skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft was known as the Borg, but that was poorly placed. Google has been more of a Borg than MS ever was.

Google has decided to automate everything. There is no way to get actual help across their entire product line. Having problems with your adwords account? It doesn't matter if you spend $20K month, you get automatic email responses to your queries with obnoxious links to the help system that you've already read.

While I agree that author did more wrong than he realizes, he also asked Google for an explanation to their objection, to which he received no response. I guess the Borg NLP engine was down that day and couldn't find the appropriate form letter.

Whatever you think about this author, you can't deny the danger of relying on one ecosystem so heavily. Google is the worst. At least Apple would have denied his app with a reason which he could have corrected.
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We have accountants who handle that side of things, it's the more mundane collection of receipts, payment of invoices etc. that are a drain on my time.

Thanks for clearing up the CEO/COO point though, I think I was getting a bit confused.

Thanks!
Heh. This is low-ball. I was once offered $150,000 in a discussion with a broker when I inquired about a hypothetical Tor 0day. After the broker's fees, I would have still walked away with $120,000 if I had one. (Then taxes, of course.)

If anyone wants to do this, I recommend shopping around first ;P
>> When you target to a sub, you have a good chance of showing up on that sub's home page - but no one really goes to a sub home. You need to get people on their front pages.

Not arguing with your larger points, but this is completely untrue for me — I only use Reddit via subreddit home pages, i.e., I never go to the "front page". I don't even know what a "front page" is. Is that where you just go to http://reddit.com/? I must have visited that once, way back when I first started using Reddit, but since then, never.

I have a dozen or so subreddits I'm interested in and when I will occasionally get a whim to check up on one of them, I navigate directly to the subreddit (autocomplete in the browser makes this easier). I also subscribe to RSS feeds for my subreddits.

Apparently I'm using Reddit in an unusual way.
I would prefer "hire curious but professional developers" - and let them choose the stack most appropriate to your needs. They will not run off and build with the latest and greatest, but will focus on their TCO. So yeah hire good people pay them well, give them space, trust them to run your business for you. Don't hire contractors except me.

I personally think Js heavy clients are going to stay, and more importantly, one will win out as the 'Win32' standard, to the extent that many sites will not send me any custom executable code because that is easiest to avoid attacks.

And it think angular is ahead in the (still to finish) race.
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It's being worked on for Go 1.4 (scheduled to release in December). It's the primary feature they want to get done for that release. There was a talk about in back in May[0]. rcs is working on c2go to convert the existing compiler to Go[1][2].

[0] http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3432-gophercon2014-go-from-c...

[1] https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/list

[2] https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/#hg%2Fc2go
I built a similar tool: http://skanout.com/

It's less of a price alert but rather notifying you if we can get you the price you want or not.
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The "reasonable person" standard is always an objective standard. In the 4th amendment context, it's not enough to have a subjective expectation of privacy--that expectation must be objectively reasonable. This has odd implications in the situation where perhaps the majority of people have a misinformed belief.

For example, 56% of people believe the U.S. spends more than 10% of its budget on foreign aid (the actual number is under 1%): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/07/t.... Is that belief objectively reasonable, just because it is widely held? I think no: you have to look to the facts to determine whether that belief is reasonable.

And what do you see when you look to the facts of the architecture of the internet? Plain text protocols; data routed through untrusted third parties; data aggregated and stored in plain text; highly sensitive data accessible by system operators with often questionable controls;[1] data that's analyzed and mined for commercial purposes, etc. And in the Stingray context: apparently an architecture totally oblivious to MITM attacks. I don't think it's techno-literalist to say that all this makes having an expectation of privacy in the internet, as it is designed today, objectively unreasonable.

> Especially with regard to the government, I think people could sanely expect privacy to be the default state (even for poorly implemented technology)

The 4th amendment doesn't really admit separate standards for the government versus third parties. "Private" doesn't mean "stuff I don't want the government to see" it means "stuff I don't want other people to see." And I think it tortures the definition of "private" to encompass "me and my 500 closest network ops friends at AT&T."

[1] E.g. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-fires-employee... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/facebook-master-pas... etc.
He could sell the app outside the Play Store, of course. Nothing can stop him from doing that (trademark issues aside) and collecting payment via PayPal, etc.
Negative temperatures are not at all unheard of in physics, as lasers are based on this very principle: At positive temperatures, states with higher energy will always be (statistically) less occupied than states with lower energy. In a laser one inverts this for some states of the system by pumping energy to meta-stable high-energy states, thus creating a "population inversion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
I also find myself holding the very lonly position that I insist on a right of the Israelis to defend themselves, and I insist on Muslims/Palestinians being Humans, and that we shouldn't turn a blind eye to their suffering.

There is no such thing as "peace through victory", there can only ever be "peace through forgiveness". No genocide has ever been so complete that there are no survivors who thirst for revenge, and all violent acts, be they ever so justified, increase this desire for revenge.
Does that leave any real competition in the space?
The manuscript is an old document that might still have significance. It's a part of the past that still holds sway over the future. That's how it fits into the article.
> The relative ease of launching has made a plethora of nice but unprofitable apps on the other ecosystems... And it points to what happens in any work economy when the barrier to entry becomes hobbiest-level easy. Happened to photography, writing/publishing, and others. There are too many people relatively skilled enough to do an average job and give it away for free for anyone but the best marketed and connected to make money.

Quoted for truth and that it bears repeating. When anyone can do it, anyone will. And if `$your` specialty becomes that easy, it won't be in high demand. This is something that we must be on our guard against, as professionals, and to continually self-improve our way such that it keeps a competitive moat between us and the hobbyist.
"EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. Many of it's ideas are derived from MpthreePlayer , but it tries to be more general and cleaner.

The fact that EMMS is based on external players makes it powerful, because it supports all formats that those players support, with no effort from your side."

https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/
They did request for it to be removed. They sent Google the request, which is what I would do, because dealing with some spammy app developer isn't worth my time. And frankly, given how this guy doesn't admit to wrongdoing or even breaking the rules, I don't buy that he'd be particularly responsive. I expect I'd get a defensive and argumentative email in response.
"The app was simple. Launch it and it display the videos for a single YouTube channel. I made the app, and it was really nice and a pleasure to use."

I'm assuming his hourly rate is $50,000/hr. Did he do anything other than wrap the web page for the channel in a web view? I'm not familiar with Android, but on iOS, you can accomplish this without writing a single line of code, everything could be done inside Interface Builder. I can't imagine it's any more difficult on Android.
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I guess there is still Realtor.com, but I'm not sure how popular the site is.
The thread with Boole was picked up as a long tie-in to get to his daughter.
This seems to be pretty one-sided, with lines like:

Even on their worst day, the Israelis act with greater care and compassion and self-criticism than Muslim combatants have anywhere, ever.

and:

What do groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda and even Hamas want? They want to impose their religious views on the rest of humanity. They want stifle every freedom that decent, educated, secular people care about.

While Israel and others consider Hamas a terrorist organisation, this is in reference to the armed wing rather than the political party, which most people would not consider in the same category as ISIS and al-Qa'eda.
It wasn't clear to me from the article that there was any sort of time limit. Presumably a researcher could simply enter the contest once he was sure he had an exploit? The math doesn't really work out for profitability.
It only covers a bit of 'Spain' within Marokko.

>Spain has two exclave located on the north coast of Africa,
There's Redfin
Think about how a Type II supernova happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_supernova
So in addition to the "You need a COO instead" pieces, this comment nails it. If you hire someone with a C title, you don't have room to grow that role upwards in the future. You'd probably be best off with "Office Manager", "Operations Director", "Logistics Manager", etc. Don't title inflate if you don't need to; the flip side being that you can probably get someone very good and very ambitious cheaper by giving them an outsized title.
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Finland's PM Blames Apple's Success for their Financial Crisis
Project Scope Management in IT Projects
While melting the glass is standard for permanent splices like those used in joining sections of fiber, it is not required for a tap. Fiber bending and evanescent coupling are two methods that do not modify the source fiber[1][2][3][4].

Across undersea long hauls, optical amplifiers exist (think repeaters, but without any introduction of delay). They get their energy from being pumped by a wavelength of light different from those used for data transmission[5].

1. http://www.idquantique.com/images/stories/PDF/network-encryp...

2. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_wave#Evanescent-wa...

3. http://131.238.119.245/asarangan/courses/542/student_project...

4. http://www.rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf/fiber_optic_...

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier#Doped_fibre_a...
>> A new reddit could be coded in weeks.

Well, it wouldn't take that long, given that the entire Reddit code base is open source: https://github.com/reddit

Really, anybody can literally clone Reddit anytime they want to.

But not only is it likely impossible for a competitor to attract a significant portion of the Reddit user base, what would a competitor do assuming they did manage it? All a competitor would have done is bought themselves a money-losing operation. Unless you're a charitable billionaire or a well-funded non-profit organization, why would anyone want to do that?
Also, if you're a UK company, you want an MD, not a CEO, unless you're planning for the person to give out parking tickets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_enforcement_officer)
Why did they deprecate Last.fm support? Also, does anyone know a good Emms/mpd setup?
Ha, yep, stopped reading at that. "The walled garden upset me so much I hulked out and destroyed thousands of dollars of my family's tech."
Emacs: it was MS-Word before MS-Word was MS-Word.

EDIT: not that there's anything wrong with that!
Have a mac? I'm looking for help porting Trelby to it. I can guide/assist with anything in the code. You'll need to figure out the mac specific parts.
http://trelby.org
Contact me offline via email if you're interested.
If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.
The Theano project could use some love: https://github.com/Theano/Theano
Creating Jobs for Adults with Autism
Which reminds me of this from Douglas Adams:

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

"But that's terrible," said Arthur.

"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
OK, so let's ban Firefox from the app store for packaging other people's content. He didn't package, nor did he take their material - that implies that his app somehow contained their content. It did not. It simply let you browse their YouTube channel for content the content holder had made freely available.

(also, your comparison to houses and cars is nigh-on nonsensical: copyrighted material is not a possession, and one person using it does not preclude another person using it, whereas if someone took my car I would be down by one car.)
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We use finite element analysis suites in our lab such as Ansys for simulation, and the licenses run into the thousands of dollars per year.
> finding lesser-known projects takes a bit of the stress out of trying to learn by contributing to high-profile projects.

Can you please explain this? I don't understand. Is the fear that, say, if I contribute to Linux and Linus absolutely hates my patch, he will make a huge mockery of me and the mockery might even end up on the front page of HN? Or are high-profile projects just in general very unwelcoming? I mean, Mozilla appears to be very friendly:

http://whatcanidoformozilla.org

Is it not actually friendly?

I honestly don't understand, because I just send my patches wherever I can send them, regardless of their social status. I have never experienced this kind of stress.
If you're really stuck, here's a walkthrough/solutions for levels 0-20, https://alicious.com/game-about-squares/.
Avoid Campus if you want to get anything actually done. Far too busy, noisy, and full of poseurs to be productive.
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I would guess in almost every case, the purpose of free wifi is not to do any sort of tracking, it's just to get you in the door. I know that I've picked hotels and other establishments based on the availability of free wifi.
Report says surveillance is hampering journalists
Or probably the guy who thought of this is hoping for the odd $5500 in his bank account
...everyone sheds dead skill cells...

True. If you're in an office you haven't visited before and would like to be disgusted, examine the bottoms of a few mice.
I'd be skeptical. Often musicians left to make the music they want to make make stuff nobody cares about. I think of the Gerry Rafferty album City to City which is all hee haw music that sounds the same except for the hit tracks.
How Did MailTrack.io Get 100,000 Installations in 9 Months Using PR
Wow, this is super cool!
N1QL Cheat Sheet [pdf]
The OP made some grave errors with his apps. But is it really a good reason, to not tell him, what was going wrong and instead swinging the big hammer on his head (life-long ban)?

Google once started with the slogan "Don't be evil".

By being the new "Judge Dredd" of the internet, it can just become, what it never wanted to be. All that, just because Google tries to drive technology to its extremes ("customer-service from hell").

This is going to be more and more important, because there exist only very few major app-stores and very few major internet-payment systems (gladly, there the situation could still change to the better). But I know, how much Paypal was criticized because of his behavior and being a semi-monopolist in internet payments.

With our today's trend to centralization -- I don't want to put my fate into the hand of one of these new Judge Dredds.
openstreetmap, a global project, could really do with some more developers. for example, we still need a reporting framework that displays a dashboard of stats. many other projects can be found here: https://github.com/osmlab
Looking through Debian's Work-Needing and Prospective Packages pages for projects written in Python might give you some ideas.

https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

The list is composed of packages that need Debian maintainers for whatever reason. I realize you're looking to contribute to developing software rather than packaging it, but there may be a correlation between projects that need packagers and those that need developers.
Good advice. This will be tricky as there isn't a massively rigid structure in place as it is. It's like that that the COO will be asking me to do things at times, so governance groundrules will be very useful. Reminds me of http://holacracy.org/

Thank you
It's the only way you can buy content (apps, music, books etc) and devices from the Play Store. If you use Android, not having a functioning Wallet is extremely limiting.
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A lot of site have a design for mouse (hover states, pulldowns) and a design for touch (the hamburger) and they want to use only one or the other.
This is why we can't have nice things you just assume he's not going to comply but you don't even make an attempt to resolve the issue in a gentlemanly fashion.

Why? Because you can't be bothered to.

You would rather give him a black mark on his account with the knowledge that only 3 in his life time would get him permanently banned.
I can't speak for _petronius, but what makes this guy obviously different from me is:

* he thinks that an icon which links to something on the web is an "app", whereas I think that an app is something which contains a significant amount of program logic.

* he thinks that changing the configuration (like YT channel id) generates a whole new app. This is like claiming that, at your Unix command line, "grep foo" is a different app from "grep bar" because we changed the string that it looks for.

* he thinks that going from an "app" with a hard-coded YT channel to one with a user-configurable channel is a big step in development, the "real app".

* he thinks he can no longer write apps for Android, whereas it is obvious to me that you can put a .apk file up for download anywhere you want, and get paid by means other than Google Wallet.

* he cannot see what he obviously did wrong: make a spammy app that only re-frames other people's content, and infringes on trademarks, etc. In response to the first takedown, I would have pulled all copies of this app immediately.

Google only holds power over those swaths of people who surrendered some aspects of their lives to Google.
Of course not. Why would I ever visit my clients?
>What's wrong with packaging other people's content as long as you're not profiting from it?

Say I made a show and sell DVDs of the show for $20 to cover all the costs of the show. When you buy the DVD you agree to not reproduce them so that I can continue to sell more copies to cover the cost of the show. You then start reproducing them and selling them at your cost(no profiting right?) which is about $0.05. Obviously some will get it from you instead of me because it is so much cheaper and I will make less profit, or not meet costs. If you don't see what is wrong in breaking your word (and a legally binding contract) and causing harm to someone just because you didn't profit from it, I don't know what argument would.

If they had given you access to the content under a license which allowed you to share it then yeah sure who cares repackage away. If they shared it with you with the specific previsions that you can do this but not that, then you turn around and do that. Then why would you think it is OK to do that?
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I do really like sh! What do you need done?
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the US, there are three major interconnections within the country, and each interconnection has system operators. The system operators are responsible for managing the grid, including the frequency. I've been in several US-based power control rooms, and the current system frequency always gets pride of place on the instrument panels (along with the current system load and sometimes the grid time). System operators are also very concerned about maintaining the balance between their generation and their load.

The grid time is itself an interesting concept. Because the grid runs at a known frequency, it's possible to use it as a time base for a clock. The grid time is considered to be the current time for such a clock. It basically integrates the grid frequency error over time.

Regarding generators that lag the grid, it's not quite as simple as generators turning into motors. The generators all have real time governors that adjust their throttles based on their current operating speed. (The operating speed is directly linked to their operating frequency, for the vast majority of units.) In the case of a generator operating too slowly, the governor immediately requests more input power to compensate. Because this happens grid-wide, this gives the entire grid the ability to quickly respond to short-term fluctuations in operating frequency. Longer term frequency response is handled by dispatching individual units up and down to balance power and load.

In the event that a generator cannot adequately respond, it will trip (shut down) and disconnect from the grid entirely. This is a protective measure that keeps the generator from skipping cycles. (You can think of this as the electrical equivalent of gears skipping teeth, and can be hugely destructive to the equipment.)