skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not so sure. We have seen this before. It goes something like this:"What's the problem with trading a little privacy for security? I don't have anything to hide." These people who have nothing to hide because they have never done anything wrong have ceded their privacy and rights at every turn. Why would the internet be different?

Well, people are very protective of their email, that's why. Email is the key to a person's online identity and should be guarded like one's wallet or house keys. But wait until the children are brought into the debate. "Of course, everyone knows _you_ are legit, but there are predators creeping around in the seedy underbelly of the internet. These sexual predators will prey on your children through email and social networking sites. We need safeguards in place to ensure that predators are not able to operate freely on the internet and thus ensure your and your family's freedom and security."

Those predator shows on MSNBC where they basically entice some disturbed person with a made up fantasy, parade him in front of the cameras, talk about all the what-ifs and then arrest him only to have him show up on the next episode reinforces this. Aside: It drives me bonkers when the host says, "You came here to meet a 14 year old boy. What would have happened if we were not here?" I'll tell you. Absolutely nothing. Because there was no 14 year old boy in a chat room looking to meet 45 year old child molesters and there was no 14 year old boy waiting for him in the house.

There are smart people- good parents- who will eat that kind of crap up. They are the kind of parents that are involved in their children's lives. They help them with homework and know their friends and their friend's parents. They talk to their children about risks and staying safe. These are the kind of parents who have the least to worry about, but also the ones who will argue most passionately in favor of policies like this.
I'm surprised, I thought Larry Ellison wasn't sure what the cloud was. Has he finally worked out what it is or has he stopped spouting FUD now that he's worked out how to make it work for Oracle?</snark>

I think this will prove to be a smart move for them in the long run.
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In America law enforcement can get a court to issue a warrant if they can prove just cause. You could refuse to comply with the warrant, but you'd be jailed.

Besides, I want police using the Internet as an investigative medium. I just want them to get a warrant. The real problem we have these days is when companies roll over for the government and give them whatever data they want without just cause.
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That sounds like you're digging yourself deeply into debt, especially if the startup fails (as most do).

You know more about your situation than I do, but tread carefully.
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Sean Parker Scott said drop "the", I say add "the".
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Selection Criteria (grabbed from Wikipedia)

(i) "represents a masterpiece of human creative genius"

(ii) "exhibits an important interchange of human values, over a span of time, or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design"

(iii) "bears a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared"

(iv) "is an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural, or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates a significant stage in human history"

(v) "is an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture, or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change"

(vi) "is directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance"

I'd say Wikipedia passes all of these to an extent, although maybe it is a bit too soon to say so. Who are we to say that our current period is a "significant stage in human history"?
Please someone implement this as a filter for ScummVM.

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Appendix:_Grap...
They should install a visible red-light scanner in front that sweeps back and forth.

EDIT: Seriously, if they can manage $1000/kg, someone calculated a launch cost target of $336/lb for the viability of solar power satellites. That's $740/kg, so they'd be within spitting distance of some truly disruptive capability.
Ok, so it's billed (here at least) as the "iTunes Replacement". And it advertises strongly "Converts and syncs to Android" (front and centre on the main page).

But I'm really unclear if it'll actually replace iTunes for my iPod Touch. It doesn't say anything about i devices that I can see (except for advertising an iPad app that doesn't seem to be available yet.)

So either;
a) it doesn't sync my iOS devices in which case it may be a great media player, but it's not an iTunes replacement or
b) They're hoping I'll take a huge amount for granted.

My guess is that the heading in Hacker News is the bit that's completely misleading and I do wish folk wouldn't editorialize the headline.

If it _is_ an iTunes replacement then a lot more info is needed - like will it sync my apps? Can I purchase new apps? and so on.
Tall and Narrow
Watchlater - Bookmark. Cache. Watch.
I agree, but in the case of bad Kindle conversions, the only thing Amazon can fairly be faulted for is requiring users to accompany their reviews with ratings. It's up to the publisher to perform the conversion.

Whenever I have a complaint about a Kindle conversion (twice in two years), I try to rate the book based on the author's work -- the text itself -- but make the review title something like "Do not buy for Kindle", but I can see why reviewers might choose to do otherwise: it is, after all, the publisher's product and the publisher's fault for producing a sloppy "printing".
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IIRC, scribd claims the right to (re)publish uploaded material, and will automatically put submitted material behind a paywall. It's also theoretically possible for the submitted material to rank above the author's home page, which is not necessarily desirable (if only because updates won't be available).

In short, this is not as innocuous as you think.
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Indeed, I'm surprised this had to be said.
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From their FAQ:

Can I sync my videos to an iPod or other video device?

Currently, Miro doesn't directly sync with any portable devices. However, we will be working on this in future versions. In the meantime, you may be able to sync the video files themselves with a separate program.
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 'Mango' update, coming in early autumn
Apple doesn't need any serious rewrite, they need to make MacRuby work on the iPhone. That's it.

Lua is already on the iPhone, and will probably give you an order of magnitude performance advantage over Ruby.
Yea, I felt the same, I only use iTunes today to sync with my iPod and this answer our question(http://www.getmiro.com/using-miro/faq/index.php#q3.7), it seems to download torrents though, "why" is my new question..
Cnoöns?
If it were still around, the Library of Alexandria might be on that list... and in a way, isn't Wikipedia the modern day equivalent? Even so, I can't wrap my head around software and data that's a handful of years old being considered "world heritage".
The move marks another unhappy milestone for Microsoft, which has failed to persuade investors that it can dominate the future of technology as it did in the past, and has seen its share price stagnate over the past decade.

I'm sure much of that has to do with not just failed products, but a lack of fortitude in sticking behind products, advertising them effectively (building the brand) and growing them into the "next big thing".
Yes... I forgot to mention education. How much did my 24 years of education cost me? Squat.
So, readability for pdfs?
It seems to work as designed, but its design is pretty stupid - it's arguably still a hole.

I'm with you on the "experts" though.
The Google-juice argument is slightly convincing, but any right to republish the document remains with the original copyright holders, no matter what Scribd claims. (Consider YouTube in a similar position.)
I'm pretty surprised by a number of things here. First and foremost, how popular Polish and Catalan are. Secondly, I thought that there would be vastly more English articles than any other language, and this isn't the case.
We had our (supposedly?) first HN Meetup Berlin last week and want to do it on a regular basis:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513404
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Go with what you know unless there is a significant return on paying the dumbtax.
Miro's a very cool project - the Participatory Culture Foundation does a bang-up job of productizing what they do and making it pretty.

For someone who'd want to switch from iTunes for higher performance and simplicity, rather than just going for an equivalent, what would I do?
Given a list of regexes, generate all possible strings that matches all of them
Wow, that was an intense read.
Council of Europe committtee warns of wireless communication health effects
The greater point is getting lost in the BS statistic. Make no mistake; the debate could be skewed any which way if you start with the right question. There was an episode of "Penn and Teller: Bullshit!"[1] where they talk to a pollster who does this for a living. He does a few demo polls where he basically starts by saying what result he wants and then asks the question that will produce exactly that.

1. Season 4, episode 9 "Numbers"
Who are we to say that our current period is a "significant stage in human history"?

Well, we have history to compare to. Our world is quickly changing right now – faster than in the past. I’m pretty confident that the rise of the internet and its first unique widespread applications (of which Wikipedia is one) will be a long chapter in future history books.

I’m not yet ready to compare it to the other significant events of the past few centuries (first and foremost certainly the industrial revolution) but I wouldn’t be surprised if it (the internet as a whole – not just Wikipedia) comes close to the disruptive force of the industrial revolution.
That link takes me to the album priced at $6.99 - did I miss the deal?

--

Edit: Oh, also "It appears that you are attempting to use Amazon Cloud Player from outside the U.S. This service is intended for U.S. customers only."

Globalisation it's the future!
So, does this mean hell has frozen over?
Yes, it was. You monsters. :-(
Source: http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/index.html submitted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
Hipsters are easy to disperse. Concerned citizens should sponsor four back to back shows by Larry the Cable guy. He can reduce any Seattle or Austin to a Raleigh or Jacksonville.
You can't because the page is cold dead.
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I'd have hoped that an 'iTunes replacement' would be one that's somewhat less bloaty. I don't see Miro filling that gap, given it includes such nonsense as a BitTorrent client.
Consider e.g. the people holding copyright on popular movies uploaded to YouTube. Their rights are still protected, but filing all those takedown requests is a major pain.

(Which is not to say that I agree with all of their attempts at "fixing" this.)
Show HN: Watchlater it's Instapaper for Videos
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Watchlater also has full AirPlay support. The app is available on the App Store now:

http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/watchlaterapp/id423572879?mt=8

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You can even use the app without an iPad to organize your videos:

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I think the part where you describe how money got in the way of noticing a need for change very interesting.

I guess it's a testament to the fact that if we're broke while trying to get started with something, we're more likely to scrap away on as little as possible until we find something that works.

I don't think having no money to work with is any better than having comfortable amounts though. Having no money can stifle ideas or make us afraid to commit resources (ourselves particularly).

Perhaps the proper balance for a low-overhead startup is somewhere around the "What do I need to get by?" level... Probably similar to your experience starting Woo.
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That is exactly the problem: you get results by persuasion, not by logical arguments.
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Top N lists are always whimsical but this must be the best one: top 10 new species according to what?

According to this blog (http://bushwarriors.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/saying-hello-te...), which covers the same list but is more informative), thousands of species were discovered in 2010, in fact it says "A recent report suggests that three new species are being discovered in the Mekong region each week! "
In his podcast, Siracusa also outlines a possible gradual transition to MacRuby, where MacRuby is more of a bridge at first and gets more and more native implementations of Cocoa classes as time moves on. In the end, Obj-C would get deprecated and all the cool stuff would be happening in MacRuby.

Having worked with Cocoa, Ruby and PyQt, I would really really like to see that!

As others have said though, this is a somewhat unlikely future right now.
Better to write the title as "PG live on TC Disrupt START - END (TIMEZONE)" since the guy on right now (9:57am Eastern) is definitely not pg.

I don't recognize him. Charlie Rose just called him Michael.... maybe one of the Twitter guys?

Dear TCTV, please have the speaker's names in the corner of the screen.

[edit] This just bubbled up to the front page, no video though. :( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579990
Getting some more color from your responses, I would have to say it is not worth it unless you intend to climb a corporate ladder. Otherwise, I think it would be more practical to learn this stuff from a person already experienced while on the job at an early stage startup and/ or established company (both would be preferable). After all, these types degrees will not help you build a successful startup directly, but they will directly aid in your resume and allow you to be a more desirable employee (which it sounds you are trying to get away from).
in that case you should checkout this paper: "iComment: bugs or bad comments" (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294276 sorry couldnt find an open pdf)
It seems like the scribd-mirror has been removed. The original was posted here, but the server is not responding:
http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf

mirrored at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49901/mirror/pixel.pdf
The author has a good point, but this line bugged me a lot

'And, in general, when people talk about issues with America’s health, it’s really just a veiled way to say “eew, fat people.” '

I had a father-in-law who was one of the most friendly, helpful and generally awesome individuals I've ever known. He had a terrible diet consisting mostly of steak and sweets, and he smoked a lot. He died of a heart attack at the age of 54. He was 5'11" and 325 lbs.

So no, it's not "eww, fat people." Rather, it's "dammit, he could have shared his awesomeness for another 20 years." And it's a real shame that the author felt the need to make that parenthetical comment, because it was unnecessary to the point made (which is a good point to consider) and served to make me hostile to the rest of the piece.
Guess you'll need to narrow-down and re-write the piece of code that buckled under the load ;-)

Please submit story of the changes and we'll test it for you ;-)
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so, does it come with a free copy of Textmate 2, or do I have to buy that separate?
"They both think that less skill is required (so the programmer doesn’t deserve much compensation) and that less time is required (effectively creating a very low hourly rate for the programmer, given the flat rates that are often proposed)."

I find it ironic how he points out that idea guys tend to undervalue the hard work of the programmer and then at the end he suggests that the idea guy should implement it himself.

So which is it? Is programming a hard-earned skill that should be paid well, or is it just so easy that a (presumably non-technical) idea guy can just pick it up and run with it? You're sending mixed messages.
I wish media player developers would stop trying to imitate iTunes. I hate iTunes. It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions), it's huge and demanding (of my focus/attention, and also computing resources) where it shouldn't be, and its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes).

It's great that seemingly high quality cross-platform tools like this are being developed, though I wonder what this does that Songbird (the last big "iTunes replacement" I can think of) does not?
This is really interesting, but wait: won't the number of strings matching a given set of regexes be infinite, for many different types of regexes, i.e. it's like the number of phrases in language that fit a certain grammatical rule.
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Looks very nice. What platforms are currently supported?
One of the reasons that I prefer the reprints of much older texts by the great mathematicians is that in most cases (all?) the writing meets the conditions that are listed as desired. The previous sentence clearly doesn't---sorry! The books from Chelsea and for that matter Dover may be old, but they are accessible.
Reading a bit the project site the only interesting (not to the general public) thing is the fault injection extension to qemu that uses a subset of VHDL* to define tests, even if it's not really clear what you can do with that.
Definitely not a "new twist" in virtualization, just an extension to test/develop academic projects.

* http://www3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Research/fauhdlc/
I think I put my standards too high. I programmed for years before I did anything really impressive or even useful, but that didn't bother me at all. I didn't even think about becoming a professional programmer or accomplishing anything with programming until I had already put in a huge amount of work. Every time I did something new, I felt a sense of accomplishment, even though it didn't compare to the professionally produced games and programs I used. With music, I cared about the results right from the start and didn't get enough intrinsic satisfaction out of it to distract myself from how poorly I was playing. If I had compared myself against age-mates or measured myself against how I well I played a piece the previous week, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it more.

I have to say you sound like a very determined person to be willing to practice so much Hanon despite not liking music in the first place

Actually, Hanon was easier for me than a real piece of music would have been, because I was able to treat it as a purely technical exercise. Nobody would want to listen to it no matter how well I played it :-)
Sounds like an awesome idea! Parts of your web page are in German, though.
A guy I work with did something similar to spend a year hiking South America with his wife. He gave plenty of lead time, and was able to negotiate an unpaid leave of absence deal where he wasn't working, but the company paid his health benefits and ensured he had work to do when he got back.

I believe he's on some sort of contract to stay here for the next year or so because of the deal, but I haven't pried. This is a large government contractor, so if they are able to work something like that out I'm sure you'll be able to find something that works for you.
Happy to discuss this article with anyone who is interested.
This guy also has something to do with it. Maybe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMy0PFr8no
Thoughts on whether the plateaus are because of completeness or limited by the number of editors able to handle the number of articles?
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Also esperanto being fourth in total number of articles for a while. Interseting and well executed, thanks for the link.
I've switched to using foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) and I think it's the first music player that I actually like. It's extremely simple and I've found it quite fast and responsive, even on my netbook.
Thanks! Would be great to hear their thoughts aswell, if you don't mind.
Objective-C has many good features - native strings is not one of them. There is no syntactic support for appending two strings by a simple '+', for example NSString* myString = @"This is a " + "string.";

That simple omission introduces a large amount of pain when working with Objective-C for a large class of applications - especially web-aware, but also including code that parses files.

It's the same story with regards to regular expressions - yes there are libraries that can do the job, but they just aren't as pleasant to use as regexps are in the various scripting languages - python, ruby, perl, javascript, etc, where regular expressions are first-class
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That paper referenced is WAY beyond most people, as the article noted. To understand what the person is going to say, you had better already know what those terms mean, and be able to explain them. If you can't, then you have no basis for the rest of the paper anyhow.

Why on Earth would a common joe want to read that paper anyhow? What could it possibly do for them?