skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea where this blogpost is going. I think its more of a stream of consciousness that shouldn't really be published...

Its good for writers to write down their thoughts in this poorly edited form, but it isn't very useful to the readers.
Science vs. Politics: A pragmatic argument for why this distinction doesn't work
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Your hasty "this is a rant" cover does nothing to compensate for the fact that nobody cares.
While you might be able to argue that they should inform you in detail, that is not the argument that you have advanced here - you state that they have "no right" to take this action. In keeping with the spirit of your post, what are the requirements that Google must comply with in order to have the "right" to ban you, and how is that set of requirements determined and modified over time?
Ask HN: Are there any lesser know open source projects that need contributors?
Hi all,
Are you working on open source project that needs contributors and isn't getting any ?

please post about your project here.
How is one supposed to learn the ropes?

Maybe listen to one of the many warnings he was given?
You did say that privacy concerns are essentially concerns about how [FB] will look at and use the data. Which is actually my point as well - privacy is much broader than which of my friend and followers will see what I post. It is even broader than which third party apps have what access to my account -- yet the article makes it seem like those things are the only privacy concern instead of just a subset of it.

Agreed they won't share your information with third parties or use it themselves without permission - but they myriad of ways in which they ask for that permission, and in which you default to giving it means it serves only as the loosest constraint. By default users allow them to perform analytics that reveal a disturbing amount of information about them, among many other things.

Similarly, I think the notion of privacy in which data you share is quite silly - if you're sharing stuff on the Internet, you should expect it to be public for all time. No matter who you're sharing it with or through. However, I would also expect the company I'm sharing through to act only as a middle-man, and not use my data for its own ends*. (That seems to be a different take on the silly angle that you have. )
Yep. It's basically fractal art all over again. "Press random buttons until something looks vaguely interesting"
Oh god, I tried to read the screenshots to have an idea of what is the service like, but I gave up after the second time being interrupted by the carousel. Terrible.
I honestly don't think there even was a problem to be solved. Constructors could just accept their dependencies (interfaces) as parameters.
thank you for this response. I agree and it's something i'm working on now.
I dont know, are they web scale?
Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change
I started laughing at the bit about all Apple products being banned in his household to make a statement about freedom, and I just didn't stop.
Isn't it in Google's interest not to have a store filled with spammy stuff that confuses users?
What? Why is a person struggling to grasp the difference between The New York Times and The New Yorker trying to make some point about… something?
This is pretty neat. I've taken a similar approach in writing an irc bot using evented PHP and phergie-irc-client-react using redis to pass JSONed messages back and forth between services. It's surprising more IRC bots aren't taking advantage of message queue type architecture instead of monolithic plugin based bots.
The average open source project has less then 4 maintainers. Really every project is undermanned and in need of help. Normally find a tool, library, framework that you like and support them either financially, bug reports, or pull requests.
The majority of the post was "it's their fault that they didn't stop me!"

When his first app was suspended, Google should have given a better response when he asked what he did wrong. But to just continue forward doing the exact same thing he was doing before was asking for trouble. If Google wouldn't give him a clear answer, he should have asked his friends or the community.
I don't really really agree with the idea of [New Framework X] job boards either. Languages, I get: if you know Language Y, you can probably pick up Framework X in a few days, and by the second week no one will know you came in without knowing it. Honestly, extend the timeline by another week or so and you can apply the same to languages (with talented devs at least).

Personally, I don't consider myself an Angular developer - I'm a developer (a "full-stack developer" if I had to qualify the term somehow). I can pick up any Javascript framework in a reasonably short amount of time, because I have a lot of experience with the language.

Furthermore, who's to say you'll still be using Framework X a year from now? Your needs will change, and all of a sudden the premium you paid for that specialized talent is money wasted. Just hire talented developers - they'll learn whatever stack you throw at them, every time.
Flask, Sinatra, Rails, Express… actually, there are a lot of them.
Why would you need a Fourier transformation to apply a filter?
Well, I thought, at least, that he was doing to talk about the problem of the 'filter bubble'. Instead he zoomed off into the Boole family and the Voynich Manuscript for no apparent reason.
Timberyard is a great coffee shop near Old Street. It's quite usual to see many people working on laptops there.
i'm on windows 7 and don't have any devices connected that would be considered touch I don't believe.
Actually, I visited one co-housing group in the middle of Atlanta, the people living there just seemed like regular homeowners, not any more moneyed than any other homeowner. Co-housing is something I think you do if you don't have the cash to just build whatever you want on your huge plot of land, but still want to live someplace with amenities. Just share the cost.

So co-housing might well be one way forward here.
Title doesn't reflect the intent of the post as it can simply be answered: 'Yes'. Are you offering help or just want to start a list?
That is a big leap in logic really.
If you are trying to monetize, you have likely given Google your real name and address and bank account information, and would need to do the same thing for your new account. Submitting fraudulent information in order to get money could cross you into serious trouble with the IRS or the law.
It seems that this is a new trend. Shoptagr, Pricify and others.
Also, this one looks really unappealing.
Most domains come with free WHOIS privacy for a year, and it costs less that $10 after that.
> Anyone using my simplistic beta quality app would know instantly that this is not “official”

A silly assumption that both generalizes the audience and is ignorant of copyright laws, imo. Not a valid argument in a court situation either. I could make the crappiest Geocities site out there, but as soon as I put a Google logo somewhere, people may assume it is an official Google site or affiliated with it.

> One of my apps contained the channel id for Vice.com. Since the length of the app name is so limited I decided on “Vice TV”

Yup, there you go. Using a brand name, showing a brand's video - intent isn't the issue here, the author was impersonating Vice.com there.

The author is guilty of being naive and lax about copyright and trademark laws, imo.
Okay man, we get it! There is absolutely no need to spam every single thread discussion on this article with shameless plugging about your "Cyman Digital Assistant".

Comments by ugoano:

Comment 1: I'd strongly advise you to check out the Cyman System website. The Cyman Digital Butler has a few video demonstrations, and I built it with Jarvis' personality in mind. Might be what you're looking for?

Comment 2: I built an digital butler app inspired by Iron Man's JARVIS assistant called CyMan. We've got a great community and dedicated helpers in our Google+ community. Feedback on that community has been excellent! If you ever wanted to give it a try...

Comment 3: My assistant (Cyman Digital Butler) has a list of example commands you can try, gives an idea of the abilities Cyman has. So you could say "open the ... website" to get the url for example. Although we've got a great community to help, we're in the middle of creating a wiki. Perhaps the Jarvis you're using needs a wiki too.

Comment 4: I made a Cyman Digital Butler which runs on Android devices and on computers through a Chrome app. I feel it's a better Jarvis approximation too. On both of them, Cyman can listen out for whichever nickname you choose. (Of course, the nickname I gave was Jarvis for mine ;) ) I find using the Chrome APIs or Android APIs quite good if you were interested. I haven't really looked at sphinx

Comment 5: Yep, check out the Cyman Digital Butler for Android. With the paid version, when you get an incoming text you can set it so he reads out who sent it, then you can say "read message", or "reply" and then your reply. You can also initiate messages, and there are helpful features to help with complex names. Like if you said "my wife is called ...". You could then later say "send a text to my wife". I worked pretty hard on it!
The lack of feedback would be annoying.
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+1. Keep in mind in 2011 you would have had 'We Love backbone.js' - which wouldn't be so popular nowadays.
> The question is, was the punishment proportional to the crime?

Well yeah, repeated trademark infringement / impersonation; if Google wasn't strict about that kinda thing, the owners of those brands would sue them for millions, just as much as they were with Youtube. They're similarly strict with Youtube videos for that matter.
I think its fair to ask why you can't get human intervention on these kinds of problems and for Google to _at least_ consider what happened was an honest mistake and not something intentionally attempting to damage other peoples trademark (or whatever).

That's another trouble with so many of these mega companies now that don't seem to have any kind of instance of customer or end user support at all. It's easy to code auto response systems, and bots that track down spam and malicious software, but to get an actual person to review what is being done is nearly impossible.
BMI is a quick but very rough way of measuring health, particularly regarding 'fit' individuals - muscle is far more dense than fat.
How designing for the cloud would improve your service implementation
idk, these are a bunch of products I barely even knew about.

I thought google wallet went away around the same time google wave did, for instance.
So that petition is accusing one dude in Google of disrespecting 'small and indie android developers' when they're blatantly violating trademark law? Lols.
There was a series of murders in the north of England maybe 25 years ago that went unsolved. When DNA testing became available, the police essentially browbeat every male within plausible distance to be tested. They did solve the case. I'd have thought such questions would have been raised then, and perhaps they were.
This has nothing to do with the article or the parent comment.
Copyright and trademarks don't seem to be his strength, I doubt that he licensed the pictures on http://distantfutu.re/page/team.html .. But because he grew up "in the 70s/80s", these are public domain to him.
Yes, when testing at ad companies, at least devs typically have to remember to turn off (multiple?) ad-blockers and enable flash. Some don't even tell their families they're in ads; rather say, "I'm in IT" hoping it's a boring enough answer that no one asks deeper. They think in abstract numbers like requests/sec, so they can go weeks without thinking about the actual results. (http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/)

(Though I think it's rare to be explicitly aware of ads as corporate propaganda. Some are.)
"These warnings to me felt like the warnings on a plastic bag telling you not to put it over your head"

And yet you still put the bag over your head and took a deep breath! Why not just remove the ten apps and use common sense to determine that naming your apps after another company's product is a bad idea??
http://witget.com/
At least the DMCA takedown wouldn't also somehow disable his google music subscription.
Well no; as far as those companies are concerned, Google is hosting those apps and is responsible for them. Google then by extension goes after the author of the app. Similar to Youtube; content owners just went after the hoster (youtube), not the uploader.
I just moved to U.S. Check out http://www.meetup.com/fp-bud/
I agree - furthermore his argument for a standstill in politics is weak at best and not surprising, because there are always phases where the lawmakers in Washington or Westminster are not particularly productive. however that doesn't hold for much of the rest of the world.
You're Helping Mark Zuckerberg Become The World's Richest Person
Why do subreddits have to have only one business model, that being free? Why is the only way to get corporate revenue ugly ads that no one wants to see? Why does a company like Republic Wireless maintain their own lame forum system that boils down to a heavily brain damaged psuedo-clone of Reddit? Why, for a fee paid by RW to /r/, can't /r/republicwireless exist with all of the mods on that subreddit being RW employees, or whoever RW employees select? I'd like that for customer support and product announcements and it would let RW focus on their core competency which is being in the MVNO business not the "running an internet web forum" business.

There is a side issue, that I don't think a company that wants to be successful should take business advice from either a legacy newspaper in general, or specifically the NYT, which makes the whole thing comical. It would be like a telegram company demanding that an ISP make core business changes, because they're the experts, or at least they were back in 1890, LOL.
CDNJS is experiencing slowness/outages
Right. The owner could also refuse outside contributions, or perhaps there simply haven't been any outside contributions.
I have never submitted anything to Google Play, but there has to be some sort of guidelines for what you can submit and not?

Or he could have just searched the web - "(...) searching the web I find dozens of similar stories"
Changing How We Think
Mobile Connectivity in iOS Apps
Agreed that the Century of the Self is very much worth watching.

This parody is spot on, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
Ignored warnings to stop? It sounds like the author did one thing (uploading ten apps) and then got three "strikes" and a full suspension without doing anything else.
Fly with the Red Arrows [video]
As someone who's received a nontrivial amount of downvotes in this community and others, I can confidently say that I appreciate them as a mechanism. Almost every downvote that I've received was for a legitimate reason - a few were just out of disagreement, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

In a way, it does create an echo chamber: when the community consistently downvotes things that don't conform to X (in HN's case, X usually being "well-reasoned commentary relevant to the thread"), people tend to shy away from those things. One could consider the utter lack of response gifs on HN "groupthink", in the sense that everyone knows the community is unfriendly to them so they don't post them (even when they're funny).
I guess soon enough Chef's and restaurant's will be rating customers as well. In restaurant's there would be cutoff points for being a customer. You didn't pay enough tips in the last restaurant you were a part of - you are now bared from getting into a good restaurant now.

Joking above but the whole concept of dual rating scares me a bit .......
Researchers achieve the ‘holy grail’ of battery design
Appreciate the comments guys, you may very well be right! However, I suppose it could come down to something like this, for example - one may have a project which has Angular embedded deep within it. You want to hire an Angular dev - someone who knows it inside out, not just a "front end JS dev" who can possibly pick it up - needs may change, but for said project you need an Angular dev. Or perhaps the type of person that loves Angular and the way they think is who you are trying to hire.

I think as well that something like Angular which seems to be going mental at the moment is an indication of a change of thinking for doing front end work, so even though frameworks come and go, maybe the desire to hire an Angular dev is more about hiring someone who is embracing this change of thinking.

I'm sure there are lots of reasons for and against but time will tell if a) employers actually get candidates from this board and b) do developers find interesting jobs from this board.
They are a bit like "social network for dog owners" approach. There's this huge chicken and egg problem of bringing the advertisers and job hunters together to a job site and the first thing that comes to mind is to take a stab at a vertical. It rarely works.
I'd like to be your bookmaker. Do you enjoy betting on football games?
The ignorance hurts my bones.
To avoid a db migration ;)
> Zero sympathy. Well done to Google on taking down one of the many people spamming the Play store with junk.

Yes, also, I find it highly amusing how his long-winded whine about 'programmer freedom' makes me appreciate the walled-garden approach of iOS just a tiny bit more. Sure, it's not perfect, and it's not 'freedom', but at the very least it does make it very explicit to 'developers' like the author that they should take their spammy app tactics (and free-riding on someone else's content, using a free service and its users as your beta testing platform) somewhere else.

Funny thing is I'm pretty sure he would get banned from the Windows Phone store pretty quickly as well (and rightly so)
Releasing an application called "Top Gear TV" is remarkably naive on its own (it's one of the BBC's biggest worldwide commercial franchises) - doing it with 10 other major properties just turned something that was only a matter of time, into an absolute inevitability.
Whats awful about it? I don't understand the difference in security vetting between that installer or the code its installing.

What I'm getting at is its probably easier for me to get this line of source code added to a perl module:

# Don't actually run this in a Perl interpreter, esp not as root, OK?

`rm -Rf /`;

It would be harder to get this added to the installer:

# Don't actually run this in a shell script, esp not as root, OK?

rm -Rf /

Also if CPAN / its installer / github / etc get owned, the last problem to be concerned about is one little perl module. You have bigger trouble.
Sorry about that. It's fixed.
Wait.. so Google's terms state that any new accounts will be terminated.. but you're saying he should just go ahead and violate that term of Google's policies as well?

And assuming that Google won't carry out the threat is a poor way to run a business.. at any time, Google may decide any earnings he's made will be forfeited.
Yeah, he clearly wasn't thinking straight on that one. Even if the time he spent on the first app was worth $50k, he said earlier that he created the other apps just by changing the YouTube channel on the first app and repackaging. Definitely not $500k of work by any stretch.
Please, I'd like to be your bookmaker. Football season starts in a few weeks!
Thanks for posting qzervaas, too quick for me :)
If you are making a business out of this then creating a new business entity shouldn't be that difficult.
As a user, I tend to disagree. Finding the store full of knock-offs that just are a skin over a YouTube channel is frustrating when looking for actual content and not a simple YouTube skin. He's not the first guy to make this YouTube-wrapper app, there are a lot of them. Too many.
Well, since the project was just released as opensource, presumably all work on it so far has been by employees of Aerospike (who automatically grant copyright to their employer by virtue of the work-made-for-hire exception).
Congratulations to the team! Heard many good things about kontakt.io - we're about to testdrive various BLE vendors for an assistance platform for the elderly and will certainly give them a shot.
https://assoc.drupal.org/watch-paolo-bediones-sex-scandal-on...
Thanks a lot for finding the names, I hope it'll help just a little bit to give equal credit to all who fights at the front-lines with this disease - they deserve all the possible credit they can get!
The irony of complaining about how an article about how systems have "frozen time" isn't going anywhere...
I hear twenty years as the standard figure for an asphalt-shingle roof. But I live on a street with houses that are in some cases 80 years old and more. And the Washington suburbs are full of bungalows built in haste 60 years ago and still functioning--with a new roof, maybe, and with additions, but with an original core.

Bathrooms and kitchens don't so much wear out as go out of style. The grout gets crummy in the bathroom, the porcelain wears, and then a generation that watches cooking shows doesn't want the galley kitchen and electric stove of 1950.
> I think its more of a stream of consciousness

That is often his form, and part of his appeal.
What these Alcohol apps say about the Nordic countries
Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network
Facts About Outer Space (Infographic)
Recommended Security Setup for AWS
Possibly related? Mystery police plane travels around London in circles/triangles.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mystery-plane-circles-...
> You didn't pay enough tips in the last restaurant you were a part of - you are now bared from getting into a good restaurant now.

This would be really cool.
> Public CCTV is usually run by local councils which are independent from the police. If the police want to get any of this footage, and use it to prosecute, they need to get a court order or subpoena.

I think you're wrong here. In Westminster, where I live, the police just ask for it and get it. Last month I witnessed a street brawl outside where I live, the police already had CCTV before they were on the scene; it was 4am on a Sunday morning, unlikely a judge would issue a warrant at that time. Also I know places like McDonald's will just hand it over to the police when asked if in connection with a criminal investigation.
So, that must be where the plot of Another World came from.
I see Aerospike being the fastest but nothing is mentioned anywhere about error rate or reliability.

Also that test is interesting in that it favours Aerospike's use case i.e. when you have enough data to comfortably fit on SSDs. Somewhat unfair given that the majority of people using Cassandra would be doing so with large data sets.
The "it's impossible/unmaintainable to develop a huge/enterprise codebase in a dynamically typed language" meme is really sad here on HN, specially for some one who works/maintains a huge/enterprise codebase in a dynamically typed language with a big team and have no problems at all.

Anyway I agree static typing was a big plus for java for the sole reason many people believe dynamic languages are just for scripts and small hacks.
Is there any technical reason our Mobiles have to broadcast the MAC address?

Could we simply disable MAC address broadcasting?
Ask HN: How do I increase my SaaS specs without losing business?
My SaaS plans (A, B and C) have been around for a while. To remain competitive, I want to double the specifications of each. I guess this will trigger many customers to downgrade to a cheaper plan. What strategies exist to minimize lost revenue? What downgrade ratios did you witness with your SaaS spec increase?
Movie quote search engine with video results
Gahh but that's not how quarks work. Paired up, always.
Follow lifeformed's advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8093977