skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. Guess he's offered a mixed bag, judging from that.

For his 1977 (!) "The wired society: A challenge for tomorrow ( http://www.amazon.com/Wired-Society-challenge-tomorrow/dp/01... ) he was nominated for a Pulitzer.

Serial found of consultancy firms - and one bought by TI. And then wikip says,

"According to Computerworld’s 25th anniversary issue, he was ranked fourth among the 25 individuals who have most influenced the world of computer science."

But I'm outside of the inside-joke: why he gets no love from Edsger W. Dijkstra in the OP.
So Long and Thanks for all the Bits
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759181
The most dangerous problem isn't the markup or extra cost, it's that as soon as UBB is old news, the media companies that are now also the internet companies (comcast/nbc) will offer discounts on "in network" bandwidth, so an NBC show will cost you the regular 1.99, but a movie from another network, or an independent production will cost you extra.

I'd be all in favor of this kind of pricing if it was anything resembling an open market, like how the cell phone industry had/has major downward price pressure, but there are far fewer choices when it comes to wires into your house, so the local monopoly effects are very strong.
I think it's pretty obvious from both sides of the story that what Chris intended to do was (c) demonstrate the existence of a vulnerability in order to hard-sell his security consultancy.

Reading between the lines, it looks like his sales tactics were heavy on the FUD (he pointedly hasn't denied making any claims about Russian conspiracies), leaving Frind paranoid and angry. And probably also embarrassed if the security flaws were as basic as is being suggested.
And they industry likes the watermarking possibilities of digital copies to trace copyright leaks. (which means the "copies" can be somewhat unique).
Well, first I don't go to school in the US, so the financial aspect is a much different consideration. Second, I don't spend my time drinking and whoring, but rather studying, sprinkled with the occasional drinking and whoring. Third, most companies looking to hire devs/engineers/etc want to see a BS in CS or math. You're limiting your options by trying to do it the self-taught way. That's not to say that you can't do it, just that there aren't as many open doors.

Your view of college seems to be pretty slanted and limited to your experiences. My sisters both went through college with steady boyfriends, and only occasional partying. Then again, they went to an academic, rather than party school. YMMV.
Nope.

Hysteresis is a short term effect, measured in seconds. Full on magnetization won't happen to microscopic particles of iron at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in a tiny, rapidly changing, magnetic field.

And even if they became as magnetized as they possibly could, (which isn't very, because these are small particles) they're still going to be digested, reduced to single atoms, and bound to transferrin/ferritin/hemosiderin/hemoglobin proteins. Metallic iron doesn't naturally exist in the human body. The only people NMR imaging is contraindicated for are metalworks and such who are routinely exposed to high velocity metallic iron fragments, (via angle grinding, etc) that mechanically embed themselves in the skin, fingernail beds, eye orbits, etc. Completely unnoticeable in everyday life, less so when you climb inside a superconducting magnet.

Also, they're not shavings; they may be produced that way, but food-grade iron is milled down to a fairly fine mesh. It's a powder. There's no sharp edges.

Mild aside: Iron was so rare in the ancestral environment that humans never evolved a mechanism for excreting it, and it's heavily recycled. All ingested iron is metabolized, which means iron poisoning is fairly easy. This means that breakfast cereal, which is popular with children, who tend to have very low body weight, doesn't contain much of iron. The box of corn flakes I'm looking at only has 108 milligrams of iron in 340,000 milligrams of corn flakes.
Ebert's heart is in the right place, but there are a number of reasons why his heart just isn't in the same place as the motion picture industry.

He outlines a few, and others have been mentioned in other comments here, but what I see as being most harmful for advanced film technology is green screening. So many of the most recent summer blockbuster movies are just shot against a green screen and essentially animated in post. Shoot a few actors delivering their dialog and a few crushing blows against the backdrop and animate the entire picture in CGI. It's a horrific way to make a movie, but it seems to please audiences enough.

These movies may not gross big numbers at the box office, but they turn a profit because they're cheap to make. Shooting the live action bits in digital make the entire process easier as well.

Cinematography is, unfortunately, a dying art. Capturing gorgeous images on the best recording medium available and projecting them through the best glass with the purest light possible just isn't important to the big production companies. Instead, "churn and burn" is the name of the game. it's akin to the old pulp comics of years past, where good storytelling and artwork gave way to shock value to generate sales. If movies aren't there yet, they're close.
Current HD digital cameras are mostly big, heavy, overheating apparatus. I think they are close to the limit of what they can do with current technology. I doubt doubling the framerate is commercially viable.
But I don't know too much about RED cameras, which supposedly are very very good.
I don't think much investigation is warranted.

When your body absorbs iron, it breaks it up into it's constituent atoms which are already magnetized. The only difference between magnetic and non-magnetic iron is that magnetic iron has a larger percentage of it's atoms aligned in a specific direction.

(Actually I'm oversimplifying a bit, see the wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetism )

Further, like most terrestrial humans, you spend your entire life living in a magnetic field. I'm willing to bet it's vastly stronger than anything emitted by these cereal boxes. If you are truly concerned, you can test this by putting a compass next to your cereal box.
With all due respect, this has no grounds in reality. As comment there pointed out Trumbull did a 70mm showscan format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showscan that was superior to anything in existence then, but it didn't lift off. IMAX also has 70mm (and now digital) and 70mm never took off in mainstream productions.

3D, for now, is here to stay. And it's not a war on resolution now, but frame rate. Many filmmakers would be more than happy to shoot/show at 2-perf, but 48fps than 4-perf at 24 fps, since 3D strobing, while panning, is reduced like that. 2K IS enough, for now - as majority of productions show. Convergence of film res and HDTV res at 2K~1080p is what drives 2K now, as is the available equipment (IMAX specific productions are an exception). Occasional shots are shot in 5K (like in Batman Dark Knight), but that's rare.

Eventually, resolution will take off to greater heights, but now it's step locked with 1080p - and that's the way things are.
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I see, thank you. Too bad about the energy waste.
Universities are designed to reproduce elite (SATs, taxation...)
Ask HN: Familiarity, Design, and Perception
A lot of times when I'm working on a new web project that requires a certain degree of creativity, I experience an effect where, after a few days or weeks, the design that I have been working on mutates in my mind from feeling fresh and new to less interesting & sub-standard (in comparison to other sites).

It's hard for me to describe, but essentially I can produce a design (web site layout, graphic design, etc.) and I will perceive it differently based on x - how long I have continuously looked at the design and y - how long it's been since I've not seen it at all. The perceived value (originality, quality, level of "polish") decreases when x increases, and increases when y increases.

After a while, I start to feel/sense/perceive that a design is flawed in more and more ways, and generally start to look for ways to tinker - which is exhausting. If I put the work away for 2-3 days, and come back to it "under a different light", I'm floored by the sudden onset of the same original fascination and love for the design that I had on day one.

This can happen for me whether I am working from scratch (100% my design), or from an existing layout or template (another person's original design). It's interesting to me that I can see my own work under such different degrees of affinity, but it's maddening to deal with.

I've heard the term "carpenter's nightmare" to describe the problem of noticing (and not being able to ignore) all the imperfections in something that someone has constructed, and I've heard the phrase "looking at something through new eyes", etc - but I'm looking for a more thorough treatise on the subject, if possible. I always thought "familiarity breeds contempt" was referring to interaction with humans!

Has anyone else experienced this? How do you describe it, and what would you call it? Ultimately, my aim is to find ways to curtail this sensation, but until I can properly label it or better describe it, I'm like a kid with a pinata. I have zero education as far as psychology goes; I apologize if I've over-described this - you probably said "yeah I get it" after the first paragraph - but these kinds of cognition swings are of great interest to me (another is the strange effect where if you look a written or typed word long enough, it starts to appear "incorrect" or foreign, as if you're looking at a word for the first time, or suddenly lost your mother tongue … is this experienced in all languages?)

Aside: I also find it interesting that (either due to search engines being keyword/nomenclature driven as opposed to more contextually or conceptually indexed, or as a result of my poor Googling skills) it's relatively more difficult to find information on a topic that I only know symptomatically. Without an appropriate label (some accepted term in the field of psychology, for example), or some ability to describe this phenomenon using one or more commonly searched buzzwords, I'm out of luck.
Browser-require.js brings "require" to the browser (just like node)
Browser-require lets you write javascript using "require", "exports" and "module" in the browser, just as you would in node. It helps you with your dependency management, and provides a compiler to condense all your required modules into a single file for production.
Ah, interesting.

Although, now you've removed my ability to create a real objection to this packaging beyond "Ah, the goggles, they do nothing".
Define "win", please. I'm quite sure Android will eventually dominate in terms of market share, much like Windows does to OS X. However, if you look in terms of customer satisfaction and profits generated in the markets they compete in, Apple tend to be so far in front, they subsume the rest of the competition put together.

I'd wager that every company out there would love to "lose" the way Apple is/will.
> I didn't read anything about him posting the stolen data.

Read the post again - the owner of the site is saying he will publish the guys details if he posts the data.

If he doesn't post people's personal data, fine. The site owner won't publish his address.

If he does, then fair enough.
ASP.net is just Visual Basic. It's not the most complicated language to learn, and you don't need to know much about computers to develop in ASP or VB.
Miro Video Converter (GPL license) now in the App Store
Hate to sound negative (and prob will get downvoted), but why is this news at all?
Ruby (on Rails) or Python (Django) would be a good place to dig in, to start doing web stuff. Those languages are also applicable to non-web problems as well.
My understanding from reading the post is that the site owner would only publish Chris' private details if Chris published the private data, not someone else.
I don't care much for these meta-discussions, but I think there's an interesting issue here, possibly worth pursuing a bit.

First, let's separate the wheat from the chaff. We're not talking, in this case, about personality-blog mountebanks, or sycophants. Nor are we talking about blogspam (under any definition I can imagine.) Nor, finally, are we discussing any "over-literal misunderstanding of what constitutes off-topic" or "the letter of the law".

What is at stake here is "what satisfies one's intellectual curiosity?" Because that is the guiding principle at play.

For me, this article definitely fit the bill. The idea of taking a 360 degree panoramic photo is nothing new, but to take it over a period of 24 hours was (in my estimation) a brilliant masterstroke. To me, it showed the kind of "hacker" approach that we tend to admire around these parts.

Now, as you say, you and I have both been around here for quite a while, so it surprised me a bit that we have such different estimation about what makes for a good HN submission.

I think that explaining flags is a good thing. But saying "does this really need to exist here instead of on Digg/Reddit/Fark/etc?" isn't really enough for me to understand the nature of your objection. I get that it might not satisfy your intellectual curiosity as it does mine, but is that really worth a flag?
The tortoise question was vaguely familiar. Where is it from?
I was making the list of people to thank for my time on HN and when visiting ticketstumbler I came across this message. It makes me both happy and sad, sad that ticketstumbler died, happy to see that Tom has moved on and is doing something new (and a great idea too!).
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but I'm one of those people who constantly notices flicker at 24 fps.

I'm sorry, but I find that hard to believe - unless you're a cyborg or something. It is known there is a strobing "effect" with 24fps while projection is in 3D though, if that's what you've meant? OTOH, ideal fps for a human eye was shown/concurred long time ago to be at 72-75fps range, and approximate resolution of a 35mm 4-perf to be at 8K-9K range - so that's kind of a mark where we can see things move forward to eventually.
Where can I send some feedback on the swaptitude web site?
The direction is somewhat less than relevant until we develop technologies that can take us (or instruments) there in less than the time it took us to evolve from monkeys.
Cape Town, South Africa (no remote) -- SnapBill

It seems there are a few South Africans around this site so giving it a shot. We're a small growing startup in the recurring billing space that just launched last week (www.snapbill.com).

We've got big plans and are pushing to get a lot into the system as soon as possible but need a little bit of help. Shoot me an email if you're interested.
Many freelancers work as monotributistas or responsables inscriptos, exporting services that way. And it's perfectly legal. For a single person shop this would be the first case I hear of, of an incorporate company setup that way.
EDW believed that the real "computer science" is not "selling snake oil," like Object Oriented Design Methods, which he considered a kind of selling "business management" in software. He believed that the real "computer science" is only in developing mathematical methods that enable fundamentally new possibilities by using them. James Martin personifies a "snake oil seller" for him.

By the way the Wikipedia entry for James Martin sounds to me a lot like it was written by James Martin himself. Reading the entry it appears that JM invented all by himself "Information Engineering," "Computer-Aided Software Engineering," and "Rapid Application Development."

All three concepts would anyway be despised by EDW who here implies that academics should work only with Buxton Index of 50.
along with the fact that Apple products have (almost) never beaten their competitors on spec sheets

This is categorically untrue. The iPhone 3GS was a world above virtually every Android phone at the time. The iPhone 4, when released, didn't have quite as large of a lead, but it still led the competition on virtually every spec.

And those specs didn't go unnoticed. From screen brightness to color range to processor speed to GPU performance, this is one of the reasons it was considered the #1 device. It led the spec sheet.

The iPhone 5 of course has its work cut out for it, because the competition is much more refined now and they're really in the game. But I am pretty certain that Apple is going to try their damndest to lead the spec comparisons again.
They were triads, not yakuza.

I believe the PoF guy simply because he has more to lose. You can already see this Russo character writing his own "If I Did It"[1] account of the tale. Looks like his attempt at getting a gig backfired.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Did_It
I did some heavy research around the same time and came across Pylons and I went down that route. Then Pylons merged with Repoze.bfg and we've had to re-write. That being said, Pyramid is great and the documentation is wonderful also.
Where is here?

Europe. "Do you have skype?" is mostly a rhetoric question around here when asked in a business context.
Samsung knows the exact cpu specs for Apple's next gen iOS devices

Samsung was a co-developer of the A4 chip, which they derived for their Hummingbird platform. You could as easily say that Apple knew what Samsung was up to.
This appears, unfortunately, to be the norm and not the exception. It comes to mind every time I sign up on a new service.

Obligatory: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Voight-Kampff...
If I lived in a well-centralized city with functional mass transit, I'd take the bus from those options. Here in the sprawl of Tampa, though, there is no combination of busses which will get me to work before 8AM, and for many routes Google Maps shows that taking a bicycle is actually faster than taking the bus.
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That isn't true. Asp is the web piece of the .net framework and can use VB, C#, python, ruby or any other language supported by the framework.
"To ſay it is ‘by deſign’ is not an acceptable anſwer. Your proprietary, inflexible, ſecret piece of ſoftware takes control of ðe uſer’s hardware wiþout his conſent, and ¿you do not even offer a reaſon for ðat?"

I'm trying really hard to figure out what localization this guy's keyboard is set to.
Austin has a very long history with semiconductors. No doubt the availability of capable employees and a local feeder school has played a large part in the equation.
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You are only voluntarily taking on those costs because of threats of violence against anyone who would give you the opportunity to purchase insurance without those costs.

Insurers have been completely willing to sell maternity-free insurance, at least until men with guns threatened violence against them for doing so. It's not exactly voluntary when threats of violence eliminate all competing alternatives.

(As of 2014, it's not voluntary at all.)
Perhaps I got the wrong impression, in that case, apologies.
The movie theater is fighting a battle with home and currently 3D is their answer. Is it the best answer? Most films who use 3D these days add it on later and it is done pretty poorly. I find it an interesting proposal, something should be done to continue making going to the cinema an experience.
Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard

Seeking iOS and web developers with a passion for design and craftsmanship. (No remote is possible.)

http://www.flipboard.com/jobs

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Haha, another Android win :D Where is the truth that android won over apple's iphone, hey, apple has 4 iPhones so far, but how many phones are running Android, another comparison between apples and eggs.

There might be more Android phones out there, definitely are more, but whats their customer satisfaction ?
Isn't the real reason that the number of people who watch cable news is already a small minority of the cable subscribers, and they are already split three ways? Adding another cable news network isn't going to appeal to anyone new.
Blade Runner! Of course! Thanks.
Of the two, does it matter which one I start with, or are both equally suitable for an absolute beginner?
Interesting. I've been working on a blog post entitled "My slow disengagement from HN" about why I had been slowly walking away. But people might as well read yours.

I've been consuming HN through the newsyc50 Twitter account which only shows me news items that have > 50 points. I started out with newsyc20 (> 20) and have been weaning myself off.

I've found that stopping reading the conversations has been the easiest part, but that HN's filter of interesting stories is hard to beat.
I just posted this on the issue:

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I would be wary of solving the problem this way.

The problem is the object/array combo you're talking about is still perfectly valid JavaScript. However, due to the way browsers handle JavaScript, it's not currently possible to access the data from it. If you do implement it, you run the risk of a browser changing its behavior ever so slightly and destroying your security. ;-)

The way I've typically seen this done is to add a prefix of some kind to the data. The prefix can be valid JavaScript (eg: while(1); or throw 1;) or it can be text that JavaScript can't parse. Either way, the point is to ensure that a cross-domain request via the <script> tag will fail and not be able to get to the data. These solutions are slightly better because it's less likely that these constructs will become valid in the future (although still possible).

With that being said, here's the advice from the Browser Security Handbook, which advocates for a slightly different solution (http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2):

Note: quite a few JSON interfaces not intended for cross-domain consumption rely on a somewhat fragile defense: the assumption that certain very specific object serializations ({ param: "value"}) or meaningless prefixes (&&&START&&&) will not parse via <SCRIPT SRC="..."> or that endless loop prefixes such as while (1) will prevent interception of the remainder of the data. In most cases, these assumptions are not likely to be future-safe; a better option is to require custom XMLHttpRequest headers, or employ a parser-breaking prefix that is unlikely to ever work as long as the basic structure of JavaScript is maintained. One such example is the string of )]}', followed by a newline.
Well, I certainly didn't see that coming.

I'm a bit speechless, but thank you for your participation, and all that you've given the community over the years.
note: I see you guys improved the writing on the homepage. Congrats! :) You went from this:

"SnapBill is an online invoicing and billing system with service provisioning capabilities. SnapBill is perfect for all businesses, especially those providing services requiring an automated recurring or subscription billing system and payment collection facilities."

to this:

"SnapBill is an online invoicing and billing system that allows you to easily sell your services online. SnapBill is perfect for businesses requiring an automated recurring or subscription billing system with payment collection facilities."

Much better. (But what are "payment collection facilities"? Does that mean you take care of credit card entry and such? Then say so.)

Now give it another go-over, there are still heaps of paragraphs on that page to be improved. Make it shorter (without loosing substance). Emphasize important points with bigger type.

Good luck :)