skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

If LinkedIn can make $243M/year selling to recruiters and job seekers in a recession, what do you think happens when we have a global recovery and the inevitable hiring boom comes?
Conversation on Twitter degrades further
Once again proving that justice is blind.

And that's for illegal dumping, or for IP.
There are two kinds of people in the world
really? Flying is hovering?

How angry will the birds be when I tell them they are doing it wrong?
Haven't tried antiword. As of now I find abiword pretty stable for both doc and docx. I need more data but I found a few cases where it just hanged while converting. There is no specific pattern to when the program hangs. For now I am logging such cases and timing out the conversion in 3 seconds.
I also use Mutt, and just in case you don't know, you can use lynx or elinks to see html emails inside the client. It's very simple to setup [1]. Nevertheless, it would be nice if people could include plain text versions.

[1]: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html#ss5.3
Using nl to Number Lines
Your signup form is way at the bottom of the page when I load it in Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/C70La.png
I'd be more interested if they do an electric cars race, that's the future, and that's where need most innovation.
Well, it's based on a bit of a philosophical cop-out, but basically anything that claims to be strong AI will always only be a philosophical zombie. It might behave intelligent, it might claim to be intelligent and conscious, but it's impossible to prove that it actually is intelligent and conscious, since it's impossible to objectively measure or describe consciousness.

In short, I'm with Searle. We can never have strong AI, but we can certainly have weak AI.
Hyperbolic claim, but (sadly) necessary in the world of politics.
Its such a struggle for me deciding if I want print or Kindle. I'm doing research from these books usually so I need to be able to extract the text from them. For a print book, this involves a photography+OCR setup, which isn't that convenient but much quicker than transcribing. For Kindle, I have to transcribe because my OCR software screenshot reader only works on PC (which is 3 lbs heavier, is permanently married to an outlet, and sounds like an airplane taking off compared to my mac air).

On the issue of price, usually kindle is pretty good but so far used books+amazon prime can beat that price.
The problem with school education is that it isn't aware of the moral context in which it operates. Herding children into classrooms and telling them what to learn is a horrible thing to do.

And, under threat of punishment, once can't learn efficiently, anyhow.
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu...
Ad Tech: How to Maximize ROI with Facebook Advertising
does anyone know if this affects sandforce drives? the article only says (imho) that it is possible - whether it actually happens depends on details of the de-dup. for example, there is probably a minimum size for the duplicated data.

[edit: and i believe sandforce also compresses data, so it seems likely that it's some chunk of data, compressed, that must match some other chunk]
I'll tell you what happens. Recruiters and third parties sign up in droves for the sole purpose to spam the userbase, which ultimately drives members away from the site.

LinkedIn earned their 100 million users by providing a professional networking platform where the users could choose who they network with. When the userbase has less of a choice regarding who contacts them, they'll abandon linkedIn as fast as a teenager terminating his MySpace account.
Looks like buying the puts was a bad idea
How to respond to piracy
I've tried using Dragonfly several times and I can never even get started with it. It's one of those programs which I simply cannot penetrate the UI. This isn't surprising when it's an app like Blender, but I'm not sure how a browser debugger could be so confusing.
Ask HN Best language(s) and/or framework(s) for self-teaching?
Hello from a lurker turned first poster,

tl;dr - materials engineer revisiting coding as a tool to develop web apps. What languages/frameworks are best for self-teaching?

---

More detail:
1. My father was a Cobol developer
2. I was writing TRS BASIC code in elementary school
3. Used to build X86 Wintel machines when that was a popular thing
4. Breezed through AP Computer programming and my one undergraduate computer class (intro to Java) a decade ago
5. Never had a class that talked object and/or database structures and the like
6. No real coding since undergrad except for little bits of Matlab here and there for "science" things
7. Never had a Linux machine (purely Windows), but thinking of switching my Thinkpad to Ubuntu or Mint
8. In the past year I taught myself enough CSS, PHP, bash, and Apache configuration to run a Wordpress installation on shared hosting for our wedding website.
9. Now that the wedding is over, I'm taking baby steps on a friend's Linode VPS and trying to digest nginx in the context of making Wordpress run quickly and securely.

I have a healthy respect for the huge gap between writing executable code, and writing good code. I don't know that I've ever done the latter. So much has changed in decade, I need some help on where to start.

Thanks all,

-p
Galaxy S II and Galaxy S screens compared at the subpixel level (video)
In this case convenience trumps freedom, it seems. I find Richard Stallman's arguments against what he calls the "Swindle" being defective by design, and taking essential freedoms away from readers, such as the ability to buy a book anonymously using cash, lending a book to friends and keeping it as long as you want.

Would it be that my first statement is true, or are consumers just not aware of this?
Thanks.

Where do you get your doc files?

Are they the just ones submitted to your site, or is there a pastebin or similar repo of doc files?
based on all of the feedback here and some of the good ideas that people have come up with, maybe one of the first projects sent out should be to help you build out some of the smaller/more simple features. contributing to weekend hacker will, in theory, benefit everyone involved.
D - Drink Bottle -
Perhaps the most important button? Performance and concentration does increase quite a bit when you're properly hydrated.
"Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity"

It's been said before I'm sure but I don't need Zuckerberg lecturing me on integrity.
The console isn't as advanced in Firebug as Chromium or Safari, no doubt. I prefer the CSS and DOM inspection system, however - having to pause JS execution to look at the current state is not nearly as convenient. If you want to do that, though, Firebug offers that as well.
Well, its good to see that in some jurisdictions, at least, there's widespread support for net neutrality. That said, we'll see if the Dutch Parliament maintains its resolve in the face of the massive amounts of lobbying they're sure to get from ISPs.

As a side note, is anyone else massively impressed by the quality of Google Translate these days? I mean, the quality of the translation is far above and beyond that of the "typical" machine translated text. Its almost as if a person with English as a second language had read and rewritten the text from the original Dutch.
Facebook's New Way to Combat Child Pornography
Might LinkedIn's business be counter-cyclical?

People are going to be 'networking' most intensely when they don't have a job or are worried about their current job. If there are fewer people looking for a job and those people get pulled out of the market more quickly, there's less money to be made from them.
2011 Hyundai Blue2 Hydrogen Power Cells Concept Cars - leaf-shaped patterns Cars
And the job of every corporate employee -- and especially corporate officers -- is to maximize profit, however that is achieved.

Two scenarios that have serious, counter-productive effects upon society.

Police used to non infrequently be called "peace officers" ("officers of the peace").

We used to use the term, with at least some genuine meaning, "good corporate citizen".

Assign skewed metrics, and you'll get skewed results. Judging someone solely on their arrest record, or on the financial profit they acquire, misses much of what people contribute in life -- or don't.
IPad version is ready for use
There are lots of few-wire protocols and something that critical probably uses several methods. My guess is that there's backup battery power in the wheel and an inductively coupled data channel (like NFC and some RFID).
And will Crutchfield be taking that stand? Because posting an article like this and then refusing to follow your own advice is foolhardy at best.
(Why was I voted down!?!??!)

No - what they're talking about is that the controller LIES to ZFS about what blocks are being stored. That throws a huge wrench in ZFS' COW and safety features. If ZFS writes two extra copies of a block, and the SSD deduplicates those two extra without bothering to tell ZFS, then you've got a serious problem.

Imagine if the SSD deduplicated all the ditto blocks?

(Ditto Blocks) http://blogs.oracle.com/bill/entry/ditto_blocks_the_amazing_...
Ugh.. This article barely mentions the critics of IP. They get mentioned at the very end of the article as "those who believe in the free flow of information, and critics of Protect IP." Meanwhile, the article throws around unsourced 'billions of dollars and thousands of jobs' claims about just how awful it is that intellectual property is violated.

I don't know what motive Google has for fighting it, but I'm glad they are nonetheless
The quality of the translation is astounding, you're right. Not perfect though. If you select some text, you'll see Google let's users submit improved translations, so some of it may actually have been manual.
Review: "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!"
>only work with Apple devices and to have the same 3 device (or whatever the number is) limitation

That number is unlimited. You're restricted to 5 computers, but unlimited iDevices. I currently have something like 30 associated with my account.
The people with the deepest knowledge of the operating system are writing the operating systems (kernel, etc).

I'm not sure what you mean by IE being 'native' to Windows. Regardless of what MS tried to pull 10 years ago, IE being included with Windows does not make it part what the rest of us call the OS. It's an application.
Thanks. I guess I should read more carefully.
Okay so I'm not crazy. I had to read the title again and again, and I understood it only when I read the first paragraph of the article! (English is not my native language).
WebOS vs iOS: Fluidity
Apple study causes 'confirmation bias' in brains of Apple detractors, say high-status people with valuable credentials.
Perhaps you could state that a bit more definitively - experts require a complex interface to perform optimally.

This violates every principle of mass-market user interface design - I love it!
"Google seems to think it's above America's laws."

... No, it seems to think that particular law is unjust, and as responsible citizens, they are duty-bound to fight it.
It's mainly the investors that lose out from a bubble bursting--one way to look at it is that a bubble is just a good time to get a high valuation from a company's perspective. By calling it a bubble, you're saying you think there's more money out there looking for startups to invest in than startups whose prospects can support that valuation. That's a good time to get OPM (other people's money) and spend it on whatever your dream idea is, if you think you've got a shot at making it work.

There are of course counterarguments:
- Other startups are getting too much money at the same time you are, and probably spending it in irrational ways that may make it harder for you to be profitable, such as overpaying on advertising and hiring. The same argument can support the idea that the best time to start a startup is during a recession, when the big companies aren't investing enough money in growth.
- When the bubble bursts, there will be far more startups looking for money than money looking to be invested, so you're more likely to have to throw in the towel after bursting.

On the balance, I agree with the advice of most experienced entrepreneurs I've heard--err on the side of worrying more about yourself, your idea, and how you'll execute, and less about the economic environment at the time.
Ask HN: improving my automatic adwords interface?
Hello HNers,

Posting ads on AdWords confused me at first, and arguably still does, and I found that other people shared the sentiment. So I used machine learning to make an automatic keyword selector and campaign manager, and put together a company around it because I think this would be useful for others beyond just myself.

Right now, the backend is useful for me as-is, but I wanted to know what you guys thought of the latest prototype frontend I have put together: silvos.com/captain-crunch. (I have written an account scheduler for ads which sorts each ad into an account, so that is why the ad is the only input. Also, I am not a skilled web developer, but this prototype should get the point across. A user buys the ad through the interface, and receives an email at their PayPal email address with the number of clicks the ad received, without any manual work on my part.

I am confused because this doesn't feel like the right design of simple inputs and useful outputs. I have not been able to figure out what is wrong on my own, so I decided I would get your qualitative perspectives.

If you're curious about how the backend algorithm works, email me (saketh@silvos.com) and I can run a test campaign for you.

I have a lot to improve here so I appreciate your feedback. Thanks, everyone!
The IPO should have probably been priced a little higher. Closer to $70 or $80, given this type of demand. The people that were in on the IPO got a very nice return this morning, provided the stock price stays this high for a little while. Also, LinkedIn would have raised something closer to $700 million or more, had the IPO been priced more accurately. Does anyone know who the underwriters were?
iPad version of what?
VMS uses the console boot device drivers (the typical VMS hardware console program is well past what BIOS offers, and closer to EFI) to write (optionally compressed, optionally pruned) system crashdump images containing the running system memory out to a pre-allocated hunk of disk storage.

Use of the console callbacks avoids issues with potential errors or corruptions within the running system device drivers, while keeping the exception handler footprint small, and also delegating device dependencies over to the console drivers.

The last barrage of hardware errors in the system error log buffer (if any) are specifically and separately captured into a file, too. This ensures that the error-logging tools can easily capture and log errors that arose in the run-up to the crash, and without having to know the details of the virtual memory structures within the crashdump.
> and changing default port number

That's not security, that's obscurity. If your ssh is secure, you don't need to change your port number.
The link includes a video explaining Microsoft's PhotoDNA. It's essentially a one-way hash of a photo. Having done some image processing work, it's interesting how simple the idea of a photo's fingerprint is.
Ask HN: pros and cons of different web stacks/frameworks
I'm just starting to get into web development, and it looks like theres alot of choices out there. I dont really have an idea in mind, but I just want to start tinkering. I've heard of the LAMP stack, but I'm leaning more towards Ruby and Rails.

Some of the frameworks I've read about and considered are Rails, Sinatra, CakePHP, node.js?, and some others in Erlang, Java, and Lisp.

To me, it looks like all these frameworks provide the same functionality, but with different languages, databases, and web servers. Is there some kind of way to choose, or do you just pick one that youre familiar with?
I wonder how many backup units they have to keep on hand? :-)
customers with large numbers of machines dont necessarily care about having latest software. They care about stability. They don't just upgrade willy-nilly.

Upgrading 7-zip [first entry on your screenshot] isn't compulsory. If you do upgrade, you take a risk that there will be no adverse effect.
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vim (and other editors) have lockfiles, recovery files in case of session crashes, and assume directory locality (e.g., oops I opened the wrong file; :r filename).
Don't worry, it only took an hour after your comment for the stock to break $100 and their valuation is now a cool $10 billion.

The way this stock is moving now, a stock price of $83 seems downright conservative.
40 character passwords, along with host-based firewalls that /dev/null you after 10 failed attempts are just as effective as keys. In case you are wondering, the passwords are pasted, not typed.
If Only Sony.... ah... too late for that!
FYI, for portable OCR, you might want to try:
http://www.wizcomtech.com/eng/home/a/01/defaultpromo.asp

I own an old version. It's line by line, and accuracy depends on the typeface used, but I have generally loved having mine. (Sorry for the pop-up. It seems the URL will 404 without it.)
Exactly.

Leave it to an executive of the MAFIAA (Michael O'Leary) to contort basic civic principles to slander anyone who stands up against their ridiculous, rights-trouncing mode of operation.
Yes, sure you could worry about all of those things too, and in some cases you should. It depends what/who you're guarding against.

Your attacker could hire a private army and drive tanks into the datacentre and steal your data. But that's unlikely to happen.

Security is about layers, and I think as a security agency, the NSA did a pretty good job. Choose how many layers you want, and which are appropriate.
Pivot Tables now in Google spreadsheets
IPv6 Will Slow You Down (DNS) « Mike's Lookout
It's August 1995 again!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#Early_years
This seems obvious, but it's important that you follow the directions when installing it. I tried using it a couple weeks ago, but it didn't work. Turns out the last sentence of the last step (restarting DrRacket) is important to make it work.
Should be no more complex than a laptop dock connector which also clicks in place.
Lawyers: AT&T is overcharging iPhone and iPad users up to 300 percent
A rare display where the far left (socialist and green party) are joined by the far right PVV party, normally voting with the current administration of christian democrats and liberal-conservatives under an agreement giving the minority government a majority in parliament.

Still, the administration can still ignore the demand or find other ways, and then there's still the European Parliament, where there are plans for a "great firewall" around Europe, so we may have won the battle, but not yet the war.
If obscurity is useless, then why does the Army camouflage tanks? Why not just paint them blazing orange/pink and let them stand on their own defenses? There is a place for obscurity in security and the endless parroting of "security through obscurity is useless" should stop.
At the same time though, if you host it yourself you can switch out the backend or interface whenever you want with no inconvenience to users unless going in to or out of a locked-in system like google.

Hosting is cheap, and someone running a "weekend hacker" group probably already has all the hosting worries taken care of for other projects. Besides, running things is fun.
Amazon launches Electronics Trade-In Store to take all your old gadgets
Morgan Stanley, Merril Lynch, BofA and JPMorgan I believe.
Kindle is a reflective display, right?

So put it in the scanner.
What I do appreciate about this article is that it doesn't just give anecdotes, but actually quantifies and explains the problems. In fact it even explains why not to use anecdotes!

Seems like most of the tips here could be applied to all sort of problems, not just scalability, and I think that's probably what the author was going for. To show that scalability isn't some special problem that needs special solutions, but that if you think hard about it, and use data to back up your findings, then it's just like any other problem you want to solve.

Can't wait for part 2.
The motive for fighting it is that by crossing the line from "robotic indexer of the web" to "provider of curated search data", Google assumes substantial responsibility for the content of websites outside their control. This is a nightmarish slippery slope situation for them.

In my mind, making a person who provides a hyperlink responsible for the content of that link is just insanely wrongheaded and bespeaks a deep misunderstanding of the nature of the web.
The current valuation has jumped about 15-25% (from 88 to 110 per share) in the 10 minutes I've been watching it.

right now's not the time to pick nits on their valuation this whole thing is going to be completely out of whack for a while.
Company two. I don't understand why you hesitate. Is it the pay?
But in this case there is almost a certainty that people would accept your short. I would.
Happy birthday, Ed.
Investigative Journalism Needs More Than Curation Tools
El mejor hotel del mundo se encuentra en Praga
no, its a sign of the velocirapture.

seriously, everything is a sign of the new bubble now.
The bit about metrics really rang true.

At 1 company, we had a situation where 2 of the 3 webservers were out of service for various reasons. I knew from past experience that even a single web server should have a load less than 1 with all our traffic. The others were just there in case they went down. (Like they did!) In the middle of that, the 1 working server suddenly starts spiking load to 40 and misbehaving.

There was a really smart new guy there that was usually right. But this time, he said there was no way 1 server could handle our traffic and that was the problem. He refused to listen to reason and eventually I gave up and started working on the problem alone. I eventually found the code that was going crazy and fixed it... And voila. 0.4 load.

The point is that people get things in their head that 'have' to be true, but they aren't necessarily. He assumed that the existence of 3 webservers meant we had that much load, but it was just for redundancy. If I had had metrics to prove my case, it would have gone a lot smoother... But instead I just had my experience.
yes - typo. $1,000/month or 12k/year is not livable in the US.

Thanks for pointing this out. I actually did reread the post, but pre-coffee.
For comparison, in 1999 Webvan IPO'd at $8 billion, with revenue (not profit!) of $395,000 :)

http://cnet.co/kIKoMh
Isn't "make" usually used to describe income (profit) rather than revenue?
If you've got physical access to the machine in the cage you can do anything you want, which includes bypassing BIOS and Bootloader passwords in about 5 minutes.

That assumes you have unlimited physical access. 5 minutes per machine * 80 in a rack * 1,000+ racks is a real world limitation.

PS: The NSA has a vary different approach to security than the average firm. To put this in perspective they have been known to refer to their computing power not by computer or rack but by the Acre.