skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that, but you do see notices all the time that say things like,

"Use of this or any other DoD interest computing system constitutes consent to monitoring at all times. . . information placed in this system is not subject to any expectation of privacy."

It just comes with the territory. Some jobs are more private, some are more public. Bank tellers, customer service reps, talk show hosts, members of Congress. They all get recorded routinely while working, and for different reasons.

Seems to me police interactions are a natural thing to make part of the public record.
I realized a few months ago that I was talking too much in conversations, and not listening nearly enough. So for the last few months, I've decided to talk a lot less, and spend a lot more time just listening to people. In one on one conversation, I mostly just ask the other guy about the things he's talking about, to lead him into deeper (perhaps more interesting) areas.

This is a great way to talk about interesting things.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 : $1500. What do you think?
It's things like this email that make the Ruby community sparkly and tantalizing for all of us.
Long and detailed discussion, including original participants, on Reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/crgxs/do_i_real...

My take away:

* The Haskell culture is to take questions seriously
* In doing so, the literature will be cited where appropriate
* Some people get turned off by research papers

In this case, the guy asked a fairly profound question, and received a long, friendly answer, which included references to the literature.

Also, it plays on a stereotype, hence all the upvotes.
Here's an idea: try creating the compound Ba-La-Cu-O. It's a pretty simple idea. It can be explained in seconds. Any competent chemist can do it, and probably a lot of incompetent ones as well. But in 1986 that idea was the key step in a Nobel Prize. And it may yet turn out to be the foundation for a massive industry. Sometimes, the idea is nearly all that matters.
Spend the $400. Not because it's right but because it's the right thing to do, and for not enough money to matter.

Then figure out what the process failure was that caused these people to get a different room than they expected. Using that information, either fix customer expectations for the future or fix the process that is failing those expectations.

Is it strictly reasonable for people to expect compensation for being in a "holding pattern" you put them in? Probably not. But you have nothing to gain from sticking up for yourself when the circumstances are this fuzzy. They're "right enough" to win the argument, or make it not worth winning for you.

At the point at which you have to spend money to keep them happy, you should be looking at the whole situation as an opportunity to turn them into evangelists. Counterintuitively, it is the people who have experienced things going just a little bit wrong who you are best positioned to impress, since they've stumbled into a high-touch relationship with you.
It's the usual stance of a media that cares about being "objective" but not being informed: everyone has an important opinion, and we had better consider them all equally! Nobody dares suggest that some of the opinions are right and some are wrong, and if you do, then you're "partisan" and you're out of the club.
Anyone out there from Pixar? How does this compare to what you guys have? I still gape at The Incredibles, especially the fine hair animation. But what I saw in the demo here of the cloth looks like something Pixar would want to have. Let me caution everyone, however, I haven't seen UP!, so perhaps Pixar has this or surprassed it.
I remember reading the book "The Sovereign Individual" which was written in the 90's. The authors argue that as the internet becomes more abundant, cybercurrencies will become popular and over time make it very hard for governments to collect taxes. This would in turn change the world in a lot of different ways.

Since I read the book, I have been waiting for someone to create something like this. It will be exciting to see if this will work and if "cyber currencies" will become more widely used.
"Instead, someone is seeking personal gain/fame (aka the "rich") vs the people who volunteered their time ("poor") and that's just not right."

It's strange that you say this, because no matter how many times someone creates a proprietary app based on the GPL license, nothing is lost. The original work is out there for all to enjoy (with credits to all the authors).

The only thing you don't get are the changes (which weren't yours in the first place). Forcing changes to be under the GPL isn't for freedom, but political ideology.
Kewl! I'll definitely check it out, thx!
Haha thanks for the offer! We've been thinking about offering different models of wristbands down the line. If you could send me an email (contact[at]wakemate[dot]com) we'd love to talk.
The bigger story is that they've changed Reddit Gold from a feel-good, pay-what-you-want model to a standard, fixed-price model. It went from being the neighborhood self-serve coffee bar to Starbucks. It will be interesting to see if the Predictably Irrational prediction holds and payments actually end up dropping off.
So with WakeMate I'll have to wear a bracelet and keep an app running on my iPhone whilst I sleep?
I switched all our machines to Linux (currently Fedora 13) 10 years ago, and never looked back. All our software since is free.
Copyright doesn't cover ideas. It covers the execution of ideas. So if you're going to abolish stuff that merely protects ideas, leave copyright alone.
Pricing: We are going to make things cheaper.

Privacy issues: It's basically not much worse / better than using co-located servers.

Market size: Since you mention Tumblr, they have actually switched to one of our competitors for video encoding recently. It's a really a very hairy problem, so any company that does not see it as a core-aspect of their business should be a potential customer.

Thanks for the feedback : )!
What to do when PyPI goes down
Well, what would entice you?
Have you looked at Scala? It's sort of like a Haskell for the JVM. It's very easy to integrate Scala into a Java project and to gradually learn Scala if you have a Java background.
We'll probably even lower our pricing in a few days, so we'd definitely love to talk! My skype is 'transloadit' !
Thanks! That's a great suggestion! Glad you like the design : )
They aren't. $500 is for non-severe security bugs.
"The problem with clamping down on piracy is where do you draw the line?"

Why should the GNU get any more attention or rights than anything else? If people can't respect my copyrighted work, I sure as hell won't respect GNU licensed software.
Is it possible that the difference between 1984 and the world into which we could be moving is that Big Brother recorded all motions and activities of the citizenry, but the reverse wasn't true?

Perhaps that's where balance lies.
Is expressing your message as a valid ruby program the new YAPH signature?

His arguments are all valid for programs of a more significant size, but aren't both Camping and Sinatra oriented towards small programs, whereas you'd use something like Rails or Ramaze for bigger projects? This line gets a bit muddied by the increasing number of projects built on Sinatra, although I don't know whether they introduce ways to alleviate the points he made.
I actually voted both yes and no, since I do pirate software, but only software I own. I don't consider it piracy, because it doesn't impact anyone's ability to make a living off of it (it usually just saves support costs) but the law sees it differently.

Also I did pirate a game from the early 90's because I couldn't figure out where to send a check.

http://downloadgameonline.blogspot.com/2008/08/enchantasy-qu...

Actually can't even find the game itself anymore, I'm sure I have it on my hard disk somewhere. Think it was by Eric G. Abel or somesuch. I would very much like to send the guy a check and get a legit key.
I checked both Chrome beta and Firefox 3.6.3 and they're both showing the same thing.
"Third parties can’t prevent or control your transactions." But they can devalue the currency by minting money and keeping it. Also the currently is worthless by definition as no one is willing to pay money for it.

Both of these are common problems among all new currencies, and the most common way to defeat both is to have the currency issuer back their currency with something of known worth (gold, a fiat currency, etc). If conversion to/from the backing currency is common, then most transactions become bound by the problems of both currencies, for example paypal is effectively a currency that is more or less worth USD * ##%, because of the currency switching costs.

I can't wait to see a crypto-based-currency jump these hurdles, but I can't yet imagine how they'll successfully do it (and perhaps some already have that I don't know about?).
I don't need to: most of the stuff I use is open source. When I do need a license for something it's probably produced by a small startup at reasonable prices, so I don't even think about it.
I took some philosophy classes in college, where I learned about the concept. If you want to read more, the best place to start would be the references and external links provided in the Wikipedia articles. Also try googling for papers by Grice.
I am a student and a hobbyist. Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Maya and Sony Forge are examples of great software that I really want to use and love to use, but simply could never afford as a student. I'd add Windows 7 and the Office pack to the list, if my school didn't offer free licenses for them.

And to be honest, even if I was making decent money and using those tools as a pro, I'd still only pay for the software if I had a reason to believe that someone was angry at me and might rat on me. Actually, even then I'd rather install a self-destruct mechanism on my workstation and encrypt my hard drives.

I'm not trying to boycot anything either. I think it's a good thing that developers get paid for making good software.

Piracy is just so easy and care free, that the only pressure not to do it comes from within yourself, if it comes at all. The question is no longer "Is this right? Am I being a good person?", where you reflect on yourself trough popular morality, but rather a personal two part question of "Do I want this product?" and "Do I want to give away my money?". The answers are "Yes" and "No", and in my mind the questions are totally unrelated to each other. Paying for software would feel like flushing the money down the toilet when it's actually easier to just download it.

PS: In the end, if I had to pretend that I cared, I could honestly say that I believe I would be generating more wealth for the world when I am allowed to concentrate on creating and learning instead of concentrating on worrying about money and working at McDonald's to pay for my Photoshop license.
I'm not one of the pre-order customers, but I'm curious if the bracelets are washable, or how they can be cleaned. It seems like it'd need to be laundered just like sheets if you're wearing it every night.
Not in practice.

If you're talking about private keys in public-key-cryptography, those are usually encrypted with another private key, which exists only in your head.

If you're talking about private keys in private-key-cryptography, they are either encrypted with a private key that only exists in your head, or they only exist in your head to begin with, or they are a "one-time" random private key, i.e. for a key exchange algorithm, that is not re-used.

An OTP is not usually encrypted. We can AES it now, of course. But the point of the article is that encryption has gotten two orders of magnitude better. That point is still valid.
If they're in a public place the police should be just like anyone else when it comes to taking photos or videos. The Ian Tomlinson case is the best example I can think of which demonstrates why videoing police activities can serve an important civic purpose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson
A word of caution - if you are used to the NYC system you may be a bit disappointed with the SF system.

The trick is to figure out where BART (Bay area rapid transit - connects city's in the bay area) and MUNI (sf system) stop in SF. If you find a job in the south bay find a place near the cal-train station so you can easily walk or bike to that since it is really the only option for getting to silicon valley besides company sponsored buses (most of the big tech companies run these from SF)

You want to avoid the MUNI buses except the ones that are a straight shot to downtown. Find a neighborhood with a MUNI subway stop or BART subway stop. I drive to the south bay and my girlfriends commute in sf (Two busses) takes the same amount of time, about an hour, to go from the inner richmond to fisherman's wharf. This is about your worst case scenario for public transportation in SF. If you choose your neighborhood wisely you will be fine and the zip cars are everywhere as starkfist already mentioned.

edit: Guide to the neighborhoods - http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/
It's a movie. In the real world after having the perfect date the woman ends up loving you forever.
"And YES I could just use Linux, before you ask, but I'm getting quite used to TextMate."

So because you can't be bothered with using something that's free, you are going to disrespect apple's license. There are plenty of free text editors for Windows and Linux that supports most of not all of textmate's features.

Many companies decide to use GNU code in their apps. They don't get the same luxury as you. Many are sued in court and others are forced to release their own code.
There needs to be real tangible benefits to the service. I understand it is early, but there aren't many benefits here (hide ads? friend notes?). Perhaps you guys should poll users on pain-points and alleviate them instead of introducing features. Otherwise I expect that very, very few people will sign up, and many more will be offended that you even offer it.
Must read: Start-up Nation
Landing page is showing errors on my end.
You also tend to show your badge, so you don't appear like just an angry person who cut you off and jumped out of their car with a gun. (have not heard audio for it, it's possible they said something, but it didn't look like it, nor was there really time to say anything of consequence prior to the gun coming out)

Depending on the area, yes, go for your gun. But don't lead into a situation with it - I'd be willing to bet it makes things worse, and it certainly comes off as hugely off-scale.
The iPhone 4 is actually 0.1 ounces (4 grams) heavier than the 3G, which makes sense since it has more glass, less plastic, and the steel band.

iPhone 4 Weight: 4.8 ounces (137 grams)
iPhone 3GS Weight: 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
iPhone 3G Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams)

Sources:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/specs.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/sp495
So, you're reasonably confident that you'll hit your deadline or come close to it, but your shipping schedule depends entirely on the actions of another company (Apple) who is known for being slow to approve things like this? How does that work?
Q/A with CEO of world's biggest e-commerce website - What should I ask?
Hello HN,

I am going to meet the CEO of world's biggest e-commerce website next week.

Please suggest me, what kind of questions should I ask?

What would you ask?

Some typical questions like "what made you so successful?" or "how do you see XYZ Corp as a tough competitor and what are you doing to face them?" or something different?!

Personally, I am a techie and aspire to be an entrepreneur.
Yeah, they're just playing the game that's laid out for them. They can get money for scholarships for disadvantaged kids, and they can get money from big donor alumni in exchange for the implicit promise to let in their kids. So they do both of those.

Can't blame the colleges. I still think Pat Buchanan is a boob - established cats like him represent a much bigger chunk of the "pre-allocated" admissions spots at colleges, and whining about the few minorities who get in reeks of white entitlement.
So then maybe the pocket exception should be renamed space exception, and now it explains Japanese appliances well.
I just want to thank you sincerely for this feature and overall idea - I live in an area with precious few hackers and this is a great way to build a small community of like-minded individuals in the locale.

One thing I noticed is that the Google Maps pin for the meetup location isn't quite accurate - if it were possible to edit the location, that would be great. Might not be though, what with it being a Google API and all.
Non-linear video editing is even more so, I feel. I do not do a whole lot of it, but I've discovered that there really is no halfway decent free option (besides iMovie, but that's only 'free' if you bought a mac, and it's incredibly weak)
Technically, if your comment is slightly off-topic, that would make it slightly on-tangent.
Hi, what kind of errors are you seeing? thanks
I've had an overall positive experience with reddit ads. I'd really recommend trying a campaign that is longer than 2 days - say a week or longer but you don't need to spend as much each day and you'll get a lot more unique visitors.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529931
Yep, 50-70 durometer silicone, any color. Cost varies widely depending on how many you want to make, how complicated the tooling is, the number of parts per tool, cycle time, how much material the parts use, how detailed your logo/features are, mold finish... From $1500-$75,000 for tooling and $.05-$1 pp.
Interesting, I started reading Mein Kampf a while ago because I sometimes feel like we are living in similar times. Let's just hope that no one charismatic enough to make a difference stands up. Or if one does, let it be quick & painless. In my darker moments I often think "This would be a damn fine planet to live on given current technology and a few billion humans less."
I think you're taking way too much personal offence in my comment where none was intended. If you have a solution that you enjoy, then obviously you don't need the advice in my comment. The OP however is asking for a solution and I am assuming that he/she is open to options.

Look at the number of comments in this thread suggesting a personal favorite technique. My comment introduces the option of looking at the problem in a new way; one that removes the issue at its source.

I'm not assuming everyone has my lifestyle, certainly. However one thing I have learned in my 35 plus years is that most people overvalue their own ideas, and the concept of an "idea" in general and undervalue the execution. Not recording ideas promotes the things you do execute on over the actual ideas.

That doesn't mean you don't act on any idea, never write anything down or extend this basic model to ridiculous degrees.

The animosity towards this approach in your comment is curious.
Well, that looks easy...so why are people saying that writing memoization in Haskell is PhD-thesis level task?
My experience with the legal system has been limited to a handful of vehicular violations and one tour of jury duty. But from that limited perspective, I cannot see why the justice system should minimize useful facts.

Apart from the laws that protect other rights incompatible with perfect knowledge.... As a maxim, justice should never hide from evidence.
BP would benefit off of alternative energy as well. They do quite a bit of alternative energy research and investment. It just isn't where it needs to be yet.
New UI for Google Image Search
Plans for an Android version?
It is true, there is a lot of throwaway software out there. Things are complicated even more when the free stuff is better than the paid stuff (Imgburn anyone?) Just about the only miscellaneous 3rd party software I have paid for in recent memory was mIRC, because no other IRC client for Windows ever satisfied me and I found a discount worth $10. Essentially, there is no little 'killer app' I have found that just magically fills my computer world with unicorns and rainbows, or frankly was even worth using.

The real pillars of software though- Photoshop, Matlab, Orcad, and so on- accept no substitutes (well, except for possibly their direct competitors). Maybe it's a result of the sky-high pricing, but they generally really are good (and even if they aren't perfect, they are still the best)
Really? so the touchy-feely reasons that most people in the free software movement is a lie?

I think you forgot a verb there?

It's all to stop profits? This sure doesn't sound like "freedom" to me.

I'm not really sure what you're ranting against, but the whole point of the GPL is to force "give some, get some", and to stop people from profiting off of other people's work.

Freedom means you can do whatever the hell you want with my code. This is why I don't support the GPL.

Good for you?

The people of the community want others to respect their own license and ideals yet when they infringe on the rights of others (through copyright infringement), they thinks it's fine.

Which community are you talking about now? The "pirate" community or the "free software" community?

Also, the FSF is of the position that copyrights suck, but that doesn't stop them from making the GPL using existing copyright law. The GPL is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Copyright law is as it is, and therefore we have the GPL as it is. If copyright law was different, for example if software couldn't be copyrighted, we wouldn't have the GPL at all.
Thanks for your comments, I too live in an area with few other hackers and it'd be good to find more. As far as the map is concerned, could you try splitting your location with new lines instead of commas and see if that makes a difference? thanks
A brief history of ship dates:

January 22, 2010: "We've tentatively planned for the first batch of WakeMates to be shipped as early as next month."

March 11, 2010: "the first run of units will go out on March!"

March 31, 2010: "This is the last day of Q1 and we will be shipping out the first units today." (Maybe they did ship out a few? but I was a very early pre-order and didn't get one...)

April 1, 2010: "The next batch of units will ship no later [sic] July 30, 2010. Based on your pre-order date, you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, but probably significantly sooner. This is a conservative estimate; we want to provide you with a firm date. We are confident we can deliver many orders sooner and will continue working night and day to ship yours as soon as possible."

July 20, 2010: "We may not hit the July 31st date at this point, but we’ll come close. We’ll post an updated ship date (measured in days or weeks at worst, not months) when we have a better idea of when it will be"
I use the built-in notes feature on my iPhone. Before that it was a notepad text file on my desktop. The only reason the iPhone wins now just because I have it with me at all times.

Usually the act of typing it in is enough to get it embedded in my mind. Occasionally I go back through and read them and delete out the ones I don't care about anymore.

If I lost the whole thing, it wouldn't be a huge loss to me. I already know what's important and when you're mind is in the creative mode, inspiration is always striking. I would find a more "structured" approach to be limiting.
After reading most of the docs, am I correct in understanding that Stashboard is a front-end display of event statuses, which need to be manually set by the site/service (or perhaps updated programmatically by mashing it up with nagios or some such)? That is to say, Stashboard itself does not do any sort of monitoring or status checking on its own, yes?
I like the branding.
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