skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It gets harder each day to avoid all the bitcoin stories.
My guess is they're not even angry at the sales team, heck they probably gave hints as to what to do.
FunnyJunk's been handed just about enough rope now I do believe
I would be interested if that salary included only teachers or also administrators. Some districts have nearly a 1:1 ratio of administrators to teachers. To me that sounds really high.
No need to be sad. I enjoy humor a lot, only not the Zed's kind. I did not ready LPTHW, but might some day :)
annoying and tedious that sort of code is, i agree, but not impossible?

besides, i was under the impression that audio/video chats went through skype servers? (i've never actually checked though)
As others have pointed out, sum() is the right thing for (2), and groupby() could be used to build a real partition for (6). Clearly I should have tried this in the morning, after a full night's sleep. :3 More seriously, for (2), (9), and (10), I was trying to answer with similar one-liners that have the same kind of complexity and results, to show that Python's syntax isn't that scary.

Also, I should note that there is a one-liner for using urllib and lxml to grab and parse an XML file, but there's another one-liner using Twisted to do the same thing; it depends on your context. Why do you want the XML? What are you doing with it? That is something important that needs to be considered.
This is awesome news. Setting up a separate xen kernel for the host domain was always a pain in the butt.
Talk to us again in 5 years when you've got some experience under your belt and you find out how woefully unprepared school has left you...

Then talk to us in 10 when you figure out that you could have learned all that same knowledge for free, in less time...

I graduated from college 34 years ago and I will talk to you now...

College is not about getting prepared, learning facts, acquiring things, or being thrifty or efficient in doing so. College is about becoming a bigger and better you. It's not the only way, but it's a pretty good one.

I have never taken a CS or programming class. I have taught myself almost everything I've ever learned about about building software and businesses. None of the "stuff" I needed came from college, but I'd like to think that college played a fundamental role in helping become the person I needed to be.

On one hand, I have always been concerned about the giant chasm between academia and the real world. On the other hand, I would never discourage anyone from starting and finishing college. Take advantage of this great time to shape your future. You may never have such an opportunity again.
"Elop later told the Salo employees that Google "acted like they'd already won"

That is because they have already won.

Very few people are buying WP7 phones at the moment (even though big manufacturers have put their weight behind it, think HTC, LG). What would make people buy Nokia phones with WP7? Its camera?
Im all for content aggregation(I mean look at the site we are all using here :P) but attribution is the key, and really it would seem that linking to the content generators would really help both parties out. Im not sure why they wouldnt want to do so?
The oatmeal has been extremely tame and polite in his response. It's funny how an anonymous crowd can make it seem as if he was in some way attacking or offending them. Here's the story:

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/blog/fj_letter.jpg

Personally, i 'd be much more furious about it.
Point of note: this discussion is about a decade old (coming right after vim 6 came out -- we're now on vim 7.x).
DroidDream Light a malware nightmare, booted from Android Market
Apple reportedly cracking down on iPad, iPhone giveaways
This does not change the legal status much. It is derived work (at best.)
It's not at all cynical. The issue here is that influential people get listened to more than regular problem, especially those who will invite their congressman onto their personal yacht to discuss matters.

However, if you hold a democracy as true to its ideals as possible, than the opinions of the ignorant are as prominent as the knowledgeable. (The media already promotes the ignorant heavily, but that's another issue...) Clearly this is not ideal if you don't have time to listen to everybody.

Where do you draw the line? Obviously US-style lobbying is too much, but you don't want to go too far. And various forces will work against you if you try to iterate on this legislation until it works.
>> Can't the same be said for people who bought Apple or Google stocks early on?

> Ownership of a stock is a claim on the net value and future profit of the company.

Ownership of currency is a claim on the net value and future profit of the currency. How does this address OP?
I didn't downvote you, (I don't think I'm allowed to!) but the "US Fed" (the Federal Reserve) does not simply add $X million to the money supply--it actually purchases Treasury bills on the open market. The net transaction is $0 (an exchange of currency for T-bills of equal value), but the market now contains more paper money.

Meanwhile, I've already discussed Bitcoin's potential as an alternative currency (or lack thereof) in other comments. If people demand Bitcoins as a "tax haven" from the government, then Bitcoins aren't long for this world.
Reminds me of the http://erldocs.com for Erlang documentation.
The idea that we should focus on trying to get respect/acceptance for female super geniuses. My point is that getting respect for ultra smart women is less of an issue because it's easy to recognize that they are exceptional.
I agree. What AirBnB did is the modern version of creating thin content farms to spam Google search results.
One addition to the shortcuts:

I instinctively tried to press RIGHT instead of ENTER to open category, and LEFT to close category.
If SHA-256 gets completely broken, then yes. However, such instant breakdown may not happen in practice:

* weaknesses found usually still require some computation time, which may be prohibitively expensive. Reducing 2^128 to something like 2^90 is terrible disaster from crypto perspective (and buyer confidence), but won't open floodgates for fake coins (if faking a coin costs thousands times more than mining/buying, then nobody will bother on large scale).

* attacks typically have certain limitation, e.g. only generate collisions, but not preimage, or apply only to certain types/lenghts of data. Hash could be totally broken for one set of cases (MD5 digital signatures are useless) and at the same time still hold strong for other (MD5-hashed salted passwords are safe, as best known preimage attack is 2^123), so even if some terrible flaw in SHA256 is found, it may not be applicable to the way Bitcoin uses the hash.
Because then you could bypass them for each subsequent The Oatmeal comic by just going to The Oatmeal.

I'm wondering why someone hasn't done a tineye-dmca-sending mashup to help control these issues..

An example search from tineye of oatmeal images (almost two pages worth):
http://www.tineye.com/search/657460f93292f13484a028f4828b838...
Suicide nets at Foxconn
After a roaring success bringing mail order catalogs online, and then bringing books themselves online, the followup is... ValuPak online?
USA needs more interesting problems to solve.
Steve Jobs' 1976 Retro Apple Logo iPad Leather Case?
Doesn't NetFlix specifically allow you to have mutliple users on an account? I'd be curious if NetFlix was actually involved in the lobbying that became this law.
What? There are already multiple independent implementations...
It sort of depends on the latest and greatest technology to be stealthy. For example, China, by putting all of its warheads in 2 or 3 subs would be putting all of its eggs in one basket. Those subs becomes the weakest link.

US probably has the capability to track other countries' subs, but it is a little harder to do that with hundreds of always moving launch platorms. Those are much cheaper to build and if they carry MIRV warheads, they can be very dangerous. It is of course possible to see them from a satellite but because they are always moving targetting them like one target a stationary silo is very different.
Firewall negotiation uses the p2p aspect of Skype. It either goes through a regular peer or a super node, IIRC.
The HN community generally accepts that companies should expect to pay good developers well. And, the corollary to that is if you're not willing to pay well, don't expect to get good developers.
I have a passwordless Guest account set up on both Windows and Linux for Predator. It's possible that as stories like this continue to get publicized thieves will get smarter and start removing or wiping disks, but it seems like a lot of the time they're not nearly that smart.
Shame on me, I use Vim everyday and I didn't even know it was Charityware.
Which works for a few - you among them. So the strong survive, and that's your bar for a 'civilized society'? Of course not. Your timid niece needs to be able to park her car too.
Your argument mixes numbers in a manner that confuses rather than enlightens. If you want to talk about how Michigan's education ranks in the nation and about how Michigan's teachers are paid, you need to compare Apples to Apples. If they're 30th in Education, how are their salaries relative to other teachers?

Likewise, the ranking of 30th... Does that measure the teachers alone or the entire system? If it measures the entire system, how does the funding of $7,000 per student compare to other states? Maybe Michigan is actually doing amazingly well considering its funding. Or maybe not. But that should be the basis of comparison, not comparing their salaries to those of burger flippers in McDonald's.
The lobbyist force these industries have must be insanely powerful and expensive.

Is Tennessee really the most expensive legislature to buy?
I really does seem like the admin of FunnyJunk is doing everything possibly (albeit unintentionally) to goad Inman into suing the site. He's complying in the most asinine ways (for example, removing all "The Oatmeal" comics... but only the ones with attribution).
I skimmed a bunch of passages in this, but I honestly don't get the whole "software craftsmanship" movement. all I see is common sense ideas dressed up with vapid motivational speakerisms. what am I missing here? am I just lucky because I've never worked in a dysfunctional software sweatshop?
anyone got any ideas of the origins of this cool case?
Offline version sold me.
The older IDA Pro 5.0 is licensed as freeware, free for non-commercial use.

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idadown.htm
> Here's how FunnyJunk.com's business operates:

> - Gather funny pictures from around the internet

> - Host them on FunnyJunk.com

> - Slather them in advertising

> - If someone claims copyright infringement, throw your hands up in the air and exclaim "It was our users who uploaded your photos! We had nothing to do with it! We're innocent!"

Oh, hey, it's the same as Grooveshark's model two years ago.
College, too easy for its own good
I wonder how this will play out on Red Hat now that Xen's been cut from RHEL6 (in favor of KVM)?
If I understand your question correctly, it's "How would one go about implementing their own analytic engine?" I have looked into this question recently and here's what I know so far (not 100% sure of course as I'm still looking into it)

Getting Basic Info:
1) 1x1 pixel method which request a 1 pixel image from your server which will pass the requesting client's info. A lot of people use this method because it's fairly simple and cross browser.
2) (I assume) guys like sharethis/addthis etc, request a javascript on your server which would pass all the client's information to the server per that request
Tracking things like mouse movement, page area etc would most likely require a more customize javascript that will send data to server via ajax/page unload etc.

Storing Data:
Because the data you will be collecting for analytic is HUGE. Think much bigger than HUGE. You'll need a real big-boy set up like a Distributed Storage/Database system. Most of the big guys use their own. Here is where you will need to read up on key/value databases like Cassandra or Hadoop etc.

Anyone with much more experiences and wiser thoughts, please do share and correct me as I am still learning about this. Good luck and thank you.
Governments could just setup there own versions of mybitcoin or authorize the private sector to run those versions on their behalf. They can even give tax breaks to those that use it.
I see the effort behind this project but I have to admit that I find it a bit useless. I've never had any problems finding anything related to jquery's documentation. I simply google and the top3 results is practically always the official documentation, a great stackoverflow answer, or a blog explaining in detail what I'm looking for.

But, maybe it's just the way I work; I can understand that other developers might prefer to have a great resource that they can look up instead of randomly searching google.
What I would do: Raise the stakes by putting a CC BY license (or CC BY-NC) on the comics. That way he can clearly spell out the rights associated with the works but require attribution (and retain commercial rights if desired). Then when they start appearing on other sites, all he needs to ask for is attribution and the larger copyright issue goes away.
Indeed. Spending more per prisoner than per student (even when you divide by three, considering students spend ~8 hours a day at school) strikes me as pretty backward. When you spend money, you're investing it. So Michigan is investing nearly twice as much money per prisoner ((40k / 3) / 7k).

Which is a better investment: keeping bad people out of society /now/, or educating the future generations to keep them from being a bad person? I won't argue that the first one shouldn't happen. But should we really be investing more in the short term than in the long term? Especially when the only benefits in the short term are a society that feels (and might be) safer along with enriched privately run prisons and their employees, and along the long term is a sustainable and expanding economy based on, you know, not imprisoning people.
He didn't remove them. He did a search and replace to rename any attributions of "The Oatmeal" to "the fag".

Pleasant individual.
I don't usually do this (http://xkcd.com/386/), but this is the second article I've read today which shows the author's complete lack of understanding about the subject (like that's never happened before in the tech industry...)

Windows currently comes in 7 different flavours (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions), which have varying numbers of features. Why would anyone with half a brain assume that a full blown Windows 8 complete with touch enabled apps would be used across all form factors? That doesn't make sense on any level and assuming that Microsoft would do something that silly undermines the intelligence of the people working there (granted there is a lot of beaureacracy at MS that hold them back from being truly successful, but their engineers are far from idiots). Already, Windows Phone is a vastly cut down version of the OS (to the point of being annoying as it lacks some much needed features)

From what I've seen and heard so far, Windows 8 is meant to be scalable. Now whether that will work in practice is yet to be seen, but I don't see any reason for them not to be able to have a minimal OS for phones (like Windows Phone 7), a slightly more feature-rich tablet OS and a full blown desktop OS (which itself will probably come in the Home, Pro, IcingOnCake, etc. editions) that can also run on larger touch-screens. Of course, all of this is contingent on whether they can properly modularise the OS so that unwanted bulk can be dropped for lighter versions and also making sure that lighter versions are optimised for their respective form factors in terms of performance and battery life.
UK government snared in fight over scrapped $1.2bn e-Borders contract
Weird Al made millions off of making funny songs. The internet has an abled Jonathon Coulton to do via the internet what MTV did for Weird Al - find his audience. He also worked really hard and did what most great musicians do - he toured hit butt off.

In short, he treated it like a job, got real good, and at times was at the right place at the right time. Well done.
As a former Michigander with family in education I can say that your comment on pension and retirement is wrong. My mom is about to retire and they just officially TOOK AWAY her retirement.

Teaching is an interesting profession. In fact, teachers are often treated as if they aren't part of the professional class. We call them incompetent, fire the youngest members of the profession first, underpay them, and then public ridicule them.

I would think people who live in the Silicon Valley world would agree: if you want to solve hard problems you need great talent. If you want great talent, you need to attract them, not repel them. Education is a hard problem and we treat teachers like unskilled labor.
Nokia distributes different models to different parts of the world.
And what are jcr's credentials? Not everyone that posts on HN is an expert or should be assumed to understand their subject matter.
Xen and KVM are fundamentally different.

Xen is a microkernel, loosely based on the Nemesis OS from the University of Cambridge. Instead of running traditional POSIX software, this microkernel runs software in ring 1 using a very special system call API. DomU and Dom0 support for Linux means that Linux has been ported to run on top of this special system call API.

But this doesn't mean Xen is now in Linux. Xen is still a separate OS with it's own memory manager, scheduler, device drivers, etc.

OTOH, KVM is a device driver for Linux that let's you run virtual machines under Linux. You're still using the Linux scheduler, memory manager, device drivers, etc. KVM is fundamentally a part of Linux.

For another point of reference (with less confusing terminology), L4 is pretty much the same thing as Xen and L4Linux is equivalent to Linux dom0/domU support.
What software do you use to create ebooks?
Curious to see what software (if any) the HN community uses to create ebooks.

I'm considering entering the space - also, any painpoints in the process?
This may be impossible to prevent (for non-https users) but can't it at least be detected, i.e. in a coffee house setting, since the probability of two devices requesting the same user's FB page under normal circumstances is almost nil. Then you can let all requesters know and block any further traffic.

IDEABOLT: How about a startup selling self-contained routers to e.g. Panera, Starbucks, or B&N that can add this extra security. Then they can advertise this as an extra differentiating feature.
Another interesting way to achieve object-orientedness in C can be found in libdispatch [1], the user space implementation of Apple's Grand Central Dispatch API. It makes use of the transparent_union GCC attribute [2], among other things, and is pretty heavy on macro usage. Cool stuff.

[1] http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/

[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html
By default, journalists don't link to their sources----not if its a scientific journal, another newspaper, a blog, a tweet, or anything else.

They do tell you the source, but leave it as an exercise to the reader to find where it is.

So this isn't bad etiquette so far as the group they're conforming to is that of other journalists.
Data Could Be Next Frontier for IT
It's even on the splash screen. Every time you open vim you can see Help poor children in Uganda! or something similar.
As already said if it's illegal why make another law? Enforce the one you have.

I feel it like we are one step closer to RMS short story :
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Edit: i sent the comment too fast, needed rewrite.
In the short term, over the next year or so, there isn't going to be a deflation problem with Bitcoins; there will be significant inflation. The BTC supply is set to increase something like 30% next year.

Right now the value of BTC has been going up (relative to USD) hand over fist due to increased demand. But eventually -- and I think it's going to be pretty quickly -- the buying spree is going to end and the miners are still going to be churning out new Bitcoins.

It's going to feel more like holding Zimbabwe dollars than Krugerrands for a while, I suspect.

Long term, yes, Bitcoins are designed to deflate. If they remain popular past c.2020, prices will gradually decrease and smaller and smaller fractions of Bitcoins will need to be used for transactions. (Actually the number of Bitcoins in existence will probably go down slowly over time, as people lose Bitcoin wallets and thus take the BTC out of circulation forever. There are 9000+ BTC "lost" this way at present.)
So what this looks like to me is that Microsoft took OS X's Dashboard, skinned it with Metro, and moved it to be front and center in the OS's UI.

It definitely looks striking, but seeing as how I wound up not actually using Dashboard -- ever, really -- I'm skeptical about how this will succeed in practice, i.e. in Getting Things Done On A Computer. What is the flow for doing something like working on a Word document, reading/replying to an email, and then switching back to Word?

Insofar as desktops/laptops are concerned, this doesn't appear to help with that flow, and actually appears to interfere with it. That's the point that Gruber is making, I believe.
However, something I've struggled a little more related to jquery is finding and using the plugin. The official plugin website is really not optimal and it's hard to find the "best" plugin when you're looking for something.

I guess an unofficial jquery plugin website where you could easily:

1- Find a couple of plugin that do what you want

2- Let you try the demo as fast as possible

3- Let you glance over the code, see comments and rating of others developers.

4- Have an easy and clear: Crash 30 sec installation

5- Give an access to the documentation.

This is the order I usually execute when searching for a jquery plugin.. it's just that each of those steps are sometime unnecessary hard. I.e. multiple versions on the jquery, hard to find the real website of the plugin, have to look github issues to see other comments, demo page not working or deprecated, hard to see the "Installation and quick example", etc.
Yes, but the Hex-Rays decompiler is not. I can't touch the files, so I can't tell you what version was used, but in the comments here, there is a claim that the supposed source code is Hex-Rays output.
As a coder who often has to upload multi-MB files to the office dev and stage servers, my home upload speed of ~300Kbps doesn't cut it. Sure I have 10Mbit down, but it's kind of useless for me.
Unfortunately, there is nothing preventing the law from being applied in your 'scary' scenario.

Additionally, if I share my password with my wife, and her sister 'borrows' it from my wife, and she gives it to three friends, and they each give it to three friends, who is responsible under this law? How do you prove it?

Also, it is just really poor business to solve a problem using legislation which could easily be solved using software.

This law may even be in conflict with the licensing agreements between Netflix and the studios. If Netflix and a studio had worked out an arrangement where up to 4 simultaneous users can stream from a single account, who is the Tennessee legislature to declare otherwise.

This could be an interstate commerce issue, too.
* No, that was Gruber's mistake. *

In what sense? If I release a controlled promotional video demonstrating my new product, I would expect people to assume it will be at least representative of what will ship, likely showing the product in the best possible light.

On the other hand, if a company claims that their unreleased product is an 'x-killer' then I'm inclined to reserve judgement until I read a review or try it in person.