skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually don't like these "look at my awesome new design for your already successful website" posts, but this one is an exception.

This design makes what I would say are clear improvements, and doesn't try to throw out the design wholesale. This design makes just a few improvements - better use of white space, easier to read text, and I happen to think the header is better too. This pleases the part of my brain that knows how to lay out broadsheet newspapers.

Bravo, looks good! I also think the arrows should be bigger.
Is there a business opportunity here? Backup all your crap around the web and then allow you to reupload it to another service with one click?

EDIT: My point was more to pull in all data flickr, linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, hacker news, reddit, digg etc. Not just a single source, but all your web data and then upload it a new site if it is applicable. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to upload your hacker news data somewhere else, but it might make sense to go back and pull out something for use elsewhere.
How does it follow that questionable patents derived by making small changes to existing drugs leads to drugs that have no effect? I think that's begging the question.
Two mathematicians were having dinner in a restaurant, arguing about the average mathematical knowledge of the American public. One mathematician claimed that this average was woefully inadequate, the other maintained that it was surprisingly high.

"I'll tell you what," said the cynic, "ask that waitress a simple math question. If she gets it right, I'll pick up dinner. If not, you do." He then excused himself to visit the men's room, and the other called the waitress over.

"When my friend comes back," he told her, "I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to respond `one third x cubed.' There's twenty bucks in it for you." She agreed.

The cynic returned from the bathroom and called the waitress over. "The food was wonderful, thank you," the mathematician started. "Incidentally, do you know what the integral of x squared is?"

The waitress looked pensive; almost pained. She looked around the room, at her feet, made gurgling noises, and finally said, "Um, one third x cubed?"

So the cynic paid the check. The waitress wheeled around, walked a few paces away, looked back at the two men, and muttered under her breath, "...plus a constant."

—http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/old90/constant.html
DeCSS is too big for your arm. You're thinking of RSA http://www.geekytattoos.com/illegal-tattoos-rsa-tattoos/
The library itself is nice, but I feel the need to ask - why the hell does this have a jQuery dependency? jQuery exists primarily to plug the holes/inefficiencies in older browsers, but this thing isn't guaranteed to work in older browsers due to its reliance on web workers in the first place.

There's nothing wrong with standard Javascript provided the environment is sane.
Thats not the full story though. The article mentions that the manufacturers were aware of the fact that it was ineffective on humans and hid that data. Discrepancy in animal and human efficacy isnt new by any means, thats why drugs go through a protracted human tests.
A firmware upgrade could conceivably allow iOS devices to play back WebM in 'hardware' just as they currently play back h.264 in 'hardware'.
Pro users want access to a social network that has gotten huge because it's free. The pro users are nervous because free=fragile.

This brings to mind Fred Wilson's recent call for content shifting tools (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/01/content-shifting.html, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085455).
Questions I don't see being asked:

* Can/should we be testing anti-depressants on animals at all?

* Is it possible that depression in animals is different than depression in humans? (i.e. animal tests are useless)

* Is it possible that lab conditions affect the psychology of the animal? (i.e. who won't be depressed spending your life in a cage, especially for larger animals like chimps, but also for social animals like rats which are undoubtedly caged individually)

Some of these are fundamental questions that call into question the validity of any tests, yet it seems like the community in question is more concerned with 'finding the right tests' within a framework that they assume to be correct.
When your income decreases, you buy less stuff. It's a lesson the government has never learned. I'm perfectly happy with fewer services.
T-Mobile backs down on mobile broadband cap
The English couldn't build a good computer because they couldn't figure out how to make it leak oil.
He was a guest lecturer for one of my classes a few years back and talked about all the stuff he went through to keep up the Scientology documents. Pretty ridiculous all in all-I must say I almost certainly wouldn't be willing to deal with all the bs he went through. Glad someone was willing though.
That's the fast way to ruin your batteries. Don't do it.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Battery_memor...
Either there's some really whacked out sample bias here or Google is most definitely the better choice.. >= 20 hours indexing differential.

http://searchyc.com/mongodb?sort=by_date

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mongodb+%2B+site:news....
Probably not. Smugmug will probably be the biggest beneficiary if the pros leave Flickr, and there are already tools for that. For example: http://www.smugglr.net/
I think you got me wrong. I didnt say that questionable patents lead to drugs that have no effect. Infact if you read it again you will find that I explicitly pointed to that possible misinterpretation.

My point was that in an environment where it is possible to extend the duration of a patent by adding modifications to the parent molecule that are known to have no benefit, it does not surprise me that a marketed drug has no benefit either. My point was about my lack of surprise, not a cause and effect relation.
Flagged for obvious advice written poorly and substantiated by nothing. ("SEO, Search Engine Optimization, can influence sales as much as 3-7%." boggles)
This is already possible with Flickr photos, thanks to flickrtouchr and Dropbox:

git clone https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr.git
cd flickrtouchr
python flickrtouchr.py ~/Dropbox/myphotos
Ironically, Adobe used to be the biggest supporter of SVG... before they purchased Flash. Their svg renderer was by far the best in the field at the time, and supported lots of wonderful features, including great ECMAscript (Javascript), had the ability to build AJAX-like interactions using remote requests, and was fundamentally awesome.

It never made it out of beta and got killed when Flash became Adobe's new sweetheart. Very sad.
Just use Flickr with the presumption that the service is transitory, and will eventually go out out of business - hopefully with advance notice, but possibly not. Treat services like flickr, myspace, facebook as useful, but not guaranteed, CDNs for sharing your images with your social network. But transitory - their is every possibility they will decline and disappear.

All the Flickr Pro users I know have a pretty well defined image-workflow, typically with Aperture or Lightroom, and flickr is just one (albeit important) branch of that workflow.

In general:

o Keep a local backup. (Time Machine, etc..)
o Every so often, mirror that backup and take it off
site. (Just sync your local backup to an external hard
drive)
o Keep a real-time cloud backup (ala Backblaze and friends)

Keeping copies of your images is straightforward - the real challenge is managing that social network and backing it up - that's challenging.
Just because they use small caps in the title of the paper does not mean you need to make the title all caps here...
Sigh. 12 comments so far and only 2 or 3 are not jokes?
Where/how?

Please? :)
Even when you're paying them for the service?

"Sorry. We know that you were paying us monthly/yearly for the service, but you've been inactive for too long. We're going to deactivate your account"

That doesn't seem right to me.
My point with language was it's simply an obvious one. There are a great many traits from our parents that affect us strongly on a subconscious level.

Besides, saying "yeah, we have parents, but we all end up the same regardless" is a total cop-out when you turn around and say "yeah, we have genes, but they count for a wild fluctuation of 50% - far more important in the development than any other factor". Which is odd. We all have eyes. Arms. Legs. Lungs. Run, walk, cry, think, breathe, eat, excrete, suffer cold and hot. If you're trying to paint this theoretical 100% influence total as "that which makes us individual from each other", then it's farcical to say "parents don't count because we all end up with the basics" but somehow genes get special treatment. The fact that some of us have red hair and some don't doesn't count for 50% of our individuality.

If such minor differences between people really counted for 50% of our differentiation, then there'd be far more homogeneity in personality for people of average height, average build, and average attractiveness. Those numbers are simply plucked from the air.
Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?

Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
When I was a kid, this happened around my hometown, except instead of a nutjob in his house, it was the Russians in a spy ship. Seriously. There was a diplomatic incident but nothing came of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca_laser_in...
Let epsilon be less than zero.
While we're on the subject of classic physics jokes, I give you the subtle opening of David Goodstein's States of Matter:

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
CMU's lawyers most certainly had to vet this before it went up publicly

I doubt that. Academics are used to operating with autonomy, and by nature don't confer with lawyers before speaking. So I'm curious why you're so certain he presented this to the lawyers first.
The results in BackTweets haven't actually changed, we're just showing an upgrade button above them. What was free continues to be free.
I got the impression that the scientifically-relevant (e.g. non-ethical) questions you list would be asked. Having said that, the community should be more concerned with 'finding the right tests' - our "safe" method of testing drugs we suspect are okay is animal testing (whether that is ethically right or wrong), and animals are probably easier to test objectively in this situation, as well as possibly immune to the placebo effect.
Overall, I really dig it - good work! But why did you use 'Menlo' for the headline? It seems a bit out of place. I'm assuming you were going for a "monospace hacker" look, but it just ends up clashing with the Helvetica in an uncanny-valley sort of way. (http://www.noupe.com/design/mixing-multiple-fonts.html see rule 4)

Try it with a bold/heavy/black version of Helvetica, like the "Comfy Helvetica" header you have on your page! I just tried it and I like it much better now.
You could save us a lot of time by just putting a "NO" next to the "legitimate business" question. To be fair, though, your humor is very much enjoyed.
Jokes are better than your lack of contribution.
Yes. Consider calling p with n=1. Then it takes one call. Now call it with n=2. It gets called twice with n=1, and you need to do the multiply. Thus T(2)=2 calls + 1 multiply.

Now call it with n=4. Time taken is 2T(2) plus a multiply. Hence T(4)=2(2c+m)+m=4c+3m.

Inductively we can prove that T(n)=n * c + m, where c is the time of a call, and m is the time of a multiply, and I'm ignoring small details.

If you save the result of a call and reuse it then you get a different result, of course, and if you really want to learn how this works then you should try to figure it out.
Sorry, it was posted before I actually finished due to a communication error. I tried to fix some of the problems & I apologize.
I can live with 20 hours typically when the results are presented better.
Well all they did is discard all the results that showed it didn't work in order to make billions in profit while causing life threatening side effects. No harm, no foul.

Not as bad as that guy Wakefield, who mentioned that one of the patients had an odd formed head, but didn't make enough of a deal about it.
You could run into problems but one option to deal with this is to "scale out" to a larger number of machines and shard the data onto each separate machine (with their own RAM) as appose to one or two high RAM machines.
AIM is godDLL, email is yCherkashin on gmail.
What does this have to do with the first amendment? The first amendment prohibits the US government from making certain laws. "Freedom of speech" is freedom from government restrictions on speech, not from any actions of private businesses or individuals.
I'm not clear on how this adds anything that you wouldn't get in the web server layer (e.g. mod_access) or by using a firewall.
Living in NYC and traveling almost exclusively by subway makes me appreciate my local storage. In time there will be wireless underground, but for now, it's necessary to store music and podcasts on local storage. The AT&T 2 GB limit per month also encourages the need for local storage.
What the heck is Goodwill going to do with it? They'll have to pay a disposal fee to get rid of the thing.
http://www.backupify.com/
How about any internship? You work for free in exchange for the opportunity to learn something and broaden your skills and experience.
As usual Tom's provides good researched articles. This one is no different. Good read!
What should a reasonable person believe about the Singularity?
As soon as Sony files a lawsuit they bring the government (and therefore the first amendment) into the picture.
Private individuals and businesses cannot do anything to prevent free speech. At best, they can petition the government to do so on their behalf. Hence the first amendment issue.
What a great site design which incorporates the library itself. It took me a second to realize that the graph was the site navigation, and it kind of caught me off guard. In a good way.
It's a very impressive growth spurt, though I wish they could scale the site accordingly.

They've done well considering the massive amount of traffic and the complex way they are constantly adding comments, but the site is slow as sin and, honestly, quite unpleasant to browse sometimes.

I don't want to be reminded of refreshing a page on dial-up.
About design, I have only 1 thing to say.

Use gradients or don't use gradients, PICK ONE. If you use gradients, then all (or most of) your elements need gradients. I recommend removing gradients, as sometimes gradients are hard to make work.
Thanks for this! Nice to see some more PHP utilities, especially for those of us still stuck supporting/developing in it due to company policies or hosting environment restrictions. I forget how spoiled I am with Python/Ruby OSS contributions when I drop back down to PHP for something.
It's worked out alright for 37signals.
Researchers store a qubit in a centimeter-long crystal
Ask HN:On Hackers and Aesthetics
How useful is a knowledge of Design (Aesthetics) for a Software Engineer? Both as a Startup Founder and as part of larger firms?
It is common knowledge at my university that people in engineering fields who lack communicative skills and/or design skills are at a disadvantage, how correct is this statement in your experience?
You're a "huge Kurzweil critic" one reply back, now you're railing against the sins of his "naysayers"?
Thanks, I really appreciate it. Others have said nice and useful things as well, including the thing about the voting arrows being hard to hit http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098502
There's always this:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

You'll get daily updates - but it'll /nag/ you until you do :)
> but I'm an engineer so change is tough.

Why the correlation?
I'm under the impression that questions like: "Is it possible that lab conditions affect the psychology of the animal?" aren't asked because:

* No one wants to know the answer if it means that we no longer have a test framework to experiment within. If tomorrow we found out that we couldn't use animals as test subjects because the validity of any such experiments was suspect, then how would 'we' generate grant money?

* Hand-wavy answers like, "It's impossible to know, so we'll just assume that the answer is no."
Let's elevate this conversation beyond the usual conventional wisdom and rhetoric: Flash is not "demonstrably, prima facie" closed. Really, `tptacek`, it takes almost no independent search to come to a murkier conclusion.

Interestingly, while the Flash IDE is most definitely closed, the SWF file format and the tools to create SWFs... it's not so cut and dry.
Here's the (Flash 10 SWF Spec)[http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/pdf/swf...]

There's probably a bunch of stuff left out that'd make implementation difficult, but that hasn't stopped:

(GORDON)[https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon] -- an open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript . It only supports up to Flash v. 2; almost useless, but interesting.

Here's the (Flex SDK)[http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK] which includes the Flex framework, and a partially open source SWF compiler.

Apparently, Flex compiler isn't totally open source because of patents concerning audio and video codecs (I'm recalling this off the top of my head; please verify).

Here's (Tamarin)[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/]. It's a VM for EcmaScript. It's been rolled into SpiderMonkey, the JS engine for FireFox, I think. It includes support for packages, namespaces, classes, and optional strict typing of variables. Really useful stuff for interactive devs that, unfortunately, hasn't been widely adopted.

Adobe contributes to WebKit on behalf of Flash & Air; I don't know what their contributions have been/how useful they are, though.

I'm a professional interactive dev, and I specialize in Flash, so you might conclude that I'd be biased, and I wouldn't blame you at all. However, as a Flash dev, I'm familiar with the non-marketed vectors of the Flash environment. Take that as you will.

We're geeks: let's all invest a little time to investigate the rhetoric.
If you really don't like Flash, pick another reason: there are many ;)
It wasn't a particular problem with Westwood games, although it was when we got another player involved. I was thinking more of Age of Empires when actually saying that, I remember getting a 3-way going using a single disc.

We managed a 7-player at school, but that was using 2 discs.
"... Smugmug will probably be the biggest beneficiary if the pros leave Flickr, and there are already tools for that. ..."

That is my strategy.

When I hit 10K images I mirrored at smugmug. But the transition is not smooth. There is a flickr/smugmug mismatch of how they store data. For instance smugmug has (to my knowledge) title but no body equivalent of flickr the result is you loose data. The transfer tools are also pretty basic.
One myth left: can I just use a mirror to reflect the high power laser at the gun that fired it to destroy it?
Wow! I just devoured 3 of these - they are excellent! In the spirit of Jessica Livingston's _Founders at Work_ and Andrew Warner's Mixergy.

Thank you, Gabriel, for this great work. Who knows what impact these may have on our community? You are a mensch.
Fellow HNer mmaunder has got a point here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419536
I like how every branch from "Is it for a legit business" ends with "NO".

Could have just short-circuited all the decision nodes after that, though that might have been less entertaining.
I _so_ loved having many different ways to end up a no for the 'legitimate business' track. It really drove home the 'No'. And you get multiple objections covered ("but its a startup...") And you get get separate reasons for the 'No' based on the tree too.
I've recently used Load Impact as a load testing service. It allows for a reasonable range of testing for a low cost. Haven't tried any other services so I can't compare, but it works well enough.
'Phone Call reminders are more useful than SMS reminders'

Change this to: 'Sometimes phone call reminders work better than SMS reminders. (e.g. Grandparents who don't text)'

I can't say I would use something like this right now, but it looks useful.
I personally am happy to have a bit of humor. I hated the time humor was not an option here.
I've been looking for something like this, major thanks!
Without more detailed analysis of the tech and patents involved, this is FUD. Merely noting that it "resembles H.264 in a lot of ways" doesn't mean that it violates (or is even just somewhat likely to violate) any patents.

"Star Wars" resembles "Lord of the Rings" in a lot of ways, but I don't think the Tolkien estate has sued over the hero's journey archetype yet.
It is a handwriting recognition library. How many apps use handwriting recognition, not many that I can think of. It seems like it may pickup with the uptake of touch screen phones and tablets.
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Just throwing my two cents here: I think it is more useful for the startup founder role, because some knowledge of design lets you better decide which designer to hire, and also, in the beginning, you will probably be doing a lot of the design decisions yourself. For working in a larger company -- I doubt it would be as useful. I would recommend learning some regardless; knowledge is power as someone said.
What crazy world are you from where a coding internship is unpaid?
Nice. I've added this for the comment reply pages:

td[bgcolor="#FF6600"] {
background:white!important;
}
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/NEWS <-- list of changes in the current development version i.e. GIMP 2.7.1
$ find emacs-23.2/ -name \*.c | xargs cat | wc -l
339497
$ find emacs-23.2/ -name \*.el | xargs cat | wc -l
1391690

Seeing that about 80% of Emacs code is Lisp, not to mention the countless extensions that don't ship with Emacs, and much of the C code is geared towards being called from Lisp, suggesting to replace Emacs Lisp by Perl is essentially suggesting to rewrite Emacs from scratch.
Zimmer's list of words banned from science writing
So you've never heard of an NDA? What about the TOS that prohibits you from writing hate speech on Facebook, or posting porn to YouTube?

You can contract away your right to speech as easily as anything else. This has nothing to do with the first amendment.
My pleasure.

What I meant about people reviewing ideas is this: what incentive do people have to come to the site to review ideas? I see the incentive for the entrepreneur: see what others have to say about your idea and figure out what potential users think. But what reason do random people have to come to a site to review other people's startup ideas? Are you thinking that the people who post their ideas will take the time to review other people's ideas? It could just be that it's an inherently enjoyable activity and people will do it for the fun of it or the social engagement (sort of like Hacker News), but that's something that would just have to be tested.

Good luck!
# TODO set up sidecar
# write_sidecar(photoid, photo.getAttribute("secret"), dir)

I'll have a look through this - looks like it also allows for metadata capture and I can see some code not implemented ~ https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr/blob/master/flickrt... more here ~ http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr
True, but I wonder if that is somewhat due to their audience, which is tech savvy. If the audience was the GQ Public, but of say slightly above average to high intelligence, would they be as comfortable thinking that way?
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