skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Now that it's commercially convenient for them they have betrayed this value"

That's a 100% FALSE statement.

In what way have they betrayed the open-internet initiative? They helped start both internal and external organizations to support the initiative.

How would it benefit Google to have a more restricted internet?

Now that the issue is mainstream maybe they've determined that the "right" outcome will prevail, they only have so many resources, at some point they have to start dedicating resources towards other initiatives and projects.

https://www.google.com/takeaction/

https://www.google.com/intl/en/takeaction/whats-at-stake/

http://www.google.com/publicpolicy/issues/internet-access.ht...

From the link above:

"Google is a strong supporter of an open Internet."

"The Internet was built and has thrived as an open platform, where individuals and entrepreneurs can connect and interact, choose marketplace winners and losers, and create new services and content on a level playing field."

"One of Google’s top policy priorities is spurring the availability and uptake of affordable, open broadband Internet service."

"Broadband-based Internet providers should not be permitted to discriminate against, or in favor of, certain services, applications, or viewpoints on the Web."
I heard it said (paraphrasing) that jazz stopped moving forward when Miles Davis wasn't around to push it.

Obviously that's not strictly true, and wouldn't apply to other styles of music, but I think the sentiment is true. Some of it was counterculture as you mentioned; some wasn't necessarily "counterculture", but was more experimental, striving to go further down the same path. But however you term it, it seems to me that a lot of music has grown stagnate out of repeating known formulas instead of exploring.

Considering jazz again, there's a lot of "new" music categorized as, say, "neo bop". Would Diz and Bird have been doing "neo bop"? I doubt it. They were trying new things. I don't suspect they were particularly attached to bop music per se, but they wanted to push the boundaries -- take swing music and see what new things they could do with it. To me, most "neo" anything sounds about as bland as you'd expect; rehashing old ideas without the creative energy that made those old ideas work in the first place.

I sometimes find new music that I really like, but I mostly listen to the same music I was listening to ten years ago. And a lot of that was old even then.
Sure, feel free to use it.

Another item I was curious about is how it would look at different screen sizes. The current Hacker News scales reasonably well down to phone size, but could easily be improved upon with a little white-space below each story.
I've switched to http://hn.premii.com/ on mobile. Give it a try.
Hello ECMA-408, the new official Dart Programming Language Specification …
As a matter of fact, I hope you get bought by github because this would be the most brilliant addition to it since the invention of github itself. Turning it into a code intelligence tool makes it 100^99 times more powerful.
Actually it is a pretty dirty hack -- it seems ok because the flat design is currently popular. But quite likely gradients and shadows will come back in a few years and then few single-color layers won't be enough.
Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?
I'm an IT guy (CompSci MSc) who's been doing system architecture and devops work for the past four years (C++/Java, running herd on VMs, enforcing code reviews, etc.) and who'd like to work remotely (for family reasons). Seeing as there are always a bunch of US-based offerings on HN, I thought I'd try asking about opportunities in Europe (preferably Southern/Western Europe, since I'd like to hop on a plane occasionally to touch base with an actual office).
I'm glad you found my talk and that panel useful!

We will have Ruby support back in soon, hopefully this week. I'll email you when it's in to get your feedback.

As for integrating it into your workflow, the new improvements we pushed today make it much faster and easier to use Sourcegraph to find docs and examples. In a lot of cases, Sourcegraph will give you the docs or examples you want faster than a Google search. (And often Sourcegraph , because it actually analyzes code, will have examples that you can't find anywhere else.)

But we still have a lot of work to do, and it'd be great to hear your feedback on when Sourcegraph works well for you and when it doesn't.
114 million visitors, 5 billion pages – community management at Reddit
Thanks for the links! I think the article assumes a passing familiarity with all that history. It is in line with the Economist's style in general, and is really a necessity for them to provide their type of content without every issue becoming a history primer. Although a "background material" section would be pretty neat for them to include.
Hi ahsanhilal, I don't think I can see your email on your profile. You can contact me at mike(at)scoreportal.org
I think the most important use of a blood test wouldn't be for patients, but for researchers. If you can predict 90% of a cohort will develop Alzheimer's, you can do much smaller, more powerful trials on interventions.
One of the things that needs to die is bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8

So yeah, loud bass sounds cool. Some interesting stuff was done with it fifteen or twenty years ago: hip hop, drum and bass, etc. Dubstep was one of those things that should have been a little micro-trend but somehow got super-popular because bass, man! It must have some kind of psychological effect or something, but once you get past that it's really boring.

Bass is kind of like spice. It can be used to make food more interesting, but it can also be used to cover up food that tastes like crap by overpowering it with hot sauce.

I agree-- nobody's trying. Nobody's really pushing the envelope. I think it mirrors what we're seeing in other areas: lots of lame apps instead of tackling hard problems, etc. We're in this weird gilded age depression-ish thing where there's lots of money sloshing around chasing not much in particular.
I would would recommend X3: Terrain Conflict. There's much more to it than Tie Fighter or X-Wing though (but can arrange massive battles like either one). I loved the LucasArts Space sims, but X3 has been as good of substitute as I have been able to find. You not only get to fly fighter craft, but also command capital ships as well as buy/sell upgrades. It's sort of a Sandbox RPG space sim that also has a storyline if you want to follow that.

X series games also have tons of mods out for them. I know there was at least a major Battlestar Galactica one that was well done and would have to double check, but there could be a Star Wars Universe one as well.
> The problem with languages that have null is that they don't let you write non-nullable types.

That's a problem with Java (because it doesn't let you do that) and a similar problem exists with dynamic languages (because types aren't attributes of variables, so any variable could be null -- or any other value, null isn't particularly exceptional in dynamic languages for being a source of this kind of problem), but its not a problem "with languages that have null", as there are statically typed languages that have null but distinguish nullable and non-nullable types (C# and other static .NET languages are probably the most well-known examples, though there are others.)
Best joke would be if Neuer runs forward and scores a goal.
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> 10 year certificates

Really browsers should just discard anything that isn't a root CA and expires more than two years from now as a matter of principle. Consider the consequences of issuing a certificate that far out on domain ownership transfers: Facebook bought facebook.com in 2005. The previous owner could still have a signed certificate for it.
Quoting Google's marketing just proves the point about their duplicity. How do you account for them joining with Verizon to lobby against network neutrality?

A more restricted internet would benefit Google because they have huge capacity of their own and very deep pockets to buy priority where necessary, so they would be further protected against competition and their own products would be advantaged.
I went to the comments to say the exact same thing... it is completely illegible and for being a "designer" / UX expert, it makes me think that the author doesn't know what he is doing.
Yeah, Omniref is really cool. We're going to release our Ruby analyzer soon as a standalone open-source tool. If you are interested in using it to get semantically annotated code on Omniref, let me know (we'd prioritize Ruby over some of the other language analyzers we are also going to release).
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I'm curious, have you found the ability to write 50 word summaries in under 30 seconds to be a useful skill later in life?

It sounds like good practice in concise communication.
The article looks back at the rich Arab intellectual tradition of the Middle Ages, and the question of what happened is intriguing indeed. I heard a fascinating interview with Robert R. Reilly, the author of _The Closing of the Muslim Mind_[1], and I think his book could be a significant contribution to understanding this problem. Here is what I remember from the interview:

The issue of how God interacts with the created world was an open question in the Middle Ages. Everyone agreed that God was the creator and sovereign Lord of the universe, but there were differing views about how that played out.

One school of thought had the concepts of primary and secondary causality. God is responsible for the existence of all things; he is the primary cause. However, God gives created things the power of causality so that they are secondary causes. Therefore a billiard ball has the "power" to cause other billiard balls to move when it strikes them. These powers of secondary causality are properties of created things and thus they can be studied and understood. Such a belief led to early forms of scientific inquiry.

The other school of thought was that God is the direct and only cause of everything that happens. Secondary causality is just an illusion. God directly moves all of the billiard balls. Just because billiard ball B starts to move after ball A comes into contact with it does not mean A was the cause of B's movement. Rather, God is the cause of all movement. It is the ultimate "correlation does not imply causation" argument. In fact, the current state of the universe has no bearing on the state of the universe in the next instance of time. God recreates the universe every moment in time solely according to his Will, rather like a video game engine completely renders the screen image for every frame. The image of one frame does not cause the image of the next frame. All frames come directly from the game engine.

The second school of thought ended up winning in the Muslim world because it exalted the Will of God as ultimate and without competition. Philosophical and scientific inquiry were squelched, but fortunately this happened after the great works of the first school had already passed into Christian hands. Since God is primarily Love rather than Will in Christian theology, it was reasonable to think that God, motivated by love, would give a measure of control to his creatures.

I hope I have not misrepresented the ideas of the book. It is on my reading list, but I have not gotten to it yet.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Closing-Muslim-Mind-Intellectual-Islam...
Once the death-of-the-company option is on the table, it gives the CA a reason to comply with any lesser punishment.

For example fines, changes to procedures, mandatory security audits, agreeing not to issue certain types of certificate etc - the CA is going to do their best to comply if the alternative is to be put out of business.

Whether we want browser vendors / an industry standards committee to have that much power is another matter, of course.
I sat on both sides of the table for two years (coding my tech startup at night, while attending MBA and CS and Law classes during the day to fill skill gaps). The doer within me couldn't wait to go to hack sessions every weekend, just so I could feel sense of substance and normalcy while building things with other hackers. During weekdays I would watch one of my entrepreneurial MBA classmates writing articles for Forbes so her Startup could be promoted in the article footer. She beat everyone in the school's startup competition that year, because of the high traction numbers she could report.

I saw 3-4 extremely passionate software engineer classmates in the MBA program who pitched at every competition and never made sense to anyone but other hackers (until they came to the valley). On the other end, the seller MBAs were polished and hit their pitches right on the mark, winning cash with ideas that promptly went nowhere. Making great lemonade and getting many customers lined up to buy it are two different skills, and the investors look at the latter when they evaluate you for funding. That is why pairing both sides in teams helps.

It all made sense, when one of the finals for an MBA class required us to sell 5lbs of hot-chocolate mix (in any way shape or form) for 4 hours and compare profits with other teams for a grade. Some teams went the conventional route - one person making the drinks, another person screaming to the crowd with a poster. Those made anywhere between -$50 and $200. The drinks required heating, everyone on the same location, mixing tables, etc. Some interesting teams made cupcakes they could distribute to offices and sell at much higher margins. One of the teams organized a "hot chocolate" party (hot chocolate pool, hot chocolate pong, you name it) - charged $10-20 per entrance and got 100 classmates to join. These are the skills you need to look for in an MBA.

If you're making killer BBQ, a good MBA can blow smoke out to get you customers, make sure you're getting your beef cheaply, and you are not harassed by the rookie janitors, because they have productive things to do while you're tweaking the recipe. (the best way to avoid needing an MBA, is to build an app that sells itself and doesn't need people to grow)

The symptoms you are seeing come from many MBAs of varied skills flowing into the valley to try and blow smoke for something or to demonstrate their smoke-blowing skills for you (and books like "Newsjacking" which teach brute-force PR to the rookies, and sites like LinkedIn which struggles to keep people coming back daily so it hired smoke-blowers to generate "career oriented" content). To avoid it, I've just stopped sniffing the air while working day and night on my mind-blowing BBQ recipe.
Bloodied Samsung's profits down 25% as it clings to mobe crown
Agreed, but I think it should go a step further. Browsers should require 2 signatures from different regions. That way a government can't pressure a single CA within their borders to issue rogue certs. 2 signatures would be minimum with 3 for redundancy.
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>Options: A) The scientific method B) Organized religion.

So my comment was re: scientific method, "To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning"[1]

Not an advocation that global warming is provable in a closed environment - simply that climate data can be gathered and interpreted in a way that's reproducible.

Also, as you mentioned, warming is accelerating. The most common and destructive claim of climate change deniers is that our current conditions are part of a natural, precedented fluctuations in the earth's behavior. Reliably obtainable scientific data suggests otherwise.

> Alternatively: what is the conclusion if "steps leading to said truth" cannot, in fact, be reproduced ?

Then it can't be taken as fact, but as as tentative, fallible suggestion. This is where most religion diverges from science, which is the point of my previous comment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Business school applications are down too: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044443350.... It's almost as if yearly tuition hikes in the face of stagnant salaries in professional services are having an impact on enrollment.
Shallow: Cloning a Hook-up App in F#
Very nice! If there was a feature that allowed you to add text/objects to a range of frames as opposed to having to do it for each individual one, then I'd use this quite often!
Furthermore, I've found that absent keys degrading to nil is actually a very useful feature that makes a lot of code really composable and simple. I can't think of any Clojure code I've written recently where a value of nil actually should be distinguished from an absent value - I just write my code so that semantically they mean the same thing, because this makes the code much easier to compose and much easier to think about.
There are currently 1,225,452 licensed attorneys in the United States which is a ridiculous considering only 116 million people have a full time job.
Risk When Hiring Sales People
Are there countries where working ~20 hours a week in Tech is acceptable?
I think you meant to link here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1649523?hl=en

I see what you are saying. But the help page basically describes the steps to install a chrome extension. It doesn't say that this extension is specifically prevented from syncing like other extensions. It mentions an authorization dialogue on first run, but it is unclear whether that is the first run per account or the first run per installation of the extension.

I would actually lean towards the latter, as it is in line with extension syncing behavior I have seen in the past. Usually when I am on a new setup of Chrome, and extensions sync and install, they do pop up some sort of installation or setup window notifying you.

So there may indeed be no issue at all.
Samsung Entering VR Market
+1, never noticed that before.
I can't find anything about Google lobbying against net neutrality, do you have any sources?

4 years ago Google modified Verizon's proposal after years of stalemate, moving forward was in the best interest of everyone involved, including consumers.

Would you not agree that it's better that Google be involved in the Verizon (or any telecommunications company) proposal rather than be absent from it? It seems like a reluctant compromise they made, maybe they regret being associated with it, but they were in no way against net-neutrality.

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-...

What's wrong with quotes from their public policy sites? What would be a better source? Here is the EFF's take on the 2010 Google/Verizon situation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/google-verizon-netneut...

Also: https://www.eff.org/guide-to-the-fcc-net-neutrality-proposal
Looking for beta testers for Qwote – A precise sharing tool for Chrome
There's just ExxonMobile and Apple with enough money (by market cap).
Love the idea! I tried it by searching for Node's require. It did point me to the right source [1], but the usage examples are all minified and unreadable. Might want to check for a maximum size on the usage examples that are presented.

[1] https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/joyent/node/.CommonJSPack...
Yes, Google Analytics is on most of the web. Guess what else is? AdSense. Even if a site doesn't have Analytics, if it has AdSense, then most of the same tracking comes into play.

A massive fraction of the web - at least, the websites that get traffic - has either or both of these built in.
An journal article I submitted a few years ago:

Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine?

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00057
Nice design, but I'm not sure I like the Y-meter myself. I don't like when websites/apps change to hide information or remove detail. My eyes already do a pretty good job discerning big numbers from small numbers. Now I have to understand a 70% full square versus an 90% full square?
This question has a 170+ year long history, yet somehow it has come to the forefront against in recent years with people often entirely ignoring its history.

The foundation of the birth of modern socialism in the 1840's was based on the basic premise that technology would drastically increased efficiency and grow the economy to a point where redistribution could eradicate poverty and reduce the amount of labour necessary.

To your specific suggestion, variations over this was the viewpoint of some of the earliest socialist ideologists, who believed it possible to transform society through example and appeals to decency and charity.

Marx was one of the earliest to criticise that view strongly.

As early as the mid 1840's he made the argument that one of the main sources of eventual downfall for capitalism would not be some sudden enlightenment of the elites, but that capitalism would be too successful (the Communist Manifesto starts with a number of paragraphs gushing over the advances that capitalism and the bourgeoise have brought - Marx saw the development of capitalism as absolutely essential for progress) and eventually lead to over-production and under-employment at the same time, causing massive social upheaval and eventually leading to revolution if (though Marx also argument strongly that it was a when, not if) the ruling classes refuse to redistribute voluntarily.
For me the emphasis on the amount of votes is weird. When I browse HN, I look at what the topic is, and whether the thread has any comments. The more the comments, the more likely I am going to check them out. Then I open the comments view, and the actual website in another tab.

The Y meter for me is not important, and would be unnecessary visual noise. Sure, the amount of (up)voting decides whether I will even see the topic but I don't need to know the amount.

I have no idea whether this makes sense to others.
Perhaps it's also a pride and expectations issue? I know that in TN there is a lack of available lawyers for certain court case work, especially juvenile court and family cases. The pay isn't stellar for a lawyer but it's a solid 40 out/50 in-court. You go down and sign up for dates and the cases are assigned as they come in to the lawyers signed up for those days. I think there have recently been some changes in one court in one county to limit but mostly, it's sign up, get work. I know a few years ago you could get a degree from a capable, long term in-state institution for ~40k tuition (3 years). You weren't "allowed" to work first year so that could cause an increase.
To compound the problem, every South Middle Tennessee State -type school opened a law school during the glut because it was a huge cash cow for the parent university... so other than a complete collapse of admissions, there is no impetus for these T-3/4 schools to close. It's not uncommon for students to come out of these schools with 200+K in student loan debt and no job prospects to speak of.

It's unfortunate, but the Legal Academy was all to happy to get drenched from the firehose of unemployable vague humanities majors that US Higher ed produces - now, at least, some of the students are starting to get a more realistic picture of what that undischargeable debt means for their future - but the damage is done.
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Why is that number ridiculous? At ~1% of the workforce, this means that the average American laborer needs 2.5 days/year of lawyer time to keep them fully occupied, which honestly doesn't feel like such a stretch to me, given that they need to be involved in hiring/firing, expansion, policy changes, deals closing, etc.

Also - note that not all licensed attorneys are practicing, so it may even be more like 1 lawyer-day/year per worker.
Apologies, I had thought it was. (This goes to everyone that corrected me on this.)

I can only guess that I got confused over reading about Agda at some point. Again, apologies.
funny project, it's like a small videogame, but the algorithm is cryptic. Maybe a little bit of transparency could help enjoy it... like adding some custom advices to the end of the game.