skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only I could Shift+A HN, Twitter and Quora, I would beat procrastination!
Except, streaming music you own to a computer you own is legal regardless of whether or not some piece of propietary software you use has a private key that you aren't supposed to know. The key is out. Using it for anything is legal.
Are you on a recent MBP? I had to turn off hardware acceleration in the version of Flash that shipped with Chrome before it would act (relatively) stable.
Perhaps a better name would be a taxonomy of startup strategies. One startup may switch or select several strategies depending on it's size and market. I'm interested in seeing this list expand if you pursue it. Please send me a url to a destination where you'll further develop it. (messel at gmail dot com)
http://github.com/icylisper/jark
I'd move away from being a "YC Reject" program to a "Hacker News Startup Co-op".

How about "Peer-to-peer Startups"?
The ADSL connection is great. Well, the IPv4 side of it, and IPv6 up until their edge routers.
IPv6 is vary useful for peer to peer communication such as torrents and skype. My roommate and I sit behind NAT and rather than choosing a single PC that get's fast torrent downloads IPv6 can gradually increase the number of peers other PC's can see. Even better the speed scales up as adoption increases. Also, when you want remote into a more than one home PC you can do so directly with IPv6, you don't need to pick a single host and then remote into other machines on your network.

The only downside is you need better firewalls.
Project Website: http://icylisper.in/jark/
Now you can do this:
iTunes -- stream to --> 3rd party software/hardware

How is this all that ground breaking from what you've been able to do with Rogue Amoeba apps for a while now?

http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
Histórico de cambios de la página web
"naughty words" contain no real meaning, but comparing wikileaks to the KKK or neonazis is truly uncivil.

Perhaps it is a sign that this avenue of discussion is finally maturing enough to understand the difference between a comment that merely uses taboo words, and a comment that actually contains uncivil content.
Do you know why ML won out at CMU?

As far as research goes, CMU and Princeton are (as far as I know) the two ML strongholds in the US, with functional-programming research at most other departments dominated by Haskell. So I imagine the faculty were in favor of ML. The new course (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15150/) is being taught by Robert Harper, author of the book Programming in Standard ML (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/introsml/).
Great idea.

But why do you need to know the color of my navel for me to sign up?

In this case adding facebook/google/twitter connect is probably the best way forward.
I think a lot of people work with an assumption that the non-profit colleges at least have pure motives, so they may fall short on execution but they're trying.

For profit, on the other hand, I have no problem with capitalism but the incentives in the low-income-education market point pretty clearly to "crank out as many degrees as possible with more emphasis on marketing the degree than making it good". Butts in chairs and all that, if you want to make money.

EDIT: Although, I'd love to be proven wrong. Cheap vocational training where the school turns a profit would really be a great system. I'm just concerned that the priorities will have to be 1) attract lots of students, 2) cut costs per student, 3) deliver education, in that order, if your organization's goal is profit rather than education.
All I have to say is that I've been doing p90x and it works for me.
Sony was using IPs to establish jurisdiction because they have a fairly weak case. AFAIK, you can't be sued for reading/looking at something.
Such silly errors are entirely excusable. I would like to know more about all these commenters who are so up in arms about this mistake that they did not deign to complete the article. You would have been very unhappy people before English spelling was standardized.
I cannot imaging rejecting the substance of an article due to such cosmetic issues. I guess this is a consequence of the group here considering your postings on HN to be some kind of resume or CV. Colour me unimpressed with the herd.
I got the same result at first. But after trying to play from my iPod touch, it worked.

I guess running the server and iTunes client on the same machine caused the problem.

My config: MBP on 10.6.7

And thank you for your dns-sd patch on https://github.com/albertz/shairport/
Have you seen http://lifepath.me?
This was already invented 13 years ago:
http://www.deathclock.com/

It's the first hit on google for death clock.
On our Ubuntu server, I can create both foo.txt and Foo.txt in a folder. On my OSX machine, those are considered the same file.

Three reasons that's no big deal: 1) We never create both foo.txt and Foo.txt. Why would we? (OK, that's a bit snarky.) :) 2) We're developing on the system that's more restrictive (doesn't allow caps and non-caps versions) and pushing to the one that's more permissive. So nothing will get lost in the process. If we were going the other way, or migrating from Linux machines, I could see it being a problem. 3) If this is really a big deal to someone, they can configure OSX to use a case-sensitive file system. May cause other side effects (some Mac backup utilities may ignore either Foo.txt or foo.txt when backing up), but it can be done.
Trivial with an Arduino. He could even build it himself in a weekend.
Pop Up Tents- The Best Idea for Any Outdoor Campaign
Above all advertising make some extreme quality of pop up tents for outdoor uses. All the outdoor tents that we design are made from the highest quality of material that protects scorching sun or rain.
Facebook to Set Up Standalone China Service With Baidu
Infographic of Infographics
He wanted a physical clock. Not an app or website.
Ford Edge SE, SEL, Limited, Sport
This is the best thing ever :)

Amazing functionality packed into a single bookmarklet. I love it.
Vatican Publication Praises Classic Hacker Culture
Hadn't heard of vxWorks before. Did a quick googling, it's been used in a huge array of products: Boeing aircraft, industrial robots, Apache attack helicopters, BMW iDrive, Linksys routers, even spacecraft!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks#Notable_products_using_...
Adobe Creative Suite now in subscription form
Interesting. I see it used on one of my python gae apps but not the other. One uses .appspot.com and the other a custom domain.

Edit: The one at appspot.com has spdy.
I want an actual, physical product. Not an app or website that I have to keep open.
Clean Code - Stop Wasting My Time
I think mutability was unavoidable because in the early days memory an CPU cycles were too expensive to waste them for copying data.
Is it now a given that any fledgling designer will pirate Photoshop?
Use Post Formats to Show/Hide Content
To be fair, his post never mentioned a physical clock until he edited.
Find some life expectancy stats and build the clock with an Arduino board.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le...
For me this would serve as a very positive reminder. Since both my parents (independently of each other) passed away at 55 years of age, I can't shake away the feeling that 55 years is my life expectancy as well.

I know in my head that it is completely irrational, but over and over I find myself thinking of 55 years as a proper estimate. The other day when a friend complained that the average age of her colleagues must be like 60, in my head I thought "Wait, how does that work? Oh, that's right, most people actually get to live beyond 55 years of age".

A daily reminder that my true statistical life expectancy actually goes quite far beyond 55 years would be something that gave me a slightly more positive outlook every day. Right now I'm 35, if anyone wants to put it into perspective.
Ask HN: Termsheet for Start Fund
Does anyone know where I can get the termsheet offered to the ycombinator companies by SV Angels and Yuri Milner? Thanks.
From the video it appeared as though the laser stayed locked on to a certain point on the side of the motor, adjusting for the movement of the ocean. Being a sniper trying to deal with pirates and hostages on a rough sea, for example, must be kinda tricky.
Ask HN: effects of a sociopath on an early stage startup
For HN'ers who may have not read the related post, I'm talking about 'sociopath' in the sense of 'will to power, amoral individual'. This was coined by Venkat in 'the Gervais principle' in opposition to loser/clueless group morality, not necessarily evil (Gandhi and Martin Luther King are sociopaths under his definition). [1][2]

I have to decide if I partner with someone who has a clear sociopath profile. He will be damn efficient at sales, but it is virtually impossible to do collaborative work with him. He will be always measuring his power and negotiating for advantage. It's emotionally tiring to deal with him already. He will spend all his metal energy making sure things are done the way he wants them. Will behave like a CEO, even when his role is not CEO. Will orchestrate power coups any chance he has.

The more general question is: should sociopaths be tolerated on an early stage startup? Given the requirements of startup life, my guess is that sociopaths abound. I lean against this partnership. But I may be rejecting a very effective partner, provided he plays fair with the rest of the team (which is not clear!).

The only relationship that I imagine could work is one similar to that of Malcom [3] and Jayne [4] in Firefly.

What do you think?

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
[2] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/21/morality-compassion-and-the-sociopath/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_characters#Malcolm_Reynolds
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_characters#Jayne_Cobb
Yeah but if you're on the sea, your target is moving all over the place anyway. Lasers, even really powerful ones, have to stay focused on the same point in order to have an effect, yeah?

W/ a bullet, you get all the kinetic energy at whatever the point of impact is.
Samfoo, don't ask him any questions about his refusal to get a lawyer. I posed the very same questions and he called me a "stalker" for daring to question. Jacob Appelbaum has taken to using the term "extralegal harassment" to dodge critical questions about his refusal to get a lawyer to sue the DHS, like Jesse Ventura is doing with the TSA.

http://www.infowars.com/ventura-strikes-back-with-lawsuit-ag...

Appelbaum wants you to think that the kind of treatment he is undergoing at airports is exceptional. It is not. It is almost identical to the treatment the likes of Ventura and Alex Jones and his staff are subjected to. Ventura is certainly suing, so why isn't Appelbaum? Something is not adding up here.
Quite a superficial post. The Alan Kay quote is well-known, and it only touches upon mutable vs immutable data. Purity alone does not define functional programming, since there are plenty of counter-examples (Erlang, Lisp, OCaml).
Doesn't mutability force you to actually copy data? Immutability enables sharing, which needs less copying.

(Of course what it really comes down to, is whether you use multiple different copies of your data structures. If you only ever use one, even functional languages can update them in place. See Clean's linear types as an example, or Haskell's ST monad.)
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Per Guy L. Steele:

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at
his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

From:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
and it’s happening 3.8 billion light years away! I'll go with 3.8x10^9 years, which is consistent with the "one digit precision" 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers number.
Interesting, any suggestions?
The machines that we deal with are mutable as hell (unless we see time as an implicit argument ;)). Most early languages were thin abstractions from machine code, and the world kind of built from there.
Nielsen: users so search-reliant it undermines their problem-solving abilities
As a slight elaboration, it looks like (from your linked messages) that [1] is still at Google, but has been moved to another project; while [2] and [3] have left Google entirely.
Why IPv6 Won't Solve the NAT Problem
They really screwed up the naming of that book. It's not meant to be unfriendly. It's just meant to say that Steve Jobs is an Icon, and also ties into icons used in graphical computing. But since iMacs and iPods were all the rage, they did that with the title as well, without realizing that people would read it as "I con" and think it was about Steve being a conniving bad guy.
Steve Blank Part 2 of 5
This could be incredible!

One thing that worries me is I was expecting to see a git repository - Preferably on GitHub where this is hosted so I can see what is going on inside the server itself.

I am excited to see where it goes because currently I have some flaky Gitorious setup but I develop .NET mainly so if I can have user based git hosting on my own windows server this would be absolutely amazing.
I appreciate no idea is original and there was a hole in the market. Friends Reunited has taken their position of power as a given and not done any major updates to the site in years. Plus their paid business model was obviously a failure.

I am not really saying he is not that clever, don't get me wrong, I bet he has far more credentials than I ever will. What I am saying is, he doesn't deserve what he has. As you can see, I look at Google and appreciate their position and how they got there, I just don't get it with Mark.

The question really was, do I think he should have been made "Person of the year", the simple answer is no, I do not.

I like your objective comments though and can totally see where you are coming from.
Ruby Jsonpipe with less than 20 lines code 
just built for fun . :)
It is feasible and is well within his means. Jacob Appelbaum is not poor. With his work for Tor Appelbaum earns 96 000 dollars a year, almost triple the American average of 33 000 dollars. He's got enough money to get himself a lawyer. Even if he didn't have the money, Appelbaum has over 10 000 followers on Twitter, if everyone chipped in with $10 he'd have the money to sue the DHS. Wikileaks with Assange's 1,7 million bookdeal could also chip in with a bit of money. The elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about is: why is none of this happening? Why is Appelbaum openly wallowing in his victimization and defeatism, when he could be doing so many other things to pursue his 4th amendment rights? I can no longer escape the impression that I am watching a drama-queen theatre performance.
OpenID and GBA security combined (video)
Adobe announces Photoshop Touch SDK, releases 3 Photoshop iPad apps
Sending your clients to purgatory (a node.js/socket.io tutorial)
Professor Farnsworth has invented this at least twice. It's occasionally off by a few seconds, though, what with "free will" and all.
RouteMap, a new open source client/server-side JavaScript URL Mapping Library
I'm pretty sceptical as well. These kinds of things have been tried before, and never really caught on. But that might be because pure touch-based interfaces were never really popular before and with the mouse it's entirely impractical.

I think the idea is very promising, to be able to 'code' with touch gestures instead of a keyboard. This is only the first iteration so I guess things will be improved eventually if this catches on.

At least people are thinking about it :)
The site looks absolutely beautiful, but it's asking me for 10 bucks upfront without showing what it does.
After I broke down the costs very clearly, showing why there are more expenses than just the printing which are saved with ebooks - and the real-world issue of sunk costs which go into ebooks and paperbacks - you still insisted on claiming that the only savings would be the printing costs.

The only thing you seem to have read was the numbers and the word profit.

What, exactly, do you think you said that wasn't considered?
Louis forgot that there were other non-windows and on-mac desktop OSes hardware during the MAC vs Win wars in his debating points which contradict his points..

what ones?

Amiga
BeOS
plus several others
This looks great, but it is incredibly hard to figure out how to actually buy a subscription on that site. Go here - https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=...;
ooh cool idea. you could also specify significant factors like gender, smoking/non-smoking, bmi, etc. Good excuse for me to get into arduino
I doubt you'd fare much better than running a P2P service that could be used for anything, but was obviously intended for copyright infringement. And that doesn't seem to be doing so hot for Limewire.
Don't mess with someone's livelihood

But that is exactly what the scammer was doing! Person A does something wrong, person B catches them with their hand in the cookie jar, person A turns it around and said "person B is stealing my family's cookies!" Sorry, doesn't work like that.
First of all, any definition of "sociopath" that would include Gandhi and Martin Luther King is an abuse of terminology of such proportions as to make comprehension difficult.

That being said: why is this even a question? Is there no one else available to you? Sure, he may be "damn efficient at sales", but there are a lot of people who fit that description without all of the other baggage.

Move on.
> It seems like we would truly be looking back in time.

Anything we look at in space is us looking back in time.
Appelbaum already tried that. Appelbaum was engaged to and tried to marry a Canadian photographer so that he could move to Canada. Back in the day he bragged to the media about becoming an expat, but soon she figured him out and refused to get married. Appelbaum also openly bragged to Rolling Stone magazine about having dozens of GFs around the world, yet he has never considered moving in with any of them. Rightly so, IMO no woman should have to put up with his drama-queen defeatism.
The 4X4 Model for Winning Knowledge Content Online
No one reads any more. The long form is dead. The written word? That’s for grandpa! It’s all about video, baby! Everything I just said is entirely accurate. And yet it’s all wrong. The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
Isn't using automatic translation for this kind of information... a bit risky?

UPD. They say in terms that ‘translation errors may be manually corrected,’ so maybe a human is checking each message.
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Unfortunately, twinax will not reach the meet-me room in your colo.
> better than anyone else ever will

Have a look at Skyhook, cited by developers as an upgrade to Google's location service built into Android, and as the location service in original iPhones:

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/

In general, it's considered superior to Google's service. Citation:

In comparing the two systems, Fruzzetti notes that Google’s technology can be off by as much .2 miles, whereas Skyhook’s technology has attracted manufacturers and developers like Motorola, Gowalla and Peekboo with “accuracy within 10 to 20 meters.”

http://bostinnovation.com/2010/09/28/skyhook-v-google-iath-4...
Is this why gmail in Chrome seems to be hanging on me a lot lately?
This is all very well but if I unexpectedly get knocked down dead by a bus I will want my money back.
This is pretty neat, it has proven its usefulness already.

+1 for a Chrome extension though, I don't know if I am going to remember to keep clicking the bookmarklet.
I'm not sure about these beams, but at least GRBs from collapsing stars come from a relativistic shock wave with gamma of ~1000, IIRC. Such high gamma gives a very collimated beam of radiation, of order 1/gamma, due to relativistic beaming. So taking 1/1000 radians as a ballpark value, 1mrad is about the divergence of a typical laser. (Laser pointers have slightly higher divergence due to the short cavity, but things like He-Ne lasers are typically 1mrad.)
In case anyone's interested, I successfully entered the following version in DOSBOX using COPY CON, and indeed even used it to recreate a copy of itself:

kragen@inexorable:~/devel/inexorable-misc$ od -t u1 hexconv.com
0000000 180 1 205 33 36 15 136 194 192 226 4 205 33 36 15 1
0000020 194 180 2 205 33 235 233
0000027

It turns out the 08 meaning "or %al," was getting interpreted by COPY CON as a backspace, so this version adds AX to DX instead. (I sure am glad I didn't have to debug that using TYPE.) This program has advantages and disadvantages compared to COPY CON:

1. It echoes its input so you can see, at least in theory, if you made a mistake.

2. You only need to type two keystrokes instead of one to four per byte.

3. There are no forbidden bytes. At least in Dosbox, COPY CON converts ^@ to the sequence 00 03, interprets 08 as backspace (even if entered on the keypad with Alt), and stops copying when it gets a carriage return, even if the carriage return was entered with Alt.

4. To exit, you must reboot. In Dosbox, the output has already been flushed to the filesystem, but I have my doubts about whether, on MS-DOS, every single INT 21H AH=2 would write a 512-byte floppy disk sector with the newly appended byte. On the other hand, you could probably just mash some key on autorepeat long enough to fill up a couple of sectors, and you'd be good to go. This program, after all, only has to be sufficient to enter the next phase of the bootstrap, one with backspace and explicit termination.

5. There is no backspace, so if you hit any incorrect keystrokes, you must start over. For programs of this size, that's not a major constraint — it's pretty easy to carefully enter 40 or 50 or 100 keystrokes without making any errors — but it becomes more serious as programs get larger.
No. What is it?
Everytime I read Alan Kay's comments on OOP, I end up more confused than before... Is SmallTalk the way it was 'supposed' to be?
Good ideas. Basically, you want to make the language as high-level as possible.

Everything that can be generated or inferred from a high level description should be, for example using templates or snippets. Maybe the whole text based idea of programming needs to be side-tracked.

For example, represent the program as kind of (multilevel) graph. After all, graphs are easier to manipulate with a touch interface than text...

Interesting stuff.