skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IT administrator in question is female, evidently? Not was I was expecting for a number of reasons...

"The lawsuit said the administrator, who has been placed on paid leave, “invokes the Fifth Amendment to every question asked of her, including a question asked as to whether she had ever downloading (sic) pictures to her own computer, including pictures of students who were naked while in their home.”"
From MacStories.net, there are at least five other similar blogs:

http://stevejobsemailreplys.tumblr.com/

http://fromstevejobs.tumblr.com/

http://stevejobssays.tumblr.com/

http://emailsfromsteve.tumblr.com/

http://saysstevejobs.tumblr.com/

(from http://www.macstories.net/news/steve-jobs-email-replies-now-...)

As mrduncan noted, these all seem to be inspired by John Gruber's tweet asking for such a site:

http://twitter.com/gruber/status/12358833629
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." Jamie Zawinski 1997.
"Another potential backer invited her for a weekend yachting excursion by showing her a picture of himself on the boat — without clothes." [emphasis mine]

Sounds like the creep was smart enough not to give her the picture.
Although someone else submitted it before that and only got 6 points.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059076
I've used http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ by Google too. It appears OCRopus uses that as one of the plugins for OCR.
Seems like they've been HN'd: their GAE calls are falling over at the moment.
IPad ra1n ...again:)
I never said UI simplification should be privileged above all other concerns. Your idea has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
There are at least as many stories of not landing safely, not only killing the people onboard but also on the ground. Europe is quite densely populated.

And I don't think you're within gliding distance of an airport at all, especially since they fly lower than normal to avoid the ash, and even if they are, I'm not sure what the odds of a successful dead-stick landing is. Given that most pilots have probably never tried it, I'd bet the odds of stalling out short of the runway or overrunning at high speed are pretty large.

Ultimately, it's a matter of weighting risk, and given that there seems to be no accurate assessment in combination with the shitstorm that would arise if they allowed flights to resume and a plane went down, I can't blame the authorities.
it's also currently on the front page of reddit
You're kidding. It happens all the time.

I will be oversimplifying now, but still my observation is that in western Europe most people who oppose to something are those for whom it's a way of life, like leftists (or, contrary, extreme right-wing people). Insane example: people who created Baader-Meinhof, they didn't remotely know the real sides of life of the people they supposedly represented; they just found a way to utilize rage and pump their egos.

On the other hand there are post-communist countries, where I come from, where most of the people just don't care; they look at the west, want to become a middle class and they choose to be opportunistic.

But in the US people, common folk -- not any extremists, even if they just want to be a middle class, are quite good informed what they want, what the govt should do for them and what not, and are caring of it. This is deeply rooted in a foundation of the US.

Maybe you will have a clue what I have in mind when you compare the bureaucracy needed to create and maintain a business in the US and in the EU.
Cool idea. The readability bookmarklet (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) does a great job at extracting the main document text without having to compare to other files, though it's currently all client-side.
Introversion did just that for Darwinia in 2005.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news250806introversion
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I'd be curious to see if he feels the same way after he has worked at Google for a few years.
True. Yet another example of how a good headline will make or break a story on social news sites.
What it means for companies to be different
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/wisetrend-ocr
The Phone's Ringing, But We're Too Frightened to Pick it Up
Google Removes http:// from Chrome
I don't even think that what they're doing is particularly novel. Blizzard has been distributing World of Warcraft via bittorrent for a while now, and other games I've downloaded have essentially had their own front-end on a torrent client.

What I think is more interesting though is the idea of distributing it for free on channels that are usually limited to less legal endeavors, and later patching in a monetization scheme.
You mean there are actually people who were born after 1990? How bizarre.
Earthquake Causes
This guy is one of my heroes.
Tech Hiring Binge?
Yes, it did do something. It informed me that I was on an unsecure connection.
Is it right that BeautifulSoup was (is?) implemented in terms of Python regular expressions?
No one should ever use regular expressions because there is a cute quote that says not too.
Surely the trains would be specially constructed to perform this procedure reliably, and it would be entirely automated. This doesn't seem like it should be a hard problem if the system is engineered from the beginning to handle it.
They are repaying tickets, we were due to fly to Thailand yesterday for 2 & half weeks and weve been offered a full airline refund..tho thats only half of it with additional internal flights and hotels i now need to cancel and refund. Been planning it for months so its totally gutting.
In all honesty I have only just noticed that the machine I am working on has this feature.

I see the draw backs but the fact I haven't noticed for about 48 hours or more is, well, telling IMO.
Truth. Felt that way for a while now.
Clojure/compojure on Google app engine, pt 2
Did the SEC Bait Goldman into Compounding Its Legal Problems?
Uh, why is Google releasing this? Wouldn't this code give hackers a good head start to create an OCR system capable of trivially defeating CAPTCHA everywhere?

Or maybe they've realized any human computer test based on text recognition is flawed, and so what better way to force the web to upgrade than to make OCR trivial? I rather like this shotgun approach to AI.
Yet again a prove that no matter how slick and shiny the UI is, VIM will remain seated on the Throne.

If you like working with the mouse, consider spyder instead.

http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib
We need mute for sound because we, humans, can not "close our ears" or "listen away". The need for "video mute" is not as strong. We have the feature built-in.
Passive Digital Sundials
I don't take issue with icons in and of themselves, it's the replacement of the text representation with an icon. it's the break in conventions. The http/https part has always been visible on any browser. Having http:// at the beginning of URLs certainly isn't my idea of perfection, but to some extent we're stuck with it. It's much like the floppy disk icon for "Save". Why use that? There are kids today who have never even seen a floppy disk. But that doesn't mean that the floppy disk icon should just be up and removed from toolbars. A lot of thought should be put into a change like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_sundial
Considering how much is abstracted from the user these days, I've always wondered why something as technical and meaningless to the average user like "http:// hasn't been removed before. Good move I say.
Friedman rightfully gushes over the non-traditional setup of the company and rightfully cheerleads for more. But what needs to be looked into is a big revamp of the tax system and capital markets to make this a sturdier economic foundation.

For example, back in the 1970s, the tax code was changed in a way that finally acknowledged the strange lives of artists. Basically, if you lived on beans for years one and two and then could afford caviar in year three (because you succeeded), the tax law allowed averaging of your third year income over the prior two years of want. You weren't socked with a higher rate because it acknowledged the reality of the prior two years as a kind of "investment." This provision was killed within a few years, however. Something like this really needs to return.
Well, I telecommute, and I like to work in pajamas in front of the TV, take a shower when I feel like it, pop off to the store for some refreshments as necessary or run other errands, and deliver high volumes of quality code every day.
I think it's just a question of perspective. I think an awful lot of stuff has changed the past 20 years. Think of the effect of Internet. Hell, right now I'm sitting in a Starbucks (also unexistent in 1990) in London, UK and sharing my thoughts real time with people all around the globe! How awesome is that! There are a lot more examples.

In terms of popular culture, musical genres such as boy bands of the 90's, drum and bass, goa, nu-metal have came and gone; some truly remarkable movies have been made, think of Forrest Gump, The Matrix, Amelie or Trainspotting.

More specifically my home country (where I don't live anymore unfortunately) has seen the end of communism and people had to grow used to a capitalist environment which affected every aspect of their lives.

And yes, believe me, you would look extremely silly if you've worn 90's style clothes so please don't.
Sorry, as a new poster, what's proper protocol? Should I change the author's title for HN?
Since the OS X pasteboard is clever enough to add http:// back in when copying the url from the location bar, this actually works pretty well on my Mac. I like it too.

I can see how it'd be intensely frustrating if the pasteboard doesn't work, though.
What happens on Copy/Paste?

google.com
http://google.com

are not the same in the context of the web.
Do you generally assume you are on a secure connection unless told otherwise?
The full url with http:// is added to the clipboard when you copy.
There's a lot of comments about this over here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274591
Setting aside your attack on "Steve", the point I'm making is that no one WITHOUT A PATENT has developed an iPhone, or anything remotely close. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
It's the dev track. If you don't want to see bugs, switch.
Which "breaks" WYSIWYG.
Coupling two things together in 200 or 300 kph is not a hard problem? That's like people without any programming experience saying, hey, that traveling salesman can be easily solved for 10 nodes, so just add more power and solve it for 100 or 1000, that cannot be that hard!

It's quite hard to control exact speed of a train (at such high speed), even without any atmospheric effects and with ideal adhesion conditions that never change. I can imagine it in like 50 kph, when the worst thing to expect is a derailment, some deformation zones blasted, and few non-fatal wounds. But every problem rises at least exponentially with the speed.
It would be fun to have this kind of info standardized into its own DNS resource record type.

By doing this in addition to what you currently do, you could unlock a much larger market in a long term, I think.
I can see the obscuring of http:// being useful way back in 1995, but in 2010, it seems kind of a moot point given how ubiquitous the act of web browsing is.
> Someone on HN using the word "ObamaCare" is just another notch in reasons why I'm slowly not visiting anymore. Jesus.

Yeah, it's sad to see the quality of discussion erode a bit, but I'm hoping it's just a cycle. I saw a comment about "teabaggers" just recently as well, so it is truly non-partisan low quality political discussion.

Then again, maybe any not-heavily-moderated politics discussion on the internet devolves into that sort of thing, which is why it's more or less verboden on HN in the first place. I'm just breaking out the downvote for it and crossing my fingers that it's a passing influx of people who don't know the etiquitte yet.
How did this article debunk any myths about telecommuting? If it did anything, it romanticized it.
So? Do you think people will be upset if they copy and paste a link and it has http:// put at the start?
Only if you copy the entire link. If you try and extract a subsection like a directory, by either dragging across, or by shift unselect, it will not copy the 'http://.

A fringe case? Maybe, but I've already run into this pain a few times jumping back and forth from chrome to emacs.
Thanks for the tips, jules! I will try this following your instructions and let you and HN at large how it went.
Agreed. People seem to be upset mainly because of what they imagine certain users will do, rather than what they have actually seen happen.
I would recommend just chilling the drive, and using an external enclosure to read the data. Less risk of killing a whole laptop's worth of electronics with condensation, less warmup time wasted in booting, etc.
Good move, but they need a new way of showing https or a broken https site.
"upset" is not the consideration. There is potential for functional confusion, with a basic function, where none existed before.
Ah, but how many times has someone told you "trust me, I'm Dutch"? That should have been the only warning I needed :)

Also, I assume that there is some skill to being a good backseat rider, and while I was not wiggling around, I was not actively helping steer either.
Thanks, looks interesting, and it came from DEC via Compaq. It's billed as a Configuration Management System (i.e. managing builds). They do talk of managing tens of GB of derived data, which is also important.

The hardware part seems limited: "the Alpha group ... hardware description language files into Vesta's source code control", so not schematics or layout binaries as 'source'.

That site seems to be resting since 2006, but there is some activity at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vesta/ (releases in 2009, mailing lists with 2010 messages).
Just noticed this on my daily build. I actually kind of like it. Copy/paste works just fine on Ubuntu Karmic.
We use the exact same 2 hosting companies. I can't say enough good things about Linode :)
If you programmatically snap a picture through the webcam, how long does the light stay on? Perhaps it's difficult to notice?
Maximum Compression: File compressors benchmarks and comparisons
"there is really no alternative in the general case without imposing huge overhead, making copies of everything "just in case"."

Actually, there is an alternative: use persistent data structures. Granted, it's an alternative that isn't terribly "Pythonic", but an alternative nonetheless.
I watched his thermodynamics videos and was quite impressed. It's actually difficult to find approachable course material in that topic, but he thoroughly explains it, all the way down to Boltzmann's H-theorem. How one guy manages to cover all this material is incredible—he's going to become the Max Headroom of Internet education!

And it sounds like his plans for the future are ambitious: can you imagine the day when every lesson from an entire K-12 + 4 college years of education can be watched on Youtube? Just fast-forward or rewind to wherever you are and learn at your own pace.

It's also a clever inversion to achieve an optimization we programmers can appreciate. If students are basically learning 90% identical content, then instead of every student having a separate teacher, just record one really, really exceptional teacher covering everything, and all students use that teacher. I guess this means the world needs a lot fewer teachers, but everything gets balanced, so those teaching resources could be applied to more complicated lessons that cannot be learned rote from video recordings. The incredible end result being basic education levels are lifted for everyone. Now that's a plan!
The author had to pick on Apple..
Open Courseware - What's It Good For? Who's Using It?
New Health Games Database Launched
Fear of bankruptcy does not make it OK to fly a plane with 200 passengers into conditions that may be unsafe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake

Seems like it's everywhere these days. Even in urban metro lines where you've got like 1km between stations. HK subway trains have been doing this since the 90s. Wikipedia sez Delhi Metro has it too.
Looks interesting! I was not able to build the jar due to the flyingsaucer dependency failing. I tried using the maven repo's [groupId/artifactId "8RC1"] in my project.clj but no dice. I've msg'd the author on GitHub. Likely a quick fix and nothing to be upset over, but just so you're all aware...
It's not really like the save icon. The padlock for https is like the save icon, because it is a metaphor for a certain interesting state. Http, on the other hand, doesn't tell you anything except that you're not on https (or ftp, etc). So you don't need to be told about it.

Suppose the icon for your email program has a badge on it with an unread count. I'm suggesting that 'http:// is kind of like keeping that badge there with a zero when you have no emails.
I think the benefits of having high quality free OCR tools available to developers outweighs the CAPTCHA abuse risk. Information organization is a huge problem/area of opportunity, and being able to extract text/content/context out of scans/photos and the like is key.
I'm really surprised at how many people express little to no concern about being in a metal tube 5 miles up in what might be volcanic ash, given what ash has done to other planes.
The addition of 'http:// is made by Chrome itself, not OSX.
The thing about infomercial is that "info" part. Sometimes they are actually creating a market through the process of education.

If you look at some of Apple's iPhone ads, those are sort of compressed -- in the JG Ballard sense -- infomercials, quickly demonstrating several apps that solve various problems.
Also, because regular expressions are not the right tool for the job sometimes.

("No one should ever use regular expressions" is hyperbolic and wrong.)
"...where none existed before."

For you maybe, but part of the reason they're removing it is because many average users had no idea what it was for.
So to increase my karma, I could just find a few high ranking stories on HN from a few months ago and resubmit them with a ? at the end of the URL. Just as a social experiment, I'm gonna see if it works :D
Michael Crichton once thought his unconscious mind was trying to kill him
>>>If Myspace has 17 ads on a page, it's most likely because multivariate testing showed that 17 was the optimal number in terms of their eCPM.

No. Just because something is being done doesn't make it either the right thing to do or indicative of the way it should be done.

Just look at the financial mess we're in. All of that was based on the same kind of thinking.
He mentioned that the reason he didn't do that was to avoid voiding the warranty.
Dan Meyer dissects the flaws of math textbooks (video)
>Being talented in programming is simply not a binary situation, which JWZ shows quite well: he might be really good at some things

Basically this is saying that JWZ, or any other programmer, is as good as the APIs he memorized and has similar shelf life.

The point JWZ is making, and I think most developers past a certain number of years would sympathize with, is that a well designed API should just make sense to a decent developer. It should follow some common sense and accepted conventions that fit your past experience and allow you to figure it out the way travelers find their way around a well designed airport, or a good mechanic approaches a new engine (before software messed these up too..)

Of course it's always possible to just send developers to RTFM in order to do every minor task. If that's the criteria, all APIs are equally great as long as they have some docs, and software developers are not architects or mechanics or chefs, but well paid employees at a fast food franchise, cooking your McMuffin per the updated company manual.
We used to do this (record instructors teaching) at my previous company, however the videos were only available to registered (paid) students.

Making education freely available to everyone was the style of early Greek philosophers. Then the sophists came along. They were a group of educators who travelled around and would only teach those who paid for it. It's a pity (albeit unsurprising) that this was the pattern that survived.
The Columbia Math Professor Every NYC Startup & VC Should Know
I think I'm too lazy to go searching for old stories anyway.
This is part of a theme I've been writing about lately. It seems that many people reach a point in life where they begin to experience the unconscious mind as a distinct and separate intelligence from their conscious mind.

For me it started when I began to view the unconscious mind as a separate processor I could offload work to. But since then things have snowballed and I've found that the unconscious can behave, not just like another processor, but like a whole other person. And apparently I'm not the only one.

At any rate, these past few months spent hacking my mind has been quite a ride.
With any sane implementation, this just benchmarks the memory bandwidth.
What are research papers? Read the important points
To become an expert researcher, it is important to know what is research paper, what the components of a research paper are and the rubrics of good research paper writing. In the last couple of years,
i'd be shocked if refrigerating it didn't
>>>The only thing I learned from this is that if you won a pulitzer prize for your satire you can resubmit your satire app.

No. This isn't the first time it's happened and Apple was called on it then too:

http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/another-day-anothe...

Apparently, after that one was fixed, no policy lesson was derived from it.

Given the stuff Apple sells in iTunes in terms of video and music, why this happens is extremely strange.
It's Chrome that does this, not OS X.
Doomsday Predictions
It's most useful in such cases (and trams and so on), with very frequent braking and starts and a lot of trains. There is always some other train accelerating. And you have majority (if not all) axles powered, so you can have regenerative brake on all of them, allowing you to brake effectively only with the regenerative brake to almost zero. It's even much more silent than a mechanical brake, also an advantage in urban environment :-)

(And even if you don't give the energy back to the network and just burn it in the resistors in locomotive, it gives you more effective braking. Locomotives from 1960's already had that.)
If it hadn't worked, he may not have posted about it, and then no one would know that it had been in the fridge...
SLEEP DEPRIVED != not sleeping 8 hours a night.

Sleep deprivation is dangerous. But it's also obvious. You don't need to read a book to know that.
Is this the same one as featured here:

http://recaptcha.net/digitizing.html

If so, I'm not impressed.
This dude is awesome. He's a genuine force for good in NYC and has access to one of the scarcest resources in the city: high quality technical talent.
http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?in...

Error:Input does not meet STD3 rules for domain name format.
I also found a ruby port: http://github.com/iterationlabs/ruby-readability
A graphical wiki: Playpen
"www" is only superfluous at some sites, and there is no way they can tell which. Even doing a name lookup on both and checking if the IP is the same is not sufficient, because they could be different virtual hosts on the same IP.
If you manage to get the temperature in your fridge up to 10°C you are good[1].

[1] http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html
Have you submitted it as a bug? It's the dev track people! Why are you expecting it to be perfect already?
Understood, but I hear that that doesn't work on, say, Linux. I don't know who's to blame, nor do I care.
The functional confusion stems from the modification of basic copy/paste, not from the removal of data from the address bar.