skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for asking. ...however, no: even our basic cell service often forces into roaming mode here. —21st Century pioneer
"At the very least, this demonstrates both respect and sympathy for other engineers who need to use an API. "

Sympathy? As when an API is sort of hacky or kludgey or ad hoc?

"Often, it also correlates to a well engineered product underneath."

When I did Windows development I marveled at the amount and quality of detailed docs available for the platform. In some cases the underlying each was well-engineered, But there's no real correlation. The docs existed because a company really wanted people to develop for their platform.

Docs (or lack of) say more about business than engineering.
Ah, so the straight UTC+9h. I thought it curious (your not using some lib function), and did think of qualifying the remark with an 'if it exists'. Perhaps next year ...

(Whoosh, part 2, lost in translation: bug report ?)
The ‘Right Stuff’ to Be a Doctor
The parents may have agreed to allow the home to be searched, in which case no reasonable suspicion would have been needed.
I applaud this move. Google groups is a royal PITA and it's great to see large lists to migrate away from it.

Google should be ashamed of this product.
I had similar problems with the Redis google group but I must admin that the fix was as simple as turning on the moderate-on-first-post feature. A few kind guys from a different timezone are helping in moderating the list so even messages posted at night by new users will get posted in a decent amount of time.

That said, indeed, Google Groups has some spam problem indeed, but it appears to be workable using this trick.
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1. We identify ourselves very clearly in our request header through our user-agent, including a link to our website. It's not "savvy" to look for this. It's basic webmaster knowledge.

2. Per another commenter, I can see how the language may be confusing; we'll change it.

3. Webmasters tend to rush to grab their pitchforks instead of thinking things through. We follow all the standard, accepted rules.

4. Some people may not want to use your API because they are interested in more than just your site. Crawling is a one-stop solution to get information from a ton of sites, instead of implementing an API for a single site that is just one data point on the web.
I am quite concerned by this because it suggests to me that these schools would have to start modifying the curriculum. What about exothermic reactions using iron or aluminum filings? Basic cellulose reactions? In high school we made thermite and the teacher made nitroglycerin. I guess all that is over now? How can you move to University without this basic knowledge? (on a principle / elemental level)
In times of economic woe money may be scarce but time tends to be cheaper.

Mayhap this is a good time for getting back into the habit of parent involvement with schooling?

I somehow doubt any school with a hacker club run by a couple of science&engineering orientated dads would have these kinds of problems.

Wait for the school system to catch a wake-up and we'll be waiting forever.
Remind me again why we're suddenly talking about "smarter", "intelligence" and "cheap shots"?

It's funny, another thing I vividly remember doing around that time was flying off the handle and insulting people who had no beef with me and meant no offense whatsoever :-) The follies of youth...
That wasn't enough for us. Most of the moderators/administrators are being spoofed and having spam sent as them.
http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/
The paragraph above that one is enough context, no? He was asked about pulling out of China.

Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday the software giant
had no plans to pull out of China. Microsoft is chiefly
interested in getting Beijing to crack down on
intellectual property rights, and has no desire to ruffle
relations, analysts said.
I have been using this: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20... in a triple booted MacBook for some low-level testing on OS X, just to see how it works following the Mac OS X Internals book, the performance is passable, I use virtualization because Apple don't have an ADC Hardware Purchase Program for Brazil and Apple hardware are really expensive here.
Thus concludes episode 282464 in how our public school systems have been transformed into prisons/day-care centers for anyone under the age of 18 rather than institutions of education helping to mold the adults of tomorrow.

The end goal of the education system should be a self-sufficient, literate, mature, responsible adult, yet there are precious few indications that today's education system has anything even remotely close to that as a goal.
Going meta on the logic of the argument, you've made a quantification error.

The parent post said "Men need to be arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks to get women's attention" and you responded "it's definitely possible to find a mate without [being arrogant]".

The fact that there are exceptions does not argue against the generalization; if you want to attack his point you need to attack it in general.
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Awesome! I didn't know how it actually worked. Thanks a lot!
I think smartphone users, particularly those on Android, need to give Voice Recognition a serious look. It's one of those technologies that has quietly gotten better and better in the background even after a lot of people wrote it off.

I use Voice Text (http://androinica.com/2009/07/29/voice-text-turns-your-speec...) and couldn't be happier (Yes there are still errors but you can dictate a full paragraph and then just fix the 3 or 4 wrong words)
Possibly one of the most moving things I've ever watched. This man is incredible.
Google has improved Google Groups; it's now integrated into Google for Domains. Groups now work like email accounts with shared permissions and mailing list tools with the old Google Usenet web interface.

As of last month: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/join-this-group-googl...

(not affiliated with Google, but wanted to set the record straight)
Also, this is the first time I've seen the same link at the top of HN and Fark at the same time.
> What about exothermic reactions using iron or aluminum filings?

Well now, we wouldn't want our precious little snowflakes to blow their fingers off. But we'll sign them up for cheerleading and football, where they can break their knees, heads and spines.

So we are basically banking on them all being professional athletes and dancers. But then, of course, we wonder how come we are so behind all the other countries in science and math.
Was that journalism or an ad for Nike shoes?
Thought this was a very well written interesting article. What chart/graph software are you using, or is that a tool provided by apple?

BTW, graphs without labeled axises are a huge pet peeve (you can thank a certain georgia tech professor for dropping me a letter grade for that one).
"""(There should be more women in positions of power. Who could argue with equality and why would they do so?)"""

Saying there ought to be more women in positions of power isn't equalitarian, it's sexist against men. There ought to be an equal way for anyone to get to said positions of power, but not to force the answer to come out any particular way all the time.

Who would argue against equality? Someone who doesn't think men and women are the same ( but without one being better or worse ) - see the below link for a discussion about how and why men and women are different - if men are better at wide and shallow relationships and business thrives on wide and shallow relationships then it's less surprising if men and business go together, and it's not a conspiracy by men against women necessarily. Equal pay for equal work? Yes. Equal chance to apply for jobs and the best fit gets it without gender prejudice? Yes. Forcing a 50:50 split to give a public image of equality? Maybe not.

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anyt...
Voices of the ancients
Great Engineers - where are they?
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Who could argue with equality and why would they do so?

There are two types of equality. Equality of treatment and equality of outcomes.

You can't have both unless women are statistically identical to men (which they aren't).
You can politely email the Principal and the Vice Principal here: http://www.mtechmiddle.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=5866...
> There should be more women in positions of power. Who could argue with equality and why would they do so?

Isn't that statement predicated on the assumption that men and women, in a general statistical sense, have equivalent ambitions and abilities as men?
> No sense pushing things when the world is nuts.

Yet we have no qualms about our kids playing sports where they easily can break their necks and knees. If you go to any school in US, you'll see students with casts and bandaged knees and elbows. Most of those are sports injuries. See how many children have "science" related injuries -- you'll probably see none. So it is not that we want to protect our children, because then we'd have to cancel football, but instead we end up teaching and perpetuating certain attitudes and values that ultimately will put our country at a disadvantage.
Heaven forbid the teachers should open up one of their computers... they might turn themselves in!
Isn't going to happen.
Schools will object because of insurance/liability concerns.
Teacher's unions will complain
Dads won't be allowed unless they have a police background check.

Remember we must protect the dear little children.
This is the same project discussed in the wiki.
Can I download the dataset?
Fred Wilson's comment on this post is really interesting:

"i think what is happening is a lot of the consumer facing services,
facebook, twitter, yelp, etc, etc have shown no interest in getting bought.
that is forcing the larger companies to rethink their "we'll just buy them
when they get big" approach. and that leads to fiercer competition earlier.

what do you think of that theory?"
As someone who is one of those "hardcore eng." types from MIT, one of the biggest differences I noticed between Berkeley/Stanford and MIT was how many Berkeley/Stanford students were actively involved in companies while in school. I think this exposure to industry early on helps students understand that it's not all about the best hardest-core tech. when building great products.
You are right in the sense that one would hope that citizens of the US who live in a relatively free state would appreciate the concepts that we claim to hold above all else.

However, the question I have it "what should we do about it?".

Should we impose trade sanctions? (surely the US tire lobby would appreciate that). Should we begin flying drones over Beijing? (surely our defense lobby would appreciate that), should we engage the CIA to help Chinese dissidents bribe/assassinate Chinese officials who oppose democratic reforms? Should we send warships to wait near Taiwan?

All the ire must be directed into action if there is any purpose to it other than self-congratulatory "we're so great b/c we don't use tanks to shut down civilian protests, at least since the 1960s"...

What range of actions are you comfortable with? Which of them truly promote the interest of democracy and freedom in China, and which serve a more narrow or militaristic interest?

China is full of enlightened people who see the direction they wish China to go over time. Do they all want to become martyrs and die in some coup attempt engineered by the CIA? Or would they rather make a few sacrifices and do what they can to nudge their country toward change?

I think it's awfully arrogant for anyone in the US to attempt to engineer revolutions and suffering abroad. The sort of self-righteous moral high ground that China bashers use is essentially neoconservative ideology. Yet we are told it's about human rights. Wake up!
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Excellent point, and well articulated.
Why does this article have that title and then give no discussion on that point?

The whole concept is pretty ridiculous that they have discovered this healthy people that must be healthy because they eat corn and run marathons. All indigenous people were relatively free of diseases of civilization pre-contact (which basically includes all of our medical problems) and would appear remarkably healthy if they survived to old age. This is about the only culture that runs marathons.
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The Kindle is almost the size of a small netbook, pretty big to carry around when all you can do with it is read books. I tried a Kindle, and am going to stick with using a smartphone as it's easy to carry everywhere without additional hassle. A dedicated reader would be useful for pdf documents which you can't read easily on mobile devices, but the screen of the standard Kindle is too small for reading many types of pdf comfortably.

Pluses for the Kindle are massive battery life and good readability in bright sunshine.
Or counselling for an emigration lawyer so he can get the hell out of there.
Ask PG: Why has fallentimes fallen off the leaderboard?
He has karma of 6883: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fallentimes

Yet he is not on the leaders list: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
This article calls people who break into computers and websites 'hackers'.

I wonder when (and if) the popular media is ever going to address them for what they are: 'crackers'; and use the word 'hackers' again for people who use technology to the max. At least Wikipedia gives some nuance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
What we need is for a few people in positions of public trust to have the courage to say "yes, you can be too careful". A small risk of something Very Bad is better than the death of a thousand cuts.
So as someone who has assets in Japan, what can I do to protect myself and maybe profit from the looming financial crisis? (reading those kind of articles makes me realize that I really need to read up on economy)
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You started it.

Anyway, I'm 24, and engaged.
This article read more like "I hire plenty of great engineers, why aren't you?" The post could have been more in-depth too, while I can see a point she's getting across, it felt like it was lost in it's expression.
I disagree -- and I'm troubled that people seem to assert that just because you can say something quickly, means you should be compelled to pare down your ideas into CliffsNotes. The readers lose out on the richness of the ideas being conveyed.

Sometimes novels should've been essays. Why must essays always become tweets?
Indeed, but perhaps based on the threat, implicit or explicit, that their son would be expelled if they didn't consent.

ADDED: Presentation also counts, e.g. if the police show up without the son, and say (as a worse case) the son brought a bomb to school, can we check for any other dangerous materials in his room?
Despite iPods and Walkmen, Rates of Hearing Loss Dropping
Depends on the woman, but in a crowd of 20 men and women, the self-aggrandizing male is almost guaranteed a ride home.
Really cool use of Twilio! As others noted in the comments, you would save yourself a lot of work by simply deploying the app with Passenger. No daemon needed, no init script, no proxy. Give it a try next time.
I'll be 50 this year. My experiences match the guy you're trying to call "very young."

> When you get a little older and thoughts turn to finding someone to spend the rest of your life with, that sort of behavior just seems idiotic.

True, but then my office is full of people who've been divorced more than 3 times, and each spouse isn't significantly different from the preceeding one (or at least what the co-workers complain about). I don't think that most people are that logical when looking for a mate.
The Rsync Algorithm from author Andrew Tridgell [2000]
Great, great point. I think that's the way to learn anything.
>PG: A couple weeks ago I added a recency threshold for the leaderboard. It's currently 100 days.

From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048468

Given that fallentimes' last action was 108 days ago, it would seem that he isn't a candidate for inclusion anymore.
There were quite a few complaints in the forum about Zoho Forum (although it seems a lot better than using Google Groups IMHO).

What would you use for forums for a technical discussion about an open source platform, if you didn't use Google Groups or Zoho Forum?
This is a GREAT presentation that everybody should watch !

But, we really need a "Best of the best" category where "old" articles etc can be saved (and found). Yes, it is new at Ted, but it is an old video that has been available for a long time.

Using the votes system this could become a great repository of the best articles/videos on the web ?
At the end of the day users of your service won't be accessing our data, which means they'll be missing out on some data, and we'll be missing out on being included in potentially some cool applications. This spat isn't going to have a real effect on either of our businesses in the long run.

However, something that may have a bigger effect on your business is the seemingly dismissive and patronizing attitude you have towards webmasters. At this stage of the game you need us way more than we need you. I'm sure in this exchange there's defensiveness on your end because I attacked your company, and you've probably dealt with many PO'd guys like me (patience wears thin easily).

However, that's the nature of the web. Us webmasters grab our pitchforks and bitch and moan. I imagine if a large enough contingent of webmasters doesn't like you guys it WILL start to have an effect on your overall business.

In which case, it's probably smart business to either: A) play nice, even when we're not, and/or B) Demonstrate a clear business case why it's better for us to expose our data to your crawlers.
Only The Paranoid Are Scared Of TV Everywhere
'Electrosensitives' tortured by tower that had been switched off for 6 weeks
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117 perhaps
Extreme one dimensional specialization can be a flaw and one should consider branching out.

But "blogging" and "tweeting" are not skills. Being a popular blogger is one thing, blogging in itself in not an accomplishment.
Sure.

TXT is Intel's chipset security system. Its best known application is to allow you to boot through a series of cryptographically signed steps, all of which are verified by a hardware module in the chipset. That is, among other things, a defense against rootkits.

Modern X86 chips also support hardware virtualization (these are the VT-* technologies). With TXT, you can securely boot into a hypervisor, which is locked into memory and can't be compromised by a generic OS running on the machine even from ring 0, even though the hypervisor is running in the same physical memory as the generic OS.

This process only works if neither generic kernel code nor unverified code running at boot can directly access physical memory, so VT-* makes sure to lock down DMA so that peripherals and chipset devices can't do that.

But DMA has gotten really complicated. For instance, AGP graphics had a special DMA feature called the GART, which remaps memory to AGP's convenience. There are a bunch more of these DMA remapping features now, and they all need to be accounted for, or else you can reconfigure memory out from under the hypervisor.

That's what this paper is about. The TXT/VT-* boot process attempts to account for all the DMA remapping devices. Trusted TXT code checks the PCI configuration to see what remapping features exist. There's a 64/32bit bug in that trusted code, which allows you to screw up a PCI configuration register and get TXT to miss one of the remapping devices. That gives you DMA access later on, and allows you to write directly to memory owned by a hypervisor.
In part 2 I think he's referring to the japanese practise of referring to the current year relative to the ascension of the emperor. Right now we're in Heisei 22, because there was a new emperor in 1989 - so 1989 was Heisei 1. Before then it was the Showa era, aka Hirohito - now it's his son, Akihito (they get a special "emperor name").

Unfortunately Hirohito held on for freaking ages - he was emperor for 64 years - so Akihito is old too, he's 80-something I think. Sooner or later he's going to die and then all programs which display or print dates are going to have to be updated to reflect the new era.

The Japanese are really serious about this, too - on their drivers' licenses, for example, you won't see the date of birth written as, eg, "1970", but instead according to the emperor. So if your girlfriend's license reads 平成１ or more .. let me shake your hand ; )
In the current iPhone world

The three top grossing apps in the UK are priced at £49.99, £59.99 and £26.99, and the rest of the top 25 average around £2-3 each. Looks like there is some scope for more expensive applications.
Insurance concerns -> If the existing policies don't already cover it they can easily be extended to cover parental involvement.

Teacher unions -> They are welcome to complain but fortunately they don't set school policy.

Complaining about how impossible the situation is may make you feel better but fixing it will make you feel good.
10.5 or 10.6?
Nope, it's a way of installing a persistent rootkit with full access to the hardware (ie, a rootkit like any modern rootkit on non-TXT Intel hardware) even on systems that use TXT and VT-* to prevent that from happening.

It's circumvention of a new Intel security feature, but it's not a new compromise in the integrity of the CPU or chipset itself. Even if they hadn't corrected the problem, you'd still be better off with TXT than without it.
Not that it matters (I'm sure if they're actually paying for VM's they're using stolen cards), but you can trade cash for anonymous credit card numbers in a number of places. Simplest example: Google "Vanilla VISA".
Disagreement is hard. Let's go silent!
What name? "YelpSquare" seems to be Jon Steinberg's coinage. It doesn't look like Yelp is using it.
This fraud needs to be perpetuated on a wider scale, imo. Anything to slow down the slide into a surveillance society.
my chrome doesn't...
This is orthogonal.

One guy getting in a better shape after diet and exercise is quite expected.

Whole society being virtually free of big bad diseases is, on the other hand, extraordinary claim:

"When it comes to the top 10 health risks facing American men, the Tarahumara are practically immortal: Their incidence rate is at or near zero in just about every category, including diabetes, vascular disease, and colorectal cancer."

This sounds quite dishonest if what mark_l_watson said indeed holds. You could then equally say:

"When it comes to #1 health risk facing Tarahumara men, Americans are practically immortal: almost all their babies survive."
Please do note that:

1) Not all people on HN are American, not all on HN describe themselves as "nerds". In some parts of the world where intellectualism is more welcome, intellectuals are looked upon with admiration, rather than contempt (even by pretty girls).

2) Since I love all things Math, Physics and CS, I guess I, too, am a "nerd". However, I must say that I always found Star Wars nauseatingly distasteful and unimaginative. Nothing more than a girlfriend-replacement to some of you socially awkward unfortunates who had a bad time in American high schools and, consequently, grew up emotionally retarded.

Cheers y'all!
one missing book: beautiful data
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157128

often to get the right visual it is important to first realize the kind of data available---this book drives that home.
It'd mean writing in some 'un-hip' language. So I doubt anyone would be interested in it here.

Using even 1GB of RAM for something like HN is just crazy.