skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to the TotLol web site and it looks great.

Very clean elegant design. A high quality user experience.

Unfortunately, I agree with a previous comment, that creating a filtered replica of YouTube content, and delivered free of YouTube's ads is not something anyone can reasonably expect YouTube to continue to do over the long-term, regardless of what they might have said or not said at a point in time.

To build a business plan solely around scraps of bandwidth and server resources from a third-party site makes no sense. No need to bring up evil traps and conspiracy. It's just plain common sense on the part of Google to protect their business interest.

I am sympathetic to the entrepreneur's plight, but I think this problem represents a big gaping hole in business planning. I suggest seeking seasoned advisors who understand that only the paranoid survive.
This is why there should not be a capital gains tax. Inflation + capital gains tax = a natural tendency for governments to promote steady inflation. Imagine that inflation was 0% and every year you made 2% on your investments rather than 6% with 4% inflation. The government is losing over thirds of the revenue they could have had.
LÖVE 0.6.0 (lua game library) is released
I agree... it's a ridiculous description, and obviously the point is to confuse a less technical person into thinking 2 TB requires more than a single top-of-the-line HDD to store.
Whole Foods hasn't been making great profits lately. So they're not keeping organics expensive by high markup. Perhaps they're encouraging farmers to charge them more, but that seems unlikely.

It could just be that the produce they buy are higher-quality, higher-priced ones, in addition to being organic (or, as the article points out, "organic" but not in spirit).
/facepalm

oops.
His email is root 'at' cpan.org; that just dripps 1338.
I care about it as much as I care about Sarah Palin not using twitter.

How many times did twitter itself got hacked? From DNS hack to brute force password cracked (was no failed password limitation) to phishing attack to twitter employees account getting compromised to XSS attack to every single twitter account (earlier this year).

Twitter account of famous people getting hacked is part of the experience of using twitter. If someone stops using twitter for this, I don't feel bad about it.

Its twitter, not the end of the world.
I haven't done much research, but I do know of other very legit sites that do import Netflix ratings. Jinni.com is one example. Thanks for the heads up.
Landmark Forum - Cult - Religion - Way of life?
There are lot of questions and doubts regarding Landmark Forum. There are also many confusions and misconceptions regarding Landmark forum. Is landmark education cult, a religion or landmark education scam? If you want to hear the truth, it is none of the above. Landmark forum is actually a way of life and when you enroll for your Landmark forum program,
It seems like the major email providers could justify paying security experts to take down other botnets. 11% drop in spam has to have a positive impact on their bottom line. If you are MS, Google, or Yahoo with millions of accounts all that spam must represent a chunk of bandwidth, storage, and processing power.
Notable point: YouTube got where it is by ignoring the TOS of a huge percentage of the content it serves.
Yet it doesn't has the hype.
Tell PG: paulgraham.com is down
Just tried to access & it looks like the host is down.
Think its a neat idea, and could have a lot of uses from radio to podcasts, etc. What APIs/telecom libs are you currently using? Have you looked into Voice XML/ccXML?

I'm interested in writing some open source telcom APIs/server so I'm always curious to hear someone's thoughts that might be a potential user.
Not sure if you can really bucket this under "theoretical research." Theoretical research is at least grounded in logic and paper rationale. This case seems like a mix of equal parts ponzi scheme showmanship, conspiracy theory, and tech-illiterate paranoids.

I don't even think this ever got to the hands of the NSA or people who have the technical proficiency to call bs (this in and of itself is surprising given the sheer stupidity of what this clown was trying to sell).

If anything this fraud was faciliated by petty political and institutional bureaucratic jostling for relevance, power, and funding. Basically some tards, convinced that they're onto something big, hides it from everyone else because they don't want to share in the credit/fame. Not surprising given this is the US govt. Hell most corporations are like this too.

What I find most troubling about all of this is that after 9/11 there was a such a stink about intra-department communication and cooperation. The argument being that if people simply talked more with one another lapses in security and plain dum-dum-ness would be greatly reduced if not eliminated outright. Fuck, Bush even created a whole department to do just this!
But Google's business is actually 99.99% infringing. Everything is copyrighted, including but not limited to this website. (Under current U.S. law, Federal government publications are nearly the only thing not copyrighted.) In no case has the copyright owner expressed permission for you to copy the copyrighted text to your computer. And yet, that is very very close to 100% of Google's business - locating copyrighted texts and sending users to them in order for those users to copy them, presumably illegally, to their computers. Only in the very rare case (.gov websites, users finding their own websites) is the user not infringing copyright. Nor is it possible for the user to determine whether he/she is infringing copyright; for example, the text on a .gov website could be written by a government contractor and therefore be copyrighted.
I would imagine that the limited resource on earth would sell for an incredibly high price before getting depleted. Thus Earth would become a conservationist society, careful not to waste resources or produce too many humans.

It is hard to imagine that the incentive for space travel to find new source would be outraced by extremely fast usage of resources.

Plus there are asteroid belts to mine, and probably tons of them in the system that that Avatar is occupied.

From my political perspective, this is mostly a libertarian film that pit a peaceful tribe who rightfully homestead the island against a fascist corporation that was granted evil government privilege.

Though I can't help but think that most people will think this is about environmentalism and planting tree and that greedy evil free market corporation ruins everything.
That mockup actually looks really nice. Why can't we have that same level of aesthetics in the Mac version? The main reason I don't use Firefox on my Mac is due to the really ugly user interface.
It has worked out really well for us. Wes Gibbs had the original idea and we were just writing plain text and then running a ruby script he wrote to get the stories into Tracker through the api. The Vim plugin and packaging as a gem has made it a lot easier when working on multiple projects at a time and needing to write cards for all of them switching back and forth quickly.
A fool and his money are soon parted.

This story made me laugh, because it's like a modern re-telling of the Hans Andersen story "The Emperor's New Clothes". The Emperor, in this case played by George Bush and company, are so eager to believe all sorts of paranoid fantasies, such as that evil-doers are broadcasting secret messages via TV, that when a charlatan comes along claiming that he can prove that their darkest nightmares are true they're keen to make sure he gets to work on the tailoring right away, with no expense spared!
How about fixing the memory leaks before revamping the UI? the ui is fine.
All this is doing is just giving the bright minds behind the services that we love so much reasons to move and incorporate offshore and stop worrying about the evil power organizations such as MPAA and RIAA have to sue them, shut them down, send them to prison, you name it.

File sharing is not stealing.
File sharing is caring.

http://www.vincentchow.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/piracy...
your dedication and honesty is commendable...Don't give up!
This really stinks of something. The author is a bit sensationalist. We are also clearly missing Google's part of the story.
How is it a complex area of law? It seems to me the law is left ambiguous enough that it can be used to prosecute at the whims of the highest bidder, while making sure that the right parties are never held to the same standard.
As the site itself says, there are a few other libraries similar to nanoc, notably http://webby.rubyforge.org/ . However, nanoc looks to be a little easier to use, I'll have to check it out. Anyone else have any experience with static site generation?
The Future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands Dirty.
Hey, remember that whole discussion about measuring the productivity of programmers through the amount of money someone is willing to pay for their "output?"

Sounds like this guy was a very productive programmer.
I looked into it a little more today via the dev forum on nexflix.

A couple of relevant threads-

http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/49287

http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/52540

In short, it looks like you can't get full ratings history, though you can get up to 500 of them. And you can't store for more than 24 hours.

Though several months ago Netflix said they were looking to change the api so you could get the full history and also to change their TOS so you could be allowed to store it as a third party (with sufficient notification to the user that you were doing so).

So it may work out in the not too distant future.
I didn't see much insight here. It was the typical liberal "00 was the decade of Bush and Bush is bad" with a little social media admiration mixed in.

The truth, I think, is that the last decade was simply a hard one and George Bush was just a product of his times. It was a decade where the U.S. chose security over freedom and grew into a nation it didn't want to be. While Bush was just a President who was not wise enough to turn the country around while being appeasing enough to give the nation what it thought it wanted.

I know some here love Barack Obama but I think he represents the same one-sided mentality of the last decade. He is the knee jerk reaction to Bush, opposite in every way and just as extreme to the other side.

My hope is that the next decade finds a balance this one has lacked.
Playboy?
Ask HN: Best invoicing app?
Hi,
I made a search lately of a good invoicing app. I found Freshbook good. However they don't support moneybookers; and I failed finding one.

I wonder what invoicing app you use and if you know one that supports Moneybookers.
Thanks
"Time shifting" is legitimate fair use if you record the shows yourself for your own personal use. If you claim that because the episode you are downloading was at one point in the past shown on broadcast TV you are "time shifting" it then you would not get very far on court.
While there are some interesting points in this article, I didn't take this movie as either anti-corporate or anti-technology.

It's more anti-military / anti-imperialism than anti-corporate. Yes, the bad guys are a corporation, but I get the feeling that they did that to make the film more marketable. Americans probably would have a much harder time cheering for the aliens who are slaughtering US Marines. But very little about plot would have changed had the bad guys been military instead of a private corporation.

As for anti-technology, I think it's more about the dangers of abusing power of any kind, including the power that technology lends us.
Is this supposed to demonstrate a copy of the w* information architecture? Or just the surface æsthetics?
Rush is my new favorite. http://github.com/adamwiggins/rush

A Ruby shell that allows you to do things like,

local_dir = Rush::Box.new('localhost')['/Users/adam/server_logs/'].create
servers = %w(www1 www2 www3).map { |n| Rush::Box.new(n) }
servers.each { |s| s['/var/log/nginx/access.log'].copy_to local_dir["#{s.host}_access.log"] }
I think it was two or three months (http://www.checkoutapp.com).
People will pay for feature $x a month, if that features helps them boost their earnings $2x; think of that: which features can make your client richer? How much? and charge!
Different teams, different talents, maybe? Are you saying the user interface people should just stop working until the developers have done their bit?
+1 For the cool poem.
I have a hard time thinking that Obama is different than Bush. All he seem to be doing is getting stuck into wars, and endorsing the Bush administration's policy of interventionism into the economy.

Plus, I still remember the anger and betrayal I felt when Obama signed the act that immunize telecoms for their spying activities. They don't even pretend to be subtle about it!
IPhone App Sees 700% Sales Increase Christmas Day
In Jan of 2009 we released an iPhone game called Rainbow Ninja - fun, if not particularly economically exciting project.

On average the app sells 7 units a day, never more than 15 in the last 6 months.

Here are sales stats over Christmas - first digit being date, second being units moved:

21 = 5

22 = 6

23 = 6

24 = 13

25 = 50

26 = 15

27 = 24

50 units in one day smashes previous records.

Anybody see similar LEAPS on Christmas day and sustained over the next few days?

How was this Christmas for you vs. last Christmas?
It's Twitter, it IS a big deal. It is the direct link between the artist (or politician) and his public. Over one million people follow Fry's tweets daily, and a multiple of that hears about them or reads about it on other websites (in fact, several times BBC News has reported on his tweets). You can be sure that I would defend a list of a million followers tooth and nail, and not just for monetary purposes.

Some weeks ago Stephen Fry was watching some live sporting event from his sofa, wrote a tweet about it, and got a reply from the presenters ON AIR. In a program broadcast to millions.

I think your position is that you don't care about these people and their use of Twitter. Fine, but THEY care.

Besides, a tweet like this from Sarah Palin is worth more than ten press releases: http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/6823906156
There are, fundamentally, two different ways to approach science fiction, exemplified by Star Trek and Star Wars. The "Trek" style uses a "weird" setting to enable social commentary that would otherwise be either unpalatable or simply impossible. In the "Wars" style, the "weird" setting is the whole point: the reader/viewer can witness world-building on a grander scale than would otherwise be possible, and the plot can include elements that the audience would never otherwise swallow.

There's almost always some crossover between the two, but it's important to remember that each is very difficult to do well. Very few artists are skilled at both. A work that tries to focus on both, as Avatar does, usually fails.

Avatar is an excellent example of world-building, on possibly a bit too grand a scale for a movie: there are a handful of things that should have been explained away or lampshaded, but the explanations just wouldn't fit into an already-too-long movie. Where it falls flat is in its attempted social commentary.
Then the popular torrent search engines should become really crappy general purpose search engines, that just happen to be good for torrent searching.
I am pleasantly surprised to see one of my own articles on here which I did not submit myself. I'm glad someone liked it enough to submit it.

Thanks HN.
Do you really think that this kind of willingness-to-believe stops at "George Bush and company"?

I mean can understand the hilarity of the situation, but seriously - this guy should be in jail.
Those "quick" links are editorial promotion by Google. Algorithms don't pick those links.
This is a bit off topic, but I related Avatar to Rudy Rucker's Postsingular. Same theme of technology becoming irrelevant when faced with superior natural/supernatural alternative, which I think reveals what we subconsciously desire, try and fail to create with technology.

Just like Postsingular made me wish someone would figure out how to strum the "lazy eight", Avatar left me wishing life on Earth came with an organic USB cable.

Sorry if there's a spoiler in there...
They didn't like how it was being used (probably by other sites) and changed the terms to something they liked better.

And that's fine. The deception was in not telling him about it and inducing him to continue down a path with no upside. It's similar to the GIF patent fiasco where Unisys deliberately avoided publicizing their patent until the format was entrenched. It may be legal, but it's scummy.
I think the main part was already covered, but there is one important detail left uncorrected:

They are expression modifiers and conditional expressions. Everything in Ruby is an expression, not a statement.
You are stuck with ideas but you have a potential. Try something simple, if you are not working for money so you'll really not care if 10 or 20K users use it every day.

Look around, what can help people? Something simple, small and easily maintainable. Finding it is a little hard. Don't forget that no one will give you the idea; but you can find it yourself.

Do a little search on forums, what are people looking for? what causes them headaches? May be the solution is a little Firefox plugin, but it can help kill your free time... if you finished it, go to the next one. One of those projects may turn big and take to what you have never thought of...
I think another way of looking at this is what can you do to make critical systems more robust and resilient.

The capability to monitor, deploy, and rollback new features/fixes on short notice would seem to be a part of that, even if actually used infrequently. I would think that you would need to be able to respond to a change in the environment the system is operating in as much ensure that a new release doesn't contain bugs that would manifest in your current understanding of the operating environment.

I am suggesting that much if not all of the infrastructure needed to reliably patch/rollback critical systems can also be used for continuous deployment at the option of the development team and/or the customer.

So in the event that a P1 hit a continuously operating network application (e.g. power grid) the ability to deploy and rollback new features rapidly in response might be a valuable option to have. It's an approach that increases resilience. This does not mean you have to do this all of the time.
Now that is a twisted story.... By the way, I hate to say it but why is Playboy the trusted source in this article?
I agree with all 3 of your points.
Your page seems very 1990s or early 2000s in its design. Either that or a manufacturer's B2B website, not a B2C like you seem to be marketing at.

I would highly recommend outsourcing your design to some place (even some place that could do it on the cheap).

The product looks amazing though!
Nope. An API provider and API user form a relationship that should be based on respect. I respected Google. What did they do? Read the link.
I totally agree. They should also work on making a true 64 bit version. As it is Firefox can not compete with 64 bit Safari running on Mac OS X. Firefox is going to fall behind unless they go 64 bit as well.
Why we shouldn't worry about US manufacturing jobs
I had one customer within the first week or so of going live, but unfortunately that's still my only paying customer to date.

I'm still struggling with the freemium business model and how to weight things to get people to upgrade to the pricier versions.
Google may not be able to take action against him, but they can certainly revoke his API key.
This is a very good reason to use a language with built in memory management.
We have been doing that for years but we called it "paint".
>> "These days he is more accurately described as a political figure than an actor."

What??? I guess you don't watch BBC TV do you.

QI (Fantastic series).
Kingdom.
Stephen Fry's America
Last chance to see
etc etc

(Most of these from the last year or 2).
He's first and foremost known as a fantastic comedian and maker of good quality TV.
One In Five Divorce Petitions Mention Facebook?
Fuck aesthetics. As long as it works and doesn't get in my way, I'll be content, and it'll be ahead of 99% of software.
I have to think that this article is a joke for anyone of above-average intelligence who is over the age of 35. How could you look at the economy over the last 9 years and not see a disaster in the making? Wasn't the real estate bubble clear to you? Wasn't the potemkin profit of the financial industry obvious? Didn't the self-destructive greed of conservatives scream at you that this situation could not be maintained?

But forget all that. Correct predictions about the future are coincidences, more often than not.

What about your job history? How many years have you worked in a single company? How many times have you seen corporations adopt unstable or simply idiotic business models? (If you're a programmer like me, how many code bases have you seen that had evolved to the point of unmaintainability?) And most of all, how many layoffs have you personally experienced?

I haven't been optimistic about the job market since the IT bubble burst. I've gone through layoff after layoff, and fled from one apparently stable (but failing) company to another. Every meeting now seems to me like a potential announcement of disaster. Every paycheck seems like my last.

Will positive thinking kill your career? Obviously, if you're naive enough to have ever adopted it.
I have only heard that term used in the UK, not in the US.

I think that usage of naught/nought for zero in British English is pretty standard. In the US, it can be used to mean "nothing" (e.g. "all for naught") but not zero.
Cameron's thinly veiled message clearly seemed to be that the corporations are out to destroy the earth and everything green causing overpopulation. The whole thing seemed kind of juvenile, especially when you consider the abundance that has been caused by corporate competition, which has in turn directly lead to decreasing birth rates in developed countries. The two factors, overpopulation and corporations destroying the earth for resources, are contradictory.
Good reverse pattern research:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22winning+radio+contests%22

By offering up a specific number of channels (i.e. incoming ports for calls) you could also specify what percentage of busy rings you could anticipate (example: Erlang/Engset calculations) to give the adrenaline effect that is more desirable -- hearing a "sorry you are caller # 4" vs a fast busy.

You could also play back an advertisement for 20 seconds saying that to be registered as a caller you need to listen to this or their calling party NPA-NXX-XXXX will be removed from the call count listing.

Sell the 20 seconds of ad time to local businesses saying things like "mention Blogcaster offer 14 to get 20% off your next meal" or unique one time numbers used for Amazon or other discounts where those numbers can be manufactured.
How is it you can possibly say "simplicity of the instruction operations" and "programmed the x86 architecture in assembly extensively" with a straight face? This is the architecture where the division operator dumps its dross in one specific nominally general purpose register (my brain says CX but I could believe one of the others).
I just got a Droid recently. I'm reasonably happy with it (I was die-hard Blackberry user.) I am thrilled with the Verizon network coverage etc. The software has rough edges in places but feels like it's moving pretty quickly.

Disclosure, I work at Google. Not on Android, though.
having not used wine, i'll take your word for the 'slow' part. but what about it is 'opaque'?