skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

Specifically:
What happens when Content ID identifies a match?

If Content ID identifies a match between a user upload and material in the reference library, it applies the usage policy designated by the content owner. The usage policy tells the system what to do with the video.

So, I'd highly suspect that just now the content owner set the policy. I can't believe that the filter is multiple years out of date, and just now catching up. They wouldn't all be flagged at once, if the processing was that slow.
Why are you bothered about people seeing you in photos?
Facebook and The Emergence of the Socially-Validated Web
Unboxing the Nokia N900
For a few days, I've had the problem where the threads page (e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zck) takes a long time to load (> 30 seconds), and sometimes doesn't load at all, ending up with just a blank page -- no html is loaded.
Why does AV software not have a secure checksum-based whitelist? It is not as if Microsoft keeps the important system files secret.
Both Kayak and Bing are powered at least in part by ITA. Kayak is to Mint as ITA is to Yodlee.
Are you sure he was targeting the goalpost? Maybe it was a failed cross that just gone lucky. Happened to me, too.
Slow on Threads page, images didn't load recently. Images fine now (but not Threads)

However... The 'GREEN Certified Site' image now loads after about 6 months as a dead image!
Just goes to show you how popular Heroku is. Once it goes down, almost all the Ruby on Rails startups go down.
Heroku was down
I have been having a lot of stupid caching behavior, too (I think I have a transparent cache between me and yc, and there doesn't seem to be an Expires header. Some article pages show me as logged out, or when I try to reply, I get deleted/expired link message.
This feels a little like asking the revenue per pound of a person. If two people earn the same amount, and one if more slender than the other, the slimmer person makes more per pound than his friend. If he were to increase his weight would his earnings increase? I suspect they won't. This is like the view that Craigslist could increase their earnings by hiring employees. Companies like people are organic complicated things. Reducing them to ratios is essentially meaningless.
Well there's a lot of cuts and scrapes in my work and First Aid training was required, unlicensed doctor was just a natural progression . . . lol no, there was supposed to be a 'computers for' in there, but a lack of proofreading bit me in the ass.

Ironically, my mother was a nurse and I just picked up on how to patch minor injuries up. Nothing sutures better than sterilized royal blue thread in a hurry.
Is the change to 25 front page stories a temporary one, to help performance?
The Red Bias
$9 billion is nothing compared to the scope of government or environmental spending. In the lifetime of the LHC, US oil alone will process literally tens of trillions of dollars. Making policy decisions about a system that big has nontrivial financial impact. :)

Personally, I like to believe the LHC is too awesome to fail. After the SSC debacle, nobody wants to back out of a second collider. :)
its seemingly back up (at the moment at least)
"Clearly anorexic" models haven't really been "in" since the early 90s, and even then most of them weren't anorexic, just skinny. There has been an interesting divergence between "fashion model" and "sex symbol" since the days of the "supermodel" (a term one rarely hears nowadays), and today's sex symbols are back to mostly being actresses and singers. This is largely because the body types which make clothes look best are not really the body types than men are most attracted to.

What was my point? Oh yes, there are very few genuinely underweight people seen as role models. Keira Knightley, perhaps.
Big Company Execs in Startups
Or even:

Do you know that photocopiers store image on a hard drive?
1) Yes
2) No

vs

When you photocopy an image, the photocopier...
1) saves the image to a hard disk permanently.
2) temporarily stores the image until the copy is finished.
3) other

The first question leads people to lie in order to not be seen as ignorant.
also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
For that matter, why didn't they test this on at least one machine before releasing it? Is it not standard to have a release process that includes testing?
Better stated: ITA is to Kayak as Yodlee is to Mint
Ignore Facebook Open Graph at your peril – this is Web 3.0
www.niblink.com

we help private golf members connect and exchange guest invitations.
$13 Christmas gifts = 13 point gain in kids’ IQ
I just searched the article in question for the term "open" and couldn't find the quote that states that Flash itself is an open platform.

What Mike Chambers tries to say, is that he believes open platforms (android, etc.) will succeed over the closed ones.

Also he might mean that Flash and Air are tools that are open to other platforms: "The primary goal of Flash has always been to enable cross browser, platform and device development.".

Personally, i haven't looked at Flash for several years, but developing for Air sounds intriguing, targeting Desktop OS' (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) and most mobile operating systems at once. I will at least take a look at Adobe Air.

Edit: The article says that all major companies Apple, Google, MS, Adobe try to lock in customers. One thing i find positive about Adobe nowadays is, that it seems to be the only Company to bring different platforms together. Except for HTML/JS, i don't know how i would write apps/games for the variety of platforms.
xmlvm.org comes to my mind, too. A shame that even this project won't be allowed on the iPhone (i guess).
Yes. I tweaked several variables to decrease load.
yes, you would need "liks" tagged with subjects. I do want to hear about physics links from friend Bob, but also ban any link about politics/religion.
seemed to be temporary...
The other difference is that the password on the sticky note is not actually for the computer, but is used to access network resources which probably are a more tempting target for someone to get at. So even though they have physical access to your machine, they will still need to get the password to access the resources on the network.

Still regardless having the password there on the monitor is an utter failure.
Posterous (YC S08) founders named among top young tech entrepreneurs in 2010
> I suspect the correct way to view the iPhone store is not "A horribly closed environment compared to e.g. Windows/the Web", but "A largely open market compared to the PS3/Wii etc"

Very good argument; a perspective that needs to be taken into account.

I think the "correct" way to view the iPhone store is to be both.
Weka 3 - Data Mining with Open Source Machine Learning Software in Java
Microsoft launches Docs.com
Doesn't News.YCombinator.com support the devel/test/prod cycle of site update?
There were some problems with image loading on the site 10 minutes ago.
It looks like somebody has done some changes on the production site. :)
Adobe's market cap is around $18 billion. Apple's is around $235 billion with $40 billion in cash on hand. There must be a few good reasons, but I'd really like to know why Apple hasn't bought Adobe yet.
Why contractual arbitration clauses can be dangerous
Plagued by Lawsuits, McAfee Founder Hunts for Cures in Belize - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/fantasy-island.html
Many of the features in the .psd format are undocumented and proprietary, and some are not backwards compatible. Up until CS5, the .fla format was proprietary (it is now zipped XML, and I understand that there are undocumented features there too).

Ever try sharing an indesign file between different versions? You can't, even if they are one version off. Sure you can export XML, but again, it often doesn't retain the same layout.

Fireworks adds proprietary information to the PNG format, so you can't open those files in other editors without losing data.
This has been happening to me for weeks.
The example shows in the doc use your OWN Facebook username. I guess that is why.
Swearing is unprofessional period.
It is basically another form of advertising for the business. This is an alternative to putting a blah coupon in some magazine and hoping.
I think they are geniuses when their brains can calculate complex mechanics on the fly. Think of a quarterback throwing the ball to a receiver when he is running from left to right while the receiver is running down field on a post route. And the defense is blocking his visibility. And the wind is blowing. And it's been raining, making the ball slightly heavier. And the ball is slippery, changing the coefficient of static friction for his grip.

That's an extreme case, but we kind of take it for granted when we simply call this coordination. Coordination is thought of as a physical skill, not necessarily a mental one. But it would be a pretty tough problem to fully model with a pencil and paper.
Same here—sometimes when the rest of HN seems to be working normally, I end up with timeouts on Threads.
I had planned on using google for jquery, yes, but I didn't realize I could do what you describe with my own static files. The site will use some pretty hefty javascript, so that could make a noticeable difference. Thanks.
I don't think there is much incentive for them, Adobe is kind of the wrong fit for a company that is trying to become your one-stop-shop for media consumption.

Edit: wording;
Software to help plan astronaut, shift worker schedules
Does HN run on srv.arc and app.arc?
There's a good argument to be made that Android isn't as open & free as it should be since Google gave so much control to carriers & handset makers. For example AT&T Android devices with restricted access to third party applications or wifi tethering apps being removed from the Market upon carrier's request.
That's like saying that having sex without a condom is safe as long as you have certain 'usage patterns'.

Chances are you have contracted something, but just don't know about it.

The OS X and linux boxes are pretty safe, but if you use your windows machines online you're bound to have been bitten by drive by malware at least once.

Unless those machines have never been used to surf the web.

Even very reputable sites have had bad cases of advertising injected malware, in some of the most unlikely delivery vehicles.
I seem to remember recently reading that they're looking for other ways to make money besides selling ACL per se. Looking at their web site they most prominently feature Semantic Web Technologies: http://www.franz.com/
Congratulations guys, on making the list and not selling out so early :-) And thank you for bringing autopost to everywhere in my life.
The cultures are simply too different. Adobe is a feature company; Apple is a UX company.
This is a different problem from the one we're experiencing now. Threads takes a long time the first time because items are lazily loaded.
Months for me. Seriously. I never have the patience to even visit the site because it's so slow. I rely solely on the hnyc_feed@chatterous.com gtalk service to chat top posts.
I've got the same thing on Ubuntu 9.04 with Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta.
>Do you know that photocopiers store image on a hard drive?

Is still pretty leading. People would say yes because they don't want to appear naive.

"Do photocopiers keep any records of copies made?"
If you haven't run av in 20 years, one wonders what you base the claim of not having had a virus in 20 years on.
100 megs? A single letter-size sheet is 30 megs at 600 ppi.
I read some people use the Google SMTP server to send their emails (when they use Google Apps for your domain).

What would be the benefits for me to use MailChimp / AuthSmtp / SendGrid / PostMark? Where do I get the best chances to have my emails reach destination?

Thanks
I agree, this is going to be great for social shopping apps.
Did you read any of the linked site? The entire draft of the book is online for free.

There is much more to reputations systems than just user karma. Do you use any search engine?
This is absolutely awesome
Scribd is also on the list.
Interesting; I have noticed that once the threads page loads, it generally works fine the second time. I've been trying not to hammer on it too much to see when it works/doesn't work, though.

I guess it's one way to tell if the server's been restarted since I last was here. :)
Interesting, but does not really offer much more than a number of shares for each page, and a demographic which for my sites was nothing unexpected.
Is it just me, or does this whole "Entrepreneur" thing sound like a weird cult sometimes?
The Akamai project they released is licensed under GPLv2. I'm too lazy to find out the truth, but I suspect the other projects have the same license.
Freezing the volcano’s lightning
How NoSQL is used at Twitter
Wow, great -- four drupal 6 modules and five links to drupal.org from the white house!

* Akamai Integration: http://drupal.org/project/akamai

* Context HTTP Headers: http://drupal.org/project/context_http_headers

* Node Embed: http://drupal.org/project/node_embed

* GovDelivery: http://drupal.org/project/govdelivery

All released under the GPLv2.
Here is the link:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/04/0419_best_young_tech...
did i win? http://twitter.com/mseiler1/status/12598697037 or was i too slow :)
Congrats!

Am I that at 29 and few months feels already old?
Thanks for the support friends!
Same on Ubuntu 9.10 with Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta
How To Download Torrent Files Using Google
Thats Cool.
I've had a 15-30 second delay after clicking onto the comments thread for a few days now.
That may be true, but Apple's most fiercely loyal customers are the content creators. So in this sense, Apple and Adobe serve much of the same marketplace. Creative professionals who use Macs also use Adobe products.

And if we consider media consumption, the standard on the web at the moment is Flash. So for a company who's trying to be a one-stop-shop for media consumption, this type of acquisition probably would make a lot of sense.

On the flip-side, I think the culture argument is probably the most compelling. Adobe products don't feel like Apple products. And for a company that makes its money by selling powerful software to creative people, their tools don't seem all that well designed.
while it is possible it was a bad cross, he's definitely capable of ridiculous shots. Here's another one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5XpXU8TBoo
Its good to me now.
Any sane iPhone developer knew this going in, and really doesn't care

This is the "No True Scotsman" fallacy at work. The word "sane" is doing too much work in that sentence. Certainly a lot of iPhone developers got into the work because they honestly loved the platform, and wanted to code to what they used themselves. I think arguably it's this population that is responsible for most of the real innovation (as opposed to yet another racing game, say).

And its these folks are the ones who have been burned most by 3.3.1. To write them off as "insane" is missing a big part of the picture, I think...
So a Guy Walks into a Bar...
Kindle officially going on sale at Target on April 25
Concept: iPad Split Keyboard
Anyone think that this might be an ingenious hack by a "virus" writer? Instead of targeting the computer, target the manufacturer that makes the code that is supposedly protecting the computer. If so, I'll bet all it took was one line in one list of malicious files.

No one may have thought to protect those back doors...
Intel's 2011 CPUs require new motherboards, start saving those pennies now?
CNET Review: Be as snarky as you want to be w Bccthis for Outlook.
Is there a reason they chose not to use rdf/microformats? This is their proprietary FBML markup, I believe.

Seems a little redundant, but maybe I missed something.
Finance professionals most probably have no idea how important specific [fill-in-the-blank] news

Yes, they do. There are lots of hedge funds that do nothing but analyze news feeds and trade on them all day long.
I love start-up stories!!!
App Engine SDK 1.3.3 Released (includes SQLite)
They should do is with all unclassified govt software. American tax dollars paid for it why shouldn't everyone be able to use it?
The actual notification display doesn't appeal to me, in fact I think it's a horrible idea (though I realize it's intended for Chrome OS), but if another native notification system could intercept... that would be nice.
> [...]work on branches for weeks at a time before checking back in, [...]

This is bad. Try not to change your behaviour in that direction.
Well how I see it, the Airlines are losing money. Not the travel search sites. They still take their cut no matter what the margins look like for the underlying airlines. And it is a lot of revenue, even if not a lot of profit(I doubt that, but don't have relavent experience/documentation to back that up). And at the very least the travel search itself brings a LOT of eyeballs, which google has interest in.

On an unrelated note, ATI's co-founder Dave Baggett was on the founding team for the original "Crash Bandicoot"...which is awesome.
From a legal point of view, it would be fairly easy to make a case that it's implied when you sell internet access.

From a business point of view, failure to provide DNS would appear no different from an outage to the vast majority of users. An ISP that didn't provide DNS would be out of business in very short order.
Why lazily load items yourself instead of use a database, like Postgres or even SQLite, that handles the paging in and out itself?
We finally have an explanation for what happened. Our site was turned off by our hosts, who couldn't believe the traffic was legit. Maybe time to look for a different hosting company...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283430
It is only that simple if you assume that all macronutrients are metabolized in exactly the same way which is not the case (example: fat does not stimulate insulin secretion, carbohydrates [for the most part] do, insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage). Treating the human body like a black box like that is vastly oversimplifying the biochemistry of the digestive process to our detriment.
I don't know if you're serious or not, but the largest companies are also some of the slowest moving. We had Windows 2000 machines at Merrill Lynch, running Office 2000.
The Wrong Man
App Engine SDK 1.3.3 Released
Not generally a fan of the Obama administration, but this is very cool.
> Do you remember any amazing JS apps from 2002?

Yes, I remember Outlook Web Access providing a desktop-caliber mail client in the browser using ajax and javascript.
It will be super easy for facebook to make the distinction between all your fb friends and the special friends you care/share things with. They already do this for the newsfeed.
Tech Terms We Should Retire In 2010
My friend at http://ewrestlingnews.com/ tried it out for a while and gave really good feedback on it. User engagement increased exponentially and I think he noticed a slight traffic bump too for those pages. Certainly worthwhile for the little code required to implement it.
"I must say it would be neat to see Google break their no-Lisp policy."

Yes. I could even start to answer to Google head hunters...
New $100 bill unveiled to thwart high-tech counterfeits
I looked at this sort of thing before for tech sector - MSFT when the European anti-trust stuff came off, etc. - but it never seems to make a difference for some reason.
Okay, so 600 megs. An extra gig of RAM has to be cheaper than a hard drive + controller you wouldn't otherwise need, right?
I wonder if source code can be requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The act only applies to the executive branch but that's still probably a lot of software.
Indeed it would be if there was a value associated to a filter, as it stands it's just a filter with an ambiguous name. I do wish the filters were easier to use, at least accessible with one click instead of buried away.
College Bootstrapping Buddies
This has been happening to me since I signed up.
Yea, the conclusion is overly simplified here. I think it's safe to say not exercising and not eating well is generally bad for your entire well being, not just your brain and weight.
Clojure Datatypes (coming 1.2 feature)
Node embed has the same license. What is dupral licensed under?
I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but it seems to me we've been running around hunting for a lot longer than we've been sitting around writing (/ doing math / other mainly intellectual activity), and thus one is significantly more natural than the other given our history. The human body seems designed to throw spears / rocks / balls. The necessary mental faculties for writing a poem seem more complicated than those needed for doing sports. The proportion of good athletes to good writers.

I'd love to be corrected on this if the opposite is true, that becoming a good athlete is just as difficult as or more difficult than becoming a good writer. I'm just not seeing it.
Under section 105 of the US Copyright Act, works produced by the US government are not entitled to domestic copyright protection and are therefore, essentially, public domain.

IANAL but we've been down this road with the license on the White House flickr feed.

Apparently this does not apply to contractors - which I find rather inconsistent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...

Of course, whether the government actually publishes those works or not is an entirely separate question. So it's great to see this happening.
Microfluidic integrated circuit could help enable home diagnostic tests
I'm really impressed with these guys. Neat professional looking website and good social engineering on the flattery front and personal follow up emails. I wonder what their conversion rate is? I wonder how much it costs to run one of these summits, at $1000 a go it surely wouldn't take long to make back the costs!

Just to be clear, I doubt they are doing anything too illegal (how many laws do you break on a daily basis?!) but it does sound very unethical!
The anti-virus scam strikes again!
Cause of YC/HN outage discovered
Pair.com decided to shut down our hosting, because we got 150k hits in 30 minutes. Not that much, really. Anyway, I switched to Slicehost.
Wow - and they didn't even contact you about it? I thought this had been a pretty high traffic, well known site for a while.
I have been using 4.2.2.2 for years but did not realise others were until now. It was the only IP I could remember from public dns servers list.
are you seriously hosting news.yc on slicehost?
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I see your point, but I stand by the choice - any process that actually has an group of people sit there and review your app by hand could only have been seen as "open" by very naive individuals.
I would, but the facebook bar totally clashes with my Ask.com bar. And my Digg bar.

I get the feeling there are now some poor saps whose browsers resemble the flag of Sierra Leone (http://bit.ly/cDgS7A).
That's not an argument that Android isn't open, just that there exists hardware running Android that isn't open. There exists carriers and hardware where that isn't a problem.
Was there a large jump in traffic, or are they just not willing or able to host a site of this size?
I never ran anti-virus software, until I was at a friend's house and added his shared printer and Windows helpfully downloaded the virus-infected drivers from his PC...
The contractor clause is because of the military.
Also the financial cost is part of the decision for buying vs. renting, it is not the only one for me. I feel I have a better quality of life in my own house. For example, I did not want any carpet on the floor for my toddlers and can remove it in my own house, I can change the isolation, etc. On the other side, other people could prefer not to have to worry about a leaky roof, replacing the plumbing, etc.