skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (what if they cherish Michael Bolton????)

I can only imagine you'd have to kill them with the soup spoon to save yourself.
That's because being a generalist consumer-facing product, Google is a recall-oriented rather than precision-oriented, which means that it is in their best interest to never have their users in front of a blank page, even if it means having less relevant results in the front page.

> They do understand that people want less - but more relevant - results, instead of just having more useless ones

I would argue that since they have access to their data and they do not do anything without having data supporting the change, they would know better what people want. You and I may very well just not be in their main demographics.
Last Opera release for linux was 12.16. That's about 12 skipped updates (I just assume, I'm not familiar with the actual opera versioning) and that's unacceptable. What guarantee does Opera give me that this won't happen again and I won't be stuck with outdated browser for a year?
In my country, if you don't take proper care of your kids, the state will take them away from you. But there is social welfare, so you will get money if you don't have a job.

If parents are unable psychologically to take care of their kids, I suppose the state should step in. If it is just money woes, I am not so sure. Especially as it might be cheaper to give money to parents than to finance foster homes (I don't know). I also don't trust that foster homes generally provide good care for children. I suppose some do, but it seems difficult to assess, so there are probably a lot of bad apples. You can't make people love a kid - caregivers in foster homes are being paid to take care of the kids, but maybe they won't be able to provide some crucial things like love.
You'd be amazed at how much of the world isn't a dense urban environment.
Amazon's basic business model is not focused on surveillance or putting all your data in the cloud or vendor lock in.

While we could debate what "basic business models" means, Amazon more than anyone wants to understand your life in hopes of selling you everything you might ever want. That is their business. They have as great a motivation to try to mine your existence than the other companies.
Then they should call it Opera 3.24, or -1 and count backwards from hereon.
NetBlocks has launched wireless module which can achieve over 12km distance
NetBlocks has launched crowdfunding campaign XRange wireless module which can achieve over 12km communication. Visit the us at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/xrange-extreme-long-range-wireless-module-for-868-or-915-mhz/x/7938980
More details about the project at http://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/xrange-with-sx1272/
All that said, I've just been reviewing some code written by fellow not-in-their-20s engineers here and I think I'm going to have to go and vomit somewhere.

Maybe it's just fair to say that age can season, temper and improve a good engineer. It doesn't with all of them.
It is becoming far more common, especially in the 12-18 months. Not much in Asia yet though on this front.
Nice .. I wrote a similar app, a "Fall Detector", which allows you to send an SMS (or Twitter alert) if the app detects you have fallen over:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.spantec.sec...

Seems like it would also be useful to have some mechanism like this in such an "emergency app", so that operator interaction is not required - more of a dead man switch than a big fat button ..
A foreign journalist working for a news organisation with a pretty good reputation. Generally that's news wherever it happens in the world.
I haven't been following what has happened in Egypt. I now know it has become a place where foreign journalists working for Al-Jazeera are sentenced to prison when those in power don't like the reported stories. I'm sure there's a lot more nuance than that and it's a view through a straw at the country but it's not a good sign for Egypt. From spring straight to winter?
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This has been extremely fascinating reading about job titles. I'll never understand why people care about them.
I bet the software will start to resemble an actual engineering, not like our Moore's law era where the hardware capabilities expanded too fast and the software programmers got a lot of rope for too cheap of a price to value it properly! ...and that the number of cores in a processing unit being close to the number of neurons in a brain maybe?
I kinda miss old days of the web with very few login walls. I never login with my facebook, sometime I do with google.

To register and try your product I need to see the demo. Period. Please, do not spam me with newsletters and marketing emails.
Could be a good solution for projects with high volume of Russian visitors: access to many cloudflare servers is restricted by great fucking russian firewall.
Poul Anderson's The Man Who Came Early (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early) is a lovely, short exploration of this idea. Full text available at http://www.classicly.com/poul-william-anderson/the-man-who-c....
I've seen that some people have success with getting accountability partners. You meet once a week, review progress on goals from the last week, set 3 goals for the next week and keep on going.

Now, where to find such partners - that can be a matter of networking, but online communities such as http://www.reddit.com/r/mentors/ can certainly help.

You could have a look at the various entrepreneurial schools and their communities, recently I've stumbled upon http://www.morningcoach.com/ ... I have no idea what it is and how it works but there are some interesting testimonials online (I believe not faked), etc.
Is the thing still being developed?
Opera’s Chromium-based Web browser is now available on Linux
Ahh, already read it long long time ago. Great advice though!
So how many people's lives were saved by this coverage and condemnation, that's the real question.

I don't think some country's ruler gives a damn about coverage and condemnation, as long as it stops there.
Opera switched from their own engine, Presto, to using Chrome's Blink engine. They probably won't be switching engines again any time soon.
LuaJIT certainly doesn't at this point; not sure whether torch uses some libraries that do...
Ask HN: A way to turn any table into graphic tablet?
Hi, hackers. Artists all over the world use graphic tablets like Wacom to draw pictures. Is there a technical way to achieve this without touch enabled surface? One might think about some smart pen capable to track pressure, but I've not found any. Thanks.
I try to sympathize with reasonable cyclists like you, but I can't help but think of it as swimming with sharks and complaining about it being dangerous. Humans aren't designed to live in the ocean. Roads (the ocean) are filled with cars (sharks). People who swim with sharks do so in cages (cars). Forego the cage at your own risk.

A more reasonable solution, as strange as it might seem, would be to have elevated or underground bike tunnels. Cars and bikes SHOULD be completely separated. Trying to cram them into the same space is asking for trouble.
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Google's Maps platform is very good and HERE, at least in western markets, is not as good. As with Apple Maps, it works, mostly, but the gap is clear and there is no roadmap that points to that gap closing.
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Can anyone with some relevant expertise experience comment on this? From a data perspective HERE/Navteq seems as good as if not better than google data in my locale.

I wonder if article is referring to the lack of "add-on" feature parity?
Which part exactly doesn't make sense? Illuminate me why cycling should work in the vast majority of the world and why cars don't? Because apparently everybody outside of the Northwest Coast of the U.S. and the Netherlands must be idiots and morons who are simply overlooking a hassle-free and convenient utopia because they've been tricked by the big car and oil companies to prefer to get most places in the faster, lower effort, climate controlled and more convenient alternative.

Oh I'm sorry, this is apparently a religious issue and faith with get me over all practical issues.
My first taught was will this be the new source of dead links on the internet like url shorteners.

Then again we're developers and we can put some libraries on the server as well in case the service dies so as long as we don't rely on them exclusively it's all good.
With respect I disagree. The most metallic of tinpot despots still believes themselves to be righteous and want to be loved and admired. Amnesty International's experience is that such rulers care sufficiently when a bunch of ordinary people write them letters for that to be a worthwhile thing to do in support of political prisoners. Worthwhile along useful dimensions like stopping torture and so on.
I smell scam or cult.

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Processor R-2022, 64 Ghz of
quantic memory, micro-friction
hydraulique welding

Can someone explain what quantic memory is ?
"When a company called PayScale recently surveyed the country’s 32 most successful tech companies, it found that just six of them had a median age over 35. (The median age at Facebook, Google, Zynga, AOL, and Zynga was 30 years or younger.) By contrast, the median age for all workers in the U.S. economy is 42 years."

Given that such an article is going to be dominated by anecdotes (which are interesting and sometimes entertaining, but very seldom illuminating broader trends. People often think whatever lot they are in is universal, and that what misfortunes or difficulties they face are always unfair externals), I looked for data and this was the best it had. It's a pretty common proof.

Only the 32 most successful tech companies have gone through generally enormous expansion. Most of them draw primarily from new grads, not least because such recruiting is easy: New grads are available, and are willing to relocate wherever you want them. Established workers are less likely to be interested, and often dramatically less likely to want to relocate.

If you simply polled tech workers across the US who were willing to relocate any distance, much less thousands of miles, the average age would similarly be very low.

I'm surprised the age difference wasn't much larger, to be honest.
On the bright side, the quality of paywall-free website has quite improved since.
Precisely. I just tried this out.

+ It opened all the tabs from my Opera 12 session
- It lost all my tab groups: seems it doesn't support them
- It ate up RAM to the point I had trouble moving my mouse cursor

I, too, still use Opera 12 everywhere it's still usable, and Chromium for the rest.

I don't need a Chromium replacement. I need an Opera replacement, preferably with all the shiny new features (in terms of compatibility, standards support and performance) that Chromium has. Opera 12 isn't perfect, but if it had been in development for the period of releases 12-24, it certainly would be the only browser I'd need to use.

It's a shame Opera themselves can't be motivated build a worthy upgrade to their own browser. Without Presto, and the same innovative spirit that brought us tabs, speed dial, mouse gestures, Opera Link, etc., etc., what exactly is their USP?
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My experience may not be universal, but I bet it's statistically normal, or even slightly better for cycling than most places. Yet it's still a terrible alternative. The mystery of why more people don't cycle is pretty simple, it's not really viable in most of the world.
I jumped ship around the time 12 came out. All I remember is that despite all the cool features and my general love of the browser, the one thing it didn't seem to do well was browse a number of popular websites that I would frequent. That was the deal killer for me. What good is a browser that can't browse?
Sure. We can't have one-kind-fits-all solutions. Which is appropriate in the context of a discussion about adding bike lanes to dense urban environments mostly designed for cars.
Politics in Hacker News? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"It's hard to find good people to hire"

Oh, come on! Where is this myth coming from? I don't know about USA, but here in London there is an over-abundance of IT workforce (what else would justify the sub £60k senior dev job offers).
On any regular lookup, that data will be included in the glue records from the parent zone.
Well my point here kind of is: most people agree with you. But if you do the website fully without login wall , don't bother putting in an optional login. People like it better without anyway.
Looks so much nicer than plain RGB cube.

I wonder though whether NumPy wouldn't have been a possible alternative.
No, it means built with a modern stack (MEAN instead of LAMP). It means WebRTC videocalls, integrated chat, real-time events (notifications, messages, etc...), github integration, optional redis back-end, karma and rep system, a growing plugin ecosystem, etc... and all FOSS.

I've been following these guys since the start and I think they have done a pretty good and refreshing job. They share some features with discourse and vanilla forums because they are the 3 competitors fighting for the modern BB software cup...

BB has been quite stagnated for decades, it is actually nice to see some "innovation" from all these projects.
Magzter.com, Leading online newstand, stores the password in plain text
I am asking you why you _think_ it is important. I am not really interested in "beliefs".

Technically, asking someone why they think <anything>, is asking about their believes. Does that seem logical to you?
I think we're just talking around one another. I don't understand how your criticisms are anything besides style, I suppose. If you dislike LC and distrust the mechanics of CT then of course a paper which uses CT to unify LC with math and physics won't float your boat—but it's still perfectly cromulent.
This is a big story because the death sentence sends a message to the world that foreign journalists risk their life just for reporting the news in Egypt. It suggests that Egypt is heading towards a closed, non-democratic future and could pose a significant risk to other countries.

This piece is from an Aussie news site, so obviously it will highlight that the journo was Australian. But the bigger story is that - despite the revolution - Egypt is still a long way from being open and free.

Also as an aside, it also sends a big message to the business world: "Don't invest in Egypt - it's not safe for foreigners."

Egypt is a beautiful country with great people. I hope they can overcome this.
I dismissed Quora at first as a scammy/suspicious website after I arrived at a question there via Google and was afterwards required to login in order to see the answers.

Later I registered and saw that it's a really good website with quality content, but my first impression was not very good, precisely because of the obnoxious login wall.
I'd still pay most of those things because I still have to own a car and taxes. At 35mpg, how often do you think I have to worry about gas?

Peddling to work only eliminates the mild inconvenience of filling up my tank once every 2.5 weeks or so.
Are you hiring programmer or drinking buddy? I would expect him to read blogs/news sites related to technology he used in past, because it basically means he educates himself about technology he uses.

Other than that, he can read what he please. I have no reason to care whether his knowledge came from business book, programming book, Joels blog, random browsing or coursera videos, as long as that knowledge is solid (relatively to position he is taking).

There is nothing awkward about dinner conversation with a person with different preferences, unless you lived in mono-culture whole your life. Politely state that you do not like Michael Bolton and optionally specify what you like. For some reason, people always managed to find things to talk about, even as hiring managers did not cared about leisure time readings or movie preferences.

And seriously, most of your time together should be spend working, not chatting about music. If startups really focus on dinner conversations more then on product and sales, then they are as dysfunctional as big bad corporations.

I admit that there are types of personalities I had hard time to work with, but the problem was not in us reading different blogs nor using different programming language nor movies nor music.
Australia, on the other hand, is 'open for business'
It's a teasing website for a facebook experience, so nothing really real, all terms are fake.
Also, quantic memory is a reference to qubit
Good thing you didn't read my main comment and decided to get your religion offended instead.
The "about" page in Opera 12 lists a lot of 3rd party stuff so even though a lot of that stuff is open source software it seems unlikely they would be able to open source everything.
I am interested. But would like to know more details about it, like how long and what the person wanna learn etc.
re: the name - unsure if you realise or not, but 'blitzortung' is German for "lightning location (or locating)" :-)
Unity 8 uses QML for the shell itself but the applications will still be in GTK. And Lubuntu pushed back shipping LXQT until at least 15.04.
I'd be interested in seeing how Google Cloud DNS ranks and how it's performance changes over time.

https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/

sue.ns.cloudflare.com and theo.ns.cloudflare.com are below 2ms

ns1.google.com (through ns4) are 32ms I'm not sure if this is using their Cloud DNS service.

Does this change significantly throughout the day? On the main chart page it says Cloudflare averages 32ms.
It was big in the media in Aus and the UK, but no real reason for it to be in the US. Radio prank calls are always painfully unfunny and usually humiliating. In this case the humiliation hit a person who was mentally ill and stressed.

The fallout here in Australia was utterly predictable; contrite and teary disc jockeys, people baying for their blood, current affairs shows doing segments left, right, and center. Equally predictably, the hospital was trying to shift responsibility for improperly managing patient privacy.

The annoying thing is that it took someone's death to show just how humiliating and terrifying being on the receiving end of these things is.
Was it Albatross flavour?
"the term first appeared on Twitter on January 2, 2014 at 11:19pm EST" :/
I still haven't been there for the same reason.
I am still at the first step of this process ! I always assume I'll find the answer somewhere else anyway, which so far has always been the case.
Since Google does not have vast majority (more than 90%) market share in the US and it is possible to do geo-location based advertising (location based on IP information is largely accurate), they were able to test it out. Well, this shows that being a monopoly helps a lot with monetization when there are few technical possibilities to test . The slate article puts it very nicely. "Art was far more profitable than science."
Protip: append ?share=1 to the URL.
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They stem mostly from not being able to read anonymously, and from the concern of DRM and the potential issues with Amazon being able to revoke the Kindle books you purchase.

Everything else apart, while this is a reasonable concern, it is also an addressable concern.

The Amazon DRM is weak, known and can be decrypted. It take minimal research to set this up, and then circumvention is merely a click away.

This means that while Amazon some time in the future can revoke your access to purchases you've made for whatever reason (even though I doubt they will), they cannot revoke you from using the DRM-free copies you've created once you've stripped the DRM from your original purchases.
"Just automating Max Martin really."

Can I invest?! The returns on that one would be phenomenal...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
How sophisticated is click-tracking these days? Is a click on an advertising link always billed, or are there other qualifying criteria in play? I ask because the only time I ever click on an ad link is by mistake (typically when Safari is busy jiggling about with the page layout so that my finger hits the wrong target), and wonder if this is actually costing the company concerned.
Haha.. let's not go down the rabbit hole of Australia's current political situation.
You can add ?share=1 to their question URLS and read all the answers without logging in. I've used it quite a bit since I don't even enjoy logging into a site let alone signing up.
Wow, the Alps appear to be going through the apocalypse.
I switched about a year ago now (from Google Apps), and very happy with the email service. However this and 'contact sync' (coming soon) will make it a very real possibility for a lot more people. Well done fastmail! At the moment I still have my calendar with iCloud, contacts with Google and email with FastMail.
ITT: people who did not read the post and are talking only about its title.
I find this an interesting challenge: I tried to think of whether there is any way to turn this into a profitable and ethical business opportunity, but couldn't. Can anybody?

By ethical I mean you don't try to drop catch the domains and sell them back (that's illegal I believe, even if you only ask for a small payment?).

Presumably you can't be a good Samaritan that monitors and makes an effort to contact sites that are near to losing their domains -- they'd have no incentive to pay you anything because there is no existing relationship, and they can renew the domain without your involvement.

Alternatively, as soon as you attempt to build a model that establishes such a relationship, your model is doomed to fail for the same reason you want your business to exist: if the company owning the domain can't keep on top of paying the domain, why would they keep on top of paying you? If they had the foresight to pay you, wouldn't they have the foresight to ensure the domain renewals get handled?

Is there a workable model? Or perhaps I'm overly critical; maybe there really is value in a business that double-checks things like this for you, maybe you could cold-email business and sell such a service?
Looked at Turbulenz[0]? They’re high-level enough that not only do you get graphics, sound and input APIs but also the ability to publish to their portal (not required, but maybe useful?), trophies, analytics etc. The use Collada for importing models, but it looks like Blender can export that[1].

[0] http://biz.turbulenz.com/developers

[1] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Data_System...
Vertical takeoff, vertical landing rocket simulation in JavaScript and WebGL
What is up with the downvoting of perfectly reasonable comments like this? Is there some anti-car mafia on this thread?
Agreed, especially a third party provide of javascript! It would be absolutely trivial for them to inject highly invasive tracking code into your site, or worse.

I'm not saying they will, but really it doesn't make sense to take the risk.
the users who remain silent are not too lazy to ask for something more, they just don't want anything

Or maybe they just give up without trying as they do not expect you to do much for a minority of the users. It's also possible that they give up and leave, becoming non-users.
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Correct. That's how they intend to make money, but self-hosted is free..