skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. While RDF certainly isn't all that the idealists claim, you can still get some benefit of it without strong AI.

Mainly, it provides a consistent model for handling the notion of a "field". Non-RDF apis typically return fielded JSON or XML, the structure of which is only specified within the documentation. In order to integrate two services not originally designed to inter-operate, you have to write lots of custom glue code.

RDF is at least amenable to writing generic "rules" to govern field mapping and inference, rather than one-off glue code (which usually ends up being a hacky script). So sure, if you're integrating one service, a hacky script is probably easier. But if you want a coherent system for integrating large numbers of services not originally designed to inter-operate, RDF makes things a lot easier.

So there's some benefit, even if it isn't as dramatic as its proponents claim.

Plus, there's the fact that while strong AI isn't yet on the horizon, RDF is a lot easier for weak AI (inference engines, data mining, etc) to ingest, and weak AI is getting better all the time.

Actually, one of the biggest problems with RDF, to my mind, is that it's structure makes it very difficult to get good performance with truly large numbers of subjects and attributes - and unfortunately that's just the area where it'd be most useful.
"Hey, Apple kicked out the free digital editions of print publications in Europe."

The linked article is about paid subscriptions. There is no mention of free (except free for subscribers).
I wish people would stop worrying about page views, its a broken metric, always has been.
Well, to be fair, you can submit a counter-notification letter that commands the ISP to put the content back online and that doesn't require any proof either.
Isn't that exactly what Sony did? The whole letter is here http://gitorious.org/gitorious/dmca/blobs/master/2011-02-02....

Now, you may disagree with their reasoning or with the law, but that's a different issue
Mac OS or iOS Keychain
Browser Password Manager
Your own brain
Post-it note under keyboard
But the content has to stay offline for at least 10 day in order for the accusing party (Sony) to decide if it wants to file suit against the user(s).
Designing for Intent...or Why Kroger Sucks
Bookmarks or passwords?
Standards Don’t Just Happen
Wait, I'm naive in these matters, but how can the Google cache of a page be "gone" (I checked just now and the page is there), doesn't Google keep a copy forever?
I particularly had the South-African photo in mind as a comparison when I made my statement. Don't get me wrong, I don't approve poverty, I've lived for a couple of years on less than $2 a day and my parents still do, it's just that the Danish photo is so devoid of life, of human interaction, that makes it so depressing for me.

Maybe I'm a little bit biased because right now I'm reading
James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" (http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Like-State-Condition-Institutio...), which has a couple of chapters against modern, centralized, well-planed architecture that is designed "to look good from a plane" (he gives Brasilia as a negative example). Now, I know these suburbs weren't probably planned by the Government, but the main idea behind their design and planning is the same, i.e. to look good from a geometrical point of view.
Oh goodness. Major typo ... let me go fix that. It should be passwords.
You mean passwords?

If so, I've become very confortable with LastPass. There are even a lot of passwords I don't really know as they were automatically generated and are automatically filled-in
Why Does Mozy Hate Your Freedom?
No, the issue is whether or not a rights holder can licence content on a country by country basis at all within Europe. This may also have implications outside of football such as the licensing of films etc.

Also, it was a Greek broadcaster (NOVA Sat) in this case. The box itself will be generic but the landlord may have paid a subscription fee for the NOVA Sat channels.
Infographics Infographic
Ahh, there goes all those cool and really useful data and analyses from the site. These guys were the only people who published such results on a large scale.
"All support tickets – at the time, 1.5+ million! – were exposed"

* Was this actually 1.5M users or just tickets? Thats a lot of upset people if so.
I had a one bedroom rented flat and claimed Housing + Council Tax + Job Seekers' benefits for 4 months. There was little pressure and it was quite relaxing.
I agree. I find the idea compelling, but I'd love to know something about who's putting it together and a possible timeline.
Poll: How do you manage passwords?
Out of curiosity, what do you use to manage passwords? Let us know why you use what you do in the comments if you can. Thanks for the input!

And, sorry for the typo the first time - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174865!
Like Videos & Kicking it w/Friends?
www.AllMyBiz.com

Early invitations are available.
This is why some projects want you to give them copyright ownership in order to accept your patches.
Sorry guys, here's the new thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174888

I meant passwords, typed the wrong thing. Long day...
Get roller.at and rollerat.com
TechCrunch, or Paul Carr?

You seem to be more upset at the subject matter of the post and the fact that it's in opposition to your personal opinion.
I thought this was just some linkbait article, but the title is a quote lifted from TechCrunch, and it makes a pretty good point about a spectacular failure of common sense on the part of one of TechCrunch's most controversial authors.

To be fair, Paul Carr has written many other articles, some of which are very sharp and to the point, and doesn't usually pander to the mainstream media views, so this is fairly unusual for him.

That said, anyone who's surprised that TC is fame-hungry hasn't been around the block :-)
If most of your basic needs are met then...

From _delirium's comment, it sounds as the poor do have most/all of their basic needs met, though he doesn't address policing. Piecing together your comment and his, it sounds as if the only basic need the poor have which is not met is adequate police protection. Is this correct?

Your sentence ending in "comes from the point of view of people living comfortably" implies that from the point of view of someone else (presumably a person living in a crime-ridden neighborhood), the lottery is not irrational. Could you explain why, if that is indeed what you meant?

(Note: I actually do live in a crime-ridden neighborhood. But I'm also a 6'6" man who looks like he has nothing worth stealing, and I've only been the victim of a single, unsuccessful, attempt at robbery. So my point of view might be atypical.)
It is a good thing that hard drives connect to the Internet by themselves and do not require rack space, servers, power or bandwidth.
The whole dedicated to obsessively profiling startups mission is a ploy to drive page impressions, sell tickets to award ceremonies, and launch conferences. Page views are more important then writing about boring startups.
The number of allocatable IPv4s just dropped to zero
Anyone else feel it is depressing that people have to resort to these tactics due to political oppression?
But if it's a net negative that you don't notice...

I never buy lottery tickets or scratch cards (though I love sports betting and casinos), however my father does buy a lottery ticket every week.

He's retired, and has enough money to live fine - he owns the flat he lives in, he has enough money to pay for his £100/month TV/internet package, to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, and to buy whatever food he fancies without thinking about what's cheaper to eat.

He has a choice of living like that and accepting that's how the rest of his life will remain, or spending a tiny amount each week and having a dream of becomming a millionaire. He's not an idiot, he knows the odds are against him, but his buying lottery tickets doesn't have any impact on his lifestyle, and it lets him imagine that one day he might win big.

He wouldn't notice any difference in his financial situation if he stopped buying the tickets, so really the only downside is that, if he keeps buying them over a twenty year period, the inheritance that comes to myself and my two siblings when he dies will be a bit less. But if you think that way, his quitting the lottery would make a far smaller difference than if he didn't subscribe to extremely expensive sports channels, if he didnt spend £40/week on cigarettes, and so on. I'd far rather see him enjoy his money than save it for my sake - I'll get by fine either way.

Sure, for some people the amount they spend on lottery tickets does take away from money they could spend on other stuff, but there are people who are well off enough to be able to afford the cost, without being so well off that winning the lottery isn't a dream they enjoy having.
I second this advice.

I'm curious though, henrik: why 301 player.io to playerio.com when your brand (per the logo) is "player.io"? I'm curious as it seems a little counter-intuitive.
You only give 1 example why TechCrunch is a Fame-Hungry, Media-Manipulating Hypocrite you shouldn't read.

If they spit out news every few minutes this is only a marginal reason.

It is possible that every media has editorial where they give opinions on stories. As long as you know you are reading an editorial it is ok. You don't have to agree with everyones opinion.

Think this is weak shot on Techcrunch and you could have done better!
I don't understand why financial relationship has to be perceived as a negative thing. A business relationship can be excellent, just like a typical friendship.

Expectations are different, sure. There are a lot of good things that can come from it in spite of that.

It's the people involved that make it crap or awesome.
I personally have become reliant on Lastpass, though 1Password's style is luring me. Any pros/cons of each you know?
That's not the end-all, be-all of trademark law though. If Wolfire had a registered trademark, it would make things easier for them.

But, they have been conducting trade using the Lugaru mark so they have an implicit trademark on the term Lugaru as it applies to video games. It's the difference between the TM symbol and the R with a circle around it.

Wolfire can still hit them up with some trademark violation lawsuits and should probably do so soon to avoid problems down the line.
The TechCrunch post he is attacking here at no point attacks "the concept of publishing leaked state secrets". It attacks Assange. The article wants you to separate Wikileaks from Assange, but the author apparently cannot do it himself.

Of course, this is in no way endorsing TechCrunch, which is fucking terrible.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that any web agent that could possibly puzzle through RDF triplets should have no problem understanding our APIs, in any case.

…or native human language.
Duplicate of this thread....
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171703
This link doesn't work for me. A link that does work, and lots of discussion already there, can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174677
The enslavement aspect only works when your employees never seriously think of taking a job across the street. It's pretty easy to spot the career developers, career managers, and the just-passing-through types at a big company. Interestingly, all three types tend think their chosen path is the best and safest.
APIs are everywhere, and RDF is nowhere.

RDF is hardly ubiquitous, but it's also hardly appropriate to say that it's nowhere. RDFa in particular has seen a big surge in adoption over the last year or two, especially after Google and Yahoo announced that they would start utilizing RDFa.

http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/rdfa-deployment-a...
My claim is that your "generic rules" to govern mapping fields are actually equivalent to hardcoding the names of JSON fields. Instead of seeing "title", and deciding what to do with the data, you see:

<!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF PUBLIC "-//DUBLIN CORE//DCMES DTD 2002/07/31//EN"
"http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/07/31/dcmes-xml/dcmes-xml-dtd.dtd">

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<dc:title>

... and decide what to do with the data.

In both cases, instead of having a machine understand the (semantic) structure of the data, you have a programmer writing a rule.

Can you provide a concrete example of where this isn't the case, and your RDF-reader is simpler than reading the equivalent (well-designed) JSON of the same data?
Consumer Demand for High-Selenium Beef
Working URL: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Microsofts+Bing+versus+Google,+so...
Wikileaks nominated for 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
This is a great feature, did not realize this was available. I used to open a new table and click it from recently closed list. Thanks!
Telephone Telepathy Experiment
I'm at CWRU right now, trying so hard not to respond to that bit with a super-long comment. I'll just say this: smart people, go somewhere else, at least for CS. (If you're reading this comment years later, re-evaluate.)

(Hi Adam!)
Easy Ways to Show Your Employees You Love Them
I've also experienced performance issues with RDF stores, but over the last few years, that has increased a lot and I think in another 1-2 years there will be a bunch of stores that are able to handle reasonable large numbers of triples with a good performance.

Aside from that I think, although RDF might not be the 'holy grail', it is in fact quite usable for a lot of problem domains and saying that it needs to be discarded is a bit harsh :)
The point being made by the parent and grandparent though is that whilst the expected value in monetary terms is negative, when people have a non-linear utility function, the expected value in utility can be positive.
To continue to play devil's advocate here ... if RDF is just an awkward API, RDFa is just an awkward microformat.
Car Accidents Increase After the Superbowl
Revenue == funds to build capacity. If everyone really wants to stream Netflix 24 hours a day, the capacity will be built but it isn't free.

This is how every single element of the economy works.
These were users. I wrote 1-1.5 to set a wide range in case for duplicates, but I rarely saw any. From my observation, the number is closer to 1.5 million than 1 million (and growing by 100-200 per hour).
Inevitably, hackers visit a site aimed at hackers and want to start building their own stuff to tweak it to their needs. How many of these tools/apps/sites really add any value, though? For the most part the site is already good enough. SearchYC is arguably the only truly necessary addition.

It's not that there's anything egregiously wrong about that "HN for Honeycomb" app you're writing, but all the time you spend on that is time you're not spending on something that solves a real customer's needs. More time spent on that means: more money for you, more interesting posts on HN about your startup, and fewer meta-threads on the front page.
Mongols, Vikings, Romans connected to climate change
Did you get a free CR-48 ?
As I said in my post, it was just the last straw. I've been reading attacks on Wikileaks and Assange on TechCrunch for a while now. I thought it was finally time to act.
So sure, if you're integrating one service, a hacky script is probably easier. But if you want a coherent system for integrating large numbers of services not originally designed to inter-operate, RDF makes things a lot easier.

Exactly. If one thinks of RDF (and associated technologies) as having an aim of creating a Semantic Web as one big, decentralized, federated database, then you can really see the value in it.

For any one random website to expose some data for people to use, it's a fair argument that RDF is more awkward than just dumping the data out over an HTTP API as generic XML, JSON, CSV or whatever. But when you look at the bigger picture, RDF becomes desirable.
Maze Generation: Sidewinder algorithm
An Open Letter to PL/SQL Developers
#2

there are also more and more RDF datasets (http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/) published, so at least some people seem to think it is a good format.
Hands up anyone who uses RDF (when they could choose to do otherwise)? Anyone? Bueller?
Building easy-deploy test servers
Capturing a Full Day in a Single Photograph
In head using mnemonics.
Programming M.C. Kids (Game Programming)
Again, this was just the last straw, not the entire pile of evidence. A quick search will reveal plenty of attacks on "the concept of publishing leaked state secrets".
In theory they are semantically equivalent (usually anyway) so the question is, is RDFa particularly awkward. I guess it depends on how you define awkward.
One potential serious bug in the argument of "data transit prices have come down from $.12/GB to $.03/GB" is that it doesn't mention capacity issues. Namely, there is a big difference between "the network running at capacity ten years ago had costs of X and the network running at capacity now has costs of Y" and "the network running at 50% capacity had costs of X and running at 100% now has costs of Y".

Another serious flaw in this argument revolves around the question: where is the bottleneck? Is the problem in the routers/switches/etc in the switching/peering points? If so, a moderate capex would do some serious upgrading. Is it in the fiber, and is there still any dark-fiber? If so, again the capex is moderate to fix the problem. For both these the greedy is deplorable on the teleco's part. On the other hand, if the problem is "we need to run lots more fiber". Then the capex is large, and some more number crunching must be done, though at this point the cost of laying fiber should be considered much less risky than it used, as everyone will benefit from more capacity.
The only two alumni anyone ever names in the tech world. But Paul calls it "good enough" and Knuth was there long enough ago that it was essentially a different school.
Maybe that came off wrong, but I didn't mean the speed of TC posts to indicate anything specific. It was more of a take on the quote used by author Paul Carr.

Maybe I could have done better flaming TC, but my main point was to make my argument for Assange and show my frustration for TechCrunch.
While this post doesn't really link to a 'bad' article in TechCrunch I think it's good to bring up the lack of substance some most of these TechCrunch posts are containing.

I go to TechCrunch in the hope I'll find some new startup working on some new and zany problem but are instead either greeted with something along the lines of how awesome Angry Birds is, why Android is better than iOS or picking up some story thats been dissected to death either in HN or Engadget.

I wish they'd take on the idea of Alt.Engadget and funnel their weird posts to a separate site when ever they feel like they want to say something random (Alexia seems to be the one that does this the most).

(Having said that, today there seems a to be a pretty good day for TC with some interesting posts but other days it can be quite deceptive.)
Giles Bowket made almost the same point, but he was much funnier:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-hate-only-eve...
Bagels, pizza and lollipops: State of organized crime in US
r/coding is an excellent place to hang out too :)
Neat. Do you ever have trouble remembering them, and do you write them down somewhere to make sure you don't lose them?
It's not just consuming the data though... it's when you go beyond that and start doing inference and combining multiple databases, that the RDF approach really shows it's value.

If you established a standard for doing that kind of field name exposure, using JSON, and then sure, you could achieve the same effect. But, in the end, you'd probably just wind up with a JSON encoding of RDF anyway. Define things as subject/predicate/object is all RDF really is... the RDF/XML encoding is just one way of expressing RDF.
So are we expected to wear these T-Shirts in summer in Chicago? Nice idea at the right time but I am not sure why people would buy such things. But then again, you'd know better.
Is there any possible scenario where labeling a tear gas can with the country of origin is beneficial to that country? Wheat, yes. Medicine, yes. Teargas???
Ah, but RDF in and of itself isn't any more interoperable than XML or JSON. You still have to agree on the vocabulary of your triples. To that end, you bring in RDF Schema, OWL, and their stacks of definitions:

http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl

(View source on that page). Absent strong AI, defining your terms in terms of URIs to terms, defined by URIs to terms ... ad infinitum, is no more expressive or powerful than simply saying that a "title" is a "title".
I asked the same thing but was told that Twitter couldn't disclose this to me because of their NDA and other confidentiality agreements. Who is actually at fault is unclear. I wasn't able to reproduce this on Groupon or Rackspace Cloud's Zendesk though, but that doesn't say anything definitive.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jazzychad.hn

This Hacker News app for Android is my favorite and recently ousted the one listed in this article on my device. Especially useful is the "text-only on viewtext.org." feature.
At least Verizon is well-poised to be the one carrier that truly benefits from the move being "mere pipes", simply because they have long been the US carrier with the "best" coverage and reliability.
NSLocalizedString ?
Google has a ton of decent into, search for "oracle vs mysql".

Both have their respected places, but Oracle is in general "more". More complicated, more difficult to install and configure, more flexible, more powerful, more money. If you don't need "more", then MySQL is quite capable.
In Canada you would never come out and say that a highly disliked legislation piece is going to be overturned and then not overturn it. You would be incinerated at election time.
Consumer confusion between "Droid" and "Android" goes deep. I developed an Android app version of an existing iOS app, and the client wanted the splash screen & all marketing materials to refer to it as the "Droid" version. I explained to them that Droid is a trademark of Lucasfilm licensed to only Verizon, and both Lucasfilm and Verizon would probably not like to see it appearing on any old Android handset running the app. The designer said I was being needlessly pedantic and refused -- "Droid" was aesthetically more pleasing -- and the marketing people thought "Droid" was more commonly used.

I had to escalate it to the top to get them to drop it. And they still think I was wrong.
Yes. I have to say though that after 20 years of exhilaration, the buzz is getting less and less for me each time. I think because the process of learning another new language, framework, API etc is now no longer new.
That doesn't really answer nhangen's question or the assertion that he made.
Funny :-) Same for me.
>a community or hivemind of in-jokes, 4chan memes, and chain puns

You know, you don't have to see any of that - just subscribe to the niche subreddits that interest you, and drop the rest. It's a completely different experience.
To take the loop from don't like the comment on Assange from an editorial jumping to Techcrunch sucks is a little bit far fetched.
I'm working on some stuff that uses RDF, yeah.
Pure CSS Isometric Bar Chart
http://s01.justpaste.it/files/justpaste/image11.jpg

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.

from Weeds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8StRAJCork)

I'm really glad I don't live there, it looks really depressing, although it beats suburbs of Cape Town (http://s01.justpaste.it/files/justpaste/image15.jpg)
Top-Down Design: A Life Lesson