skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you get in touch with these larger IT companies?
Projected figures after 5 years?
I'd like to see some source on this information please.

I know they'll make up for in data, but $1.2 trillion?
I say "command line" or "command prompt" when speaking to a Windows-based/minded audience. I drop the 'interface' part as there shouldn't be confusion over it.

I use "terminal" when speaking to a UNIX-based/minded audience.

I pronounce it "C-L-I" when thinking to myself.
Consider re-framing. I choose not to be overly competitive at work

Fuck yeah. I re-framed and now I compete at home. I eat dinner and doze off on the sofa like a mother fucking CHAMPION :)
huh? why would Facebook back out of the organization they created?
WIN a free year of co-working around the world? YES
Unpatched exploits in the human biocomputer
That's awesome. I am looking forward to following this. He can certainly learn quite a lot of the supporting theory working with just pencil and paper...

...and submitting a program for "compilation by email" is very old school, like our punch card days, only a bit slower.
Go Challenge Winner: Jeremy Jay
I'd say Facebook's moves here are more sinister than Microsoft's (or Apple's - they do the same thing). In the MS/Apple cases, it's simply about pushing product. In FB's case it's about pulling up the ladder after they've climbed it (balkanized Internet means dominant services like FB stay dominant).

After the fwd.us debacle and now this, why should anyone trust Zuck and Facebook in terms of "philanthropy"?
> So anti-competitive actions/feature/function is only a problem once you reach a certain market share?

Yes, the effect of laws that are about constraining harmful uses of market power depend, among other things, on whether or not an actor has market power in the market at issue.

I'm not sure why this is surprising.
>That style of interaction does sound a lot easier to facilitate in an open-plan office.

What about something in the middle i.e. small teams working in offices by themselves, who've sufficient privacy from the grand noise of a totally open-plan office yet can communicate/chat/etc. amongst themselves very freely?
Google News shows headlines and small snippets, but if users are interested in a story, they have to go to the newspaper to read it. It's to the newspapers' own benefit. Google doesn't make money from News directly (no advertising).

What German publisher Axel Springer tried to legislate was the equivalent of forcing Google to pay for sending them traffic: have your cake and get paid to eat it, too.
JSOS – An operating system written in JavaScript
I wrote a similar comment once[1], check those that replied to me. Also, here's an article from Reuters[2] with some details. I'm on mobile, so sorry I can't provide better sources.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8667309

[2] http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0IP1YT20141105?irpc...
Benchling's awesome - definitely a well-designed (and much needed!) tool for biologists. They've done a great job with adding new features, from CRISPR design to gel analysis, and their latest electronic lab notebook update is a compelling step towards becoming the central hub for designing, storing and sharing experiments and data.
The awesome thing about Tinder is: a ton of hot girls use it; not just girls: hot girls. This sounds shallow, but it's not.
They somehow managed to make them believe there is nothing wrong with looking for a hook up online (and that's true) but only if you look for it through the right channel.

So at the end of the day no hot girls care about anonymity, they care about not being judged for their choices, and for the better or wrong we still need a hip app to make it happen.

Which in turn is quite ironic: the philosophy was around since the 60s, but the implementation is unmistakably a product of contemporary capitalism.
Ask HN: Developers, do unexpected ad-hoc requests piss you off? How to avoid?
TL;DR

When you're at work, how often do unexpected tasks crop up from management? And does this piss you off? And does anyone know how to avoid it?

To explain...

My company combines client work and internal product development. The client work can be very reactive at times. E.g. "Can you fix this bug and build and resend it to us within the hour?", "Can you just get this feature done in the next 2 days?" etc.

As a developer, I personally want to know what I'm doing for 80%-90% of the week, and can handle a few surprises. As a manager, my feeling is that I need to reduce or batch the ad-hoc requests from clients as they're pissing us off. Any thoughts on how you achieve that would be appreciated :)
First Quantum Music Composition Unveiled
The piano in the main studio as well. He is "animated" for lack of a better word, at certain angles. The sound even moves through your headphones as you move around as if you were in the room.
I couldn't even remember what foursquare was ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Google I/O badges will have photos on them
Ticket holders for the upcoming Google I/O conference just received an email today which reads: "New this year, your Google I/O badge will feature your photo." The message indicates that if attendees do not upload a photo ahead of time, one will be taken on-site during check in. There does not appear to be an option for attendees to not supply a photo or to not have one on their badge. Is this Google's plan to prevent badge-sharing? Given the scarcity of tickets (which are purchased using a lottery system), this seems unusually restrictive.
Speculative fiction and novelty
Duplicate, see earlier discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378898
Maybe not royally. But definitely shouldn't drive. The mistaken belief that you CAN still drive after 2 beers is the reason drunk driving is such a big problem.
A developmental psychologist I have known for many years opines that there is roughly as much variance between genders as there is within genders.
Having no organization like EFF is something that needs to be fixed. Depending on volunteers for such activity may not always be feasible in long term fights like this. #Sec66A fight took 3 years of dedication by many individuals to reach some conclusion and we can be sure many such fights will come in future. https://wethegoondas.in/ is such issue which still hasnt got enough attraction. Are there efforts in forming a non-profit organization which will work on such issues on long term basis. Crowd funding for the same when the issue in limelight seems to be the best thing if we have committed people coming forward to work and lead the organization.
> Given how much of their traffic and online revenue comes from Google they all agreed, rendering the law moot.

I think "revealing the law was based on a false premise" would be more accurate than "rendering the law moot".

The premise of the law was that by showing snippets, Google was taking something away from the newspapers. If that were true, Google's "give us what we were 'taking' for free or we'll stop taking it" deal would have been rejected out of hand. The fact is, Google was providing the newspapers a valuable service by showing the snippets, which is why, given the choice between Google not doing so at all and Google doing so without paying anything, they chose the latter.
love your demo
That's been my experience too. I've completely given up on Yelp.
There's also the aspect, that I seldom see mentioned, that being a "nerd" was considered unattractive/uncool in the 80s (in part because of movies like "Revenge of the Nerds").
On Rockstar and Ninja Programmers
Yes: it's not just about money, but also about being able to take the time to study and practice.

This affects the really poor: for example, if you're working three retail jobs just to stay afloat, you're not going to have any time to hone your skills or hobbies.
The Eternal Return of BuzzFeed
A lot of people here don't realize Foursquare is something entirely different now. When it comes to traveling to a new place Foursquare definitely beats Yelp in recommendations.

For check-ins and that sort of gamification there is Swarm.
Microsoft is reportedly cutting their Android patent fees in return for manufacturers pre-installing apps such as Office, OneDrive, and Skype on Android devices, so it's definitely not prohibited: http://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-cuts-patent-fees-f...

Samsung is also notorious for pre-installing TouchWiz apps that duplicate functionality provided by Google's apps.
Vulnerability in YouTube allowed moving comments from any video to another
Sample size of one = only sample size important to that one :-p
Google Handwriting input for Android
Also, I would hardly consider the OHA's MADA a "venue for collaboration". A venue for control, sure. Collaboration, no.
This should save everyone a few minutes:
Okay, let’s get back to the big question: Does the transitive property work in college football?
Yes.
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But sometimes it might take a little imagination

I wish I could go into detail on why everything about this article is wrong, but I can't. Luckily the author discredits his own premise, but unfortunately not until you get to the end.
Are you saying that PR is not a valid business concern? Investor's and Consumer's perception of a company is as relevant as the products quality. Don't you think that people would be more hesitant to do business with a company labeled as "racist" in the public's opinion?
Steve Albini Weighs in on Tidal Debate
I'm currently writing a series of posts dissecting the damning TRAI consultation paper (115 pages long).

You can follow that at http://www.zodvik.com/2015/04/15/damn-trai-paper-1/ and contact me if you feel there are improvements to be made (or submit them via PR)
I don't know if its the same in all cities, but in Austin I have actually had taxi services refuse to pick me up if I give an address that is a bar, regardless of my level of inebriation.

Uber may not be a model corporate citizen, but I have trouble as seeing this as anything but a good move. Particularly, given that my current city has a pretty big issue with drunk drivers.
Popular support for net neutrality rallied at the last minute by comedians, eh? Comments sent en masse to a regulatory body? Sounds familiar! Hopefully the result will be the same.
That the IRS does not have all of the necessary information until after individual tax returns are due is probably because people have to file their own taxes. They don't need those forms until people file their own taxes, because they don't need to verify until after the taxes are filed. That can be changed, if we want the IRS to send people provisional reports that say, "Here is what we think [you owe | we owe you]. If you agree, sign and return. Otherwise, file using the appropriate forms."
Next up: Haskell as a Sandwich, and Python as an Atom.
Actually, Google's MADA terms specify what must be on the homescreen by default and how it must be arranged.
They have the choice of dealing with shitfaced passengers mainly through the hours they choose to work, pretty much all of them accept that working from late evening to early morning that most of their fares will be people who have been drinking, and a portion of those will be shitfaced.
Using pyenv for Python projects
Bit surprised you are doing Reddit-style snark on HN, or maybe I just usually read the insightful upvoted ones :)
AirDroid: How Much Do Your Apps Know?
And it has the added benefit of forcing thinking before executing. Along with a potentially very forgiving "compiler". In college at GT prior to 2002 (2003?) the intro class was taught using a pascal based pseudocode. The TAs grading it were necessarily lenient on issues of syntax and the students could focus on the semantics of the program. Need a function that interacts with the outside world (reads a character, draws a figure to a screen, whatever)? Just say that's what it does and it does it.

This leaves the student with a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures, and in the follow-on courses they can worry about stricter syntax (language and APIs).
I'm primarily a haskell developer and most haskell source files are relatively small so I don't have too many issues with speed or lag. I just love atom, the look and feel, package installations, extensibility ...
Agreed, it does the Patrick and the community a disservice to embellish his accomplishments. They stand on their own just fine.
Author sounds pretty darn smart. But, hey, he/she couldn't come up with the correct solution in the allotted time, under pressure, with a marker in his hand - must not be good enough. Hope the candidate they took on meets all of their expectations.
I might be sounding as taking Uber for overly cynical, but it really sounds like yet another way to kill all competitors. And if it is, I am wondering what will happen when all competition is indeed killed. Will they keep burning money on it (as they do today on uberpool), or stop the whole program, andmake people chose between paying an uber or driving home wasted ?
I'd bet on the second case, in which case the reduction of DYI will only be temporary, followed to a potential increase compared to current rates (due to people drinking more becaus of this stunt). Am I paranoid ?
Way to sneak in "(although not to others)". That's the whole argument. When you drive drunk you endanger others who did not make the same irresponsible choices you did. If drunk driving only injured drunk drivers, we, as a society, would not care nearly as much as we do.

Who cares if some drunk guy kills himself behind the wheel because he's too selfish to make the right choice? It's when he kills a family with a couple kids in the backseat that we have a problem.
That only works if you're white.
Facebook pays. And then owns the user.
"And by "responsible" I mean: Every dependent security announcement of a dependent package also becomes your security announcement."

Yes, and no, because as the developer you can look at the security vulnerability and decide if its actually exploitable in your application. That is assuming you can determine it, but in a lot of cases its simple. Especially in a huge library like openSSL. Say for example the only thing i'm using openSSL for is some limited functionality, say SHA256, then I probably can ignore 99.99% of the security issues because they just won't apply.

I've been in this situation with an embedded platform that ships as part of the product I work on. Its pretty much got daily security updates, and yet we rarely get hit by any of them because our usage of the platform is like 1% of its functionality.
/r/thebutton All those clicks could feed a person for a year via freerice.com
Found by Elastic – Hosted Elasticsearch
> In the future servers are paid for by shilling.

What? This sounds interesting but I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?
India has a Competition Commission since 2002.

http://www.cci.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...
Economic Incentives Pit Listing Agent Against Homeowner
Unless someone makes a bug bounty program for Dropbox bugs that offers more than Dropbox does. I don't know what the fair market rate for these bugs are, but it could well be higher than what Dropbox is offering.
In retrospect, my own education would probably have been much more rigorous if I'd been denied access to a computer while learning the fundamentals.

Very interested to see if anything comes of this.
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I still use sublime for all of my projects. I don't see any reason to change over
So you'd like to take the fob out of your pocket, push a button to enable proximity unlock for a brief interval, place the fob back in your pocket, and then have the door unlock when you approach the car?

I'm clearly missing something.
In long term, yes this needs to be fixed. However, this time, the voluteers kept most of the stuff low profile. As of now, I am not aware of any non-profit organization like this. Maybe this is something that can be done after this debate settles down.
2 places is better than N places. At the cost of slightly heavier enum declarations (2 places), you get rid of tests throughout the code for particular enum values.

Also consider inheiritance and enums. Derived classes have to jump through hoops to extend enum space e.g. enum { tractor = truck+1, crane, bulldozer}; where truck was the last enum value in the base class.

With the tuple method, you just add some more tuples.
I had a few computer science theory classes where we never wrote any code. Algorithms can be worked out on pencil and paper. Imagine, for example, trying out different sorting algorithms by using twenty different strips of paper of all different lengths on a table.

Remember that a lot of the theory of computer science was invented before there were any computers as we known them today. George Boole, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, and probably lots of others I am forgetting never saw a computer in their lifetimes.
Google and Twitter are not on internet.org. They are Facebook competitors after all. So much for Facebook's mission of "connecting the world". As ClearTrip said today in its statement: "it is impossible to pretend there is no conflict of interest".
If a company wanted to provide aid and give away food, we don't claim that it is creating an unfair market for the local food industry.

If Wikipedia want to give away free access to information, suddenly its an unfair advantage in the market of free information?
> There's tons of evidence that women are excluded from our industry, at every level -- high school, university, and even the ones that graduate and go on to work in the industry drop out at a very high rate.

Can you point these out? Last study I saw, women entering industry tracks very closely with women graduating with CS degrees, which strongly implies that if there's a problem it's in women entering CS programs, not with industry.
That would also reinforce the importance of checking things work first time. With the rapid feedback we get now, the temptation to hack away gets in the way of properly understanding and predicting what the effect of the changes will be.
This sounds like the exact opposite PR image that Uber wants to create. "We make it easier for you to get drunk." This would be like OpenDoor advertising "Sell your house more quickly during a divorce." Technically, yes, but that's not a sustainable image for your company.
Thanks for posting, Jeremy! Sorry about the outage last night.
It used to be that when I submitted a link, if it already existed, I'd be taken to the comments page of the existing link but the up-vote arrow was gone; implying that I had up-voted.

Now the same thing happens except that the up-vote arrow is still there.
I thought something similar. In that I read this and immediately thought 'wow Uber came up with a way to cut into one of the Taxi systems cash cows even more' Now if they come up with something like cheaper rates when one end point of your trip is an airport they can take a cut of the other big one. It seems remarkably clever as an idea to hurt their competition, just enough evil to seem charming to me in this light.
btw, this was posted a few days ago on HN, http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jul/20/higgs-field-new-...
It's been widely discussed

http://www.dw.de/german-publishers-vs-google/a-18030444

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/us-google-axel-spr...

In the end german newspapers gave Google permission to use snippets of content without paying any royalties. They needed Google News traffic more than Google needed them.

Which is the reason why spanish lawmakers made a similar law but with a mandatory royalties clause. Spanish newspapers cannot give an exemption to any company, under the law paying royalties for using snippets is mandatory regardless of the content owner wishes. This law is not currently being enforced, but the consequences are dramatic all the same: Google has shut down Google News Spain, and other content aggregators are under threat of being hit with fines at any moment.

And that's why I'm not currently allowing feedbunch.com users to subscribe to RSS feeds from spanish newspaper publishers, until the situation changes. Anti-monopoly legislation is fine, but sometimes it can be a hammer that the big players use to hit each other instead of a tool to help new players get in the market.
They do have downsides, but you gloss over the main reason to use macros; they're an extremely powerful tool.
I'm not quite satisfied with the explanation in the article -- maybe someone with radio signal experience can help me out?

Assuming that the unlock is accomplished over 2-way communication (car calls to key, key responds), I can understand how an amplifier could boost the car signal to a key that was far away, but how does it boost the key's response to accomplish the second half of the process?
I believe you missed the legal hypothetical wording of my post. Although your first question doesn't really need an answer as I'd expect it to be self-evident.

E.g. this Google blog post on the matter:
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-free-antit...

"It is true that if a company has a dominant product, it may run afoul of antitrust laws if it "ties" that product to another -- for instance, by requiring customers who buy that product to buy another product as well. When a company provides products for free on a stand-alone basis, however, it's not requiring anyone to buy anything. It may take business away from other companies trying to charge users for similar products, but that's hardly an antitrust issue."

Which is to say they (surprise!) concluded in 2009 that there can't be anti-trust concerns because anti-trust laws don't cover free products, and Google is giving the things in question away for free.

Which to me is a clever way of saying "anti-trust laws weren't designed in a digital age where the per-unit production costs of a product (ex-development and up-front costs) can feasibly be zero".
Baseball’s new metal detectors won’t keep you safe
Can someone explain the comment about how quadratic time complexity does not scale?
Google Handwriting Input in 82 languages on your Android mobile device
I just bought the book. Sounds like a very nice read. Thanks.
I still find it a bit slow and a bit of a memory hog. But its very nice and getting better.
Some Seagates lie for that value in their SMART entry. It reports an offset from optimal temperature, which always fails the SMART test.
Normally I would say a published study but I have seen so many studies that had a horrible methodology, where the data was twisted to show something that it didn't (like this NPR study or the famous 1/4 of every women is raped at university) or where the authors plain went ahead and lied.

At a minimum for anything to be convincing it would have to show why there were less women who start studying computer science than men and that same thing can't be why there are more women who chooses to become nurses than there are men who choose to become nurses (since that something would then be either biological or societal in either case it wouldn't be an issue with our field). Depending on the specifics, I reserve the right to raise further objections.
I only say "C-L-I". It is an initialism (read the initials), not an acronym (read as a word).
Yep, I can't define it precisely but something about Atom has this comfortable feel. What Haskell package would you recommend, btw?
And this is why I'll get myself a VW T4 again once I have the cash. Unlike T5, easily repairable by yourself and not much electronic bullshit that is vulnerable to hacking or just general wear (I'm looking at you, Renault).

Only thing I'm gonna add is a Raspberry Pi for general monitoring, webcam and a 3G uplink with GPS.
Can anyone recommend the two books the author recommends? I haven't read either and it would nice to have something interesting during the commute.
They already do that by providing flat rates to/from many major airports to their corresponding downtown zones.