skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I wasn't clear, was I?

I understand her claim: "I was banned from the conference."

I don't understand what that claim means, or how it is verified?

Has she been banned from attending? From presenting? What has she been banned from?

And most of the time, conferences have more than one organizer, don't they? There is usually a committee in charge of who presents.

So you jessedhillon are asking me to believe her conspiracy theory: that the person who wanted to have sex with her has gotten to the entire conference committee and convinced them that this very talented and accomplished woman is not worthy of presenting at the conference. What was she going to present? What did he tell them?

Or if you take her words literally, she was banned from the conference, then the vendor will not take her money even for an admission ticket, and if she shows up, the cops will be called.

All of this seems to provide ample evidence for Ms. Camp to prove her case in a court of law.

And yet, she provides none of it.

As I said, somewhat ambiguously, I have no idea why she thinks she was banned from the conference. She needs to clarify what she was banned from, and how.

"Try reading the article."

I have been friendly. And stated my views. And attacked no one. And taken Ms. Camp at her words and taken you seriously.

You appear to have an attitude problem, Jesse. Not sure why.
Could you down-voters explain yourselves, please?
It's RIAA/MPAA and "porn". The GP is right: you're communicating childishly.
Consumers will become very discouraged quickly when they try to add a skin, or theme, or any customization, and all of a sudden certain applications will no longer work.

I feel this is akin to having a Windows PC that would disable Netflix streaming if you wanted to dual-boot your PC.

Android devices are the current generation of the previous Windows-era ecosystem. A bunch of clone hardware running slightly tweaked OEM versions of an OS.

The biggest difference, which consumers will really start to have issues with, is tying a software OS update to a hardware revision (If Dell prevented you from upgrading a Windows 98 machine to a Windows 2000 machine, not because of hardware limitations, but simply to generate more device sales).
Notice this in the new rake 0.9.0:

* Incompatible change: Rake DSL commands ('task', 'file', etc.) are
no longer private methods in Object. If you need to call 'task :xzy' inside
your class, include Rake::DSL into the class. The DSL is still available at
the top level scope (via the top level object which extends Rake::DSL).

http://github.com/jimweirich/rake/blob/master/CHANGES
The difference between a virus and a worm has become blurred, since both spread without user intervention. But there's no such blurring with trojans.
Previously discussed at length: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520371 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518075
Interested in learning a bit more about this too. any way to contact you? Or you could shoot me an email?

Thanks!
Really? Please point me to the Honeycomb source for my Xoom.*

* I don't actually own a Xoom, but that's not the point.
The fix has been included in Release candidate:

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/8b719cf3f73cbce78506e3...
Yeah, GridFS would be pretty silly in JSON.
Yeah, I'm sure the people working at Apple couldn't ever find a way to verify the identity of a song. They'd probably just write something that looked at the tags. Then when someone pointed out how easy it is to fake that, they'd just say, "Oh well, fuck it. Tell Jobs it can't be done! They'll just have to upload everything."

Sure people can make iPhone and Android apps that can identity a song from you humming it into a crappy speaker in a crowded bar, but Apple doesn't have that kind of programmer talent working for them.
I like this perspective. I'm going with "founder" for my first tech startup. Rather "Humility" than "Unemployed". Thanks, Zach. You must be very successful! =]
I am using Jammit for asset management and Barista for compiling coffeescript on the fly with a Rails 3.0.7 project.

Any comparisons between Jammit and Sprocket will be welcome.
Apple Denies Amazon’s Claim That ‘App Store’ Is Generic Term
I have a naive question - why would I not use something like ZeroMQ for messaging ?

I completely understand the need for JSON when you are communicating with the frontend/Javascript. But if you are doing backend messaging, would you not rather use ZeroMQ (which comes with its own protocol).

From what I understand (from previous HN posts), it is super fast and handles binary data very efficiently. I also understand that you can tune stuff at the OS level to wring the last bit of performance from ZeroMQ.

P.S: yup, it is written in C, but all bindings apparently work very well.
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1440 x 900, if you were still looking for that.

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs-13inch.html
Why is that not a legitimate justification? The vast majority of the world's population charge a monetary fee for their time, so why is this any different? The guy put a lot of effort into making an app, as such, if you like the app, you now reward him for that time by paying him.
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You must be using a lot of crap then.
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One the receiving side it is trivial once you download the video:

ffmpeg -i source_video.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 sound.mp3

Or, for those who don't want to deal with the command line, a Google for "how to download music from youtube" will turn up numerous friendly programs to accomplish the task. Amusingly, there are a ton of YouTube videos explaining the process. :-)

On the producing side, it would also be easy to automate. Ffmpeg can add audio to a video, and it can trim a video. You could easily have a long video of your cat, say 30 minutes, and write a shell script to take a directory of MP3 files, and for each find the length, pick a random section from your long cat video of the appropriate length, extract a section of that length, and add the audio. The script could then upload the video to YouTube, putting the artist and song name in the description, so that on the receiving side naming and basic tagging of the MP3 could be automated.
I don't think it's the responsibility of the people who work in customer service to be applying math to their job if it's not required. Sure it may help if the organization doesn't use math to optimize operations, but for non-math jobs I think it's the responsibility of the corporation to enforce any applications of math.
Unless you're emailing an art director at an advertising agency, in which case it comes across as a clever joke. Context is king.
Fossil's been causing me some trouble for about a month or two now. I just can't let something like this get in my way anymore, so out fossil goes.

Another thing everyone hasn't really mentioned is that I switched in about 20 minutes plus maybe 40 to figure it out further. The idea that people will be stuck on a VCS is idiotic. The second git+github starts screwing up I'll switch again.

This is totally different from say, trying to switch Mongrel2 to Erlang.
You have a good point. Only thing I can say is that products are typically priced on what the market for it will bear. That's why enterprise crud apps or office productivity apps may sell for more than a game which may have required more effort from more skilled people.
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Heh me too! Canvas, localStorage, Audio, and FileWriter. http://4kg.co
Thanks for coming with a statistic instead of another anecdote. Though this statistic does not say anything about industries, so the "silicone" industry might not be the only one to blame. Of course, this doesn't mean that we shouldn't stop doing bad things, just that we aren't as abnormal as others (or ourselves) label us.

P.S. All I was able to find quickly about this statistic is an editorial review from http://www.amazon.com/Never-Called-Rape-Recognizing-Acquaint... :

Based on first-person accounts, scholarly studies and data from a nationwide survey of college campuses conducted by Ms. magazine, freelance journalist Warshaw draws a devastating portrait of men who rape women they know. The Ms. survey reveals that 25% of the college women polled have been the victims of rape or attempted rape, 84% of the victims were acquainted with the attacker and 57% of the rapes happened on dates.

There are some important technical details missing, like how many respondents were, what's the estimated error and so on. I'll check your blog next week for further details.
You know what's even more childish? Finding yourself unable to brush it off.
Thanks, Andrew. Thanks for being the mentor you wished you had. Makes a difference. =]
Wikipedia agrees with your implicit warning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotubes#Toxicity. What can those more knowledgeable say? It would be irresponsible and foolish to push on ahead, ignoring history, if the health concerns that have been raised are merited.

My reading is that the material is toxic only in certain configurations. More than less? In this case just as much research should be done to find optimal parameters rather than just rushing ahead with blind greed.
next week linkedin options start trading, and i suspect there will be demand for put options
The aggrieved party would bring suit against the infringing artist, but the judge could not compel an act (injunctive relief) against a party that was not part of the lawsuit.
The purpose of language is to communicate. Picking your own name is a luxury. If you pick something unpronounceable or unwieldy it's perfectly acceptable for someone else to brand you for the sake of communication.

MAFIAA is pronounceable, memorable, and descriptive. It's a good name.
Which version of ffmpeg?
True. Its a balance. I skipped school to build the best startup I could build. Doesn't mean I skipped an eduction. "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." M.T.
U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
I've always laughed at that joke (and the campaign that spawned it) for exactly that reason. If people could, OF COURSE they'd download a car. That's just silly.

I use a "magic ray gun" analogy when explaining P2P to people, "A magic gun that has two settings, copy and paste. If you could copy the food supply of the world, wouldn't you paste it until everyone could eat and have fresh water? What about housing? What about cars?"

That aside, thanks for the link.
I'm a C programmer and I deal with gamedev. I've known dozens of C/C++ programmers, none of which have dealt with optimizing compilers.
So far, it looks like the only real differences are:

* jammit uses config/assets.yml, sprockets uses inline requires

* jammit loads individual files in development, sprockets concatenates

* sprockets compiles coffee with :bare => false by default. I don't know what barista's default is
I can't tell what .rb is intended to run on the ruby interpreter, what .rb is intended to run with Opal, and what .rb is intended to run on both.
I'd wager that it's actually sugar. Take a high dose of supplemental taurine and let me know if you feel much.
So what movies are we talking about?

titles says "Movie service" which one? netflix? some gMovie i've never heard about? youtube?!?!

The linked page also does not help.
Not to mention size. How big is this graphene transistor? How densely can you pack 'em? How much energy does it use? And so forth.

I've worked in the field of nanoscale electronic stuff, and I don't believe anything will replace silicon for a long time; at least not until we've completely run out of ways to do things better with silicon.

It's silicon that's the true miracle material -- it's versatile and cheap and amazingly easy to build stuff out of. We've been talking about replacing silicon for a while, but we keep coming back to it. It's all about silicon for the next couple of decades at least.
I see. So someone bans a female from a conference for not having sex with him, and the person who points out that this is embarrassing is disrespectful? I simply don't understand your logic (or lack thereof).
Two quick comments.

1. there are many possible motives for a false accusation; all kinds of permutations have happened historically; it happens sometimes

2. no rape mentioned or implied in the OA. just a refusal to have sex, supposedly
ok, navigating a little on the linked page it seems it's option "some gMovie i've never heard about"

Quote some 2 clicks away from the linked "article":
Q: Where is my Videos app?
A: At this time, the Videos application is only available to Verizon Motorola Xoom users.[...]
As a French I don't vote anymore. The truth is that Freedom is incompatible with having full time elected people at all scales of the society, since they need to justify their work by taking all kinds of unsollicited stances and intempestive measures.

Left or Right ? Both of them will spend the most of their time fulfulling their purpose : to make new laws. Generally on a wide range of topics they don't understand (not only the Internet).

Unfortunately, the blank vote isn't recognized in France: abstention is the best option. So far, no political party suggests that we drastically reduce the number and power of representatives.
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I thought pencil manufacturers actually use graphite. From the article I understand that graphene pencil is only useful to write on steel sheets.
They're different types of thing. ZeroMQ doesn't replace JSON, it replaces HTTP. If you're using ZeroMQ it will help you get some bytes from one place to another, but you still need a serialization format. You might well send JSON over ZeroMQ.
The bizarre part of the grandparent comment is that there is an industry devoted to the gathering, refining, processing and shipping of gigatons of graphite. It's called the coal industry.
Aint amphetamine. There's simply no replacement for 100% dextroamphetamine and Ritalinheads are getting peddled the wrong substance.
Its not about the product. Its about the vision. Microsoft made its billions using proprietary software. Turns out its not that simple in the free universe we call the Internet. Its Open Source. Its everything Microsoft is not. IE just isn't in its "element".
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Yeah, the 70s was full of misogynism.

I really don't see that a comedian using a phrase satirically in the 70s makes it appropriate to use in 2011.
I think I was a bit misunderstood. I'm not saying that sexual discrimination, harassment, rape etc. does not exist, just that it might not be as common as some people think. All I wanted to do is counter an anecdote with another anecdote. By the way, except for the 1 in 4 statistic mentioned by KuraFire, all I've seen is anecdotes.

Going back to trust, I don't understand your logic. Are you trying to say that because I'm skeptical others might not tell me about these abuses?

You should also take into account the cultural differences between countries. I live in Romania (an European country) and things are bit different from US. Some stuff that's normal or just a bit negative here (read impolite), might be offensive to a lot of Americans. When I visited the offices of an American company, I remember seeing a labor law poster in the kitchen mentioning that managers must take courses about sexual harassment. You won't see something like this in Romania. Another example might be groping. There was some groping in high-school and the girls complained of course, but they didn't make a fuss out of it nor shouted rape.

P.S. Speaking of groping, Japan seems to be famous for it. I wonder if this type of sexual scandals related to the software industry exist in Japan, too. It looks to me like US is prone to them.
By the way, there is a pure ruby version, not sure why you'd use it over the cext though:

https://github.com/hiroshinakao/msgpack-pure
A sheet of graphene is one atomic layer thick. It's very easy to tear apart or pierce with any macroscopic object.
This sort of "scientific dishonesty" is prevalent everywhere. I'd be surprised if the test creator didn't go out of their way to design the test specifically to push their agenda.

It's sad, really. The people who try to call bullshit on those sorts of claims are frequently drowned out by those who are blinded by the "4x faster!" etc.
Until you all get better and _more_ curated metal, this is a no show for me and the huge metal fanbase you all should be targeting. To click on Metal and have one channel 'All Metal' is pretty bad. Do you all need curators in this field?
You seem hungry under that bridge, so I will feed you some billy goats...

If you could freely use anyone's music on your YouTube videos, wouldn't the net effect be that all music would be available for free to anyone? People would just get new songs as they are released (Chicken and egg here, where are they getting them from? They cannot yet get them from You Tube since we are waiting on the initial cat video) , slap then on videos of their cats (take an AVCHD video stream, load it into a video editor, take the chicken-n-egg Lady Gaga mp3, add it to the project, then render the video in h.264 or avi, or whatever) , and make them available on YouTube (upload the rendered video file to your YouTube account linked to your email address), where anyone could easily grab them, strip off the video, and have the song.

Now they have to download some You Tube video grabbing program, probably violating the ToS of You Tube, and risking some sort of malware from the h.264 downloader, then strip the song from the video, then manually name the audio file and add the attributes to the file also.

But probably where you said where anyone could easily caused some disagreement and hence the downvotes.
I wouldn't say JSON's main domain is sending data to the browser - I'd say it's exchanging common data structures (lists, hashes, strings, numbers) between environments, including between different languages. Sure, it doesn't make sense if you're shipping binary blobs around, but most of the time you're probably dealing with lists, hashes, strings and numbers.
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yes, just like with an open source browser you can remove password requirements on login pages... oh right.

requiring some kind of credential, even if it's based on some bullshit notion of a "secured" system, is independent of the "openness" of the system.

In fact, your post is the same kind of ambiguous use of the "open" in "open source" that continuously comes up in these conversations. just...stop it.
http://postmarkapp.com/ is cheaper than SendGrid and you can get started for 2 bucks I think.
Tim Ferris, is that you?
Community standards do not enforce themselves. You're seeing community standards enforced here.

(It should be pointed out that it is actually an attempt to do chopsueyar a favor; as it happens around here that sort of thing is generally likely to make their writing less persuasive, not more.)
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"I don't think we need GDrive anymore." Horowitz
asked why not. "Files are so 1990," said Pichai.
"I don't think we need files anymore."

I wonder what they would think of that statement given Dropbox's adoption.
Mo’ Money: Square Now Processing $3 Million A Day In Mobile Payments
We are currently looking for the right candidate.
I got one. I tried it, and it was okay for web browsing and it does the job well, 90% of the time. Unfortunately the remaining 10% of time requires use of desktop applications and I gravitated back towards my laptop. Since inertia is a big factor, I ended up not using the CR-48 much. I could say the same thing about my iPad.
A better picture:

http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2011/4/2...

They are actually pretty darn similar, though Helms' tattoo is a bit different -- a little squarer.

My gut feeling is that the lawsuit doesn't have merit, though I have difficulty putting together a legal justification of why that is. My general feeling is that the actual tattoo design is too generic a combination of random Maori design elements to be copyrightable.

But no, I don't think this is a publicity stunt by Warner Bros. But yes, clearly it is a money grab by the tattooist.
I had been led to believe by previous articles such as [1] that graphite contains graphene, albeit in small quantities and not in a useful state. The process of trying to produce a link to substantiate this has left me less sure whether it "contains" graphene, or if it merely can produce it under the circumstances described in the article. Given what it is and how much carbon gets around on this planet, it is perhaps hard to say what "contains" graphene in the first place, in much the same way I'm often a bit annoyed when someone counts every oxygen and two hydrogens anywhere in a compound as "water", regardless of how tied up they are.

[1]: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_702926...
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don't give the money to him! he's lying!
I have two theories on this. First, it has to be a hard team to attract talent to. Good programmers are passionate programmers, and its hard to be passionate about something constantly being ridiculed.

Second reason is that I still think parts of MS see the web as a threat. Until they have a stronghold on a 2nd platform (mobile/tablets, gaming, web (SL), servers or enterprise), they aren't likely to do anything which could undermine their only platform.
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Yes, if they are an asshole.
How does yafc compare to lftp, and how does clex compare to midnight commander?
Right; my comment was for people who may encounter the incompatibility in their own Rakefiles.
> I feel this is akin to having a Windows PC that would disable Netflix streaming if you wanted to dual-boot your PC.

It's more akin to having a Windows PC that would disable Windows Media DRM files if you had unsigned drivers loaded into the kernel. Which it does. This isn't without precedent, by any means.
Are you in the valley? Any recommendations on neighborhoods best for startups?
I'm not a finance guy </disclaimer>

I think the closing price of the first day is irrelevant, my understanding is that the opening price is the issue. LNKD started trading above $80 a share, while the bankers priced the shares at $45 -- a huge delta that means that their customers realized a large windfall instantaneously and LNKD could have raised nearly twice the capital at the same dilution.

Compare that to MSFT, which was sold by the company at $21 while the first trade was $25.50
(http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2006/03/16/looking-back-...) -- a much smaller gap.

Once it's on the open market, anything can happen. The issue at hand is if the bankers low-balled LNKD in order to guarantee huge returns for their institutional customers, short-changing the company.

A note to all not-yet-public companies: the banks are not on your side.
Just don't let the thought of having that disorder grow on you. Don't waste time reading about it, looking for a solution. That's how you make it a real problem.

Work on your motivation/determination to do whatever that is that you want to achieve or find it if you still have not. Brain is a muscle that has to be exercised.

Till that day there is very little research on almost any mental disorder. I wouldn't be suprised if most are self induced. Even if not most treatments don't have much grounding anyways.
According to the numbers on eHow, the first day arithmetic returns (relative to IPO price, not the opening trade price) were, at close: (27.75-21) / 21 = 32.1%, and at day's peak: (29.25-21) / 21 = 39.3%

The prices I used are from a site on eHow: http://www.ehow.com/about_5077008_microsoft-stock-split-hist...
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