skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, thanks! Sounds like a good idea, and something I might actually use.

1) I want to be able to upload a list.

99% of the people who start using this site are going to have a bunch of movies already. We're not just starting our collection, so you need to make the "transaction cost" of starting to use your site very low. How many people do you see sitting there entering 100 movies one-by-one?

First get search working well. Then I want to be able to do cd ~/Movies && ls > list.txt, upload that file, and have the movies auto-added to whatever location I type in.

For me, adding the movies is so painstaking that I'm just not going to do it. But if there were an easy way for me to add them, your startup would be pretty useful for me.

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3) Search should allow me to put the year of the movie.

I wanted to add "Hannah Montana- The Movie". When I searched "Hannah Montana" (shut up, it's my sister's), a bunch of movies showed up, and I thought putting the year in would narrow it down, but it simply eliminated all the movies (since none of them have 2009 in the title)

I'm not sure if I'm the only user who would try to put the year in, but that's just feedback on how I used your site.

3.1) Search doesn't work very well. A title with a 100% match should usually be the first result, shouldn't it?

3.2) What's "added on" mode? Is this the date the movie was added to your database, because I wouldn't think that has much connection to search relevance.

4) Where do you get the "score" from?

5) Clicking on the heart ("add to wishlist") button should add/remove from wishlist (not just add to it)

It's confusing that the same button does something different whether you're on the "movies" or "wish list" page

6) I initially thought the "comments" was my personal comments, not a social feature.

I personally wouldn't make this a social feature because it's unlikely to ever reach the level of commentary that IMDB or other sites have.

But since it is a social feature, you might want to make this more clear. I was going to put something in there like, "on bottom shelf", or "in thin CD case"

If you think other users might use it for that purpose, but you want to keep the social feature, maybe there should be a "make this comment private" check-box.

Good luck!
It looks like CSS transitions were not part of Firefox 3.5, but got in after the release so it might work in firefox nightly, but for just about every firefox user who visited it today it would be broken.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435441
Funny how that argument only works with kiddie porn. I mean, you could argue that by buying Nikes you're encouraging and supporting child labor. You could argue that by buying a diamond you're encouraging and supporting slavery. You could argue that by buying pictures of Abu Ghraib the media "encourages and supports" the behaviour at Abu Ghraib.

But this supposed causal chain of responsibility between purchaser and producer is only enforced, indeed only even mentioned, when it comes to the bogeyman of child porn, which means it's nothing but an excuse.
So?

That's already a risk every time your card leaves your sight. The details on the strip aren't much more than what's on the front of the card. I know I had access to people's cards back when I worked retail. The store-copy of receipts had full card number, name, and expiration date. This device is the least of your security worries when it comes to a credit card.
"After all, the earth moves around the sun – isn't it best to torn [sic] the other cheek? "

It is never a disappointment to read Feynman - an interesting piece from the opening claim:

"In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another...When we look at the past great debates on these subjects we feel jealous of those times..."

He then goes on to excuse himself from the debate as he is not an expert on religion but sets up an interesting hypothetical of a young scientist who becomes disenchanted with 'his father's god' - which is a wonderful way to setup the discussion because as it follows he doesnt really pit religion vs science. He discusses a crisis of faith which is really at the heart of any faith based system.

Discomfort with one's father's god - Cronos and Uranus, Abraham and Issac, God-the-Father and Jesus - there is something corrosive, some conflict which moves religion forward in an analogous way to how great discoveries unseat accepted truths in science. In a very elegant way Feynman touches on this and moves to a discusson of how science and religion are on different tracks.

I find it noteworthy here that he does not equate scientists with atheists but says that scientists if they believe in god do so differently. This is Issac coming down from the mountain, Jesus' last words, Buddha's fire sermon - a deep realization that we are alone in the cosmos. The scientist may worship the same god as before - but it is not longer his father's god.

The reason (for Feynman) the Science can never truly supplant religion is that it cannot entertain metaphysical questions - which is consistent with the Kantian tradition of separating reason into realms (pure, instrumental, speculative). Science is pure or instrumental - but not speculative.

(As an aside there are good examples of why science should not attempt to be speculative in recent news - Dr in UK who falsified data to support the mercury-autism link; the recent climate science scandals. And even better examples of the perversion of religion in science: "intellegent design")

This piece is great - it is not meant as a Bertrand Russell type of exegesis but is a luncheon talk intended to spur debate. As such just churns up questions and seeks productive argument.

Most throw up their hands at this debate - pick one side or another and the discussion stops. He sets the problem up beautifully - I wonder if the following discussion was saved.

What a wonderful man, beautiful soul he was.
The Youtube video says Square is available, but it isn't? How do I sign up?
I don't know if you didn't read it, but it said "even those who have no bank accounts." I suppose I was thinking of "mobile banking" as checking bank account balances and transactions. Does this merely just add the balance of their bill to their phone bill?

Not sure why this was down-voted as it really is a fact that a LOT of people have two cellphones. Also, the wording of the article is unclear on the point of mobile banking (they should have elaborated possibly).
Wow. I somehow skipped over that sentence on my first read. I've updated the post's title.
Scoop St: From Flash Mobs to Group Shopping Discounts
Or, in the case of IBM (Eclipse project), giving them employment
Discount rates, the value of human lives, and regulation
Felix Salmon: The Greek derivatives aren’t Goldman’s fault
Quite interesting (would've been VERY interesting in the 50's).

Splitting the way of looking at the world into two sides -- religion and science -- is itself a 'perspective', if you will. But establishing that dichotomy is somewhat useful.

I find in coding that I need to be humble and 'doubting' in the scientific sense. But I also find that I need to have faith during e.g. long refactorings. I'm not even joking. It may seem trite to apply it directly to programming, but considering the difference of the world of 2010 and the world of 1956 -- it's nice to see some of his insights are quite relevant.

(The naive part in his understanding, imho, which anything written in the 50's would be a part of -- is that a lot of history, which wasn't exactly in the history books back then, has many examples of people screwing over other people in the name of 'religion'. So it's not all a box of roses this Christian 'ethics' that he's putting forth. Though I suppose he had to respect the YMCA audience where he spoke and the times were quite different then. I'm sure he himself, the son of Jewish immigrants, was quite aware of it. But there's a bit of the typical Feynman arrogance -- like his dismissal of the social sciences in some youtube video. Should've been a little more scientific. But, like always, he is somewhat original and sometimes connects the important dots that we overlook.)

haha, someone posted this just now in another forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
The leaked emails did not say that. Please stop suggesting they actually had any significant impact on the science in question, because they did not.
I could see this being a great tool for electricians, plumbers, and other in home service persons.

There is already a high degree of trust there, and certainly anyone who understands what reverse engineering a dongle entails also understands why the alternatives are equally vulnerable to fraud.
The moral wording of their argument, the appeal to morality, comes simply from an understanding of risk management. Risk being directly proportional to both the probability and to the impact of the event. The higher the stakes the less you want to take the risk, even in a potentially low probability occurrence.

Most people wouldn't think twice about walking along a garden wall if it were only a foot above the ground. If it were on the edge of a thousand foot drop, only a daredevil would attempt it.

In this case however, we are talking about (and I apologise for the tired cliché) walking a tight-wire over a thousand foot drop. It is likely, and the consequences are most likely fatal.

In this sense, it is entirely reasonable for a person or a group, on the strength of their conviction, to use strong moral language to hopefully avert the untimely deaths of millions, and understandable to attribute immorality to those who would continue to participate in the activities which they believe would cause these deaths.

Is that language effective? Probably not.. but what else do you do to convince a population who absolutely do not want to be convinced.

And, sure there is no scientific consensus on the science. Never is.. never has been. There is, however, consensus on the risk management.
> There are teachers who broadcast their lessons online who are currently doing this and making much more money than normal

I heard once that if you want to teach math teachers how to teach - send them to South Korea to observe how they teach math for a year.

Do you think the night school (school after the regular school) culture encourages superlative compensation of extraordinary teachers?
Ah, someone else gets this!

Ever since I started using Safari's "Top Sites" (procedurally generated Opera Speed Dial), I've noticed a developing feedback loop in which I visit the listed sites significantly more often than the non-listed ones. It's subtle, but it's enough for me to reconsider my use of the feature.
Unpack that "middle of this fray"--what differentiates Fluther?
That doesn't make a lot of logical sense. If I can develop an economy in which my gross reduction is 10x my gross production of carbon, resulting in a 9x NET reduction of carbon - why does it really matter if my Carbon Production is zero or not?

People tend to lose sight of the fact that it's NET reduction of carbon that we're interested in, not GROSS reduction. I'm fine with an industry putting a million tons of Carbon into the atmosphere as long as it pulls out 1.1 million tons through some mechanism.

The fact that Bill's entire presentation is based on a false premise, and that nobody in this thread other than me has called him on it, is disturbing.

Pretty slide presentation aside.
Why don't critics of global warming ever present any evidence? That's how scientists do criticism. Any criticism of scientific findings without evidence is useless. Of course, the critics know this, and know that criticism without evidence cannot be refuted.

If you think that there's some sort of conspiracy going on, which is more likely -- energy companies making billions of dollars, or scientists making millions of dollars -- to be spending their money more effectively to change people's minds in order preserve their future profits?

Let's say 9 out of 10 doctors told you that you've got an 80% chance of dying if you don't change your diet. Would you think that those 9 doctors are conspiring against you? Or would you change your diet? That's pretty much the situation we're in here. (Except that the 1 doctor who disagrees also does a lot of work for the snack food industry.)
The third body is the torpedo. Since it travels so much slower than a ballistic artillery projectile the navigation of the torpedo becomes the most important part of the problem to solve. A torpedo attack wan't the way it is portrayed in movies. It took hours to maneuver the submarine and plan the attack. This wasn't point and click. The course, speed, and other characteristics were programmed into the torpedo before it was launched.
Well, Pitchfork claimed that the subdomain was handed over by tumblr 10 minutes after their inquiry. That would imply that it would have been impossible for tumblr to have sent a "72-hour notice" mail.

Also, it appears that the person was actively using the account as a filter (following people and reading news), so the "inactive" part seems to be a contradiction as well.
While it's not a big deal: A common implementation strategy in language run-times is to use machine words when the integer value fits within a particular range. This may mean that the shown implementation will incur a performance penalty well before it's actually necessary to pay the price for using big ints.

But this has nothing do do with binary search or mergesort.

Regardless of our opinions of overflow, it exists in many languages. And I cannot think of anything that would better qualify this issue for "has something to do with binary search" status than that most programmers have seen, used, or written an implementation with this bug.
No, that's googol.
An "Open for another X hours" badge might be even better. I find restaurants are always closing within a half hour or so of deciding to go out to eat.
An idea of mine is for calendar-specific events. e.g., for Valentine's Day, I often look to see which decent restaurants are running special events like degustations. For Melbourne Cup, I want to know who's doing booking-only and who's got a free for all. For NYE, people want to know if there's a specific cover charge or event when they're trying to pick a place to go.

Right now, if you want to book a special event for Valentine's Day, you have to go from site to site, hoping restaurants have updated recently (fat chance), and then contact them to see if they have a booking. Would be so much simpler to pick the event, the locale and then see a list of options including whether they were already booked out.

With a database of restaurant phone numbers, the polling of data could be automated. Robo-dial a restaurant at a less-than-busy time with "This is Service X. Are you doing anything special for Event Name? If the usual, press 1. If a special menu, press 2. If you never want us to pester you again, press 0." Then receive and transcribe the eventual descriptions.

Could have an automated call handling capacity too. "Are you booked out for Event Name? Press 1 for no, or press 2 if you are booked out. Hit 0 to stop these messages."
I believe this goes against most recent studies which have discovered that people have a 'baseline' of happiness.
Any changes in lifestyle only have an effect for a short period of time, until the person returns to their baseline.

http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/2009/01/11/even-if-you-fail-...
This could be better than your browser's bookmarks. While I appreciate the simplicity of it, it's too simple as it is now. The potential benefit here is in hierarchy, which bookmarks generally lack. How about this:

4 links at the big 128 x 128 size. The sites you check every session.

8 links at 64 x 64. The ones you use pretty frequently.

16 links at 32 x 32.

And heck, maybe 32 at 16x16.

I would use that.
"I made the mistake of telling my father, and he cut me off," Mr Bunce says. "He then told all my siblings and they also cut us off."

"I've forgiven them [my family] - there's no point in bearing a grudge."

His family seems pretty loathsome and reconciling with them after the fact seems like a waste of time.
China actually has a sufficient population to make this a worthwhile venture.
Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right
Who cares? This is already a solved problem with credit card laws (the very limited liability you suffer by some random dude stealing the number)
How the SecretLondon website was built in 48 Hours for £3,000
I reckon put a layer with opening hours and a single-sentence description and maybe even the map further up than the picture. Or the opening hours could be a strip of its own with a marker showing the current day plus the "Open now", "Open for another 3 hours", "Opening in 20 minutes", "Closed today" indicators. Use tints of green for the first two, maybe yellow for the third, and an orange for the fourth? Red might be too strong/negative for closed, so could be saved for places shut down for renovations or closed down completely.
It's this kind of rhetoric that gives people pause: to debate the debatable doesn't make you a traitor or the committer of crimes against humanity. There's no need for such rhetoric if your position is solid and the facts speak for themselves. The existence of such rhetoric is prima facie evidence that your position is, at best, shaky.

What's worse is that this kind of incendiary talk is more indicative of a religious discussion than a scientific one as is the expectation of blind faith (in this case being the deliberate obstruction of attempts to get raw data and the refusal to publish such data).

At this point a constitutional lawyer could make a First Amendment argument that the US Federal government should be banned from saying anything about global warming on the grounds of the Establishment clause.
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Did you even read the article? He had a stack of common flash cards in his pocket. He needed to know words like "bomb" and "terrorism" to understand arabic newspapers. Nothing about holding the card for "terrorist" against his chest or ostentatiously dropping the cards in front of the guards.
For this to be a fair comparison you would have had to have been browsing a news article about wholesale tools and trying to purchase a tool from this news article.

You mistook one wholesale tool store for another, whereas these users confused a news article about facebook's redesign for the place where you login to facebook.
Compete Analytics Big Fail
You think he made them himself when he was presenting Microsoft corporate stuff?

If anything, the difference is now he can have a small team of professionals helping him, compared with a bureaucratic army of Microsoft's marketing department.
If he was savvy enough to take any of those measures in the first place, why would he be stupid enough to type his credit card number in?
It's funny because three out of four are completely or partially blocked in China.
For me, it really helps to have external structure in which to learn. I had fooled around with computers, but I don't consider that I really learned how to program until CS 101. Getting a job and learning what a big disgusting mess software can sometimes be was another big step. Finishing projects I start on my own is a lot harder.

I started composing a longer response to this, but it's getting too long for a comment one thing from it. Maybe I'll post it when it's done. Here's a paragraph from it:

One thing I continue to learn is how bad I am at estimating. I think the key to estimating how long a software project will take is not to lie to yourself. It's easy to be overly optimistic about your ability to keep things on schedule by working extra hard or being extra smart (step 1, step 2, ... and then a stroke of genius happens... step 4: profit!!!). Software complexity (and hence development time) grows non-linearly with feature set. When you're thinking about squeezing in one more little waffer-thin feature, you have to trust your gut when the little exclamation point or question mark appears over your head.

Also, estimating (and re-estimating) takes time. Giving estimates off the top of your head is a recipe for disaster.
which was the whole point of the article I think - our current technology can easily make many different things that can fly, but we are still incapable of making something that really flies like a bird

I read it differently. The aim is to make something that can fly. But we, from our position as birds, don't accept flying as anything other than bird-like flying - with wings and feathers.

Leaving the analogy, I think the article is saying that humans generally don't accept anything as artificial intelligence unless it exactly mimics a human, or is indistinguishable from a human. Thus the attempts to work out exactly how the brain (or wing) works and to replicate it.

In reality, AI research has progressed considerably - visual recognition, autonomous navigation, question answering etc. But these are only 'gliding', and are only leading towards 'other flight-like phenomena' such as bat and insect flight. We don't accept them as parts of an artificial intelligence because we think (rightly or wrongly) that there is something more to intelligence than just a set of special algorithms and feed back loops.
Interesting perspective from American Banker. If anything, Square is shaking up the established market and getting established industry veterans working on true mobile payment.

> Beth Robertson, the director of payments research for Javelin Strategy and Research of Pleasanton, Calif., said that if Square is able to allow merchants and consumers to accept card payments without a conventional merchant account, that may be a bigger selling point for the system than the technology itself.

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?oe=UTF-8&client=safari&q...

> The app, as Kevin says, will even upload GPS information, so you can make sure that payments are happening in the right place.
FWIW, this is the video that was cited by Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub) as what got him into Git (on, I believe, his episode of the Changelog Show - http://changelogshow.com/105/2274-episode-0-1-0-chris-wanstr...). It was a video that caught my attention at the time too, but I didn't get on the Git train for at least a year or two after.. sheepish look
There are over 18 million active WordPress blogs at the moment. It's a huge market. I spent a couple hours building a WordPress plugin and sold $200,000 in licenses for it in a year and a half.
OK, so for 'the music industry' read 'the recorded-music industry.'
"there was no prospect of successful prosecution, but every chance of ruining his life."

Which is probably why they did it. "Even if we can't convict him, we'll at least destroy this filthy pedo's life."
Down the Slippery Slope - The Crime of Viewing Manga
This is highly off-topic but I can't really think of a better place to solicit feedback for this idea:

The more I think about it, the more I'm interested in the implications of a YC-style investment model for promising young bands. E.g. identify hot, unsigned talent; invest $20K + $5K/member for them to use as they please (studio time, instruments, tour van rental, fliers etc.); claim X% of their earnings from concerts, merch and royalties; lather; rinse; repeat. Has anybody in "the music industry" discussed such a model?
Well, good luck with that approach, I guess. Personally I care a lot more about the quality of the food, the quality of service, the cleanliness of the restaurant, the ambiance, the price, ...
Can I ask what it did, and the price?
Related: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
So what do you do if you're Home Depot and you try to tell your customer about screwdrivers and they stick their fingers in their ears and yell, "Nyaa nyaa I don't want to learn anything new"?