skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessary, but it's damn convenient. That's mostly the fault of the content distributors, IMO, that actively prevent honest consumers of legaly acquiring things due to outdated regional distribution models.

I don't live in the US either and saw this more times than I care to remember: "you can't buy this digital download because it's not available in your region. print and fill out this form, mail to your local distributor and you'll get it in a few weeks".

Want to watch Lost finale? Wait a couple months until it's been spoiled to death. The lastest album from your favorite band? A technical book, games, it's all the same. Sure, it's all purely convenience, unnecessary things, but it's digital bits that have people all around the world, with their credit card in their hand waiting to consume them.

I've seen people use proxies and whatnot to be able to give their money, say, to Apple to buy music in iTunes which is not available here. I think it's absurd to pay to get something that end up being infriging anyway.

Not to mention all the hoops customers have to jump through (quotas, DRM, exclusive content, DLC) that pirates don't have to worry.

I like the honest position Shane Carruth (who written, directed, produced the movie Primer pretty much by himself) about torrenting his movie:

http://primermovie.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1626#1626

(somewhere else he says he received several tips through paypal from people who downloaded but rejected them all due to legal issues)

All that said, I think there's a huge market for someone to provide a way for people around the world to purchase legal bits of pretty much anything, if they can work through the legal issues. Steam is already doing a good job at this in the gaming market, but there's still plenty of space there.
The Minecraft story isn't a good example. Markus had an account taking maybe 1k euros a day for around a year, then suddenly in a month it shoots up to 100k euros a day. It would have been negligent of Paypal not to temporarily suspend payments when someone without a history of taking that much money suddenly does.

The solution is not to build a business around Paypal. If Paypal suspending an account you operate for 14 days is going to cripple your business you should look into new solutions.
>>> Severe wounds

>>> The crew was left with permanent, disabling injuries and have not flown professionally since.
> I don't think that is the reality at all, unfortunately.

If someone describes something as "free software" and it doesn't satisfy the FSF's definition of the term, I'd regard them as dishonest. Ditto with "open source".

> The terms are used interchangably all the time.

For practical purposes, I think FSD == OSD.

> The same seems to be happening with OS and FS as philosophies in that most? people seem to see them as the same thing.

Well they are. The software stack I'm using to write this with includes Linux/X/Gnome/Firefox, all of which are both free software and open source.
I say submit away. Banning is arbitrary and opaque, I've never heard anyone answer the "why was this killed?" sumissions, so just roll the dice and hope that the censors are in a good mood.
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Another one: usually one of the first places a sysadmin is going to look when there is a problem is the log file. A good sysadmin will be able to read compiler-generated errors but still may not be able to do anything if the messages reference cryptic variable names and methods from code they've never seen. Spend a little time thinking about how an end-user, rather than a developer, would read the log file.

Obviously don't short-change yourself if you're the one who will be writing bug fixes and need detail, but a little can go a long way here, especially for problems a sysadmin may be able to diagnose and fix (connection issues, resources issues, etc.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803001

Maybe this helps.
Using JavaScript and Web Timing API to Measure Page Performance on IE9
In my early 20s and "nature" has definitely not blessed me with any productive hours of energy to forgo sleep. I attribute it all to caffeine, D3+Calcium, B12, and being in an environment where its socially normal to be heading to a coffee shop at 11:30pm or library at 1am.
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I use the maven-android-plugin to build the dependencies in seperate modules. I have a patched version of bouncycastles crypto implementation (to have openpgp in android). Then there is the network code which also contains no android dependencies so it can be tested without the emulator.

Another module is the App itself. The last module is the TestApp. This is the recommended Test Setup: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/testing/testin...

The testapp and the app are copied to the emulator or a real device. Then the instrumentation is started. The maven build fails if any error or failure occurs while building, installing or testing.

The continuous integration is done by hudson. The emulator can be started "headless" (-no-window) so it doesn't need to connect to the running XWindow-Server. Currently I am starting the emulator from maven with a special profile that is only used in hudson. When testing locally I usually have my phone already connected. It seems to be possible to have hudson start the emulator. With that setup logcat-output would be captured by hudson. Thats were I want to go.

Also missing in my setup is an multi environment build with all screen resolutions, locales and OS-Versions.
I build a summariser for classifier4j (http://classifier4j.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/classifier4j/...).

It's 5 years old now, but the summaries it generates are competitive quality-wise with most things out there (eg, the MS Word summarizer). Unfortunately I don't have an online demo working atm (like I said - 5 years old)

My algorithm is something I made up, and from memory it works like this:

1) Remove HTML, stem, remove stopwords etc

2) Sort unique words by popularity in the text

3) Split the original text on sentence boundaries.

4) Include each sentence that first mentions the next most popular word, until the summary is the maximum length requested.

Like most things, it's surprising how well a simple algorithm like that works.

There are ports for C#, and Googling just then apparently someone has done a python port too.
I wish it wasn't such an unpleasant shock for so many people, but very few people even think about how something actually works and the risk models being used. In the case of paypal Max Levchin (sp?) created a brilliant fraud detection (risk analysis) system, and also made sure to mitigate risks to his company by making sure someone else could be put on the hook when something goes wrong (i.e. why they press so hard for direct access to your bank accounts). Even though it is a brilliant design, and a profitable business, the entire company is dubious because it profits from putting normal people (users) at risk without ever informing them of the risks.
Ideas for next video are most welcome. The ideal task:

1. Is single threaded
2. Takes a lot of CPU
3. Is a task that everyone can understand and relate to and which is close to a real world scenario

I have loads of examples meeting requirement 1+2. It is 3 that is the hard part.

Post them to parallel@gnu.org
"Movie plot threat" anyone? Sigh...
> The BIGGEST QUESTION for me is this: Will there every come a point where the government will say "Ok, the world is safe again, we're giving you your liberties back."?

I think I know the answer to that one but you will not like it one bit.

What's the last time a country repealed a law that limited citizens rights somehow without there being a confrontation about it?
That's not a movie plot threat. The FedEx example was a real example of a disgruntled employee trying to crash a plane.
Oh, poetry is a whole other issue with controversies of its own due to reflow. I'm not going there. Not my area.
Please read http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_be... before selecting xargs.
It would be fixed with firmware updates in an ideal world.
See: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_be...
Yes, and he was a passenger, not one of the pilots scheduled for the flight.
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) [ISPConfig 2]
http://www.fastspring.com/

Never had problems with them. They have a great customer support and a neat admin interface. They take payments from PayPal too, so you don't have to renounce to those.
Make sure you are using GNU Parallel and not another version of parallel. Try:

parallel --version
Insurance is for things you can't afford to replace. To me, it's a sign that I need to sit and think "If I can't replace this thing in the unlikely event that I destroy it... can I really afford this thing in the first place? would it be better to buy an older, cheaper model?"

I have a general rule that I don't carry a laptop I can't replace, just like I don't drive a car I can't replace. I don't insure the laptop, (and I have liability only on the car)

I mean, it's possible that you're compiling on the things, or doing something else CPU heavy where spending the money for a more modern laptop will pay for itself quickly in developer time... for me, all the heavy lifting is done remotely, and on Linux, so long as you have enough ram, a cpu that was pretty good 10 years ago can move the user interface along as fast as it needs to go.

For my workload, it makes sense to use an older/cheaper less powerful laptop and spend more of the money on an external monitor and keyboard (or a full on desktop for use in the office) A $150 monitor is a huge win for me.

For you this may be different. I guess saying "perhaps you should reconsider your assumptions" is not really answering your question.

When I was in high school, my grand parents gave me a laptop (oh man, it was awesome. a ThinkPad 365xd My parents didn't have the financial wherewithal to get me one, and me, I was carrying a tandy model-100 around. it was quite the upgrade. Actually, discounting crappy netbooks, this was probably the only brand new laptop I've ever owned myself.) anyhow, it was insured through "fireman's insurance group" or something like that. I never had cause to use the insurance (in part because the IBM warranty was so excellent. it covered damage that was pretty obviously my fault, too.)
Thanks a lot for the great feedback Martin, I'll finally go with a redesign of the whole site and carefully pick fonts and colors with a new approach.

Adwords will be a very tiny amount of my revenues and I'll consider not using them at all, and probably will not use them on the main release, but they are really a very tyni part on my business model.
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I'm not on the team nor did I downvote you but I can understand why others did.

Why are you complaining about "thinly recessed semi-transparent ovaloids"? Is that just another way of saying you don't like the rounded buttons? Why put it that way?

It's pretty intuitive to see which is a search area (obvious magnifying glass icon) and which are navigation buttons. Saying that it's a "terrible terrible" interface because of that is a bit excessive.

Thanks for trying to give feedback to them but try not to be so mean and make accusations like them conspiring to downvote you.
Haven't we been told that IPv4 will run out "next year" for the past couple of years?

I mean, yeah, it's a legitimate concern and all, but if you keep crying wolf...
Great approach, I'll try it this way, if they don't work later, I will just remove them. Thanks
> This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses

A device connected to a LAN in someone's house will often just have a private IP and go through a NAT for its internet access.

However many big organisations will have been allocated a large address space at some point, often the size of a Class B. Their machines internally will often use a global IP address. The printers I use at university have their own public IPs. I'm guessing that's not unusual.
I posted this link because I keep reading PayPal horror stories again and again but strangely nobody seems to be aware of them.

They have a great customer support with actual humans that answer emails and a neat admin web interface easy to use. Fares are slightly higher than PayPal, but you get what you pay for.

I'm not an owner or affiliated with them in any way, just an happy customer.
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There are a lot of addresses that should be 'reclaimed' . These days, most enterprises really only need a few public addresses, and many of them are 'sitting on' large chunks of addresses they acquired in the 90s.
"tl;dr" doesn't only mean "It's too long so I didn't read it". It's also commonly used as "I thought this was too long, and can get across what I consider important in a much smaller space. If you might have found this too long and didn't read it, here's a summary for you."

I agree that bare "tl;dr"s should be voted down. But clear condensations shouldn't be just because of a "tl;dr" prefix.
You really think J2EE and other modern stuff is "simpler" than COBOL? Have you ever seen COBOL code?
I'm not sure I fully agree that the rules in this case are idiotic.

Certainly, a pilot is able to do damage without bringing any devices with him.

However, if we waive all security for people holding a pilot's badge, we create an extreme incentive for identity theft.

I'm not suggesting we strip-search anybody.

What I am suggesting is that for security measures to be effective, they either have to be a) random, or b) universal.

I used to visit the US on a very regular basis, a few years ago I decided I'd had enough of the insults and the power trips these TSA types go through

I feel your pain--but are you sure you aren't projecting a bit in this case? As I said before, I don't see any evidence of "insults or power trips" in this case at all. In fact, I see a reasonable attempt at accommodation on the part of the TSA types.
I call out BS.

"Prior to the departure of this flight on April 7, 1994, Mr. Calloway presented himself at the plane in full flight gear and with carry-on items. Although he was not a member of the flight crew, he entered the cockpit and began adjusting instruments and controls as if he were."

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/116/116.F3d.1129.95...
Devices that don't support IPv6, or don't have IPv6 enabled, will just share an IPV4 address in a NAT pool at the ISP level. It's not pretty but it works.
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Good point! We'll add that when the Rails Rumble lockout is over! Thanks!
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Good point. I thought that there is not much use for a public IP for a printer, but I did not think about big address allocations.

But is there any convenience in this? Can't they just switch a private LAN infrastructure connected through NAT?
Am I the only one who actually thinks that searches should be more thorough? Airplanes are instruments that people like to target, and I'd not be comfortable flying unless people are properly screened. It's scary enough with the possibility that the plane could drop out of the sky, but adding an additional threat of someone blowing up the plane would make it a terrible experience.

You are a nice person, your friends probably, but there are a lot of crazy people out there that would hijack or bomb planes, given the chance.
I flagged it, but I didn't realize it was someone here's pet project, I just thought it was wildly off-topic. My bad.
Sounds similar to this movie plot. And, yes, it's 30,000 not 20,000. I missed that distinction when browsing Netflix. Stream it- I wouldn't waste the mailer:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1056026/
I feel like WU has also been tainted by their frequent use by the 419 scammers.
How will you ever know if you can trust the pilot? Are you going to dissect their brain before take-off?
No caffeine\supplements (2-4 weeks off to account for any withdrawal effects) or knowing friends who are also up late, I default to 10 hours of sleep and am also less productive.

[If you want to live an Erdos lifestyle, I imagine you can maintain late night productivity very late in life with only slight, completely-unavoidable age related decline. While this lifestyle is socially expected of college age students or the norm, it's socially discouraged and deviant for older Americans ... I think social causations should be slightly more heavily weighted than an age based causations]
Io also gets coroutines right and makes them very easy to use:

* http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html#Concurren...

* http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/reference/Core/Core/Co...

Probably no surprise though because Lua was one of the influences behind Io design/implementation (full list of influencers from http://www.iolanguage.com/):

* Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic),
* Self (prototype-based),
* NewtonScript (differential inheritance),
* Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency),
* LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree)
* and Lua (small, embeddable).
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It was a best estimate at the time. Reclaiming unused/wasted IPv4 space has helped some but routers have probably had a bigger impact. 5 years ago most ISPs were working under the assumption that the average customer was going to need (at least) 2 IPv4 addresses. My guess is the economic meltdown probably slowed down the growth of the Internet worldwide as well. I haven't seen any firm numbers to back that up it though.
The guy is a pilot. There's no point whatsoever in searching him more thoroughly before he flies a plane because he already has control over it.
There's one location listed in Hollywood, CA, with an address listing of 'hollywood': http://desksnear.me/workplaces/7-fortress-of-solitude

The idea is cute, but I assume there's some kind of QC available for verifying links? Otherwise you're literally begging to be overwhelmed by griefers at this stage.
Why only search passengers on planes then? I don't have this kind of hassle whenever I get on a train or a bus.

The relative infrequency of terrorism incidents in insecure places leads me to believe that either a) our intelligence services are extraordinarily effective, or b) the number of "crazy people" wiling and able to do such a thing is extraordinarily small.
Yes, he did stuff he was not supposed to do, but on that flight he was a passenger. That he knew his way around the aircraft and that he knew exactly how to misbehave is exactly what I meant when I wrote that you are going to have to put trust in people at some point.

Pilots are - for the most part - the most stable people that I have ever met and in general will not get up to stuff like this nearly as often as 'regular' folks do.

If they did there would be suicide induced plane crashes every other day with the number of pilots in active service.

Incidents will always happen, the question is if you think that it is worth draconian safety measures to get the incident level down an unmeasurable fraction.

Again, all it would take for a major accident is for one guy to lift his foot for 2 seconds while taxiing.

You could not stop that if you wanted to.
> comment's upvote-worthiness changes with time of day

You have fewer people around to upvote you.
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The first couple of articles I tried:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/18/...

http://bstj.bell-labs.com/

suffered from complete content extraction failure.

The third one seemed to work pretty well, but there were lots of spurious newlines in the output which made it really hard to read.

Nice idea but needs another 48 hours of polish :-)
The whole idea behind Paypal was:

-- we'll do everything a bank does, but without all those "laws" and "accountability for mistakes" that the other banks labor under

Go on, look it up.

And they achieved that goal. Paypal largely escaped regulation as a banking entity. Banks are trustworthy with your money (to the extent that they are) not because they're magically trustworthy, but because there is a regulatory state forcing them to be. Paypal has no regulatory apparatus overseeing it. Paypal will steal your money and your only recourse is to sue them.

PayPal has made the calculation that the vast majority of their customers will not sue them. Therefore, it is profitable for Paypal to steal from these customers. This is now common knowledge. If you use Paypal today, you have no excuse for not knowing that they will steal your money.
Good, get rid of duplicate products, makes sense.
Yup, Keith created that. Its a test record. Because we created this for a coding competition we need people to be able to judge the site and make bookings without actually making a real life booking.
I don't mind as long as it's preceded by:

"-- \n"

My e-mail client will then de-emphasise it and automatically remove when replying.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.3
PS I tried both those sfgate and Bell Systems pages through viewtext.org, and that got the content for both just fine.

Maybe you could pipe requests through their API:

http://viewtext.org/help/api
I wonder if it wouldn't just be cheaper to design NAT-friendly apps. By the looks of it, the transition would last a decade and there would still be large legacy infrastructure in place after that. So why not learn to love NAT and ipv4?
I remember laughing at people (in the late '90s) who tried to search the Internet with English-language queries:
how do i cook pancakes without butter
vs
pancakes +"no butter"

Anyway, these days I'd obviously be wrong. I'm so impressed with the strides Google has taken to NLP, and I am fully expecting them to beat everyone to Strong AI. And why not? They know that the better they are, the better their advertising revenue will be. And they know that once they get there, even if ads are no longer profitable having the world's only AI will be incomprehensibly popular.

My one problem with this article is the last line:

"They're still not approaching the conversations you'd have as a teenager."

Google hasn't yet approached "the conversations" you'd have with a 5 year old. While Google may understand a 5-year old's conversation, it certainly couldn't participate it in and reply back to the kid.
$40/case what? That's shitty range? Where do you live, around here you can get shitty beer for $12/case!
Oops, I probably could have guessed that from reading your footer :]

Makes sense if it's a submission like that. I really like the idea and would 100% use a service like this were it populated well. Best of luck!