skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I want to stay in touch with the person, I keep it until I get home, connect with them on LinkedIn, and then throw it out. I only need it long enough to remember their name and company, but it's a real help for that.
You may be interested that one week before, I wrote a post exploring your point (you are correct!) in detail: https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg002...

Summarized as, "Peer-to-peer overlay networks are inefficient on ADSL networks. ADSL networks are almost twice as efficient as SDSL networks. Better alternatives require redesigning the physical layer."
And also Android 2.3 stock browser support.
After a cursory medical exam (blood pressure, heart rate, etc.) just say "I have trouble sleeping. Marijuana helps me."

motion of doctor's hand on generic approval form

You pay $100 (+/- $50) and you can immediately walk down to a dispensary and get whatever you want.
Swap "run" with "regulated" and you'd have the same problem. A heavily regulated search engine would be a subpar experience. In some regard, it is already regulated in terms of what speech they can show. But that's not "search engine specific" regulation. Any specific regulations regarding search on the Internet has a high probability to degrade the utility of the service.

The "right to be forgotten" might just be a good example of this. Time will tell.
There is no way to get notifications if you're using Firefox or Safari.
It's a balance, at the end of the day. I won't be auto-updating on my server because it's not hard for me to do that myself. But if someone is just running a site where HTTPS isn't particularly important (a personal blog, say) then the convenience might outweigh the very slight security concern - better they are using HTTPS at all, if the alternative to convenience is HTTP.
And google pays for lobbying. Interesting that most bills are written by private companies. I wonder what bills google wrote and gave to these "elected" officials.

Google isn't paying millions in lobbying for nothing.
No, the article is correct. They did win in Software category. MIT team won in Hardware.
To be a social conservative is to necessarily want a return to the world in which women and minorities knew their place.
>Also, you can't put the genie back in the bottle and buy back as you keep proposing. Because the market gets its say. Even if there were sufficient liquidity (shares available to purchase) there's no reason to expect the price would remain constant.

Ok, so what price would the market set for a share in the company we discussed before? Assume the original 10$ valuation was fair and that there are now 100 shares after issuing 90$ worth of new ones. What's the new price? Above or below 1$?
The Day Bill Gates Called Me Rude
The Look Inside works for me on amazon.com, are you using a country specific amazon website?
Given that developers prefer not to starve and companies prefer to stay in business, if we're going to switch to a world where software is open source and everybody pays/donates even though the source is there, consumers need to make the change first.

As long as consumers don't pay/donate for opensource software, producers cannot afford to pull the ripcord and switch things over, even if they want to.
Much of the book/media selling industry is very informal, so a book/movie/tv show that goes on the banned list can actually become more available as the Pirates take it as a signal that it might be of interest.
This site is terrible, these guys seem like a complete joke right out of the gate. With how bad everything looks, I'd give them about 3 months until they go under.
Quite, as marijuana is federally illegal in all 50 states.
We are using CTEs in SQL Server (2008 pre R2), with a not too large object graph, and find the query performance inadequate for our realtime needs. We ended up flattening and caching graph representations in order to remove the bottleneck. The CTE query was the starting point to further queries throughout our applications so it benefitted all applications to introduce this layer.

Of course, then we had two problems on our hands. :)
Soft Landings: sell your company or arrange an acqui-hire
The bigger conflict of interest, and seemingly the lesser reported connection, is between Buzzfeed and Sidecar. Buzzfeed's Executive Chairman Ken Lehrer (listed second on their team page[1] after CEO Jonah Peretti) was a seed investor in Sidecar[2][3]. He would unequivocally benefit from Uber's downfall. And he seems pretty outraged by this story – he's only tweeted 113 times since 2012, but the last 13 of them have been on this issue.[4]

I have no idea how Buzzfeed works internally, so I don't know if their Exec. Chairman's connections could influence their reporting, but I feel like it's a significant enough conflict that it should have been disclosed.

[1]: http://www.buzzfeed.com/about/team

[2]: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/side-cr

[3]: http://lererhippeau.com/companies/

[4]: https://twitter.com/kenlerer
A missing feature != ban. Plus I'm pretty sure you are wrong.

"This setting applies to all Hangouts notifications from Gmail, Google+ and the Chrome extension on the same desktop computer."

Gmail and Google+ are both supported in all major browsers.

https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3111923
That doesn't make it difficult to get a recommendation and purchase medical marijuana though.
since when does cooling consumes that much water ?
How did you not go with

weed.ly
ku.sh
nugg.et

...or whatever the kids are calling the reefer these days.
Show HN: Enterprise company search engine for product outreach/sales
I haven't tried using Hangouts lately, so maybe it's been fixed. It got broken back in August; http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-la...
explains:

"I can understand asking why Hangouts doesn't work in Firefox. In short, we wanted to transition to WebRTC sooner rather than later, and at the moment there are things holding us back on both our side (e.g. upgrading our ICE implementation) and the Firefox side (e.g. supporting multiple video streams).

"But overall, surely you're not arguing that transitioning a major Google application from a proprietary plugin to an open web standard somehow demonstrates that Chrome doesn't value web standards."
That's how the Valley works. Everyone is invested and cross-invested in each other. It's one of the reasons why quote unquote unsuccessful companies can be acquired rather than go bankrupt. Cross investors perform a soft landing for those don't hit growth.

Also, it goes without saying that in the U.S. stock market, the big mutual fund companies own positions in everyone. Fidelity has tons of conflicts between competitors owned in its own portfolio.
In the strangeloop talk his argument seemed to be that you couldn't use types to describe the entire and exact contract of transducers. Which is true (and true of almost anything), but you can at least describe a significant enough chunk of it to reduce errors.

As always it's a trade off. As you try to capture more of the contract, you massively increase complexity, sometimes to the point of reducing usability (i.e. staring at an obtuse type error, or trying to work out how to do basic things with a function just from a Scala type)

It's my interpretation that "you can't type transducers" is an invitation to think more deeply about types and the limitations in what they can express, mixed in with some "get off my back about creating a dynamically typed language".
While it could be 'a visit' got them flagged I think it's more likely their selling weed on the site resulted in heavy usage which led to surveillance.
Were these local buyers or were you shipping everything?
Azure went down, and people actually noticed
> This is all true, but it's also very one-sided. It makes macros look like a universal solution to all abstraction problems and without any downsides at that.

They are a universal solution to the problem of abstractions: they let you use fewer abstractions!

> I also didn't read the GP comment as dismissive, it seems a bit pedantic at worst.

I can see that. I wasn't being very charitable with my choice of words. Apologies to GP.
Scaling plans?
Ah yes, money is the only measure of value in the world...

It's a good thing my kids pay me to love them.
If greater Europe wants an alternative to Google, it should create one. It's that simple.

Russia did so with Yandex. China did so with Baidu.
With the Marvina brand we wanted to stay away from traditional marijuana stereotypes. We want to create something more inclusive than the vibe that most current marijuana businesses give off.

Our two branding rules right now are:
1. No green
2. No puns
The problem is, all of those guys who were so free in the nineties failed to create any noteworthy online services so Facebook, Google, etc. took up the space.

I'm gonna get down voted for that, but maybe if there were less nerd-wars in FOSS community and more thinking about real users the Internet would look differently nowadays.
You're right. The "liar/coward" comment was the much greater offense, but that one was flag-killed.

I realize now that I was being too cute pulling out the old "scabrous" to make what is really an obvious and mundane point, and ended up confusing things. Sorry. I get bored sometimes and throw in variations which HN moderation comments are obviously not the place for. Let me try to be clearer.

There's nothing at all wrong with that image per se. It's great. I've made more than my share of Rube Goldberg analogies and know exactly where you're coming from. Had you linked to the same image in a thoughtful comment about overcomplicated systems, with no trace of incivility, of course it would be fine. It was only a problem in this context, i.e. a drive-by potshot in an inflamed discussion on a polarized topic.
I don't disagree that that seems simple enough a process to follow, but bear in mind this command is supposed to be run daily. Convenience is definitely a boon.
Very funny, I'm in a business class right now where we're proposing / planning an idea very similar to this, but for music only (but none of us plan to actually build it out). And our focus would be more on news - you'd get new album releases, new music videos, but also features on music journalism sites, etc. Interesting to see you guys have the same problem and are building a similar solution.

Are women your target audience? Based on the pink and prominent women on the site, this seems to be the case. How'd you decide this?

What's your monetization strategy? Are there in-site ads, or premium features?

Small things:
* I think you could do Sign Up more prominently. It should probably be visible immediately on the page. I clicked "Log In" and dealt with that navigation to get to sign up, and only later realized that "Sign Up" was available in the second "screen" on the home screen.

* At :42 in the video, there's a graphical glitch where "What Can I Like?" appears over the search results. Looks unprofessional to have web styling errors in your video.

* Right after you sign up, I get a "Welcome" screen that wants me to pick some popular things to like. But over half the screen is covered by your banner (plus a totally empty light pink banner that only has text once I've clicked something!). Try having the top dark banner disappear once you scroll down - or transition into the smaller lighter banner. You never need to see both.

* Why no option to import my likes from last.fm, IMDB, or something similar?

* How do you guys come up with your people to like? Many musicians / bands are missing who I'd like to follow.

Cool product!
Yeah, but if Google can't sell ads to EU companies then the letting EU citizens search on Google won't help much.
The trouble with the order the article was presented in, is that it buries the lede (the lede here being that the author has a very significant personal bias, which can color the reader's perspective of the rest of the article).

The author chose (subconsciously or not, strategically or not) to defer mention of that important fact to the end, by which point many readers will have already given up reading. It is a fact that people pay more attention to the beginning of an article and that a significant proportion of people fall off the end and don't finish.
Except the whole argument was that the 3rd party company wasn't doing it, it was simply providing a location for the customer's rented property to sit, wasn't it?
If that's what is was, yes, i'd be a problem. But it appears, from this witness, it was not. So let's suppose this witness is a good witness.

In some cultures it's natural to only say things out loud that one has thought of 'thoughtfully'. In others you say a lot out loud but without meaning much.

Just imagine a conversation between two sorority sisters or two fraternity brothers. They can have some pretty horrible things they say about other people --it's quite disgusting; I've overheard them. Would it be fair to bring those conversations up later in life, or as they're being considered for a job? should those conversations be "wrong"?

I'd rather people be free to have all kinds of nasty thoughts --but provide disincentive upon acting them out --not just thinking them.

Another question. Now, let's say said reporter might say something under her breath to confidants. Let's suppose she's happy to see some unraveling, and let's suppose the reporter/journalist even says some hyperbolic things --should such a reporter now be attacked for expressing such feelings? People are people and I think should be free to feel enmity against others --we can't pretend we like everyone out there.
Note that I said, "They don't value it." That doesn't mean it doesn't have any value.
It doesn't look like it was fixed. I tried:

1. Go to http://www.google.com/hangouts/

2. Click "get hangouts"

3. Click "computers"

Result is "You'll need to download Chrome before installing the Hangouts Chrome extension. Do you want to download Chrome now?"

edit: I think i remember being told on twitter that this was a confusing UI that would be changed. But that was several months ago.
Accounting. What to do? Are there any online services?
Does anyone use any "cloud" accountants? Any recommendations? Is there such a thing?
These are interesting points and my response wasn't intended to slap you down, as it were. I just see the question posed every time someone announces a shutdown here. And I don't think it's a bad question to ask, but it is quite loaded. I set out to explain why.

To your example, if someone tells you exactly how something was built, but didn't give you the source for the embodiment, that seems like a fine societal contribution to me. But, I'd probably argue that if it were truly that valuable to society, society probably should have found a way to support it, too. As long as the argument is no one owes a founder anything (which I can agree with), then the founder shouldn't owe anyone anything as a matter of fairness.
I wasn't aware of Europe having a dozen highly competitive and effective search engines, in a system superior to and contrary to the winner takes all outcome of Google.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a locally focused personal auction based website?
Like eBay but for specific cities/regions. I'm sure there are various sites like this out there, but it doesn't seem there is anything with any uptake.
Conflict of interest? What about the desire to break a story (and make your career) vs reporting what actually happened without sensationalising it?
Wow, that's some bullshit.
yes, and it scrunched them there - now they are still added on the right by scrunched on the left
Of those, the Google+ one is my favorite and I am glad Vic Gundotra got fired.
Why is everyone just attacking these people without trying the product at all? Does anyone share their scaling plans directly with HN? I'm very put off by the negativity here.

I think this is a great idea. There are a ton of patients who want a great new selection of their medicine delivered to them with no hassle. I'd love to try this service if they actually deliver on the "top shelf" promise. In my experience, not all "top shelf" flowers are made the same. Would be down to try a month though!
Researchers Advance 'Quantum Teleportation'
Right, the misunderstanding here is that "4d" = spacetime, which is not necessarily true. Generally speaking 4d is just a mathematical model, and our universe/classical physics is only one interpretation.
> rules right now are: 1. No green

What's your long term plan if you don't want to make any money?
Note that Go comes with a powerful refactoring tool "out of the box":

http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/

It allows easy renaming of variables, constants etc.
For me the issue is never getting users. I find that easy. Getting people to pay is another matter.
It's a question of timing. We did have social networks in the 90s, but the devices at the edge weren't strong enough to make them compelling, particularly as regards photos.

If you rolled back to the 90s you'd also notice AOL were regarded as a giant invincible behemoth in a similar position to Facebook or Google today.
You're not missing anything. This is paternalism. The notion that some entity or person knows better than you do, that consumers are too stupid to look out for their own well being, and that some authority should be able to force you to behave another way, or force you to use products you don't want to. Politically taken to its logical conclusion you end up in authoritarianism.
This is cool, but, you're missing one huge thing that is a glaring, glaring issue.

Are you not checking that the logged in user can access their own API projects? I signed up and was able to access whatever project I wanted. I created project 178, was able to change that to 171, to 2, to whatever I wanted, and saw their endpoints and what they were doing.

https://www.mocaroni.com/projects/2/paths/new

That's scoping 101. I see this is a Rails app. current_user.projects.find(2)

Like, hello?

That makes me wonder what else is available.
And yet in between the infractions and the punishment, however extreme, comes a system of justice based on laws, presumption of innocence, and equality before the law. An imperfect system, but at least one which aspires to impartiality and justice.

The parent is objecting to replacing that justice system with mob justice (which is usually disproportionate, harmful to everyone involved, and often just plain wrong).
It may or may not be a myth, but the only source backing up these assertions is Snowden himself by way of interviews.
Looking at the table of contents from amazon, it looks like the book covers the basic data structures, but the book's website says the following:

"I assume the reader has completed the equivalent of a second programming course, typically titled Data Structures or Computer Science II."

So its confusing to know the target audience. To me it looks like someone with one language under his belt and some basic math(algebra/precalculus?) can do alright.
I love it. I had this same idea but with a twist- the weed should come in a pillbox like so: http://www.triqplastics.co.uk/upload/U72374_67173.jpg

One little container a day, every 4 weeks.
Flow is the JavaScript type checker I have been waiting for
Isn't the problem with transducer typing is that transducers aren't very functional? In one of your posts you wrote:

System.in.setTransducer(lowerAlpha);

In the LINQ/functional origami world, you could only produce new streams, not transform an existing stream in place. Because a new stream is computed, a new type can be computed. However, from what I've seen with transducers, they would be limited to basically Func<T, Predicate<T>, T> signatures.
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For anyone going through the book and interested in looking up complete implementations, I've implemented quite a few of them in JS and Go:

https://github.com/peferron/algo

I'm at chapter 14.4 now, so still a long way to go.

(Note: activity the past 2 months was low because I was relocating and had nearly no free time. But I'm usually updating it actively. Gray code subset generation was added this morning. Integer partition generation and set partition generation are up next.)
Right. What he did not do was present it as if it came from an Uber corporate strategy meeting.
Why is this any better than just calling a delivery service that already exists? You get to maintain direct control over the strains you get that way as well. And you don't get any of the promotions from a physical dispensary.

Ex. Magnolia Wellness in Oakland does a $25 3.5g with a donation of $35 or more on Saturday, and 4.5g eighths on Sunday, both of which beat the price per gram of this service.
The Indiegogo perks really need to be rethought. I want to contribute, but I can't imagine I'll need more than the lowest ("30 CPU") level, at least to start, so I've only pledged $1. I'd much rather pay for 6 months or a year, and contribute $10 or $20.
Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems [pdf]
I am thinking of a tutorial on search result pages as a settlement.
I realize this is off topic, but I take serious issue with the statement that "Nevada is the entertainment capital of the world."