skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the days when "apps" and "progs" were little programs you found on Astalivista to open your friend's CD-Rom drive through AOL instant messenger. Would that fly as an argument for Amazon in a court of law? Probably not, but it's fun to reminisce about.
Thought this was gonna be this:
http://www.opalvoip.org/
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Home Depot online listing: 36 pack Energizer Alkaline for 13.97.

That is $0.39 per battery.

Rechargeable: $3.24 per battery.

3.24 divided by 0.39 is 8.31.

At the ninth usage, the rechargeable battery becomes cheaper than the very cheap one use battery.

I have four Energizer NiMH AA's that have to be at least 4-5 years old now and have been recharged at least 50+ times by this point. Are they quite as "strong" as when they were new, no. Are they still doing very well, yes.

A lot of the bad experience from rechargeable comes from using the cheapo chargers that are sold in the stores alongside the batteries themselves. Plunk down the one time cost of $30-40 for a decent charger and the rechargeable batteries will reward you handsomely.
The internal glass panes in our offices have motivational quotes written in marker. Words like "Less is more." and "Why would you study it when you could be doing it." by M.Z.
It's not any one thing, but it's a lot of small things. When I last looked a couple of years ago, vertical split wasn't in screen mainline and so it was non-starter for me. Check out the list of tmux commands: it's a very powerful program that's continuously being enhanced.

Dunno if screen has this, but in tmux IIRC, you can have two different tmux servers running in totally different processes, and transfer a window from one server to another. That's pretty cool, imho. The graphical equivalent would be running two VNC servers, and moving an xterm window from one to the other.

Another cool thing: pipe the entire contents of a window in realtime to an arbitrary program.
I've mostly stopped using Google Docs because MS Office + Dropbox is so much more handy in the majority of situations for me.
Wait -- doesn't this mean that Tyson himself doesn't own the work!? The implications of not owning something on your own face are mind-boggling.
If it was the chargers that were packaged together with the batteries, then the problem was likely the charger destroying the batteries rather than any fault of the battery itself.
Here's my specific doubt - my application uses arrays, maps, lists, etc. Can I not use zeromq to send these data-structures as binary data rather than serializing them to JSON ?
Nah, you for some reason thought the other poster was talking specifically about Tammy, but you were mistaken. Look again at how they used the word:

I think there's an appreciation to the dangers of a very public airing of dirty laundry - but the alternative (shaming victims into silence) seems far, far worse.
Try "help alias"
Couldn't you consider the collection of tattoos upon ones person a 'collective work,' if more than one tattoo artist is represented?
You can have that. Root your device, and then you have no movies, and a non-hobbled device.
Good point... a Node MQ project formerly based on msgpack recently switched to JSON and increased its performance by almost 200%: https://github.com/aikar/wormhole/issues/3

I've done several of my own benchmarks as well and can confirm that the current Node JSON implementation is much faster than MessagePack. Their benchmarks are most likely quite old.
Not for $5. Opera Mini gives me the same thing for free.
I wonder how Apple will counter the statement that Jobs made about the multiple app stores on Android. It seeks as he already used it as a generic term.
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This is an insightful comment.

My first-order take had been that the lucrative jobs that the video advertises are plentiful only if the "math person" is also proficient at some type of computing. Reason is, I've known a lot of mathematically talented people who are not able to compete for these kind of jobs because they have no sense of how to compute with their abstractions.

But I think your idea captures the problem with the video better than the simplistic "lack of computing expertise" does. The budding "math person" that the video targets could do quite well at, say, a biological or finance application, even without being computer-savvy, just by acquiring expertise in these areas.
Aren't newer Word docs (.docx) files just zipped XML files?

If grepping were a common enough need you could write a tool to unzip to tmp, grep, report locations. Or something. In any event having a local file opens up some options the cloud doesn't.
I think it depends on the pace of sales.

If I worked on a team which had just closed a $10mm enterprise sale, I'd probably be at the bar with the sales reps, and the only bells ringing would be in my head.

At Amazon, this would get absurd.
Rotating image slider with jquery ; cool demos
1. Yes, there are always possible motives. However, unless you have some data showing there are more false reports of rape than truthful ones, or even that the disparity between the two isn't a night-or-day difference, that's not something we ought to consider each and every case of doing.

2. Correct; my response was more about the general discussion taking place here than the specific OA one. That said, while not speculating on Tammy Camp ever having been raped, these three men who have banned her from three different conferences just for refusing to sleep with them sure are doing their best to interfere with her career.
Why would it matter that the account is linked to your email address? We are discussing the consequences of it being fair use to include arbitrary music in your YouTube videos. If it were fair use, then it would not matter if the copyright holders knew who you were.

I realize you are just trolling, but could you at least try to troll consistently with the discussion?
"small increase" - the exchange rate against the dollar has risen from under a dollar when I first looked to 6ish - it's almost tempting to trade in my single bitcoin for cash (the reality of the market being that I have nothing else to spend it on...)
Works for a short while I guess, but for some people moving becomes a routine too at some point.

I think the essence here is that generally speaking we can slow time down by constantly doing new things. But I still wouldn't be 100% sure it has that effect on me.

It is true for me that completely routine tasks tend to make time go the fastest, but as to what makes it stall the most I'm not sure.
When I'm completely entertained by something it seems to go fast too. Complete boredom makes it slow down, but boredom is not too desirable either. Something that requires effort but is entertaining at the same time would seem slower than complete entertaiment but faster than total boredom.

So in the end I think there is no hack, no magical way of increasing the utility/"speed of time" rate.
glad to see I'm not the only one here working on fantasy sports !
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Not firing someone incompetent I'd hired (as a favor) as soon as it became obviously necessary, who later went on to embezzle a lot of money.
I have a blog post in the works that is chock full of statistics, focused on Tech & Design. Check back on farukat.es sometime in the next few days if you want a wealth of resources, research studies findings etc.
Back when podcasts started to get huge, I listened to a weekly podcast that reads some sci-fi stories to you: Escape Pod. From what I remember, it's actually pretty decent and they have a whole network of other genres as well, covering horror and fantasy.
You have a very nice looking office, too!
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I didn't play it, the puppy did. I'll try to catch some video.

Our other puppy prefers a sound board: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/5702009514
Winning an appeal to the populous does not imply correctness.
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
> Still waiting on Honeycomb.

How is that remotely related to the article?
Might work for piracy but unfortunately it looks like they punted on issues that would help use by activists. Design assumption #1 (white paper section 3.1): "The traffic of every node in the network is assumed to be eavesdropped on (individually, but not globally in a fully correlated fashion) by an external party."

A state-level adversary can instrument their major ISPs, put a bunch of nodes on the network, push traffic through the network and do analyze the resulting traffic. Once they figure out who they want to question it's pretty simple, the mere presence of the software on your computer would be incriminating.

I think right now social networking sites are the best game in town because they have legitimate non-activist uses so they won't automatically get you in trouble. To improve on them resistance to traffic analysis and on-client footprint both need to be dealt with or the tool needs to be really popular for some innocuous application.

It is a really interesting set of problems though.
It would be interesting to know if they're still processing 33% of transactions as cash. It would also be interesting to know how much of the non-cash mix is fraudulent.

Anyone from Square willing to share?
Or is there a crypto chain of trust in android devices, analagous to the "trusted computing" on the PC platform?

There is. Everything on an Android device, including stuff in the OS image, is signed. I would assume that the movie player would converse with the movie service and it would easily be determined that the player is not running on a system image provided by a trusted signer.

Subverting it would, I assume, require cracking the signing algorithm.
Yahoo Finance has the first week and first month prices. According to Yahoo Finance, the first day of trading was March 13, 1986, which is one day earlier than the date that is on the eHow article I linked to. I think March 13 is correct (it matches the date on a file I found on Microsoft's website for calculating the value of shares purchased from IPO: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Downloads/Stock%20Informat...)

Here's a link to the Yahoo Finance page I mentioned (prices rounded to quarter of a dollar): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=MSFT&a=02&b=13&c...

According to the numbers on Yahoo Finance, the first week arithmetic return (relative to IPO price, not the opening trade price) was, at close on March 19: (28.25-21) / 21 = 34.5%, and the first month return was, at close on April 11: (28.75-21) / 21 = 36.9%
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He owns that copy. He just can't authorize someone making a copy of it on, say, your face.

Arguably, due to the first sale doctrine, he could transfer his copy to your face, say via a skin transplant.

Where it could get interesting is if someone photographs him (and thus the tattoo). I'm not well versed in how the law works when it comes to photographing copyrighted works, but I do know that there are a lot of special cases, and there is a big distinction between works displayed in public and works that are not on public display, and that a lot depends on what the photographer is doing with the photograph.

I wonder if someone who has a problem with intrusive paparazzi intruding on their non-public life could get a copyrighted tattoo, buy the copyright from the tattoo artist, and then sue any photographer who tries to sell a photo taken in a private setting that includes the tattoo?
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MUSIC
I want to know if it is normal for me not to be interested in music. I love listening to music and hearing good beats but I just don't get it when people can memorize a whole song and love lyrics so much. I just like listening to good dance music. I'm a teenager by the way. Does this make me weird or less involved in the world. I'm more interested in movies actually. I'm not an outgoing person and I'm kinda shy most the times unless I'm talking about something I'm interested in such as movies. I wonder if thats part of the reason why I'm not so involved in "new" music.
Actually, I think my comment confused you because I lumped pretty much everything that could comprimie my system in the malware bucket (including both things like rootkits and tools to find exploitable vulnerabilities.

I have no evidence more enterprise adoption will increase the overall threat to my system, however, I could prove my statement technically true by writing a script that uses a rainbow table to attempt to access my keychain. Being "technically correct" is meaningless to me, though.

Instead, I believe my initial comment (with the context above) stands: more enterprise Apple adoption will increase the number of attacks against OS X and the quantity of tools available for the hacker. A root kit with a key logger to steal the CEO's credentials will work equally well to steal my bank account information.
Isn't there a problem with the headline? Maybe they're not that hard to find after all.
If not then there is one with my english, which would still mean that finding a problem is not too hard :-).

Anyways I am not sure if it is really easier to solve a problem than to find one. I would say the hardest part would be defining a problem in way that it is approachable.
You can come up with a lot of very general problems, the hard part is narrowing it down.
> For the people saying she should go to the police about this: what crime (meaning something that would be criminally prosecuted as opposed to something that might be the cause of a civil suit) do you believe has been committed in this case (I'm not a lawyer; I don't know)? There was no mention of physical assault in the blog post. Even if this incident broke some law, how would there possibly be enough evidence to prosecute?

Imagine a store owner standing by his entrance, letting people in one by one without even batting an eye. Then a woman approaches, he likes the look of her. He holds up his hand and says “Hold it! You may not enter unless you have sex with me.”

That doesn’t sound like extortion, sexual coercion and unlawful discrimination to you? Well, it does to any sane judge.

As for evidence: testimonies and/or email trails can produce plenty of evidence, easily.
Thanks. This is very helpful.
>MPAA is not the entity that either distributes or licenses the movies for distribution, so they have nothing to do with it.

Who do you think "b" is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_A...
I was shocked by this question. I'm 56 and I've worked at a variety of SF Bay Area companies since 1984 as a software engineer. It's been my experience that if you love coding and you keep learning new languages and technologies, then you can keep on coding. The other software engineers I work with are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s.

Over the years, I've participated in probably more than a hundred discussions about job candidates I've helped interview for software engineering positions at places I've worked. I have never seen age discrimination. It is true that someone who has, say, been a manager for the past 10 years and now wants to "return" to programming may be regarded as a dubious candidate - but the same doubt would also apply to a candidate who is 26 and has not done much programming since the age of 16. It is also true that if you have learned nothing but FORTRAN or COBOL, we aren't going to be interested in hiring you for our Ruby-on-Rails / JavaScript / C++ project. But it's not hard to tell who is a real software developer, no matter what their age - it's someone who just _has_ to write code, like a writer has to write or an artist has to make art.

One thing I've always prized about technical work and hacker culture in general, is that outer appearances matter much less than in other fields. We don't need to judge what someone looks like, what clothes they wear, where they come from, how old they are; we just need to see what they do and how they act. If you are working someplace where that's not the case, I encourage you to look elsewhere. Otherwise, keep learning and continue to enjoy coding.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that kind of backup Amazon's claims of the term "app" being generic - whether you think those old apps were worthy of the current term or not? I've used the term app for as long as I can remember. Apple certainly did not coin it. Now, if it was for "App Store", as a term, then I could see that.
Dear Google, you're doing it wrong. We understand that you would like google lockin on our file system, but the rest of us who do not necessarily have 24-7 100% reliable connectivity or prefer to work on things quietly offline (for instance, competing search technology) might think files resident somewhere else might not be so bad.
There is also Thrift.
I think you missed the point, or did not see the footage of the scene. It was supposed to be misogynic. It was making him out to be a fool whilst also being comedically overly harsh on something that was almost always not called for.

It is a common phrase (at least in my life) for debates in which a person is completely wrong. It was regularly used in my Policy Debates in high school. but there is no accounting for taste.
Yes, it would help show that the term "app" is generic, but that isn't really Amazon's claim. It's a bit more subtle than that. They are claiming that "app store" is a generic term for a store that sells downloadable applications. Apple isn't denying that either "app" or "store" are generic, but rather that the combination into "app store" has specific meaning when applied to the realm of applications that provide a digital storefront to sell additional applications. They might even have a case here, as these kinds of trademark things usually come down to whether or not the public associates the term with a specific source. Basically, it would be considered unfair for Amazon to use the term "app store" if it has a connection to Apple in the public mind, because that would mean that Amazon is technically trading on Apple's reputation. That's what the law would seek to protect, and that might be how Apple could win this case.
How is that unusual? All the hard science, math, and engineering majors had taken at least one class on programming. And it's not like the majority of MIT students end up not majoring in some kind of engineering or science major.
Yes, there is a problem with the headline. The latter sentence should read, "Finding problems is hard."

However, convention on HN suggests that it's appropriate to copy headlines verbatim from the linked article. It's unclear what the appropriate behavior is.
GOOG did, remember.
Note that you can always import/export documents off Google Docs in another format.
That idea doesn't work. It doesn't stop a third-party from seeing who has copies of a file.
“but please recognize that these people are suffering too”

Their suffering is not being denied. Their suffering is being pointed out as completely tangential to the problem at hand.

The therapy that they need is simply to try not to mistreat women just because women didn't worship them to their liking in their earlier years.

They don't need to pay a therapist to have people online tell them this simple fact which they can learn from if they're interested in making their lives happier.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't this hurt Google's business rather than protect it? With no legitimate means of buying/renting movies on their Android devices people will likely resort to piracy.
Also - I'd have to assume that the performance benefit of native JSON parsing in modern browsers is non-negligible...
How would the GDrive help you with that?
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You realize that it implies that everyone agrees with you? In fact, it's a rhetorical trick used to make everyone in the group aware of your/our feelings towards the RIAA.

I agree with the downvote. HN is a place for real discussion, and even though the RIAA wasn't the topic of discussion right now, as a community, let's not get into the habit of assuming the RIAA are a mafia - it will make it much harder to be objective on the issue.
Yeah, a megaton means a megaton worth of TNT.
Freedom of speech isn't a law of nature, and it wasn't handed down from God or whomever. In the United States it is provided by the Constitution. In Canada we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and hate speech is forbidden, for example, members of the Westboro Baptist Church are banned from Canada.
GDrive = “syncing files, viewing files on the Web, shared spaces for collaborating on a document, offline access, local IO speeds” sounds exactly like Dropbox.

Apparently they are thinking too far ahead in the future where Internet connection is ubiquitous and super fast while ignoring the reality.

Dropbox's popularity proved GDrive would be a great product. I would guess the engineers at Google should be as good as, if not better than, guys at Dropbox. Given the planned launch time in 2008, it might very well kill Dropbox right at the beginning, or Dropbox might be a no-go for YC since Google would be doing it so good for free.

PS: Does anyone feel this is just internal politics to kill competing projects so his own project (Sundar is the lead of Chrome) can get more resources?
MSFT's IPO was 25 years ago, at the dawn of the Information Age. LNKD was post-Google (and post-GOOG) and, well, have access to an automated system for finding friends of friends who are the best experts in the word on any topic, including IPO pricing.
They have no excuse for leaving so much money on the table.
Anybody know how easy it will be to upgrade a 3.0 Rails app to 3.1? Especially in regards to changing it to use jQuery.
I ran into this bug today in a fresh install of the latest Rails/Rake. If your rake tasks are currently exploding due to Rake 0.9.0, making your Rakefile look like this will fix it:

https://gist.github.com/4b4e24877b107b00bcba
I wish we could have http://freedownload-eky.blogspot.com/ something that made sense outside of web development. We love friendly urls, but if you're trying to have those in an IBM product, it takes specialized knowledge. User Friendly should be out of the box.
Your intention to include the copyrighted music within your cat video, combined with your HN postings, would invalidate any fair-use defense.

The only reason you are adding this music to cat videos is to circumvent copyright.