skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the people that downvoted you, but I found your use of "advanced" a bit off... According to google what you call advance is standard and html only is basic. So, you're missing some features in the basic version, and use that as your primary argument for google not being able to finishing anything...
is a bunch of money better spent investing in US or creating stronger economies that can actually buy what is produced there? The post WWII marshall plan comes to mind.
could you not retain control and attempt to hire someone to do the legwork on it? i have a feeling that the community would rather put up with something like adsense, a sponsored ad, or donation requests in order to help fund the community if the alternative is pushing ownership onto someone who might wreck the place.
These millimeter wave devices aren't being installed in a secret plot to eliminate everyone's civil rights. They're being installed because regulators sincerely believe that they represent a reasonable compromise between privacy (which is actually not one of your ironclad civil liberties) and safety.

Airport security is probably a bad joke. But acting and talking as if that's a foregone conclusion --- or worse, that it's part of some malignant scheme --- is counterproductive. It marginalizes everyone with a more reasonable or nuanced perspective about this issue.

Take off the "Buck Fush" t-shirt and be civil to the TSA guy. Say "I'm going to opt out of the body scanner". If enough people do, it'll get easier for everyone to avoid the electronic strip search machine.
Usually I'm building something to scratch my own itch, so I typically jump right into coding. In fact, I usually don't start by thinking, "I should do this as a project." I start just by doing it to solve my own problem, then realize it's pretty cool and I should expand/release it.

That being said, I usually start building out the front-end first. Understanding actual user interaction and use cases is pre-requisite for designing appropriate data models and storage solutions. I basically try to get something up and running as fast as possible, while minimizing the cost to change directions.
Second that. I use Air Video on a Mac. It was painless to set up and it converts video on the fly while playing. There's a free version of the app, too. (The "crippling" appears to be that it only shows up to N files per folder.)
anyone who thinks there are hot girls in SF has never left SF

Wil, you haven't lived here long enough to even know where to look. Also, SF != the bay area.
Yeah, but 80% of the tech employment is down there. So you either have a horrific commute or get to live in the suburbs.

That alone seals it for me, I'm staying in NYC. Although maybe I'd get more work done if my immediate environment bored me to tears.
Does this mean if I'm an undesirable customer, they'll stop showing me ads altogether?
Here's the code I've been using for git push -- with different sounds for success and failed pushes.

http://gist.github.com/508516

And the tunes:
http://music.lorintackett.com/audio/succeed.mp3
http://music.lorintackett.com/audio/fail.mp3
I think tearing down walls between SysOps and Developers is important. I don't like the "this is mine, stay out" attitude. That being said, I'm all in favor of dependable and repeatable environments, and when you give people carte blanche to do what they want on the boxes, that can be a recipe for disaster.

"Oh, I just upgraded this package, yeah, can you put that in our master image?" sigh

Do it right, and you can get the developers all the info they need without having access to the box itself. Not only that, but you make it easy to spool up new dev environments for new employees.

If access does need to be granted today, then thought should be put in to see if that can be avoided tomorrow. Need a tcpdump today? Great. Access granted. Tomorrow, I'll have a script for you that takes a tcpdump and puts the file where you can access it. Access revoked.
Re [2], it doesn't matter if a form's action posts to an https link. Using an unencrypted HTML form to post to an encrypted post handler is a security anti-pattern. Attackers will simply intercept the form render instead of the post, alter the form, and insert themselves in the middle of the transaction. This attack is no harder than intercepting the POST itself.

Don't ever give your Google Mail password to another company. Even if they "encrypt" it on the wire, you can never be sure they're not storing it insecurely on the back end. Please take this from someone who spends his days beating up other people's applications: everyone screws up something.
To those who suggest that the pat-down searches are as intrusive or more intrusive than the electronic strip searches: no.

There's no objective answer to this. I believe you and I have discussed this before. Personally, the scans don't bother me at all. Being patted down doesn't bother me too much, but it does bother me at least some. So, for me, I'd rather walk through a scanner unobstructed than be patted down.
Columbia now offers dual degree in journalism and comp sci
Yeah, but this battle between NY and SF is getting tiring for those of who live in the other 48 states, or, for that matter, the other 3026 counties.

[ok, there's another 200 or so countries, but I think some businesspeople need to realize Binghamton is closer than Bangalore... it's not further away than the moon, which seems to be common wisdom]
Say that the value of money holds and that this goes forward without corruption or inefficiency. You still are looking at a situation where a huge amount of money needs to be invested in a such a way as to return more than it originally was. If it takes me 40 years to build $1B in wealth, what makes me think I can efficiently or intelligently deploy that amount back into "society" or "the community" in far less time? If I band together with other $1B people, doesn't that bring even more competition to the give-it-all-away party and make my job even harder?
We're borrowing 43% of our budget? Talk about unsustainable.

I would seriously make plans for when the US is forced to stop this destructive pattern. Its going to be ugly.
No, I'm not suggesting that. They do.

Have a look at the WHO study:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2007/9789241595230_eng...

For example:

"Even within the same social group, mothers who breastfeed are likely to be more health-conscious than those who do not breastfeed. This may also lead them to promote other healthy habits among their children, including prevention of overweight, promotion of physical exercise and intellectual stimulation. This may be particularly true in high-income populations. Because these maternal attributes are difficult to measure, it is not possible to include them in the analyses as confounding factors. Nevertheless, this possibility should be taken into account when interpreting the study’s results."

I'm not resisting studies - I'm reading them, rather than relying upon misinformation from other sources.
#!/bin/sh

SOUND=$(ls ~/Sounds |sort -R |tail -1)
afplay ~/Sounds/$SOUND > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Ironically the people behind the recent financial crisis are the product of the best our educational system can produce.
Yes, really. At that point the NY tech scene still considered iPhones to be toys.
The title of this submission is false, why did you change it? A federal courthouse in Florida admits to storing the images, not TSA. TSA only admits the machines have the capability to store images, which they say are only used for training/testing purposes.
the "sponsors" is buysellads.com - which brings in ~400 a month. That said it used to make $100+ a day on adsense but I didn't like the ads. (funnily after I removed adsense google offered their custom packages/...)

I'm purposely minimizing revenue since:

1) if the site made money those who don't like what greasemonkey does might seek damages for the money
2) it sends the wrong message to the community if I'm just making money and not giving it the attention it needs

Before Nebula I had planned to work on userscripts and make it pay for itself and my time. I tried to spend some time on it each day, but working on Nebula is really 2 jobs - working for NASA (the client) and working on my company (ansolabs) - and I rarely get any time for the company, let alone my non-nebula open source work.

Status quo would take an hour or so once I have procedures in place for how to deal with DMCA issues. But I think it needs a lot of community features (moderation, groups, directories of good scripts, ...)
That might happen in a severe deflation. In a (hyper-)inflation I'd expect people to use foreign currencies.
Compared to New York, it’s boring. I have trouble even thinking about living in an apartment in Mountain View, Cupertino or Palo Alto. Those places are socially dead.

This post suffers from the presumption that everyone wants the same thing from a city. So SF (really, the Bay Area) was not for you. It's for a lot of us.

Not all of us want to suffer awful winters and unbearable summers. Some of us love natural beauty -- and not just the girls. And many of us like a different kind of social scene than NYC offers.

Sure, NYC is exciting. I've been there, and not as a tourist. But it's not for me. (Then again, I'm not 20.) SF (proper, not the Bay Area in general) is the birthplace of cafe society. Mountain biking was born on Mt. Tam. This is a unique, beautiful place, and a lot of people can't figure it out -- and so they move. That's fine: we're already the largest state in the union. We don't need any more people, thank you.
Agreed. I asked this once too a few weeks ago and was pointed to a link by PG explaining the HN etiquette - downvote not only the stuff you mentioned, but also comments you simply disagree with.

I'll see if I can dig up that link and repost it here shortly. But if that's not a recipe for group think, I don't know what is.
The mess I left at MDA - LiveStrong CEO
Yes. It's a generalization, so there are always exceptions, but in general east coasters are much less accepting of things and ideas outside the norm than are west coasters.
Please. Chicago has no culture, no vibe, no personality. People there are, by and large, spending their adulthoods trying to overcome their religious upbringing. The weather sucks, the business climate is mainly stuck in the 1930s. There's no There there. What's good about it, again?
I read the middle third of _Infinite Jest_ on it while I was on vacation. It was outstanding. The footnotes were hyperlinked, it was trivial to refer back to the bookmarked page that lists what all the years are, and every time I came across a word I didn't know, I could just touch it on the screen and get a definition.

I've also found (and this is goofy I know) that because an iPad page is shorter than a book page, I have an increased sense of momentum reading long-form books; pages are flying by faster than they did in the actual book, and I always know how far I am from the end of a chapter.

This probably would have been true for the Kindle as well (I don't own one), but the Kindle didn't come with an excellent web browser or a zillion games my kids like, so I was disinclined to buy one.
I am not a constitutional scholar, but this seems like a violation of the Fourth Amendment. I would likely put random bag searches, and pat-down searches in that category as well.

As an American citizen, without reasonable suspicion of criminal intent, why are searches of this type legal? Has this been challenged in the Supreme Court?
Dragging and dropping files is an interaction that people already know. Nobody needs to "discover" it, they just need to assume it works.
I really appreciate the honesty here. But what are you exactly conceding to: that you'll only sleep with me if I truly earn above a pre-determined salary figure (because apparently women appreciates honesty), or that you'll still sleep with me if I come clean and tell you that I'm a just average normal thousandaire (because apparently women appreciates honesty).
I think the iPhone alone proves that wrong.
BES has the plaintext, but where is BES located?
Are you talking about the kind of Kindergarten that starts at the age of 3?

(In Germany it would probably not be a good idea to teach your kids how to read before they go to enter school (at age 6 or 7). Schooling is mandatory in Germany, and elementary school is boring enough if you don't already know the stuff they are trying to teach you. If you have more choice for your kids, then reading earlier may or may not be a good idea.)
It shows us that the poster didn't understand where he lived. That's OK; there are enough of us here, don't you think?
Ralph Nader recently wrote a book on this topic: http://onlythesuperrich.org/
Eliminating civil rights isn't the goal; like much of the evil in the world, it will be a side-effect of people who thought they were doing the right thing.
Would it bother you to find a name-attributed copy of your body scan in a zip file on Rapidshare? Why do you assume that won't happen? I assume the opposite.
According to the regulations that govern my employer's domain, developers cannot have access to production. We have a sysOp representative who knows the software (but isn't a dev) who does have access to troubleshoot issues. In cases of serious bugs, we will work directly with the system administrator to troubleshoot.

The point regarding good relationships between engineering and systems is critical. I have a great relationship with our admin, and therefore, when problems arise, we can quickly work together to sort things out.
It's funny how the documentary technology affects how we view the past. These photos seem much more cheerful than the black & white images that we usually associate with the Depression and WW2. If it weren't for the car & clothing styles, they could be taken today.

I wonder if our grandchildren will view our still, color photos the same way. Life was so drab and depressing before motion & 3D!
NYC Resistor is invite-only. I used to go to TechShop in Menlo Park, which had CNC mills, 2 laser cutters, rapid prototyper, multiple shop bots, welding, aluminum casting, a 3-D foam cutter, CNC vinyl cutter, industrial sewing machines. and so forth. AFAIK, there is no equivalent in NYC (I am already a 3rd ward member... does not come close).

Does anyone know of a place in NYC like TechShop? I've heard SVA has a fab lab, but it seems like you have to be an MFA student to get access.
...is not an IDE.
"and most don't think about accessibility until they have to"

If the ADA didn't exist, when would they "have to"?

If you want to claim "disband the ADA", then ok, that's consistent, but if they don't exist, it is just plain not profitable to include facilities for the disabled, most of the time. Too small a group for too big an expense.
For us, there's a music video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4
Sure, but I and most of my friends and colleagues spend all day every day thinking about and working on things which could be described as "the future". The things I think are important are often things I think are going to be important 3 or more years down the road, and that's why I'm working on them. That potential may not be realized, but I can derive absolutely no value from talking about them with someone who refuses to look beyond the here and now.
Already the case in the UK as far as I know. Not everyone is required to go through them, and not all airports have them, but if you're one of the "lucky" ones and you refuse, you don't fly.

Can't seem to find the article from some months ago to back this up, unfortunately.
School may teach some people grit and discipline.

But for some people it's just too easy and boring, and they can just coast through. So it doesn't even teach grit and discipline to them.
I'm glad Shaw wrote something about the response he received here. The original Poll/Epoll thread was full of garbage posts and "stop energy". A lot of smug opinions and naysaying without much useful input or information.

And the one smack talker who actually went out and tested a server showed 40% ATR which I felt supported Zed's point that you might be running a server that could be hurt by exclusively using epoll.

And the best part is Zed was the one putting in work to try a better way. For this site to be so full of startup motivation and going out and trying something new it's hard to see the responses in the epoll/poll thread as anything but bitter or prejudiced against Zed.
Intel settles FTC antitrust suit
What are you bringing for device protection out in BRC?
You can kill processes with standard Android, but it is buried under the system settings under applications or something like that. I don't know about memory usage though.
It will add 5 minutes for everyone else too. Get in a security line on a busy travel day and 10 extra pat-downs will add up. We need a better solution. I want to arrive, with my carry-on luggage, 30 minutes before takeoff for my 1 hour flight home.
Product Manager sounds better. It makes it sound more like you're responsible for shipping something that generates revenue, rather than overseeing an org-chart rework or some other corporate circlejerk.
Thanks, that was me I believe, and wouldn't you believe it, poll is even better than what Zed measured:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575361

Unfortunately only if you overlook how that utility was meant to be used, which is of course a minor detail.
While there should certainly be a limit on the extent of searches at airports, the reason these searches have not been found "unreasonable" is likely that you can refuse to be searched. Sure, it means you're going to have to drive to wherever you're going, but you still have the option to refuse.

If, on the other hand, the police pulled you over and forced you to submit to some sort of full-body scan without reasonable suspicion, that would certainly be ruled in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
"Tradition is the enemy of progress."
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1265662.html

We have held that airport screening searches, like the one at issue here, are constitutionally reasonable administrative searches because they are “conducted as part of a general regulatory scheme in furtherance of an administrative purpose, namely, to prevent the carrying of weapons or explosives aboard aircraft, and thereby to prevent hijackings.”  United States v. Davis, 482 F.2d 893, 908 (9th Cir.1973);  see also United States v. Hartwell, 436 F.3d 174, 178 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 549 U.S. 945, 127 S.Ct. 111, 166 L.Ed.2d 255 (2006);  Marquez, 410 F.3d at 616.

The unanimous opinion of the 9th (en banc); extremely unlikely to be overturned. Net-net: you concede the reasonableness of TSA searches by opting to get on a commercial airliner, where your personal safety impacts the safety of hundreds of other people. There are plenty of other ways to effect interstate travel without entering into the same risk equation; they're just less convenient.
This isn't exactly new stuff, but it's very interesting. Homes use more than 60% of the energy here in Norway, but this stuff is still to expensive.

Another part of the problem is that people living in apartments in the cities, uses less energy, but most people prefer to live in their own house.
seems like this would be an awesome opportunity for someone willing to start a business and dispel some of the apathy by hiring the kids in the trouble situations. a focal point to induce some change. especially if the laws are generally favorable, and its just society that views new businesses unfavorably.
Refusing these searches is important even if pat-downs are considered more intrusive. If we all do this, and the machines sit idle; eventually they will be removed.
Do you think Boston is the best city for nerds? I'm looking for a genuinely pro-intellectual climate.
I know HN is US-centric but I would just like to point out that it's only been about 2 months since the iPad is available in large EU countries like France and Germany and 2 weeks since it's available in other (Austria, Belgium, New Zealand, etc). It doesn't even sell world-wide yet.

The same about the iPhone 4 which although available in the US for almost 2 months, has just been released to some other countries.
Thomas: Wholeheartedly agree. Thus, [1].

I probably should have made this very clear: While the lack of encryption is maddening, the very worst part is that Tumblr isn't performing this data pull properly (and Google does provide a proper and relatively safe mechanism for doing what they're doing--it's used by Facebook, LinkedIn and anyone else with a need, API key and good conscience).
Submitted two months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341055

Many comments there, some of which might be worth reading.
> (which is actually not one of your ironclad civil liberties)

Not in the US, anyway.

Thankfully, there's Europe, which has progressed considerably further than the U.S. in terms of actually protecting people's rights.
I do think that lobbying has a profound effect in Congress. However, lobbying is something that you can do as an individual by joining a special interests group and visiting your officials. In other words, investing your time where corporations invest their money. Not terribly unfair if you think about it.

The speaker in the linked presentation and the organization he represents -- not to mention that it's popular belief -- claim that lobbyists are the ones funding the same officials' campaigns. As far as I can tell there is no data that supports this claim.

Fair Elections Now Act is the speaker's proposed reform.

"Under this legislation, congressional candidates who raise a threshold number of small-dollar donations would qualify for a chunk of funding—several hundred thousand dollars for House, millions for many Senate races. If they accept this funding, they can’t raise big-dollar donations. But they can raise contributions up to $100, which would be matched four to one by a central fund. Reduced fees for TV airtime is also an element of this bill, creating an incentive for politicians to opt into this system and run people-powered campaigns."

So lower the limit of per person donations and match whatever they collect with tax payer money. What problem would that solve exactly and what does it have to do with corporate money when they can't make contributions in the first place?
High quality content sharing system
I love writing snippets of code. Usually they form the basis of a much larger, well architected idea.

But at the beginning everything starts out with just one or two files. Figure out what you want to get done and just do it. Don't worry about if it is ugly or not. You are just proving an idea.

If you are attacking a much larger concept you still want to start small. If it is a web application make sure you use a framework.

Once you know you can do it then you start architecting. Make a list of tech choices you know or want to learn and might be a good fit.
I didn't want to call anyone out by name, but yeah :)

I think Zed's (future) attempt at unifying the two polling methods via ZeroMQ is interesting and if he thinks it will improve his system he should try it.

I severely dislike the idea being pushed in that original thread that polling was settled and he was wasting his time. Especially the "premature optimization" crap when Mongrel2 works well enough that he thinks he can spend time on this detail. I think it's great he's spending his time trying something new and sharing the results.