two-factor authentification; physical security is better for something in your pocket most of the time; it’s the only random-key generator (capable) most people have close to them. Roughly half of users users actually lock the damn thing…
It makes google sound almost Orwellian, which is not hard to believe considering how invasive their information gathering tentacles are and complete disregard for privacy of people.
or sign with pgp
Coincidentally, today I was going to edit a wikipedia article to correct a factual error in it but there was a note as a comment which discouraged against precisely that. Looking at the talk page I saw a bunch of wikipedia wankery on the subject (basically amounting to: this is the way we do things at wikipedia, thems the rules!) with issues of "no original research" and so forth, completely ignoring the fundamental importance of correctness. In the end I left the page alone, it's not worth the hassle. And that's one of the major problems with wikipedia today. Back when wikipedia was relatively unimportant and the main goal was simply duplicating data from elsewhere a lot of the foundational decisions for the site were valid, today those decisions are increasingly dangerous.

Worse, as the example of Aaron's research shows the folks who run Wikipedia are largely ignorant of these issues and don't think any change is necessary.
A confession: I sometimes edit the gmail URLs by hand.
In particular, I'm often using multiple google accounts and find that after restarting the browser (or something) a tab's account changes to something else than what I wanted. So I like having the option to just change the user id - the zero based integer in gmail URLs ("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox"). Also, in other contexts, such as google sign in, this id appears as the authuser GET param.
Even if the URLs on HN or various newspapers are not very human friendly, at least one can copy and save them. How do you propose doing that without URLs?
Yes, it asks you when you first run it.
Note from Europe: fairly soon all cars will be required to include a mobile system with GPS that will automatically call the emergency services if the car is involved in an accident. This system is called "eCall".

http://www.heero-pilot.eu/ressource/static/files/2013_12_09_...

It's not just humans that need to make emergency phone calls without being jammed.
most children aren't allowed phones in school, let alone tablets.
Phones are easier to hide from teachers than 9" tablets. So it would make sense they would have phones with them all the time and a smaller amount have tablets (that have probably been bought for them, I doubt many could afford both) at home.

Until multitasking on tablets is fixed it will never replace the PC for them. Young people switch tabs and applications like mad!
The unrelated field I'm in is pharma / drug development. I'm the business guy who brings new projects in.

Actually I do have programming experience, very very modest though. That's where my realization comes from.
I developed a simple CRM for my department and, since I like languages as well, I'm working on a learning tool for translators and students alike. I needed that tool in the first place but couldn't find it anywhere, so I decided to put it together by myself.

Yet as people from my country say, this pretty much boils down to "singing and playing your own song".
So thanks for your comments, they're really much much appreciated.
Along with other people, I believe that the URL is engrained into a lot of what we do. Think of all the services that interact with urls: twitter, facebook, pinterest, stackoverflow, hacker news, gMail, etc. People might complain about the extra "meaningless cruft" after the domain, but psychologically it is what tells me that two pages are different. After a while of not seeing the full url, it becomes less apparent that the url contains state at all. That is not a good thing. All those services that people share URLs with become more confusing. All of a sudden, what you put into the box isnt where it goes.

I realize that I have an anti-change bias, so lets look at the pros vs cons: pros - people know what site they are on, have a little more space in the user bar, cons - all of the above. Which do people care about more? Im betting the latter.

Extra note: IMO, the solution to "cruft" is not "remove it", but rather, "make it readable".
> Somehow, back before cell phones were invented, we all miraculously managed to live our lives without having constant access to a telephone.

We also miraculously managed to live without plumbing and electricity. That doesn't mean that life isn't a lot better with it.

I have family who work in health care. They spend a lot of their time at home, on call. Back in the landline days, they were tied to their phone. They literally couldn't take the dog for a walk around the block, lest they'd miss a call. Today, thanks to mobile phones, they can run errands and even go to the movies.

The problem isn't cellphones, the problem is that some people are assholes and movie theaters are too meek to enforce a no-asshole policy. If people were routinely ejected from theatres for being disruptive people would behave better.
You track the rogue drones by waiting for the owner to leak some information about them on the internet (obvious example is posting illegally-gathered drone footage to youtube, but there are more subtle ways)
If Chrome stops displaying the URL, I will stop using it. Caveat: very small screen devices may justifiably need clever tricks surrounding the display of the URL to reduce screen usage.
If power provisioning and space are an issue it seems unlikely to me that they're sitting with many drives all hooked up for immediate power-up. It would make more sense to separate the storage of media and the power connection so you get the most from each power connection. Therefore: removable media, whether those are hard drives or optical.

There's a data retrieval period of multiple hours [1]. That doesn't sound like they're just powering up a drive. It sounds like they're moving something around or doing some kind of linear read (as opposed to random-access). I'd bet on "a retrieval job fetches this stack of read-only media and connects it to the powered device, which loads it onto hard drives for quick download".

[1] "Retrieval jobs typically complete within 3-5 hours" - http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/
From Benny Hill to Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park) to The Warlock (Die Hard 4), the development of the unheroic hacker stereotype; the heroic ones are slimmer...
OMG that code looks horrible.

Kind of disappointing how he not uses proper parser generators and grammars.

I avoid imerative almost always if I can go declarative.
It's a good point: a cloud provider could choose to try to under-provision disks instead. The problem though is that (some) disks are local to the machine; it's not easy to move physical hard disks around when the calculations are wrong (and if you have to get it right on a per-host basis, it's more likely to go wrong). It is however easy to move chunks of data around, particularly if you use something like erasure coding to give you a huge amount of flexibility.

In short, your way is a good alternative, but my guess is that buying the full capacity and selling the surplus is probably roughly cost-equivalent, and considerably less likely to end up with you not being able to sell the full capacity of any given host.
If only there were some kind of legal system that could perform investigations and establish the truth of claims.
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This seems like some guy who's AdSense account got banned and now he's trying to take his revenge.

If there is any proof, just go to some good journalist, like Snowden did. The journalist will know how to proceed about publishing things for maximal media attention and impact on public opinion.
Post was mostly likely made by someone making spammy and useless sites which was banned from Google Adsense and is now pissed that he has no more income.
> Adsense is by far the best paying ad-network but if it had less shady tactics and better support I would have definitely put it on my recommendation list.

AdSense is the best paying network because it behaves this strictly. Advertiser give a larger amount of money per clic in exchange for a much higher guarantee that a clic is a clic.
This is some quality advertising on your and Iain's part. It makes me want to use Julia even more when I get the chance.
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This suggests an interesting alternative lay-out for presenting threaded forums: add the moniker of the user to the bottom of the comment rather than at the end. It is how we used to communicate anyway and it forces you to first digest the words before seeing who said them.
"removing antibiotics from hog raising would force farmers to spend $4.50 more per pig, a cost that would be passed on to consumers."

one of those cases where savings of $4.50 a month cause extinction of human race.