skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Toronto and watch Hulu/Netflix US all the time. You need a VPN service. StrongVPN is $7/month. Worth it if you're exploring cutting the cable from Rogers/Bell/Telus.
This is an article on a mainstream newspaper's website. Despite what they might think of themselves, the reader base mainly consists of people who know rather little about how computers and the internet work.
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No. JavaScript is (now) important enough that no one person has that much influence over it.
Idoru, anyone?
Breaking into the automotive industry is tough. Tesla (or any new manufacturer) should expect to slog along for 10+ years before seeing any significant sales and impact.
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anne shirly is a redheaded girl,her name is end of e.She is my kindred spirit and I hope she think so.
In 2009,I encounter or seek for the anne of green gables by watching whisper of heart first.
Yes! One of my favourite ewd's.

(The ones about proof strategies are good too, and those where he laments the quality of the Dutch higher educational system, though I imagine these are less interesting to computer scientists outside the Netherlands. It never seizes to amaze me how much of his writings are still relevant decades later.)
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I was about to create something this and then thought "I should check that HNSearch contest poll to see if anyone already did"

Awesome work. Hoping you keep improving it!
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So what word do we think he meant to go there? Partitioning?
rpc.lockd - http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...

syslogd - http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...
The general level of reader commentary on the SMH website is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.

This isn't helped by the current trend for their articles to be link bait or scraped off a real tech source, rather than anything approximating journalism.
Makes me think of Superidol, actually.

http://www.artbomb.net/comics/superidol.jsp
According to the 4th Amendment a warrant is supposed to:

"...and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

When they seize unrelated hardware they are clearly overstepping their bounds. I'd like to see the innocent parties take this to court and put a stop to this. We are far past the time when the FBI can claim ignorance as to how a colocation site operates.
Times are tough for MS, can only afford a cupcake now. Maybe a donut next... then an eclair...
This is becoming a significant risk for online startups like my company and the companies of other HN members.

It's like a meteor strike: well reported, flashy, but very very not likely to actually happen to your site. How many websites do HNers collectively operate? How many have ever gone down because the FBI took their hardware? How many have ever gone down because, oh, the hard drive crashed? Because they pushed bad code live? Because they misconfigured a firewall? Because the hosting company had a network or power issue? Those are real risks for your business. (Bonus points: many interventions for these and similar issues fixes your FBI problem, too!)

In the event of a totally freak incident like this, you're probably going to have downtime and a day's worth of data loss, but recovery for most folks here is likely "Reimage the VPS(s) from the latest backup, hit the on switch, and change DNS records."
Today corporations are negotiating directly with states. As equals. Not long ago, cities and counties were about the most they could swing. It won't be long until it becomes countries.

That used to strike me as extremely dystopian. Now I'm not even sure that would be so bad.
http://putthison.com/, the series and blog are both nice, and the accompanying "Sites we Like" sidebar is everything the other commenter mentioned and then some.

In my experience, having a female friend you can get rapid feedback from is invaluable, too.
Just power down the whole rack then decide.
I bought the phone with a Wirefly deal... which I assumed would be an even more difficult customer service experience. I won't make that mistake again. The "deal" turned out to be almost nothing as I got hit with an activation charge typically waived when you buy direct from Sprint.
>40 and primary world view formed working in fortune 100 corporate environment. Basically, every company I have ever worked for has had it's own multiple large data centers. I guess the point I didn't try very hard to make was, do you think a company the size of pinboard has the financial resources to engage in a prolonged legal battle with the FBI? I'm thinking not, but I could be wrong.
Performance-wise, any regex-based implementation may spend a lot of time backtracking and re-parsing data that a DFA hand-coded parser would handle in linear time.
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"Finally, it wants the Texas comptroller's office to set up a website where its customers can send sales tax owed on Amazon purchases to the state. Historically, voluntary sales-tax payments haven't been reliable."

I thought that part of the story was a joke. "Historically, voluntary sales-tax payments haven't been reliable." has got to be an understatement.

Has anyone here ever voluntarily paid sales taxes?
Keep in mind that they're already sale-tax exempt in Texas. They don't have any locations in Texas, therefore they don't have to charge sales tax.

They want to open a facility in Texas, but they don't want to have to start charging sales tax. Doesn't hurt to ask.
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From the article:

"The raid happened at 1:15 a.m. at a hosting facility in Reston, Va., used by DigitalOne, which is based in Switzerland, the company said... DigitalOne had no employees on-site when the raid took place. The data center operator, from which DigitalOne leases space, passed along the information about the raid three hours after it started with the name of the agent and a phone number to call."
It IS counting when it measures discrete elements, and it is measuring when it measures distance from a boundary. Discrete sets and continuous sets are very different beasts, and some of the mix-up here seems to be from ignoring their differences.
4 paragraphs:

1a) i dont know, but I'm sure some of these other points aren't right

1b) true, in the official product offering, but scaffolding was there

2a) false and true (thanks to burn rate and earlier assertion being false)

2b) true (price required plan not supported after purchase) and true

3a) false (multibitrate Windows Media was fantastic with a great video and audio codec, while Flash was plain bad till H.264), and in the years you say there wasn't demand, we built a similar business that routinely helped customers reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of viewers at a profit for them and a profit for us.

4a) YouTube (non-essential/comedy/ugc content being perfect for a ubiquitous animation player supporting a crappy codec via pseudostreaming) isn't Hulu, and isn't Broadcast.com. Hulu secured content users want to pay for.

Yahoo needs users' attention.
Dijkstra's point is that you should start counting at 0, so if you want to generate the first five ordinals, you would write [0:5) which yields {0,1,2,3,4} as expected.
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Close, but this is closer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
TextandVoicemail (anonymous disposable online cellphone) for sale on Flippa.
What about LPEG? It has a superset of the functionality of most regexp engines, yet is able to handle many things linearly that they would handle in quadratic time.
Ask HN: SCRYPT or BCRYPT?
I've known about Colin Percival's scrypt library for a while now but I don't have the cryptographic background to validate his research/implementation. Is there anyone with such a background or a reference to someone that's written up a validation of Colin's work?

Should I even bother? I gather from Colin's writings that he wrote scrypt to replace bcrypt and that it is, from him, stronger.
I personally think Yahoo is Corporate greed at its highest. Nothing good has come from Yahoo management and higher ups. The only good that has come have been from developers. To me personally, I think Yahoo is all about money now. Hulu would make another target to rake in profits and then dismiss or run into the ground like other commentors.
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Sincerely, this is a lovely tradition.
Review:

http://reviewhorizon.com/2011/06/best-buy-jumps-the-music-cl...
Fun fact about Dijkstra's handwriting: one winter when he was ice skating (which is a popular Dutch pastime when it freezes) he fell and broke his right hand. You'd think that would stop him from writing his manuscripts manually for a while, but no. Instead, he taught himself to write left-handed, like a boss.
Thanks, and yes it is valuable. In fact my stealth startups is in private testing atm!

But as you say I'm persistent. And I have a sort of sense of duty to bring attention to people that fall through the cracks. Obviously almost ludicrous in this context, but something I practice in my political day job(s).
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I've been hearing about http://www.coursekit.com
I don't want to say tatsuke95 is wrong, but I don't see this the same way. I'd say every company has the potential to make the customer service experience pleasant and gratifying while remaining fair to all involved. I don't think a customer should have to be this persistent. Like the author, I'm all for turning a cheek, but at a certain point I won't continue to purchase from a company. A little frustration is one thing. Months and months of it is another. Had this been my experience, I imagine I'd be done with HTC.
I was just about to say the same thing — this is my favourite industry tradition. Hats off.
Well, this is a case of the State trying to milk every bit of sales tax revenue it can. Normally, if you have a presence in a state, you are responsible for collecting sales tax from your customer and sending it to the state.

Let's say that you have business where you put together and sell computers. If you worked out of Dallas and sold a computer to someone in Houston, you'd collect the tax and send it to the state. The state then keeps a portion and sends a portion to the local governments where you live.

Now, let's say that you move to some other state and sell a computer to someone in Houston. Normally, if you mail it directly to your customer, you do not collect any tax and it is up to your customer to pay a local use tax.

Amazon's problem is that it has a distribution centre in the Dallas area, and the state says that counts as a 'local presence', but Amazon does not agree.

To carry on with the example, you live out of state and you sell a computer to someone in Houston. However, instead of shipping it directly to the customer, your brother who visits every weekend picks up the computer, gets it to his home in Dallas, and then ships it out from there. The state finds out about this and decides that your brother counts as a "local presence". Accordingly, it then demands that you pay up on all of the taxes you have failed to collect.
The University of Washington Foster School of Business has been doing it right for 10 years. The undergrad course is unique and effective, http://courses.washington.edu/entrecac/wordpress/
and their business plan competition turns out many successful companies year after year. http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/cie/businessplancom... .

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Lecturer in Entrepreneurship.
Foster School of Business
Ask HN: DNS provider suggestions?
I've been using EveryDNS.com for the last couple of years. I did the one time donation of $20 so I could have unlimited domains and unlimited entries.

DynDNS just bought them a few months back. It looks like my current domains are grandfathered in at no charge, but any new domain is going to cost $29.95/year. That's outrageous!

I really don't want to run my own DNS servers. What are the recommended DNS providers these days?
Flash has been rendering badly for me on Ubuntu 64 bit since Firefox 4. It's annoying enough that I just use Chrome. Firefox 5 has the same problem, unfortunately.
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For attempting to protect their IP by following the processes established in current law?
My bigger worry with that mentality is it seems slightly demeaning to the startups. "Here's a developer that wasn't good enough for us, maybe he's good enough for you though". Given that Google is investing in the companies, that should _not_ be the attitude they have towards them.
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If you have a server in the US (any very cheap hosting--I think even shared hosting--should work), you can also just do SSH tunneling.
I'm very happy with http://www.zerigo.com/.

EDIT: Just noticed they were purchased as well. The plot thickens.
Actually, they have had a facility in Texas for some time that they were planning on expanding. Last year, the comptroller demanded they pay back something on the order of $600M in back taxes and penalties.
In my ideal world, all email clients capable of displaying "rich text" would support Markdown, with an X-header identifying the plain-text message as such.
Coal in a modern generating plant is burned quite efficiently. It's pulverized into a powder, then blown into the combustion chamber with a lot of high pressure air. The burning coal is literally a fireball under the boiler.

The old image of heavy black smoke pouring out of the stacks is not the way it is anymore.

http://www.canadiancleanpowercoalition.com/index.php/downloa...
That "imaginary scale of better-ness" that you speak of is called happiness. At least, that's the scale on which I would find a difference between pushing around a $500 beat-to-shit Dodge Neon and cruising in a brand new BMW.

If you're driving a nice car, you worry less about it breaking down at an inconvenient time. You're probably also safer; as an extreme example, I believe one is less likely to be injured in an accident doing 120 in a Ferrari Enzo and wrapping it around a tree than doing the same at half the speed in a budget car. Having a nice AWD car affords you the opportunity to drive up to Tahoe for a snowboarding weekend without worrying about whether you will get stuck in the snow. If you've got a nice home with plenty of extra sleeping space, you have the opportunity to invite a bunch of friends to fly out for a weekend to party and have an awesome time. In all of these cases, the material things serve as tools by opening doors for you to have experiences. And aren't experiences the root of happiness?

Nice things are not better than average things because they are more expensive, they are better because they offer more opportunities for experiences. The ownership of things is not an end in and of itself, but a means to an end.

That said, I totally agree with your thesis: "the problem is attachment". I think the OP's article can be summed up in a sentence: He had unhealthy compulsions resulting from a factor, got rid of that factor, and was happier. That factor, for the author, being material possessions. Broadly presuming that everyone has the same unhealthy relationship to possessions is where his article fell apart for me.
Absolutely. And are there any significant efforts or new ideas for dealing with this problem?
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Very nice. But it leaves me wondering about a couple of things:

(1) Given the info captured by the camera, can we, without further human input, create an image in which everything is in focus?

(2) What the heck are these people thinking? Going into the camera business? That means that, in order to get my hands on this technology, I am stuck with whatever zillions of other design decisions they made. One product. No competition. No multiple companies trying different ways to integrate this idea into a product. And if this company goes belly-up, then the good ol' patent laws mean that the tech is just gone for more than a decade. <sigh> Please license this.

P.S. FTA:

> Once images are captured, they can be posted to Facebook and shared via any modern Web browser, including mobile devices such as the iPhone.

Surely there must be a more straightforward, but still understandable to non-techies, way to say "the result is an ordinary image file".
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Some threads could be killed by the editors, disallowing any more comments to that threads
The idea that it is valid to insert arbitrary and tangential (if not completely unrelated) laws into bills is something about the American system that baffles me.
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This article explain why the author calls himself an anarchist, but not what he defines "anarchist" to mean. It is simply someone who opposes any form of state government? Even if the majority of the people want state government? If so, by what means would the author seek to impose anarchy against the will of people, and how would that be better than the problems of democracy that he rails against?
How would that work? Dropbox doesn't require login most of the time; do you want them to log every time a computer viewed a file or just the web interface, which isn't the primary use interaction?
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The larger question I'm curious about is how many of these are legitimate DMCA violations vs. the attack on fair-use that HNers have come to expect when this 4-letter word is invoked.
The proof-of-concept is really just painting 10,000 rectangles the size of the window. It's that stupid. It has nothing to do with shaders or anything fancy. As long as you allow painting many large triangles as a single GPU command, you have the vulnerability. If you don't allow that, then you're not fast.

Everybody has known forever about that vulnerability in 3D APIs. So there was not much of a point using a private reporting mechanism. However, Microsoft took this well-known universal vulnerability and presented it as something specific to WebGL. There was no point in replying privately to that.
This appears to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. If Texas can do this for Amazon may I also request it for _my_ Texas corporation? Can I get a better deal than Amazon's? Do we now all haggle with the state about how much tax we pay?
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You should look into Tapjoy. They are offering money for developers porting from Android to iPhone
Choosing something and digging in I think applies at all experience levels. The processing of choosing changes with experience.
What I meant in #2 was that there are market structure rules about things like minimum price improvement levels and how widely a buy or sell order is circulated before finding a cross. The HFT guys are masters at exploiting the market microstructure to extract alpha. Google SOES bandit if you need further examples.

As for #3, naked access is a relatively new invention and the rules are sufficiently constructed to virtually guarantee that only implicitly informed parties are ever going to see "naked" access.

Circuit breakers (actually the lack of them) is one of those things that enabled this to occur. The party in question essentially copied a strategy that was used by the HFT guys to soak up the offer. The seller got liquidity but it came at a very dear price.

And that's really the issue here: circuit breakers are a compromise between liquidity and price discovery. If the exchange suddenly sees that price discovery is trending outside of a range, they shut down trading. If the problem is a systemic market one, then this probably is a good idea. But if price movement is because of new information, then all the circuit breakers in the world wont help you because as soon as trading resumes, the new regime will be in play.
I think that's why they switched to cupcakes.
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It hints of Idoru, but isn't. This is much more like a Blue Ant kind of feel. William Gibson references.
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C starts at 0 because of pointer arithmetic.

And the proper for loop is "for x in n".
Fair point Steve - I was a little too broad brush in my response. Yes I agree latency matters - but I was replying to your response in the context that you proposed that business was hesitant to host overseas due to latency issues.

My reply was in line with the parent post that the (implied) reason that Aussie business are reluctant to host overseas due to ignorance of options, perceived issues around support etc. From my dealings with Aussie business (of the sort that would host at lower tier hosting firms like the one in the article), they are ecstatic just to have a website. Issues such as latency don't even come into consideration.
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If you can apply the concept of hot pursuit here, they exceeded their reasonable expectations. It'd be the equivalent to running though a block of homes to chase a man through one home. That said even applying hot pursuit is silly, but illustrates how this can be viewed.
This technology has been around in research articles for at least 15 years. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=light+field+ph...
Sure. Plenty of people also deliberately don't use "official" channels. Look at the Metasploit people, who I respect a lot. I'm not saying it has to be done that way. I'm saying that the guy who says "it got posted to the public bug tracker because there's no other place for an individual to send security flaws" is wrong. Doesn't know what he's talking about.

There's also nothing wrong with that. Why should everyone need to know the ins and outs of vulnerability research? But probably he should dial back the stridency.
The image quality seems a bit low (low contrast/greyish, lots of grain), but the concept is very cool. I also see lots of artifacts (horizontal lines) in several of the demo images:

http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery
> Has anyone here ever voluntarily paid sales taxes?

I didn't even know it was possible to do so.
true, but that's usually the amount of time it takes for many research technologies to come to fruition as products.
It's nuts, do other countries have a solution to this?
looks like some american oligarchs really dont like the existence of the internet ,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY
Not 10^100 + 0.0000000000000001
Given the content per major release of Firefox now, an eclair is the most apt thing :P