skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The construction you are making fun of means "someone stole my camera" just as much as it means "i stole a camera". From context, though, it's clear that the first is what the author means. No rephrasing is necessary to convey the message; the sentence is 100% correct as-is.
This seems like an example of a headline that should have been reworded by the submitter.

skeptics.stackexchange is a Q&A site for scientific skepticism. That title is actually the title of a question, but you wouldn't know that by reading the headline on Hacker News. It looks like it is stating a fact.

I propose the title: Was New Coke a conspiracy to boost sales of Classic Coke?
From what I've read: take care and be cautious! The situation is getting better (I recently read about the reviving Bogota party scene) and the violence is moving to other countries in Central America, but still.
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>Olofsson has a new idea - or, specifically, a variation on an old one...it was common for a central processor to have a 'math co-processor' chip alongside it - a secondary processor which was designed specifically to carry out floating point arithmetic at speeds significantly faster than the main processor

This is exactly how people are currently using GPUs right now. How is this architecture better than a Fermi?

>"A guy straight out of college who's done a course in C programming can take a program and run it on our machine. There's no new constructs to run - you can take a program with legacy code and run it straight out of the box on our machine, and you can't do that on GPU."

If they're using only static compilation, this is very unlikely to be true. A few thousand Ph.D. theses have been sunk into parallelizing imperative programs. Despite the accumulation of sophisticated compiler techniques, it doesn't really work without extensive annotations and cooperation from the programmer. The programmer often ruins potential parallelism by accidentally creating dependencies between loop iterations. Even when analyzing ideal code, the program text doesn't contain sufficient information about the data size to create a good partition.

However, there's some small chance this isn't empty hype and they've actually made some cool breakthrough in runtime parallelization of imperative code. In that case, though, why would they be hyping vaporous hardware rather than just applying their fancy JIT compiler to existing multicore systems?
Slightly tangential, but Eurostat maintains some useful data also on EU members. Could be a useful data point if you are going after a European market with your killer startup idea. It is two years out of date however. Stuff will have changed since then, especially in the likes of the PIIGS countries.

Purchasing power:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/graph.do?tab=graph&...

Broadband penetration rates:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/graph.do?tab=graph&...
8 Reasons Why the TV Industry Must Adopt Open Innovation
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> Performance is king

Not so much for laptops. Given the existence and usage of the Atom, there are plenty of people that would be fine with battery life, heat, and weight changes that could be brought by the ARM. If the Macbook / Macbook Air switched to ARM (I would guess an A-15 Cortex), then they would fit in fine and app developers would get their software recompiled. Heck, cross platform developers need to be ready for W8 on ARM.
Do Lectures [1]. Some of their content has been featured on the TED website in the past.

[1] http://www.dolectures.com/
I think "gamification" is mostly just creating an often complementary incentive system for something. As a result gamification itself can't really be wrong, only its execution and I think this sounds pretty lightweight and well done.
Sound advice, thanks. It's hard to look at it from the perspective of a new visitor when you've been immersed in the details for months.

If it comes down to just having clearer instructions and a more actionable description, I'll be pretty happy.
California Working on Internet Privacy Law
Obviously I'm an edge case, but I'm not using a graphical file manager, so I can't use the drag and drop method of providing a file.

Have you considered allowing users to specify a file by URL, or the browser's browse mechanism for file input?
Fortune 500 Ranks Apple at 35
Yeah, we use JIRA at work, and I tend to avoid it like the plague. It takes forever and a day to load, and doing simple tasks takes upwards of 5 - 6 clicks to get done.

For some reason rather than helping developers it is getting in the way.
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> They prevent others from suing you, at least over that one patent.

That's like saying that someone can't charge you rent for property that you own.

However, unlike with property that you own, you can get sued wrt an overlapping patent owned by someone else regardless of what patents you own.

> That said, I wonder how much it might fix if people were only permitted to license or cross-license your patents and forbidden from reassigning the patent or the right to sue over the patent.

In other words, you think that patents shouldn't be sellable.
Not only no but hell no. There is no justification you could give me to think that would be a 'good' idea.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in the UK does some very cool animations explaining stuff, somewhat similar to TED

http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/
Someone else mentioned it already, but JIRA seemed to have been made for management to look at pretty pie charts and graphs that ultimately don't mean a whole lot if your developers are more pissed at it and don't really use it other than the bare minimum.
I assume most places like that would strip exif data already.

Imgur does, for instance.
Did they reject the studies BEFORE they were submitted or AFTER?
Doesn't that pretty much invalidate the notion that the site is in fact a "leak" site? If I own the copyright, I'm not leaking, I'm releasing information!

Maybe this is just a fancy new way for government officials to release phony "leaked" stories without attribution?
> If you are referring to events like the Russian Revolution I think it's more accurate to say that a bunch of thugs who said they were acting for "the people" got in control

And this time things are going to be different because ....?

A huge fraction, if not most, revolutions end badly.
I'm from Barcelona, Spain, but I've been to Colombia some years ago for a project for an important spanish bank. I was there 5 times, and the total stay where 8 months. You should travel around the country, but while you should definitively visit Bogota, keep in mind that this city is in the middle of the Andes, and it is 2.600 meters above the sea level. That means that the weather can be colder than on the coast (nothing really cold, but more rainy sometimes) and the temperatures can be 15º-25ºC, while on the seaside the temperatures are more like 30º-40º. It is in the tropic, so there are no 4 seasons, just the wet season and the dry season.

You should go to San Andres Island, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Cali... it's a must to do scuba diving on all these places, don't miss Tayrona National Park!! I also enjoyed my trip to Leticia, in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, just where Colombia frontiers with Brazil and Peru.

Enjoy and take care!!
I remember hearing an interview with someone high up at coke at that time and his response was something along the lines of- we weren't that smart and we weren't that dumb.
The Truth Is, It's Impossible To Manage Facebook Engineers
Okay that surprised me, I assumed it was only allowed for music playing.
Show HN: Remember the Wedding - Photo sharing for weddings
Hi HN,

A couple months ago I left my corporate job and am trying my hand at setting up a lifestyle business, micro ISV, etc.

The first project I've attempted is a photo sharing service for weddings -- it allows guests to upload their photos into a common album, which the bride and groom can then share as they please or download as a zip file, etc.

It's different from Facebook photos since you don't have to be friends with anybody and there are more photo-album mechanisms, and it's different from Flickr, Smugmug, etc since multiple people can upload to the same album.

I'm slightly embarrassed to show it off in its current state since I see a lot of things that need improving, but I figured I'd put it out there for additional feedback. I know the copy needs work, the design is mediocre, and I want to replace the "how it works" section with a more illustrated guide and/or walkthrough video, but I want to see if it at least has legs before dumping money into it.

I'd appreciate any and all feedback that anyone has. And if you're getting married any time soon or know someone who is, shoot me an e-mail for a free account (email is in profile). Thanks!

The site is: http://www.rememberthewedding.com
There is a demo. There are a number of controls on the top right, and one is labeled "Demos", though there is only one demo at the moment, and it doesn't seem complete. I suspect this is still very much a work in progress. I seriously doubt the author intended for it to be shown.
"This makes it possible to use the same TV channels for cable that are also used for broadcast over the air" -- can someone explain what this means?
This is exactly why i stopped reading boingboing; there's a tendency to ascribe meaning to actions that just isn't there. Mozilla said no such thing. What they said was more like "we won't just do whatever a government agency tells us to unless legally compelled to do so." I'm pleased Mozilla did this, but their stance is not the one it's being portrayed as here.
I don't think the author means it would be war if they went down. More likely, he means that if China attacked Amazon, it's possible that the US would retaliate in a way that escalated into something much worse. Losing the App Store isn't a war. Punishing the perps through increasingly militaristic actions might be though.
wow that looks brilliant (from what I can see), do you think its at all useful to people that actually know javascript? or is it more of a tool for those that dont/are learning?
There is some strong evidence of Man and Dog working closely together going back at least 30k years, and even some evidence going back 100k years--far longer than for any other domesticated animal.

There is also evidence that the long association of Man and Dog has changed both species. By hunting together, each evolved to emphasize their strengths in the partnership, and lost things they no longer needed. There is a good discussion of this in Temple Grandin's "Animals in Translation".

Some scientists even think it was our ancestor's symbiotic relationship with dogs that let them outcompete other groups such as Neanderthals.

Dogs are able to figure out human states of mind from our facial expressions and body language much better than any other animal, and we can do the same for them. There's a good episode of "Nova" that covers this, and shows some of the experiments.

To put it succinctly, according to science dogs really are "Man's best friend".

This makes me wonder what the heck went wrong in those cultures that reject dogs, and consider them to be pests and vermin to be exterminated or at best tolerated.
I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it would be a security risk.

Let the user pick a username to go with the ID provider. When you fill in the username, it'll look up (AJAX) which provider was used and offer/highlight that one?

The question is, is it a security risk if anyone can type in any username to find out which ID provider it is used with?
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But still understandable, so that's a success I'd say.

I remember when nginx first came out (the web server that the author built) and the biggest barrier to adoption was the fact that all the documentation was in russian. Online machine translation did not produce understandable content at that time.
My co-worker would absolutely love this. He is the gamer type, has to get every achievement in every game ever. Good guy, but clearly driven by badges and the like.

Thing is, it is within JIRA, besides the guy that installs and maintains JIRA none of the developers in the company like JIRA. It is slow, flashy, and doing basic tasks takes too many mouse clicks. This has meant that our developers spend as little time within JIRA as possible, meaning that the quality of the items in JIRA goes down. It is strictly an enter hours, close bug report type deal. No discussion is held within JIRA on the best way to fix a bug (done in private email instead or in-person meetings) or feature requests that don't properly get split up into sub-tasks.

Not that I am saying that Bugzilla would be any better for that matter, but at least it would load within a reasonable amount of time ...
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Luckily DOCSIS3 scales pretty well. You can just keep adding bonded channels. 4 or 8 channel D3 modems are common these days but we have 16 and 32 channel models waiting in the wings. Since cable systems aren't exactly symmetrical from a spectrum standpoint the upstream speeds will continue to lag a bit but 25-50Mbit/sec is do-able today. 50-100Mbit will probably be common in 5 years.
Some recommendations for connectivity, that helped or would have helped me during my trips in Africa:

Setup some sort of vpn service that you can use in case of restricted internet access.

If you run your own mailserver, open up a port beside 25, since some provider will block this one.

An ip over dns setup is something you should consider as well.

Make backups and use encryption.

Have fun!
"There are dozens of disciplines where virtually every single scientific consensus in the entire field has been overturned."

You seem to be arguing that since mankind once thought the world was flat and was wrong, and then mankind thought the world was round and was wrong (more oblate spheroidal), and then mankind thought the world was oblate spheroidal and was wrong, we definitely can't trust the scientific consensus that the world is approximately oblate spheroidal with a very slight bulge south of the equator. Indeed, maybe the earth will turn out to be cubical tomorrow, and a taurus the day after that.

"Wrong" is a relative statement. Saying the earth is flat is more wrong than saying the earth is a sphere, and saying the earth is a sphere is more wrong than saying the earth is oblate spheroidal. Yes they're all wrong, just as newtonian mechanics was, strictly speaking, "wrong", yet no one looks at a car and says "that was built using newtonian mechanics, and therefore can't possibly work".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tcOi9a3-B0
That same photo may have had its EXIF data stripped out.
Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains
I think it means that the cable carries an analog TV signal at the same frequencies used by over-the-air broadcasts. If the cable wasn't shielded, it would act like an antenna and pick up radio-broadcast signals. That would cause interference with the cable signal. But since the shielding electromagnetically isolates the cable, cables and over-the-air broadcasting can use the same frequencies.
Pap. If you know Opencourseware exists there are two things worth learning on that page, ck-12 and flat world knowledge make freely downloadable textbooks.

Not worth your time.
geany is a very nice editor! does geany have a zencoding plugin? (I haven't found one but I haven't looked all that hard)
ahaha funny ! But depends on how you see it though.
link: http://techboard.co.za
My understanding in the United States is that the federal government can't copyright. I'm not sure how this affects other governments, but the must own the copyright issue shouldn't apply to US government documents.
Good on them for releasing an API.
Awesome this is just like http://scratch.mit.edu and

google has a product called app inventor.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Hope it is now easily accessible as a web app... Cool UI.
Not all concepts require great design consideration, but framing a wedding is one of them. The utility of the site is not going to be the selling point. It needs to be a place where the bride feels like she'll look like the Duchess Kate. Dump some money onto a good designer. It'll be worth it. (And yes, the idea has legs.)
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This is definitely not a done deal--NYC has solicited proposals from many institutions, and it's not certain they will do the project at all. The NYT has a nice overview here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/nyregion/bloombergs-big-pu...
Show HN: Datajones.com | Mobile offline data collection.
Hi.

I'd like to get some early feedback about my mini-project.

http://datajones.com/ - mobile data collection

Use Datajones to create custom forms, to collect data via mobile phone or tablet, even while being offline. Export the collected data as csv file for further processing in your spreadsheet application.

It is very early beta, but already functional without any major known bugs. Tested on Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Since I do not have a modern phone, I was only able to verify functionality on a friends HTC Android. btw: This friend happens to be my first customer. :)

Love to hear your thoughts, ideas for improvement etc.

Many thanks!
Fora has some pretty sweet videos.

http://fora.tv/
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No, he's clearly arguing that the billionaire is more rational with his money. Even though the marginal value is higher for the college student, that student is not as smart might not even see the opportunity for monetary gain.
I'm from Spain (and glad to help) :)

If you hace general questions ask them here, or ir they are more specific feel free to drop me a line (diego -at- ducksboard.com)

The spanish startup scene is becoming more mature. I know dozens of them with with 20+ employees. Also, due to the
general lack of English knowledge here, a native developer is always more than welcome.
Ask HN:What can user generated sites do to protect their web reputations?
I used to work at a start up called HubPages that was pretty badly impacted by Google's panda algorithm change.

From my perspective when I worked there, HubPages did everything right as far as removing bad spam, identifying duplicate content, and promoting its best quality articles.

We worked on tools to make content generation easier and had some of the strictest moderation policies for any user generated web site (a maximum of 2 external links to a single domain, minimum word count, and a "hopping" service that encouraged members to rank content).

Clearly, none of this was enough because HubPages was apparently severely hurting its reputation with the general public.

At Hacker News, any link to HubPages will immediately go dead. When people talk about HubPages, I keep hearing people talk about the amount of low quality articles and low quality content that was appearing high up in the search results.

I'm only using HubPages as an example. I would be very interested to hear what other user generated content sites are doing?

Does giving each user their own subdomain improve the situation? Would this have made it easier to distinguish between the high quality and low quality content. Blogger, for example, has some of the highest and lowest quality blogs imaginable.

Do sites such as scribd do anything special to protect their reputation from spammers and authors who post sloppy or junky content?

I don't work at HubPages anymore. I will probably jump back into the start up space in 2 years (I signed a contact with United Health Care for a 2-year stint).

I would be very interested to hear what people at Hacker News think. How should a user generated content site protect its reputation and deal with the high levels of low quality content that are an inevitable part of the model.
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Most guests will be taking pics from their phone. Make an app so they can upload them seamlessly while they're taking a break from the dancefloor. A facebook function would be to auto tag the couple and post to some user's fb account - that way, the couple's whole network is in the loop, not just the close family and friends.
What's also notable is the ease and scale that these events can unfold. It's substantially easier for a small terrorist group to exist in (the USA (e.g. Anonymous, by some standards), Russia, China, the Bahamas) and exercise its influence on other countries. There are no need for passports to get there, only an internet connection.
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The TL;DR version: "This journal does not publish replication studies, whether successful or unsuccessful"
Warning: article is essentially legalese by Gene Quinn, a lawyer who's what you might want to call an "Intellectual Property Maximalist".

Quinn bases his arguments on a totally legal view of things, divorced from empirical or moral or ethical concerns. Naturally, he comes to some odd conclusions.
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Indeed. Most of my friends I have met through work or church or other friends; some sort of pre-existing common cause. Cultivating friendships "from scratch", so to speak, is admittedly much more difficult.

On topic, that feature of Seattle may have some bearing on entrepreneurs in search of capital or employees or a support network. But it seems orthogonal to actually taking the plunge; you're either going to do it, or keep talking about it.

(Also, I think we may have been in some classes together at WSU! We must know some of the same people, you're 3 degrees away on LinkedIn.)
I wish i wasn't getting downvoted to oblivion:(

I'm honestly curious what colour brought to the table. Last I checked their app wasn't all that great and their idea, while novel, wasn't groundbreaking and I'm not aware of how they could try to monetize it beyond ads. That last part could just be lack of imagination on my part.
Clickables:

http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
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It's a good idea, I found a Sony Memory Stick (back when they were quite expensive), I would have liked to track the owner as well.
Encouraging to see more development in this space. Thanks. I'm curious, though. How do you think this compares with the mongoose (http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/) project. Other than the fact that it's C++-based what would you say are the relative advantages/disadvantages?
The icon on the home page appears to be lifted from the mac application The Hit List.
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I forgot where I stumbled into this link. I thought it was right here on HN but I could not find it anymore. Sorry if it is a repost. Oh look, a squirrel!
I agree with you.

I spent about two weeks looking for a designer who worked with both wedding stationery and websites. I found a few that basically did one and dabbled in the other, but didn't find anybody who thought they could do the job. In the interest of launching something to get some feedback, I just did it myself.

Time to start looking again, though. Now that the site is up and I can add users to something functional, I should get back to making it actually look good.

Thanks for the feedback!
The right to bear ARMs: Apple eyeing switch from Intel to ARM in 2013
Exception Safety, Garbage Collection etc. (a.k.a. Why Does Java Suck So Bad?)
It’s very likely that you’ve been writing totally incorrect code without realizing it. Once you do realize it, it’s usually not too hard to fix the problem, depending on the language you're using.