skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesnt make a lot of sense.

> It's the consequence of an attack, which is that innocent people die.

But, they dont. Not all that often anyway. More innocent people die due to careless drivers; why should be concentrate on terrorism (which is one of the minimal risks we face)

> Not to mention the fact that there might be less attacks because we are so protected

There are, generally, no attacks anyway.

As always in these discussions I recommend reading "Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear" which addresses this much better than I can. :)
The relative merits of the 2 APIs have diminished over the years. For high end realtime rendering they merely act as shims for managing various kinds of buffers and activating the shader code for processing those buffers. The rasterisation stage at the end is tiny nowadays. You need separate render paths for different hardware on both D3D and OpenGL. Neither API gives you a fundamental advantage, it's really just a matter of taste and destination OS. I expect the API call layer of their engine to be tiny and interchangeable, think Direct3D 9 vs. 10. (their engine already supports some consoles, too)
And now enjoy copying files at only half the usual speed.
Activision sued by West and Zampella over royalty payments
For some reason the text I entered isn't showing (most likely user error ;). This is what I originally added:

TweetingMachine has been my weekend project, mostly to learn Twitter's API after some previous freelance requirements.

It's a crowded marketplace, but there seem to be enough people out there wanting to use such tools; do you think there's room for me if I keep adding more features?

http://tweetingmachine.com
The patent was canceled according to page 8.

The patent system worked in this case.
Ya, this fails my sniff test on MongoDB and CouchDB as well, the two I know a bit about. Which calls the whole article into question.. nothing worse than these type of articles when the author doesn't actually have the knowledge to provide an accurate summary.
ITA and Quora are on two different planes to put it mildly.
This is exactly why I think Scala is the JVMs C++: a powerful, but highly complex language with every feature imaginable crammed into it. I think it was Gilad Bracha that remarked how Scala's type system is nearly Turing complete (maybe in the meantime, it actually is).

I always strive for simplicity, and Clojure fits the bill much better, at least imho.
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What's incorrect?

It's certainly not easy to write an article like this, because none of these things ever quite seems to fit in a well-defined category: they all overlap a bit and do things in different ways. And as his list shows, there are quite a few of them.
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the UX is awesome for one thing.
Dell shouldn't have sold the system like that, but it should work when you do a fresh install of Ubuntu. If it doesn't, then the system is only good until you reinstall the OS, even if Dell did some post-vanilla install configuration.

It didn't work after reinstalling the OS. It does with Karmic, which shows that it's not a hardware problem.

I stand by my statement. But Dell is also not blameless, and my next computer was not a Dell (and won't be).
Check your c code against 200 Mio. LoC from Ubuntu Linux for anomalies
"Anything other than random is arguably worse."

Why? If every passenger is screened, how is that worse than random?
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Then you need to build your own: http://www.jave.de/blog2/?p=7. :)
Whirlpool founder slams Australia's Internet filter
The SQL looks way easier (and shorter). I hope somebody will take it upon themselves to write an sql-to-mongo-mapreduce compiler.
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I love Econ Talk but I haven't listened to that episode yet. Thanks for the pointer!
Haha I like this Hello world program http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/hw6_big.png
Water pollution is defined as a change in the chemical, physical and biological health of a waterway due to human activity.

I do not think I have stated any falsehoods. If I have supply counter evidence, rather than just poo pooing me.

The reference to the great lakes was that it was a classic and very well known example of human pollution. And that was a main theme of the article.

The Silicon valley reference was to highlight the huge environmental impact of the high tech industry. That may be in North America, or India. If they have cleaned up the industry in recent times, then that is great, have they?
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That rationale was invented after the fact, as I understand it. The actual reason was royal revenue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law#England
It would really help if people would actually write some large programs in "best of breed" languages like Haskell and Scheme (or on the JVM, Scala and Clojure) before they proclaim the superiority of run time type checking over compile time type checking (or vice versa) .

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular(least of all Dean Wampler , or any commenters here), but I suspect that without such hands on experience, people are arguing whether the elephant is a big wall like thing or a slender rope like thing.
Point to all mobiles - Flash sucks up CPU badly enough on desktops, there is as of yet no implementation of Flash I'd consider good on any mobile platform.
How is that really any less invasive?

It sounds like the reasoning behind this sort of attitude (also seen in the frequent requirement of using someone of the same gender to frisk people) is that someone of the opposite gender must be heterosexual and would "get off" on seeing/frisking someone of the opposite sex.

But the screener could easily be homosexual. Or bisexual. But I really doubt if they're even asked what their sexual orientation is. And, honestly, do you even care if they get off on seeing/frisking you? How does their stimulation or lack thereof hurt you?

Another explanation for this sort of attitude might be that people are simply embarrassed when seen/frisked by someone of the opposite gender. But the reverse could just as easily be the case. Someone might feel no embarrassment from being seen/frisked by someone of the opposite gender, but might feel embarrassed by someone of the same gender.

Mandating that everyone be frisked by someone of the same gender based on these flimsy justifications makes no sense to me. If these are concerns at all (and they clearly are for some people), it's much more reasonable to simply allow the passenger a choice of being screened by a male or female screener.
You can just as easily substitute "Ubuntu" with "OS X" above since QT runs on OS X.
"First to market is already a huge competitive advantage." In some circumstances yes. In some circumstances, a truly innovative and inventive creation can still be duplicated by an un-innovative competitor in a matter of days.
That was my assumption too.

But the HTML5 that runs on the IPods/IPhones and properly also the iPads are really, really powerful. Powerful enough that they can run as stand-alone programs with local storage (in the form of an sql-lite database), web sockets, etc.

You could easily have a local app that was also a webapp.
All valid points, but why the harsh overtones?

HN is an efficient system where value to individual users is rewarded by the points. If it's not up to snuff, the points indicate that.

To use your same logic, this makes your entire rant quite redundant.

If it isn't for you can I interest you in the 30 other stories on the same page?
OS X's biggest downside is that it doesn't allow an interface without menus. :)
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Chile, three days later.
"Facts" stated but not backed up by anything aren't worth much. "I personally measured..." is a worthless comment if he doesn't show his work (i.e. his tests or claims are not reproducible at all).
Questions to ask before letting a VC into an angel round
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People need to get over their neurotic, up-tight attitude towards sexuality, and their own and other people's bodies.

So someone will see you naked... what's the big deal?
Exactly what I'm thinking. If Valve games get ported to Mac OS X I'll actually buy them and stop considering XBox, PS3, PC gaming machine etc. purchases.
Ok, the logo's definitely quite a deviation from the super-"friendly" previous version. It feels a lot more "corporate" to me. I really liked the friendly feel of the previous logo, but it does tell me something interesting...

The fact that it looks more "corporate"/"professional", may indicate that Canonical is going to pursue corporate deploys more aggressively than before. They're still not making a profit as a company. If we want Ubuntu to continue its prosper for a long time, it's good to keep having Canonical as its backer.

Of course you can argue whether making a logo more "corporate" will help in selling it as a "serious" product, but that's not the point here. If Canonical feels this will help them, it will.
size=`wc -c a` ; cp a b & sleep 1 ; ETA 'wc -c b' $size

Every 10 seconds it runs the given command, then gives an ETA to the number you want. It's not a progress bar, but it is a projected time of completion and can easily be extended if you want.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149364

ETA is like pv but for those occasions when you don't have access to the data stream in a pipe. It can be used anytime you can compute a number that indicates how far along you are. Just give it the command to run for itself, or run the command and feed the values to ETA on stdin and it will give you regular estimates of when it will hit the given target.

It also lets your cp run at full speed, unlike when you copy through pv, and is more generic than just checking on the progress of specifically a copy command. It lets you predict the completion time of anything measurable.
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"So someone will see you naked... what's the big deal?"

If it isn't such a big deal why don't you walk around naked all the time then? (Given decent weather) why wear clothes at all?

Yes I am exaggerating to make a point, but "getting naked" in front of strangers is a big deal for many people. The debate is about whether improved security in airports is worth "getting naked". Dismissing peoples concerns as "no big deal" doesn't help.
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For what it's worth, I've just been looking at an LG sound system that, by the specifications, supports MKV.
Yes, but there are ways to do that without assuming the risk.

Ever wonder what those "work from home" offers really ask you to do?
If you like this sort of thing, you should read Nietzsche (which is where Rand appropriated this sort of thing from).

Nietzsche is not only a much more eloquent writer, but his ideas are far more profound.
Not enough vision here... its a potentially great way to get free press and ad space for your project while learning a bit about all the newspapers that will be desparate for any programmer with knowledge of a dying industry can be saved.
Tempting. It would certainly make for a beautiful (and unique) desk clock.
How would that help? You'd still need to put just as much work into defining request and response formats, so it would just be a useless layer of bloat.
You either enter a URL or enter text. If there's a url, the text is ignored.
One more thing: reading the linked PDF case file and seeing all the emails clearly establishing criminal fraud, it looks like this company could have benefited grealy by the infamous advice:

"Never write when you can talk, never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death."

-- Eliot Spitzer

Spitzer also should have ironically added "and never leave a tangled financial trail that can be unravelled back to yourself."
Hurray! Now we can focus on what's really making our application different. And it turns out to be boring.

Maybe we should be more creative in our application's core functionalities, should we not?
"If it isn't such a big deal why don't you walk around naked all the time then? (Given decent weather) why wear clothes at all?"

I would have absolutely no problem with that myself. Unfortunately, where I live it's illegal.

I do understand perfectly well that many people do have problems with others (particularly non-intimate strangers) seeing them naked. But I just think this is the result of socialized neurosis. Hopefully with time our society will get over it.
Thank you! That's one of the best talks I've seen. Josh James is my new hero.
My sup (on ruby 1.9) just crashed on me because I dared to try to write a mail with UTF8 in it.

This is not a trivial screwup! This is the sort of screwup that should make everybody who's using that wretched platform think thrice before continuing to use it.
Your high IQ will kill your startup
Ah thanks for the tip, will redo :)
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Ask HN: Please review my site http://tweetingmachine.com
TweetingMachine has been my weekend project, mostly to learn Twitter's API after some previous freelance requirements.

It's a crowded marketplace, but there seem to be enough people out there wanting to use such tools; do you think there's room for me if I keep adding more features?

http://tweetingmachine.com
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Funny enough, there's a whole category called How Quora is different from X? http://www.quora.com/t/2410/How_is_Quora_different_from_X?q=...

It's a good rundown. What's your email? I'll send you an invite.
Are they ever going to get away from the brown color?
The Onion: Google Responds To Privacy Concerns...
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The cited reference in the menu bar link is a design patent, which is very different from a regular patent. Anyone can implement a menu-bar system that lives at the top of the screen--it just can't look exactly like Apple's.
Open buying and open selling
True, although code memory space consumption is not the issue it once was. The consumption of most of the big hogs (web browsers, word processors, etc) is data-related.
You still have the option of using FORTRAN and COBOL with BLAS and LAPACK, if you're satisfied with the result.

The problem is that today we demand much more than what those earlier tools can give us. Such demands result in an inevitable (?) increase in complexity of the aggregate toolset. The tools are capable of more, and give you more options. So it seems that learning and using those tools effectively would be more challenging.

But it's not a one-way street. Along with this increase in complexity have been efforts to simplify, streamline, and structure these tools and ease their use. But both the demand for increased ease of learning/use and the demand for power are moving targets. Hopefully with time both could be maximized. We're just not there yet. Remember, computer science is still in its infancy.
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I use rsync --progress as a cp replacement when I feel like I need to know how the cp is going.
That doesn't give you a progress bar because it doesn't know how big the data stream will be. You need to pass in some options to pv to give it that information.
This isn't package management for OSX per se, but if you haven't seen it already I highly recommend macports/porticus, which is pretty effective at managing package for the unix-y apps that OSX is missing.
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Uhrzeit der Atomuhr und großer Uhren-Shop
There is always room for more, HN has taught me that.

Nice work for a weekend product. How does your system handle spam? e.g. if I schedule a tweet every 1 second to 20 accounts that may get your oAuth or ip blacklisted from Twitter.

I could only see what the Pro cost is very small at the bottom of the screen. You should make your pricing structure more obvious, and I would like to select which version im signing up for before I sign up for it.
'SELECT * FROM user WHERE id = ?'
OR
'SELECT getUser(?)' presuming you have a stored procedure/function getUser that returns the data you need, and you should (or a view, at least)
Videocracy
It appears to be running on Amazon EC2 with Cloudfront for a CDN.
An html sanitizer for C#
I like pv and find myself using it when bziping large files (where the blocker is bzip). It must have a negative impact on the speed of a copy.

*Hmmm, I can't back up my own predictions:

cp huge blah 0.11s user 7.94s system 6% cpu 2:12.54 total
pv < huge > something 0.12s user 8.10s system 7% cpu 1:54.86 total
Kwedit Gets Slammed On Colbert, But Raises $3.3 Million To Soften The Blow
I love pv. It's great because it's pretty much a drop-in for "cat" that gives you fancy progress bars. But for copy I tend to use "rsync -aP". It has progress but not a bar and just feels more like a replacement for cp to me.
where can get this stuff the author is smoking ? ;)
With the iPhone Apple's innovation is in the implementation, not the concept/idea. Can design be patented?
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No such things as bad publicity ("they" say).

Regarding the product/service, however, it's one of the most innovative products/services recently launched, IMHO. Potentially explosive. Of course, it's not necessarily http://www.kwedit.com/ who will "own" the space, but right now it seems their's to lose.
When it comes to mechanics, Wolf3D is very similar to Doom. Also it wasn't as established as Doom - it didn't had much time to get to that point actually. Back in 1992 without much Internet access and with id being an unknown developer, things didn't move around as fast as today.
Attacks on Google may have been work of amateurs
Great feedback, thank you!

Yes being able to get one window to jump to a particular position would be really handy. There's a shortcut to center a window on screen, I'll add ones for the edges.
If you feel the need to point out an alternative solution, then I think you have missed the entire point by a wide margin.
right it is a different world now, the 80's had a technical revolution to pull them up where as today there is nothing revolutionary in sight. Nothing that somone is saying holy crap that is going to change the world, no automobile, no plane, no personal computer. Currently we only have evolutionary stuff like shrinking a computer down to a phone, etc. Something will come along but right now it's looking a lot more like the 70's than it is the 80's personally I think a lost decade is at hand unless something comes out of left field.
Relational programming may be beautiful, sure, I guess in some ideal world.

But SQL syntax is a dog. Especially when it's sitting next to real code, wrapped up inside strings and making everything feel dirty.

If you're using an SQL database from within another language primarily just to dump objects and pull them out, and especially if you're doing a lot of it, I have trouble thinking of a situation where you wouldn't prefer to abstract away the SQL bits. Maybe if you're working in a language with built in SQL syntax support? Even then, it's not exactly compact, and you've got quite a bit to do even after you get your results back from the database...
If you have enough patience, you can probably measure this by trying out different diets.

The important thing is to acknowledge that low-fat and low-carb seem to be equally good approaches and they depend on your genetic code, not some preference or public opinion.
Because automated trading is done on exchanges that permit it, doing it on an exchange that didn't permit it could expose you to much more serious criminal financial abuse charges.
Since the marketplace is crowded with free tools, why don't you just sell a pro version? It will differentiate you and make you focus on making something worth paying for. Please don't hide that cost at the bottom of the page. Put it on top, make a video to tell me why I really really need to buy this beautiful thing.
SQL is really nice for querying sets. There's no reason Mongo has to go without its query capabilities, really.
It's a good point. Is it actually legal to circumvent captchas ? - how is brute forcing a captcha any different from brute forcing an ssh password ?

Both are security systems that restrict who has access to a system.
Nice hack.
Hacks involving strace and awk are fun, the only thing that could have improved this is to somehow involve netcat too.
That Israeli soldier had balls to take on a guy with a knife. I thought it was kinda funny and ironic that he used that situation as an analogy for intelligence.

The intelligent thing to do would have been to hand over the money and NOT risk being sliced open lol.
Wouldn't it be better to tie a phone number to an email address? An email address is still much more memorable than a phone number but the crowded namespace issue has already been solved. You could add something similar to an MX record to your domain's DNS that specifies where your "phone number server" is. The phone number server would be a simple database of username/alias and "real" phone number (although it could be expanded to do redirects, voicemail, 404s etc). The client making the call then consults this server which returns the number that it should dial.

"This is pretty cool because it means that anything that can speak DNS (pretty much everything) could have programmatic access to this data."

I don't think this offers an advantage over my solution, as any application that needs to use this will have to be modified anyway, the protocol I'm proposing would be equally trivial (or not) to implement.
You forgot to add omnivores and opportunistic predators to your analysis. You ignore our very close relatives, chimps, who hunt. You ignore insects as a food source, which were probably important to our ancestors. You are picking and choosing features for convenience.
I'm afraid the modern attention span is becoming limited to 140 characters.
I could not have said it better myself, it seems like no one is talking about the commercial real estate market just like no one dared say it on the eve of the housing crash. I have been watching commercial rent plummet in the last few months and cant help but feel that it is starting.
I wouldn't even say Android is that far behind. It's lacking polish, to be sure, but there isn't anything I cared to do on my iPod Touch that I can't do on my Nexus One. And the N1 offers me some things the iPod couldn't do, even ignoring the GPS, camera, and phone functions. I find the N1's interface to be a lot prettier, too (but I suppose that's a matter of personal taste).
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What exactly does it do?
Time to make cell-cultured meat happen, I think. Given that the technology is pretty close to possible, I think that treating sensate creatures as meat factories has lost it defensibility.
The good thing about models like this is they're easy to scale, and they're relatively low maintenance.

You could get rid of free accounts, and only offer Pro accounts with a 2 week free trial (pending payment w/ cancellation at end of term).
After all these years of reading and watching start-up stuff, I've never seen this one. Thanks.