skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, you have an awesome service. It served me greatly through my post secondary education. I am glad you got your server back, and you can keep on keepin on.

Again, thank you for the services you offer.
Japanese and Esperanto.

I took Spanish in highschool, but haven't been using it, so it's pretty much lost. I can understand little bits.

I would love to learn a lot of other languages including German, French and Irish Gaelic.
It's such a neat topic that I can't really begrudge reposts, and the homepage seems to include different details.
Early Phishing: history of automated AOL password theft[pdf]
You’ll find your fair share for bad apples in TF2 after a while, especially with how “possessive” server admins of Source-powered games tend to be.

Check the official TF2 forums and you’ll see reports of admins relentlessly banning F2P players or regular players starting landslide votekicks towards them—though this will subside after a while, same thing happened to people who bought the first items in the Mann Co. Store and those that wore the halo lament hat.
Yes it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Examples in math abounds.
Why does it have to be all or nothing? I don't think for most consumers there is that much economy of scale that their secondary devices would need to be the same.
This has been in Chromium for some months now, not really fresh news. Anyway, hard to tell if it is really useful; seems that it tries to emphasize the apps, which, at least in my opinion, are not a real success.
If you left the laws in place and removed the police, that would be bad. If you reformed the laws and left the police in place, that would probably be less bad.

Speaking of adding energy to systems -- drug laws put energy... er money... into the illegal drug system. Clearly, simply making everything available from your supermarket impulse buying rack is going too far, but simply regulating drugs the way cigarettes and alcohol (including taxing them) seems like a happy medium. I know that folks smuggle cigarettes into New York to avoid taxes, but the prison system isn't overrun with them and they aren't overthrowing central-american governments.
As of 2009 when I graduated, Carnegie Mellon's course registration and student management web page shut down after 8:00 PM

Maybe these guys were CMU grads ;)
I speak English fluently. At one point I spoke Latin fluently, but that has tapered off due to lack of practice (I still read very well). I speak conversational German, and just a smidge of Italian.

One of these days my wife is going to pester me to learn Japanese because she studies early Japanese culture and wants to share.
I haven't used Steam, but I am becoming a fan of the relatively new Gamersgate (http://www.gamersgate.com/).

It doesn't even require a desktop client, which is one of the few complaints I've heard about Steam.

However, none of the games I've purchased there use DRM at all, so I don't know for sure how DRM games work with it.
Got hooked on the Slavoj Zizek video!
I'll tell you the real reason why netbooks are going extinct: because I like them. They're the ideal computing environment for me. And the world is designed in a way that I can never be happy. Sorry, fellow netbook users...

When I first heard about netbooks, my jaw dropped metaphorically: this was exactly the kind of device I had been waiting for all these years: small, light, long battery life, GNU/Linux - and cheapo! Heck, I even had this secret fantasy in which netbooks would finally herald GNU/Linux on the desktop (I know, I should have been suspicious right then).

I'm not a casual user. I'm a hacker, I spend more time in front of my machine then doing anything else (including sleeping). And yet I like being mobile! I'm not a gamer. I don't watch movies on my computer. My laptop is not a life style product, it's a tool, it's the tool, a Swiss army knife if you will.
And let's be honest: you may call a netbook underpowered, but computers have been fast enough already a couple of years ago for almost all serious tasks. Sure, if a compile starts taking too long for my taste, I'll run it remotely on a compute server next time: that's what puts the net in netbook!

So I really thought, for once, things went right. I'd never have to spent huge amount of cash on my next laptop again. From now on, it's only going to be netbooks for me. Life is great!

Of course, that couldn't last. Did I cheer too loud? Did I dare smile happily in public? I don't know, but somehow the word must have gotten out: "Pssst! Did you hear? Kleiba seems to be happy!" -- "Oh, no worries, we can change that easily..."

And the next thing I know, tablets are kicking netbooks' asses... I mean: tablets! What the heck? What am I supposed to be doing with them? Oh, oh, I see, I'm supposed to use all the great "apps". Yeah, well, you know what? I don't care about them. How can I write my own apps? Oh, too bad, for that you need a "real" computer (or be into BDSM)...

Sorry for the rant, folks! But are there other fellow hackers on HN who find it ironic that while we are the backbone of the industry, while we are the ones who enable others to use all their beloved tech in the first place, while without us the big companies wouldn't see any dime - that the main stream market doesn't care about us? That we are pushed into a niche, instead of being pulled into the spotlight?

(Nah, I'm only being half serious...)
Would be way easier to experiment with if there were some `analog knobs' -- for example sliders -- next to input boxes.

Otherwise pretty cool :-)
Weird: Hacker News RSS doesn't work in My.Yahoo.
They also have the slides up in PDF format, if you don't want to watch the videos, or just want to skim.

(Caveat: Some of the slides are very screwed up though either due to the iPad or the Keynote conversion process. Overlapping unreadable text and such.)
I used a netbook for about a year, got a macbook air and haven't used the netbook since. I agree they aren't directly comparable due to the cost and specs difference, but I wouldn't go back to a traditional netbook again so it definately "killed the netbook" for me.
No, that is orthogonal to the currency issue, you can have the same currency and no wealth transfer or different currencies and wealth transfer.
This is interesting because it was never expected that this study would be allowed to happen again.

The timeline is odd though:
* Study done in 2002
* Findings published in 2006
* Domain registered in 2008

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment
The Startup Draft: How Drafting Players Is Like Investing in Startups
If they really wanted to nail someone over this they should have gone after the private prison lobby which drafted the law, bribed the politicians, and built the prisons in advance of the law passing.

While this law is all about exploiting racist tendencies in the electorate, at bottom it's a money-grab by the prison lobby.
This is neat. I can see government agencies, emergency services and public businesses deploying Twitter monitoring tools for phrases like "fire", "smoke", "traffic jam", etc.

Building such real-world monitoring services was impossible 5 years ago as hardly anyone was publishing such real time updates online, now people tweet about their cat having a shower paying by themselves for data plans, smartphone, etc. I think this is the main positive effect of "twitter revolution" - massive stream of real-time data with public digital output.

Internet is going real-time, getting closer and closer to the real world. I like it.
>>> didn't read the article, but was he suggesting it was the Macbook Air that killed the netbook? <<<

I'm sorry if this is rude, but I downvoted you. I did that because you didn't bother to read the article, but you bothered to comment.

It's just isn't that simple. His argument for the MacBook Air is that it's in the same form factor, while having incredible battery life and being more powerful computationally. Plus, throw in OS X and you have a deal. In a way Air is netbook inspired in terms of the form factor, and the it killed the netbook by making the point that you could still pack in impressive features into a form factor that small by conventional standards, while having a decent profit margin.

In the article, the author makes the point that what really killed the netbook was portable computing (in the form of smart phones and tablets) that packed the same punch and was more intuitive, while maintaining a good enough profit margin for hardware manufacturers to stampede in order to get into the segment.

That said, I have a netbook, an Acer Aspire One, and it runs Ubuntu 10.10 with a grin and is quite awesome once you get used to the tiny keyboard...

Besides, I really do think that no one is taking real advantage of modern computing and you can still write Ruby code on Pentium 2 era PC once you flash it and boil it down to the basics. I think that if someone is dedicated then even a dumb terminal is enough to write code, why do you need that new found computational power? This really is an honest question.
Because they're so cheap and so many of the netbook use cases fit in just fine with a primarily-Mac environment: no need to switch from your main Mac if you're just adding in a little box that can go on a trip with you, access internet services, and sync some photos from a camera.
For some folks, (like my wife and many of her friends), the netbook is the perfect computer. It's light enough to be taken anywhere and powerful enough to fulfill the daily tasks for the casual user. For her, a touch typist, the keyboard is infinitely more useful than a touch screen on a tablet. With a extra 1GB of DRAM, Windows 7 runs well enough that she can use it for almost all her personal needs sans the very few rare tasks, (encoding media or database reporting), that may require the horsepower of my home workstation.

With the new hardware in the pipeline, I believe there is still a long life in the netbook model to create a very portable computer with a real keyboard that people will find useful and compelling. I'll probably wouldn't be using it as the main development system, but I don't see a problem having a high battery life, Linux/Windows machine that's easy to lug around. For the creator in me, tablets don't cut it.
Yeah that makes sense, the 43 media reports out there at the moment are just silly, if you look at github the abstraction layer introduced in 0.5 was pretty far along, bringing on some inside help is obviously a good thing but FFS lets no overdrama this.
As the examples mentioned here show, opening hours are not altogether uncommon on the web.

Here is another example from Germany: Certain TV shows are deemed not appropriate for kids of a certain age. This results in all broadcasters only being allowed to show them on TV at certain times. If a TV show is, for example, not appropriate for kids younger than twelve it can only be shown between 8pm and 6am.

The consortium of public broadcasters puts much of their content online, including TV shows with age limits. You can only watch those at certain times. Here is an example: http://mediathek.daserste.de/sendungen_a-z/602916_tatort/746... (the video should be blocked for another four hours and forty minutes after this link has been posted).

I’m not sure why the public broadcasters do that. The private broadcasters don’t seem to but maybe they just don’t put any content with age limits online.
"One of these days my wife is going to pester me to learn Japanese"

You should do it, for the beauty and expressiveness of the writing system alone.
Sadly I don't know about a curriculum, but if you were interested in getting them to learn logic, perhaps you could try using GameSalad (gamesalad.com). It's surprisingly easy to get things up and running for just about anyone, and it's free.
It's not even just used laptops anymore. I sold computers for four years at Office Depot and saw the rise of Netbooks. It wasn't long after that that low end traditional laptops started hitting the sub $400 price range during sales and clearance and customers had a lot harder time justifying the smaller size and lower specs.
Right. It'd be nice if everything was 24/7, but we have all manner of systems here in Japan that are only open during certain business hours, and for that matter in the US, too.

The online interface to the Delaware Division of Corporations, for example, only processes certain filings during business hours.

Computer software can be pretty good at flagging activity that falls outside certain parameters, but it still isn't generally good at figuring out what the do about that.
For some time I though that the word deamon was used because it has to fork processes, and in western imagery forks are associated to demons.
What happens when you feel bogged down by assignments? Do you just hand in an incomplete or completely skip it? Could you break down your typical schedule for a week?
I think they are giving the OLPC way too much credit for starting the netbook trend. I remember that when it was introduced, one of the main criticisms was that the industry was already making laptops almost that cheap anyway.

Onn the other side, they aren't giving near enough credit to the iPad, which was pretty much the sole reason for the fall of netbooks. Netbooks were never good products anyway (especially the OLPC), and while they demonstrated a clear demand for mobile computing in a low price range, they were extremely vulnerable for someone else to come along and create a better option for a similar price. This was the iPad.

Look at the chart here:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/netbook-ipad/

Netbooks were already slowing (imho because of just being inferior products) and when the iPad was introduced, it's the last nail in the coffin.
I just ordered my first netbook yesterday. The main feature? It's disposable.

My main laptop is a Macbook Pro. It cost €1400. The netbook I ordered cost €136 (used). I have a cheap cell phone because I lose my phone at least once a year. There are situations where I'm uncomfortable dragging along my main expensive laptop because it's major suckage if it get lost / stolen / damaged. The netbook, with its 9.5 hour battery, combined with my mobile broadband (with tethering), makes it fine to throw in the backpack when going camping for the weekend (as I'll be doing next weekend). In a pinch if I need to write a few mails or SSH into a server to check something out, I'm covered. On the other hand, I won't cry very long if the thing gets trashed.
That reminds me of this story, about the BSD Daemon logo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bsd_daemon.jpg) on a T shirt in Texas: http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html
If you find yourself in SF between Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate bridge, you should check out the Long Now Museum. It's a charming little tribute to impractical arty earnest nerd idealism.

It's not a museum in the traditional sense, but interesting.
Some failures are at a random distribution - running 1000 for a year will help you estimate that.

But any moving part has a finite lifetime due to wear, and you want to know how long this is. Running lots of them for 1/1000 of the expected lifespan shouldn't produce any at all of this kind of failure.
Being a German, I can hardly imagine security being the reason - I rather think it's bureaucracy and/or a complete misunderstanding of how computers work.

Public services either close much earlier, or are 24/7.
Tangent alert! Marco makes me feel great.

One of my favorite things about Marco is that he gives me confidence that there is not a gaping wide chasm between the skills of the best engineer-entrpreneurs and me. This time, it was his frank admission that he was taught by commenters and emailers than his current password encryption was unsafe and that there were better options out there.

When you realize that someone as successful as Marco has the same learning to do that "the rest of us" do, it makes me feel great.
Esperanto and French.
Developer Finds New Use for iPad Camera: Invisibility Trick
The latency depends on the game you're playing. The better the video feed compresses, the more responsive the game will feel. It's works OK for 2D games and Batman:AA, but it's still not great for things like Unreal Tournament.
Apt-get is great, but it's not an app ecosystem. I suspect getting a commercial app into the debian apt repositories would be near impossible. Getting the user to install a third-party repository, on the other hand, is nearly equivalent to having them just install the software.

Besides the considerations of HOW to get an app into apt-get - what if you want to charge for it? Apt-get simply wasn't designed to distribute paid software and you'd have to implement all the missing pieces yourself (account management, payment processing, license management, in-app purchases/upgrades). Doing this per-app is no better than the current situation in Windows from a developer POV. Adding this functionality to some derivative of apt-get, on the other hand, is HARD - besides the technical challenges, you'd have to overcome legal issues with taking payments in a variety of jurisdictions with different regulations and tax laws.
It definitely reinforces Bezos' long-term view of business that he always talks about. And the subtext here is that he is building Amazon to be a company that is still around 10,000 years from now.
daemon goes back well before Socrates; one finds it in Homer, sometimes with a negative implication, sometimes neutrally.
Rhode Island Says Police Can Decloak Anonymous People Online
Its hard to find a good free one. I've look around and I've been a long time user of Balsamiq. But it like the possibility to easily make an interactive/useable mockup.

I've switched to Protoshare ( http://www.protoshare.com ) and you can easily create full fledge prototype that can be actually used/tested.

Check the video on their landing page. Pricing wise it's 29$ / Month

Cheers
well, did you use it via a mobile device (iphone, ipad, android)? because it does have these 'knobs', implemented via the <input type="range" > element (which is not supported yet in ipad, iphone, ... - i think)
Inside LulzSec: Chatroom logs shine a light on the secretive hackers
Dammit, now I want to say CHEEser VILhelm...
I read Latin and Greek, want to know more French, and am intrigued by Sanskrit and Japanese.

I wanted to read more Latin and have more fun reading, and I decided that looking words up in a dictionary was an easy step to circumvent, so I made a website nodictionaries.com --- if you read Latin, check out http://nodictionaries.com/vergil/aeneid-1/1-7 if you want to read twice as fast.
French, then Latin, some German, some Greek, some Italian
Overly dramatic title.
Looming tech bubble - if, and when it will burst
Except that the first MacBook Airs were not 11", they were 17", and those were the ones being compared to netbooks (because they were light). A while later came the 13" models, and not until quite some time later did the 11" models come out (at which point it would be safe to say it was a netbook, not competing with netbooks).

EDIT: Wow, I need to have my memory checked. I must have been confused by the $1700 price tag into thinking there was a 17" MacBook Air. I do distinctly remember being baffled by reviewers comparing the first Airs to the EeePC, though, as it seemed to me they weren't even aiming at the same markets.
Within the EU - the richer countries subsidise the poorer ones.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#St...

This table shows the net contributions over the period 2007-2013. As you can see France, Germany and Britain will each contribute an average of over €60Bn over that period where as others like Poland are big recipients, receiving a net benefit of some €65Bn. I can't immediately find the numbers, but I am guessing this is at least comparable to the US inter-state subsidies.
My native is Ukrainian, fluent in Russian. Converstional Polish and Slovakian. Just passed exam in Danish, wanna start German and Dutch. Some time ago I tried to learn Japanese, but it was quite difficult without any plactical application... Finnish would be intereting, as it's one of 3 non-indoeuropean languages in Europe;)
Reminds me of the gaming industry where the "hardcore" PC gamers continue to get shafted by exclusive releases to consoles and gimmicky motion controls.
Firefox 4.0.1 on X11/Linux here @_@ (and Konqueror 4.5.5)

If you have an important feature that does not work in majority of browsers out there, you could at least inform about it. Best would be standards-compliant JS+DOM implentation...

// tbh., I'm getting pissed with the kaleidoscope of proprietary browser features that are `hip/cool/trendy/whatever' among browser vendors those days
It took a study for people to realize it's easier to read larger text on a tiny screen?
I've got a Windows desktop, Macbook Pro, iPad 2 and iPhone. Netbooks have always seemed like a frustrating compromise. Keyboard just too small for me to comfortably type on (might as well use my iPad), just enough power to actually work properly for me, and yet another item to carry around.

I was really close to buying one a few times, and prior to my iPad it made sense I think. Now, less so.
Dutch.

I moved to Holland from California several years ago, and have picked up the language after taking a few courses. You don't need it here, but it sure helps you break out of the expat scene.

This is the first language I've really 'learned' to a good conversational level, and I am really fascinated by the process. I didn't get far with Spanish in high school, but since the process of Dutch has been so wonderful I plan on revisiting it soon, possibly other languages as well.
I started using Chrome pretty much the day it came out. I don't know what exactly drew me in, but something made me keep coming back to it.

Just a couple of days ago, Firefox 5 came out, and it's the same thing. I like the new 'spaces' and 'pinning' of application tabs. Additionally they've adopted the 'tabs on top' and a neat new 'firefox button' to eliminate the dropdown menus. It's pretty slick.

Until Chrome comes out with these enhancements, I think I'm sticking with FF5.

Good thing too... I don't agree that this bug should be a "won't fix" ... so now, in addition to having become drawn to FF5 anyways, I can feel smugly superior for leaving :)
Nice, didn't know I can watch those online.

Unfortunately, only between 2am and 12am, because not the entire world is in the CET timezone. 8-/
As a German, I'm learning English (passively through reading and writing on the internet). I pondered relearning Russian (parents are from Russia) but I decided it would be a waste of time.
yip, you are right ... crashed chrome in that scenario, safari works ok - will submit bug to chromium project
Why the downvotes? Just for the knee-jerk 'M$' maybe?

Node on Windows is great, or at least kinda cool, but the direct involvement of Microsoft in 'embracing' disruptive upstart technologies has, historically, been a decidedly not-great thing for said technologies.

Why on earth would one assume things will be different this time around?
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) & Writerspace Hacked Again by Warv0x
Chinese too. I've found Mnemosyne (a flash card app) quite useful, for learning lots of characters, though I already knew a lot about radicals, and how to combine them.

My personal project (not working yet) is a language learning web app. I think there's actually a couple of more advanced language web apps by HNers too.
Not to be insulting or anything but you kind of confirm one of the OP's points. That is there is a difference between "knowing" something and "deeply, intuitively understanding" something.

The OP talks from experience gathered over many years of "getting things done". I would listen very closely to him.
Hackers attack Brazil statistics agency website