skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem to be hurting them that much, profits wise - and certainly not enough for them to attempt to do anything about it, apparently.

During the trial, I think they argued both of the above, amongst other things. However, I'm fairly sure that's water under the bridge at this point. I would assume it's just not judged cost effective to work on decade old junk, nor to give it credence or attention by doing so.
Second Dutch teenager arrested for WikiLeaks-related DDoS attacks
I just finished my internship for this semester. I had the opportunity to see how death cases are investigated.

One case in particular involved cell phone records. After transcribing all of the calls into a ordered list a clear pattern emerged. When a crime is about to be committed, phones ring off the hook. This was confirmed by a state agent later.

The idea that FaceBook can predict patterns in people's relationships with others is not all that surprising; especially since they have context. Language is a good predictor of many things. Check out 'Gender Genie', a free program to predict the sex of an author.

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
I would respectfully disagree. I believe that basically customers are cheap, and the lower the price needed to purchase, the cheaper customers will behave, resulting in a higher incidents of refund requests. Of course, I write this without having at my disposal neither any empirical evidence to back me up nor to the contrary of my position.
There is a (YC?) company that analyzes your GMail and tells you which of your friends you haven't been in touch with, in recent times. I'm forgetting the name right now. But we all know that Facebook has an edge over GMail in terms of personal data, and they can certainly do it.

Hmm. I can see an app waiting to be built there. :-)
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The Ones That Didn’t Make It: Windows’ Failed Rivals
Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 on November 20th, 1985. Twenty-five years and two days later, it’s not just hard to remember an era in which Windows wasn’t everywhere–it’s also easy to forget that it wasn’t a given that it would catch on, period.

The company had announced the software in November of 1983, before most PC users had ever seen a graphical user interface or touched the input device known as a mouse. But by the time Windows finally shipped two years later, after a series of embarrassing delays, it had seemingly blown whatever first-mover advantage it might have had. At least four other major DOS add-ons that let users run multiple programs in “windows” had already arrived.
I do the same, in addition I also use it to map caps lock to an unused key (F14 or something) and use it for changing input sources.
Two ideas:

1. put it on github, so people can continue developing it easily, under a free license, during your finals :)

2. Especially in back-and-forth comment threads, it would be useful to know who is replying to whom, or to be more exact: whether the same people are in a conversion or whether someone new joins in. I would suggest running a hash over the username + story_id and putting a colored box or shapes in place of the username. That way, a username is reasonably recognizable within a story, but not across stories, and you can identify participants in a discussion at a glance.
Thoughts: Would RIM do better to focus on the youth market?
The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History
It’s not love, war, or baseball. But over the years some memorable things have been said about technology. Some have been memorably eloquent; others are unforgettably shortsighted, wrongheaded, or just plain weird. Let’s celebrate them, shall we?

A few ground rules for the list that follows: I considered only statements attributable to a specific individual, which ruled out most ad slogans (“Think Different”) and many durable Internet memes (“You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike”). I did, however, include individuals who happened to be fictional, or canine, or inanimate. I also let a couple of quotes slip in that are not strictly speaking about technology, though neither would exist without it–one from 1876, and one from earlier this decade. Sue me.

It’s hard to rank quotes by how notable they are. So I faked it by listing them using an imprecise, unscientific factor I call Googleosity: the number of results Google reports that reference (or riff upon) each quote. (You may quibble with the queries I performed to determine Googleosity, but I tried my best.) Googleosity tends to reward quotes that are not only famous but fun–they’re the ones that people like to allude to, to parody, and to generally weave into blog posts and other online conversation.

We’ll start with the quote with the lowest Googleosity factor, and work our way up from there.
If you're not on chrome it doesn't give you any sort of download link, so you can't even look at it.
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Interesting site about AppleTV
I think it's just very, very slow to load. It loaded for me about 30 minutes ago, shortly before your comment.
Can I have multiple Git repos from a single project folder?
I have a project that I want to maintain in Git. It is a web-project that I develop in Eclipse. Essentially, there are two components:

1) the main service engine (i.e. the Java code)
2) the web-files (i.e. the HTML, JSP, CSS, and JS files).

I'd like to maintain this all with Git but I'd like to have distinct repos for each component of the site. So, is there a way to have multiple repos from this single project folder? More specifically, is it possible to have multiple files from a single folder belong to different repos?
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I have a gripe against Twilio. Aside from their China service sucking, they keep sending me newsletters or emails that are tailored to look like they're personally written to me. The subject looks like "RE: Twilio's Developer Community" and then the text preview in gmail looks something like "Hi Joe, I wanted to drop..."

Effective at getting me to open the email, but I always feel deceived when I open it up to see the cookie-cutter mail that they've sent me.
No, direction does matter. Perhaps we're confusing things by talking about escape velocity instead of orbital velocity. We want to reach a certain orbital velocity with respect to the Earth as a reference.

Think of it this way: if you were approaching Earth from space and wanted to enter orbit with the ISS, you need to reach a speed, e.g. 17,600. The speed is the same no matter where you are coming from, such as from the Earth's surface.

On the equator, if you take off east, you already have about 1,000 mph working with you. If you take off west, you need to get an extra 1,000 mph. Towards the poles, the (dis)advantage lessens.
I am since seven years in one country,China, and the rest of my life will not be enough to know it. I don't think you can say you know a country if you didn't speak to its citizen in their language, for example.
Lol, I thought my gf's concern and this thread were different. I can close this thread if you insist?
"Very Low Cost" is my guess. Maybe it's the Apple IIc, which was released in 1984 for $1295.
In the spirit of Tim Ferriss, outsource the purchase and reading of the book to someone else.
You could also make the argument that older languages are discussed on sites other than StackOverflow (ie, Google Groups, direct forums, etc). I get the impression it all washes out in the end.
I wonder about the legality of such licenses.
The title should really include "on Github". If you included GNU projects and BSD and so on, you'd get a lot more C, for example.
Those counts actually includes hits by the spiders, too.
Who would read it?

Does anyone read user manuals any more?
A six year kid can not learn on his own and also most 20 years simply feel difficult to learn on thier own.
If you have these components in separate folders within the main project folder simple create a git repo within each folder.

$cd engine
$git init .
$cd ../web-files
$git init .

If you have one folder within the other, you can do the same but use .gitignore
The Day MAME Saved My Ass
Just did it and the call went like this:

Me: I'd like to confirm the address of a package being sent to me.

Agent: Is it the package ending in the code XXXX?

Me: Yes

Agent: What is the address?

Me: The address is XXX XXXXX.

Agent: No, the address listed is YYY YYYYY.

Me: Thanks.

Beyond being disappointed it wasn't my address I have to say I was a bit surprised they let the address out that easily. She could have easily just said that was not the address it was shipped to.
I noticed it jittered like hell on my phone, while viewing it on my laptop it still jitters, but only slightly. Might be rendering issues due to high resolution video being decoded ?
Great headline based on a simulation. Says so in the second sentence of the abstract. Is it hard to do a test using real machines? What's stopping them?
same here.

Me: I want to verify the address.

Agent: One moment... The address is xyz.

Lol!
That sounds amazing.

Side note as someone who grew up in Toronto and lived in the downtown core for several years: A studio would go for under $1200/mo. You can get a pretty swanky 1bdrm for under $1400/mo. Though I have no doubt one could also find an apartment for much more than $2100/mo, too.

I did a quick search for monthly boat fees to park them in the marina, looks like it's around $20.25/ft/mo [1]. Any idea which marina your friend uses?

[1] http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/thewaterfront/marine/rates...
Coming from the desert, I feel the opposite.
You're right. So it's good to discuss this kind of thing with a few alpha-geeks, who will give both sides of the story a proper thrashing. Forcefully considering both sides of the arguement, and only adopting your preferred side if it wins by a wide margin, is kinda the scientific method.

Besides, argueing is fun if you're an alpha-geek.

Paul Graham has points I agree with. He has points I disagree with.

Tim Ferris has 3 good points - automate stuff, get into business, and sieze every oppertunity. He also has a big mass of platitudes. The problem is, he makes it sound as if his points are the only ones that matter. There are lots of other important rules that you have to follow in most businesses.
if you want the files interleaved in the same folder hierarchy (ie. not separated into engine and web-files as @shorbaji suggests) to my knowledge there is no way to do this. I doubt any folder based version control system will allow you to do that. You would have to use something like RCS :shudder:

If you are considering such a structure, ask your self: why? This is not a common structure (thus the lack of tool support), but your problem is common.

If you want to separate your files into two subdirectories as suggested, I recommend using a top level git repo to track all of it, and using git submodule for your engine:

projects
| engine # directory containing you engine code
| .git
| files...
| MyProject
| .git
| .gitmodules
| engine # a clone of your engine repository above
| ...
| the rest of your files ...

If you don't know how git submodule works, read the man pages.
I believe he was talking about this for example:
http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=690
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It's well worth following John Carmack (of Doom/Quake fame, for those who don't know). The guy is insightful and his projects are interesting to read about. Also, he doesn't spam your feed, which is always nice.
Yet another propaganda war lost...
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Hmm. Their free usage tier might be interesting as well, for a year at least. But you have to take bandwidth usage into account, other VPS providers seem to give much more bang for the buck there.
Why should the company that makes these machines allow access to them?
In my opinion, RIM's problem is that they feel like they defined what it was to be a smartphone. Now that they are no longer king of the hill, they are trying to replicate the current definition of a smart phone. Like the author alluded to, what they should be doing is re-defining a new space for themselves. RIM's never going to make the best iPhone. They need to go back to making the best Blackberry, whatever that is.
Sadly no international shipments. Yet?

Anybody from outside the US got a CR-48?
I think you might be confusing long-lived with timeless. The cathedrals are old... Almost no one builds "cathedral styled buildings," therefore the style is not timeless.

You're thinking too close to the object. That's precisely what makes Dieter Rams products so good. The design and the objects are seamless.
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Twilio always seems like a hack to me. Once VoiceXML/CCML was hot market with many startups competing, with biggest exit being Tellme acquired by Microsoft for $800M (same people who founded Zappos).

So what's new Twilio can offer here? I have no idea why USV invested in them...
Shouldn't the airports or governments (or whoever is paying for these) test them properly?
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We use Twilio, and I hadn't heard of Tropo.

FWIW we're not totally over the moon with Twilio, and I've since discovered freeswitch, which is much more developer friendly and scalable than asterisk.

It's all but persuaded me to roll our own telco connectivity.
Some suggestions:

1. Go to events that thematically match your interests. If you're an university student, that probably will be attending student conference or science fair. You'll definitely find people like yourself there. It helps if you participate and show your work to others. I met a number of smart people this way.
2. Considering getting in some research group. Not only you will find people to talk to, but also it will help you grow professionally.
Tell me about it. I have to fight the urge to make snarky comments, given how ridiculous some of the comments here are. Amazed that people like to play games? Oh wow, god forbid people don't want to work or be productive 24/7...
That's true if their main concern is security, as opposed to security theatre.
They never end up at -10 because HN is implemented that way. If the score is lower than -4 it displays -4, but the real score could be lower.
You're correct.
VLC was one of many codenames for the Apple IIc, source:
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Earplugs.
SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
I kind of agree. Although I think the underlying assumption is that it's an infrastructure as a service play, and so Twilio et al are creating value. Obviously their target market is the web app developer crowd.

To do it yourself you need to line up your outbound SIP providers, inbound DID providers (not one and the same once you dig into the details), then you need to operate a bunch of Freeswitch / Asterisk / whatever SIP servers, and learn how to program them, and learn how keep them running smooth (Not particularly difficult, but in terms of learning requirements - it's akin to meeting a database + web server for the first time).

Due to the real-time nature of telcos (and I mean that in the traditional clock-synch'd sense of the word) there are additional complications if you want to use a virtualised OS.
You got me a lot more curious about Go than I already was.
Several things that jump out at me..

The repetitive emphasis on MacBasic (which never really shipped from Apple, but did from Microsoft)

No mention what so ever of the internet (which was very nascent and pretty much non-existent in 1981). I doubt they saw it coming.

Brief mention of RS-232 Mac Net (which became AppleBus, then AppleTalk and LocalTalk on RS-422)

Mac screen size resolution was smaller than what finally shipped.

They had not yet made the leap to the 3.5" floppy (other than possibly on the Lisa)

Retail Outlets and Direct Sponsors ... They wanted to encourage sales via Fuller Brush ? I remember when the iMac G3 was briefly sold via Sears, with modest (at best) results.
I can confirm the experience of others in that I have no particular problem listening to music while coding, but music with distinguishable lyrics is more disruptive to concentration.
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Kin Studio: The Only Compelling Thing About The Kin Is Being Discontinued
Those of you who bought a Kin (all 500 of you) probably liked the Kin Studio. It was likely one of the biggest reasons you bought the phone in the first place, having social networks and life-streaming apps from the cloud in your hands.
My more pragmatic reasons for choosing Tropi over Twilio:

1. having the voice scripts written in Ruby and hosted by Tropo was easier than building a web service to control every mundane aspect

2. Tropo would supply non-U.S. numbers if I needed them

3. Tropo made it easy to do the voice recording and POST it as an MP3

4. Tropo worked out cheaper for my little test service

Some or all of these may now have changed but i'd still give Tropo first choice in any future projects
What’s your idea of the future of web design?
What’s this jQuery? Where it came from?
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The methodology is described but not the questions. If you asked "does disclosing classified documents harm national security?" most people would probably agree. If you asked "Do you have a right to know what your government is doing on your behalf with your taxes?" I expect that most people would also agree.

This is the trouble with these sorts of survey, because by tailoring your questions you can obtain pretty much any result you want.
I bet in 1997 people were asking the same about Apple.
Ask HN: Has anyone received a Wakemate yet?
I couldn't sleep the other night and I remembered that I'd pre-ordered it about a year ago... Has anyone got one yet from HN and what are your thoughts?
This is an incredible example of the 'zombie code' problem. You lose the source to something and are somehow expected to maintain it anyway.

Years ago at a previous employer, we had an old xenix system that ran a library book lending system. The company that maintained it had gone bust long ago and noone knew how to migrate the data, in fact noone really knew xenix either. I ended up (as the Linux and y2k guy) working with one of the smartest guys I've ever met to hunt the data down. In the process I learnt xenix and Geoff learnt xenix x86 assembly. Geoff patched the library system to start dumping out csvs. Then he patched an import function, then an extra field to indicate the year starting with 19 or 20 (to solve the y2k problem all we had to do was shutdown for Christmas, bring the box up in January, set the date to 1900 and we'd be fine. It didn't quite turn out that way but that was another story) and after a significant post y2k problem Geoff took over maintaining a defunct piece of software on a defunct platform, for 3 years. The library didn't migrate because they didn't need to, as long as they had Geoff. After I left, Geoff took over xenix admin (to be fair, not a lot to do) and a few years later fell very ill. While the library thought they'd saved money, ultimately they trapped themselves in an expert system that could only prolong the inevitable disaster on the horizon.
I think that, as with any big change, if people will go ahead and start adapting voluntarily it doesn't necessarily have to be some huge crisis. Some do-able means to adapt: live closer to work, shop closer to home, walk more, car-pool, etc. Some companies are actively trying to encourage more car-pooling, living within walking distance of work, telework, etc. It looks to me like a drop in the bucket compared to what will be needed but I'm still glad to see it. The real challenge is trying to make sure such things don't wind up being "a day late and a dollar short".
I really like this. I'm already reading the content of posts more (as that's all there is) as opposed to involuntarily being swayed by extreme points and high profile user names. I'm not sure I'll use it all the time but it has already had a beneficial affect on how I interact with HN.
There are some valid points but it exasperates that there is no way out. There is: simply not use Facebook, or if you use it, use it carefully.

There is a reason I do not link my Facebook account from my professional website and/or Linked-in account. And there is a reason I simply not use Facebook to share my private life with anybody.

The thing is that I have a private life which I don't want the whole internet to know about, sure I may want to share something with my real friends but I'm so old fashion that I prefer talking about it in a pub...

In the end I think people will learn not to be careless.
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"Fortunately, [...] a SpyHunter fan [...] had extracted the sound effects himself and put up WAV files on his web page."

"I wanted to give the guy a game credit [...]. The publisher refused....their legal team were already writing up a cease-and-desist letter ordering him to remove the assets from his fan page."

Guy saves the day and instead of a cookie he gets a CnD letter. Do things really have to work this way?

"But you have to defend your trademarks or they become worthless!" Right, because the publisher would have been so much better off if those WAVs wouldn't have been out on the Internet in the first place.
Good. They've stopped the paypal for my business in its tracks. Show them that there are consequences for their actions.
This article seems more about industrial design of objects designed to be used than about the architecture of buildings designed primarily to impress. That said, there's indeed a use for the second kind of design.
In the last year I have seen a lot of new BlackBerry users in London. However, the majority of these have been teenagers on the bus using some entry level model, which is available on pay-as-you-go, or with a very cheap contract. I get the impression this was not their first choice of phone, and I think this (anecdotal evidence) matches the author's analysis.

All the older BlackBerry users I know have switched to iPhone/Android, and at most carry their BB as a secondary, mandated work phone. One friend complained that "it's like they took an old desktop pc and just decided to shrink all the icons".

I hope RIM can pull it together but it doesn't sound too healthy.
They aren't even produced yet: http://blog.wakemate.com/

And I'll only believe that they are shipped and work roughly as advertised when I read reports from people who got one, if ever. The WakeMate team has done a terrible job at estimation and at communication.
Project: Segfault
Do you also use real world applications for benchmarking? Or is that too difficult (too big)?