skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been wondering for some time why Netflix streaming is such a better deal than the cable company's on demand, Blockbuster online, Amazon Unbox, and so on. Now this makes much more sense. So far the best thing I've found about Netflix has been its amazing catalog of older classics, and I hope they can keep that without raising prices too much.

Also, at least for me, their streaming is better quality than the DVDs, even in resolution, if not for the lack of scratches and skipping alone.
I've seen some semi-trucks that have something like this (except it was simpler in that it was a straight light that would grow from the inside out), but do you really need them? If you just leave enough space in between you and the person in front you will never have a problem. Plus, it already is a pain to change out bulbs in some of these newer cars... I would hate for it to get harder (and more expensive).
Why does TechCrunch act as if the random penises are a problem for ChatRoulette?

That's what made the site super popular, got it referenced on mainstream television repeatedly, and made it ridiculously hysterical to use. I'm a straight guy and I don't like seeing naked men. But ChatRoulette in its prime was probably the funniest experience I've ever had on the internet because of the element of surprise.

TechCrunch shouldn't act as if ChatRoulette making itself a family friendly site was their number one priority.
For a smaller company, divying it up per month can help with cash flow.
Perhaps Anonymous should submit this essay to Anonymous's ninth-grade English teachers; I see that he and she are successfully writing at up to an eleventh-grade level now, in addition to demonstrating considerable mastery of last week's American History syllabus.
The hard part lately (last couple years) seems to be that when you have business traction it's still slow to get capital to expand. Can't get it from a bank. Getting from a VC is slow. Getting from angels works if you need $100k but not if you need $800k, and angels are ironically more likely to give you money if you have no revenue but a promising idea (since if you are actually headed up the hockey stick, your valuation is higher than they want.)

I've encountered a handful of companies that (claim to) have multi million dollar contracts on the table that they need $500k-$1m to execute on and can throw that off in the first year's profit. I'm intensely surprised there isn't more of a factoring type solution that provides asset-backed contract-backed warrant-sweetened lending at credit card like rates. Sort of an alternative asset class to the Series A/B raises.

In fact, if anyone out there wants to put $3-5M to work that way I bet I can matchmake you with five companies in a month.

(Revenueloan and On Deck Capital are the right ballpark, but don't count. Revenueloan only wants to talk to you when you already have three big deals and want capital to spin up your fourth, and On Deck is looking to do loans an order of magnitude smaller.)
Lessons Learned from Shutting Down My Second Startup
Hopefully not LOC since it can be very easily abused.
The problem seems to be that you can't simply just go implement something independently and call it, say, "Dalvik", rather than Java, and avoid Oracle's lawyers, due to patents.
IMO, the government does a reasonable job balancing how well it protects information and the costs of that protection. The current strategy will lead to leaks, but so did paper documents. Millions of people work for the government and many of them are going to try to cause problems.

So, if you are going to equate a single low impact release with “sucking” the go for it. But, I would point out unlike banks which often lose large numbers of SSN’s the government keeps the hole list for everyone and that has not gotten out. And (as my original post pointed out) sometimes when dealing with hard problems mitigation really is the best you can hope for.
Just FYI, it's bandwidth, not bandwith.
I have this problem too -- with my project, the server right at once uses 100% CPU and memory increases dramatically. During this time, it stops responding to requests. Monit notices this and just restarts it. This happens for me roughly every half-an-hour under very high load.

I'm using JSON parsing but not much else. No dependencies / libraries at all. Are there any steps I can take to provide useful data? Would anyone like me to run it with --prof and hammer it with 'ab' for example?

Here's the code: http://github.com/gcr/goggles
> The point is not that 'the evil rich are against us,' the point is that they benefit exponentially from government protections compared to a normal person and should provide funds accordingly.

I think most people would agree with this, but let's remember that taxes are pretty much always based on percentages, which mean that they do scale. 30% of a billion isn't the same as 30% of 50k.

I think this seems to be too often forgotten in the "the wealthy don't pay more taxes than me!" argument.
I would suggest you hire a designer who can convey your message. I first went to the site, then left, then went back because of a comment. After reading the homepage content, then I thought "Clever and very useful, indeed.".
I like the part of the video at 0:30 where my arms would be completely worn out.
…but I fuck up a whole lot more than I get things right.
I like the quote from Boondock Saints. Makes them scary, like Rocco.
Although an update from somebody claiming to be part of AnonOps says no, they're not targeting Amazon yet.
The Sarah Palin thing was Yesterday.
Bah, it's an excuse to talk/teach about my favorite pastime, I'll take it! :)

But you're probably right about the trolling.
How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole
Dark Matter in Gold Mines
Touchscreen vending machines that guess your age and gender
FreeBingo
Definitely not, but on the other hand I don't think it causes too much harm either.
Ask HN: Difference between programmer, developer, and engineer?
Ask HN: Difference between programmer, developer, and engineer?
According to gdgt.com it's an Atom CPU, so x86
A war for the future of the Internet
Before today, certain accounts could go beyond the 15 minute limit (partner accounts, director accounts, things like that). Starting today, regular YouTube users who have been on the site for a while and haven't caused any copyright problems for YouTube can also go beyond that 15 minutes. Power to the people.
"The big danger is that America is provoked into bending or breaking its own rules, straining alliances, eroding credibility and—because it will not be able to muzzle WikiLeaks—ultimately seeming impotent. In recent years America has promoted the internet as a menace to foreign censorship. That sounds tinny now. So did its joy of hosting next year’s World Press Freedom Day this week. Chinese and Russian glee at American discomfort are a sure sign of such missteps."
I think Google fiber can answer the question of how elastic bandwidth demand is. If you give someone effectively unlimited bandwidth, how much will they actually use?
What a silly article - When it said how to get experience working with large datasets I was expecting it would explain more about storage/scalability/design/caching issues etc.
There are myriad ways to get (or generate) data to play with...
I've been using Terminus on emacs for awhile. Fantastic for programming.
Many crashes are caused by the lack of such lights. And if such a system can be implemented at low cost (which it is), then why not use it? A saved life is worth more that the implementation cost.

Maybe it can be at least partially be achieved with LED lights that last many years and don't break easily, if at all. Anyways I have the impression that the quality of light bulbs has increased a lot since the burst of the auto industry.
Fine about about this: instead of creating value he's extracting value.
I would say this is more naughty than dishonest. Definitely something I would use to answer the naughtiness question in the YC application.
... because it is hard to compete with strongly typed,
optimized in runtime code.
> Is it correct to describe these as LCD's with a Kindle-style e-ink screen sandwiched on top?

Not quite. E-ink is a different technology[0]; this really is a form of LCD [1], albeit one that has somewhat different reflective properties. That said, I've got an OLPC laptop and was stunned at how legible they were in full sunlight---very impressively different from your typical laptop screen. (E-ink is still better; it has much more of a "writing on paper" feel. But it's slower.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi, although it's clear that the parent already saw this
Launchbox Digital - RTP (North Carolina)

http://www.launchboxdigital.com/

Also, see http://blog.shedd.us/321987608/
This was figured out by FlyerTalk last year and worked for about 3 months before the Mint caught on and changed the terms of credit purchase to be a cash advance, which doesn't qualify for rewards and carries additional interest terms. That said, it was pretty clever and awesome while it worked.

WSJ article: "US Helps Frequent Fliers Make A Mint" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126014168569179245.html
Awesome, thanks for the further bit of information.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

--Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I've thought about something similar along the lines of a developer cooperative with incubator leanings. People could work on their own projects or together on joint-projects or on consulting projects. Non-technical abilities like branding, marketing, SEO, etc etc could be handled by folks willing to work with anyone in the co-op (in the same way that a large media company will share common skills across brands). Risk is reduced by providing an environment where people can share knowledge and skills. The big questions is how you share revenue and handle management.
I'd like to make a point here that Computer Science is not really a science. This is not an insult - I'm a computer scientist myself. Computer science derives from mathematics, which also is not a science. My premise here is that for something to be a science, it needs to be guided by the scientific method. Science generally deals with empirical observations and the change in the observation when one single controlled factor is changed.

Mathematics on the other hand already works in an idealized world where everything is logically connected to the base premises, and so experimentation is not required because we can formally prove things, which is strictly better than experimentation.
View as one page:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/sanford-lab-galler...
Anyone have any clue what those might be? Bundling agreements with PC manufacturers?
When I was in first year I went through my father's old university physics textbook and compared it to mine (we both studied engineering). His was a quarter of the physical area of mine, but covered essentially all the same topics. The writing of his was terse, clear and compact, whereas mine was generally verbose and meandering (though this is of course a subjective analysis). As far as I can tell in the 30 odd years between our university experiences the quality of textbooks has seriously declined.
Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts
Well, it wasn't written for you...

Probably a good example of how easy it is not to notice the use of jargon if you're familiar with it. I breezed right through the article and it didn't seem particularly technical at all.
That would make sense; it probably costs less to extend service around an existing hub than to start from scratch.
It was an awesome series... or is it :P
Google CR48 Netbook Booting/Use vids
Corrupt officials in the US government must be overjoyed at how this is playing out. What is on the news? Is it:

a) That US tax dollars paid for a US "security" company to throw a boy-rape for stoned Afghan police recruits,

b) The US Government is engaging in censorship

c) Wikileaks' personal army of hackers is stealing credit card information.

We have the most damning release of information ever, and yet the media is successfully portraying this as a hacker issue. And we're all fucking making it happen.
Show HN : small weekend project for your suggestions / criticism
Funny, a very similar idea was discussed here a couple of months ago, when jgrahamc mentioned it was idea 999 in one of his ideas notebooks: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/1000-bad-ideas.html

Here's the discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779339
App Store promo codes now work internationally
Thats ages ago for the minds of 4chan etc.
> ...unless you are Gene Simmons or Sarah Palin, both of whom Anonymous has DDoS'ed for saying things Anonymous did not like.

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

It's in the first page - you can't miss it.
Reddit Hotmail Dev Team Q&A (Live)
Another important one is this:

FOU: field-of-use restrictions (in the TCK license).

http://skife.org/java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.html

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5111
Ditto -- I'm Canadian, so I'm not holding out hope. I'd kill to get my hands on one of these to use as my daily beater at school.
There's a free plan built in (100MB every month for two years) but you do need to manually activate it.
Social Neutrality: Vegas and Faces
this is a small project, a kind of "post-it notes" for twitter. we tried to put some "polish" on its look and feel, but any suggestions to improve it, any criticism are welcome. Tx.
One thing that _why mentioned a few times is that textbooks should really be more like 80 pages, max. We don't need index sections or setup directions, those just get out of date quickly... present the information at a reasonably high level, then get out.
You can peel a bandaid off, but you can't drag it along the plane of your skin. Replace the bandaid with a rock flake, the skin with a cliff, and the adhesive with ... best not think about it.

In the jargon, "Pull down, not out!"

There's a mechanical advantage issue too. The article discusses camming devices, and those are designed to press the rock harder than they're loaded. Usually, the coefficient of friction between rock and aluminium is less than one. This design also allows the cam to hold in slots that get wider towards the surface.
I know where you are! Can you guess where I am?

* 1.5 blocks away from DIFFERENT delicious Indian food
* 2.5 blocks from Sprout
* 3.5 blocks from Venezuelan coffee
The only JSR that matter is JavaSE and I don't see it having technical problems.

I don't know what you mean by that. Just have a look at what JSRs JDK 7 consists of:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/

Now imagine some of Apaches representatives were spec leads on some JSRs. Thats a serious threat to a JSR then. Spec leads are not easy to find. Participators in a JSR can go with important knowledge on the topic, too.
Maybe it would be time to turn Nerd Communications back into Nerd Films. They could use the app to promote the comic. How ironic.
Pure CSS3 box-shadow page curl effect
16 year old Wikileaks supporter arrested for DDOS attacks on MasterCard and Visa
"Low Orbit Ion Cannon" - WikiLeaks supporters milk Twitter API in DDoS attacks
And this brings up a point overlooked in the article: it isn't about the time it takes to do things right, it's also about the time it takes to track down the problem when you inevitably (you ARE human after all) make a mistake. To me, that's the real value of GC, because memory allocation errors are tedious and time consuming to debug.

The author is confusing 'habitual' with 'easy', and the two concepts are very distinct. And even beyond that he undervalues the debug time saved with automated GC.
I’d argue this doesn’t count (or at least shouldn’t count) as freedom of speech. Because Freedom of Speech is an absolute value in that anyone should be able to express their opinions without being punished for it.

But the Wikileaks situation isn’t about opinion it’s about information. So the question is "Should distributing information also be considered Freedom of Speech"

If you include distributing information under the umbrella of Freedom of Speech then Freedom of Speech can’t be an absolute value. Ask yourself this hypothetical question: If someone got ahold of the United States nuclear launch codes would it be ok for them to distribute those codes freely on the Internet?

(for the case of the hypothetical assume it was a master code that couldn’t be changed)

I can’t imagine anyone saying that would be an acceptable way to act. Given that you have to admit that some form of censorship in regards to distributing information is a must. So the only way for Freedom of Speech to be an absolute value is if it only applies to expressions of opinion.

Hence this isn’t really a Freedom of Speech case.
Yup - I scanned the QR Code during the press conference and filled out the form on my phone. I didn't think I stood a chance of getting one, but Christmas came early today.

Nice machine.
You aren't a school and it's crazy to ask for an "educational discount"

That's the first that I have heard that it is crazy to negotiate. I have always though it was crazy to not negotiate. That is what sales is a negotiation. I understand that there is an amount of developers who do not like to negotiate. But that does not negate that for a good deal of business negotiation is business as usual.

Naturally, a retort would be that he doesn't think enough of his daughter's education to pay whatever it takes to get the tools to do so.

It's not a retort I would use or allow to come from my organization. Doing so could be seen a comment on ones character, an unnecessary one at that. I guess I see the world different from other developers. I see these kind of requests as the cost of doing business and they don't bother me. I also see the cost of reputation being valuable to me.
This seems cool. Do HNers use this?

The video says that if you send an email for future delivery, you don't have to actually be logged in at that time for it to send. How does this work? Do they log into your gmail account from their servers?
It's pretty ancient. It's older than vi, and vi is from the 70s.

Yes, there's been some development, but using Emacs on TOPS-10 or ITS is an awful lot like using it under Linux in 2010.
Yes, but all it means is part of SF is getting fiber. Could this just be a new line for added redundancy for their Stanford "beta" project?

I'm not sure what list of cities other people are referring to...in the PDFs? Or the fiberforcommunities.com list of cities that responded to the RFI?
They won't be shipping to the UK. Sorry.
Inequality: Norms, Skill Biased Technological Change and Adderall
Maybe something like a Shopify, although those are unsurprisingly starting to spring up left and right. I'm thinking more of something like building a nice, consistent cross-platform API for deals.

Unfortunately, sites like Groupon have draconian developer terms of service (http://www.groupon.com/pages/api-terms-of-use). Basically, what they're saying is that you can show Groupon deals to end-users, but you can't do anything else.
You don't have any company lawyers do you?

Most companies in the land of the lawyer don't even send rejection letters, just in case the candidate decides that it contains some grounds to sue you over.

It doesn't even have to be good grounds - they just need a sleazy enough lawyer. The more info you give them the more ammo they have.

Yes it sucks to simply not hear from a company, and it leads to negative recomendations about them to friends /colleagues /potential other recruits. You can still be friendly in the letter but I would be careful about telling someone why they aren't hired.
The forces involved are considerably more than body weight in a lead fall (potentially tens of feet before you're caught; at one point in the article they mention the possibility of a 70 foot fall). 10 kN (roughly equivalent to 1000kg static hanging load) is a typical rating for lead climbing protection gear, and the only reason the force is that low is because the rope stretches considerably, reducing the max force exerted at any given instance.
RE: #2, I'd like to draw a corollary with professional combat sports, be in boxing, MMA, or whatever. You will see some fighters that have rituals to pump them up to get in the ring/cage, while some of the champions you see are very relaxed. Have you checked out Manny Pacquiao walking to the ring in his boxing fights? He's smiling, happy as can be.

And I think this is the way with many of the "difficult" things in life. You are bound to find someone who just loves it. Take public speaking - lots of people are afraid of it, a few people just love it and thrive. Same with dating. Same with programming. These are all disciplines where a majority of the population finds angst in the undertaking, but a minority of the population just plain finds it fun.

The bottom line is that these are the kinds of people who are predisposed to these disciplines. So programmers, entrepreneurs, artists - these are largely people predisposed to enjoying the hugely uncertain endeavor of large code, starting a company, painting on a blank canvas
I know tons of companies that'd pay this much just for the versioning of local files. (non developers)
Google Chrome notebook unboxing photos and first impressions
Here is the receipt:
1. be awesome
2. start a company
3. make that company successful
4. morph the company to play these rules

And report back.
LOIC currently has a Trojan in it.

It doesn't, but some antivirus detect it as a trojan. The reason might be that they detect as a trojan anything than can be used for a denial of service attack, since a lot of trojans include DDOS capabilities.
HeyZap vs AirBnB: Two different approaches, Two unique success.
Nope:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/physician

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/physicist
Not just self-interested. I think such a battery would result in greater malaria eradication than direct efforts.
Yea. If you get the same program in two different languages, you would expect the faster language to win, it can do a more thorough search. I glanced at the results of the previous competition and the first page was drenched in C++. It is too bad that Clojure wasn't offered as a language in this competition, I remember hearing that it's performance is right up there with Java.

Maybe I should do a on the correlation between language speed and ranking next.