skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a completely different feeling to go on a bus knowing there's a possibility of an accident to going on a bus knowing that one of the passengers may be carrying a bomb.

I would compare the feeling to the feeling of wanting to do something, but not having the guts to just 'do it.' In this case, you want to search everyone on the bus that you don't trust until you are satisfied there is no bomb, but social pressures prevent you from doing so. This causes the stress.

The difference just being acceptance. When you believe that someone may be carrying a bomb you hold onto some hope that something can be done to stop them. When you get on a bus knowing that there is the possibility of an accident, there's not much you can do short of wrestling for control of the bus from the driver (or just not getting on the bus).

People have accepted that accidents happen. People have not accepted yet that 'terrorism' is a fact of life.
I use Xmarks for sync and I have a set of folders on the bar below the location box. Syncing seems to have broken recently though
I misphrased I guess, that's what I meant is now you CAN hold onto data permanently, before it was only for 24 hours. Which is why it is now possible to make export easy.
Actual pdf readers like Preview seem good enough to me. I don't understand why I would need to take a PDF and view it as HTML.

I do see the value for formats like .pptx where I may not have a reader, but PDF is already a "lowest common denominator" like HTML.
F.C.C. Prepares New Rules for Broadband Providers
I think you're right. Another big factor is also the automatic updates of Chrome and Firefox. IE updates have to go through the windows updates and people tend to ignore those as much as possible.

Another factor about IE6 is that it's only used in organizations and companies where people can't install their own programs, so they don't bother calling up IT (sometimes outsourced IT which is expensive) just to install a browser.
No, this is the end of the road (the case was decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the highest level of appeal court in the federal court system except for the U.S. Supreme Court - and this case has no chance whatever of being of sufficient interest to the Supreme Court for them to want to review it).

At the same time, the case has almost no precedential value even apart from its poor reasoning. A narrow class of cases come before the federal courts that deal with straight state law issues, and they are decided in federal court only because there is a diversity of citizenship between the parties (i.e., the parties are citizens of different states). When a federal court decides such cases, it is forced to interpret state law and its decisions are regarded as minimally persuasive (because the state courts are their own best interpreters of state law). Thus, even if it were well-reasoned, it would scarcely carry much weight for future decisions in Idaho. And, since Idaho law is all that is involved, it would carry no weight at all for cases arising elsewhere.
I feel the same way about the Iraq war.
Our pricing decreases as volume increases, so at a higher level, an hour of video is currently $1.68, not $3.60. At scale, we have other options we can offer (like dedicated servers at a fixed monthly price). We feel pretty strongly that even someone doing 10M videos/month is better off using a service like ours rather than investing in a custom solution. But we're biased, of course. :)
Can anyone explain at a high level how these things work?
Even the wikipedia article loses me fairly quickly. From
what I understand, they were predicted to exist based on a theory about the relationship between capacitors, inductors, and resistors. What variables would be of interest in this relationship?
Neither do I, but I'll take a stab at it: "Gizmodo... a website previously unknown to the uninitiated". Yes, the obscure Gizmodo, so unlike those other websites well-known to those who've never heard of them.
So the alternative is unions which empower the opposite form of abuse? It seems that a balance is the problem, one is always stronger than the other.
I love seeing the rubygems.org pages linked as a project's home page, or at least starter page. All the information you need to get up to speed. Such a world of difference from a year ago when publishing a gem.

I still want to get readmes shown, but I'm worried about handling formatting when GitHub already handles it flawlessly.
"You are what you choose."

"No one ever lay on their deathbed saying 'I wish I'd watched more TV.'"
Do you know where I can find them?

Google doesn't seem to give me much and the 'Developers' page seems to require applying for access with a particular use in mind. Not sure why they require application, a rate limit for non-approved apps would let people experiment more.
Pixels take over NY - great animation
After the Ellen DeGeneres iPhone dust-up, does Apple need to lighten up?
This is a little indirect, but presumably the googlebot will find it easier to index scribd pages, which might help you as a user if you're searching for something that's hosted on scribd.
> Has always worked for inbound mail, not outgoing.

Unless you signed up for the Gmail beta before the trademark arose, in which case @gmail.com works in both directions. (Though your IMAP folders are still under [Google Mail] not [Gmail], just to confuse the issue further - I wonder if that will switch too?).
I don't want free services on the internet to be regulated. Optimally, free services would stop driving their users crazy. The second best from my standpoint would be if users valued stability enough to start paying for things on the internet.

Given that the internet loves free services, and rages when they break/become unfree, we're stuck with the usual deal in the US: it's all Wild West laize-faire fun times until you really screw the pooch. After 5-10 years of stifling regulation, you're then back to Wild West laize-faire fun times.
Dealing with feuding employees
Don't be disingenuous. The exchange of money here is the least of the transgressions. I would think that someone sending Gizmodo a 'lost' iPhone prototype without the exchange of money would have gotten them into hot water too if they didn't try to return it first (before publishing the internals).

In the past, most leaks have been information (specs,photos,etc) not the actual device.
Prof. Steve Kaplan on Angle Funding and Financial Reform
Exactly. This seems like a nice little PR move to have everyone talking about Scribd while this Flash-HTML5/Adobe-Apple thing is red hot.

Now, people who had never heard of this company are aware of them and am 100% sure their hit rate when way up high today.
Sounds like entrapment tho buddy. I've personally seen a few conversions (in a different country, but same principles) so I know they exist and can be done. How do you convince any taker that the fact that they'll essentially be breaking the law to win your 5k won't land them in jail before they can even collect?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEkz1XK75XE
France Gets Yelp’s First Non-English Site
Thanks. I felt this should exist somewhere already. Here, some systems say you have an "waiting time: 10 minutes" every 10 minutes.

But what can I do with this, startup-wise? :) (It's a problem to myself also)
Users will be able to easily view PDFs on the web from any device. I primarily read HN on my phone. Any time I see a [Scribd] link, I forget about the story because I can't read it. I have also had several occasions where I needed to read a PDF on the go. I had to email it to a friend and then call them, dictating the pertinent bits over the phone.

Once this is live, Scribd will gain at least myself as a user, and I suspect many more.

(Nesting is too deep to reply to axod, so: the fact that Google is doing this should be reason enough. Scribd exists as a place to publish material. That material should be reachable by as many users as they can manage.)
Adobe exec: Apple’s fight against Flash is a tactic of the 19th century
"At any moment that you find yourself hesitating, or if at any moment you find yourself putting off until tomorrow trying some new piece of behavior that you could do today, or doing something you’ve done before, then all you need to do is glance over your left shoulder, and there will be a fleeting shadow. That shadow represents your death, and at any moment it might step forward, place its hand on your shoulder and take you. So that the act that you are presently engaged in might be your very last act and therefore fully representative of you as your last act on this planet." - Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan
FCC to Overhaul Regulation of Internet Lines
Seems like a route to a possible acquisition by Adobe or Google. The technical constraints of HTML5 make it interesting.
I know this has been posted already, but nobody's linked directly to the source yet.
Obama advises caution in use of Facebook
He comes across as some kind of emperor who cannot see why the peasants are revolting, completely blind to the misguided nature of their own argument.

Also, atheism == disco.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
I've occasionally been thankful for Google's PDF conversion. PDF isn't a lowest common denominator - there are computers without that capability (kiosks and terminals, for example). What's more, PDF viewers can be pretty heavy, especially for fancy documents, and their browser integration tends to suck even when it exists.

Sure, I like reading my PDFs with evince, but sometimes HTML is just preferrable.
DRM strikes again, punishing the people who paid for the product while those who got it off a torrent don't have to deal with this crap.
/r/startups - a Reddit for startups
I find my Chrome browser does an adequate job for me. I'm using it constantly.

When you star a page, make sure to type in a descriptive title and include keywords. This will help you narrow down your search in the Bookmark Manager.

Another great thing about it is that all your bookmarks are sync'd to your gmail account and make available in a spreadsheet at Google docs. Sync any computer and you're always up-to-date.
Coca-cola is definitely dangerous, and the temptation to power my way through coding problems with large amounts of Coke, which I could not resist for longer than a week, put me on the path of severe health problems, due not entirely to weight gain (since most Coke-based calories would substitute for other calories) but also from the practice of having a short term fix to any problems involving to consumption of sugar, not to mention the cycle of being tired -> drinking Coke -> being unable to sleep -> being tired the next day. After quitting (my job), I fell to a recreational level of Coke consumption, and my body is thanking me for it to this day. The scary question is whether I can maintain this through another development job...
It works on my PS3 but then again, I just had to do a software update for the PS3 a few weeks ago, so they might have updated the Blu-ray firmware then.
3. Q: Where will I be working?

A: hell

Doesn't matter?
OLAP engine for which? The reporting needs? Or the case where I needed performance?

As for the reporting needs, introducing OLAP would have been a lot of work for something that could be done perfectly well in the existing Oracle database using a supported Oracle feature. There is no need to introduce an expensive new technology stack for an already solved problem.

On efficiency, heh. Hundreds of thousands of items had been given arbitrary tags (on average over a dozen per item, and the same tag could be given repeatedly), and the question was to identify for each item the other items which were "most closely related" based on shared tags.

The fundamental problem with doing this in any kind of a database is that the fastest access path for a given fact is a lookup in an index. Which means a binary search through a data structure to find out the page and row number the data was on, followed by parsing that page in memory to locate the row, and extract the wanted information from that row. This is absolutely the fastest form of lookup available.

The equivalent operation in C++ is access an array by index and pull an element out of a struct. As a bonus it is easy to organize your data so that most of your data accesses take place in on CPU cache.

Processing time for the whole data set dropped from a week to 5 minutes.
Nice article. I would love to be an optimist but I don't think I can do it.
Not if Aubrey de Grey ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_grey ) gets his way!

Seriously, I expect there are people alive today who will still be alive in 1000 years.
myHere !== yourHere
Unions have outlived their usefulness in the American economy.

Tell that to the workers at Upper Big Branch Mine.
Why wouldn't they support this? With their share of the browser market constantly decreasing do they really want a large amount of websites taking advantage of the canvas in the future throwing up a not compatible with IE and links to download another browser?
In ChromeOS you'll need some kind of pdf viewer that runs in the browser. And not needing a native app is pretty nice in general in terms of bookmarking possibilities.
The power of pull (book author interview)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_tempora_o_mores!
I'll be interested to see how they will deal with the licensing issues regarding font embedding. Right now, there aren't a whole lot of non-free fonts that allow @font-face embedding, because embedding a font with @font-face makes the font downloadable to anyone with a little digging through CSS files for its URL.

I hope a solution is found for this that doesn't require specific allowance of CSS embedding in the license. If it does, some fonts will never be legal to embed.
Apply saying you're just curious and you'll be approved within a day. We're looking at getting rid of the approval step for sandboxed API access but for now it's faster to just apply.
Regulate Free Web Services? Let's see why that's wrong, and dumb.
But Google can't crawl images...
how'd that work? are SBA loans easier to qualify for now or something?
Anything else besides custom fonts?
Unless there's a subset of html5 features that I'm completely unaware of, I don't see how html5 brings anything useful to a text viewing app like scribd that wasn't already possible before...
http://del.icio.us? Tagable, across devices, in the cloud.
Valuation are necessary subjective, not objective.

What are you interested in, it seem, which individual will contribute more to your overall wealth. However, to the dying mother, her time near the end of her life is the most valuable to her.

There is no citation to be founded, per se, because you came from a different perspective.
And the first result says, "The number of shootings in Japan fell to a record low of 53 in 2006." From the wikipedia page "Gun Violence in the United States", "In 2005 [there were] 10,100 homicides committed using firearms".

The US is bigger than Japan, but not 190x bigger. So if you are trying to disprove my argument, you did a bad job.
I personally found Einstein's own book more intuitive, probably because he (understandably) goes into more detail than this short story:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ8LAAAAYAAJ&dq=special...
I have to agree that "get over it" is the correct sentiment here. This guy can't justify why his opinion on what's appropriate should count for more than everyone else's.
This is a good move. HTML is a better and more natural feeling format for long documents than Flash (and PDF readers) ever were.
Yes! A VM is exactly what we need right now for hackers to start wrapping their heads around the memristor paradigm. Even if it's only practical for very lightweight proofs-of-concept, it would be a major step for mindshare.
I don't think it's necessary to be exactly like Apple to compete successfully against them. However, there are so few companies in the software industry that manage to demonstrate Apple's rare combination of talents that there really is no other model for how to do it.

Also, the perception of Apple as being exceptional and unique is greatly aided by the generally dysfunctional state of the entire industry in general.
Those appear to be a list of anecdotes as opposed to a real analysis of who becomes wealthy and the means of their families in America. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the social science literature to fix the reference problem, but at least from the survey work presented in "The Millionaire Next Door", many of the wealthy American surveyed there did not appear to be from family money.
http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu...

Works fine for me :/
Phone, or cult?
Government regulation tends to take decisions away from those who pay the costs and get the benefits and are acutely aware of their own needs

It gives those decisions to those who know little and care even less. Then the lobbyists get involved.
Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo
text rotation, shadow or indenting, etc.
Lots of good 'print' looking stuff that was done with images or in flash before.
Now Scribd gets to do it in straight html making it easier to index as well (I know flash in indexable, but I'm pretty sure there is a preference to text).
I'm not even sure he's right His two initial examples, public grooming and public over-affection, are things that have been happening at least since I was 6 (actually I first saw someone putting makeup on in the car when I was 8 but I assume that practice existed before the first time I saw it)

I'm starting to think the whole "Facebook-Generation" clap trap is more an invention of the media than anything else.

Maybe it's just me but in my group of Facebook friends there are a few people who post everything they do and the rest remain relatively silent (generally only checking in when they think they have something funny and/or profound to say). The few people produce much more now that the tools exist to make it drop dead simple to do but it's still the same few people. It isn't like everyone just started sharing everything about themselves.
True, although .pdf files are already indexed. Do we also need to have html5 versions of those same pdfs indexed? I'm not sure we do.
To an extent. Most companies seem to aim for a product that does well on a feature-grid of checkboxes more than in actual use. Apple would (apparently) rather that they had half the checkboxes but that those things worked very, very well (or intuitively, or smoothly, or in a magical way, etc).

In other words, it's not as if an iPhone friendly multitasking setup was available and they just ripped it out so they could have a big reveal two years later. In their eyes at least, the "innovation" is that they did it in an "Apple way".
Is the Curse of Knowledge killing your sales and marketing success?
This works just fine for me on FF: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/html5/selecti...
I am guessing they put in some tricks in the validation here too.
Except for the bit where money being exchanged automatically makes it "purchasing stolen property".
If they really can display PDFs accurately using HTML5, that's great, and plenty of other companies (including CrocoDoc) would benefit from following suit. But PDF still does a lot of things that HTML doesn't, like first-class font embedding (@font-face won't cut it). I'm not sure whether this is the right time to make the switch, though me and my iPad wish them luck.
Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/weekinreview/04shane.html
I'm sorry but this makes no sense. This questions assume that the interviewers are 'crappy' in the first place. Not a nice way to start a relationship.
Google already crawls the original .pdf files. I'm not sure we need every conversion of a pdf file indexed as well.
In rememberance of Embarrassment: it tought us the shame of joy, and the joy of shame.

(with apologies to The Simpsons)
LinkedIn is the Douches who went to school with you and sucked up to the teacher but had no skills. OkCupid is the people who used to smoke in the bathroom during lunch. And http://www.dirtyphonebook.com people are the guys who got kicked out of school after the 5th grade.
Also, the two-threaded Javascript interpreter is a very nice performance feature for IE9.
IE6 is proof that many will painstakingly support IE instead of just throwing up a "not compatible" message and link to a different browser. Well, not until 5 or 6 years after the release date anyway. So why would they support new standards? :(
The next battleground in mobile app development? Native versus web applications
To your point, perhaps flat rate encoding pricing is better for high volumes.

Our flat rate transcoding pricing (http://www.advection.net/pricing/transcoding-pricing) is based on the idea of an encoding queue with bursting. Under the hood, it's a similar cloud approach, but more economical for those with volumes or steady encoding work. Customers--or their end users--can upload at any rate (volumes of upload sessions at once through gateways located around the country for low latency), or ship drives. The queues process at a steady predictable rate, delivering content directly to the network.

In the course of processing countless libraries for clients, we've found they tend to have such unique ideas about the end result that a "one size fits all" web service often doesn't meet their needs out of the box.

So, we also offer Windows Media (WMV), Silverlight (VC-1), Ogg Theora, and cross-player H.264 encoding, adaptive bitrate encoding for Apple devices, iPhone video rotation, automatic thumbnails, web postbacks so you don't have to poll, incoming files of up to 4.7GB in size, and arbitrarily complex encoding requirements.

To your point about images + sound, for example, some clients supply metadata as XML, and using the metadata we generate pre-roll and post-roll video footage that stitches onto the transcoded video.

(We also have a consumer service that bundles both encoding and storage into a single "per minute" price. Consumers shouldn't need to know about gigabytes.)
good joke :)
Not true - all of the best businessmen I know quite like to pay people, and pay them well.

They do that because they are __required to__ in order to retain talent and competitiveness. If they could get it for free, you can bet they would. Why do you think so much outsourcing is happening?

And Einstein was not a bad example to pick out of that. His contributions possibly number in the trillions, yet his salary was quite low.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xCDZxEc...
Gyroscopes can only slow it down (considerably, sometimes), not prevent it. It could definitely make it easier to detect / rectify though, yes.
Th original P is defined as a program that can decide whether any program halts or not. If your proposed P doesn't terminate for some programs, then it hasn't made a decision, and it's not really the P you set out to find.

In other words: can you make a P that decides correctly for -some- programs, but never gives an answer for others? Sure. (E.g., if the program is "while(true) {}", then it loops, otherwise I don't know.) But unless P works (terminates and gives a decision) for any arbitrary program, it's not generally useful.
When we make decisions and they don't work out, we must bear the consequences. We choose where to live and what work to do.

Its a shame but its not a justification for making other people, who nothing to do with making those decisions, suffer the consequences.
Net Neutrality FUD from the WSJ? faints
Google Introduces Left Nav Bar to General Searches
Although it would be nice for the health of the startup ecosystem if entrepreneurs put back some fraction of their success into angel investing.