skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you realize the US also has extensive cyber espionage efforts.
Usury was forbidden by the Bible, if memory serves. Still, that doesn't make accepting the loan moral and offering the loan immoral. Presumably both sides are breaking the old Biblical prohibition.
this has been happening a lot recently. i think it's cause we all started using chrome. chrome seems to rewrite the url on the address bar when % codes are used. bah.
At least the trains run on time with Apple in charge.
Yes, I know the combined prefix and suffix search doesn't work properly yet. The reason is that the App Engine datastore doesn't support fancy search, only sorting with custom indexes. All results for a GQL query must be adjacent in the index. The indexes for combined prefix+suffix search are still building but should be ready in a few days.
Regardless of precedents I see no justification for taxpayer dollars.
At SEC, a Scholar Who Saw It Coming
im thinking of taking that off. it was cool at first+people used it, but now it doesn't really add anything.
I would freak the hell out if I were soloing this sucker for the first time. I imagine the tandem trainer version would be extremely uncomfortable, as well.
Ask HN: I need a VoIP provider.  Who do you recommend?
I just need somebody who can port over about a dozen inbound phone numbers, and provide a trunk to my PBX.

Alternately, I'd be fine with paying a reasonable fee to use somebody else's VoIP PBX.

I need a provider who will actually handle a port for me. I tried to switch from Teliax to VoicePulse, and ended up with most of the numbers not ported, and nobody on either side seeming to care about this fact.
Original Facebook Florida Corporation Filing
CSS Minification on the Fly
Is America Addicted to Information?
I am dumbfounded that an article with this title has popped up an ad before I could begin reading.
That's Stasis, not Stability. Microsoft hasn't introduced a popular new native API in a decade!
Apparently, there is a chin pad for that: look closely in the video at 1:40. Now only your jaws will hurt, but not your neck...
> I am explicitly asking the HN hive mind.

I doubt such a thing exists.

For me every comment stands by itself, if it adds something original to the discussion then it is a possible upvote, assuming that it has not already received more votes than I think the comment is worth.

That way most situations are covered.

I hope that helps.
I think the point is that most people don't run up massive credit card debt on 'the basic necessities of life.'
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Using QuickTime: "Decode this video for me."
Using hardware directly: "Do this math for me."

Even if it were technically possible for Flash (as a plugin) to call out to QuickTime this way (and it may well not be), it is undesirable from Adobe's perspective to depend on code they don't control for something so central.
First things first, Brett Favre should not have thrown that pass last night. Vikings would have won.

Second, I'm taking this from the perspective that we have a college professor (most likely) being asked by a student to cite examples of cases where software patents have stifled innovation.

So, does this professor just want his student to start making up random ideas that infringe on patents and argue that those random ideas don't exist because of patents?

Seems unlikely.

I'm arguing the question itself because I am trying to help this poor student who may be faced with more of a paradox than a fair assignment.
Lawyers Challenge Lowered, ‘Shocking’ File Sharing Award
Google should simply pull the plug.

Internet users would benefit more from this than pulling the plug from google.cn.
No, but I've been asked to upvote several times. I usually do because they're good stories and people know to only ask me such things if their stuff is actually any good, but I don't always follow through.

That out of the way, it'd be cool if there were a way to more easily track "good" new submissions. I browse the /new page perhaps once or twice a day (at most) so a lot of good stuff is going to have passed me by. Being able to see new stuff from a "favorite" set of users would be kinda cool (or even the top 100) but might break the dynamic of the site..?
It would be very easy for flash to use QTKit to just play a video, in the HTML5 kind of way. But it would be quite a bit harder for them to do it in a way that remains compatible with all the different play/pause/volume/seek controls that different video sites have built in to their flash apps, not to mention the advertising schemes. If they weren't smart about how they handle all the compositing, they could probably end up really slowing things down when there are things like custom translucent controls overlayed above the video.
I find the license even clearer than the summary I quoted. I am missing a actual usage scenario where one could be uncertain if the use was inside or outside the license.
I really enjoyed this article, although I like to use Indeed.com's salary trending tool to get an idea of what jobs are being posted at, although it's such an average that I think there's probably a bit of disparity there.

Thanks for the post.
Yeah, the NetApp-Sun ZFS lawsuit is like a big "patent minefield here" sign.
"We never go back a year later and evaluate" I hope this isn't 100% true, I know we re-evaluate our interview impressions after we've hired someone.

Finding out how well the guy you didn't hire is doing would be an awesome service. It's hard to keep tabs on them all.
That makes sense. Thank you.

I think that by "this" I was referring to the concept more than the specific product - but I was definitely unclear.
I've noticed that trolls tend to accuse others of the same dishonest arguing methods they use. For people just skimming the discussion, it looks like two people calling each others the same names...
Can you reveal where I rank of the nytimes rows? I'm looking through face palms hoping I'm not the 628 submissions. But it wouldn't surprise me either...it's my daily morning read for over a decade and I've been coming around here for about three years.

Is that an excuse? :)

In my defense, I can't say I've ever had a "First!" urge. I assume it's just because I'm early to rise and on the East Coast.
IMO, morals are for dealing with human beings. The actions of a company will tend toward whatever is legally and economically possible, so a person in a conflict with a company should act within that framework if they want a fair outcome.

Go this guy for pursuing open source litigation. Anyone who reads John Robb will immediately recoginze the scenario of decentralized community vs. bureacracy as 4th generation warfare.
Do you have any more information on this?
Umm... flying mech commandos? :)
Seven? I could spot 8 seperate google text ad blocks and 3 graphical google ad blocks.
Rage against the Mail machine: the genesis of Letters
The entire rotor assembly on the Osprey pivots. On the Puffin it is fixed and the entire craft changes its orientation between takeoff, flight, and landing. Whether that makes it more reliable or easier to operate, I have no idea.
I disagree. Jet Packs are way cooler.
From what I've seen/read, it seems like his strongest skill is finding the right people and letting them do their job and excel at it.

After all without people building the content/handling things, Weblogs inc wouldn't have been such a hot property that sold to AOL for however much money it ended up selling for.
This needs some VR goggles. Not only would they solve the neck strain problem, but could assist non-professional pilots with landing.
References please. I suspect you're right, but I'd never claim it as fact without some evidence.
Uh, that's not a response to Aaron's article. That's Jason acting naive and oblivious to dodge the accusations, and taking on this whole 'aww shucks, can you help me out a bit?' attitude to shift the discussion and get on Aaron's good side. If you had a case against what you were accused of doing, you would've published a well thought-out article, much like some of the articles you've written that have been on subjects you're clearly confident and well-versed in. But you have nothing this time.

Also, stating that such pages only amount to less than 1% of your revenue is in no way a justification of the content theft you're committing. You're cowardly sidestepping the issue. What have you got to say about the actual content theft, rebranding of such content as Mahalo's, and knocking down the original authors of that content by skipping on the credits and outranking them?

You got caught, dude.
In a society where people are pulled in to debt by the most skilled marketeers that money can buy I can't find much sympathy for the card companies.

I avoid debt like the plague it is but I can see people that are less financially aware fall in to these traps very easily.

All the debt collecting agencies have to do to avoid this particular trap is to comply with the law. All the time.

No need for them to be sued or to sue in the first place.

I sincerely hope he gives them hell, they've given enough people down on their luck hell themselves.
This jogs my memory of another game designer saying how some gross percentage of people always choose 'normal' difficulty, making difficulty modes somewhat redundant anyways. Since all of the people who need the easy mode will play on normal, it probably should be called normal.
I didn't count ad blocks, just the keyword stuffing with the whole "powered by google" areas
Perfect!

Tnx
The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller than the social benefit.

I have just added this analysis on my folder marked the rubbish heap of economic theories. Linking parenthood to the potential of a parent having some form of financial benefit later on in life is just hot air. I am wondering if the authors have ever seen small feet walking in their lounges.
So much for anonymization then. You're spot on.

Kudos :)

btw I really liked that one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075857

thanks!
my first thought was that some of these could well be innocent "click bookmarklet" first thing in the morning.
Here (I think) the research paper at PubMed:

Banerjee, Sourav, Pierre Neveu, and Kenneth S Kosik, A coordinated local translational control point at the synapse involving relief from silencing and MOV10 degradation, Neuron 64, no. 6 (December 24, 2009): 871-884. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064393.
As someone who is financially conservative, I frown upon people intent to avoid debt they willingly incurred.

On the other hand: "Usually it's settled because the agency says, Uh, we didn't intend to do that. Our collector said the wrong thing and we fess up and say, 'I didn't mean to do it but I did it..."

Really? That's the collection agency's defense? I didn't mean to do it?

If it's your business to get debtors to pay their debts, you deserve to get busted when the debtor knows the law better than you. It's your business for Pete's sake.

Add to that the complaints about all the technicalities and about individuals filing lawsuits without the need for a lawyer, and it's pretty clear that collections agencies thrive on and exploit the ignorance of debtors, which is ashame.
Apple profits soar 50% on record sales of 3.36M Macs, 8.7M iPhones
Troubleshooting 101 - You can't shut down the factory
Bookmarked, thanks!
Looks like mahalo is a prime candidate for a google PR = 0 and deletion from the index treatment.

What's keeping them ?
PaidContent.org used to run some sort of macro on their email newsletters which added special characters to all suspect words in order to defeat recipients' spam filters ("free" --> "fr^ee", etc.). They stopped doing it last year, though.
There is a reasonable expectation that documentaries should be unbiased depictions of whatever they happen to be about. When you set out to make a documentary it's expected from you not to misrepresent what you know about the subject matter.

I don't expect it to happen 100% of the time, but that's what separates good journalism from Fox News (or NBC, according to you). I take all journalism with a grain of salt, but I also expect journalists to at least try to properly inform their audience. You know the saying: with great power comes great responsibility.
I'm sure we do have all sorts of cyber espionage efforts, but Iranians using Twitter is not one of them.
the pattern of microscopic bumps on neurons are dendritic spines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendritic_spine. these have glutamate receptors.

Glutamate is the primary excitatory transmitter in the brain. The Glutamate synpase has two receptors: AMPA and NMDA. These act as an AND gate for learning and are both activated by glutamate.

When glutamate binds to the AMPA receptor, it opens a channel that lets in sodium (Na+). If enough enters fast enough, Mg+2 is reppelled from blockading the NMDA receptor allowing Ca+2 ions to enter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitatory_postsynaptic_potenti...

When Ca+2 enters the cells through NMDA, it triggers a ton of internal metabolic changes. in the neuron in order to do make it more sensitive and conditioned to the connections from stimulating neurons such as producing more AMPA receptors at that location for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_learning

We don't know all of the internal metabolic changes that allow the cell to do such things, and this article is about one of them.

Brief neurosci101 to put the article in perspective.
Early bird gets the worm.

That's why I wrote 'to protect the guilty and innocent alike'.

I figured that some of these are accidental and some are purposeful.
There are about 1000 patents covering MPEG. Just the MPEG2 list runs 36 pages.

But maybe YouTube could be saving 5% of their bandwidth bills if arithmetic coding weren't patented.
Any word on price? My gut tells me that something that relies on off-the shelf tech will be easier to adopt since we could keep the price points lower.
Regardless of who is right/wrong here this strikes me as a very glib response to quite a serious accusation levelled at his business practices.

To me it doesn't seem to help his credibility.
Let me be the first to say I am not surprised.
Thanks. The first couple lines were very interesting.
Chrome now has extensions and bookmark sync
I don't really want to see textbooks change that much, at least the good ones that is in any aspect other than cost.

I have only used one electronic textbook and I found that paper books are much easier to use in every way except for cost. Searching a electronic textbook might be okay but I find indexes are very easy to use most of the time and the rest of the time you aren't looking for the right thing.

On the subject of having facebook to help understand concepts I always find that interaction on a face to face basis for learning is much quicker and if you go to a large enough college it is relatively easy to find people in your class out in the common area for help.

Some of my best books, like the Hibbeler books on statics, dynamics, and mechanics of materials (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/hibbeler/), are very good and were well worth the money I paid for them.

One thing that I hate about textbooks is that certain publishers have cornered the market, at least in the engineering and math departments, and many schools offer horrible textbooks that only the students notice because they are the ones learning for the first time. A prime example of this is the publisher Wiley, I have had books from this publisher from differential equations all the way up to fluid dynamics that were just awful for anything other than problems and basic concepts.

Edit: I have had a couple classes that were rather amazing on the textbook stance, especially for engineering, that the teacher had a large enough collection of notes and slides that they were able to make a rather cheap textbook available to students on campus for around 20 dollars, those books always seem to provide good information and good quality that maybe a 9 dollar digital textbook could work in that sense.
That's exactly what I'm thinking as I read this whole debate. Does such a tool exist, and if not, why not?
Fantastic work! Just curious, why does it not return any results for long strings?

For example, putting "hacker" in the Beginning box and "ne" in the Ending box yields no results.
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How do people feel about using behavior generated content on their sites? Is there anyone who has seen a significant benefit to incorporating that? It does seem to be on the rise but I'm not sure what data is out there to support the idea that it is useful. (Although I'd like to find it if anyone has any leads.)
Actually, blindly submitting ALL stories from those sources is not the smartest thing to do. Number one, you flood the system. Number two, there is no guarantee that new articles from those sources will necessarily do well. The more refined way to do this is to train a recommendation engine from an article aggregation system on some of the top articles that have been most liked on HN. Then, as the engine will collect and rank articles for you automatically and you can just use your script to take the article from the recommendation site and post them to HN. This way you have more assurance that your submissions will be liked on HN, and also the engine will likely find new article sources that you have never heard of before. I friend of mine is using this method to become a power user on Digg and Reddit. I think the uses several sites and has coded his own ranking system but the bulk of his recommendations come from www.euraeka.com, which is a news aggregator and recommendation engine. Basically he signs up for an account, finds out what the top articles on Digg are for lets say last year, then picks the top 25, searches them in Euraeka and then the engine starts finding articles that are like those. All he does afterwards is submit the recommendations on Digg. I think he does the same for Reddit.
Anyways, Euraeka is just one of the engines out there. I am sure you can find others as well. The only question is which engine is spitting out the "best" recommendations. By "best" I mean which engine manages to most closely estimate the taste of the crowds on sites like HN, Digg, Reddit, etc.
Where the hell is Google to regulate this sort of stuff? It's appalling that they'd take a back seat to this. No doubt they know it's going on.
Hhhm, the link didn't show up: http://www.euraeka.com
You might want to try naming submissions like this as: "Ask HN: Review my improved Mail.app search algorithm", or "Tell HN: I made Mail.app better!" On the other hand, I'm new here, so what do I know? :-)

Great looking site btw, although I've never had a problem with searching for mail with spotlight / Mail.app and nothing I see here convinces me of the benefits. Maybe more obvious and cool screenshots?
I think it need to be looked on less for the karma and more for the content.

Obviously, people find value in these submissions so the 'market' rewards those who post these articles. No more or less simple than that.
It's nice that this came up, since I'll be doing research on it for school for the next 3 terms. It seems that there are several reasons for slow change:

* What do you do with all the middlemen (publisher's work, logistics) that are made redundant? Fire them?

* There is a theory saying that people perceive e-books to have lower value than printed ones because it's not touchable / feelable (I don't agree with this)

* Authors like to have everything else (proofreading and publicity are two major ones) taken care of by their publishers.

* Publishers are also a mark of status, like scientific journals. Getting a deal with, say, Oreilly automatically sets the author apart.

* Students are pretty much locked in to the books that their instructors choose and so textbook publishers take advantage of this fixed audience that is guaranteed to buy the books no matter what. Making it cheaper would be a loss to them.

There are many others I can't think of off the top of my head but this seems to be the gist of it.
you are after all paying them to leave after.
The bible prohibits any interest, not just excessive interest. A loan is supposed to be charity, not a money making opportunity.

If someone needs money to open a business or the like, then the lender is supposed to partner/go into business with him, not just lend at interest.

You can get around the prohibition by structuring the partnership into something that acts like interest, but the intent of that is for business, it's not intended to replace charity loans.
There are a bunch of reasons we use Flash for games

- we give a site a SWF and that's it, they have the game. HTML5+CSS+JS+images+sounds+music+a flash bridge to handle audio, etc is a mess by comparison to "a swf".

- distribution is critical to the business of making Flash games, when you see a game on whateverwebsite.com that begins with the logo and branding of for instance www.armorgames.com, that's because Armor has paid the developer to brand that game with his site. This alone is a massive industry that includes many amongst the most-trafficked sites on the met.

- power and functionality, every generation of the software Flash gets noticeably better. Massive progress every other year, that allows developers to do things like use webcams for player movement, audio and visual sound effects, graphical work, only some of which right now is still years from being viable across the board in HTML5/CSS/JS. New versions also enjoy rapid adoption rates by ocnsumers.

- truly cross platform, even if it sucks a bit on linux or whatever, we as developers don't have to do anything at all to accommodate anyone at all ... we write once and that's it. The fantasty with html/css/js etc standards making this a reality for that platform have historically and currently not worked that well, the most obvious example being video codecs for html5, where you'll now have to sniff the user's browser and serve them alternate content.
PS3 cracked
Aaah, now I see. Thanks!
no .cm ending. Otherwise good. Left sidebar looks weird in Chrome.
But I knew! So embarrassing...ok, not really. Still...I'll take solace in the fact that it averages out to 1 link every other day. Considering I usually read about 20 stories a morning there, 1/40 ain't so bad.

Ugh.

Feel free to out me elsewhere...I think I may be boston.com and economist too.
This theory is actually well documented in academic HR circles.
Integrating Google Wave and Twitter.
Ask HN: What if we weren't free publicity for Apple, Google, and Microsoft?
Imagine if nobody tweeted, facebooked, blogged about, or posted to hacker news anything about Google, or Apple's next product release? Would they notice? Would the world end? Would we no-longer be fanboys?
That could explain it. I'm on a MBP, with 10.6, so I may be getting the hardware decoding, while you're not.