skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be wrong, but I'm under the impression that only a small portion of the total video base has been converted to a <video> friendly format.
In this case it's still try before you buy, but kls is asking the company to iron his shirt before getting married, rather than asking them out on a date. No surprise that they aren't interested.
I don't understand the big price difference between LCD WiFi and Pixel Qi WiFi. Pixel Qi trumpeted the fact their screens can use existing fabs without retooling. Such a big price difference is no way to entice a mass market into buying. I've also wondered why others haven't adopted Pixel Qi's screen in the meantime. [typo edit]
UN rapporteur says Assange shouldn't be prosecuted
You get "charged" twice for space under the normal plan. With teams its a shared quota.
Man Sued Winklevoss Twins in 2009, Saying They Stole Company Stake From Him
Marc Andreessen: We'll Invest Up to $100M in a Single Deal
Why you need to commit Gemfile.lock and schema.rb [RAILS]
Census data's definitely interesting. If you have the cash, you can rent a box with 68GB of memory for $0.70/hr on EC2, as a spot instance.
don't worry ;)

I just set up the blog a few days ago and felt like I needed to add a link to it, but I just haven't pushed anything to it yet.
Do you view Political Science as a hard science, much like physics?

Some days, I don't even view physics as a hard science ;-)

More to the point, I think lots of political science involves open questions where people argue and there is no clear obvious answer. But that's the nature of any field: people don't argue over the obvious correct empirical stuff after a while. The issue is that the small fraction of political science that everyone agrees has been empirically settled are completely at odds with how Americans and American media discuss politics.

I'm not saying that everyone should do whatever poli scientists say -- I'm saying that everyone should agree to the poly sci consensus on the few issues that have been well studied for which a huge consensus exists. That change alone would force us to rewrite 95% of political media coverage.

Here's one example: http://www.slate.com/id/2256068/
FTA: "The new feature will be available only to a subset of users who have never violated copyright rules"

I wonder how this works with the false-flagging and the DMCA abuse that I've heard of. While their algorithms can detect if your video has someone else's content, I'm not so sure it can detect if the usage is considered fair use.
Gee, we've only been writing C# mobile apps for five years. Except now I can write iOS and Android apps in it too.
British Students Attack Prince Charles After College Tuition Hike Vote Passes
Justifiably or self-justifiably? In these days of warrantless searches, crotch invasions, and GPS tracking, it seems "justifiably" lacks the "justice" part. You know, that safeguard called the court. The CIA, for example, was prevented from foreign assassinations after the Church Committee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_committee

[typo edit]
One of the gems in this post:

"Self-motivation is not an ability that once you have it, you keep it. It’s a reservoir of will that’s filled with ambition, enjoyment, good humor, and small successes. It’s drained by mundanity, difficulty, failures, and fears. If you’re not refilling that reservoir on a regular basis, you will find yourself attempting to escape or avoid further drain."
Mostly because it allows those who use the term to say they are suffering as a direct result of piracy and not increased competition. The more people who are in this mindset then the greater chance there is for people to question the figures that the record lables spit out.
You can use Scala with a moderate amount of hassle today: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/scala-ide/Developing_for_A....
I'm going to use sproutcore
Very smart (and relatively cheap) way to find good engineers!
Lift: 10x more productive than any mvc framework
You're a braver man than I!
I don't think we're going to get very far, but I'd simply point out that I made an assertion that began with "if you started with no parties at all" and then provided an example to support my thesis.

I really don't see how going back in time helps your argument at all. The nature of political parties and how Americans understand them has changed significantly over time, to say nothing of the demographics of the group we call scientists. Going back in time raises a whole lot more questions than it answers.

It's interesting you would say that. I find that there are basically two camps of thought when it comes to the soft sciences: those who use the past to try to spot patterns and extrapolate from them, and those who feel that we should rest more on theories than some sort of loose induction around fuzzy concepts.

Both of these schools have their various uses and drawbacks. I'd much rather be less rigorous, more flexible, and longer-term in my analysis, but I can respect an approach that relies more on structure. Just be careful. I'm not going to argue with you about this. Suffice it to say that rules-based extrapolations of the sciences has a mixed heritage at best.

I'm happy that you are so assured of yourself. Unfounded self-doubt is a terrible thing. Carry on.
Look forward to seeing what else he comes up with. He's definitely got the skills.
On the other hand, one could argue that neither Visa or Mastercard makes their money off of their websites. Not their marketing (which comes in the form of ads or mail to your house), or the amount they cut per transaction, or the fees you get when you've delayed payment. As far as I can see, this is true. I might be completely wrong though.
Hopefully Clojure, which I suppose is another way of saying Java.
I don't know what he's talking about either.
What about hybrids like Silverstripe? Has anyone used it (or something similar) for large-ish projects?
Although personally I use mostly CakePHP, I began playing with it lately and it seems to me that it has a lot of potential.
Basic CMS functionality is provided out of the box, but I really like the way you can extend the core classes and integrate your own functionality into it, without losing the typical ease of use, even for non developer maintainers/users.
I guess they ran out of cake.
Wow, what world do you live in? I am going to be blunt. In this instance there is NO justification for the DDoS period. Those other companies are doing business the way they do business and it is totally legal and totally above board. Using your logic, as long as I can justify in my mind that a "greater good" is coming out of it I am "in the clear". I will say it again, it is never right to wrong for a chance to do right. You can try to justify six ways to Sunday but in the end it is still wrong.
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Google Maps & Label Readability, Part 2
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OT but can anyone explain to me why the planets all have the same orbit plane? I've never read a succesful explanation.
It would be much better if there was at least a simple landing page there. A completely broken link seems like bad form.
Maybe talk to a reputable immigration consultant for the best way to move forward. That's probably what I'd do.
I'm sad, but that's my fault because I didn't fill out the form on the first day, when I learned of it.

Anyhow, anyone know how to install the os on a EEEPC? Hexxeh has an older version that I installed my my eee900 long ago, but it was pretty meh at the time. I'd like to see the new version up and running.
Even the Facebook comments on a geeky announcement like this make me question humanity.

"Lol... what?"
"May as well call this site HACKBOOK! IT'S ALL GARBAGE NOW!"
"This is freaking scary coz pipol will be able to hack into any fb ccount they want to. This is crack..."

Let's not forget that we all live inside a cozy little bubble where some level of intelligence and familiarity with technology can be assumed.
Agreed about Huxley. Neil Postman covers many of the same themes in his non-fiction work. Technopoly in particular is a good read.

Atlas Shrugged is _not_ a message I think our age is lacking however. I enjoyed it as a kid, but it's pretty clear capitalism and selfishness are enjoying the commanding heights. It's status as a philosophical masterpiece...that's the easiest way to troll a philosophy major.
If it was to deliver, it would need to be a mobile version of trueCrypt - not something you can do through the iOS API.
Very well said, and I hope you get upvotes for it.

I think a lot of the issue stems with many people here having a conception of political change as being possible with very little conflict, and I don't think that's true.

There is no easy, polite way to pressure those with extraordinary power to act differently. And sometimes you have to do things that are illegal (like sit-ins, digital or virtual).

And when you do, you can recognize they are illegal, but partake in them anyways, and even fight your charges on moral grounds, and that makes your disobedience no less civil.
I've had a similar experience. The Kindle gets the job done, but I find myself using my iPad (or even iPhone) to read Kindle content most of the time now.
Not really. Take a look at their team page (http://www.alphonsolabs.com/team). You'll be surprised. :)
<snicker>
I think any time you are saying X maybe ore convenient but it wont be as computationally efficient it becomes a matter of "when" not a matter of "if"

That being said I already spend the majority of my time using mobile optimised web sites / web apps and they havent had a noticeable effect on my battery vs native apps, so while I am making it a "prediction", its really already happened, I just think the trend will continue.
I used to do quite a bit of street photography in Istanbul. It is an awesome way of learning to talk to strangers. The more comfortable you become the more comfortable others are with you. Truly the best kind of rejection therapy around.

This guy ended up buying me tea:
http://mustpax.deviantart.com/art/View-from-the-top-34181357
Ask HN: What length do you choose for email fields?
I know that the maximum length of email addresses can be 256 characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address) however, I always feel dirty about defining varchars with such large bounds and reserving such a large index size for email addresses.

Whilst obviously not in spec, I often set my email fields to 100 characters as I think that even an email address of that size is impracticable for day-to-day usage and should cover off 99.999% of address cases.

So I ask you, how big do you usually make your email address fields?
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You'll have to forgive me, but I expect you to earn your chops. Coming into a thread and announcing that you're so sorry folks are uninformed isn't a very good way to get started in a discussion.

And over several posts, I've yet to see a single theory expounded and supported, although you've made mention of a prominent book and fallen back on consensus.

I'm not trying to "bust your chops" or trash you or anything. It's just very difficult to have a conversation when there is no point to be argued aside from "people mostly don't understand political science like they should" which could apply to any one of a hundred sciences.

I hope that came out well. I'm really not trying to sound snide. I just have no idea where you are going with this aside from posturing. It's perplexing.

I'm done here. Don't want to waste other folk's time (or mine) Thank you for your time. Look forward to continuing the discussion at a future date. Sounds like you've read and studied quite a bit. Would love to see you show off some of that knowledge. At another time.
Wait, the entire OS is a browser? It's just Chrome with everything else removed.

It's like their taking a page out of Apple's book, forcing you to do things their way, but taking it too far.
"...get something into the contact's inbox" -- yes, this. You can avoid sitting and waiting without being rude or pushy either.

With a little creativity, there's usually a way to keep communication open without seeming rude by asking again about whatever it is you actually want to know.

Ideally, something that prompts a short reply -- ending with a simple yes/no question, for example -- so that they will actively respond to you, and feel some obligation to also give you a short update on The Big Thing.

You can also amiably pester someone repeatedly by giving them a new reason for the new request.

If you're communicating with someone very busy, also be very sure to make any email message as simple and terse as you can.
That was strangely interesting. Thanks for the write up.
You are correct. I was going to put up a simple landing page, but I haven't even set up the DNS (its updating now). Free marketing lost.
An apt handle you have.
as I edited that sounded more confrontational than I meant :) and I wasnt aiming it at ryan dahl (there was a lot of commentators in that thread).

I just meant that without the numbers its an guess, educated are otherwise, and we all know how many assumptions we make that end up being wrong when they are implemented.
To be clear, we don't subject ALL our airbnb guests to 4loko. Jud was a special case.

-Benjie
I like it.

For a while, we had a couple people who really liked pair programming at work. Our desks really, really weren't fit for that. They went through a lot of things and finally settled on 1 person having the work computer, and the second remoting into it. They would sit at their own desks, which were close enough to talk, if loudly.

Other than a few latency issues, it seemed to work pretty well for them.

This setup, though, would have been MUCH preferred.

As for the cost of the second monitor... Most non-pair places buy 2 computers AND 2 monitors... Our stations at work even have 2 monitors per computer, with only 1 developer at it.

I think the cost of the second monitor is a very small price to pay for efficiency.
Not just private organizations, but multi-national mega-corporations at the center of our financial system, with coffers that rival most nations GDP's, and, as Wikileaks has shown, a direct line to the most powerful governments in the world.

So I think equating the targets of these virtual sit-ins with any private organization, like a small start-up with 5 employees, isn't really telling the whole story.
If it doesn't take off like they suggested, what's your plan? I'm curious how someone in your position would (and should?) handle this. Did they give any specific advice to you re: your future? Dump the project and work on something else?
“The fact of not even being able, by design, to have two windows visible at the same time is a show stopper for me”

You cannot have multiple windows on most mobile devices. Or TV's. People live fine with it.
Is "less than $100/month" supposed to sound cheap? That's still an order of magnitude more than what he was looking at.
Apparently the job entry you actually want to look at is the second one: http://imvu.jobscore.com/jobs/imvu/linux-systems-administrat...
ReadWriteWeb's Comprehensive WikiLeaks Timeline
Ex-WikiLeakers to launch new Openleaks site
It is worth noting that "political science" covers a lot of ground... Much like economics, there are some sub-fields that deal with "small" questions with a great deal of empirical rigor and and other sub-fields that are more theoretical and philosophical. The closer the sub-field is to stats & neuro-physio/psychology the more it resembles other hard sciences. The past decade has seen a lot of interesting work in this area and a lot of it has turned out to be something of a surprise in terms of deflating the "rational actors making reasoned choices" myths that many people subscribe to.
You can still click on the 'print' link at the top, formatting is MUCH easier to read.

This quote sold me on taking a second look at CouchDB:

"CouchDB has taken all that fun away. Things just work, we never have to see why something’s broken and not worry too much about scaling. This means we don’t have to hire more people to manage the site, which means we can’t show the investors and our customers that we are growing rapidly."
Doughnut maker joins rank of startup hopefuls
Interesting... he became the most renowned military commander in European history by relinquishing his command to his subordinates. In effect, he pioneered not micromanaging.

Of course, there's more to it than just saying "do what you think is best" and calling it a day. Napoleon still needed to make high-level strategic decisions, he needed ensure his subordinates' individual initiative was in line with those strategic objectives (even harder if the officers are French aristocrats), and as usual he needed to completely re-invent logistics for his army to be able to take advantage of their flexibility (see also: Kanban). In a very real sense, he wasn't just a great general but invented an entirely new way of waging war.
Yes, you are correct. (Oh, and it's 'fella', if that's the female gender of that noun?)
What differentiates Silverstripe from something like Django? It seems to me like Django offers 'Basic' CMS functionality, althought how you define that is up to you :)
At the risk of making this a "me too" comment, I want to expand on iloveponies answer.

Mobile is special, in that the answer to the question of "would less processor/memory/storage overhead be better?" is probably going to be "yes" for the foreseeable future. It certainly will for the next year.

This gives you a very different tradeoff between developer productivity and code efficiency than you would have on a desktop machine, much less in a server farm.

At some point batteries will be so good, and processors so efficient, and memory so cheap that the overhead of not running natively will go from "it doesn't matter except for some games and stuff" to "it doesn't matter". And compilers and development environments will be able to amp up developer productivity without sacrificing power efficiency. So daleharvey might get the last laugh. Just not next year.
> Guess it does go down to intent?

Yes. If I put my hand on your shoulder, it could be friendly companionship or it could be assault. The physical action is the same; context is everything.

One thing about engineers I'm sure we all notice is we tend to think in terms of logical analysis: true or false, black or white. Real life is full of grey.
ASE(http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-an...) Lets Ruby and Python run among others. It may not be ideal for distribution to end-users yet, but it seems pretty good.
I concur with the post, but may i say no? (to calm down).

is a coup illegal? (rhetoric)

imho, we are approaching an intersection of journalism revolution. Nelson Mandella was in prison 27 years. Let's say there was an outcry of similar kind(and occurred frequently); wouldn't there be discussions about the rights/wrongs of Mandella now?

A story from the past: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/07/theobserver : about Anna Politkovskaya who was shot dead. Let's say there was a retaliation as what we see now- we would have see a little rift? wouldn't we?

I say keep up the pressure, but in (possibly)ethical ways.
I don't have a problem with the author commenting on fragmentation or API issues increasing dev time. Does Rage HD run on all iPhones?

My comment was due to the way it's stated, "even possible on any Android device today", meaning that even with excess dev time, the application could not run on the newest Android device.
There are only two posts on that blog, and they're both great. I hope he keeps it up.
Tuition fees protesters attack car carrying Prince Charles
Didn't the Roman general Gaius Marius also introduced the idea of backpack? His soldiers were called Marius' Mules.
Just would like to say that emacs is much better than vi... at giving you carpal tunnel syndrome. Thank you very much.
Ah, bummer. I guess the last time I was paying attention to this stuff, I was a student, and it was at a time when there were an increasing number of computers in schools, but no one beyond computer lab admins and tech savvy teachers to tend for them. Didn't stop to think that it was surely fully institutionalized at this point. Duh!
DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group
Mentors needed 4 high school girls learning computer science & entrepreneurship
Pseudo-related random anecdote: In college (circa 2005) I came across some programming puzzles Facebook had posted for people interested in jobs. I thought Facebook might be an interesting place to work, so I came up with solutions to a couple of them, but never sent them in because I wasn't graduating for a year or two.

I mentioned this to a few friends who laughed at the idea of working at Facebook. Not so funny now, eh?
This reminds me of the last time i was in Athens. I took a picture of the US embassy and spent 5 hours in a cell. The fact that I am a Greek American with American citizenship meant nothing. The government has a way of making reasonable people unreasonable...
Anger at 'slave trader' Assange: WikiLeaks loyalists decide to break away
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Sorry, I've seen non-startup news here before. Thought it might be interesting.
This is not true. The majority of any online video sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) use h.264-encoded MP4 delivered to a Flash player on the client-side. So the video is ready to be put in <video> tag, at least in browsers supporting h.264 (sorry Firefox).

If you use the YouTube5 plugin for Safari to browser YouTube you will know this.

The problem is they currently have no way to insert ads and other stuff (like subtitles) into video if it is not played in Flash.
Poll: Should WikiLeaks be targeted or defended?
I'm curious, based upon what you currently know and if you had to choose sides, would you defend WikiLeaks from onslaught by targeting it's enemies or would help destroy WikiLeaks?
I would defend WikiLeaks and attack it's enemies!
I would attack WikiLeaks and bring them to their knees!
Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup
It sounds like he applied without ever reading about Chrome OS...

"Immediately, I realized even if I could get Twhirl to install, this was impossible with Chrome OS. There seems to be no concept of minimizing your browser, much less letting it take up less than the entire screen."

He's trying to install desktop software and minimize the browser in a browser based OS. That he can't do what he wants is central to the entire strategy of the OS.
I am so tired of these lengthy nitpicking posts about why in his opinion iPhone is simply better than Android. Really, who cares? Both platforms are great and have their advantages and problems. The market is certainly large enough for a couple of players to compete and innovate.

I'd actually wish for one or two other, even more open platforms such as Meego to get some traction.
Carmack doesn't seem too keen on Android:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/11/post-8.ars/
The best thing you'll read all day
MSFT will actually send a rejection letter. It's predictably dull.