skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, people don't think about this until it's too late. I learned the hard way when my MacBook Pro's HDD failed unexpectedly, and I lost a lot of music, movies, games, code, etc. (had some of it backed up, though).

I'm glad Mac OS X and Windows include "set-it-and-forget-it" backup solutions, but users are reluctant to turn them on simply because they may not have the time or effort to set them up.
Bing just looks like a goofy hipster.

http://robohash.org/bing
Honestly the distinction seems fairly legitimate to me; there should be no need to run a deficit during police actions or interventions.
Ask HN: Do you 'like being social' or 'have to be social'?
With tens of 'social' sites pouring everyday, for any person it's hard to keep up. And, most of it is for fun, networking etc.,

Do you see any real value in spending time updating and maintaining your status on multiple social sites?
How virtualization creeps into companies before IT folks are prepared…
You still can't use A regular expression to parse HTML. Of course you can use a set of regular expressions and some other logic to parse HTML. There's shouldn't be anything surprising about this post.
Sweet implementation.
Educators that have low expectations for certain students will not challenge them and hold them accountable for their work and studies.

I found this true even as a student in the 'gifted and talented' program through high school and most of middle school. It wasn't until college (and even then only math/science/cs classes) where I was really challenged.
I resent the expression "culture of fear." I wear a seat belt when I drive. I will be wearing armour tomorrow when I risk my life riding DH-MTB. I train extensively to dive deep, cold water. I rock climb. I do not live in a "culture of fear." I do, on the other hand, come up with a different result when asking myself if I wish to hurtle down a mountain vs. if I wish to recover a used laptop from petty criminals.

I am pointing out that it is prudent to consider the risks, rewards, and potential for catastrophe when making a decision. Having done so, you make your own call. If you think the balance tips in favour of trying to recover the laptop, that is your opinion and I do not argue with your conclusion. But there is no "culture of fear" involved, there is simply a decision that differs from your own.

Now if you want to condone the idea of psycho-analyzing strangers based on their HN posts, I would encourage you to ask whether people who set out to recover the laptop are thinking strictly about the utility of the laptop, or whether they have an emotional desire to one-up the thieves or perhaps show the police up as inept.

Or maybe... And I encourage you to spend some quality time with a mirror while thinking about this... Maybe there is an emotional desire by some people to prove that they not afraid. This latter emotion is particularly dangerous. Ironically, it is often motivated by fear of being cowardly.

(And yes, the point is NOT to be taken seriously. I am not Dr. Phil!)
Yes, but the earliest estimate for a manned Dragon launch is 2014. Don't get me wrong -- I'm really pulling for SpaceX and sincerely hoping they are successful. In hindsight, my "proven out" comment sounds more pessimistic than was meant.
That is a good value of 'usual,' and I agree with it - but I think it's also, sometimes, valuable to consider those characteristics in the small. I actually have a specific person in my life to whom I'm going to repeat this story, with the four-points explanation, to encourage them on the path to starting their own company.
Thank you. I've seen so much proclamation (especially on Hacker News) about how mobile and casual games are totally going to overtake console and PC gaming, and the current players are totally oblivious to this massive revolution.

No, no they aren't. Traditional gaming and the current mobile gaming are completely different experiences. It's like the difference between someone who plays games and a "gamer" (forgive my Scotsman here, it's for an analogy).

While both someone who plays games and a "gamer" might put in a decent amount of hours a week on Angry Birds, Tiny Wings, or whatever the mobile fad of the moment is, the "gamer" is not going to be as satisfied with that. They're going to be drooling over the latest videos for Skyrim, the next Battlefield game, or Deus Ex. A simple mobile game does not scratch that itch. They're completely different experiences, and I've gotten so tired of people equating the two.

It's like saying YouTube is going to overtake movies, because people totally love watching videos of cats. Sure, they spend hours doing that, but no matter how many cute animal videos, vlogs, or LPs they watch, it's never going to serve the same need as a nice big screen movie.

</rant>
To circle around a bit back to a hacker news favorite topic - this is exactly why high-frequency traders put their equipment in data centers as close to the action as possible. They're seeing the and trading on the future if your frame of reference is some data center in California.
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But they didn't get paid. That's the point. The fictional budget was passed (but not signed by the governor), and the controller said it was ridiculous, and therefor he would not be authorizing payment in accordance with the on-time budget initiative.
SO we can trademark the name pascazi?

Now that would be ironic
Some social things I like, especially personal ones (so small groups and or seeing / communicating in person); either on or offline. I don't like the massiveness of Twitter & Facebook, but I use them anyway as it does work for business.
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No, he couldn't. His remark is a flip one that is totally impractical. Had Ross Perot (another rich guy who likes to pop off) made this suggestion we'd all be laughing at him.
Wow! Very nice morning treat :-)

R2D2 and C3P0 look like this:

http://robohash.org/c3p0.png
http://robohash.org/r2d2.png

C3P0's got horns!!
Definitely. He keeps going back to the point that the debt was at 120% and nothing terrible happened, but now we have these politicians threatening to figuratively play Russian Roulette with our debt rating just to get the results they want.

The point is they shouldn't be threatening us - we should be threatening them for not getting it done.
Successful economic models cannot be divorced from the cultural context in which they arise. American-style Capitalism was born during the Protestant Reformation. This religious movement provided a theological basis for individual property rights and free enterprise, as well as the understanding that actors in such a system must be restrained by conscience and charity toward their fellows.

We cannot expect to solve the problems of human nature via economics or public policy when the philosophical and religious landscape has shifted.
To provide additional context (the NYT article is fine, but doesn't give a sense of the technical issues with the study, or of how difficult/impossible it was to bring attention to those issues; the behavior of Duke seems particularly scandalous)...

If you have a few minutes, Baggerly's talk---on the "forensic bioinformatics" undertaken to pinpoint the study's flaws---is fascinating:

http://videolectures.net/cancerbioinformatics2010_baggerly_i...

The associated paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1092

Recent small steps toward preventing similar problems in the future:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/reproducible-research/UipZ...
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Who should I attribute as the creator of the robot images? You, the website, or the author of the hashed plain-text?
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams on Blogger & blogging’s future
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. The whole project is very silly, so it doesn't make much sense to take it very seriously ;)
I am not defending the conclusion of the article... but this is easily explained by rounding... not necessarily a fault of the author's. Although the author probably should have gone one further sig fig
Or, you know, he could pay his taxes.
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I'm surprised no one's posted anything from set2 or set3, or included any backgrounds ;)
Implement seconds please; I don't have the patience :)
Facebook treats developer better
Anybody who thinks that mobiles will replace consoles for gaming doesn't actually seriously game (or perhaps it's more accurate to say that they aren't interested in games more complicated than farmville or Angry Birds).

Consoles (and PC's for that matter) offer up several things that phones can not offer.

1) Decent controls. Controls for phone based games are terribly imprecise; to the point where even games specifically designed for phone controls don't always do what you want them to do. Even phones with hardware controls are uncomfortable for someone like me to use for a long period of time (Such as the PSP Go and it's new mobile successor)

2) Gaming on large displays. I don't mind my mobile gaming - I've owned most handhelds since the gameboy - but I don't want to play Rage or Skyrym on a screen less than 11" diagonal.

3) Stable hardware specs. I don't have to worry that my 3 year old 360 won't play Skyrym when it's released. I do have to wonder if my original droid will play the latest hotness in games.

4) Stable internet connections. I've tried an MMO on a phone; the lag was unacceptable.

5) I can play on a console all day long and not worry about battery life.

6) Textures. No handheld can match the texture resolution of the consoles, simply due to the storage requirements for the graphics & limitations on realistic bandwidth use to download a game on a phone.

Sure, the current consoles are starting to show their age. But their _launch_ titles still look better than any phone game I've ever seen, and we're nearing the point where new consoles will start making their appearance (see Nintendo's recent announcement about their new console).
"From Dust" http://from-dust.ubi.com/from-dust/en-GB/home/ is the one your thinking of I think!

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Coffee shops and bookstores also provide "temporarily assigned network addresses". Might they be covered by this as well?
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I claim it's not private even if you run your own mail servers, unless you encrypt it. If you send plain-text emails, they're going to bounce around in plain-text all over the place. Email is not a private medium - unless you encrypt them, which very few people do.
This should be recommended reading for anyone suffering from self-doubt before making the leap into self-employment.
I would say there are three main elements of game mechanics: 1) rewards or penalties; 2) unpredictability, either through interaction with other players or pure chance; 3) utilizing player skills that can be improved with repeated play experience.

None of those are involved here, except maybe a little bit of 1) if you consider +1 a "visual reward". I'd really expect all three to be involved before saying something has game mechanics--you can easily find each of them in Foursquare, for instance.
And the record label supports the artist, or else why would artist's join them?
Hover adds "Auth-by-Email" - Thanks HN
Along side the findings reaffirmed in this study, I think it's prudent to mention the impact that language can have on a child's confidence. Specifically, the work done by Carol Dweck [1] and her colleagues have shown just how influential language can be in setting a fixed-mindset vs a growth-mindset in children.

In short, praise effort, not intelligence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck
Just attribute it to RoboHash.org, that should be fine.
College students are Google+'s make-or-break demographic
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Strange. No matter WHAT STRING I ENTER, it ALWAYS creates the SAME robot. Is this site just a psychological experiment designed to collect user names??
Maybe not for this case in particular, but I could see a close group of friends as being a graph that is fully connected, where each person talks to everyone else sufficiently.
I suppose building architecture for the always-connected future while still supporting the situation at present is out of the question, eh?

It seems clear to me that Chrome OS is intended to work offline anyway, so even if Google were spellbound by the no-hedging-your-bets fairy, I'm not sure that this would be a convincing demonstration of its power.
Looks like it's an issue tracker. http://traction.ownlocal.com/

Why wouldn't they just link to it in the post?
Official website here: http://seleniumhq.org/

For those who don't know what Selenium is (or forgot, like me), it is a system for testing web applications. It includes the following components:

+ Selenium IDE (Firefox add-on for creating and replaying tests)
+ Selenium Remote Control (run tests in multiple browsers and platforms)
+ Selenium Grid (run tests in parallel across multiple servers)

I'm not affiliated with the project, I just wanted to provide a quick intro for those in a hurry to learn a bit about it.
Backblaze finds $1 million counterfeit cash
But light travels as a wave, and my humble (and possibly mistaken) understanding (or conjecture) is that photons are nothing but particle-like manifestations of whatever thing light is "really" made of.

Waves travel in all directions, they get weaker over long distances, but it's not as though some photon particles reach us while others don't. (or is it?)

I mean, if light is just photon particles, then we'd have to be really lucky to see that many starts that are billions of light years away.

Of course, I could be totally wrong!
That's how it works now. The size of Congress is a function of the population, while the Senate is a fixed 2 per state. You're correct though that a larger legislature (in terms of number of representatives) would make bribes (including political favors often used to pass unpopular legislation) more difficult, because the marginal return on each bribe is diminished.
"To treat everyone as gifted, more challenging material has to be introduced."

Why? I see no logical reason for this to be the case. I know in my elementary and middle school the gifted programs were actually easier than regular classes, and I would assume that this is actually fairly common if not the norm. John Taylor Gatto talks a lot about treating his kids like they're gifted, and if anything his classes seem much easier than normal too. (He doesn't actually believe that more than a tiny percent of kids are really gifted, but AFAIK the way he treats them is basically in line with what most education theorists who advocate this would endorse.)
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Facebook video chat vs Google Hangouts
Yield in C/C++ with GNU C Extensions
It's certainly true that a fully custom solution costs more money than is available. However, there are only a finite number of custom solutions out there. Once you've built a solution for one Tai Chi instructor, a very similar solution will work for most other Tai Chi instructors, as well as Karate instructors and piano instructors and the guy who will teach you how to arrange flowers.

I think that a large enough organization (even a loose collective of individuals sharing best practices) could reduce per-customer overhead sufficiently to allow this to work at scale. With a collective memory of thousands of 'unique' (but only to a point) situations, it'd be far less costly to offer custom service.
Really? How do you lose money touring if you're sleeping on promoters' floors and eating shitty food? How does the RIAA change the equation?
Certainly, I missed that part of your post and was focusing on the "we are not animals". I agree that we remain responsible for our actions even we are predisposed to them, but I think we are more influenced by our predispositions than people think.
No one deleted his bug reports. This isn't about whether or not Thunderbird has bugs. The Thunderbird developers are not ignoring the substance of his reports (mostly duplicates which have already been reported by people spewing far less venom.)

This is about this particular individual and whether he was adding more value than he was taking from the project. The decision was made that he was hurting more than helping and so he was kicked out.
I used the 1.x versions of Selenium pretty heavily at my last job and the JavaScript selectors could get pretty hairy (even with jQuery).

Does anyone with experience with Selenium 2.0 know how much of a boost WebDriver gives for performance? Especially doing tests of a SPA with a lot of AJAX could get hairy and slow.
Thanks, I really enjoyed your essay. However, I didn't care for your subscribe overlay appearing so abruptly. Would you please slide it down from the top or use something else to ease it in on the reader?
"How is that different at all from the online distribution systems that the PS3, 360, and Wii already have?"

The product that the parent post describes is priced like an impulse buy ($99), has no monthly fee , integrates beautifully with millions of popular devices (Airplay with iTunes, iPads, iPhones, iPods) and Apple would make it as trivial as possible to port games/apps from their already popular platforms to the new TV format... If they indeed keep the pricing as cheap as Apple TV, it could be practically ubiquitous and the network effects for social games and Facetime-like apps would thus be a major competitive edge.

I don't think it's hard to imagine Apple disrupting the consoles. Of course, it's more likely that they'll try to stay intensely focused on their two existing platforms for the foreseeable future. Then again, I have a feeling that the merging of Android with Google TV makes the marriage of iOS and Apple TV more likely - they know that the home's "big screen" is a future battleground for these platforms.
Recently they've sued HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and Amazon for iPhone-related stuff.
Sales jumped around 25%, so pretty significant
Ah! In that case I do agree with you.
I got mine yesterday.

This is probably the coolest new product I've played with from Google or anyone else for that matter for a very, very long time.
...and special thanks to mmatants!
I asked my brother. He said, "All the big projects are still on record labels."
"an album costs around $10-12 on iTunes and Apple takes 30% of that"

Are you sure that 30% cut is true for music as well? I know it is for apps and books (the "new" things in iTMS), but I've never really found the take on music and videos. Do you have any source?
The 'online presence' referred to includes getting started with marketing, not just creating a web page in isolation - there are tonnes of companies out there who already do that.

When you're not making a huge amount per hour, but you need to support yourself, it just isn't possible to spend tremendous amounts of your precious time on learning how to do social media and SEO.
Watching NASA backwards
Doesn't YouTube have a Watch Later button?
Some "converging" devices already exist: the freebox Revolution ( http://www.free.fr/adsl/ ) is first an ADSL router, but also a NAS, a game console, a Blu-ray player, video streaming client and server, IP telephone, with a built-in browser for couch surfing too, and it comes with a basic 30€/month ADSL line to quite a lot of people.
It looks like Mt.Gox are running their own authentication server. Their website states "Please note that our Yubikey can only be used with Mt.Gox" and I can't see anywhere that I can add the Yubikey that I already own.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to buy a Yubikey from Mt.Gox if it can only be used on their site.
Nexus S to serve as brain for 3 robots aboard the ISS
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That doesn't make sense. If the economy is humming, then revenues are higher and you can spend more money that way. Nobody in their right mind would borrow when you could get as much or more interest-free via tax revenue.
The argument that it follows from name is a red herring. If I create a photo sharing service, should I require you to list a race and justify it by saying that it can be inferred from your photos anyway? To summarize:

name: relevant because it's the center of identity, which is what the product is about.
sex: not a necessary feature of a public profile.

If 99.9% of your users say "um, sure, I wouldn't mind sharing that", and 0.1% say "hell no, I absolutely don't want to share that", then you make it optional unless there's some important reason to not make it so.
EA Launches Cross-Platform Social Game Network For PC And Mobile
In a house election the incumbent almost always wins. Everything is skewed towards their favor, and lets not forget modern gerrymandering, which essentially predetermines most congressional seats.
This is an interesting problem, and I don't know the answer. If you go to Starbucks, someone assaults you, and you kill them defending yourself, I'd say you haven't done anything wrong.

But if you go to the police about your laptop, they don't do anything, and then you go out of your way to create a possibly tense situation by confronting the thieves... And an altercation breaks out... And you fight to sieze the laptop... And an alleged thief is killed...

It's easy to say you have done nothing wrong because the thief brought it upon themselves by stealing the laptop and attempting to fence it. But blame is a non-zero-sum game. You also made choices that perhaps involved knowingly creating a risk of a physical altercation.

On the whole, if you are going to try to do a sting, I'd hope that you do not press the issue if the thieves refuse to run away without a fight.

Although it may sound like you are defending yourself, in reality you are saying that the laptop is worth more to you than a human life, and that is disturbing to me.
Your argument from cardinality of sets is not relevant -- current state of knowledge of nature of the universe prohibits building a device which carries on with computation using real numbers. See Bekenstein bound.

Actually, if we could perform computations using real numbers (think of it as we're back using analog computers and the universe is continuous again and not discrete/quantum), we would for instance be able to solve NP-complete (also #P-complete) problems in polynomial time.

Anyway, the rest of your argument is what philosophers were arguing about two, three and even four hundreds years ago. See Wikipedia pages for "Determinism" or "Mechanism".
Sadly? Are you disappointed in me? Who are these abused females you are white knighting for?
This would only be true if Google wanted you to invite as many people as you can! But this is not the case; at least for now.
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What sort of "Super-Awesome new forum" is this for?
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My memory on this is vague, but didn't Richard Feynman actually look at this problem?
It's amazing to think IndexTank (and similar API's) haven't completely taken over the startup world yet.

I hacked on a few things with their API awhile back because of my experience integrating meaningful search into rails, and the time it took to sign up, read the API docs, and implement the code was way less than even beginning to setup Sphinx, or Solr, or whatever other masochistic delight's waiting to be released on programmers next.

In the vision I have for the world, low-level stuff like real-time search will be pushed off onto API's exactly like IndexTank, and programmers will go on to solve much more interesting problems precisely because they can take it for granted.
How the Internet made news participatory and commodified
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