skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tactics that some companies (I don't know about Amazon) use verge on abusive. I remember hearing about Vodafone being subject to a tax investigation regarding billions they had in accounts in Luxembourg. They hired key people in the investigation to hamper progress. E.g.

http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/1774186/top-taxman-dit...

I think in the end the HMRC took a deal on Vodafone's terms. Nothing illegal but I think you could vilify that behavior.
You can't provide information that you don't have. Keeping no logs is the best default practice from a legal and privacy perspective.
I'm the author of this project. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Brief Intro:
This is a command line tool that is intended as a replacement for MySQL client.

It works with MySQL, MariaDB and Percona.

It is written in Python and it works in Python 2.6 to Python 3.4.

This is a counter part to http://pgcli.com.

MyCli was funded through Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1839007321/mysql-cli)
Almost certainly it was illegal, yes, certainly highly dubious process which at one point threatened to being down the European Commission president. The European Commission is investigating eg see [1] and Amazon have stopped doing it. Oh and Amazon's head of tax was Luxembourg Honorary Consul to the Seattle are, hum.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/15/amazon-lux...
My native language is Spanish and I speak a little English, mostly for work. I ran samples for both languages and suprisingly I got a very similar analysis!
Thats one of the reasons I like uBlock origin- supposedly, it says the ad was displayed/clicked on a webpage, which means I don't deal with ads and websites don't deal with money loss.
> "I've seen Uber drivers doing a U-turn at the stop sign, confusing other traffic"

There is nothing wrong with doing a U-turn at the stop sign, it's absolutely legal [1]

1. http://www.pe.com/articles/insurance-629158-traffic-vehicle....
Please point one single OSI-approved license that is not free by the FSF's Free Software Definition and/or the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

I'd be delighted to learn something I don't know. I asked Stallman once, and he could only remember a case where OSI messed up and then fixed it when they realised.
I assumed that this was a long running experiment, getting Google to reindex a new cached version between every test.
My Windows 10 installation fscked up my linux partitions that were on the same drive, and I was unable to repair tem... probably my own fault for not being careful, but very aggravating. The OS itself seems fairly smooth, though.
It looks like they are explicitly saying they want to make a machine that works for both types of HPC -- classic low-latency high-bandwidth internode communication (physics simulations) and modern Internet-driver high-bandwidth storage/node communications.

This is because the supercomputer community has long ignored the Internet-style of computation (MapReduce etc). But most of the new generation of scientists are adapting their codes to this new style, because dollar-for-dollar they can get more throughput than the classic style machines. Classic machines invest heavily in low-latency communication and typically require APIs like MPI to achieve it, while Internet HPC just uses well-designed TCP-based socket communications.

Building dual-design systems like this- especially when the community has little or no skill at building NG Internet HPC systems- is likely to produce a system that is good at few things.

Instead, build two systems. One is the largest (but not necessarily exaflop) you can afford and is a classic supercom[puter. Then, for the second, hire some datacenter designers from Google/Facebook and have them build a modern HPC cloud design.

The biologists will flock to the second one; they have long been underserved by the DOE supercomputing community.
If we happen to see Jeremy's gentleman's sausage, we can worry about it then. Doesn't change the fact that South Park and Family Guy are two extremely popular shows in the US. And one of them is on network television. I mean, Game of Thrones has plenty of full-frontal nudity and lewd acts, and no one cares. Because it's not network television.

My opinion? The people who care about such things aren't likely to be watching shows on Amazon anyway, so they would never even see them. Compare to the BBC where someone could be flipping through a channel and find it accidentally.
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I don't think these are the regulations that I read about banks trying to have removed.
We're probably going to hit the 20,000 photos milestone today. It's not much. But our users are allowed to upload only one photo per day. That's 20,000 days of couple of hundred people. Almost 55 years worth of photos :)

I'm looking for feedback on the UX, design and also any tips on getting traction, which I really struggle with.

Thank you!
I think he was extolling the virtues of large scale R&D spending and adding that the Cold War happened to be the impetus for this spending.

He parts with: "I wish private industry would do more." That seems to suggest his main point is large R&D spending, not the virtues of the Cold War.
how much data you can visualize with TauCharts? And on the first glance couldn't see how many different types of chart you can make.
Do you have a source for that information?
Great idea, and making this available in Kindle would be awesome!
> The reason Apple does this is to push content creators away from the Web and into native apps.

This is baloney, Apple hosts free apps at a loss. The idea that Apple wants you to have an app for every website is absolutely ridiculous. Safari is one of the most used iOS apps today and will be so for at least the better part of the next decade.

> Bullshit. They have their own advertising network they want to push.

iAds is a rounding error on Apple's business. In all likelihood Apple sees a competitive browser advantage: people like X, Google will not do X on Android. They'll load up The Verge during the keynote and show that it takes 1/X the time that the top of the line Android phones do and 11 year olds will walk around telling each other that Safari is X times faster than Chrome.
On a per-core basis, probably Power 8: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review...
Showing that it gets indexes does not show how well it would rank wrt normally visible text, though.
https://tuvalabs.com

Easy to import the data and allows you to visualize the information with various different chart types.
Define "conservatism" first ;)
That's usually a "I know it when I see it" thing, and there's a whole load of different strains when you look at the politicians espousing it as their primary value. Even within a single country, and once you cross borders it gets seriously confusing.

We can go the lazy route and say that if you're "conservative" and your current system isn't fascist, than you can't really promote or encourage fascism, because that would by definition be a change and change is bad. But I thin we can agree that this would be a type of conservatism that could only exist in a Moorcock novel about other planes, the Lords of Order or such things...

Also, one might not want to go too far back in the "inheritance" chain of fascism. I mean, to stay within the core topic, the Italian and German fascists certainly were quite "romantic" in the literary sense (a main point of Epic Poo), but I don't think we'd call Schiller or Byron proto-fascists...

So it probably comes down to having views who would touch fascist views in a big blurry Venn diagram, whereas crypto-fascists actually overlap in a more significant way.

But, again, this might be a fun topic for abstract discussion, but when it's tied to something more concrete it'll just prove to be needlessly divisive and incisive. I mean, just look up who popularized the term "crypto-fascist"...

This seems a very common British trait, by the way. Plenty of movies, books etc. about how nationalist and authoritarian you can get before you cross over into straight-forward 20th century fascism. Starting with the post-WW2 era and achieving a new high during the reign of the Wicked Witch.
This proves nothing.

Sure, it indexes the text, but that has no bearing on SEO.

Most people using hidden text use it as a keyword stuffing tool, stuffing more relevant keywords into the page in order to get higher page rankings.

A lot of SEO techniques and how Google views them comes down to intent. It's pretty clear using hidden text and other gray and black hat methods will be picked up by Google and penalized because its clear the intent is to try and gain an advantage in the SERPS. This has been true going on ten years or more:

source: https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change#2000

Cassandra — April 2003
Google cracked down on some basic link-quality issues, such as massive linking from co-owned domains. Cassandra also came down hard on hidden text and hidden links.
The UDP protocol unlike TCP does not have congestion control. This means that if both protocols share the write the TCP will always back off and let UDP use as much bandwidth as it wants.

Because router speed is not unlimited effectively UDP will reduce TCP's performance.

Also if UDP traffic would grow, there is the danger of congestion collapse, which means that one day the Internet would simply became so slow it would be unusable. This already happened in second half of 80s and was solved by adding congestion control and avoidance to TCP.

Why not add it to UDP? You might say. There were attempts, but are unsuccessful due to connection less nature of UDP.

This move is totally understandable and provably only thing we can effectively do today. I also don't think net neutrality can be applied here, since there is no discrimination of specific communication between two parties. All UDP traffic is limited it doesn't matter who is using it.
Cool project! Seems like its capabilities are somewhat similar to Hammerspoon, an OS X project where you can script almost anything in the OS with Lua. I believe it was forked from Mjolnir.

I use it for window management (which is it awesome at, especially considering I have a very complex arrangement with a 4K monitor + laptop screen), automatic mute when not home, remapping shortcuts, and more.

The config syntax is pretty simple and works great. There are some really cool ones all over the internet. Here's mine: https://github.com/STRML/init/blob/master/hammerspoon/init.l...

Hammerspoon Docs: http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/
His writing style makes me cringe... just unprofessional, regardless of content.
depends on the market share and monetization I think.

It would hurt content providers targeting the US much more than those who target the global market where iOS has a much lower market share...
No, militaries has been funding R&D long before the nuclear age.

http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online...

Rather than tell us how much you hate the military and capitalism maybe you can figure out a better way?

I'd love to see more non-military funding. Perhaps medical research could be used to increase public interest in funding supercomputer research?
I think they meant, avoid using over the internet.
It seems to me that Google has been a better influence with Webkit than Apple has. In my day-to-day work the only time Safari comes up is on iOS, and only then because we have no other choice.

The only time recently I've opened Safari on the desktop is to debug some obscure Javascript deficiency that only existed on that browser that also happened to exist in iOS.
Isn't this something everyone already knows? Basically if its in the code it's gonna get indexed. The real issue here is how those different methods rank against other "options" with similar search results, searching specifically among your own site isn't gonna yield anything that interesting.
I've never had an issue playing on Windows 7 Media Player out of the box (I skipped 8 and 8.1 chaos).
Everybody loses with the Clarkson fiasco. The Amazon deal will garner fewer viewers and lack the production quality that the BBC offers. The BBC reboot will have fewer viewers (from what I am told by British friends) and lack the brand personality of the former three hosts.

Perhaps this could be likened to Howard Stern moving to satellite radio. Is he as popular as he was when he was "free." The once self-declared "king of all media" is rarely talked about now.
I think the parent post is talking about the occasional job ads for YC companies, in the normal link list on the front page. You can recognize them since they cannot be upvoted. It's not like they pay money I guess, but get visibility to find talented workers.
> rock-solid chain-of-custody for the blood samples

Proof is the "alleged" steroid use of Ryan Braun - the Major League Baseball case where the guy in charge of the sample left it in his home over the weekend and Braun got off on this technicality
Amazon's video app on Fire TV over XFinity Blast 150Mbs service is brilliant.
Right, the whole article seems to prove something fairly obvious:

"So here You have it. Google can index (and indexes) hidden text and dynamically inserted text."

Then concludes the entire thing with something completely unrelated:

"If content is relavant [sic] to Your website, You won't get penalty from google."
99% of the compute time on this will probably be used for weapons, combat and civil emergency wargame simulations - but that doesn't make for good PR so of course they don't mention it in this sycophantic fluff piece.
It seems interesting for learning purpose.
Nope. Passwords used by them young folk just fit the requirements, and nothing else. Now, geeky XKCD readers probably use a variant of correcthorsebatterystaple, so we've got that going for us.
I agree on multi-factor point. Recently, some apps even grab the SMS automatically and authenticate. I was surprised early this week, an app actually grabbed my MasterCard Securecode OTP, automatically filled it in and pressed submit. So degrading user experience of OTPs is not very true on mobile.

Moreover, in the mobile dominant world, use of public computers is very less. So typically an authenticated session would last months or years, rather than a few hours. So it is less of an annoyance.
I mostly used AHK for keyboard stuff, so TextExpander would be my Mac equivalent, and within its domain it's a lot nicer and maybe even more powerful than AHK. Never done much mouse-scripting on any platform, though...
Probably it would be an equivalent of the three way handshake to make it extremely hard to fake source address.
Have not encountered any apps like you describe.
Examples?
I believe there are many studies linking tech work to poor mental health, so no, I don't agree that this is just 'law of averages' thing.
What do we want? 3D XPoint Memory..
When do we want it? NOW
Reading over the list of priorities in the PDF linked from the Whitehouse blog, the one that I was the most pleased about was improving HPC productivity.
You are not going to get a penalty for hidden text or trying to hide a text, you will still be indexed but that doesn't mean you will rank for what you are intending to rank for. Google is now miles better at detecting whats trying to trick it and whats not and if you try to compare these and see what ranks better the ones that are trying to hide stuff will rank much lower or wont rank for certain keywords.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/07/27/nsa-...

The NSA's currently being sued over its metadata collection. I wrote that comment slightly tongue-in-cheek, but repurposing that supercomputer for civilian use would actually be a great way to recoup some of your losses.
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Did you consider using or contributing to https://github.com/ChicagoBoss/tinymq? I use it extensively for "inter-otp app pub/sub" and it's robust.
No, he made well-reasoned points. You, on the other hand, have yet to.
Well, if there's a decent shift in behavior and expectations then it would be possible for that content to shift as well. Once upon a time all that content was in web apps, now it is in native apps, and it's possible for it go back.
Unless the task was to write an MVC or helper library I'd be concerned the candidate wasn't using a library of some sort. It's really interesting getting a sense of where someone spent their time on a project - asking the candidate that question has been the turning point in the discussion because it a.) tells you if they actually wrote the code and b.) gives you a closeup view on how the person thinks
Thanks for the links.

The more I read from this guy, the more I like him.

It's sort of a fine balance - we can't have everybody on tv making fun of gypsies and mexicans. On the other hand it feels too sterile when nobody can say what 90% of the people think.

I'm glad he exists.
(Thanks for the link. DC looks awesome.)

This is the feature that most users of QlikView, PowerView and Tableau are buying from an end user experience point of view.

There are essentially two types of dashboard experiences:

1. Static: a collage of individual visual elements presented as on a single page;

2. Interactive: the same as above but with the capability to do filtering.
according to the article "break it down by race and class, and suddenly the numbers look very bleak"..

- 15% of US adults (~37m people) don't use the internet
= 20% of black Americans
= 25% of Americans who make less than $30,000 a year
= 25% of adults who live in rural areas
= 30% of Americans who've never finished high school
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Ok, I think this doesn't mean much and is a flawed experiment.
The test url is: https://devx.lt/en/node/9 which contains ALL the content used in this experiment. All 9 tests are done on the same page, at once.

in the 4th experiment, he searches for "site:devx.lt GetJar is an independent mobile phone app store founded in Lithuania in..." and the result is returned WITHOUT any bold text. So this was a "most relevant" result, not a "found" case. Now the problem is, these paragraphs contain same words. Google returns "LinkedIn /ˌlɪŋkt.ˈɪn/ is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in..." because, for one it at least contains "founded" part and further the paragraph I'm sure there is more. Since the results are limited to "site:divx.lt", and paragraphs contain same words, of course all 9 tests end with "found", as it is the only page close to being relevant.

I'd like to see the same test repeated, -NOT- all tests on the same page.

Some tests return bolded results, so I consider them to be true. I think 1-2-4-5 are false positives.
I suspect there will always be a way to hide the text in a way that a search engine won't be able to detect. You can do this without applying any properties directly to the element containing text (raise other elements above it), hide it with JavaScript, or any number of such techniques.
While this pay be true, at some point profit trumps UX.

Look at how the iPod+iTunes morphed as soon as Apple realized how much money could be generated by adding DRM and a store.
A few years ago it sites would get penalised for hiding tags as this was used by some -often dodgy- sites to cheat their search rankings (eg lots of hidden text about popular search items to direct people to an anti-virus scam page).

So then Google started giving heavy precedence to larger text (this also puts emphasis on titles), which lead to some CMSs having a "tag cloud" where tags are meshed together with more relevant / popular search items being in a larger font than less relevant / popular tags.

I think Google has moved on again since then and now detects if keywords appear in a natural sentence or if it's an artificial cloud of tags designed purely for SEO - but I could be wrong there. However this is the sort of detail I would have expected / hoped an article with "SEO" in the title* to comment on.

* Article's title rather than the HN submission title.
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> I wouldn't give this or any other online test anything more than extreme skepticism.

Completely agreed.
Please remember that Apple created Webkit from KHTML, without them Chrome would have been way behind where they are now, both in terms of technology and pushing a new rendering engine. They may well have purchased Opera...

Toady Google have more resources invested in Blink than Apple do in Safari, but don't forget how we got here.
If you don't want the parent to blame Microsoft, I'll be happy to do it for them.

Stephen Elop was working for Microsoft's interests long before he ever joined the organization.

Nokia was the best steward of Qt, and I'm glad MS didn't get their hands on it when they had the chance.
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I'd go for as short (but still readable) as possible.

> robot.keys("Type a string")

> robot.keys(ENTER) // ENTER is an integer key value

(I've been thinking about this while trying to make an idiomatic node client for Selenium WebDriver... https://github.com/hugs/34#api)
> Rather than tell us how much you hate the military and capitalism maybe you can figure out a better way.

Well, knowing a few scientists, I can say that I know well the creative and inquiring spirits that advance us. The world is structured so that the people who do the actual development and discovery have to sell their talents to the logic of property and capital, either directly, or to the government that enforces that structure.

So, I think we're probably in agreement on the forces wherefrom those technologies came. I think we're also in agreement on whose behalf those forces act. I think we're probably in disagreement that capital is any better a master than the government it is in collusion with.
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Lost another 10 karma overnight for trying to join this discussion without going "hoo, haaa, obviously the whole world is racist and sexist and that disgusts me..." before voicing contrary opinions.
Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
The licensing became a lot more reasonable after the episode in 2003.

Licensing info here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#License

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html
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Thats a feeling I'm familiar with, I could never remember the formulas, but I could remember the steps to derive the formulas from what was on the page and the basic equations-It's not too different from stream of consciousness vs planned writing.
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Just because they will index it doesn't mean it won't harm your ability to rank for that text.

Google bot is a headless vesion of chrome - so while they can see that stuff, they also know when stuff isn't "visible" to the user and treat it accordingly.

The problem with tests like this is that you either need to test with site: or with made up terms - but the algorithm isn't static - it changes based on the corpus of relevant results. (e.g. if there's only 3 relevant results, then they won't apply spam penalties or panda weights, etc)

When you have such a small scale test, the corpus of results is always small - so it's not accurate.

I'm confident that if you tried these techniques on a site with content currently ranking in a highly competitive area, then changed it to one of these, your rankings would fall.
So, if I get this right, being 'data-friendly' sums up to using data in the form [ {val1: 1, val2: 2}, {val1: 2, val2: 3}] and then mapping x: 'val1', y: 'val2' instead of something like {x: [1,2], y: [2,3]}. The former assumes that the input data comes in a csv or a similar format. This makes charting computed data (à la MATLAB or numpy/matplotlib) rather awkward.