skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's just a matter of cash. Google actually spends more on lobbying than either AT&T or Verizon: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYea.... And the numbers aren't of the magnitude people assume: the top spenders are single-digit millions with the exception of the Chamber of Commerce.

You need a certain minimum amount of money, but after that it's more about ideology and jobs. The tech industry has plenty of money, but it's ideology is not easy to fit into a traditional classification, and it doesn't create that many jobs per dollar of revenue.

AT&T is very effective at lobbying because they can go up to a Republican and say: "look, the internet companies want to revive this FDR-era regulation! Also, we create thousands of jobs for ordinary Americans like utility pole maintenance workers." Per dollar of lobbying expenditure, that's a much more compelling message than: "{something about openness} and also we create a few jobs most people in your district don't have the education to get and most of these jobs are in California anyway."
Police Bullying on Tape
You're going to get a cease and desist from Craigslist, eventually.

They do not take kindly to scraping.
The typical American moving abroad is richer than the median American, and the median American is much, much richer than the vast majority of humans on Earth. The middle-class person being discussed in the article had $100k in the bank, which is more than most humans earn in a lifetime.

So yes, rich-people's problems.
I don't think a significant portion of Native Americans find "Oklahoma" to be racist. (based on a guess, not based on any studies)

The point of the ruling was a significant portions of Native Americans found "redskins" to be derogatory at the time the team chose the name all the way to today. I think people arguing today that "redskins" is offensive is based on the fact that a significant portion of Native Americans do think it is offensive today and not based on etymology alone.
Response: http://files.redskins.com/pdf/Statement-by-Bob-Raskopf-Trade...
When it's spinning looking for musician's the console says:

GET http://bandhub.us/discoverUsersList?genres=&instruments=&col... 400 (Bad Request)
I believe that the National Security Agency was the original developer, but that Red Hat is significant contributor.
Thank you! Yes, I created an email addressing all the reason's it could possibly be of value to her. One of the interviewees is Tiffany Krumins, Ava the Elephant which is one of Barbara's first and more successful investments. I also asked a podcaster who had her on his show what appealed most to her so I would recommend finding someone who knows the person or researching online their preferences and strategically tying it to their motivations.
Nokia paid millions to software blackmailers six years ago
Upvoted for mall food snobbery. The rest of you cretins can get back to the Macaroni Grill where you belong.
For 95% of consumers, all Apple CPUs are phenomenally overpowered.
That's an interesting use case where search traffic and blog posts are an essential complement. Thank you for pointing that out.
Yes. We changed the url to that from https://coreos.com/blog/the-coreos-update-philosophy/.
"I don't think it requires any assumptions about Cutts's ambitions, but rather about how much effort it would take an annoyed spammer/black-hat to point some of their tools at the highly visible source of their frustrations."

highly visible only in SEO circles. The rest of the world could hardly care less. It certainly wouldn't make any mainstream news bulletin.

"I think history generally shows that staying one step ahead of criminals/spammers/up-to-no-gooders is a never-ending struggle that does not tend towards positive resolution."

Google are not one step ahead, they are always one step behind, reacting to the next thing. One step ahead is dealing with a problem before it even becomes a problem - in chess they call it prophylaxis - defending before you need to defend.

History generally shows bad things prevailing by people sitting back and doing nothing.

What Google have done with spammy link penalties is to change the game SEOers are playing. It's a classic advice of if you can't win this game, change the game. (Similar to Honduras' World Cup football efforts: if you can't beat 11 men, beat 10).
Saw this earlier today. That's rough. Obviously they had some problems with their architecture (backups shouldn’t be able to be deleted like that), but it's still pretty messed up. I hope they catch the guy. I won't help Code Spaces, but whoever it was deserves to be caught.
I don't think this is appropriate for HN - it's a very political topic, and a very partisan presentation. Also the 'what you're not being told' headline is very clickbaity, and wholly inaccurate if you read a decent range of media as opposed to a narrow range of sources.

I actually think the article makes a cogent argument and agree with quite a lot of it, but but I don't see how this is 'of interest to hackers' particularly, and as it's a hot news topic there are many other and better places to discuss the issues.
Recently i've been interested in buying a noise cancelling headphones. There's the new bose quietcomfort 20i, which are claimed at least by some reviewers to almost cancel talking sound.

Assuming they work well, since they are controlled using software, it might open the way to a more "programmable" noise environment. For example you could set them to hear only the team members you want at any given time, thus giving you the best of both worlds.
Previously on Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7905556
All of these open-ended topic-based "social networks" feel like a variation on the classic XKCD Standards comic: http://xkcd.com/927/
There was certainly a transition from 5:4 to widescreen displays in the 2000s, with nearly everyone but Apple opting for 16:9. I don't recall any mass adoption of 16:10 followed by a mass migration to 16:9 in the last decade, which is what you're stating happened.

If Apple is moving from 16:10 to 16:9, then that would indeed be a very recent development. If this is the case, it would be kind of sad to me (I prefer a bit more vertical space), but understandable given the economics of the panel business.
Except the software running a tank.

I write software that runs on tanks

Ha! Only on HN...
Chris Hedges Interviews Noam Chomsky (1/3)
As good as they come: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

Also: http://bugherd.com/blog/get-started-on-search-engine-optimis...
Single Founders or Co-Founders?
Hi,

One of those who found the light. Some suggestions from my experience

1. This is a temporary phase. It will take time, but you will get over it, get better, and feel a lot better. Hold on, with hope. You will have someone nice to go home to and have your own children. She was not the last person on Earth. If not her then there will be someone else.

2. Get professional help. Please, get professional help. Go to a psychiatrist and follow their advise. Its normal. Everyone does it. And it works.

3. Don't go public with how you are feeling at your workplace. If you are not performing your best, that's OK.

4. Keep your job. At least until you have already found another one. It is one of the things forcing you to go through your daily routine and giving you an opportunity to interact with other human beings.

5. Its ok to grieve. Its part of being healed.
You are already doing the right things by asking for help. Hang in there and you will find a purpose which will get you back on track.

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Agreed. It's also a question of complexity. Xen (for example) has a significantly smaller attack surface than the linux kernel because it just has less stuff to do
I agree with the general tenor of this comment, but the idea that you need a "citation" is misplaced. The common practise of "scalping" was widespread (although not uniformly) and this is documented in various places. The speculation on the origin of what is essentially a slang word is speculative regarless of what side of the debate you want to argue--thus citation is irrelevant. Conversely, there was certainly an origin of the term, and lack of citation doesn't support the term never had an origin (correctly understood or otherwise).

A variation of "Red-skin" also appears in the French Language (something there is no data to support Native Americans would have objected to, presumably). Again, this is neither here nor there in that french speaking canadiens would have been in contact with all manner of native americans, including those among which 'scalping' took place (in terms of geographic an time period overlap etc).

editL

Just a cut-n-paste but might be helpful for some folks to baseline:

Redskin...had not emerged first in English or any European language. The English term, in fact, derived from Native American phrases involving the color red in combination with terms for flesh, skin, and man. These phrases were part of a racial vocabulary that Indians often used to designate themselves in opposition to others whom they (like the Europeans) called black, white, and so on.

But the language into which those terms for Indians were first translated <was French>. The tribes among whom the proto forms of redskin first appeared lived in the area of the upper Mississippi River called Illinois country. Their extensive contact with French-speaking colonists, before the French pulled out of North America, led to these phrases being translated, in the 1760s, more or less literally as peau-rouge and only then into English as redskin. It bears mentioning that many such translators were mixed-blood Indians.

So the original term in the west was "peau-rouge" and this can be see in various french-language citations if needed--including news reports. How and why this was used as slang in English is another question all together, and how or why it ended up as a mascot (like braves, warriors, spartans etc) another question again.
How We Use Data At AnyPerk (YC W12)
Wait, what, chlorine-rinsed chicken?
Chromebook to TV, it shows my board which is kinda homebrew. Plunged in GA, intercom, slack.
If the Fed Circuit reverses, it might be on the evidence, but that is a higher standard for reversal.
I always liked this song, which is relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uUiCL3QzpU
In Ireland, you can now buy laptops preloaded with KDE.
Learning from MySpace
No WYSIWYG. Virtually all raw HTML.

Treehouse was decent when it launched, and I imagine it's improved a solid amount by now.

If you're coming from a development background, you'll do fine.

If you're building true front-end apps, you're going to want to look at Angular or Node.

If the back-end does the heavy lifting, they become less important.
You get used to it - plus unavoidable in some cases (travelling staff plus office with "hotchair" open office seating for those not travelling at the moment). I find that as long as I'm allowed to use earphones I can block things out sufficiently.
Author here. This project uses jclouds to provision VMs in a cloud, installs Docker on them and then deploys an application across those VMs in Docker containers. There's a more detailed post on my blog as well:

- http://abstractvisitorpattern.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/clocker...
I'm thinking the joke is that, since the software runs inside the tank, which itself is bulletproof, the software is literally bulletproof since you can't shoot it with a bullet.
Quite a challenge by the sound of it, their solution is to precalculate the resolved constraints for various different screen sizes.
Twitter now supports GIFs
Is MSFT's paid blog program really "layers of stupid"?
Hey guys, Rohan here Founder and CEO of BIZZBY, we run a mobile-first on-demand services model.

We don't give users choices simply allocate the best (algorithmically based on factors we are tweaking regularly like, hours online, job acceptance rates, reputation score, jobs completed and proximity to job etc.) within seconds where the professional also accepts in real-time.

End result is that within 10 seconds you're done and 60 mins later that professional turns up. No thinking.

Our supply base is vetted and curated not a random neighbour.

This model is very different to the open aggregation type marketplaces. The secret source is heavy on the supply logistics / operations and on boarding as well as scaling with quality at a reasonable rate side.

The more mobile the world goes, anything that takes longer than a phone call or more than a few seconds is a waste of time.
Well Musk, unlike those people in the 60's, seems to deliver on their promises.
We're in a Bubble
This is probably not the right forum to approach you in, but is there any chance you would be able to take a few questions from me either here or by e-mail? I am a dual citizen (but I have never lived in the country) and am so afraid of doing something wrong with regards to US tax obligations. I am especially worried that I would accidentally make myself liable by simply owning my home or having a savings account in my native country.

I realize your job is to handle these things, and I am not in any way trying to say "can you please answer some questions for free so I don't have to hire you later on" - I'm just a regular guy with a regular income and a regular life in another country who happens to have been born to a US citizen a long time ago. I cannot in any way afford to consult with an international tax attorney.

Feel free to ignore this random stranger asking for advice using a throwaway account :-)
Sketch Dockpreview – Preview your artboard in the Dock using Sketch
This sounds reasonable - but can you provide a source?

Also, are you talking about federal taxes or california taxes?
Because VOIP data isn't any different than any other data?
It is supposed to be a more enlightened crowd. If I wanted inane comments from only marginally-skilled people I'd read comments on reddit.
Yep, mine is off as well. It says Australia/Netherlands is 15 minutes in (right now it's 57 minutes in)
In a similar vein, here's a silicon-level reverse engineering of the overflow bit logic on the 6502. Fascinating stuff.

http://www.righto.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-expl...

Side note: these two pages use very similar diagram colors. I wonder if there's a common source (textbook?) that both authors read that used those colors.
People need to to re-evaluate their personal security and convenience protocols.

I consciously consider whether to use a credit card in some venues, because I'm aware that many businesses have significant security lapses and often simply no understanding of the problems, much less motivation to tackle them.

In most situations, you can still pay in cash.

As a side-benefit, with cash you aren't directly giving the "vampire squid" of Big Finance its 3 or 5 or whatever percent... "tithe", I guess I would call it, these days.

(And as for debit cards... unless you are forced to use one, as an end-user why would you forgo the additional protections a credit card offers and take on the risk of a direct route to your personal assets?)

I suggest keeping a few $20's in your wallet and paying for things such as Chang's in cash. I'd rather lose $100 in cash, than deal with a breach of my account security.

I recognize that my thinking at this point doesn't encompass what happens to risk if and when we all start carrying more cash around, again, and become as a group sweeter targets for random robbery.

I also don't haul out an obviously loaded wallet or money clip, when paying. No point in "waving" that cash about and thus standing out of the crowd.
Show HN: Queby, your personalized job stream.
I like Terence McKenna's take on spirituality. It's a personal endeavor. All institutions infringe on freedom and autonomy.

The leaders of the institutions are the beneficiaries of controlling the "channel" to communing with Existence or "God".

Now that we have the internet & relative democratization of information, it is more obvious that we can easily live a spiritual life without institutions or having to follow a prescribed path. We can (and most benefit from) follow our own individual path, uncontrolled by others.
This article is enlightening but offers no solutions or advices. Why had I read that?
Prediction model for the FIFA World Cup 2014
My litmus test for an open office fanboy manager is whether he too works in the open office. Usually not in my experience.

Funny that...
Obviously you haven't been in a while. Nowadays they have the SUICA card tap and go that negotiates payments for you.

It does stop running, but Tokyo doesn't. That's why capsule hotels and suitcase lockers.
Inspire is not quite the word I would use, I think. The reason so much was done on the 386 is because Intel finally dropped that god-awful segmented addressing in favor of a flat memory model. In addition, protected mode became actually useful and was necessary for a Unix-like OS to be created (where you have multitasking and protected sections of RAM). Doom was also a killer-app for the 386.
We’ve just opened up our public beta, and while we’re very much still early in our process, I am excited to show it to everyone, get comments, and hopefully get people using it.
Asia is a Gold Mine for Android App Developers and Here's Why
Sending smoke signals is worthy of a million.
Why isn't Twitter or Facebook or Gmail a common carrier? They only provide the "means of communication". The "content of communication" is created by the users. Many internet companies seem to want to have it both ways. If someone tweets a bomb threat, Twitter will claim it is only the means for communication. If an ISP throttles Twitter's bandwidth, it will claim the ISP is the means and Twitter is the content. My point is just that the content vs means comparison is a very gray area in the age of the internet.
believing in some magic "invisible hand of the market" to always bring the best results sounds kind of cultish.
I was really sympathetic to the distractions caused by an open plan office. I saw the statistics that people get sick more often. I knew it would be annoying to have it potentially be really loud (or have everyone need to be quiet to keep it not loud). My company's new office is going to be open plan, though. Why? Because an office costs about $15k to build. We're already spending six figures on construction (ha ha biotech) and there was just no economically reasonable way around an open plan office.

I think the real reason many offices are open plan now is simply that it's much, much cheaper. The rest are kind of just-so stories, for or against. Interior designers will come up with these justifications when prompted but really I think it's that the people who actually get to make the decisions look at the general contractor estimates and say, "okay open plan it is."
As a guy who's making the transition between newbie freelancer and professional go-to guy, here are some things that worked for me:

1. Prove to yourself that you can deliver by building at least one site that you're happy with.

2. Go for the most popular language that you know. PHP, Python, Ruby, and Java are good starting points.

3. No one's going to come to your house to offer you a job. Go out there and market yourself. Every month there's a freelancer thread on Hacker News. Post there.

4. How much you should be getting depends heavily on your level of skill, and your location. But it's definitely going to be more than $12/hr, easily. I highly recommend charging per project, instead of per hour.
I saw something like this not too long ago. Quite a lot of potential applications for it, and not many of them good.
The problem here is not that 'good content' is not going to be found, it seems to be that in spaces where there is a ton of competition that the competitors are all in some kind of state where they all feel they and they alone have a right to be the ones to engage with the searchers on topic 'x'.

I highly doubt that in the use-case that you envision (which is indeed not one that I had in mind when reading the comment above) where you are providing to the point information about something you care about you'll find that your information gets drowned out by content that has been SEO'd to the hilt. But even if that were the case I'd blame the SEO guys, not the search engine.

Remember how altavista was spammed to death with on-page trickery and google came and it all suddenly was much better. At the time we did not realize that this would come at the price of the destruction of what made the web great, the links that would lead you from one place to another.

The fact that google is a monopoly is our collective problem, not google's, it's only a monopoly because we let them and because - for now - they are still the best way to get to relevant content.

The thing that could happen in your use-case is that someone would end up finding their information somewhere else or that they would engage with someone else. The only case where there would be a loss to them (your hypothetical visitor) is if they would not engage with anybody at all. But that can't really be true since we're theorizing here from the point of view where there is a glut of relevant content competing for a limited number of slots and then regardless of what the criteria are some of those sites will simply miss out on potential visitors.

The only real worry I have here is that the users would not find any relevant content or places to engage at all. And that's far from being proven.

Google does not have an obligation to the common good other than an ethical and a moral one, a real obligation is a legal one and I - in spite of being fairly harshly critical of google on lots of fronts - have no doubt that if they could solve the spam problem in an effective way would not need any prodding at all to go and do that immediately.

Demanding they do better is tantamount to dictating that an advance in technology be made, maybe the problem is harder than it seems?
"If you care about how your room feels, let me tell you: it feels a lot better with an iMac instead of some ugly 3rd party monitor..."

Agreed. You'll see a lot of iMacs at design-conscious shops like art galleries and boutiques, and in architects' homes. These applications/people have different objective functions than many HN readers.
It should be noted that Yo has the Snapchat-esque we-cater-to-teens UI and UX that other apps like Tinder and Slingshot have adopted. (bright pastel colors, whimsical fonts, app incredibly unintuitive to navigate due to excessive minimalism, etc.)

I'm beginning to think you could make literally any kind of app with that kind of paradigm and get funding.
Apple's only puts touchscreens on devices that run iOS.

Touchscreens on computers running desktop OSes can be useful, but they're also pretty deeply compromised due to the "gorilla arm" effect and the fact that the UI is just not designed for it. That's fine for some people and companies but it's not how Apple does things.
I see your point and you are unusually well qualified to point out the legal slippery slope upon which reclassification would put the broadband industry, but I feel the need to point out that Universal Service Fund fees do not represent very large sums of money in practice. Personally I've never been bothered by paying a few $ a month for this (I think they total up to about $3/mo), even at times when I've struggled to pay the bills.

In general I prefer market solutions, but perfect competition isn't a good model for infrastructure, for a whole host of reasons.
I used to work in an Apple Store. People would constantly touch the iMac screens. It got much worse after iPads were all over the place.

You are not alone :o)