skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as I understand it, the law in question in MA is targeted at any interaction, not specifically those that involve police. All else being equal, both parties deserve to know that recording is happening.

"This call may be recorded for quality assurance", right?
Warfighting: What VCs tell you to read
i guess it displays gowalla checkins on a map in real time using "fancy" web technologies :)
Twitter is not a technology. Unless you want to call phone calls shorter than 14 seconds a new technology too.

Twitter is RSS for humans.

Uhm, what? Maybe for some weird breed of humans who cannot digest more than 140 chars and hate context.
Looks like it's just a visual log of one persons' check-ins.

It's moving way too fast to be entertaining or interactive. If you slowed it down, people could zoom in for a much closer look and it would actually be a cool slideshow style display.
Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble
I've got to say, it's nice to see HN users who look a bit deeper.
Blog comments are evil. We shouldn't be engineering new ways of making them less evil; we should be progressing towards a new set of norms in which people who write blogs don't feel obligated to let the rest of the Internet pee all over their work.

Forums like HN do the job of blog comments, but better, because we have some basic rules of engagement here that make trolling less gratifying.
Classic, "Google: malware"
Isn't this why people incorporate in Delaware?

People incorporate in Delaware for several reasons: corporate legal disputes are handled by judges rather than randomly selected juries; one person can fill multiple roles for a company (e.g., he can be listed as the CEO, treasurer, and secretary -- other states don't allow this); since so many companies do it there is more established case law and precedent (= less risk); and, of course, the filing fees are cheap.
Hey, that's not really the purpose, but to show how simple it it to connect PubSubHubbub to Webhooks :)
Petty much!
If you try to use social media as a traditional advertising platform, of course nobody's going to notice.

Leo used Google Buzz, Twitter, etc. to broadcast content instead of cultivating conversation & community. If he was using these tools for two-way interaction instead of one-way communication, he would've gotten a lot more complaints when he went offline.
For those who ask what it is : PubSubHubbub and Webhooks (HTML5) integrated.

Gowalla publishes its feeds thru PubSubHubbub. I built a small node.js server that can subscribe to these feeds. Then, this exact same server is a WebSocket server. The browser open a websocket connection to the server, which then subscribes to the hub. When the server gets updates it pushes them to the browser.
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Sweden Defends Reversal of Warrant for Assange
You become happy through a combination of factors.

First, resolving not to do anything beyond a level that you would recognise as "hard work." You set the bar on what level of work you would call "hard" and stick to that level.

Second, knowing when a certain amount of income is enough, and working to maintain that income level so people get used to you working at this level. If you keep putting in overtime to get more money, sooner or later the bosses will start thinking that they're underworking you and suddenly you'll be swamped.

Third, maintaining your ripcord. Put aside your "fuck you" money and save it. Add to your pot and forget about it unless and until you need it.

Fourth, making your work environment the place where you earn your money - not the arena in which your life is played out. Your colleagues are not your whole life. Work in the hours you have to, but live your life the rest of the time.

Fifth, don't bring work into your home life. Assert your right to bring your home life into your work. Let them see how unimportant work is to you.

Sixth, even if your home life and work life are tied up, everybody crowding you at home and at work, make certain that you have something to do that is entirely your own. Whatever it is, this is the thing you genuinely love. Share this with no one.

Seventh, become a polymath. Get interested in a whole bunch of things, not just your work. Imagine if you pick up mental arithmetic from reading of the Trachtenberg Method and start teaching it to your kids so they won't be afraid of maths. Now imagine picking up skill in a musical instrument, swimming, studying body language and learning Portuguese. All at once. Come on. It's fun.

Finally, the only way to be happy is to choose to be happy; to understand that you own your time, and to respond accordingly. Being happy comes first. Everything else is just gravy, because it's all something you will want to do.

Me, I'm broke, between jobs and under pressure to find one fast. And yeah. I'm ecstatically happy. And damned if nobody can figure out why.
Last year, I took on an interesting role with Mahalo.com. I was a "Vertical Manager" responsible for managing labor, defining tasks, etc. Here are 3 things that I learned:

Educate people. Don't "teach" or "instruct" them. Truly educate them on what you need done, why, and what you expect the results to be. Education is a talent learned through experience. Not everyone is good at it and more often then not a failure in labor can be explained in part by the quality of education distributed.

If … Then rewards often fail. They can be demotivating and worst of all, people will naturally do the lowest amount of work or preform the lowest quality labor for the "then" reward. Dan Pink author of Drive authored an exceptionally good book on the subject of reward and motivation. You should read it.

Kindness, honesty and respect are conveyed in every action that one makes and if people know that you will treat them well, they will treat you well. Motivation isn't some secret science and "doing onto others" is perhaps the most significant cornerstone of it.
I was really surprised by the first few paragraphs of this article:

"There's a puzzle at the heart of our economy that has troubled economists for decades. The question is this: why do people work hard in environments where they are poorly monitored and paid a fixed wage, rather than a performance-related one.Surely any rational worker would do the bare minimum to get by."

Really? Every rational worker would do the bare minimum? Even more surprising, the following paragraphs mention peer pressure and employment contracts.

Do we honestly not believe anyone wants to work hard because they like working hard? Because they feel better living up to promises, or even just plain like what they do?

I know the term "rational worker" is used in a scientific sense for Economics, but this article is talking about actual workers in real life, not some theoretical construct.
I think the difference is he is an average user who leaves skype on all the time, whereas you (and I like to do this too) only use it when you have time to use it.
Is there a better system?
Let's compile a list of really good OO PHP 5 code to study
You can't see the MAC address of someone who visited your site.
I just finished reading The Lost City of Z by David Grann. Archeological evidence supports the conclusion that pre-invasion Amazonians did have larger societies than they do now, and what we previously thought.
> In a small town or elementary school, you are friends with everybody because those are the only people you can be friends with.

Basically. So if or when that goes sour, what do you do? In a small town you're up the creek.

> That's why people go to grad school, participate in a hobby, or join a sub-culture to make their world smaller again and limit their choices to make themselves happier.

And in a small town you have less choices about which schools to attend, clubs to join, sub-cultures, etc. You started out with "Nah, bro." and then supported my argument. Unless I'm missing something.
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I started using OneNote my last year of school and thought it was perfect for the task. I'm not sure it's strictly superior to a personal wiki, though it's arguably easier to set up and arguably has a better UI. If you don't have Office, the web-based OneNote at http://office.live.com might work for you, though I haven't used it much (and I suspect it won't support entering of equations).
That's just sad and immoral. Can somebody please tell that guy?
Yes--more specifically, it's a behavioral study into how they differ.

A rational economic actor tries to maximize profit. That means expending less effort to get the same fixed wage. The puzzle in economics is how, exactly, humans are irrational.
That can be said about any field. You stated that computer science was one of the EASIEST fields to learn without formal instruction. My claim is that learning theoretical ideas, discrete mathematics, automata theory, and formal languages without formal instruction is not any easier than any other scientific field, such as chem, physics, or mathematics.
> in environments where they are poorly monitored and paid a fixed wage ... Surely any rational worker would do the bare minimum to get by.

This line of thinking drives me crazy. Work your ass off, not for your company, but for yourself - someday you're going to have a project you really love and care about, or start your own company, or something important for yourself. If you've built habits that are lazy, bad, procrastinating, and blaming others and avoiding responsibility - you can't just flip those off. If you're mopping the floor, be the best damn floor mopper the world has ever seen. This will serve you later when you're working for the causes you care about.
Why Denmark Is Shrinking Its Social Safety Net
Twitter invented a problem and then solved. They just solved it in a way that made people feel self-important, hence the growth.

I don't yet know what social media is. I just know that we're doing it all wrong.
Are there any astronomy groups that meet where you live?
On firefox 3.6.8 for linux, and I see nothing.. is that normal?
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My first thought when reading this is that this evolves into a "battle rap" scenario where bloggers rebut one another via their medium, blog posts (rap songs), rather than just talking directly in the comments. I think that got 2pac and Notorious B.I.G. shot.

I think blogs can at once be a publishing medium and also a host for conversation - and why they can't crosspolinate seems ridiculous to me. Winer seems a bit too obsessive-compulsive about his comment system - just let it be what it is, a place for conversation. That, or close it. He cares and talks wayyy too much about it - it's not that serious.

Maybe there are some deep-rooted self esteem issues under there somewhere?
Also, as for a first telescope you might consider the galileoscope:

https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/
I'd have to agree with some of this. Every example of testing I've found just covers basic items (like that stack class mentioned here). As far as I can tell, no one talks about how you should start testing things that actually have complex code behind them. If I've just managed to miss all the discussion about testing a very large application, I'd love to know where it was.
This is the gist of the article for me, in particular because his tweet is the way I found the post.

I think if anything it just goes to show that buzz is way more personal than twitter and most people unfollowed him on it because he was too spammy. My small circle of friends still routinely use it to share stuff that we find amusing/interesting.
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Maybe he is a afraid that people miss the 24-hour window if he doesn't give a heads-up (nyuk, nyuk).

(I agree that this an idea doomed to failure.)
3D Diffusion limited aggregation in Haskell
Most works aren't fun enough to be their own reward.

What is surprising about this article is the idea that people work hard, which is certainly not always true.

Many people whose work is boring are indeed doing the bare minimum they can get away with.

And many people who work hard do so because they feel they can't work less for some reason, because they're afraid to be fired if they don't for example.
I think he means that comments are disabled 24 hours after the post goes live.
Additionally: People will work hard because if someone is going to be fired, they don't want it to be them. This assumption that they would do the bare minimum assumes they will keep the job no matter what they do. That's not true. That is not even considering things like the possibility for promotion if you stand out above your peers, the possibility for changing jobs within the company, or the possibility for getting a good recommendation if you apply for a job outside the company.
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The township I used to live in charged $20 for yard sale permits.

And yes, it was enforced. The cops used to drive around every Saturday morning during the summer and issue $50 fines for anyone running an unlicensed yard sale.
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Forget about you. Set aside your skills, your intelligence, the money you earn or the prospects you have.

Pick up on a different kind of intelligence. Social intelligence. Emotional intelligence. Learn body language. Train yourself to observe people.

Talk about the person; not about you. Open conversations with lines such as "How can I help you?" "How are you?" and comments intended to make the first main topic of conversation the person you are speaking to.

The order of conversations should be: The person you are speaking to, then some neutral third party topic that is possible of mutual interest, then finally you can open up the conversation about you - but hesitantly, as if it were an afterthought.

Start with the above. I leave the acquisition of further experience and refinement of your social tool use to you.
This is very true. I sometimes use the fact that I'm a phd student as a cover to study other, completely unrelated things (and get paid for it). It's weird to see institutional validation bias into play.
And in situations where it is true, e.g. working for the government, or in unionized jobs, that's exactly what they do do. Hard work won't even get you a promotion if it's done on seniority.
A summary of a summary wrapped in ads. How unique.
I've heard similar descriptions of the aboriginal people of Australia - they only have their tribal grounds in the bush because the prime real estate they used to inhabit is taken.
Post your Skype name and I will make it a point to call you 3 minutes before your important, 4-way conference call.
Well, that fixes the problem.

There is a sense of despair that comes from reading news about people who have no discernible motive for what they do except deliberately trying to be as stupid as possible. I have started to disbelieve in Hanlon's Razor. It's not stupidity. It's malice. In this case, very clearly malice, but I'm starting to wonder if it's malice more often than that.

Oh, and most people shrugging and going on with their lives - that's stupidity.
Great unless you're in the 5% of holders of bachelor degree's without a job...
Oh come one; that's a complete straw man.

I see what he is trying to get across - but ''the vast majority of the time'' you're going to be free. Complaining that people don't automatically IM you before starting a call is silly...
Accelerate/CUDA: a GPU-accelerated arrays library for Haskell
The rumors started when Valve was looking for skilled Mac and Linux coders. Don't forget they denied the Mac client for a while too.

That said, the Linux gaming market might be too small to be worth supporting :/
WTB more upvotes for this. Habits are everything. Maybe even the key to life, or at least professional success.
i find being around people, though not necessarily interacting with them, can be very focusing. i wonder if it could be evolutionary - it makes sense to expend productive/creative energy while around other, who could incidentally pick up or contribute something you've created.
Apple tries to patent its way out of jailbreaking
The patent is titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device"
Apple Files for Patent to Disable Jailbroken iPhones
> Plus, Flash is reasonably cross-platform (except for iPhone/iPad of course)

Except that it sucks rocks on everything besides x86 and Windows. OS X? Linux? amd64? ARM? There's a reason it's not on iOS devices. Adobe has consistently failed to make a compelling offering for anything except 32-bit Windows.

(I know it runs on amd64 machines, but it's not 64-bit: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html)

I'll take a truly portable Flash 5 equivalent over Flash 9 or 10 where everything outside Windows/x86 is a second class citizen.

CPU usage is still pretty high with this stuff, but there are plans to accelerate it and improve performance. What's the plan for Flash? Who knows because it's proprietary^ and there's a single entity that can fix things. And HTML5 performance isn't much worse than Flash on OS X or Linux. Windows is completely irrelevant to a lot of us.

^ Now someone's going to point to the spec and mumble something about Flash being an open standard. Show me a single open and viable alternative implementation, then we'll talk about it being open. Till then we're Adobe's pawns.
Google Adopts $5 Registration Fee for Chrome Developers
> That said, the Linux gaming market might be too small to be worth supporting :/

I think that's exactly the reason, Mac market is much bigger than 3 years ago but we got at least 5 years more for a decent linux gaming market.
For a lot of sites, the RSS feed is basically a headline and a link to the actual article. 140 characters can be sufficient for those purposes... Not that that's necessarily taxing the limits of RSS or anything though.
There are SWF decompilers too.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=swf+decompiler

If HTML5 authoring tools start appearing we'll have to make sure they use open formats and runtimes.
Oh you don't want to know how many apps are doing this. People just have no idea.

I wish service providers would force app developers to use strong encrypted authentication channels.
Quote: "I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don't. I think they're publications. And I think the role of comments is to add value to the posts. If you want to rebut a post, then you can create your own blog and post your rebuttal there."

Something about this rubs me the wrong way-- probably the fact that it assumes that rebutting a post doesn't add any value. If I (or Dave Winer) post about something and completely mischaracterize what it is, how it functions, what it means, etc., a comment that rebuts that mistake is certainly quite valuable. It gives the author a chance to revise or reconsider his opinion or take on the matter.

A blog post disagreeing with a high-profile author like Dave Winer is unlikely to have the same kind of impact, especially when it comes from a low-profile site (which, let's face it, most blogs are). It is far too easy for an author to ignore dissenting posts at other sites than it is a highly-visible comment that appears directly under the post in question.

IMHO, Dave Winer is a particularly bad comment moderator-- he routinely removes comments that disagree with his opinions simply because of that disagreement. Anecdotally, I no longer comment at Scripting News precisely because he banned my OpenID from the site when I disagreed with one of his more volatile political posts. Not particularly strong evidence, I know, but it is a routine event at SN to see Winer completely shut down or remove posts that differ with his opinions.

Now, as Winer is fond of saying, those dissenters are certainly capable of starting a free blog an any number of free services (or going so far as to transform an old PC into a Wordpress site of their very own), but, as I've mentioned before, this certainly doesn't merit the same level of visibility that posting a comment does.

All of which is to say: I read the above and don't necessarily see Winer trying to "improve" his site. I see him trying to justify marginalizing those who disagree with him.
Factor uses ahead of time compilation. When you load a source file at the REPL, all definitions in it are compiled immediately, and compiled code is saved in the image. So when you download a pre-built binary package, all the code has already been compiled so auto-detection is not an option.

There are pros and cons to both compiling at load time or run time; one of the disadvantages of the former is less flexibility when it comes to using CPU-specific features.
The End of Management And Rise of the VC Model.
probably, i had to use chrome
I would argue that because of the computer savviness of computer scientists, documents and tutorials about computer science are more likely to be easily located and properly formatted for display on the internet.
You can/should use SSH agent forwarding to handle automated administration stuff.
This reminds me of java applet and flash demos from the nineties. Except this time it's done without any browser plugin, which is awesome.
Very true. As usual, there are about a thousand ways I could've done this app better. Still, it works okay for an afternoon project :)
Ask HN: Booking for AYCJ opens tomorrow. Where are you going?
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Ask HN: What platform server/host do you need but doesn't exist? 
The world has Heroku, the world has Couch.io, but what is the world missing? I have ideas of offering convenient platform dedicated hosting, kind of like Heroku and Couch.io. I would love to ask you, fellow developers and consumers, what accommodations are missing in your world as far as hosting is concerned.

This isn't necessarily limited to a single platform. Perhaps just a different way of using servers. Take Linode and Rackspace for example. While they are fairly accommodating in providing the metal and means of accessing it, what could be different about them for the better? What more could they (I) offer?

Just an idea that could grow into something great.

Thanks,

Mark
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Citing is useful when the writer wants to use information from another source included in the paper for easy reference of the reader. Rules regarding the citing are different according to the writing style. This short article explains some citing rules.
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I think of DailyWTF like I think of the modern newspaper and cable news - it's an unrepresentative sample of the population specifically selected for entertainment value, a more highbrow FailBlog.com if you will. At least in DailyWTF's case, it actually entertains.

That keeps me from getting too depressed when reading any of them.
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