skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't fault them for it if they don't. "The Bitly security team learned of the potential compromise..." sounds much better than "our programmer, Joe, got an email..."
Yea man, this Nature article about the vaccine seems as surprised as you http://www.nature.com/news/zapped-malaria-parasite-raises-va...
With the old google maps I could count on the fact that I could hope on Google maps 60 seconds before I needed to head out find the directions I needed hit print and be on my way. Or I could have some one on the phone talking to me and saying something hey I am lost I am kinda in this area of town I could pump that into google maps and give walking directions or even driving directions realtime over the phone.

The new google maps is frustrating to use. All the ways that I used to use google maps for just don't seem to work with the new maps either because they removed the feature, or moved the UI elements in such a way that they don't exist on the same page any more or its just too slow on my very fast laptop and my very fast internet.

I really hope they fix it fast, I am loosing all hope that maps will ever be usable again.
Even if you change the title to - "Amazon granted patent for taking photo in a particular way." It still sounds really bad.
But the shenanigans is to move as much profit out of the UK to Luxembourg, thus they only made £28m profit in UK.

So, legally they're fine, but moving the profit put of the UK while having a UK website selling products to UK customers from UK warehouses is seen as shady.

Maybe we'll end up with a European wide corporation tax?
Funny. Looking at that list I start wondering how that really can happen. Yes, I know that jurisprudence is BS, there's no such thing as justice, etc., but really. I mean, looking at this list makes it so obvious that something isn't right, that I don't understand how she can have a job. That is, it couldn't be that examiner's work isn't overviewed/supervised by other instances, could it? If so, why Ms. Blackman haven't lost her job yet? Why nobody questioned her examination cases? Or maybe she is doing it right and it's only hard to understand if your brain isn't spoiled by law education? Can somebody explain?
> Our preference is for Software-as-a-Service on Public Cloud, using Open Source Drupal software.

This is moronic. Why would you mandate using the most unusable CMS system from an end-user point of view when you are outsourcing the hosting and maintenance to a SAAS partner? I'm sure they could have cut a better deal with Sitecore which seems to power a lot of Government sites and is a far more coherent platform with a robust workflow and integration with Active Directory services.
A more general form of tutorial review/correction site would be more interesting.

Actually, a browser add-on to load commentary/annotations for known tutorials on the fly might be nice. All sorts of practical problems that would have to be overcome, though (like changing content and getting people to use the add-on in the first place).
I so agree with you.I was in Puerto Natales, Chile and it completely failed me. Baffled.
> before it becomes a bitter, undrinkable blargh.

Try a small amount of honey, I drink a fair amount of tea (I'm English, it has to be done) and I'm one of those freaks who like it pretty stewed but if I go too far I find a drop of honey takes a lot of the edge of the bitterness.
Most of the guide was written two years ago: https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-guide
Salted MD5/SHA is basically the standard even though it's awful, and the flaws in MD5's algorithm don't really apply to the password case.
Ah right. Tassie seems to be the place to go - NBN enabled too!
First off, I think the idea of BI is great, I just don't think we have the real taste of what that would look like yet from someone who knows how to write bills. Lots of handwaving from all corners.

I don't see how cutting medicare could work to solve income?

The reason we have socialized medicine for old people is it's too expensive for insurers to carry. $350 a month is not an annualized cost for EVERY american, it's for non old people. That's including sharp obamacare type subsidies still for many age brackets. I know even my (early 30's) healthcare premiums are above that.

I don't see how cutting someone who's reliant on a $2,642 dollar a month income social security retirement payment is going to work. At best, I see social security retirement largely staying at it's current level. Cutting Social Security Disability (and all the anti fraud apparatus around it) is likely very possible though

>would be a lot of administrative costs eliminated

Those costs are rolled up into the SSA numbers in the federal budget. A portion of the medicare cost is the medicare overhead, etc. So it's not the budget numbers + overhead: the budget numbers are inclusive already

I think a wage floor (minimum wage still), strong policing of unpaid internships, and a smaller form of BI is possible, possibly without any tax increases or with far more moderate ones, especially if many state responsibilities are taken over at the federal level.

I just don't see the list of things that can really be cut nor the total take we'd get from that to work with.
Pegman sealed the deal.
> I couldn't write enough content to get it off the ground.

Poke around w3schools. That should give you more than enough initial grist for your mill.
Looks very much like the photography that Dorling Kindersley has been doing for 30-40 years for their books.
Thanks. I was offered a position as a senior developer with a big Valley tech firm here in London, and it included 60 kGBP of RSUs over four years. Senior is not team lead, but that does seem like quite a difference.
I'm curious which mob it was, I know pretty much all of them up here, and I have an inkling as to who it might've been...
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Preferably even the smallest company would have at least a designated "security guy", even if they don't spend most of their time directly on security issues. If there are two, there's your "security team".

Reality, of course, is that most companies don't give much thought to security at all until it bites them in the ass, and security competency is rare enough that even a designated "security guy" could be worse than useless.
Apparently, approving such patents makes the USPTO "efficient", by getting rid of the backlog (as if that should be the main goal of the Patent Office?!):

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140505/11310627129/yes-pr...

You know what would make USPTO even more efficient than approving almost everything? Rejecting almost everything.
When Starbucks was being criticised for tax avoidance they mentioned the amount of VAT they handed over, and the amount of income tax that they paid.

But VAT is something that the customer pays, it is iust gathered by Starbucks. And income tax is something that the employee pays, and that is just collected by Starbucks.

By mentioning those two taxes they pointed out that other people were correctly paying taxes without avoidance shennanigans, and that Starbucks wasn't.

Amazon is in a better position than Starbucks because the setup is not so weird. Starbucks has a complicated system of selling very expensive roasted beans to itself which reduces profits in one part of the company - UK Starbucks makes very little profit - and increasing profit in another part of the company (which happens to be located in a low tax region).
Well, while we're being pedantic, publicly expressing an "interest in such functionality" deep in some HN thread is roughly as productive as asking him directly why he doesn't scratch his own itch.

This whole notion that saying "patches welcome" is insulting/dismissive/pointless is completely missing the point. Open Source mostly runs on people doing, not pontificating. It may be "unprofessional" or "rude" in other contexts, but it's a fundamental part of what makes Open Source work. I suspect you've never actually spent any considerable time working on such a project, otherwise you'd most likely have seen things from the other perspective and realized this already.
Continuing the rant - I would speak for India, if you are going from Point A to Point B it shows you 4 ways to get there. You could filter it with options like - Buses, Trains or Least Transfer, Less walking etc. Now there are times when there are more then 10 buses running between these two points and with a frequency like of 20-30 mins.

So if you happen to use Google Maps then it would show you only 4 results even after you filter down to Buses. Why not show all the options Google? When you have it in your results, just show it.

Because I and lot of people that I know have been in this situation where we are waiting for the bus that google maps is showing and in the process missing out on the ones that are not shown.
Kinda sounds like Golang, except not as platform independent.
I wish they would have used C, which has much better support for being called from other languages, and then let different people write code in C# or Haskell or Brainfuck or whatever they want.
I have a four letter word B I N G. Bing maps is surprisingly good and i switched after being fed up with the disaster UI. Pulling my hair out no more !
We have a surprisingly nice country, considering our governance over the years. I'm a bit worried 'bout the current mob, though, they seem determined to wreck things even more than previous governments. I think I preferred the previous mob: stabbing themselves in the back distracted them from stuffing things up!
He is right about this though. Just one of Quora's many problems.
That's a horribly slippery slope to just blunder on to.
Would it be correct in saying that stores behave exactly (are) Eager Read Derivations as describe by Fowler? http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EagerReadDerivation.html.

I.e: they update themselves (eagerly, hence the name) based on changes from the data-access layer. They're able to choose themselves which transformations to do on the data in order for views/components to query them efficiently.
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It's just a review tool designed for storing Question / Answer pairs to your long-term memory. Nothing else.

If that means using it to review and remember specific answers to WHY questions (Why is the sky blue?) for the rest of your life, all power to you. Keep reviewing. However, I think the moment you start asking these conceptual questions you're no longer just trying to remember - you're trying to understand. That's not what flash-cards are designed for.

Instead, you might actually want to look at the sky. Do experiments. Meet experts.

In the process, you will come up with new questions and new answers to old questions. More importantly, as a result of this adventure you will not only remember, but also learn. I wonder if Newton used flash-cards.
I drink my coffee black. but sugar is great, someone has to say it.
There's a simple explanation for recent GUI disasters across google applications: Google+. They decided to make a Swiss Army Knife under the banner of Google+, and needed kind of "consistency" of style. Everything is consistency ugly now, and Google+ guy is gone. Situation may improve as they starts dismantling the monstrosity.
With respect to search quality - they hired some AI astronauts, neural networks do wonders for them. The goal is to train their system to accommodate astronauts' brains. They say it openly.
I worked for a mob that only used Drupal. I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes modern PHP, but I didn't last long there. In my opinion nearly anything else is preferable to clicking through that damned GUI to get it to do what I want without hacking the core or messing with those damned hooks. I mean, check our changes into git? Why would we want to do that? :<
Which is why I also mentioned audio description in my follow up posts.

Saying that everything is inaccessible by default, and always has been, is not an excuse to continue to not provide very simple accessibility.
Pretty sure Squiz is still running a number of University sites which was always their core audience.
CKAN has been around for awhile AFAIK, back even in the Drupal 5.x days, there was a CKAN module for Drupal.

From CKAN's webpage:

http://ckan.org

> Strong integration with third-party CMS’s like Drupal and WordPress

There was no explicit reason to switch front-end sites...But think about it...creating Data.gov was a large endeavor, but it's certainly not a mission critical one. Just a couple years after building that initiative from scratch, they throw out Drupal for WordPress instead of using their existing Drupal installation and installing CKAN modules. How does that not reflect badly on Drupal, which bills itself as a much more powerful, flexible CMS than your standard blog system?
"That's not who we are at Mozilla". That's Mozilla talking about a Mozilla decision.

Do you people suffer split personality or something?

When a company changes its mind about such things it's the worst of both worlds: you get all the negative PR, none of the benefits, and on top of that it makes Mozilla management look like a bunch of indecisive amateurs who have no strategy, rhyme or reasons behind their actions.

A company that decides to have sponsored new tab links and then decides it's not "who we are" might decide something completely random tomorrow. You can't rely on there being consistency, because apparently they're not sure who they are.

Mozilla fears their users now. They fear them. That's not a good thing, because it means Mozilla doesn't have the credibility to do what's good for their users and for Mozilla if users might perceive their actions as bad.

But popular actions and good actions don't always overlap. I wish it was that easy. The word "populism" wouldn't be a bad thing.
1337Mate used to taste like Flora Power, only with more caffeine, but now it tastes like marshmallows :(
Hi HN,
This is a simple open source project which one can use to copy/paste text between an Android phone and a Desktop.
I agree with your argument, but there's no need to go in with the "hipsters" or "looking trendy" thing. I immediately get turned off when someone uses "hipster" pejoratively. You might as well have just used "millenials" or "kids these day." It ruins a perfectly cogent argument.
Patent author & holder here: this is a standard and necessary clause with the purpose of generalizing the examples given in the patent claims and description. Without such a clause, it could be argued a slight variation away from the examples cited are outside of the patent's claims. This clause removes that capability.
> somebody with a tiny screen and a near-complete lack of technical ability

The vast majority of users.
Actually, research by UIE shows that requiring registration is a great way to massively increase the website's bounce rate.
That's what contracts are for. You don't build your business around something without a guarantee it'll be available. Patents are different because it covers the method, you can't use an alternative supplier.
Yeah, I have the exact same complaint. Took me 10 minutes to find out how to get the transit layer back. Then I found out it was practically unusable because as soon as you scroll across London, it disappears...

Have you tried using Citymapper? I've only used it a couple of times as I'm not a Londoner, but it's quite good (it knows to avoid the circle line!). Coincidentally, the first time was to get to #HNLondon where one of the Citymapper guys was giving a talk.
I have a large monitor, but I have no idea what you mean by "push a web browser hard". Chrome's UI is great because it recognizes that what is important in a browser UI is the content area, not the, well ... chrome. I have no concept of what you could possibly be doing with the menu so often that it bugs you.

A little more on topic: one person's "crappy hipster redesign" is another person's "wow this is so much better" and it's really difficult to guess ahead of time which will be the dominant reaction. Having said that, most of the frustrations about Maps here seem to be more on the implementation side than the design side.
The article looked to me like very obvious PR.

This article[1] from pg has been linked like a million times, but it's as relevant as it was the first time.

> Trend articles like this are almost always the work of PR firms. Once you know how to read them, it's straightforward to figure out who the client is.

EDIT: oftenwrong linked the article before me; I hadn't read their message when I send mine. I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I think club mate, hacked hackers...
Your class action ad hominem attack is not constructive.
> These people are often relatively young, often have limited experience

> "hipsters" in their 40s and 50s

These statements cancel each other out, so there's no reason to state either as supposedly providing information content.
I was with you until you went on about GNOME 3... oh wait, I was still with you..
They were thinking: more billable hours! Yay! What else can we patent?!
Why nobody is showing concerns about her to the USPTO? Do US Government agencies have any politics about the general public concerned with the work of the individuals working there?

What about other examiners?
This is truly awesome!

If anyone wants, I have the schematics for a bat chirper (pretends to make bat sounds) to keep mosquitos away and attract bats.
Nope, the point about adoption is spot on since you can already do this with esprima and other tools (e.g. substack's falafel/burrito or grasp) which already have a community. Outside of api flavour, they do the same thing. The differentiating factor is primarily which one will have stronger better community support.

My prediction is that since this is "go-flavoured", it will face some (unwarranted) adoption resistance amongst influential JS devs. This tool might attract new devs into the code manipulation space and they'll eventually converge on to the tool with strongest community support.
> I literally cannot understand how so many smart people can, all together, fail to observe the obvious.

It doesn't matter how many smart engineers and ux designers can see the obvious, if one person from upper management can't :( (See also: G+ real names policy)
> The London ideal is suit, tie and lots of money.

The City ideal is suit, tie and lots of money. Outside of the City and Docklands, you'll find plenty of Londoners with nothing but scorn for that ideal.
Then why do it at all? You are making lots of suppositions and public shaming of individuals never does any good.
I think max SSR monthly payment is 2460 or so...

It seems like leaving old age social security alone for old people leaves a far higher chance of this being passable (and is arguably more fair). But don't give them BI on TOP of it by any means.

42 million people receive the type of social security you get for being old and having paid in. This takes the number of people you'd need to pay BI to from 320 million to 278 million.

It reduces the cost of social security on the federal government by 23% of the SS budget(814B) to count out a beneficiaries who aren't retired we save saved: $187 billion dollars

Between taking retirees off the roles, and this savings from knocking out disability, we're down to a total required revenue of 3.3 trillion, and a savings of 187 billion dollars in cut programs.

So find that other 3.113 trillion dollars and we're in business :D
"Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"

At the time he said it and given the types of problems people were using it for, the chickens would have never finished. He built vector machines and that is where his ideas on parallelism were.
First, let me say I'm not a CMS zealot. I've implemented Drupal, Sitecore, Wordpress[1], and many others. I believe in using the right tool for the job based on time, price, and capability. That said, Drupal is, without a doubt, the most complicated, confusing, and counter-intuitive piece of crap I've ever used and/or implemented. I feel sorry for the users that I've been required to subject to that monstrosity. Anyone who looks at Drupal and thinks, "Yep, that's what I need for my site!" should be considered incompetent for whatever job they have.

[1] Wordpress isn't really a CMS, but it is treated like one at many corporations.
So they had a project with usable interface and sub optimal searching, and they decided to "fix" the UI but not the searching?
DERIVATIVE WORK! No seriously, does it have the same arguments?
Is the root issue here that they stored remote server database passwords in their source code?

I'm always hesitant to have source code with hard coded passwords, I know at some point you have to have them "somewhere" but anything you can do to reduce attack vectors for them is helpful.

What do people think should be best practices for storing sensitive configuration data? I know some people will have just a config repo with very limited access but that still seems dangerous at scale when that ends up being a lot of people etc.
Yes. That is one of the tutorials I give on the site. See the MNIST dataset. OCR is actually the hello world of deep learning.
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Any plans to reform the patenting process?? Anyone???
I worked with Drupal for 2 years (built a specific niche business social network on top of it) and it was the worst two years of my life as a programmer.

I literally will not touch Drupal projects, I'll go back to working retail before I'd be a Drupal developer again, it is an unremittingly awful platform to work on.

The front end experience is horrible (even with all the tweaks in the world), CCK/Views made it just about useful then they rolled that into core but only some of it, you can forget an upgrade path between major versions in any real world scenario, the hook system is just plain bonkers.

I honestly don't know how it got a reputation as the goto open source enterprise CMS, Joomla must have been truly terrible for Drupal to be the preferred solution.

In the time I spent beating that monstrosity into shape I could have built the same functionality in a fraction of the time using something like Symfony.

This was in the days of the 6 to 7 rollover, things may have improved, frankly I've very carefully not looked.
It was until it starting generating errors on the backend when they break compatibility with auto updates. Or the fact that it doesn't render Java correctly in some cases. Or the fact that it auto places the cursor in certain places for you despite you attempting to click in a specific textbox. Or the fact that it no longer allows you to set the target page of new tabs.

I was once in love with Chrome, but over the past few months I've started looking back at FireFox.
I still think two of the great tragedies of modern computing were the loss of Seymour Cray and Jay Miner.

[edit: I still have a picture of me standing in the middle of a Cray 2 - that was a fun machine]
Amazing they hadn't thought of that, or believed it caused too many false positives. You should go in for Director of Search to straighten them out.
Like I said in an earlier comment, age has very little to do with this. "Hipsters" can pretty much be any age.

It's more the "hipster" mindset and attitude that's the problem. This attitude involves fashion and trends trumping all other considerations. Maybe that's okay when it comes to something like clothing. It isn't acceptable, however, when it comes to tools that are supposed to be productive, including software.

If you've got a better term than "hipster", I'm willing to consider using it. I'm just not aware of any other term that better describes the particular attitude that puts vanity, arrogance, ego, smugness and focus on appearance over everything else.
Your screenshot looks like you're already in classic maps, this is the bottom right of the new version: http://i.imgur.com/K9PJI5V.png
Definetly! I love this idea!
But what if the patent itself is a slight variation of a more general and public notpatent?
I don't remember, sorry.