skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but think that you could manufacture robots to perform the kind of delicate welding that you use as examples.
Helpful information, thank you!

I don't run the programme and am not particularly trying to "reach" you.

I realise that; my questions aren't necessarily directed at you specifically.
No, Google is only sent that you're blocking the domain.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528
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Since we're talking about the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol here, physical attributes of the teapot are irrelevant and thus outside of the scope of the RFC.

The RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt) specifically states:

2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error
code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and
stout.
The ultimate in man v. machine moments
Antennas made of a straight bit of wire of about 1/4 the wavelength usually work well. Think FM radios: freq about 100 MHz -> lambda = c/freq = 300 cm -> antenna of 75 cm (30 in).
The STL is not a third party library anymore and most of it has been part of the standard for several years now. I would be curious to know what problems did you have with the STL, and how long ago? In my experience most people who refused to use the STL did it for the wrong reasons. Even the EASTL (which makes a good case against the standard library implementations) implements the STL interface.
I wrote a little follow up to the article, covering some of the points mentioned here and on reddit. http://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2011/02/15/email-address-validati...
Some day, when your fridge, oven, and yes, teapot all have IP addresses, this will finally come into its own.
And a nitpick is that the front page has the third column not matching the other columns in height.
Apparently Plan S is to do all of them.
From the developer docs: "... web based database that lives “in the cloud”. Objects exist in the database (there is only one instance of Fluidinfo that all users and applications share), users tag objects and (optionally) associate values with the tags."

From the about page: "Fluidinfo is a single web of things providing a no-questions-asked writable social object to represent each and every thing."

This is apparently a reinvention of RDF except centralized and proprietary. By writing triples "anyone can say anything about anything." http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20020829/
Currently, Android Market doesn't support subscription billing. Please note that collecting payments through your application is not allowed under the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. -- http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Ask HN: How do you determine "hot" or "popular" user-generated items?
I put together a little app this weekend which lets people translate phrases through different languages and see the often funny or interesting results: http://translation-telephone.com

On the sidebar, I display "recent" and "popular" phrases, to encourage people to browse others. Right now, "popular" is a random three of the top 30 viewed phrases - really basic.
I'd like to make it smarter and I imagine there are a variety of techniques that I can use, like the HN metric for frontpage news.

What techniques do you guys suggest? Thanks!

(Note: Architecture is App Engine/Python, if that's relevant)
Is this online and setup to use?

general question: what's the best program to get into creating music, either browser-based or offline? Windows.
I really enjoy using Disqus for a number of reasons.

1) Users can easily comment, with or without an account, with their Twitter, with their Facebook, etc.

2) It can create a greater amount of exposure for that particular post + comment (Through Twitter and Facebook broadcasts)

3) Disqus has a very clean look about it and the way it presents posts that I really enjoy

4) You can easily moderate + view statistics of various sites in one central location (Disqus website)

Hope that helps!
"All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app, so that customers can easily subscribe with one-click right in the app."

"Apple's announcement went on to emphasize that publishers are not limited to using the App Store for subscriptions; they're allowed to use their own websites to sell subs."

So purchase can be made in Safari in order to bypass the AppleVAT ?
Also not a lawyer, but: " if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app"

That reads to me like they will be required to offer their subscription services in-app.
If you want to turbo charge a startup, this is the way to do it! The companies who've been in this program make tremendous progress in just a few short months.
If MS tried something like this, would you be ok with it too?
Related stories with comments:

Apple's Press Release: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221195

arstechnica: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221375
Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
I guess my point is that it really does work both ways, the iPad existing may help me sell things, and me selling those things helps sell iPads. So how about both sides just focus on taking money from the customers instead of each other.
I think you're right. In Gingerbread, the power graph shows Display as the top user of power (probably by a factor of 3 or 4, at least), even with the display brightness down to 30. I don't have an AMOLED screen, but it'd be interesting to compare.
oooh, good strategy.
To round the issue out from their side, not that I agree, from their point of view, it's "If we bring you subscribers via our devices, we deserve a cut"
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Magazines.
Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed?
as long as they use IPv6.
tl;dr Autorelease pools are neat, and C++ doesn't have them.
"the world's largest permanent scale model of the solar system. " Right, last I heard our continents move. Yes this wont change tomorrow or any time soon, but its still not permanent. Not so long ago (whats 250 million years in respect to the universe) all the continents where connected: http://www.newgeology.us/Pangea.png

I'm not trolling, its just not permanent. Anyway I love that Pluto is there. It will always be a plant to me even though it was dropped from our solar system.
How is that a racket? Seems pretty reasonable to me, at least as a user.. I don't want to have to log in to a different website just to get the normal price.

It's like if store-owner X said, "If you want us to sell your goods in our store, you need to guarantee that you won't undercut us in another store, otherwise we don't want to stock your goods or your shelves."

It's standard practice in the physical product market.

I'm not sure why everyone is so quick to side with Amazon in this. Amazon have squeezed their own suppliers a million ways to Sunday, driven numerous bookshops out of business, and generally fucked about with everyone they could when they could. They even sued people with their ridiculous one-click patents. I won't cry for them getting squeezed a bit by Apple.
Would you describe yourself as a hoarder? Applying your argument to personal belongings would appear to mean that unless it's actually completely unusable for anything it should be kept - even excrement is useful (very), as are old drinks cans (perhaps you could make a solar reflector), as are worn out clothes (make rags for cleaning), as are cellophane wrappings (could be heat welded and used as transparent insulation), ... sorry I'm digressing wildly.

Anyhow, the measure of inclusion on WP is not "isn't crap" but "is it notable" and whilst that gives a huge range to argue over it's is still clearly different to the question of "is it crap".

Take your sportsman - do you think that WP should be exhaustive? What is it about them that's notable and can be confirmed from other references?
The first WP7 devices were released on October 21, 2010. Exactly how large of a success was Android in February 2008?
I think this remains to be seen.

I have an iPhone, and an Android phone, as well as an iPad.

At the current time, there really is no Android tablet. Sure, rumors abound, but ground is being conquered NOW with the iPad.

The Android phones I've used have been nice, but the whole iPhone user experience, from app-store to interaction, just feels "cleaner" and more efficient to me.

The content providers will go after whatever space provides them the great profit. This is mostly a factor of user-base exposure in terms of users who actually purchase things, not just raw handset numbers. The Economist would take 60% of a $1.00 subscription from 200 Million users over 99% of a $5.00 subscription from 5 million users (just making up stats to make a point).

If Apple can deliver the users and the dollars, plus create a whole fully-integrated elegant content-delivery subsystem, they'll win this market. If they can't, they'll lose it or share it with Android, WinMo7, etc.

One thing about Apple though, they do not appear to make random sporadic decisions. They seem to price things with much consideration, factoring in their position, value-add, and what the market will bear.
For the sake of clarity, could you explain the set up? How many channels could your copper wire pick up?
What does Jeopardy's Watson mean for artificial intelligence?
The team behind SpringBoard ran the Difference Engine for a few sessions (http://thedifferenceengine.eu) which due to the lack of public sector funding is closing this year.

Unlike The Difference Engine, SpringBoard has private sector funding. My understanding is that this is the first intake for SpringBoard.
I feel you're right, that knowing how to collaborate doesn't replace knowing how to do your job, but businesses are not finding acceptable hires from graduating students. Blank acknowledges this and offers a solution. Maybe it won't be the silver bullet you're looking for but at least he's trying.

Maybe we're both wrong. Maybe business do want hires who can collaborate over peak skill at their actual work.
> Vehicles registered in one state cant be used for too long in another state

They can, if you stay for over 6 months you have to pay road tax for the state in which you are residing.

> Universities don't recognize each other between states

Universities are recognized by the Central government not by the states, all recognized universities remain recognized throughout India. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Grants_Commission_%2...)
I'm not claiming Apple did nothing. They have built a great platform and its been very successful for them.

I can imagine how much they spend building it but I can see how much they made back from that though. And this is before Subscriptions will add to that.

My point is that Subscriptions can happen without Apple. But they have chosen to not allow that. They have also chosen to take 30%.

Finally, they also take away any direct relationship a publisher can have with a customer (you can argue the pro's and con's of that but end result is publishers become dependent on Apple).
> That due to the copyright laws today, Shakespeare couldn't have even written his stories?

> He can't base his works on other peoples' works, or he can't put a lock an key on his own.

Did Shakespeare reuse many non-public characters? I ask because that's where copyright is an impediment to story writing.

That is, Disney can go after me for doing a story with Woody the Cowboy, but not Carl the Cowboy, even if Carl is secretly alive.

However, I heard that Pixar patented putting eyes on the windshield for vehicles that are alive.
and blog subscriptions.
It's explained in the link.
Should You Make Consumers Register to Buy Online?
We call it "Italian Strike": do only what you're explicitly required to do
> with Prefork and mod_php, every time someone was
> connecting I was spinning up a new Apache thread and a
> new PHP VM every single time (please correct this if
> wrong... this is how I understood it).

Since no one has yet... no, this isn't quite right. Apache in prefork mode maintains a pool of workers, each of which does contain essentially the full webserver and PHP system. These listen for requests and respond to 1 request per process per time. Once a process finishes responding to a request, it starts listening for a new one again. Apache tries to keep at least a few idle processes on hand all the time, so clients don't have to wait, and it will fork new processes to handle more simultaneous connections up to a configured limit. If you get a sudden spike in traffic which then dies down, Apache will start killing excess processes. Processes live until killed as unnecessary, or after serving N requests as configured.

That all sounds pretty reasonable, until you realize that every request, even for styleseets, scripts, images, favicon.ico or robots.txt, is served by one of those fat apache+php processes, which can easily reach 10MB of memory usage each (or a lot more sometimes, depending on your modules). And if Keep-Alive is enabled, or a client is a bit slow, or some part of the Internet gets dodgy, a process can get tied up for a long time, requiring Apache to start more, increasing your memory usage and leading to thrashing and/or hitting the max child processes limit.

Default max is 256 child processes, so easily enough to cause disk thrashing on a 1GB machine, and not enough to fully utilize a much larger machine.
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It did figure it out eventually, on the one where it answered the 20's incorrectly after Ken already did.
8 Things To Do Right Away After Upgrading To New Facebook Page Redesign
They created the very ecosystem in which your app exists. I'd say that's a pretty important aspect of the whole app development model.
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Before I signed up for cable, I built this and had pretty great reception. Just a couple of parts from Home Depot/Radio Shack and you're good to go:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker-workshop-dtv-...
Soaking Up the Sun to Squeeze Bills to Zero
Awesome!!!! They even look good too. I might think about getting one and whip up an Android library for people to use.

Question to anyone reading this. What would be a good use to notify users? There was an article on HN about startups using a visual dashboard: http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/why-your-startup-needs-a-visual...
I think something like that would be cool to have. Hook into your KPI's and have that information right there on your wrist.
Apple: Customers purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe. The use of such information will be governed by the publisher’s privacy policy rather than Apple’s. Publishers may seek additional information from App Store customers provided those customers are given a clear choice, and are informed that any additional information will be handled under the publisher’s privacy policy rather than Apple’s.

Amazon: We will share the name, billing address, and order information associated with your newspaper or magazine purchase with the publisher, who is under obligation to keep that information confidential. We will not share your credit card information or e-mail address. -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
safari is not inside the app
The reason Jenkins nee Hudson was moving to GitHub in the first place was that Java.net was fundamentally broken; long outages, SVN was clearly not the right way for a project like Hudson to be run (commits came from all plugin authors, so the repo was touched constantly), fairly useless interface. The week long unnotified outage was just the final straw, the community had been asking for GitHub for a long time.

That they've now done this shows just how bitter, twisted and mercenary they've become. After this whole affair started from a move to GitHub, it's now magically the right thing? I very much doubt it. It's Oracle doing everything they can to try and screw Kohsuke and Jenkins.

Note that this is the same Jason Van Zyl that passive-aggressively deleted Kohsuke's edit history from the Hudson wiki.
There really is a Sarah Hatter! I'm her! 37signals is 200% supportive of me and I can't thank them enough for letting me venture out on my own.
One time I forgot my "Verified by VISA" password.

I was able to reset it on the spot by providing my birthday and some information from the card (CVV and expiry date iirc). So really the only additional information someone needs to use my card now is my birthday (and that's without even going to the trouble of MITM).
Ask HN: Do you use VaultPress or other WordPress backup tools?
I'm considering signing up for VaultPress for my site, but am holding back because of the price. The cheapest plan is about double what I'm paying per month right now for DreamHost hosting, and it really seems odd to pay more for backup than hosting!

I’ve used BackupBuddy for WordPress before, but it was way too intensive on my site and ended up doing recursive backups (by the time I noticed, it was trying to upload a 25Gb backup to Amazon S3 from a site that was only about 500Mb large at the time…). So, I killed it, and currently download a backup via FTP and push it to S3 manually every so often.

Does anyone here use VaultPress or another WordPress backup solution? Could you share your experiences with it?
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How to Fight Blog Plagiarism Guerrilla-Style
If I correctly understand the submitted article, the claim is that most writings that have been written in earlier decades in the expectation that the author would make money from copyright royalties are now readily available in pirated versions that can be downloaded around the world without any payment to the author. So the paying market is unraveling, because the main distribution of new content now is pirate distribution. Do you read what the submitted article says differently?
Burning the Ships at Nokia
Things like move semantics and r-value references in C++1x will make them much tougher to beat. And for the most part they're not particularly hard to understand either. The standard library in particular, despite being a generalized library, is highly customizable and can be optimized for special cases (e.g. with custom character traits or allocators). Because it's a standard, good C++ developers should be able to use it. But if everyone reinvents the wheel developers would have to learn a new container or string interface every time they change jobs.
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I heard that Pixar patented putting eyes on the windshield for vehicles that are alive.

Where did you hear that? I don't think "patent" is the likely legal concept if such a thing was done.
It is no longer the "olden days"

Desktop manufacturers don't skim subscription content - we would all revolt if they tried.

It is NOT 30% for handling payments. It is skimming 30% for the life of the subscription for fielding a single click.
> Did Shakespeare reuse many non-public characters? I ask because that's where copyright is an impediment to story writing.

Shakespeare reused large portions of the plotlines from contemporary plays. Hamlet and As You Like It are two I can think of. But I think he changed most of the names.
Off topic observation on possible front page / ordering glitch: As of 15h50 UTC this submission had vanished from the front page, and wasn't to be found in the second, third or fourth pages. It had "136 points by domino 5 hours ago | 27 comments", which should be enough for the second page.

(It was sitting near the top of the front page; I refreshed and then got curious about it, and had to look down the chronological list to find it again).
First, this argument isn't over the share that's due for the purchase of the App itself.

Second, they may have created the ecosystem, but they also created and maintain the walls surrounding it. It sounds like Apple is trying to have their cake and eat it too.

Third, Apple is providing a repository, marketing, searchability, etc., for the app itself. They're not doing anything to "earn" the income from the content. I'll be the first to say that prices aren't based on the underlying cost of a product, but ethically this still seems like a racket.
No cerebellum, missing part of his brain stem... makes me think that perhaps our mammalian brain + prefrontal cortex is so adaptable, that the older parts aren't strictly necessary. ie they're vestigial. Though I expect that they are specialized and actually do a better job of their tasks.

In the bigger picture: where there's life, there's hope. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Nature's imagination is greater than your imagination.
Nokia + MS can give a good fight to others provided they work very closely and act in lightning speed ... but this should be plan B and not plan A.

Also Nokia is HUGE everywhere (except north america). What they have to do is to spend more on ecosystem to get things done as fast as possible and also spend on marketing in north-america ...

MEEGO is a universal OS, it is used in cars, TVs, Games, tablets etc. so it's better to make it part of Plan A where users can be switched flawlessly from symbian with a solid ecosystem in place.
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I think its more like if Google had also developed their own standard for sending pages to replace HTML/JS/CSS, replaced DNS with their own page discovery system, provided tons of pre-built reusable components that make up almost all parts of most sites, and then paid for all of the bandwidth for transferring webapps using this new system.

And then, still supported the old way of doing things, only charging a cut if you used their new system.
It's safe to say that an entity/group/company in control of a market will likely act to prevent circumvention of the market.

Amazon does this - any Amazon Marketplace seller who sells products independently of the Marketplace must offer the goods on Amazon for the same price or less --
"General Pricing Rule" - http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1...

(I believe Kindle purchases aren't subscriptions, so let's leave that aside for now.)

(I'm also leaving aside whether this behavior is ethical, good, whathaveyou.)

The problem is Apple's insistence on a 30% commission. I think the backlash against this will be substantial.
Well, that's surely true of the entire web.
This sounds like extortion... yet it's interesting to consider that these are essentially the terms the music labels have been living under for years. In that case, they paid because Apple came up with a viable service before them. Now Apple's trying to extract the same terms from companies that have successfully built sophisticated services and vast user bases independently of Apple. It's absurd to think of Apple getting a commission for "bringing a subscriber" to Netflix just because someone starts their subscription in the app.

I've supported most of Apple's major strategic decisions, but this looks like a flagrant abuse of their market position.
It will require a new version since coffee pots have evolved since 1998.