skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty well established that it's fine to submit your own articles to HN, provided they meet the standard HN criteria for story submission. The fact that this is less than an hour old and nearly at the top of the front page would seem to indicate that people find it interesting.

EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129291
Notice that the GMail tab is just an icon. I wonder if that's a replacement for a bookmarks toolbar? Possibly, Mozilla is planning for the tabs & bookmarks toolbars to be combined in the same way that the quicklaunch & taskbar toolbars were in the transition from Vista to Windows 7.

Instead of an icon to create windows/tabs, the icon is the window or tab (just like the OS X dock). I really like this idea and hope it's true. I always preferred the dock to the Windows taskbar, so the W7 taskbar was a great feature IMO.
Hey Chad, too bad about your original idea. I liked that one. Anyways, I think you need to think where contests are headed, especially when considering conferences, live podcasts, etc. Many people are going the SMS route, so if the app could integrate both phone calls and SMS, I think that would be fancy. Just my 2 cents. See you next week.
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I take it you haven't seen Chrome's pinned tabs? They look precisely like that.

The mockup looks like a Mozilla branded Chrome to be honest. Which is a good thing.
Christmas boosts the national economy. Business do better, more jobs are kept/created. Families worry less about employment. Families have a happier Christmas.
No, neither of us are lawyers (let's keep this http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/ in mind) but since you've cited case law at me, then who am I to ruin an IP law speculation-fest.

Perhaps "it's illegal" is too bold a statement, but I do think that if tptacek got sued by HBO for torrenting True Blood then a fair use defense would not hold up. That's just my not-a-lawyer opinion, and I don't know of any precedent for this fair-use-timeshifting-by-proxy defense (do you?) but hey we might actually see a case like this soon. Last season HBO was monitoring the True Blood torrents and sending out C&D's to the ISPs of all peers with US IP addresses, if the Pirate Bay comments were to be believed.

Anyway, here's my not-a-lawyer reasoning: copyright law grants all rights of copying and distribution to the originator of the work and these are only transferred to a second party by written contract, EXCEPT for fair use (and first sale and other exceptions like that.) According to Wikipedia, fair use is a nebulous thing and varies from case to case but from what I can see it only gives you the right to copy for personal use (Tivo good) and never distribution (torrents bad). In fact Joel Tenenbaum and Jaimie Thomas both tried and failed to use fair-use as a defense for filesharing. So in order for hypothetical HBO v. Tptacek to not be summarily ruled in favor of the plaintiff, tptacek would have to show that his subscription to HBO constituted a contract which granted him the right to acquire and distribute HBO recordings. AND his torrent peers would all have to be HBO subscribers too. I doubt you'll find any language like that on his cable bill.

But what do I know.
Noprocrast?
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.

YouTube has supported and continues to support the embedding of videos into other sites. It's not as if TotLol is circumventing the usual scheme. That's why YouTube are now showing banner ads within videos and I expect they might try interstitials too someday.
Silicon Valley's Insider Trading Ring
Sugar-free satisfaction: Finding the brain's sweet spot
happens all the time, you just need to find "Mr 10%"
The implementation details of category or quick links shouldn't matter. How do you know that a particular torrent index's frontpage category links are not also algorithmically generated?
This is a good point, but Firefox is essentially unusable in its current state unless you're a masochist and enjoy poor performance so working on any additional features is a poor decision.
Python, twisted and Web Sockets
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1019300
Eh, well I've carried out a goodness of fit test since then for stats geeks (p < 0.05), but it doesn't really add anything substantial.

What is haphazard about the rest of it? If you can point out specifics it'd help me strengthen the work.
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We only seemed to the naming issue near the start of the decade here in the UK. Now, all of the mass media I've seen call it the "naughties" - even the staid old Times.
Effects of High Glucose and High Fructose Diets on Body Weight in Rats
cl-cookbook is mostly outdated. use bordeaux-threads; it works across all lisps :-) and it's multicore for sbcl linux and clozure everything else (dunno about the commercial lisps)
Thanks. found == searched for it; "found" == pretend quotes, meaning you uploaded it and faux-found it.

It makes perfect sense, now that I know what you meant. Quotes have a few meanings, but it didn't occur to me that you might have meant it this way. Since it didn't make sense in any other interpretation, it wasn't ambiguous; it was just that I was lacking that interpretation. Therefore, I have grown.
You do that, they simply cut your access from the api. The end.

by someone who had access cut from other google apis.
Ask and you shall receive. I found an implementation of an ELA here

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Error_Level_Analyser

and the result is

http://imgur.com/0eYma

Doesn't appear to show any manipulation, though I really haven't looked at the implementation or paper to closely to know what I should be looking for.
No worries mate :-)
While there are legitimate competitive concerns with Oracle owning MySQL, there's also something unseemly about people who got rich selling control of their GPL'd software demanding that the current owners relicense it under a more liberal license.
This seems like a nice alternative to Pygame. I doubt anyone wants to use SDL by itself for graphics, most people want hardware acceleration through OpenGL, and with Pygame they have to write it themselves.
Does this use http to upload everything to S3?
One of the only things Dave Winer has ever said that I agree with is:

"Sometimes developers choose a niche that's either directly in the path of the vendor, or even worse, on the roadmap of the vendor. In those cases, they don't really deserve our sympathy."

The author built a site that really is a feature YouTube should just have, and he even did it on the YouTube platform. One that once they know about they can just build without much effort.

I won't say nothing good could come of that (small acquisitions happen that way frequently) but this is why pretty much the only thing I'll ever build on a platform is games. Facebook, YouTube, or Microsoft are never going to up and say "hey we need to make a football game because that's really lacking here". Any utility feature at all is going to either fail or get cloned.

The proper way to go about this (though I've no idea how) would have been to avoid that reliance on YouTube. Perhaps syndicating content from big YouTube competitors, licensing original, etc. I really don't know the niche well enough to be helpful, but I certainly would advise not being just a feature on someone else's site and going for some value add.

Granted none of that negates the fact that this looks like a dickish move on Google's part.
Do you have any actual evidence that climate researchers are paid "to confirm AGW"? (I take it that by that you mean that if they published work, of equal quality to what they actually publish, that cast doubt on AGW then they would get paid less or fired.)

Note 1: saying "climategate" doesn't constitute presenting evidence; pointing to something in the pilfered emails that says (e.g.) "Of course I have to fudge this because otherwise I'll lose my job" and that isn't clearly a joke would constitute presenting evidence.

Note 2: observing that very few people who get paid to do climate science are denying AGW doesn't constitute presenting evidence either. Very few people who get paid to do biology are denying evolution, but that isn't because they're paid to confirm evolution; it's because evolution is, in fact, correct, and studying enough biology to get paid for doing it usually leads people to realise this. So you'd need to rule out that sort of explanation in the case of climate science.
most of your responses are from "super techies". They may not be your target.One of your targets should be the folks that stay at home or listen on the radio...there are lots of us now...consider the demograhics. The "over the hill gang".
Well, I respect that he started Linux and Git, and I would celebrate the "birth" dates of those projects, but my opinion is that he's an Ahole .... an arrogant masturbating monkey himself who's birthday I wouldn't care to celebrate. But that's just me.
Remember that the LA riots where in the 90s?

oh sorry, you're not black to remember that. As you're probably not muslin to remember the missing persons in 2001.

now, which one will be the next to be forgotten?
The "good guys" tend to not always be good guys when they suddenly have a toy that can scan everything on all the computers in the US.

There are plenty of free virus scanners out there, this isn't a technology problem but a education problem.
(spoiler alert)

A lot of the themes and messages in Avatar are very common in science fiction, in particular the parallels with the story of Dune are striking:

- greedy corporation seeks to exploit a resource with little regard for the native population (spice/unobtainium)

- saviour from same race as greedy corporation is accepted into native population and through a mythical prophecy, becomes leader and unites tribes against greedy corporation

- native population and their natural habitat are massively underestimated and through help of saviour defeat greedy corporation
China Controls Rare Earths
I've been toying around with a prototype application that uses the YouTube API, and I remember the first time I came across this passage in the TOS very well.

Read it again, closely:

"...the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions on any page of the API Client containing YouTube audiovisual content, unless other content not obtained from YouTube appears on the same page and is of sufficient value to be the basis for such sales."

That's _really_ vague.

How is one to determine what "sufficient value" might mean here? It seems to me that this passage might as well read "you're ability to place advertisements on a web page that uses the YouTube API is subject to our whims."

Of course, I understand that building an application that uses something like the YouTube API is inherently risky, and I think YouTube is well within their rights to have a clause like this in their TOS. I get it. But if you're like this Totlol guy and you're trying to build a business that might support you financially with revenue derived from advertising... I think you're right to be scared off.
I saw the movie yesterday, and I also watched "District 9" yesterday. I'm kind of amazed at how the 2 movies approached the same basic idea - humans oppressing aliens - and ended up entirely different. While I enjoyed all the visual effects of Avatar, I think District 9 had a more interesting treatment of the idea, mostly because it was less utopian.
The Plumber, but not the kind that fixes leaky faucets
Exactly. And You talk about the future but you also forget that in the recent california past decent people had to put "armed response" signs on their backyards.
If a problem is so trivial that creating a domain-specific language isn't worth the effort, the best solution will be equally ugly in any language and Lisp loses its advantages.
"The first decade of the twenty-first century" sounds good to me. TFDOTTFC ("Tee-Eff dot Tee-Eff-See", TF.TFC) for short :)
shouldn't the title read "attaching an iphone to SLR lenses"?
I've tried the Uberman three times, failing each time. I don't recommend the Uberman to anyone. In a population where almost everyone does it, it'd be great, but for most people now it's just not possible. The world is run by monophasic sleepers. I'll be interested if this guy succeeds.

I've done the 3-hour core sleep with three 20-minute naps variant of the Everyman, and that lasted (fairly well) for a little over a month. But even as flexible as that was, between school and other activities I just couldn't manage to do all my naps on time, and I had to give it up.

I started the 4.5-hour core sleep with two 20-minute naps variant of the Everyman a couple days ago, since this coming semester I can actually accommodate the naps. I sleep from 2am to 6:30am, with naps at 12:30pm and 6:30pm. I think it's fairly hard to fail this one, and the adjustment period isn't so bad. My monophasic schedule (when school's in) is 4-8 hour sleeps (average 6) with 12+ hour recharges on the weekends, and I'm sick of that.
Ask HN: Rate my idea - a site for OCD sufferers
Recently I've read a book called "Brain Lock" which is about effective 4-step technique of rewiring your brain and getting rid of OCD symptoms. The steps are "Relabel", "Reattribute", "Refocus", "Revalue". Not getting into details, but among other things the author suggests to have a log of successes, which means a person should write down when he was able to workaround his compulsion.

The idea is to create a website, which is a place for people to have their ocd-journals, read each other successes and tips on how to struggle against compulsions (which might be useful, because one of the ideas in struggling against compulsions is to switch the attention to something else). What do you think about it? Do you think it'd be hard to makret such a thing? Getting money out of it? Any OCD sufferers here?
There are lots of free anti-virus solutions available. The problem is not availability: it's letting people know that these things exist and then (more importantly) having them actually take preventative action. The second one is difficult though: it's hard enough to even get people to keep their operating systems up to date (remember Conficker?).

Also, the idea of a distributed country-wide virus scanner is terrifying. Who are the 'good guys'? Do you really want them having access to your computer at any time?
That's the main point of a government mandated system. All computers must be sold with one. You have the choice of disabling it of course, but it would be included by default so the computer-illiterate would be protected without further action. They'd also won't become unwilling participants to DDos attacks.
Daddy Givebucks: Lessons Learned When Warren Buffett Hands You $1 Billion
First, it's easy to tease out a previously unseen characteristic of a data set if you tickle it in the right way.

Second, you may be underestimating the power of "a few lines of Perl." :)
Bradford Cross: Corporate vs. Personal Branding
Superb point about resource allocation. That such an approach hasn't been taken is the root of my skepticism about the global warming apocalypse.
While I love vim, and I really, really don't like the Chrome-style UI, I found that addon to be irritating. I like my Gentoo box's Firefox UI just as it is, with the Tab Mix Plus addon letting me stack tabs in rows.
CLOS initialization protocol
1. Wait for hackers to break protocol.
2. Release new one the has no technical difference but change one number on the name.
3. ???
4. Profit!
I disagree. It's because driving a train into a building is significantly harder than driving a plane into one
Yes but you can voluntarily install a toy that can scan your computers. If you can do that, you can have the government pay for anti-virus software and guarantee security. At the very least you can just have software that will prevent your computer from being turned into zombies.

Obviously such a thing would have to be voluntary. That means you can opt to remove it, or not install it. But the point is to provide it for free, as a free beneficial tool, paid by the collective interest to secure our way of life, and to make it easily available.

Hey we have a military and they have the power to take over the US if they wanted to. Such a thing funded to protect our computers is necessary too, and obviously we don't want to give some people secret control of this powerful tool, but that doesn't mean it's not possible to secure our computers without such a threat.
Famous San Francisco Sea Lions Abandon Their Pier 39 Post
FishVille on Facebook
This is a great idea, and I think the power of it is that it's essentially a raffle but stepping around the regulations that make doing so illegal without government permission.
It might not have been a deliberate "trap", but the timing is very suspicious. Even if Totlol wasn't the primary reason they changed the terms, they should have notified him of the change since they were actively communicating with him at the time. No, they weren't legally obligated to, but not doing so is getting rather close to the evil line.
I pitty the middle-eastern man wearing a turban with a suden case of the runs arguning the bathroom policy.
Note that he quit the next year:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/polyphasic-sleep-th...

I thought it might have affected him mentally, but from his writing he already believed reality is subjective when he started.
I think the moral of this story is "don't build a business that relies on a single other players API." Talk about a single point of failure.
Very nice! I was rather disappointed with the FuseOverAmazon version I tried a couple of months ago. I will definitely give this a try. Thanks for the great documentation on how to use it as well.

Great job!
GCHQ = Google Corporate Headquarters or something I haven't heard of?
Sure.

An even bigger part of "doesn't get in the way" is not crashing or grinding to a halt for seconds at a time.
Yes, it does. Adding https as an option is something I'll probably look into.

edit: It uses libcurl for transfers, and libcurl supports https, so getting a secure connection is as simple as adding the option:

url=https://s3.amazonaws.com

at mount time.

I've added that to the README file.
it's spam, just flag.
Not to mention how many ebooks were bundles and such.
Have you read the post ? That is a lot of email back and fort. The author even had a meeting with a Google director and spoke with a manager.
Because I'm neither willfully nor casually stupid.
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I resent the implication that I would torrent True Blood.
There's lots of data supporting this, sleep research has gotten big in the last 50 years. I haven't studied the rationale behind the polyphasic sleep system but it sounds like a couple slip-ups and you're hosed, whereas if most people go without much sleep for a few nights they'll be tired but able to rebound with a regular night's sleep. It sounds dangerous to leave yourself constantly on the verge of sleep deprivation.
How do pinned tabs work in Chrome? ie, how do I access that functionality, and how does it function?
Anyone else feel uncomfortable about parking toddlers in front of a computer screen?
Anyone knows a compreensive source like this in text or html?
Creating a Custom International Calling Card with Twilio
I'm hesitant to automatically fire off that many requests, especially when they may not end up being necessary. If you are using the same machine and preserving the cache, it will already be primed each time you mount the bucket, except the first time (or any time you delete the cache database file).

Using find is just a trick I used whenever I'd corrupt the cache or change the DB schema while developing it, and then wanted to go in and test it again interactively.

I should probably mention that reducing the number of requests was one of my primary goals. The first time I played with s3fs (the one I forked), my bill for the month was roughly 10% storage and bandwidth, and 90% requests (or was it 20/80?).

Anyway, thanks for the feedback; I do appreciate it!

- Russ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Headq...
Here's raw data for doing your own (US) inflation adjustments:

http://www.measuringworth.org/datasets/uscpi
I use it everyday, so it clearly isn't "unusable" -- and no, I don't enjoy poor performance. I don't see Firefox performing poorly at all.
Play Games - Free Online Games, Addicting Games
(Commenting didn't seem to want to work on the site, so I'll comment here.)

Don't blame video games for discouraging reading; blame yourselves for getting the wrong video games. I grew up on Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, Civilization, etc. These involved massive amounts of reading, all of which was fun because it let me discover worlds that I was able to interact with.
From http://helpmysql.org/en/theissue/gplisnottheanswer:

> MySQL's database server has traditionally been a product developed and maintained by a single company, not a community project depending on volunteers or on multiple vendors (like Linux).

The time has come to solve that problem, instead of complaining about rights which the very same guys behind the petition (Monty Program AB) deliberately retained and eventually sold for megabucks.

See also the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=992478
It is unfortunate (and telling) when the retort for criticizing one person's behavior is ... to attack another whole group of people as being just as bad. Is this civil discourse?

Uh, I actually wasn't particular inclined against the line of argument present by the original post but this gets ugly...
And money? Lots of people get paid to work on open source (including me).
Convert PDF to Word, Word to PDF, Excel to PDF
See: SEO vs Advertising
http://movies.blinkindustries.com/movies looks corrupted in Opera.

How 'bout some screenshots? I can't seem to explore the site at all without signing up.
Yes, this general "solution template" arises in many different applications, each with their own domain-specific constraints or specialized technology, requiring a customized solution.
Pretty neat. Their international rates are nice too: http://www.twilio.com/international-calling-rates
The changes advocated at Copenhagen only make sense if your financial future is tied to either green tech or carbon trading. If the stuff was economically viable or offered
an attractive alternative (e.g. Tankless water heaters never run out of hot water. Plugging in a car should be much cheaper and easier than visiting
a gas station.) it wouldn't require legislation.
Do DJs and what not actually wait for the nth caller? I always just assumed they just grabbed a line and, woo hoo, that's the winner.
I currently use the GrApple Crisp theme from http://www.takebacktheweb.org/

Not perfect, but makes it a bit more pleasant.