skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Associating discounts with businesses who haven't agreed to them is problematic for me.

Many manufacturers have MAP guidelines so that they don't get to be perceived as bargain basement providers. Some (e.g. Bose) also require that their products be excluded from all storewide discounts.

They have high affinity and a premium value and want to protect that.

Sam claimed that they posted what they think is a reasonable discount. That's not for him to decide. If I'm as popular as Bi-Rite, I don't consider 33% a reasonable discount for my product.
And here I was, sparing you my snark. You've made me re-evaluate humanity, sir, and I'm not impressed with the results.
Good thoughts. Something else I've been wondering about - why do you think the reset always brings us to Pre-Industrial Revolution (lack of infrastructure) - as opposed, to say, the Dark Ages (lack of scientific method)? Specifically, the apocalypse never seems to impact survivor knowledge, just the speed at which they can rebuild?
nit-picky but "sign up to be notified" text, looks like a text-input field. changing the box-shadow to outside will help.
If you want a modern reference on the heritability of intelligence, read Paul Thompson from UCLA:

www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/HARDI-IQ/hardiIQ-PR.html

He and his colleagues can predict IQ from a 3D brain scan, a concrete dataset of voxels; it is not just about correlations between relatives any more.

Read his numerous papers and those of his peers; the heritability of intelligence is an empirical, easily verifiable fact based on direct scientific measurement. The observed associations between brain structure, inheritance, intelligence, and income exist even if one refuses to look at them.
I got a variant in an online interview: You have nine balls, one of which is heavier. How many weightings does it take to find the heavy one. I wrote back, "What is the maximum number of balls among which you can find he heavy one in four weightings? If you know the answer to that,then you know I know the answer to your problem." I didn't hear back. I guess HR didnt have a sense of humor.
Great idea! I'm looking forward to your launch.
I like how is go-to metaphor for strategic priorities is "the high-order bit".
GoDaddy's problems go far beyond an annoying user interface.

In the early days of the internet boom GoDaddy was like AOL. Most people who used either didn't know any better.

Really tech savvy people avoided them like the plague, because they valued not being pestered with garbage, preferred to deal with companies they could respect and on whose service they could depend on.
Fun fact: it's possible to solve this puzzle even if you have to declare which balls you want weighed against each other in each of the three experiments before you get any results in.
Two. And now you know I know. ;-)
This is a perfect example of why we need the Chromium developers to come to consensus on an acceptable UI for programmatic triggering of the HTML5 speech API.

In this implementation, they have to actually take over the computers mouse and have it press the microphone Icon to capture input.
The Western European nations were developed before the Marshall Plan. The Plan did not build the countries in the first place.

Re: colonialism, our fundamental difference may be that you may not believe wealth can be created (or destroyed), only redistributed. Is that a fair guess? No blame intended, the distinction between money (zero sum) and wealth (nonzero sum) is not trivial.
Translation: the AZ incident made us nervous about the heat so we'll be dropping off the grid for a while.
In a few months I won't know either.
How do you track PR mentions? Survey
Bzz. You can't do what you claim in two weighings (gauranteed)
"the stuff he writes aren't fortune cooke type generalisms. When you most want to quit is usually when you are closest to success - that's a remarkably accurate statement."

Accurate or not it would still fit admirably in to a fortune cookie.

Back when there were such things as used book stores, you could get yourself a stack of books chock full of cliches like this for a couple of bucks.
XML was a solution to a problem that didn't exist.

Actually, no, I take that back. XML was a solution that was created for a problem that was devised to justify the work. It's insanity for the sake of itself.

JSON is simply a serialized object format for a popular programming language - that happened to fit the general case very well - yet it's also very much closer to S-expressions, which seem to be the most efficient way to model data in the general case.

It makes me wonder how people manage to convince themselves that a format like XML is somehow a "good idea."
I propose we stifle this kind of legislation once and for all. I have two ideas.

1) Criminal penalties for violating the inalienable rights of other humans: acceptable. Criminal penalties for infringing on legislated rights (i.e. patent, trademark and copyright)? Unacceptable; may incur civil penalties, but only if the rights holder raises the objection. Such a system requires thought, discussion and planning because the Little Guy needs to be able to afford suing for damages.

2) Compulsory licensing for everything. As it stands, if you compose a song and publish the lyrics and music, no one may record the song without your permission. Once it's been recorded and made publicly available, the rights holder is compelled to license the song for other to record. The law provides for the royalties to be collected on your behalf and paid to you. Do the same for broadcast rights and distribution rights.

The one thing that simply cannot happen is trying to turn every administrator of a data pipe into copyright cop. There's no way for them to know who owns rights to what and what's been licensed to whom and for what purposes.
Pretty simple really, at least in the UK. Just get someone to make an allegation against them (underage porn, etc), and their computers get seized. If the police just happen to discover a ton of other things they're really involved in whilst analysing them, there you go. If encrypted, under UK law you have to divulge the keys or go to jail, so you're guaranteed to get them some jail time.
I think the biggest advantage of getting VC backing is having an advisor that has a vested interest in seeing you succeed. Additionally, if this is your first startup, it can give you a lot of much-needed credibility when approaching potential clients/customers/employees.
Looking in from the outside, I would hazard a guess that Microsoft is more Balkanized than Apple; there are many more products and the successful ones have been around for quite a while, allowing groups to pick up political capital that just isn't available, or rather, is expended differently at Apple.
How do they use Tor for such large projects? I tried using that thing like 5-6 yrs ago and it was slower than 56k...
I had started doing something similar, but in C, and with no daemons or additional sockets (ie. the program outputs what happens on the channels on stdout, and says what arrives on stdin). It works fine enough for me to use it on trusted channels to write easy bots, show off some programs or whatever, but it's not finished, clean, robust or secure.

See https://gitorious.org/irctk/irctk/blobs/master/README for some examples, and https://gitorious.org/irctk for the actual program (but you probably don't want to use it yet).
>That was a great use of a huge magnifying glass. If he can somehow mass produce this, it would bring the cost of making planting pots to almost nothing.

This technology could be used to make water sills and collectors in the desert. If you spend a week out there making water collectors, a couple weeks later you may find you have enough water for a village or two.

Glass-forming in the desert could be the basis of an extraordinary micro-permaculture effort to build oases and gardens in otherwise impossibly hostile environments.

This, plus a lot of water harvesting, could solve a lot of very difficult problems.

If SunCutters can be made to make more SunCutters, and if templates for the SunCutter can be easily made, then I say once this tech is available to the desert masses, it could very much revolutionize restoration of these difficult lands.
as in: I will weight 'CDEF' against 'ABHI' in the second experiment regardless of what is the result of the first experiment?

If yes, care to give a hint? :P
Valid points.

I feel Mt. Gox's crashing had the same effect on prices as if the London Exchange were to crash. Now we wait for the intervention measures to kick in.
Remember it is easy to detect IE6 using on the client-side using JS and on the server-side using user-agent detection. Then if the ActiveX is really needed, you can do that using JavaScript too.
Thank you, that's good to know. I had one friend who relied on kava significantly to combat anxiety. They were rather conflicted when the concerns started to surface. (We've lost touch, since then -- albeit for unrelated reasons.)
As I'm sure just about everyone here would tell you, we'd be more than happy to help you.
Sigh, you're right. Thank's for the correction. I guess it's true that nothing good happens after 2AM (my local time).
I think you're right that the feeling others in society are some sort of "monster" is really key. I heard a podcast of This American Life that interviewed Mr. Rogers, and I remember this moment where he's asking a man why they don't talk with their neighbors, and he has this way of making them open up like they're a kid. And the guy responded something like, "I'm afraid they won't BE like me. Like a monster or something."

And that's where our modern monsters come from (and maybe always have): these unspoken, emotional, real-life fears. Like the fear of 'Others', I would suggest that the fear of finding a job is probably weightier than the fear of Zombies, and if they DO start walking... it will be a relief to stop worrying about losing/finding a job. :)
It's not binary, the choice isn't "US or everywhere else". It's getting one country at a time, and the US is, arguably, a better place to start with.
No way.

Each experiment gives has 3 possible outcomes: left, right, and balanced. So in 2 experiments you can a maximum of 9 = 3*3 different outcomes. That's not enough to pick one ball out of 12.

If you have 3 experiments, you have 27 outcomes. You need 24 to tell which ball, + heavier/lighter, and 3 outcomes are impossible.

Edit: impossible or redundant, depending of your strategy.
My understanding is that XML was derived from document-oriented SGML, to beat SGML into a form that would work well with XSL and XPath.

But I'd like to point out that the way SGML-derived markup distinguishes attributes and child nodes is entirely arbitrary. You could as easily make attributes child nodes - it's all in how you interpret what's written. Likewise, you can "convert" SGML to JSON (or YAML or S-expr or whatever) very easily, bearing in mind that attributes and child nodes sit in the same space with each other - a well-formed XHTML document, for example, can be re-expressed in JSON without ambiguity, since tags have a well-specified, unambiguous list of allowed children and attributes - just give text nodes the name "text" and you're golden.
Once you realize you can separate the balls/coins into three groups then both problems are pretty easy to solve.
Yes. I'm afraid I'm heading off and can't think of a good way to hint Right Now.

(It's Exercise 4.13 in http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html ... and there is a solution and other related weighing problems in there.)
Facebook Shuts Down A Large Number Of Applications
CroMagnons vs Neanderthals ... http://www.themandus.org/
Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I've run in to a lot of obnoxious, self-righteous, and close minded people on #perl, both on freenode and efnet.

I've had excellent experiences with the rest of the technical channels I've tried on freenode, however.

As far as non-technical chat goes, I prefer undernet. Efnet has slowly moved to the bottom of my list as it seems to be an asshole magnet.
When I saw the WSJ link, and knowing HN, I was expecting this to be about Atlas Shrugged, or something similar.
Frauen Weltmeisterschaft  
Frauen Weltmeisterschaft
So bad that you are not coming to Brazil.
You should come here!
This is true, but note that streetcars also got shut down in cities where the car companies didn't play these games.
I wonder how I could make a remote control ponyo, low-tech wise ..
I was trying to search web cache on who used the words lulz and security together before Lulzsec ... and then this final release :|
What programming language do people hate the most, and why?
I've been on IRC since the early '90s. Its greatest value for me is in giving and getting immediate help on technical issues, which is why I mostly hang out on freenode these days.

As far as non-technical subject go, it's been hard for me to find quality conversation on IRC, though it does happen once in a blue moon. Still, sometimes it's nice to just chat about whatever with people you've known for a while, even if it is usually pretty superficial.
yes, but they're going about it dishonestly.
Awesome ... no more school!
How about just making pages without a ton of crap on them?
That's an excellent question. I'll try to find out.
I just signed up for AT&T and their whole signup process is incredibly broken. Their customer section is divided into three sections: Wireless; Internet and Phone; and U-verse. Each has it's own login system. One use sequential IDs for logins, one usernames and the other email addresses.

I spent ages fighting the login and ID recovery system before I found out my DSL connection came under "U-verse" and not "Internet". Their login page even has a helpful picture of a TV to illustrate the U-verse link: http://www.att.com/accounts/?source=IC4425j4900s2000

I still have no idea what "U-verse" is and what differentiates it. I just assume that some crappy marketing manager thought the name was cute.
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Maybe you can shed some light on this doubt I've always had:

why does the UAC need to gray/black out all the display?

It's such a mess, especially when you have more than one monitor. Is there a technical reason or is it just UX?
What about analyzing their writing? They release quite a bit of text...somebody likes to write. Considering there are efforts to identify people by typing patterns, I wonder if this is how they'll get caught: http://petsymposium.org/2011/papers/hotpets11-final8Chairunn...
Looking forward to seeing this tool launch!

May take a bit before it has all the resources that can currently be found in the YouTube tutorials, but I can see it getting there in a short time...

This guy has a full range (and a good rep) of CS tutorials: http://www.thenewboston.com/. Maybe you could contact him and collab.

Keep us posted :-)
Exactly right. We have images of government forces tracing connections across a glowing map thanks to movies, but really they just tap their network of informants, or do personal research.

In my imagination, they'll start with Aurenheimer's hdd. The world isn't that big. Think how the head of the CIA is probably 7 people away from anyone in luzsec.
About the rest, I wasn't praising Jobs as a great boss, just noting your equivalent isn't something to be proud of.

And I disagree that you will always need to compromise between good engineering and good UX, for example you can certainly have ASLR and DEP with the same UX OS X currently has, they don't add any burden on the user.

Of course sometimes you need to compromise, but it's not everytime.
I don't effin get this. Another blogger popularized this video weeks ago. I even extracted excerpts from that video and did three posts. The original blog was found here as an HN link weeks ago. But NOW it's news?!
Unfortunately the signup logic considers a "+" in an email address field to be an invalid email address.
Do the magisteria of science and money overlap?
Will it be under a Creative Commons license like the Khan Academy? That would make a lot more people want to contribute.
The common use of street cars probably kept prices on maintenance (and upgrades) down. A smaller town or city wouldn't be able to afford them once prices went too high.
Ask HN: Idea for startup. Lets Help our mothers using a pc
Hello Guys.

Today I was studing for my finals, and my mother called me. She wanted to burn some pics she took in a trip for europe inside a dvd. So she called me and was some kind of a painfull eexperience.
I know you guys have been through this. She started asking so many things, and in each alert window she asked what to do. And when I asked her the location of the folder she put the pictures, she could'nt find it. Well, in the end she almost cried for not fiding the folder again. Well, I think all of you understand what I am saying.

I was wondering, Why not make a web app where our mothers ( by mothers I mean the majority of women 40+ years old, or man in the same age, that are not very tech savvy), could log in, and connect with some guy in his twenties that could get remote access and control of her pc, and help her in a webcam. This guy could be his son, or any guy who wanted to get some cash.
We could charge the mothers by our or a monthly fee, and pay our guys by our.

So, what you think about this idea? What are the technological challenges, and business chalenges? Do you know anyone who already do or will do this?

Thank you for your time and feedback! =)

Ps. Sorry about the not so plain english. I'm a skilled reader, but not so good writer.
I think the weed numbs the brain similarly. But you have lung cancer (and few other) to look forward to and prosecution if you don't live in Netherlands.
At 50:23 is the first time I've ever seen video of Jobs on the worse side what appears like a genuinely unpleasant, almost confrontational exchange. He keeps his cool though, and manages to sort of shift the contours of the conversation. Really indicative of the time and place--can you imagine him having to answer that sort of question (posed in that sort of tone) today, given Apple's astronomical success?
Interestingly, I find having that low-level access to be more restrictive. Suddenly, a thing that I just want to work (in this case, the music player) requires that I think about how I'm going to put files onto it, what the best way to synchronise those files is going to be, whether or not I have to mount it myself, if I ought to write scripts to manipulate it, the feeling that I need to write scripts to manipulate it, else why have all of these programming skills?

When really what I wanted to do was just listen to music while I'm walking around, and have a limited amount of worrying when it comes to getting music onto the device. (IE, it Just Works territory)
My behaviour is now circumscribed in other ways - my attention is split between things I really want to work on and this malaise of I ought to be crafting better tools to work with my music player.

"You can just set up rsync once!" is kind of a non-argument response to this - an Apple gadget, in this case, I set up nonce. Plug it in, it initializes, and syncs everything. Now I can listen to music where-ever I happen to be, and I don't have those circumscriptions to my attention.

If my Apple device annoys me sufficiently that I really want to have that level of control, there's a myriad of devices out there that automount as USB devices, that I could set up all sorts of nifty on-insert rules and script to high-heaven.
Please license them as CC SA or similar.
how much traffic does a terminal session really need?
The voice seems fine, but the audio is awful. I am slightly hard of hearing, and trying to listen to what is actually being said would take away from the point of the lectures.

Maybe they can be salvaged with some post-processing where the voice is bumped up.
Making those videos is just a passion I have. Not particularly looking to make money out of it, so I'm definitely going to explore that option.
I sure hope that the videos are not based on the same computer generated speech.
I surmise that you're misinterpreting the statement.
Hm, are you sure? I have a couple accounts there (and they are appearing in the dump) and they are not simply md5(password). Of course they were long, random passwords and I don't play this game anymore, but I'm curious. Where did you read that?
What do you mean by large projects? The size of the files they transfer?

Your machine -> TOR -> hacked home user or server -> your target.

This way you only transfer the files between the target and the hacked server, and from there on to a torrent, and heck, why not let that machine seed it too.

Chances are that they even used a chain of hacked machines to get to their target. It gets pretty complicated pretty quickly if you (as in FBI et al) have to raid several companies to get your hands on machines to do forensics on.

I doubt these files (or much of anything else) ever touched the criminal's physical machine. Unless, of course, they fucked up by, say, posting to pastebin or a tweet or something else that is seemingly insignificant (at the time) using their own IP.

Most tend to.
LulzSec Says It Will Shut Down After 50 Days of Disruption
I've spoken to a couple of business owners who have done Groupons - they see it as a marketing expense that seems to have greater returns than many traditional methods (coupons books, junk mail, etc). But Groupon works in a way that this idea does not: it gets new customers (whether or not they're good new customers is besides the point).

So true. Thank you whomever you are. Tell Rockya this.

Back to loopt suggested deals. We have thought of this but how does this possibly work? When the only people that are going to really work hard for discounts they already want are full price paying advocates already. I can't see any benefit to this type of promotion at all. Absolute cannibalization of their current full-price paying customers. It's not sustainable and much worse than daily-deals.
That's embarrassing :$ I guess that's what happens when you take ready-made templates from themeforest ;) I'll see if I can fix that... Thanks for pointing it out though.
sigh

I miss the InterNIC.
Because there are no federal jails, or at least very few. So local/state agencies hold them until and throughout trial.
I didn't read it anywhere. I downloaded the database and checked all my friends against a known password database. They're plain md5(password).
Discussed yesterday here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692985. Granted the first post was for the same article on Reuters, while this one is on Wired.

What's odd though is that:

1. The repost on Wired makes no mention that it's not a new article by the author. I find it typical to see "This was previously seen in Blabla".

2. The title went from "Upgrading" to "Downgrading", which made me think it was in response to the first post.
Oddly, it doesn't mind top-level domains or names containing any of: !'"$^*=

It does care about: +#%()

Seems pretty arbitrary.
I think the whole user choice problem is a bit overblown when it comes to Ubuntu. The whole idea of Ubuntu was and is "linux for humans", not "linux for everybody".

Ubuntu's default was Gnome 2 for a good long time, but I think the switch to Unity is the right direction. If you don't like it there are tons of distros out there that still support Gnome 2, Gnome 3, KDE, and so on.

In fact, Ubuntu has had a separate KDE, XFCE, and even MythTV version for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a Gnome Ubuntu coming from the community when the official UI is Unity only.

In the end, the people who care are nerds who know enough to run a different distro or install Gnome 2 or 3 in Ubuntu themselves. The real change here is for the average user who doesn't care.
Whilst reading the article I was reminded of Animal Farm, the last paragraph confirmed my suspicions.