skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the real problem is with the idea of auto-adaptiveness but with the implementations and their faulty assumptions.

E.g. I have one computer that I bring out maybe once a month at parties. It should not think: "Okay, he hasn't used these playlists for a month, we can hide them." Some computers are also shared between many users (using the same account), so the adaptation logic would have to somehow realize that. And so on.

I think Apple is wise in not trying to do something like this until it can be done right. When it's done right, the user will never even realize it. Everything will just seem even smoother and simpler than before.
Actually, watching this is really good, it shows you how much energy is present in a relatively low speed collision.

One down for the demonstration effect.
I hope that AP get screwed big time if only so that they learn a lesson. They have been such jerks with regards to C&D and the bogus copyright claims.
You're right about overthinking the cheating thing already. I should focus more on how to make the game and its logic, and worry about cheating when it happens. Moderating the scoreboards will probably be good enough.

Thanks for the tips!
What is the history list?
I liked the "drop privileges in Python for Tornado apps" article more. But even then, you would want to chroot/jail the user for more control over permissions.
They are still using MD5 checksums?
Ask HN: Brainstorming alternative Facebook models
I was vacuuming my apartment, and pondering what "distributed model" would work?
Here's my for a discussion starter:

Somewhat like email. Suppose I uploaded some pictures, and I can specify whom to "send" it to. Sending in this regard means who can see it (eg. shows up in their stream OR can see it if they browse my profile page). You can send it to "everyone", or "people who work at X", or an explicit list of recipients [as with email].

The model behind such a service would be somewhat like email. When I post a picture and send it to everybody, it gets sent to my followers (and then shows up in their stream=inbox) and gets sent to my public stream, so that anybody visiting my stream can see it. When the visibility is restricted, it just gets sent to the recipient. Since the architecture is like email's it can be distributed w/o a central point of control.
Click on your name in the top right corner, then click 'submissions' or 'saved'. (the first is what you submitted, the second is what you voted up).

Other examples of those lists are the 'news', 'newest' and 'ask' lists, they too were limited and seem to be unlimited now.

That's great because that means that you can use these lists to search for stuff that you voted up, which is more or less what social bookmarking is about.
Saw it yesterday! The music was incredible and Marie was hilarious.
NoCD cracks are intended for piracy, but there's generally nothing stopping you from using them with legitimate copies of games.
Mac OS X users can get a binary at http://emacsformacosx.com/.
What should they be doing?
Very fast development, how to do it?
I'm not talking shoving a huge number of man hours at the project in the shortest time period possible. I mean what tools, strategies,or anything really that will cut application development time(and also the man hours put in).

Note:I'm asking this question with webapps in mind but something that would work with general development I think is also relevant.
It's not AP, it's AFP (Agence France-Presse) that's accused of stealing the photos.
Even worse is these are the same newspaper people who keep blaming their failures on the internet. :(
Ah.. I use those lists all the time.. Did not know about the limits though. Thanks :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the article, or at least one of them, haha.

You're right, though, there are other options and considerations to be taken when considering the security of a web (or any) app. This is by no means a complete article on web app security and I hope nobody mistakes it as such

I think chroot/jailing is covered in quite a few other places, but it was difficult to find out how to go from running Tornado apps in development to running them in production. My aim is for my blog post(s) help make finding this information a little easier for others.

Thanks for the feedback!
Oops. Good catch. I obviously misread that big time. Wishful thinking I guess..
Quoting: Sorry, men ARE more brainy than women (and more stupid too)
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Well, it's a mixed bag.

Top causes of death in the US, 2009:

Heart disease: 631,636. From what I have read, heart attacks are painful but usually over with quickly. Living with a pacemaker or heart surgery can suck but I'd definitely take that over lung cancer.

Cancer: 559,888. Notably, includes other smoking-related cancers (esophageal, pancreatic, etc) besides just lung.

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119. Again, over with quickly if it kills you. It's when it doesn't kill you and leaves you half-paralyzed that it sucks.

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583. "80% to. 90% of all patients with chronic lower respiratory disease have a history of smoking."

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599. No idea how this generalizes. Probably "not as bad as cancer," overall.

Diabetes: 72,449. Unusually non-painful, for something that kills you, although some of the side effects are a bitch (e.g., going blind). Insulin shots or IVs to try to control blood sugar levels are also fairly non-painful as medical intervention goes.

Alzheimer's disease: 72,432. I'd take lung cancer, if I had to pick.
I'd appreciate you emailing me your feedback when you're done testing it.
Corporate accountability is rare because no one holds them to account. This man's a 25-year veteran photographer, he clearly knows it's wrong and has enough balls to do something about it.

The unfortunate thing is that barely 1% of people would know how wrong taking someones photographs is and has the balls to make someone account for it. If more people knew about these stories, knew that they could get a big cash payout then everyone who has a photo stolen would be talking to their lawyer, which would make it a very harsh environment for big corporations to play games like this.
RDF meets NoSQL
The story I've read was that it wasn't a problem with their the collision code as such, but that the car battery died completely shortly before the demo and the computer systems didn't start up right when the battery got recharged.
Hacker News user style for widescreens (fixed width, dark bg)
The events that led Microblogging site Twitter to Crash
Drummania
The NEWS file http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.23.2 is more helpful.

* CEDET http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ is now part of emacs(!!!)

* RMAIL now uses mbox
I have some similar sentiment, but at the same time, I wonder if it's a psychological issue? In theory, I should be willing to accept even flawed software, so long as the likelihood and severity of any flaws are less bad than my own. And humans are not actually all that good at avoiding car accidents, as the rather appalling crash statistics point out, so the bar isn't even all that high for "well, at least it's better than humans" software.
Considering the fact that gmane.com isn't secured, both are useless from a security viewpoint. It would be easier to intercept the request http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.announce/17 and change the checksum that appears in the HTML, than to generate a new .tar.gz with the original checksum. If you can't trust that no one tampered with the checksum what good is it???
A tiny reader/writer lock in 32 bits
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Mysterious 'Rebel Dog' of Greek riots becoming latest Web icon
Ask HN: Good 'classic' book for tech people to learn about building businesses ?
I'm a cs student and would like to learn from some classic source about building businesses - there are tens of thousands of books about very specific domains in business, but I would like to read some general, high level perspective, let's say like the 'Structure and interpretation of computer programs' of business books. Rather 500 pages than 150.
Do you have any ideas on that ?
7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics
>There's really not a lot of evidence against the idea that a very large subsection even of first world countries is unbearably miserable. We'd never see them, because they'd be off living in poorer areas, or stuck in nursing homes, or too sick to go out much. No one would make movies or TV series about them. And no one would give them jobs as newspaper commentators.

particularly the last part, i find this very insightful. the world sees itself with a tremendous bias towards experiences of successful individuals. of a "talking class".
I live in Thailand and can confirm this. Both Justin.tv and Ustream.tv are inaccessible with at least two major ISPs. Heck, even Softpedia or AppSpot are also blocked. Ridiculous.
I think what we can take away from this is how easily people can be swayed by advertising. This is an extreme example: take a ridiculous claim, "We can walk on water", and then just throw in some documentary clichés to make it look legit, post it on youtube, and now you have 1000s of people believing in you.

Now just apply this to whatever your service purports to do. It should be easier than convincing people that you can defy the laws of physics.
Stupid idea that you can "own" the pictures of a major world event.
Chrome 5 aces browser benchmarks
The article makes it look like office smoking is a wild party. It's not. If you're a social person, you'll be a social smoker. But if you're not very social, you'll be smoking alone.

I've smoked all over the world, freezing in Montreal's -30 C blowing winds and baking in Dubai's 45 C humid summers. Most of that time, I was smoking alone.

What I miss is the hourly break from what I'm doing. That thinking time is where I seemed to solve the toughest problems.
If a open facebook clone is released that gets all the bands off of myspace and onto the clone then I think you'll have a winner.
Genuine and Fake iPads selling Like Hot Cakes in China
Hehe, really funny comment, just re-reading the first bit: I was at a party new years eve 2008 in Panama, there were a whole lot of people and I sort of hung around because I didn't know many people there.

Two Panamian girls that were sitting around were having the time of their life commenting on how funny the 'gringos' danced, I didn't realize how right they were until they started to dance. The 'gringos' were dancing from their shoulders and knees with their bodies mostly rigid, the Panamian girls were dancing with their whole bodies. It was quite an eye opener.
Open-source client software with strong public-key cryptography (built to a spec, like XMPP clients)

Web of trust for key verification

Content hosted on your friends' computers (similar to Freenet and Wuala)
Futurama beat you to it. Bender's dating service: Discreet and discrete.
Add a miniblog, pics and games to wordpress and there you have it.
All hashes suffer from collisions (Otherwise they would be great compression tools). But a collision to an arbitrary MD5 hash cannot yet be easily calculated. And producing a working (malware) binary with the same hash would be quite a challenge.

So no, for these purposes, MD5 doesn't post a problem.
Please review Garage Dollar
I always envied smokers because of that.

Go for a smoke: cool.
Go think about something: nerd. Picture yourself saying "I need to think" to the hot gal. Fail.
It's pretty easy, actually, just make everything opt-in instead of opt-out.
Creative Computing was the first computer mag I ever bought, I remember it disappearing and by then I was onto Byte and Nibble. Of these shown for a while I subscribed to STart and even had a little article published in it, March 1990 ("GFA Basic Wipes & Dissolves). Good times.
Messagepack-RPC for C++ - Parallel de-serialization and futures
Perfect example of data representation manipulation:

- take a benchmark created by producers of A and show results for products A-Z

- present the data which does not show a percentage (or "add up" to anything specific), on a pie graph

- take out an arbitrary element which resizes the proportions, to "make the comparison even more striking"
Of course you can, if you took them.
What exactly is stupid about it?
"Very strong possiblity" ? Where is the data?
See http://diso-project.org/ and http://www.monkinetic.com/2010/02/the-future-of-diso.html -- announced in 2007 first, targetting wordpress. There're some things to download, haven't tried it though.
White Pages May Go Way of Rotary-Dialed Phone
You might be the person to tell me.

I always felt people can't stop because they associate smoking with bad feelings. You give a smoker bad news and he lits one, every time.

Now you associated it with something good: engaging with the boss. And so you could easily stop.

Would you agree with that?
It's not just Killarney, and it's not just among the poor.

A leading story this week in The Washington Post has been the murder of a young woman at the University of Virginia. She and the apparent murderer, her boyfriend, were varsity lacrosse players. Both from families at least prosperous, both from excellent private high schools. But some of the graduates of excellent private high schools do turn out to be mean drunks and abusive partners.

Reagan's first SEC chairman had to resign when it came out that he was an abusive husband.
Indeed. Are there really people who look at pie charts and don't read it as representing 100% of something?

What exactly does each slice of that pie represent? X% of performance?

I sure can't wait till my browser claims 100% of performance!
If we upload our minds into computers, we will be able to code up and inhabit a simulated universe where time travel and teleportation are possible. I wonder if we will want that, though.
wave protocol.
Please, please, pretty please: If you use charts, choose a sensible type of chart to illustrate your point.

A pie chart is simply wrong for representing a comparison of benchmark results. A bar chart would be the correct type, in this case.
More pointers regarding this issue:

http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social

http://www.complang.org/dsnp/ (appears done, cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... )

http://www.get6d.com/developer-s-alpha-download

There doesn't seem to be any 'desktop-ready' way yet, unfortunately.
We don't need flash alternatives, we need support for SVG and canvas. SVG is a fine alternative to flash and it is supported by all major browsers.

And browser APIs to fill the voids where flash also exceeded its animation-only competency, like sockets (we already have them) and device control (cams, mics, etc)
I've seen this question raised so many times on games forums, that I speculate more CD cracks are used by legitimate users than pirates.
I think "Growing a Business" by Paul Hawken is pretty good.
The coolest guy in the world, Obama, smokes... (BTW, can he smoke on the White House? Is it considered his house or a public property?)
This week I finished reading George Garrett's novel _The King of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You_. Requested by his girlfriend to tell her what Hollywood is like, a sometime screenwriter tells this joke:

Two movie producers are lost in the desert, dehydrated and in imminent danger of death. Suddenly they come upon a pure, bubbling spring of water. Thank God! says the first. Wait a minute, says the second, just let me piss in it first.
The pie charts are really really irritating.

From the original article (which also mentions Sunspider benchmark.. i always thought it may be strange to use the V8 benchmark as hard evidence, as it comes from Google/Chrome):

The SunSpider test took just 345.6 ms on our quad-core test system, compared to 387.8 ms of Chrome 5.0.342.8. Chrome 4.x scored 483.3 ms on this system. Now keep in mind that Chrome 5 is still in beta, but it is already 30% faster than Chrome 4, which remains the fastest (stable) JavaScript browser currently available. In comparison, the current Firefox 3.6.4 scored 876 ms, Safari 4.04 530 ms, IE8 4979ms and the IE9 Platform Preview 783.6 ms. In that view, Chrome 5 is more than twice as fast as IE9 PP.

It's good to see such big improvements in IE9.. now we only need to get rid of IE6-8 :(
Wave was cool when it came out, but the initial reaction (hype) seems to have died off. I used it when it came out, but I haven't loggen in for months, and none of my friends have. Either that mode of communication isn't that attractive and/or Google introduced it poorly (Google-only, crappy web UI).
But its not at all a stupid idea that you own your pictures, whether or not they are pictures of a major world event.
I'd rather avoid XML-based protocols like XMPP. My co-founder wrote an XMPP server in his previous job and always complained it's a terrible protocol and the people responsible should be punished by implementing their own fully-compliant XMPP server =)
Service URL: http://garagedollar.com

company site: http://victusmedia.com/garage-dollar
js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files.

I think js2.el (Steve Yegge) was combined with javascript.el to make a new mode. Might be interesting...
No one has any way of bringing in revenue with the suggested models. I think what is going to kill facebook is their methods for making money (and devious business practices). If you can come up with a billion dollar alternative to facebook, then there you have it.
What happens to the woman on the picture displayed, though. If she survived, hopefully she deserves a share, too? Did she have to give consent to having her picture published?
Up or down does not matter. "Something" makes money when the stock moves, and it moved a lot. (Everyone refers to "Someone" in the stock market. Give it up. It is "Something" now.)
When Mr. Morel posted his photographs on Twitter, he made no notation that he was in any way limiting the license granted to Twitter or third parties or that he was in any way limiting the ability of Twitter and third parties to use, distribute, or republish his photographs.

Wow, this is really desperate on AFP's part if this is what they are relying on to justify their alleged right to use the pictures. It is way beyond doubt that a copyright holder retains rights to his copyrighted works even though they might be posted to the internet. In posting them, he gives at least an implied license to the internet host to display them publicly in the venue itself but it is utterly absurd to conclude from this that any third party can simply hoist them for his own profit. The fact that a sophisticated news organization would resort to such an argument strongly suggests that they have no defense to the photographer's claims.

This issue came up on HN not long ago when the idea was floated for publishing comments from this site in a monthly magazine format and the question came up whether the person who sought to do so had to get individual permissions from each of the posters. My comment on why individual permissions were needed (with some legal citations for the copyright law) is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262546.

The AFP lawsuit filed in Manhattan is for declaratory relief and for commercial disparagement. Most people, when victimized by others, have no idea that an adverse party can take their attempts to fight back and use it as a basis for suing them in a distant forum. Here, the photographer made claims that his copyrights had been infringed. This allowed AFP to file its lawsuit asking a court to consider the photographer's claims, to weigh them against its contrary claims that no copyrights had been infringed, and to render a judgment one way or the other on the issue (with AFP asking the court for a judgment that the copyrights had not been infringed). This sort of legal action can be used as a bullying tactic by a big player to force a smaller player to settle up or incur significant legal expense (on the other hand, for what appears to be a legitimate use of the same tactic by Google, see http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8...). Here, the tactic has obviously backfired on AFP, since the photographer, in effect, responded with both guns blazing with counterclaims that put AFP at risk for some serious liability.

By the way, this piece sorts through the legal issues fairly astutely. It is well written from that perspective (and otherwise).
thats pretty depressing to me, most of my friends parted ways after finishing university to go travelling or get jobs. since then some have managed to move back to the same place and I see them almost weekly, some I visit or they come visit me reasonably regularly. Some I havent seen in 4 years but know I will see again.
Supposing he does win, I hope he gives a significant amount of the profit to aid Haitian victims.
Weekend hack - Node.js on the .NET runtime
That Trendy Computer (1985)
Which nicely shows what is pretty much a fundamental rule of thumb - adding complexity to a system has to be carefully managed to ensure that the end result is going to perform better on average than the simpler version would have done.

I'm reminded somehow of caching overly aggressively and the resultant code spending more time in the cache logic than it saves through not having to do the calculations.
On March 26th AFP responded, filing suit in Manhattan federal district court claiming Morel had “made demands that amount to an antagonistic assertion of rights”.

I don't think this is well phrased. From what I can tell "antagonistic assertion of rights" is a legal phrase that appears in the counter suit, but is not the reason AFP is filing suit. "Antagonistic" is being used as a purely descriptive, and not a judgemental term (more like, say "declaratory" than "malicious").

That said, I can't say I'll be too torn up if the phrase "antagonistic assertion of rights" hangs around AFP's neck like an albatross.
What's with the blatant ignoring of Opera here? It shows up in the article's source link's market share, but in none of the performance comparisons. This line is particularly egregious:

>Chrome 4, which remains the fastest (stable) JavaScript browser currently available.

Chrome does beat Opera on V8 (which isn't surprising, since Google created V8), but on Sunspider, well...

>The SunSpider test took just 345.6 ms on our quad-core test system, compared to 387.8 ms of Chrome 5.0.342.8.

And here are my results in Opera 10.53, using a machine that's over a year old (AMD Phenom II X4 940, factory settings):

Total: 302.8ms +/- 2.1%

Edit: Removed full results because it made my comment too long, but if anyone's actually curious for more detail I'm happy to run it again.
Ask HN: Anyone working on NFC technology ?
I'm curious if anyone on Hackernews is working around NFC (Near Field Communication )/contactless technology. I don't see many posts about NFC, which it's quite surprising because that's a pretty fun technology to hack around.

I interned at a startup where they were betting on NFC's rapid growth, but it isn't happening yet. I'd like to know your thoughts about NFC's possible future.
Many webmail providers put the originating IP address in the headers in order to be able act later if the message turns out to be spam. Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo all do it - I just checked. As others have said, this is not news.

Correction: Gmail does not do it when submitting using webmail, only when submitting via SMTP.