skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ivan Illich called this "building education into the world" in Deschooling Society. The idea was to implement this on a universal level by having a government provide citizens redeemable education vouchers that private companies could accept in exchange for some apprenticeship.
Do they _really_ need the rights to publish on my wall? Why? To advertise their product and go viral? But is the "like" button not enough?

That's too intrusive for me I'm not allowing access to my facebook profile.
Just got zero hits on a search that I know there is at least one result for. Same search worked fine on searchyc.com a few days ago.

EDIT: Google search using site:news.ycombinator.com just now delivered the result I was expecting.
Of course it's possible to be in possession of stolen goods without knowing they're stolen... but that does not remove the rights of the "owner" of the laptop to remotely control his equipment. If you buy a Blackberry for cheap off of Craigslist, it sucks when the owner bricks it after a week and you loose all your photos/contacts/sms messages. But legally its still his phone, he can do what he wants with it.

This guy also has every right to collect and publicize any information collected by the laptop which will help him locate it. He's titled it "This guy has my MacBook", not stole, and he hasn't posted anything irresponsibly that I've seen.

He has every right to collect the guy's personal information, too, but that doesn't mean he can use his credit card or publish his social security number.
I'm wondering if they store all gathered information permanently. They don't give exact information on that matter.
The generic term for the Linux ecosystem is not the venue for that. It might have helped if it were done early on, but GNU and the free software movement are in no danger of falling into obscurity at this point.

Anyone who might have followed the GNU/ to find out what it is would have found out about the free software movement in the process of learning about Linux. That was my introduction to it, and this naming campaign has given me a negative impression.

I'm glad people are working on replacements for GNU so I don't see someone saying "you mean GNU/Linux" every time anyone mentions Linux in public.
Yes. And the other commands that do not map to an HTML5 construct should be "data-" attributes.
Sf denizens are an oh so delicate and precious bunch. Agreed.
why is linux a hard target? Don't know much about compilers/how kernel compilation goes but still would appreciate some basic explanation.
It turns into a mosaic of you using other photos. Worked fine with me (Chrome PC, latest flash)
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Yeah, right, Israel is innocent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid
Enough Is Enough
Anyone have a zip file of those papers? It's a long list.
It seems that every application nowadays needs the rights to post on your wall. I wish it was possible to negotiate with them. I always end up just not using things instead...
I am not your friend.
The value proposition of the Ruby community has more to do with their mindshare than their technical merit.

Compare and contrast Scientology with Psychiatry. Both communities make similar value propositions: improve mental health.

Scientology is optimized to gain and keep converts and to spread like a viral meme.

Psychiatry is optimized to achieve good treatment outcomes.

Scientology makes more money despite being a less effective form of therapy.

Virality itself is adaptive, so the Ruby community thrives and survives despite being a mediocre technology. Everything about ruby is optimized for gaining converts, attention and cohesion. Hard technical merit is less important in this case than community cohesion, growth, and publicity. Flamewars bring the ruby community publicity and this leads to growth which leads to the survival and replication of ruby.

Erlang and C++ survive on hard technical merits. They take a different evolutionary strategy that requires less propaganda / groupthink.

Just look at the life cycle of communities as if they were a species and it all makes sense.
Free trials aren't free to the company. It's a promise given to customers that they will be able to make use of company's assets without payment. Company normally has to pay for both the actual usage that occurs and the option of usage it has granted to it's customers so far. Trial subscription and expiry mechanism lets company control the maximum amount of free usage they have agreed to at any point in time.

Let's say you came up with a new and innovative service that let's people publish pictures they took with a mobile phone into the cloud. Because you calculate it will cost you on average one dollar per user account per month to provide the service you decide to charge your users $5 per month.

To attract new users you also decide to give them opportunity to try the service before they commit. You have a few options:

1. Let users upload the pictures in reduced quality for free unless they convert into premium. You're worried that this strategy will distort your user base: people who actually need best possible quality will not get a true impression of your service. On the other hand you will have to pay indefinitely for the storage and bandwidth of a whole lot of inferior quality pictures. Even worse the policy will attract whole group of non-paying users that will be content with the inferior picture quality and will make a heavy use of your service.

2. Let people upload up to 50 pictures free. In which case again you'll end up with having to pay for non-paying customers storing their pictures forever. Even worse some unscrupulous people will end up opening hundreds of accounts and some kid in Russia will write a utility working on top of your service seamlessly opening and amalgamating free accounts for a single user.

3. Set a free trial period of 30 days when users can upload pictures for free. After 30 days they will either have to convert into paying customers or download their data because you're going to automatically purge the free accounts. You're worried that 30 days may not be enough for some people to evaluate your service, but then you decide to look at the conversion stats; after-all if the prospect couldn't make up their mind after 30 days maybe the need wasn't that pressing and you shouldn't be wasting your company resource trying to convert them?
Isn't the "you couldn't build it without GNU tools" argument somewhat silly, as no other OS out there includes the toolchain as part of the name? I doubt the folks over at Microsoft would seriously consider renaming Windows "Visual Studio/Windows" or "TFS/Windows", yet they would be hard pressed to build Windows without it. I'm also fairly sure Linux isn't the only OS out there that can be built with GNU tools (I thought Solaris was using it, at least during the brief period of time that they were open), yet it does seem to be the main target of the "GNU's contribution should be specially recognized" crowd - it's hard to see this as anything but sour grapes over Linux pretty much taking over the GPL licensed Unix-like kernel market away from Hurd.

"Surely no one here suggest dropping Linux as the appropriate name for the system?"

Linux based Android doesn't use Linux. Arguably the distro name is now the "primary" name (though this would still leave the FSF people feeling unloved). Thinking about it, I mostly say I use Ubuntu on the Desktop and Android on the phone and tablet and barely ever mention I run Linux nowadays.
Are these the world’s greatest cities to live in?
Is it more dangerous than what you do?

Could police work be less dangerous because of adequate training, equipment and protocols? The danger is still there, mitigated.
I'm in the UK and neither my wife or I went to private school (in fact I went to a school that consistently appeared towards the very bottom of the league tables in Scotland, before they stopped producing such things). However, our son has been privately educated for the last nine years and probably has another six years to go - and I have never regretted it, the quality of everything is qualitiatively better than state schools (even good state schools).

One thing that is particularly noticeable in private schools is that the emphasis is not purely on academic performance (although that is important) - they are excellent in providing a very rounded education.

My only regret is that the same level of education is not available to all children - regardless of the parents ability to pay (which is obviously the main selection criteria at the moment).
Your comment [1] is a direct reply to one where kneath explicitly states it [2].

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606063
[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605804

For me, it was pretty obvious because it doesn't show up on the profile under 'Public Repositories', only on the dashboard in a list of projects you have access to.
You can go into you application permision options later and remove any non required permissions. Can sometimes stop the application from working but then you can re-evaluate worth. I do this periodically everything I have authorized to use Facebook Connect. Good time to get rid of anything you are no longer using also
Not enough flexibility. Posterous is for blogging. I need something that is as easy to use as Posterous, but for an artist/band.
Sounds like a discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation lawsuit!
I don't think that's the OP.
When I saw the title, this (or something like it) is what I thought the article was going to be about.
Apple's new data center is visible (at last) from space
But, then how to I get my pretty URLs?
Panic's apps do this if I recall correctly, the day counter of your trial only decrements for days you've actually run it.
(Z.Shaw, 2007): break projects into Implementation and Invention.
I think Node, Scala, and company will eat Erlang's lunch. However, looking at that code makes you realize that the Erlang actor model with an internal scheduler is pretty nice for a lot of things.
Amidst hundreds of comments in this thread, few will explicitly point out that there are obvious differences between the demographics of SF vs. the demographics of Oakland, Hunter's Point, Camden, South Central LA, and Detroit. Most likely the police you encountered were also drawn from that different demographic.
I feel that limiting the number of uses may be counter-productive and may actually make users try it less so as to preserve the number of trials remaining and stretch out the trial.

Fixed number of days encourage people to try more knowing that their trial would expire whether they use it or not.

I have no data to back this up though and would be interested in actual results if anyone has tested the two approaches.
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This is nice but the truth is that most of the time the video shows the capabilities of the 3D designers at Intel over actually putting images contextually.

I remember there was a game trailer about some doom pending game that took your facebook images and status updates and merged it into the game trailer creating a very personalized experience.

Mind you this was over 2 years ago and sadly I cannot seem to find it. Any help?

EDIT: I think it was http://www.prototype-experience.com/
EDIT 2: Another one: http://www.nationalguard.com/momentsofpride
HaNS is a pure Haskell network stack: 802.3, IPv4, ..., UDP, and TCP.
High performance CSS
Twitter trends toward product placement?
glibc isn't the only C runtime out there.
Impressive. Though showing random information does not necessarily create positive experience.
$$$

Even an old Pentium 4 w/ a couple gigs of RAM is probably all he needs.
I think product placement is a great way for celebrities to lose credibility fast!
To me the chart simply considers HNers influential nutjobs.
> They did so much right, but in the end they couldn't survive the paradigm shift of touchscreen

Or being bought out by Microsoft.
Good work, Microsoft!

Embrace and extend.
A situation is not an "internet drama" by itself. It needs people talking and/or arguing about it. It is evident to me.
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In order to spend bitcoins, you need someone willing to exchange them for goods or services. Why would anyone do that if the bitcoins they received were going to expire?

For instance, let's say I wait until the literally last minute to spend my expiring bitcoins. I want to exchange my almost-expiring 10 BTC for $100. Would you accept this offer, knowing that those 10 BTC will vanish shortly after you accept them?
this might seem cool to some, but its actually a wake up call personally. this shows how much facebook knows about me, and if people were freaking about about google knowing my search history, facebook has wayyyy more than just search history.

i wonder, if there is a way to actually "delete" history on my account?
That's pretty much standard now, as facebook has made it impossible to grow a social app otherwise.
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> Everybody had a Sidekick username, and your app could send a packet of information to any other Sidekick as long as you knew their username. That was guaranteed to be delivered and guaranteed to be delivered in sequence. Made all sorts of neat social / sharing apps dead simple to write.

Telepathy offers the same API over various backends (via Tubes - http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Tubes). Telepathy is already heavily used in Gnome and some apps are starting to use Tubes (http://people.collabora.co.uk/~cassidy/talks/TelepathicDeskt...).
Me and My Browser
Lots of apps do this or use a combined approach. It aint new and it's a fine idea.

Try this on: Lock app after 30 uses if 30 days has passed.
"The harder I practice, the luckier I get."

I'm aware of that quote being attributed to Gary Player. For example: http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/myshot_gd0210
Manual screwdriver. Idiot human!
I understand your point but suggesting that it "would have been perfectly legal if..." does not make it any less of a violation.
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One of the peculiar things about language acquisition is that children learn it much better than one would expect. It's the "Poverty of the stimulus" paradox that led Chomsky to assert innate capacity to process grammar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus
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Our cparser compiler cannot even try to compile Linux, because it does not support the gcc -regparm and the -softfloat arguments. These are features that do not matter for applications (on x86).

-regparm changes the calling convention, so the first arguments must be stored in registers instead of the stack

-softfloat uses library functions to emulate floating point operations instead of the FPU
"From my perspective, humans are learning machines, as evidenced by the totality of human output."

While I think I agree with you, this argument is not very strong imo - it takes only a very small amount of people ('outliers' or 'abnormals' if you want) to think of new things that are then implemented by all the others. And this even includes much 'research' that is being done today - you only need 1 guy to drive a lab of 50 who do the things this one guy has imagined. And yet those 50 are also called 'researchers', and are already considered at the 'extreme' end of the curve of people able to self-mobilize.
They don't abuse it, I think it's because the app is built in flash, they can't use the standard post to wall dialogue, so they've built their own which requires post to wall privileges.

The only thing it posted to my wall was a message I approved and clicked 'send' on
I get "Page Not Found

We are sorry, there is no Intel.com page matching your request."
Nobody? Get the IP addresses that access those accounts from GMail. You're going to find them all coming from one IP or a small number of American IP addresses. Ask the ISPs who they are. Job done, culprit found.

You think they'll be using anonymous proxies or something? I doubt it.
Sometimes I can't believe how fanboyish Apple fanboys are.

Hacker news about a Google maps update now showing a large Apple data center!? Come on...
This is probably why the post is only interesting now (after a huge valuation).

I expect lots of the CL folks were perfectly happy to list their places on AirBnB and so far I've not heard complaints from users about they were approached (although I've not been looking for them either).
1. It has always been targetted at gcc, so no serious portability work has been done, more of a co-development thing. Linux will only compile correctly on a few recent versions of gcc, you cant compile old kernels on new gcc or vice versa.
2. There is a lot of inline assembler (including oddities like x86 16 bit code) that has to work exactly as specified, such as for creating memory barriers say, or other low level constructs. Inline assembler is non standard, although clang does now implement the gcc stuff.
3. You are making an ABI, so everything must be laid out exactly the same way. Portable C does not give you exact control of padding, again there are gcc extensions.
4. Testing is hard - there are a huge number of optional modules, as well as SMP and non SMP builds, so even if you build the code with a new compiler without a lot of people using it it is hard to be sure it really works. There is no test suite...

Probably some more reasons too...
That's bollocks, as a good Internet line costs an arm and a leg and you're far better off renting a VPS.

A micro-instance on EC2 for moderate traffic does wonders if properly optimized (i.e. Nginx, async behavior, CloudFront) and is costing me something like 15 USD per month (the total bill, which includes EBS, S3 and CF), which is cheaper than my home broadband line which is totally unusable for any kind of traffic (because it is ADSL, download is good but uploading sucks).

I also moved my private Git repositories on it, from Github and I'm probably going to end my subscription with them. It is also configured as an email server with which I spammed my old high-school colleagues before our 10-years reunion :-)
awesome, tried a flash app other than video/slideshare player after a very long time.

any idea which creative agency did it?

I would love to download the video to play on my TV, there should be a download button
Bitcoin is not decentralized
I once had a crap work laptop that continually crashed. Every crash counted as one use - and that was incredibly annoying. So I'd rather something like one use equate to one day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques
Nobody's paid $1B for AirBnB. The investors paid a price for a % of AirBnB that equates to a valuation of $1B. In other words, they've placed a bet that AirBnB will be worth more than $1B.
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of mobile phones do not support Telepathy. While your comment is interesting for people consider desktop Linux development, it is a bit off-topic in a discussion about mobile platforms.
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I just get a constant gathering data. Anyone experiencing similar?
This is actually pretty cool (check out the YouTube video). I wish it was easier to add events.

The use case cited is bus schedules, but it is really quite broadly applicable. Any time you have something "coming up" you can see at a glance how much time you have left till then.

I think many more people would use this if it was turned into a product, rather than an SDK or a collection of .jars.

EDIT: Found it! Check out HeliCal:
http://www.lri.fr/~dragice/helical/
There's an account, http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring, which posts a Who Is Hiring thread at 9AM EST.

The HN community has largely accepted it as the official Who Is Hiring account. It would be nice if you could delete this post.
If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this: you still did a lot more for the world than the guys at Lodsys
The error wrapper is kind of nice, I'll think about adopting it. Basically, though, I find that CoffeeScript's significant whitespace and lack of cruft in general yields pretty nice callback code, with indents as a visual indicator of program flow. Given that you use named functions where appropriate.

The same is true for JavaScript as well, but it's easier to accomplish, IMO, in CS. TJ Holowaychuk's JavaScript code, for instance, is very readable.
Great story ... I also posted on HN in frustration, nearly ready to throw in the towel on my programming career.

The resultant feedback completely changed my outlook and I haven't looked back since ... here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815395
It's About Business Problems, Not Engineering Problems
I never said they couldn't I said they couldn't without worrying about legal repercussions. Even in the cases when they're in the right, they have to carefully worry about the license. If I develop on an opensource stack, its prohibitively expensive to deal with the overhead of fixing the underlying components rather than put workarounds in my code. Even if the former would benefit everyone the most.
It happened to me once, which is why I think what I do now. It's given me peace of mind for years which is priceless.
Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive.

It's relatively easy to say "enough is enough". Actually fighting back is harder and, at this point, almost impossible.
patio11 is always touting scalable content generation, so you may want to look into a writer.

Also, I'm not trying to be nasty, but the website is riddled with English problems. Most of those are the freelancers' fault, but they still don't inspire confidence.

An editor (person) or integrated spell checker (script) may be useful. On the other hand, your customers may be in for a rude awakening when actually e-mailing the workers...
If you think that's callback hell, you try doing it in C++.
Education is about personal and intellectual growth, not about winning some race to the top.

But, you just wrote...

Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.
Airbnb: great example of the risks of getting user feedback on your idea
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